Posted on 11/27/2006 8:07:09 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Oh but THAT right, he told you losers that was just the "Koolaid drinkers" trying to get him. Maybe but still does not answer WHY he lives his personal life 100% opposed to what he screams into hims Mic everyday now does it?
So care to explain why what your idol actually does in his personal life is 100% at odds with what he SAYS he on his show? O
They were so oversold on the benefits of democracy. They were led to believe that the day after the election or within a relatively short period time all their woes would go away. The casting of the ballot was to bring about some kind of miracle, a panacea.
We in the US have learned from experience that the results of democracy are not always a great success. To wit: the election of FDR, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton. It takes years for a public to be educated to the proper use of the franchise and in some countries I am not sure it ever comes about.
My first realization as to the gratitude of these people was when their olympic soccer team which we rescued from Saddam and his terrorist thug of a son and then encouraged to train for the competition shouted insults at the US during the Olympic games. We should have known then if we did not learn from the past that nation building was not going to work.
All we can do is give them a start. You see where Russia is today after fifteen years of democracy. Democracy is not easy. Just ask the Palestinians.
They will suffer through it and succeed IMHO. However, if we leave prematurely, they are certainly doomed.
I don't expect our nation to tuck its tail and run because we are tired of IRaq.
Dennis Prager
We have given them a start. We have shed 3,000 lives to give them a start. It's now time for them to step up to the plate and do their part. They have not and I don't think they will. I, for one am not willing to send servicemen even if they are volunteering to Iraq to see them shot by Sunnis one day and Shiites the next.
"So care to explain why what your idol actually does in his personal life is 100% at odds with what he SAYS he on his show?"
Could you explain to me how YOUR idol explains Viagra in the Dominican Republic is an example of conservative family values?
(Since we are talking about "personal lives"?)
"everyone here is not laughing their ass off at your rabid stupidity and childish arrogance." --- Please speak for yourself, MNJohnnie. You may just be all alone with all your name calling. You have a habit of trying to make other FReepers feel that you are in some kind of lame hateful club.
Speak for yourself....... and stand for yourself.
'Fighting Irish' all day long sparring with you has been much less than as willing as you with all the nasty invective and incessant name calling that you have continually employed. Take a day to grow up a little.
Again ..... SPEAK for yourself, MNJohnnie.
Why do you continually include the rest of FR in your angry posts?
When I get into a civil discussion with a democrat friend, I ask them to do a mental exercise of writing the headline if 'whatever event' had occured with democrats in charge. They often agree with me that the reporting would be different. Then they go back to believing that what they read in their preferred news media is true reporting. "Belief systems" beat logic every time with the dems.
The cost of leaving with the job not done is far greater than the cost now. What did 9/11 cost us? If you are not willing to risk volunteer soldiers for something this important, why have an army? How many Iraqis police recruits have to die before you are convinced they are "stepping up to the plate"?
If we leave now, we will appear to be cowards regardless of the reason for leaving. That is a terrible mistake when dealing with enemies as ruthless as the Muslims are.
You need to quit watching the nightly news. I saw this same attitude cripple us in Vietnam, but that took far longer than three years.
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