This Devil Dog has no problem trusting my family's safety to this Administration. Your continued blowhard rhetoric (at best!), however, does call your integrity into question.
They should have known when Chuckie Schumer came on Fox to complain of this lease that it was a set up.
To borrow a phrase from Algore, "He played on our fears."
All we managed to do is get Arab Allies who has been helping us on the war on terror to become embarrassed and to again reveal that we had an arrangement for special security and cooperation against terrorist.
Just glad to see that some radio hosts did not fall for it.
Kudo's to Tony Snow on that one.
He said " you are us or with the terrorists"...
Until Osama Bin Laden crossed into Pakistan, then Bush equivocated...
Until Muqtada Al Sadr killed our boys and had thier bodies burned and dragged through the streets, then Bush equivocated...
Until he was afraid of offending our neighbors to the south by closing the two thousand mile long open door for al qaeda, Then Bush equivocated...
Until France and Germany and the UN were at the verge of being offended, so he ordered out troops to stop kicking in doors and picking fights with the bad guys in Iraq (with the single exception of fallujah) letting them get away to plot trouble for us later (very much like his father did in 1991), because Bush equivocated...
Until a country filled with terrorist sympathisers that doesn't even recognize the existence of the state of Isreal may be offended if they can't screen and hire hundreds of their own employees at ports here in the US, Bush equivocated...
Don't talk to me about integrity, my views have always been the same.
READ MY LIPS...Just like his father, Bush has equivocated. It would do him well to learn of courage from those he sends to war. It is the righteous claim of all military who fight for this country to at the very least know, as proof that thier effort and suffering was not in vain, that thier children will not have to fight the same war again.
Presidents who deny veterans this small comfort will stand before God in mighty judgement.
I spent all night last week with the 18 year old son of my buddy Walker who died when an enemy mortar scored a lucky direct hit on his tank. He had seen Saddam Hussein throwing a tantrum on TV and walking out of court with his lawyers, and could not understand why his father had to die, but 15 years later, this man who started it all is afforded such luxuries. This poor kid, who has known poverty, pain and loneliness his whole life has been denied justice because of polical equivocation. Still, he is signing up to serve.
I am filled with indignation. My guilt is overwhelming.
Don't talk to me about integerity.