Posted on 12/14/2005 7:03:22 PM PST by Dog
Fabulous Photo.
Hope it wins the photo Pulitzer, and is printed on the cover of every news magazine in the world.
She really sums it up beautifully!
Algore President of Iraq? Musta been write in ballots....LOL
They make Barney Boxers in adult sizes? Or maybe your wearing them on your head, LOL....
MORE COWBELL............
Kudos; and Our Presidents resolve reminds me of this Classic:
[IF]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
PRESIDENT GEORGE WALKER BUSH... THE MAN!
AWESOME!
One had to sympathize with the frustration voiced by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld when, in early 2003, he flatly declined to reveal any specifics about an Iraq-al Qaeda link. "The last time I got into this subject," he complained, "I asked the agency (CIA) for a piece of paper as to what they had declassified with respect to that relationship. I read it here. For the next month, various senators and various press people were indicating that I had said something that the agency didn't believe. It was not true." The president - and indeed Tenet himself - could have said the same. It became apparent that at least some intelligence officers were providing informal briefings to members of Congress and the media that contradicted the officially cleared intelligence.
Sad, isn't it that almost no Democrats today, have expressed positive messages to the people of Iraq. Really sad.
Oh my gosh. I had never heard that, Dolphy. It's gotten out of hand, what the CIA has tried to do. I'm really sitting here stunned.
Thank you for finding that. You must have a good memory too.
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The pain, fear, suffering and deprivation of Iraq are written all over the face of this dear soul. Thank you for posting it.
I understand the frustration when the White House doesn't seem to respond but I also understand why they can't engage in the battle at that level. They are up against the media, political foes and leakers within their own government...if they were to lose that battle, the consequences for the war itself would be cataclysmic. What will disappoint me though, is if the administration isn't quietly making inroads in transforming the CIA and State Department.
I hadn't really followed their reactions but if that's the case...yes it's sad even if expected.
Clinton's pee-pee needed saving. Just as well, he didn't do anything longer-lasting anyway. So all this s___ landed in Bush's lap, including our OWN unguided military. People stopped re-enlisting during those years for a reason.
That's good:) They're ready for their own Grateful Dead band in that last one:)
You've got to be kidding me. So they think they can just turn on a dime and say "Sorry about that, but we were too scared to go see for ourselves?"
The NBC news was on at work last night, but I couldn't hear it. I saw the stat "99% want Americans out of Iraq"--which is really sneaky. I'll bet right now that 100% of Americans want Americans out of Iraq...when the job is done. And of course the next stats showed that 60% of Iraqis want the US out when the job is done (or words to that effect).
If the MSM are suddenly going to turn around and say "Oh, yeah, everything's fine" you can bet it's because their next take on this story is going to be "Everything's fine, so there's no reason to stay--the Democrats are right, we should leave."
I was reading quickly and when I saw the words "forged ballots" I thought the Dems were getting ready for 2006.
I knew what the State Department was all about; it's the CIA that has been such a surprise. The way they have changed positions and lied about previous events is really astounding and like you, I'll be disappointed to hear if that place isn't being cleaned up.
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