Posted on 04/06/2003 11:44:12 AM PDT by inconspicuous
You forgot number 6, the ever popular, The US has WMD too, and we used them on the peacful people of Japan in WWII. Impeach Bush Now.
I also would like for at least half of the liberal democrats and the hollywood scum to personally take a sniff of the supected material before a statement is made on the national news media. I am so tired of the ups and downs of; we have found WMD, well, no not actually. My heart won't take it no more....
Tell me where the base will go?
I also think you overestimate the potency of immigration and federal land to even hard-core GOP voters.
I'd bet big money neither of them would make the top five issues.
"I don't know. But if he is, may the fleas from a thousand camels infest his head"
They shouldn't just be made to shut up. They should be made to eat crow, plenty of it.
Are you kidding? The WMD that were found were clearly in an unusable condition and had been rendered useless by the Iraqi regime at the urging of Dr. Hans Blix of the U.N.! Bush and Rumsfeld are WRONG....we need regime change at home and the UN to administer a ruined Iraq.
{/scarasm}
And don't forget how well-documented all this material is. Apparently the Iraqis were meticulous record-keepers, and documented not only all their victims, but the tortures used on most of them.
It will stay home. It's happened.
I also think you overestimate the potency of immigration and federal land to even hard-core GOP voters.
I was speaking specifically of the Senate, and its importance to confirming judges (as we continue to see). It is almost impossible to overstate the influence of the Federal judiciary in everything from the conduct of public schools to the growth in scope of environmental regulation.
As regards the Senate, the most durable advantage possessed by the GOP has been the interior West (California, Oregon, and Washington long ago fell to the trends I am describing here). If you look at the demographics of the West, there are two trends destructive to Republican interests:
1. Landgrabs replace resource industry (ranching, farming, forestry, and mining) and concentrate populations in urban centers. That means the rural support systems go too, replacing suppliers in rural towns with bureaucrats, universities, NGOs, and sales and support of ranchettes to urban retirees and refugees.
2. Immigration of a dependent class to staff drudge work service jobs serving the above bureaucrats, "educators," and retrees.
As confirmation of the theory, you will note that Arizona and New Mexico just elected Democratic governors. Harry Reid is of course from Nevada. Such would not have been possible twenty years ago. If the trend continues, the GOP can kiss the Senate goodbye, and perhaps its electoral college advantage with it.
So I would accuse Rove of good tactics but poor strategy.
I'd bet big money neither of them would make the top five issues.
I don't doubt that a bit, because the media will be after converting the political middle away from the GOP. In the media perhaps, but when it comes to the voting booth it's a differet story, especially if the recession deepens over the coming scandals on Wall Street. Remember, to the political middle, it's the economy, stupid.
Yep they plan to do that. That's been the reason for the constant obstruction of funding passage by the Party of Rats. The other thing they'll go for is Homeland Defense. Again, the reason Tom Ridge couldn't even be sworn in until January, 2003 was that the Party of Rats obstructed passage of both FUNDING and CREATION of the Office of Homeland Securty until November 2002. And then LIEberman refused to give up his chair.
Back on topic: MORE evdence of WMD?? Oh BLIXIE!!! SCUDBALL!!! (do those clear vials have French labels on them, perhaps?)
I think the question of "legality" or "WMD" in this instance applies to whether the chemicals were produced or purchased by the government of Iraq for the exclusive purpose of chemical weaponry. The AP article in that regard is not entirely exculpatory.
Just because the chemicals aren't "illegal," doen't mean that they are not toxic or that they weren't used to kill American troops. Cyanide can be obtained from a perfectly legal plating factory, and ricin from terrorists 'not under control of the Iraqi government.' So "probably never happened" is not a conclusion I would have made. Perhaps 'can't be proven to be WMD produced or purchased by the Iraqi government in violation of UN sanctions AND having no possibility of dual use' might be more accurate.
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