Posted on 04/06/2002 7:49:04 AM PST by kristinn
Live from Crawford, Texas, it's the George and Tony show.
Will George slap Bill and Yasser around again like he did last night? Will Tony come off as George's toy poodle? Will the press be their usual boorish selves ? Is Helen Thomas there ?
The answer to these and other questions will be answered at Noon eastern time.
You proceed from a false premise. America is not the world's police man, either figuratively or literally.
I understand that liberals like billeh blahthe (clinton, in case I took too much liberty to make that recognizable, but that bloated buffoon is the most lampoonable public figure in history so I hope you will forgive my indulging myself)... Anyhow... Yes, liberals seem unable to understand that freedom and prosperity are synonomous, always needing to pay in American blood and treasure for the peace and prosperity that so much of the world lacks as if penance were appropriate. The world does not need American blood and treasure, the world needs freedom, and no amount of sacrifice can make up for what people in foreign lands choose to suffer at the hands of their annointed despots.
We did look a lot like the world's police under liberal leadership, but that is over. If Americans are called upon to sacrifice blood and treasure, it is for our vital national interests.
Speaking of which, it is good to hear that our vast outlays of foreign aid (yes it is inconsistent, but free people are so generous of spirit we do try to mitigate suffering, yes it should be voluntary and not coerced through taxation, yes we need reform after a generation of liberal abuse) will now be witheld if the aid only serves to fatten the parasites that afflict foreign lands, that reform, if only incremental, was long overdue.
It does not follow that America is or must be a public servant to the rest of the world in order to root out and destroy terrorism.
I did not approve of clintons asinine abuse of our military, but his bloated political corpse is no longer relevant to anyone or anything.
Unless you have a daughter
You must be a lawyer. Tie up my ( and all of ours ) natural rights in a court of law based upon a government that no longer believes in our historical foundations.
Are you saying that we should not have defended Kuwait and driven Iraq out of Kuwait? Hmmmmm.
Maybe you are right. We probably shouldn't have done that. Better to let Iraq have Kuwait and its oil fields. Better to let Sadaam totally disrupt the flow of oil and destroy the world economy. Better to let Sadaam have Kuwait so he could next move unto Saudi Arabia and then take those oil fields. Yep, that's the ticket. That's what we should have done. Why then, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now. (/sarcasm)
Or, perhaps you are suggesting that we should have gone into Baghdad and taken out Sadaam at that time. But wait, why does America have to be the world's policeman?
If you want to sit back and let the chips fall where they may, so be it. But look what complacency got us on 9-11.
I see logic, and facts in everyone's posts to you, and I see nothing but meaningless phrases, and insults from you. Could it be that you have no answers?
America no longer operates based upon the Constitution. And you folks are paying for it.
Let us not forget that, when President Bush (senior) chose not to take Baghdad, he counted on the Kurds, armed and equipped by us, to set their own Iraqi house in order. Much as his son President Bush did with stunning success recently in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance.
Who could have guessed that saddam would use nerve gas and choking agents and biological filth against his own people just to keep his fat back side in his bloody throne?
It is hard to blame George H. W. Bush for failing to forsee that saddam would do one of history's most depraved acts of mass murder, yes he got that wrong and now we have to clean house after a decade of clinton's cowardice encouraged and facilitated preparations for worse abuses by saddam.
Such is life, now Gulf War act two begins.
Somehow, I doubt this will satisfy you. But maybe if we declare war, then we aren't being the world's policemen? Am I following this?
Funny how this little truth is ignored by the 'give us our freedom' crowd. While we must be vigilant to make sure the government does not exceed the bounds of its task to protect us from very real threats, we also must allow the government to do what it needs to do to keep us safe from terrorists, within and beyond our borders.
Precisely my thought, Wphile.
Buckeroo, all your anger and frustration will be ended with a simple Declaration of War?
I think not.
Me too, Mike! Especially the "Unless you have a daughter" line! Too funny!
Thanks! And I forgot, thank you, that technically, we are already in a state of war with Baghdad by virtue of their non compliance with the instrument of surrender!
Slapping forehead... How could the liberal whacko press and bill clinton ignore that this nation is in a state of war?!?!
Holy smokes, the minor details that were set aside as clinton made war on American liberties and property rights and our national defense, we actually have to dust mothballs off the glaring truth that we spent a decade at war without a single coherent thought expressed on the part of our political leadership taking that minor detail into account.
Oh man, now THAT is nuts.
Thanks again, that is a hoot. I have to go get some work done, take care!
Oh yeah, I forgot ...... individual freedoms, as you love government to terrorize the basic mechanisim for the creation of the greatest method of individual liberty upon this planet.
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