Posted on 06/25/2005 6:33:07 AM PDT by Pokey78
The Democrat Party in general is run by a bunch of Liberals who are against anything and are for nothing but obstruction.
They are evil and foam at the mouth like rabid dogs.
Howard Dean is the ideal leader for them because regardless of what their leaders say they espouse his views.The party in general is ruled by a group of people that are no different than Southern Plantation owners and their leadership style shows it. They are truly a National disgrace in my opinion.
That's strange. I heard Ted Kennedy's comments repeated over and over on the radio news, but not General Casey's. I wonder why?
I wish this were true - but it isn't. We're fighting a very, very dangerous enemy with a clear (flawed) vision and much popular support throughout the Muslim and Arab world. It will be a long, hard fight. Bin Ladin thinks we cannot fight this way and are sure to lose.
The minority of people who hate their country need to have a political party to join. It might as well be the stupid RATS.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Its worse. The media showed clips and told the story of how the generals were saying no progress has been made against the insurgency!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
SSSSSSHHHHHHH, Fred. Don't give them any advice . . . please. Let them continue their harangues against our military. Stand back and watch them destroy themselves.
Rush Limbaugh, I think it was, talked about "water cooler news", which is what happens the day after news reports on MSM. People talk about news at the office. Before widespread alternative media the only source of information was MSM, and that, of course, meant that liberals in media controlled the gate, so to speak. The few alternatives were easily ridiculed or falsely discredited by MSM talking heads.
Now, a whole new "army" of persons informed by alternative media stand at the cooler with their old-fashioned MSM colleagues. Water cooler news now has other viewpoints, and when facts countering MSM bias are discussed, doubt about MSM reliability begin. MSM influence was and is on the downward spiral, and its refusal to change adds to its ruinous inertia.
"The Public" is less informed that those who frequent the blogosphere and sites like Free Republic, that's true. But it is not as propagandized as it used to be. And while support for the Iraqi war has dwindled, support for the national defense has not.
The challenge for the President is to clearly demonstrate the connection between Iraq and radical Islamism, and how a democracy in that region will dissipate Islamist power throughout the world. That is the truth about the Iraq war. Islamists crashed into the World Trade Center on 9-11 starting this war. It is radical Islamism that we seek to defeat, not a nation or a people, and Iraq is the front in that war.
The people of Iraq are committed to liberty; in Sunni areas mainly are terrorists killing civilians, with prosperity returning to (non-Sunni) areas. Satellite dishes are popping up, cell phones are everywhere, automobile traffic is swelling.
Iraqis themselves are now patrolling city streets. They are finding and apprehending or killing the enemies of their fledgling nation, both solo and with U.S. personnel. They only need more time to consolidate the recovery and rebuilding of everything Ba'athists destroyed while ruling Iraq.
We are winning at that front in the war on terror, and to abandon it, or to impair victory with an announcement to our enemies that we will abandon it on a certain future date, as liberals wish us to do, is patently stupid. It is as if liberals do not want the U.S. to be victorious.
These are the facts we, the public, need to discuss at the water cooler.
People are tired of war...BUT
People also know that Congress approved this war, that these are our own sons and daughters they sent to fight this war, and that now the Democrats in Congress are undermining them while they are on the front lines of this war. Also the cost of the war and the federal deficit have people very concerned, but the fact is the US economy is strong, despite the efforts of Russia, China, EU, OPEC.
The Democrats and anti-Americans in this war seem to be angling for an eventual replay of the fall of Saigon. They seem to forget that many of the people who vote understand that and I think it represents a rotten plank in the already weakened political platform that the Democrats are standing on.
Yeah, you know more than our generals, of course. And Bush is dumb and has big ears and can't pronounce nuclear.
STFU. Big Pussy.
Do you think we could also be training mujahadeen we will eventually have to fight?
The liberal media only shows what they think will help The democrats. But there are more outlets for the news and by and large fewer people are going to traditional news outlets as a result of their bias and dishonesty.
But .. on Tuesday night the President will be addressing the country - and I suspect it will be a humdinger.
But .. over on FOX, they played Casey's statement over and over - right after the Kennedy statement.
I would disagree with only one point - the terrorists do have a vision .. to keep Iraq from becomming a democracy.
However, they really have no base anymore - because we have killed or captured most of it .. and there is NO POPULAR SUPPORT for the terrorists. Since the election, more and more Iraqi citizens are turning in the terrorists .. and in fact .. because of that we have discovered tons of weapons, bomb making facilities, safe houses, etc. - all of that from citizens who are sick and tired of the terrorists.
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