Posted on 06/23/2006 10:06:38 PM PDT by FairOpinion
"Above all else, President Bush never loses sight of his most fundamental duty -- to defend this nation and to protect our people. "
But the relative safety of these years was not an accident. We've been protected by sensible policy decisions by the President, by decisive action at home and abroad, by the round-the-clock efforts on the part of people in the armed forces, law enforcement, intelligence, and homeland security
He'd make a good president.
This is a very good opportunity for a GOP pickup in the House. This district should not have been lost.
That is the duty of every president. But where in the speech does the Vice President identify the enemy? If he can't speak the words "radical Islam", how does he expect the public to know who the enemy is.
It's very obvious who is the enemy -- those who want to prevent us from fighting the terrorists.
"I've known Jack Murtha for a long time. I worked closely with him when I was Secretary of Defense and he chaired the defense appropriations subcommittee. I respect him, but he's dead wrong on this issue. His proposal is contrary to the national interest. And he draws exactly the wrong lessons from the examples of Beirut and Somalia. If you look back at the years before 9/11, you see case after case where terrorists hit America -- and America failed to hit back hard enough. In Beirut terrorists killed 241 of our servicemen. In Somalia we had the killing of 19 Americans. In both cases, the United States responded to the attacks by withdrawing our forces. But by doing so, we simply invited more danger, because the terrorists concluded that if they killed enough Americans, they could change American policy. And they did. So they continued to wage attacks against America and American interests. We had the bombing at the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, the murders at the Saudi National Guard training facility in Riyadh in 1995; the killings at Khobar Towers in 1996; the simultaneous bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; the bombing on the USS Cole in 2000; and, ultimately, the events of 9/11, when we lost 3,000 Americans here at home.
If we follow Congressman Murtha's advice and withdraw from Iraq the same way we withdrew from Beirut in 1983 and Somalia in 1993, we will simply validate the al Qaeda strategy and guarantee more terrorist attacks in the future. "
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Can't he continue to run for Vice President? That would be pretty good.
Cheney/Rice 2008?
I don't think he'll run, but he'd be a good president.
I don't think he'll run either, but thank God that he is a VP now. Bush and Cheney make a great team, at a critical time.
The enemy is radical Muslims--not that grand abstraction "terrorists". Nor is it the Democrats as political opponents. Why is it so impossible for people to speak about radical Islam? Those words are the big taboo words with this administration. I guess Cheney is afraid he might upset his good friend Jack Murtha whom he respects so much.
"Nobody is for a withdrawal, even a timetable," says the foreign minister.
"What about the war debate here in the U.S., I ask him. Are Iraqis worried that U.S. troops will leave too soon? Does the Iraqi press pay attention when people like Congressman Jack Murtha call for troop withdrawal?
"It does. Yes, it does. This is one of things actually. The freest media in the world I think is in Iraq. Honestly. There is no censorship or restrictions or restraint whatsoever. Now you have about 15 or 16 satellite channels run by Iraqis and I don't know how many hundreds of newspapers." So "people have become more politically conscious and aware. . . . Nobody is for a withdrawal, even a timetable, for the troops."
As we part ways, he offers a message for those in the international community and in the U.S. who would give up on the mission while there's still everything to play for: "There is too much at stake. Failure in Iraq means reversal of all democratic reforms throughout the region. Failure in Iraq means the power of the United States and the coalition cannot be used elsewhere in the same manner. Failure for democracy here would suggest that really these people are not used to this so its better to have one-man, one-party rule, a strong man to control this bunch of Kurds and Shia and militias and so on. Failure is a reversal of everything we've built."
These are tumultuous times and our government has acquitted itself admirably.
Can you imagine an Al Gore or John Kerry administration leading the country through the challenges of the last five and a half years.
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Can you imagine an Al Gore or John Kerry administration leading the country through the challenges of the last five and a half years.
If Al or Kerry would have become President, we would of bombed Afganistan for one day and that is it!!!!! It would have been back to status quo almost immediately.
My beloved Bigtime. How I adore him.
Dare I hope he will run in 2008? Please, Mr. Cheney...
"We commend the House of Representatives for passing a constitutional line-item veto..."
See, I consider myself reasonably well-informed, and I'd somehow missed that. Ex. cell. ent.
Hope it passes.
I don`t think Dick Cheney is afraid of anything or anybody. Your comments show that your real objective is a war on ALL Muslims. That`s not going help this country win the war that must be won.
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