Posted on 05/21/2006 12:53:53 AM PDT by FairOpinion
President George W. Bush strides across the world stage as much as the U.S. dominates the world's stage.
This is very good news for those of us who still believe in decency and democracy.
So forget what some slanted opinion polls say about the leadership of the 43rd president and his patriot countrymen.
Recall, Sir Winston Churchill was once one of the most detested men in Britain, then went on to save the free world.
That's Churchill's undisputed legacy.
In another era it may be Bush's legacy, too.
This past week, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of America's strongest allies, was in Washington on a state visit.
He was hailed by one and all in the nation's capital.
Later, Howard was in Ottawa to visit America's latest allies, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the newly elected Conservative government of Canada.
And we all know British Prime Minister Tony Blair is also one of Bush's -- and America's -- strongest allies.
Bush and America have many other allies throughout the world, too, although to read the nauseating Lib-Left news media, one would get the impression Bush is a pariah and America a rogue state.
Well, would you rather have the likes of Communist China, Communist North Korea, or Communist Cuba soldiering the world?
How about Middle East sheikdoms such as Iran, Libya, or Yemen running the show.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already let it be known when his nation gets its hands on nuclear weapons he will use them against the Western democracies.
North Korea's president Kim Jong-il boasts he already has nuclear weapons and is building intercontinental ballistic missiles to carry them to western countries.
Back in the 1960s, Castro tried to install Soviet missiles on his island nation aimed at Canada and the U.S.
Do you honestly believe Bush, Blair, Howard and the like do not have a duty to safeguard us against these types.
Or would you rather have a stack of African dictatorships in charge -- nations ravaged by tribal warfare with their hands constantly out for billions of dollars in western aid that invariably is used to build luxurious palaces and deposited in secretive Swiss banks.
Vladimir Putin's Russia is a mess -- democracy there is in danger -- and old Soviet-style hawks want to take it back to the days of Stalinism.
Many of its non-Eastern European vassal states are in a mess, too, governed by local chieftains.
In Latin America bullies such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are on the rise.
Their hero, Fidel Castro, lives in luxury while his people continue to live under decades of food rationing.
India and Pakistan -- always at each other's throats, and courtesy of past Canadian Liberal regimes loaded with nuclear missiles -- pose a constant threat to that part of the world.
In Italy, we just lost Silvio Berlusconi, one of Bush's and America's best friends, in favour of left-winger Romano Ponti, and we don't know where he stands on preserving the international rule of law.
In Spain, when the Conservative government of Jose Maria Aznar fell, and Socialist Jose Zapatero came into power, the Spanish quickly capitulated to Islamic terrorist blackmail.
Thankfully, NATO and Norad are still holding together, and some perceptive Europeans leaders are even talking about a missile shield against rogue nations similar to the one proposed by Bush and rejected by weak-kneed types such as the Jean Chretien/Paul Martin Liberals.
Gutless, every one of them.
Talk about 21st century Neville Chamberlains!
So we're left basically with Bush, Blair and Howard and whatever smaller nations such as freed Soviet slave states in the European Union can pull together.
Yes, we've all read in the midst of this international war on terror that Bush has slipped this month to an all-time low in opinion polls at just 29%.
But recall that back in 1951 during another war on terror -- the attempt to prevent Josef Stalin's hordes from advancing into Western Europe and the all-out effort to save South Korea from advancing Communist North Korean forces, backed by Red China -- Democratic President Harry Truman fell to 23% in the polls.
The anti-America mobs can howl all they like, but I'm sticking with Bush, Blair, Howard and other true leaders of the western democracies.
I hope you are, too.
If you knew the truth about Iraq, you wouldn't have any reservations about taking Saddam out, and how important it was for our protection.
President Bush knew far more than we did about how critical it was to our security.......and he has been proven right.
Iraq WAS the greatest enemy at the time -- they DID have WMD and they WERE in cahoots with Al Qaeda.
IRAQ: FORMER PM (ALLAWI) REVEALS SECRET SERVICE DATA ON BIRTH OF AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ it)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635308/posts
Our son is also a proud veteran of Operation Iraqi freedom and is also in the U.S. Army Reserves. God bless them all! :)
Keep smoking the pipe load of Bush brush...
He is counting on it...
Interesting. The usual conservative position is to put the blame on those who are doing the wrong, not on those who refuse to support it.
So the conservative position would be to put the blame on the liberal Republicans, not on those who choose not to reward them.
Wow. Powerful description.
I do not want milquetoast, I want Jan Sobieski. All this "pander, pander, socialism, pander, pander" has to go.
Actions speak louder than words.
Isn't it sad that our Founding Fathers debated how best to protect our liberty, while here we are being told that the only choice is how fast to lose it?
I have no animosity for any freedom loving people trying to better their lot in life. That is a moral and noble ambition.
On the hand, I have a serious problem with the current crop of politicians that think Americans should be anything but Americans. And I define "American" in terms of extremely limited government and individual empowerment. If you don't believe in that stuff, whether by word or deed, then you are not an American. The Founding Fathers would be spinning in their graves if they saw what passes as the "proper" American attitude today.
A pox on both Democrats and Republicans. They would sell us out for a bad nickel. Yes, there are a few good ones, but the whole establishment reeks of disease and decay. Any benefits I have seen have been purely coincidental, calculated to buy my vote. My ancestors have been here for 300 years, and this is not the country they thought they were leaving me.
bttt!
Maybe the truth can be found here?
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html
The Bible prophesies that Babylon (Iraq) will be the center of commerce in the world and that Iran, Syria, Russia, and maybe North Korea will attack Israel (only to be humiliated and wiped out by Israel). Satan is fighting the Iraq thing tooth-and-nail because the time is nearing for Satan's demise. And, if the USA had taken out Iran first, then they wouldn't be able to fulfill God's Word by attacking Israel.
I'll never withdraw my support of President Bush or his cabinet especially over any single issue.
read my tagline :o)
Keep fighting the good fight!
ROFLOL! I am SO amused by you non-thinking Bush bashers. Your arsenal is so teeny weeny, and your thought process so, well...... impotent.
I'm going to repost this deep thought of yours, so that others can hear the Twilight Zone theme song as well......
Bush is like all of the elites...he hates America..
Nothing like a good laugh in the morning to wake up the senses. :)
I've been unable to get online due to a sprained ankle so I wasn't at work last week to get online.
For some reason, they think that their idiocy regarding the President makes them 'cool.'
LITTLE do they know..............literally.
Very little!
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