Posted on 05/20/2007 6:19:09 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
he idea that the party of Eisen-hower or Goldwater would have suspended habeas corpus indefinitely, as Bush has done for enemy combatants, would be unthinkable. The idea that they would have tried to occupy and rebuild an entire country in the Middle East is unimaginable. They were ferociously anticommunist, but also wary of direct engagement in foreign countries and deeply suspicious of all wars.
This kind of prudence and caution was once the hallmark of the middle of the country and its Midwestern American values. Paul reminded Americans of this past. He told them that the Republicans opposed the second world war, ended the Korean war and ended the Vietnam war. Why not the Iraq war? Why not indeed.
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O.K. Maybe he partied through Wolrd History.
His cume was only 77 you know and he flunked two courses. But that puts him ahead of Kerry whose cume was 76 and who flunked three courses.
That's when many of us lost faith in this president, then watched as he and his neocon buddies led us further down this treacherous path where we're heading.
We waited for the president to take a step in the right direction, but IMO, everything he's done has been virulently anti-American.
Yup.
I began studying this about 14 years ago. Now what?
I mean; other than what we are already doing, what else can we do?
Yes.
One could say the same thing about the one-worlders "over here" wanting to control "over there".
Jason, would you mind writing the link in English, please? My finder will not find it.
http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
That would make a great campaign slogan.
Uhhh - YES!!!
Thank you!
Argue all you want about the past.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda is Iraq now and Paul wants us to leave.
So do the folks over at Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch. You’ll have a hard time selling them as being soft on Islamic terrorism.
Well, according to the facts as you have laid them out, how could you absolve Eisenhower? What U.S. national interest was at stake in Iran in the 1950’s?
So do the folks over at Robert Spencers Jihad Watch. Youll have a hard time selling them as being soft on Islamic terrorism.
I give you a fact, that Al Qaeda is in Iraq and you respond by dropping the name Robert Spencer and you say how he wants to leave Iraq.
LOL! That changes everything right? Al Qaeda is in Iraq, Robert Spencer and Ron Paul says we should leave -- therefor we should leave.
Sure.
Tell me what you know of Robert Spencer.
I’d like your take on what’s happening in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon right now. How does that square with your belief that al Qaeda is a serious threat to take over Iraq. Does it surprise you to see al Qaeda attacked by rival Islamic groups? Think that might happen in Iraq?
Quiz time- which sect does al Qaeda come from, Sunni or Shia? And which is the majority in Iraq?
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