Posted on 11/11/2005 5:04:55 AM PST by kristinn
Bump to your ping and THANK YOU!
Reading her "crapp" really makes me angry!
Now I have to go out and try to honor Veteran's Day even more!
Thank you for your service to our country BufordP. I know you would do it all over again if they would take you.
so why is the issue that Bush lied still out there?
177 metric tons of enriched uranium nothing to sneeze at.
obviously Barbara Streisand and Code Pinko and Cindy Shitforbrains don't consider enriched uranium to be a problem.
Again, I would have preferred that Bush just said Saddam has not complied with the terms of surrender from 1991 and were going to finish the job...period. We don't need the UN's approval since it was not necessary. Saddam did not live up to the terms of the contract and now we are going to enforce the the penalty provisions of that contract.
What did show up was consistent with an organized effort to clean up the evidence and move it out. Little bits were missed in the process, and that's all we've found. From the satellite photos of convoys heading for Syria, a reasonable person could presume that the explanation (for not finding large caches) was exactly that.
I also discovered, early on, that leftists are not reasonable people. Even more than wmd, the Saddam-terrorist connection was sufficient reason for me to justify invading Iraq. All I needed to see were the photos of the training facility at Salman Pak. In discussions and e-mails with friends and neighbors of a liberal persuasion, it soon became apparent to me that facts and logic were bouncing off their emotional mindset like the nerf rockets my son and I used to play with. I soon ceased to bother them with arguments and facts.
What does work is what we do at Walter Reed every Friday night. Look over the photos in the after action reports and you will see that few people come back for a second "vigil". There is a small core group of professional protesters, along with some chronic underdog type personalities, whose faces show up week after week. The others, whether because of shame, or because even leftists don't like to feel like losers, are never seen again.
I love it that Susie "medea" Benjamin felt the need to blatantly lie about our counter-protest.
Since March, peace groups including CodePink and Veterans for Peace have been staging a weekly candlelight vigil in front of Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC, to highlight the needs of injured soldiers. Lately, the vigils have been met by aggressive counterdemonstrators, who line up on the opposite side of the street with signs denouncing the vigil.
"Lately"? We've been there from the beginning, and outnumbered them most weeks to boot. Someday they will quietly give up and go away, because, like the terrorists they so admire, all they respect is overwhelming force. That's why FReepers who possibly can should make the effort to show up at Walter Reed as often as they can, even if it's only once. The troops, the press, the pinkos, and the people who drive by need to see that the Code Pink "vigilers" do not represent the majority of Americans.
Taht certainly was reason enough. All the other stuff was just buttressing it.
We don't need the UN's approval since it was not necessary.
Also true. However, I find it interesting that the people who are most in love with the UN were so upset when we went and enforced one of its resolutions.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round..."
Thank you Bump!
Click here for the full editorial; and here is an excerpt:
Virtually every western intelligence service reached the very same conclusion. So did all the major media between 1998 and 2001--including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and U.S. News. So did the most senior officials of the Clinton administration. In a conversation I had with President Clinton, just before the Iraq invasion, his concern was not whether or not Saddam had WMD but that a war seeking regime change would provide the pretext for him to use them. Add to this the fact that Saddam had sacrificed over $120 billion in oil revenues to U.N. sanctions, presumably to protect his secret weapons programs.
So, what happened? Last year's bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee stated the panel "did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, influence, or pressure analysts to change their judgment related to Iraq's WMD." Earlier this year, the Robb-Silverman report was equally clear, finding "no evidence of political pressure to influence the intelligence community's prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons programs" and no political pressure "to skew or alter any . . . analytical judgments." Rather, the report said, "it was the paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate prewar intelligence assessments."
All y'all need to direct your comments to the editors who ran this piece of gahbbage....
Thanks for the ping, Buford.
"Lately, the vigils have been met by aggressive counterdemonstrators, who line up on the opposite side of the street with signs denouncing the vigil."
Boy, that lining up on the opposite side of the street holding signs shows real aggressiveness.
I do a slow burn at those ignorant enough to think intelligence is ( or ever was or ever can be) 100% accurate.
Leftists are great perfectionists when it comes to the obligations of citizens. Unless every traditional moralist or Republican in power is perfect, they feel all laws are null and void, illegal, hypocritical or unjust. They find perfection in rebellion, opposition to established order, obfuscation and perversion.
Except where democrat politicians are concerned.
Well, you'd have to be there. In fact, you're welcome to come out and support the 35 or so of us who are usually there, and we often host many others who drop in. And yes, to the wimp left, the fact that we are holding up cardboard signs denouncing their stupidity and thanking our troops for their service is a direct assault on their vapid sense of self-importance.
Could you please provide documentation on that or a reference to documentation so that I can shut up many liberals that are refuting that.
I have no proof.
That $600,000 number is a killer to the left. But I have no proof. Thanks, Bill in Hershey
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