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Some Bush Detractors Coming to Realize He's Right (Mainstream Media Awakening from Slumber?)
Opinion Editorials.com ^ | 3.14.05 | Joe Bell

Posted on 03/14/2005 1:50:17 PM PST by gopwinsin04

Unsuprisingly, two columns that appeared recently in the Toronto Star and in Germany's Der Spiegel were ignored by the mainstream media.

The Toronto Star column was written by Richard Gwyn, an opponent of American policy in Iraq and the other was written by Claus Christian Malzahn.

Gywn rightly pointed out that 'the war against terrorism will now begin to turn into a war for democracy.' He concluded, 'It is now time to set down into type the most difficult sentence in the English language. President George W. Bush was right.'

'He understood that to defeat an idea, (terrorism) it was necessary to have an opposite and superior idealogy. (democracy)'

Malzahn compared Bush's actions in Iraq to Ronald Reagan's policies during the Cold War.

'Europeans of today, just like the Europeans of 1987, could not imagine that the world might change. It was difficult for them not to cringe during Ronald Reagan's 1987 'Tear Down This Wall' speech.'

'Most experts agreed that his demand for the Wall to be torn down was inopportune, utopian and crazy. Yet three years later East Germany disappeared from the map.'

Malzahn surmised that people across the Middle East 'may just get the idea in their collective heads to free themselves from their oppressive regiemes, just like East Germany did. Bush may be right, just as Reagan was then.'

Hopefully those Democrats who continue to critcize the President and who ofter offer roadblocks, instead of assistance to the presdient's policies, will acquire the wisdom and courage that some of Bush's foreign detractors have found.

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TOPICS: Canada; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americahaters; bushhaters; eatingcrow; eurotrash; sorelosers
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Whoo-hoo! The first of many I suspect...
1 posted on 03/14/2005 1:50:20 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Howlin; Miss Marple; Mo1

Has there been a crack in the dam so to speak? Or just the ramblings of a reporter or two


2 posted on 03/14/2005 1:53:28 PM PST by deport (You know you are getting older when everything either dries up or leaks.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Nice, very, very nice! And a big fat "Wooohooo! Told you so!!" in the face of every DUmmy! :-)~


3 posted on 03/14/2005 1:54:27 PM PST by Capagrl (Integrity is shown in what you do, not what you say.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Many on the left realize that they were caught with their hands around their ankles, pants down, voluntarily getting buggered by the commies during the cold war. Hence, they know America will not trust them to run foreign policy ever again if they continue their crack-whore romance with the Islamofacists. So they are currently hedging their bets, and praying (to Gaia) for the worst to befall the US.


4 posted on 03/14/2005 1:55:03 PM PST by pissant (Hooray, it's S&BJ day!)
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To: gopwinsin04

We have a traffic jam building on the road to Damascas.


5 posted on 03/14/2005 2:00:43 PM PST by Clive
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To: gopwinsin04

Don't become IRRATIONALY EXHUBERENT.

The Arabs might revert back to form and dig in.

A long ways to go. Courage.


6 posted on 03/14/2005 2:00:53 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Open borders=National suicide)
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To: deport

I'd say there are rumlblings, and the walls are chipping...just waiting for the dam to burst!


7 posted on 03/14/2005 2:01:18 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
It's really very simple......

It's not an epiphany or realization on liberals part, it's pure economics. With Bush's successes and steadfast determination over issues which cannot be compromised on, democrats and their mignions will be left under the table to eat scraps instead of having a seat.

Emotions meet truth, a very long story and script, but it was an inevitable roadshow.

8 posted on 03/14/2005 2:03:06 PM PST by blackdog (Lord of Woop Woop.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

9 posted on 03/14/2005 2:05:16 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Even heard Evan Thomas say that this was no accident. That President Bush had this result in mind before he even went into Iraq. He was determined to change the situation in the middle east.

Also heard Steve Roberts defending the President on the radio last week.

And of course, the NYSlimes acknowledging that there were WMD after all......

10 posted on 03/14/2005 2:05:57 PM PST by OldFriend ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
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To: Finalapproach29er

As the Qu'ran states......Retreat in order to regroup is acceptable in combating your enemy. Honor will not be lost as long as you are a deceitful little bastard who will con those looking at the situation openly and with reason. Then comes the $hitstorm.


11 posted on 03/14/2005 2:07:19 PM PST by blackdog (Lord of Woop Woop.)
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To: Clive

I'd say it's a convoy!


12 posted on 03/14/2005 2:07:43 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: pissant
This is just the latest is a series of columns by die hard liberals who are actually telling us the truth - in print. Before last year, I can think of only a couple of times that a liberal columnist actually gave us their unvarnished opinion. One classic example; Ted Rall admitted that he does hate most of America and feels that the red states are inferior in everything except numbers. Or the Wisconsin columnist who admitted that he did actually HATE Bush and couldn't stop doing it.

They rarely actually tell you what they are really thinking but are constantly telling us what WE should be thinking. When they actually confess, its quite refreshing and virtually always confirms that we really knew they were thinking already. But it always sounds better in their own words so other liberals can't accuse us of making it up.

Now if Maureen Dowd would just admit that he actually hates men because she envies their genitalia and Frank Rich would admit that he wears womens underwear....

13 posted on 03/14/2005 2:08:58 PM PST by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies about W....)
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To: OldFriend

If I were the Mullahs in Iran, I would be peeing in my shorts about now.


14 posted on 03/14/2005 2:11:06 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Actually I could care less if they admitted they were wrong in opposing us. By next week they'll just find some other reason to hate us and it will be like we were never right ever. So we can file this one under "BFD".


15 posted on 03/14/2005 2:11:45 PM PST by NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961
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To: bpjam

Frank Rich is way more feminine than MoDo. I think the only hope MoDo has of hooking up with a mate is to go Lezbo. Actually, I don't want to insult the lesbians, so I take it back.


16 posted on 03/14/2005 2:12:34 PM PST by pissant (Hooray, it's S&BJ day!)
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To: pissant
I want to know what it will take for the US leftists to finally admit that 43 was right.
17 posted on 03/14/2005 2:13:24 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Who's the hottie?


18 posted on 03/14/2005 2:13:49 PM PST by Huck (I only type LOL when I'm really LOL.)
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To: Huck

More of the endless procession of 'Lebanese Babes for Freedom' on the protest thread.


19 posted on 03/14/2005 2:15:08 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: deport

There is more to it...and it may just be that some of the documents recovered in Iraq are being translated and that Terriq Assiz has been talking...and some liberal journalists who have sources are getting ahead of the curve that is coming.


20 posted on 03/14/2005 2:15:31 PM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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