Posted on 09/16/2006 7:53:55 AM PDT by ArmedConservative
U.S. Sen. John McCain is due in New Hampshire this weekend and we somehow don't think it is just to watch the NASCAR race in Loudon, as great an event as that surely is.
Sen. McCain comes here because he wants to be our next President. But the question is being asked, in the midst of the most difficult and challenging war we have ever faced, can the nation afford a President McCain?
No doubt his motives are pure, but McCain's current actions are blocking our ability to gain from terrorist captives the vital information we need to fight a war in which the enemy strikes us here at home from multiple locations around the world.
This is a new kind of war waged by a ruthless, extremist enemy that cares nothing for Geneva Convention niceties. The enemy is out to impose its religious views on the western world in general and the United States in particular and it attacks innocent women and children as well as our men and women in uniform. And if the latter are taken prisoner, they are burned, butchered or beheaded.
Sen. McCain is fighting the wrong war when he equates stateless Islamic jihadists with nations with whom we have fought in the past. You don't read Miranda rights to barbarians or worry about "what the world thinks'' when you are fighting an enemy that is out to destroy you. If McCain can't understand that, New Hampshire citizens must question why they should support him for President.
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Nonsense.
I'm not sure I would even give him that benefit of the doubt.
The Union Leader used to have editorials like that on the front back practically every day back in the good old days of William Loeb. I was pleased that they can still pull one out if they have to.
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No doubt his motives are purely selfish.
I honestly believe Mc Cain has a mental problem
ATTENTION NEW HAMPSHIRE FREEPERS AND REPUBS:
Please send a message to Senator McCain by NOT attending his rallies. Instead, organize protests at all of his events to send him a strong message that the people in his party vehemently oppose his position on the treatment of terrorists.
The Pope just caved in. Two years from now will have a Presidental election with two spineless front runners while The world thirsts for leadership. It'll be a long time comming, folks.
Where are our $50 per hour lettuce picking jobs, Senator?
Both McCain and Powell are still busy fighting the last war, their war, which I should point out we lost despite all the fine people who fought in good faith in Vietnam to win. I would like to ask both of them why they are more worried about the comfort of terrorists who want to kill us than about our soldiers overseas, and our people here at home.
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I can't decide if this is sarcasm or if it deserves an "unwarranted assumption" alert.
Amen, and still fighting it the losing way, IMHO. There is nothing we could have done (short of cutting/running, which we did) which would have changed the treatment of the POWs in SE Asia during the Vietnam conflict. McCain, Powell, et al., are not just dead wrong but dangerously stupid and misguided.
We need to make that plain to them in every way possible.
I know, I know - it won't do a damn bit of good in the face of Presidential ambitions/revenge, but they need to be made aware of how we feel.
In politics that seems more often to be a prerequisite than a disqualifier. What will cause McCain serious questions is his age and health. I know he had some cancerous growths removed from his face. The left jaw area does not look good. When the spotlight gets bright, this will cause him problems.
I will not vote for McCain, nor will I vote for Mrs. Clinton, nor Algore. I might not vote at all, a plague on all their houses. But surely the Republicans won't be so self-destructive to nominate McCain. Uh huh. I think McCain is a kind of Manchurian candidate implanted in us by the red Vietnamese.
Don't we owe it to civilization to punish the illegal combantcy of these barbarians? Seems to me we just need to establish the fact that the belong to Al Queda or illega insurgent army then execute them.
We are doing the planet a big disservice by offering them our constitutional protections. It actually encourages more civilian deaths as they laugh while we tear ourselves apart.
His wife's problems aren't going to help him either.
Yes, the author lost me there as well.
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