The elections were a Victory!
Freedom IS worth dying for.
Our Country is under attack and we better be ready to fight and die to keep our freedom!
Posted on 06/14/2005 8:30:00 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Today, I would like to join the chorus of those calling for a cease-fire in Iraq. I don't mean a truce and I don't mean a surrender. Don't misunderstand me. I'm talking about a cease-fire.
I, your host, El Rushbo, on today -- Tuesday, June the 14th -- call for a 90-day cease-fire in Iraq.
I call on the New York Times to lay down their arms. I call on the Democrats in Congress to stop the assaults. I call on weak-kneed Republicans to lower the temperature for 90 days, three measly months.
Lebanon is in the middle of a crucial election sequence. Iran is about to have an even more crucial election. Syrian and Saudi terror backers are losing for signs.
So for 90 days, no attacks on our war effort. Somewhere, deep inside, there has to be something -- a memory of patriotism, a stirring of some national pride -- some remaining sense of right and wrong.
A loose wire in the brains of the left and the media that can be connected if only temporarily, to bring about a 90-day cease-fire because the upside for the United States is enormous.
Positive news, upbeat spirit, a seemingly united United States would send a warning to our enemies, a rallying cry to our allies and a signal to those nations shirking responsibility.
Just a 90-day cease-fire. There's no downside to this. You still have a full-year plus to return to playing politics, to bashing the president, to bashing the administration, bashing the Republican Party, to even bashing America if you want. So much to gain and so little to risk from a 90-day cease-fire.
After all, it could take two years or two decades for the wisdom our Middle East policy to bear fruit. Is it too much to ask you on the left to give unity a chance for just 90 days?
No, my friends, I'm not living in a dream world. I know it won't happen but I wanted to put it out there. I know it won't happen because the left in this country considers Christians to be a greater enemy than militant Islamist terrorists.
END TRANSCRIPT
Roger that ~ it's one of the better ones.
PING!
Move along junior... go call Michael Weiner.
With your experience on the ground in Iraq, I am interested in your opinion. But, I do have to ask, how would "getting out now" be a good thing? That would make this effort look like a loss. The Iraqi's are not ready to take over. I wish they were, but it is apparent they are not.
Good job, Rush!
Rush just quoted Newsmax and talked about the sit-in staged by Free Republic at Senator Byrd's office. LOL
Rush talking about FR (& Sen. Byrd)
Posted on 06/15/2005 1:50:38 PM EDT by Tribune7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1423443/posts
Rush just got finished talking about how a spokesman for Sen. KKK Byrd said he didn't know if his boss was involved with any lynchings.
He noted that the question was posed by members of FreeRepublic.
I applaud your succinct answer to AllThingsMilitary.
I LOVE it! :) Thanks for that link!
'KKK' Byrd's Spokesman Draws Blank on Lynching Role
NewsMax.com by Carl/NewsMax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820515/posts
Ignored by the MSM, but reported by the new media. Newsmax, CNS, Fox and Rush covered the story. Millions learned about it despite the MSM's blackout.
I say it because I am glad Bush is president, and I hate to see this disaster drag down his efforts at important domestic reforms that are much more important to Americans.
We may have done all kinds of good in Iraq, despite the violence, I'll grant that. But we could do all sorts of good all over the world if we wanted to, but we don't because it's impractical and we can't afford it in money or blood. We didn't belong in Kosovo, so I was against it. And we don't belong in Iraq, either. Liberals are the ones who are supposed to support do-gooder foreign adventures. We're pursuing a Wilsonian foreign policy -- I prefer the policy Bush actually campaigned on in 2000.
Reagan allowed evil to exist in some parts of the world as part of a larger strategy to promote our interests by destroying the Communist threat. And I really don't like seeing Howard Dean out there promoting a Reagan-like foreign policy at Bush's expense (although it is kind of funny, because you konw he'd never do it if it weren't just another way to bash Bush).
Our military is now totally overextended, recruitment is in big trouble, and we're suddenly finding out that the Chinese have been secretly building up their military now for years under the nose of our terrible intelligence apparatus. We've ignored the real threat while engaging in this excursion.
Don't get me wrong: Though I wish we'd never gone, I'm glad we won. I'm glad that Iraqis don't live under a tyrant. I'm also glad more of our troops didn't get killed already.
But none of this justifies the invasion from our point of view. It's fundamental justification was unsound, and it really hasn't served *our* interests much at all. Now I hope we hand over power and get out of there ASAP.
Bush is doing just that in Iraq.
