Posted on 07/15/2003 11:04:14 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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Frank Lautenberg, the senator and septuagenarian from New Jersey, was shocked, shocked. The president of the United States had said some disrespectful things about the enemy in Iraq, even taunted them. The commander-in-chief had dared them to try something. He had... well, listen:
"There are some who feel they can attack us there," George W. Bush said of the suicide bombers and bushwhackers that have been attacking American troops. "My answer is: Bring 'em on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
That's no way to talk, says Senator Lautenberg. Or even how they talked in his Army days. "I am shaking my head in disbelief," said the senator. "When I served in the Army in Europe during World War II, I never heard any military commander - let alone the commander-in-chief - invite enemies to attack U.S. troops."
Really? During his European tour, he must never have run across a fella named Patton, whose rip-roaring, piss-profane, goddam on-the-mark remarks to American GIs have become classics. Not classics of senatorial posturing, but of the American Vulgate.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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