Posted on 04/05/2009 9:43:12 AM PDT by bimboeruption
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox News Sunday” that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people “do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.”
“One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster,” Gingrich said. “I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.”
Reacting to President Barack Obama’s speech in Prague, Gingrich called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a “wonderful fantasy idea,” saying Russia and other nations can’t be trusted.
“What are they going to promise, and why would we believe them?” Gingrich said. “It’s very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy, and it can get you in enormous trouble.”
Host Chris Wallace asked Gingrich: “So you’re saying that President Gingrich would have taken out that” missile?
Gingrich replied: “There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: ‘We’re not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.’ I mean, the world’s either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous … I’d recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every … equation about how risky these weapons are.”
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, appearing with Gingrich, said: “In the countryside of South Carolina, at some point, you’ve got to back up words with action. … There have been a long series of … intentional steps on North Korea’s part, and little in the way of actions from the standpoint of either America or the international community.”
Nonsense! Clinton was running $200 billion dollar budget deficits before the Republicns took control of Congrees under Newt.
Can't agree more. Newt was the driving force, intellect, honed political skills that moved the conservative movement into Congress in 1994.
Newt is so far from perfect, as ALL politicians are. I'm speaking from a perspective of being a religious social conservative. We don't elect Popes or pastors to political positions, we elect politicians, warts and all. Newt is heads and shoulders above any politicians currently trying to influence the conservative movement
A lot of these children, as you say, will be astonished to figure out Newt will be the one who drives the barbarians out of the gate if we can mange to still do it.
Beltway Disease. Gets them every time.
Ive thought about that too. There is no way to know exactly what kind of stuff the government may be keeping under wraps. My personal belief is that we do but it may be wishful thinking on my part.
"WAS" is the key word.
I guess the old adage... "Absolute power corrupts..... and absoluten power corrupts absolutely." Still holds ... Right ? Old Buddy NEWT? and obviously you Mr. "Hinckley Buzzard" as well...
What have i done? LOLI suspect I've done more than you might know ... I've been posting here since 1997.. and have been active in Freeper activities for years in Buffalo. I just attended our Buffalo "Tea Party" focused on NY State's oppressive taxation and will be attending the Federal demonstration on April 19th.
People like you keep supporting the "Newt Types" even though they're shown to be corrupted ABSOLUTELY... Maybe someday you'll learn to search for the "Patrick Henry" types... They risked everything.. our "old Buddy" Newt risked Absolutely NOTHING! That's why we have a President and an unfettered Congress running roughshod over everything we hold dear... including our children's Liberty.
Thanks Newt and... Thanks to you and your like too Mr. "Buzzard".
Amen, Brother Bob.
Does Gingrich even know what "sacred honor" means?
Talk is cheap Newt
Sadly, I am betting the ABL gets the ax, just like the ABM system will with dear leader in charge.
Personally, I'd prefer someone who's seen active duty in the military and knows the horror of battle firsthand.
The Founding Fathers and Reagan come pretty close to perfection, don't you think?You are delusional if you believe that. The Founding Fathers were very flawed human beings who got one idea very right. Ronald Reagan was great because he knew his own limitations.
First, I don't agree with your logic, if it concludes that because we have something, say nukes, everybody else can have them. If you value your life you don't let maniacs - or sworn enemies - have the means to obliterate you.
Secondly, N. Korea is not building toward ICBMs in order to have communications, but in order to threaten us, and sell them to others in order to threaten us.
He too focused on a very few important ideas. Most of the Newt haters around here would probably be blasting Ronald Reagan if he was around today. He'd be too "Liberal" for them. He supported AIDS research, had "gay" friends and son, he did very little to advance the Conservative cause of "Right to Life," he appointed Sandra Day O'Connor out of "Affirmative Action," not out of merit (which damaged a lot of our Constitutional rights).
The Founding Fathers only got ONE idea right? Which ONE is that?
I voted for Reagan and would vote for him again if I could. You are wrong in saying he did little to advance the Right to Life.
Reagan's position regarding the sanctity of human life evolved to being 100% pro-life over time and he did plenty to advocate it.
He said "I notice that everybody who is pro-abortion already has been born."
In his 1st. year as CA. gov. in 1967, the legislature passed a bill legalizing "therapeutic" abortions. It was an issue he hadn't thought much about & he was torn over whether to veto it. Many Repubs strongly urged him to sign it including members of his staff. Reagan was assured it would result in only a handful of abortions.
His instinct was to veto the bill & the Catholic archbishop of LA urged him to do that, but he signed it into law. He was disturbed by his decision & continued to think deeply about abortion.
By 1980, Reagan had changed his mind and become a firm opponent of abortion insisting on a pro-life plank in the Repub platform for the first time. In 1983, he wrote a passionate pro-life book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. Signing this bill was the only political mistake that he ever admitted.
We are not talking nukes, we are talking sats.
What a LEADER! Remember how he led the Republican Revolution?
Go back and hide in the Congressional cloakroom, you jerk.
Then somebody lock him in there.
It’s called dual-purpose technology. If you can place a satellite into orbit, you can place a nuke anywhere in the world.
The only difference between a satellite and an ICBM is the ICBM orbit intersects with the surface of the earth.
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