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 the WOT fails, the same people will be sitting in the rubble, picking at their scabs and being grateful at least the illegal Mexican problem has been solved, since they won't want to come to a radioactive America.
Thank God your husband returned from Iraq safely.
You and he should stop believing the MSM, I bet that's what bothers him. Please tell him that he didn't serve in vain, people do appreciate his service, and appreciate your sacrifice as well. His service in Iraq may well have saved the world from a nuclear holocaust, which Saddam may have created, had he stayed in power.
I don't believe everything I read in the newspapers.
AQ certainly knows the meaning of the maxim which goes something like, "when the enemy is in the process of destroying itself, don't get involved."
From their pov the US certainly hasn't been a bastion of unity since 9-11 (except for a few weeks following 9-11).
Does AQ really want to wake a sleeping giant?
Or they just might be home grown! I guess that you have forgotten OKC?
Oh, that's why you think that huh? I should have figured as much.
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PRECISELY.
Thanks for that one. From me and all my progeny.
AQ would have preferred Kerry and I think they would have loved to hit the USA before Nov. 2004 and they were unable to do it.
Well said!!!!!!!!1
Trust me on this one. I have a whole different perspective on this.
I believe that 24/7 365 5 1/2 years MSM and Democrat Bush bashing has taken its ugly toll on conservatives that would newer be so negative otherwise. I refuse to be pulled in.
Sure can, millions. But I would prefer Jesus Christ, since he IS the world's best hope.
I don't even know where to begin with that!!!!
That was probably the most asinine, presumptive conjecture I’ve ever gotten!
First off, where did I ever say I was talking about one single issue?
Secondly, when did I say the President needed to take my feelings into any consideration? (What’s wrong with expressing a thought?)
Thirdly, my husband served in Iraq for 16 months. He did very dangerous work. He was out on the streets of Iraq everyday taking fire and avoiding IED’s. Most people would say that being a Military Wife is a sacrifice to her county, unto itself. Do I need to explain to you in extreme detail what it is like to have your spouse deployed 6000 miles away and put into extreme danger? Think of all the things a military wife has to do to keep everything…and I mean EVERYTHING going like clockwork while her husband is constantly under fire?
Perhaps this doesn’t mean anything to you.
And lastly, I don’t give a rat’s patootie what you think of me, really, but I would appreciate it if you would kindly thank my husband for carrying the torch of freedom, and allowing you the opportunity to continue to speak so horribly about a soldier’s wife.
Sleep well.
Bush is moving into his lame-duck period, so it's the next round we have to prepare for.
Life is full of choices and decisions. The best we can do is study what the world's leaders do. Many criticize Pres. Bush but I challenge them to do better. I despise armchair quarterbacks.
Which is why I asked your reasons for it. If you don't want to share them, fine, but, no, I don't just trust that your reasoning is sound because you say so.
Sorry you choose not to explain. It's such an interesting position it would add a lot to the discussion, and you claim to have insider information. I just can't fathom it as you've written it, because the evidence to the contrary is so overwhelming.
Probably true but I don't think it made that much difference to them.
and I think they would have loved to hit the USA before Nov. 2004
Again, probably.
and they were unable to do it.
I just can't be convinced that anyone can know that for sure.
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