Thank You

Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, May 8, 2003 | AWAD NASIR

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Let me confess something: I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Saddam Hussein's statue toppled in Baghdad.

I am a poet and know that eyes can, and do, deceive.

For three decades, part of them spent in prison, part in hiding and part in exile, I had often dreamed of an end to the nightmare of the Baathist-fascist regime. But I had never dreamed that the end, that is to say Iraq's liberation, would come the way it did.

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He is more than welcome.

[Utah Girl]

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[Fred Mertz]

This was an interesting read and very positive. Thanks for the flag.

[f.Christian]

It's scary to think that even in a free country these whacks are voted into office !

[Fred Mertz]

Which wacks?

[f.Christian]

Caesar Chavez ... castro --- clinton // reno !

[philetus]

Bump for FREEDOM

[sinkspur]

It's scary to think that even in a free country these whacks are voted into office !

You get weirder by the damn minute.

[f.Christian]

anarcho-loon whack alert !

[f.Christian]

"This year's series of Heritage Lectures is concerned with the somewhat pressing question of whether our American culture will survive the tribulations of our age. In the two previous lectures, I have discussed the ideology called "multiculturalism" as a menace; and whether a civilization that lacks belief in a religion can endure. In my final lecture, in December, I mean to talk about means for combating cultural decay. Today I have chosen for my subject the degradation of the democratic dogma."

"I take my title from the writings of Henry and Brooks Adams. They found American democracy in process of degradation more than a century ago. The decay of the American Presidency from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Adams remarked, refuted altogether Darwin's theory of evolution. To a similar thesis I shall return presently."

"But first, indulge me in some observations concerning the present condition of what is called "democracy" near the close of the 20th century. We are informed by certain voices that soon all the world will be democratic. But whether or not, the American mode of democratic government prevails, the abstract ideology called democratism that any government which has obtained a majority of votes be received as "democratic." Enthusiasts for unrestricted democracy presumably forget that Adolph Hitler, too, was democratically elected and sustained by popular plebiscites. Alexis de Tocqueville warned his contemporaries against ... "democratic despotism," --- 20th century writers discuss "totalist democracy."

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Please crawl back out from under your rock for long enough to tell us who you are attacking, so we can tell you why you are wrong.

[f.Christian]

Did you read the quote ?

Do you know the diifference between a republic and mobacracy ?

Caesar Chavez says he wants to save the 'revolution'...

castro -- clinton -- hitler too ---

"preserve and protect the devilcrat party" !

[WaveThatFlag]

Please make an understandable point or stay under that rock.

[f.Christian]

flatliner ?

There is a sub-set of lunatic loons who appear to wish the ... end of American society (( link )) --- as we (( once -- 1st )) know it. Like the Nazis and the communists in Weimar Germany, they have a great deal in common as potential destroyers of the social fabric.

I have engaged in several debates in the last few days, and I admire FreeRepublic as a forum for the free expression of ideas, but the overwhelming presence of this bunch of loons is very off-putting.

Lenin is supposed to have said that capitalists would sell him the rope by which they were to be hung. The “anarcho-loons” on this forum would not bother to sell the rope but provide it as a public service.

401 posted on 05/06/2003 5:54 PM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)

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Congratulations! You actually used a sentence. There is hope for you!

[f.Christian]

You were promoted from reading group four ?

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Is this making any sense to anyone, or is it just me?

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[f.Christian]

I wish I could use this tagline ...

(( FR -- formely a heavy metal hemp site )) ---

you --- right ?

[WaveThatFlag]

Nope. Still can't understand what the heck you are talking about. Anyone?