Posted on 03/05/2006 12:58:26 PM PST by Pukin Dog
Dang.
You are male, right?
LOL!
Yes, it's Cody, WY, isn't it. But Cheney did live in WI too when he was in graduate school or thereafter, I believe.
Okay.
I got a little excited, there, good to have confirmation.
; )
THANK YOU, Pukin Dog! Sometimes I think many of our friends here live in a tunnel and only see 1 issue at a time. I also refuse to take anything that comes from the media as truth - the filter is always on (see the WV miner story for the best example of media accuracy!)....
Confidence: 5
(no way of knowing if you imbibe one or two every other day or if you're a major league sot)
By the way, any early thoughts on possible nominees for '08?
By (in effect) 'nationalizing' the election by making it 'all about Dubya', the 'Rats are being set up to be clobered - because when Dubya finally shows his cards and starts campaigning, the American voter goes to his side (realizing that he is the only one who can be trusted with national security and their checkbook)"
Bush *better* gets his act together - soon - I dont believe the Elections in November have been decided yet. People are not satisfied, but elections are 7 months away. It is wrong to assume it is over, one way or another. It is also correct that there are many latent strengths in our President that get obscured by the day-in-day-out media bombardement of negativity....
I'll give a few small clues of optimism on one matter ... WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590471/posts
"I felt an urge to join after viewing the Nick Berg story on the news," said Pfc. David Henry, Co. B, 1-87 Inf. "One year later, here I am with my platoon and we've captured murderers of innocent people." Berg was an American contractor in Iraq who'd been captured and killed by terrorists"
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/64677.htm
"Dude, where's my civil war?" ... The
"Instead of a civil war, something very different happened because of the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The fanatic attempt to stir up Sunni-vs.-Shia strife, and the subsequent spate of violent attacks, caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward."
Attacks are down.
Al Anbar is quiet.
US casualaties in the last week are near all-time lows.
The Sunnis are waking up to the fact that *we* are not their #1 enemy, The Mahdi army militia is.
Perception is far from reality.
All Hillary Rodham Clinton has to say is "Boo" and Romney and Rice would run for cover, just like "Little Ricky" Lazio did in 2000.
If so, then why did William F. Buckley, Jr., patron saint of Rush Limbaugh, come out last week against the war? Maybe we are "winning," but it doesn't "feel" too much like we are. Perhaps we should declare victory AGAIN and get out of there, or can we?
You Buchananites would LOVE for the US to tuck tail and get out of Iraq, and everywhere else in the international community.
That attitude would be why Pat Buchanan and his followers CAN'T WIN ANYTHING.
It wasn't Pat who urged that we get out of Iraq -- he suggested that we never go in -- but it is William F. Buckley, Jr., godfather of the neocons. It was Buckley's brother, James, who became the first Republican senator in 1973 to call for the resignation of President Nixon too.
Any ideas on who that appointee might be or his judicial philosophy?
Did you see that a poll shows 72 percent of servicemen in Iraq think that the U.S. should be out of Baghdad within twelve months? The majority wants us out even within six months.
Me: "I'll give a few small clues of optimism on one matter ... WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ:"
TR: "If so, then why did William F. Buckley, Jr., patron saint of Rush Limbaugh, come out last week against the war?"
This one was dispatched readily in a thread at the time. Buckley is just misinformed, reading the New York Times and considering their 'facts' as determinative and ignoring many other manifest facts on the ground.
I cited a Ralph Peters column that punctures the myth that Iraq is going to pot ... Peters is IN BAGHDAD...
he says:
"In place of the civil war that elements in our media declared, I saw full streets, open shops, traffic jams, donkey carts, Muslim holiday flags - and children everywhere, waving as our Humvees passed. Even the clouds of dust we stirred up didn't deter them. And the presence of children in the streets is the best possible indicator of a low threat level. Southeast Baghdad, at least, was happy to see our troops.
And we didn't just drive past them. First Lt. Clenn Frost, the platoon leader, took every opportunity to dismount and mingle with the people. Women brought their children out of their compound gates to say hello. A local sheik spontaneously invited us into his garden for colas and sesame biscuits. "
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/64677.htm
I'll take the on-the-ground-now report over the handwringing that comes from reading too much media defeatism anyday.
If it was a 'civil war', why are the casualty rates for both US and Iraqi forces becoming steadily *LOWER* ...
http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx
" Maybe we are "winning," but it doesn't "feel" too much like we are."
Of course not, when you get the drip-drip of defeatism from the media. If you dont trust the New York Times and lamestream media on other matters, why do you treat their bias as gospel when it comes to Iraq? Same agenda (defeat Bush), same bias!
A prime example is immigration. There's no doubt in my mind that if Freeperdom was totally unaware of Bush's stance on immigration, and that stance was posted here for discussion, it would be ripped to shreds as idiotic. Yet because it's the Bush position, it's declared to be some sort of masterful strategy or some such nonsense."
Not true at all ... Bush's stance on immigration has been ripped to shreds by many. What's nutty is to have people upset over the 20% of the Bush agenda that they dont like and forget that Bush is giving them 80% of what they want while the Democrats on the key and important issues want to destroy everything we hold dear.
Too many ideologues forget that the good is the enemy of the best, and in demanding perfection play into the hands of the socialists...
"Despite that, I base my opinions on the facts I observe and my conversative values. I do not, and will not, base my opinions on what Dubya or anyone else does or believes, as do so many on here."
It's derogatory and unfair to treat loyalty as some sort of inferior or unwise stance. We need to give Bush some slack because Bush has done much for what we believe and has the political arrows in his back to prove it.
NO Democrat would have nominated Roberts or Alito, and it was an easy thing to flub it and see them sink.
NO Democrat would have given us 3 tax cuts in a row.
And NO Democrat wants to make them permanent like Bush does.
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