Posted on 08/05/2006 6:14:01 AM PDT by Pokey78
Bump.
I do not favor throwing Rumsfeld under the bus and the idea that he can be replaced by Liberman is ludicrous. Liberman has no experience running a big organization.
How about this for as a new slogan for the dims "I love Jews, but hate Israel." It makes as much sense as supporting the troops and being against the war on terrorism. Also, "hating the war in Iraq" makes as much sense as having said in WW2: I hate the war in North Africa, it didn't attack us, the Japs did and FDR hasn't caught Hirihito yet." or "I hate the war in Burma, but...."
Folks have lost site of the larger scale of the war we are in.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
That's pretty funny.
Anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-Joe, anti-individual, anti-freedom, anti-life: The Democrat Crime Syndicate.
Interesting article by Kristol. I don't agree that we need to make a stopped clock The Secreatary of Defense.
The Democrats fear Americans with pickup truck and shot guns.
The Democrats fear Americans that believe in God.
The Democrats do NOT fear Islamists with RPG's, WMD.....
The Democrats do NOT fear Islamists who refer to us as infidels.
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As whacko as I sound, and I know it sounds far out there; I am not that far off base. Look at Clinton and his games with our Constitutional right to bear arms, Ruby Ridge, Waco TX yet what was AQ doing, Iran, Iraq, Hebollah…..? The liberal looks at the world upside down and claims he’s ‘intellectual’ because of this.
Ruby Ridge happened under Bush the Elder.
Tendentious is an understatement. Like there was peace in Middle East until Hezbollah started launching rockets for no reason whatsover.
Hey, Mr. Chief Neocon! You asked for this war. In fact, you demanded it.
You ignored all the warnings and made stupid statements like "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's been almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."
But now it's Bush's fault because he doesn't have a strategy to overcome what YOU said wasn't going to be a problem. Man, it takes some cojones (or a very short memory) to write that.
The truth that Rumsfeld couldn't say is that first of all, Iraq will have a complex solution, and one in which, though they won't be fighting anymore, US forces will remain there for at least a decade. Much like they did in Germany.
Second, no matter what he might say, it would just be fuel for the election fire. Literally, if he says anything but gobbledygook niceties, it will be horribly abused.
Rumsfeld: "We are planning to do 'A'".
The MSM: "That's wrong, you should do 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'F'??? Are you mad?"
Hillary: "Doing 'A' just means they have no plan."
Murtha: "Nooo! They have to do 'K'. That's just something I though up the other day, but it is the ONLY ALTERNATIVE."
Dean: "Rumsfeld should resign for even suggesting 'A'."
Daily KOS: "Bush should be impeached for saying 'A'. It means that he is corrupt and eeevil!"
Al Gore: "No. No. No. Bush must do 'X*J+L/Q', or it will destroy the atmosphere. Which would be bad."
etc., ad nauseum. Is it any wonder that Rumsfeld didn't say anything of moment?
More like: 'Demi-rats'
The New Democrats are just openly stupid.
You're right,
August (Ridge) /November (Election outcome) were the dates.
Still - Ask most liberals if they saw Saddam as a threat and the answer is no. Then ask him about gun control. The MSM loooooooooves stories about Aryan racists, but talks about the "religion of peace". You have Clinton throwing his own personal lawyers on gun control and AQ doing what they want in Somalia and trying to bring the WTC down in 1993 already. They are whacko’s but consider themselves ‘intellectual’.
That's great - I'm going to steal it and use it quite frequently!
Or, why not Mayor Bloomberg? Or Hillary Clinton? The crossover vote is there, and there's no reason to do stupid things to grab it.
At the risk of highjacking the thread, a distinction between Ruby Ridge and Waco is that Ruby Ridge was government agents on the scene going over the line whereas Waco was Clinton green-lighting Janet Reno to go in there with tanks and attack the compound, resulting the deaths of some 80+ men, women and children.
Where was the media and the Europeans on this "war crime" resulting in the deaths of innocent children?
Sounds like a plan to me!
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