Write the White House, Protest the Cease Fire. Tell Bush what you think about Israel Losing!

www.whitehouse.gov ^ | Augest 14 2006 | myself

[Btrp113Cav]

Write the president and tell him this cease fire brought on by his administration is just another attempt to appease the terrorist. Terrorist win yet again. Iran is still trumping around in Lebanon, the UN with no real authority has no real powers to disarm hezbollah who has NOT agreed to disarm. Iran still has agents in Iraq running death squads and terror cells. Muqtada-AL-Sadr being the most famous one. When will the US buckle up and do what finally needs to be done instead of worry about oil prices? We all know what this cease fire will bring. Take action and write the president and tell him what you think of this balony BS move of his. STAND BY ISRAEL

[Darkwolf377]

Thank you for being a voice of sanity on this thread.

[Dave S]

Now the hezzies (not Israel) will either be disarmed or Israel will stand in a much stronger moral position to annihilate Lebanon and Damascus and move on to Tehran, especially when the politcos behind the international forces balk, which they will.

Dream on. If by moral position you mean that the countries of the world will accept Israels right to defend itself, you've been smoking too much weed. They dont care. If on the other hand you mean that the Israelis would have the moral right to do so, they already did. Israel is a big time loser here.

[Dave S]

A whole month? Oh boy. Good thing no one counts the years Iraq is taking.

Do you remember the six day war? That war lasted six days, not because Isreal finished off its opponents in six days and then rested on the seventh. It lasted six days because Nixon pulled the plug and refused to rearm Isreal if they kept fighting. By that standard, Bush has been real understanding. Given that Olmert had limited aims and didnt even want to send troops into Lebanon because they just freed themselves of that hell hole two years ago after an 18 year occupation, 30 days would have been sufficient if Olmert has used overwhelming force from the beginning rather than counting on air power (like Clinton).

[defconw]

Bush's fault, Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton. Israel is a grown up country. They have done what they did. It is NOT George Bush's fault. I totally agree. Plus if memory serves, Bush and friends, including Israel are playing chess, not checkers.

[Dave S]

I object to your characterization that Israel lost this encounter.

Hezbollah will not be forced to disarm. Israel didn't get their soldiers back. And Nasrallah has emerged as an even greater political force in Lebanon and will be the prime minister in a few short years.

You forgot to include that Israel lost it's deterrent credibility. Israel may be able to crush Syria, Jordan and Egypt in open dessert warfare but it's toothless to defend against asymetric warfare from Hezbollah. Israel got bloodied by Hezbollah and whimpered off into the sunset to lick its wounds.

[Sabramerican]

Gosh. Thanks for the history lesson.

But just to give you a tiny clue that you are 110% wrong in what you think you know, the President during the Six Day War was Johnson.

[kjam22]

Omert seemed quite content bombing the heck out of Hezb from 20,000 feet..... until the U.S. got on board with a UN ceasefire.

And I think that given the time, Israel could have "won" this thing with the air campaign.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

I think all the arguing back and forth on this thread need not be so venomous. The debate right now between conservatives should be considered healthy. Many agree that Omert ran the war incompetently, and some do not. Most here think that the US, through Rice and Bolton, did what they had to do, and that the ISraelie govt. bears the responsibility. Others think, as in the Gaza withdrawl that Dr. Rice was in favor of, that the Bush administration needs to take a harder line against an enemy that is sure to rearm and refortify. Hugh Hewitt's show questioned Dr. Rice on this cease fire, and he is surely a media supporter of the administration. Right now we do need very critical debate over what the long-term objectives are in destroying the enemy, cuz the world is drowning in Muslim fanatics. Just because a member here is critical of the administration, he should not be labeled as an unhinged idiot. At least 1/2 the members on this forum are critical of issues such as illegal immigration or the Dubai Ports deal, and they are obviosly not speaking from the Left.

[Dave S]

But just to give you a tiny clue that you are 110% wrong in what you think you know, the President during the Six Day War was Johnson

Well I guess there have been so many quickie wars that I cant keep them all straight. In the '73 war Nixon pulled the plug on replacement arms and ammunition unless Israel stopped immediately. He didnt want the Saudis to get too upset because we were in oil shortage.

[Sabramerican]

Wrong again.

[Dave S]

Wrong again.

How is that? Nixon was president until 74? I think LBJ was dead by 73 or pretty close to it.

[Sabramerican]

To his ever lasting credit, Nixon supplied Israel in the 73 war above and beyond and in the face of Saudi threats.

The war ended when Sharon crossed the Suez and was within reach of Cairo and then the Soviets threatened.

[napscoordinator]

I trust President Bush and Secretary of State coni Rice on doing the right thing....oh and John Bolten. I will do no such thing as waste the President's time on a letter that does not need to be sent. Do you think he has no thought of every angle. He is doing the right thing. Stop being a Bush hater. It is not becoming of a FREEPER.