It's fundamental justification was sound from the beginning and still is today. The war on terror, and the center of the storm is now in Iraq, and not here. Saddam's capacity to destroy his own people, his neighbors, and US through continued coordination with alQaida is GONE. And Iraq will be a democracy in the center of the darkest region in the world.
It was the RIGHT thing to do.
All of those are ex-post-facto justifications. None of them were our stated reason for going to war.
Again, the Iraq invasion really has not served our interests, even if it served those of Iraqis. There's absolutely no evidence that we've made ourselves safer from terrorism by going to Iraq.
If we'd spent that $300 billion on patrolling our borders, then we'd be safe from terrorists. As matters stand, anyone with the will to do it still can, Iraq invasion or no Iraq invasion.
You may not admit it, but there is much evidence to support the need to snuff out the terrorist, Saddam Hussein for our safety.
And if you really believe that putting the military on our borders and protecting it is all that's needed to protect us from terror, you are very naive for an Old Hoosier.........
We're not going to invade every country with al Qaeda in it, are we? Should we? Pakistan next?
The Libya thing is a totally separate question, we'd been moving toward that for years. They desparately want our business and our money, an end to the sanctions. If you want to believe it had to do with Iraq, go right ahead.
And there is a difference between the critical connection between alQaeda and Iraq and it's part in other countries.
But go ahead and believe that all we have to do is fortify our borders and we'll be safe. In the mean time, our Commander in Chief is fighting the war on terror where the terrorists live.....
As someone who served in Saudi Arabia during the "wonderful" Clinton years, protecting those poor rich oil sheiks from Saddam and his minions, while Al Qeada tried to kill us there, and Ole Bubba did nothing but bite his lip and look sad while Monica came over for more servicing, I'd say FINALLY taking out Iraq was the right thing.
Saddam had been a serious thorn in our side and a DIRECT threat to Middle East peace, whether the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, conflict with Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Kurds, etc, etc, for the last two decades. After 9/11, the whole dynamic changed. We could not, repeat, not wait to be hit first. If Saddam had WMD's, and everyone thought he did, I did, REAL Colonels I worked for did, Generals did, Clinton administration types did, the Russians, Germans and French did (I think they KNEW, and removed them, but that's another story), the Brits knew, the CIA knew.... Anyway, war on, war over... no weapons. Still, and most importantly we removed a great threat to us and we are, in the long run, safer.
Say we didn't go to war. We left Saddam in place. The UN failed to find weapons. Now in this scenario, we still have sanctions in place. The Oil for Food program's still going on and still being scammed. The Left is clamoring for us to END the sanctions. The Leftists want Bush's head over it. 100,000 Iraqi children dying every day, month, year--whatever. We can't keep the pressure on in the UN and the sanctions are lifted. Now, here's where I put on my Nostradamus hat and do some predicting:
Saddam, with the sanctions lifted, pours his oil into the economy. Billions of $ pour into Iraq. Man, that kind of JACK can buy a lot of things. There's a bunch of happy Frenchmen and Germans just waiting to trade some "technologies" for some cash. Oh, yeah, Russia and North Korea needs cash bad, too. Yup. Now Saddam GETS his WMD. Bush finds out and leads a new charge in the UN to reinstate sanctions. Nope, every one is making too much cash, but--those nasty Americans won't get off Saddam's back. He calls his colleague Bin Laden. Offers a few items to him if he uses them in a way that gets the heat off of him while not being traceable back to Iraq. A new attack on US soil makes 9/11 look like a picnic. Maybe a 100,000 dead, two million injured, thousands more doomed to die of cancer.
We cannot, unfortunately, predict the future. We can only guess. Given the plausibility of my above scenario, I'm glad that we stopped Saddam for once and for all. The failed, repeat failed lessons of appeasement from the 1930s tell us of the dangers of not taking action. We took action. The Clinton look-the-other-way-to-attacks-on-Americans-overseas was another failure that led directly to 9/11. We took action. It was the right thing to do. It was necessary. Guys are still dieing. That really, really sucks. But still, necessary. I thank them with all my heart. I worry for them all the time. But they're doing their duty, and rightly so. Arduous and painful or not, they're there for us, right now. Let's just support them and stop trying to pull the rug out from under them right at the moment they're starting to make progress. Think about a world with one less tin horn, evil, degenerate dictator with a desire to make a big name for himself, a track record of invading other countries AND of using poison gas on his own people, of lobbing scud missiles into other countries not at war with him, and you'll realize that just maybe that world is a little bit better for it.
The elections were a Victory!
Freedom IS worth dying for.
Our Country is under attack and we better be ready to fight and die to keep our freedom!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.