Posted on 03/11/2007 5:25:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
YOu noticed that he "claimed" they didn't know??!!
Oh..Joe said that he is using the Kosovo, splitting up of Yugoslavia as a MODEL for what we should do in Iraq!!!
Yes, he pretty much is incredulous that this hasn't been Pres. Bush's plan for solving the strife all along..
Yeah, it was laziness, stupidity, lying......or all three.
Brilliant post and it should be echoed over an over. Drooping 400K Soldiers is key to everything.It should never be forgotten and who did it.
It is not a claim, just a fact. The Dems and MSM will make political hay out of it. It is just another pretext to attack Bush. Why give them the ammunition?
I tend to disagree with your analysis this time.
I tend to disagree with yours. Again, what are the political advantages of giving Libby a pardon now?
Well, if Juan is our sample of what the other side is thinking, it isn't much, is it?
Let's hope regime change happens.
I have given Waters the honor of calling her MARXINE Waters!
I would disagree on several levels with your conclusion, but not your premise that a pardon now would be a negative politically. However, the substance of that argument is that the Dhimmicrats and drive by media would launch nasty attacks on George Bush if he did this and accuse him of being a criminal. In case you haven't noticed they're doing that now. It's like saying we shouldn't attack Al Qaeda because they might get mad and attack us.
Pardoning Libby now would be a declaration that Fitzgerald himself committed an unlawful act by abusing his office and prostituting the law for political gain. But the President would have to do this 100% in the open, with an Oval Office speech, lay down the challenge to the moonbats that they must stop waging war on our country for their own selfish ends.
I can't forget...I lived through it. I remember when there was a rash of suicides in the 10th Mountain Div because they were on such a heavy deployment schedule.
When the 1st Armored Div was in a non deployable status because of shrofalls in readiness and manning.
And I remember Algore GLOATING in a stump speech about how his re-inventing government plan cut "400 thousand jobs from the Federal payroll" and if he was elected President "not one single job" would be added.
And people that weren't cognizent of politics then or the military then need to know these things before they start hearing the reckless ranting soundbites being played by the DBM trying to lay all of this at the Presidents doorstep.
Thanks snugs, good job EC, good choices.
Ratner, Beckel, Ferraro, and assorted other libniks give the mute button on my TV quite the workout.
What race does Bush lose if he pardons Libby?
Adding it to my reading list now.
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375414862
The Looming Tower Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O’Neill’s heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki’s transformation from bin Laden’s ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O’Neill’s high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life—he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others’ existence—and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.
What and utterly despicable shamefully ignorant thing for here to say about Iraq.
Absolutely brilliant rejoinder to one of the most brain dead statements by a truly clueless individual.
The audition is to see how far up the leg the camera can go without showing undies, or lack thereof.
The ROE we have over there now...in my opinion is the result of political correctness.
There is NOTHING that is PC about war or combat. Yet we are trying to fight that way.
I had more briefings by JAG in Iraq over how to conduct ourselves under the ROE than any other class instruction I had...it was incredible.
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