"Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed, brutal dictators and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom." - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Apr. 9, 2003.
For the very same reason (i.e., "courage") proffered by Koch, President Bush is my hero too! . . . I would add that President Bush is also a man of remarkable VISION and INTEGRITY!
onyx: Thank you for the link!!
It's high time for some GOOD NEWS like this. And it takes courage to say the current President has courage!!
AMEN!
Good Gosh. It takes a LIB like Ed Koch to say this. How sad.
Outside of his immigration stance, my opinion of the President has not changed one iota. I think he is the same person he was in those weeks after 9/11.
I trust Zell Miller on this one.
Thank you!
btt
First, I agree with Koch that on Jan 21, 2009 history will write that GW did himself proud and did what he believed was the best for the country and the world.
Second, the 'we' that Koch refers to? Is that we the United States? What about the rest of the civilized world? What about France, Germany, Russia, China, etc? Why is it that only the US has a dog in the fight against terrorism and famine?
In today's world of metrosexual mealy mouthed politicans who talk a lot but don't really say anything and certainly don't follow-up on their own policies, George W. Bush is indeed a hero and I'm delighted to read that Koch get it.
Bush isn't perfect and he'd be the first one to admit that. But he's better than we deserve and has taken a devil of a beating, sometimes at the hands of his own party.
It might do some so called "perfect conservatives" some good to remember Ronald Reagan's own words in his autobiography:
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
If you got 75 or 80% of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
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Seriously put down the smoke. Whew...
Radical Islamists are very much aware that we have shown fear.For example, we have allowed the people of Darfur — dark skinned Africans — to be terrorized, killed, raped, and taken as slaves by the supporters of the Sudanese government, radical Islamists.
No in the only case, perhaps in all of the last century, the US government has done what it was supposed to do. Stay out of the affairs of other nations
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... Adams, 1821Suppose that last bit would include purple fingers and nation building....Funny, advice from those that were there at or near the beginning on the issue of nonintervention is seen as fear by the armchair 'warriors'. Ed, why don't you haul your tail down to Darfur if you're so concerned about it.
George Bush Is a Hero
No, he's a politician. Nothing more, nothing less.
A salute to the CIC and a nod to Ed Koch for his clear thinking.
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Does Saudi Arabia really have that kind of excess capacity? Anybody know?
George Bush is a hero to me because he has courage
I hold it that his (George W. Bush) moral resolve, stamps him as one of the greatest leaders to emerge in the last 100 years.
For anyone that takes the time to study American history, there are examples. The courage of President Ford in giving a pardon to former President Richard Nixon is one.
He recognized that the vicious detractors of Nixon and the spiteful press, had exaggerated the faults of Nixon ten fold. We are told it cost Ford the Presidency.
I notice that it is being said that President Ford was the only un-elected President. (CNN et al). Another man was President Andrew Johnson, he succeeded President Lincoln. I stand corrected but that he too, was never elected.
Again, this man stood for what he believed in. The vilification and hatred for him, brought about an impeachment attempt. One lone vote saved him. It cost him the chance at the next Presidential election. He stood strong. History has judged him kindly. I quote something I read on the internet . George W. Bush will go down in history as a man, yes, a man with faults, but a man.
Bush is scum for trying to force amnesty on the American people. Bush cares more about illegal aliens than he does about Americans.
Now here's a GREAT former mayor speaking up for a GREAT president.
great stuff!
Well, that's it. Koch will now be labeled a loonie-kazoonie.
bttt