PROTESTORS AREN'T ANTI-WAR, They are anti-Bush and anti-American

[Indy Pendance]

You also have to consider this world is a far different place than 60 years ago. With the technological advances, it behooves us to pre-emptively strike. What warning did we have on 9-11? What warning will we have the next time? We have proof saddam has WMD. No one wants to have war, but I'd rather not wait for the alternative.

[Indy Pendance]

"I don't think that advancing technology is ever an excuse to strike preemptively"

Presicely why we have to take the offensive on this. Who would have ever guessed the technology advances 60 years ago we are seeing today. Pre-emptive stikes might not have been a precident in the past, but as with all precidents, it has to be established somewhere. Do you really know what our government has learned from their investigations? For the most part, our government has reacted in the best interest of our country. If we allow the middle east to develop and USE this technology without us interveening, who's to say what may happen. What's the computer law? Every 18 months computer's douple their capacity, or something like that. If we sit back, who's to say our enemies will not advance quicker than us. Russia surpassed us in weapons until we beat them economically.

It's a far SAFER place than it was 50 years ago

Is it? We, the United States have been very good at protecting our people and our way of life. If we don't tap into the newest resources available, who's to say what our enemies will try to do, and to use against us. I firmly believe our government sources have much more information at their hands than they are letting us know. Is that good? Yes and no. If you look at most of the technological advances available to the public, most have occured through government research and development.

Ask yourself this, when did our government every make a critical decision that affected our constitution to the detriment of this nation and to render it obsolete? I trust this admin more than a gore or clinton admin. We have good people looking out for the best interest of our country. We have to trust someone. I would not trust gore.

[Jhoffa_]

What is "Anti-Bush" exactly?

Ya know, on any given day half of FR might be considered "Anti-Bush"

You gonna do a vanity on them also?

[TPartyType]

I think we'll probably get around to dealing with North Korea. But we have a clear mandate with regards to the war on terror. The North Korea problem falls under nuclear proliferation, and we have long established diplomatic venues for dealing with such matters.

[sport]

No, they haven't forgot about 9-11. They celebrate it.

hillary and the democrate are hoping and praying that they will attack the U.S. again, in order for them [hilary and the democrats] to make political hay from the spilling of Ameerican blood.

In like manner they are also hoping for the U.S. to go into a depression for the same reasons.

No amount of American blood is to large to be shed if it results in the democrats again assuming political power. No number of Americans starving is too large if it results in the democrats assuming political power.

[YaYa123]

Oh so true!

And you can bet your britches that if Bill Clinton had bombed the dickens out of Iraq in 1998 none of these Bush hating demonstrators, celebrities, and other assorted lefties would have raised an eyebrow, much less a protest placard.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Of course they are anti Bush. It's very clear every time a reporter speaks to one of them or even viewing the signs at protest. But I am fuming as no one on the tv news shows seems to call them on this. Is it me? Tonight I tuned in to Crossfire,Why does Tucker allow Carville to spew the Dem line with hardly a comeback!!!

[AGreatPer]

Bill Bennett on MSNBC's Donahue, just confirmed the basic points of this post.

Paraphrasing, "the protesters were all about hating America and the President". Try and catch the re-run. Worth it.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Couldn't agree more. Dems would love another attack on our soil. They are salivating for it. Hillary and her friends do not care about America IMHO, only about power and control. God help us.

[sport]

airborne_vet is probably neither airborne nor a vet.

He is in all probalility a du plant.

[YaYa123]

Thanks for the heads up...I'll catch the rerun for sure.

[expatpat]

There's always a small hard-core of left crazies who are against anything. However, the vast majority on the left half of the spectrum were quite happy with the 'war' on Yugoslavia.

[harpo11]

Damn Straight, 1Old Pro...I agree completely. How easy it is for them to conveniently forget Bubba Clinton's 450 cruise missiles lobbed at Iraq. And how about hitting on Serbia, Sudan, without UN endorsement, without Congressional approval, without one stinkin' slimey grungy commie, socialist, liberal democrat protesting.

But, maybe they were more interested in the lies and do not recalls of the great Clinton's Federal Grand Jury testimony, or post impeachment celebration which just so happened to coincide with his frequent bomb flicking.

[caspera]

Picture it is Summer, 2001. Let's say someone told you that terrorists were planning to blow up the World Trade Center and that the only way to prevent it would be to go to war with Afghanistan. You would have dismissed such a person with exactly the same arguments you are using now. You would have been wrong. What 9/11 should have done is shift the burden of proof of innocence onto the Islamists and the Pan-Arabians.

You are demanding a level of forensic proof that is impossible to provide given the circumstances. There was absolutely no proof whatsoever that the Germans were exterminating the Jews other than the fact that everyone was pretty confident that that was what was going on. Proof - incontrovertible proof - of the planned crimes of fascist regimes can only come after we invade them or after they attack us. That is nature of the world we live in. The stakes of the game after 9/11 are so high that wating to find out what people like Hussein are going to do next has suddenly become the worse option.

The U.S. was never able to pin anything other than tax evasion on Al Capone. Imagine the difficulty if Capone had had his own country. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a fine principle to apply to an individual. It is a terrible principle to apply to fascist regimes pursuing an atom bomb.