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Andrew Sullivan: They think Bush is worse than the Baghdad bullies
The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 07/27/03 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 07/26/2003 4:01:08 PM PDT by Pokey78

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To: headsonpikes
Actually, DU is overdue for some exposure. Let the public get a good look at the Dim activist base, how stupid and hateful they really are.

Even at our wackiest, we've never said the kind of stuff those people say on almost every thread over at DU. That place is Hatred Central.

I think Sullivan picked a good target here. He ought to hit them and keep hitting them, expose them for everyone to see.
21 posted on 07/26/2003 7:39:00 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Pokey78; *war_list; MEG33; mystery-ak; windchime; Prodigal Son; All
Wow. Thank you for this post.

Andrew Sullivan standing up for the troops, our war effort - freedom - in the The Sunday Times (U.K.). Both the BBC-brainwashed and the lonely Brit 'patriots' are in for a surprise.

Thank you, Andrew Sullivan for noticing the caliber of the individuals that make up the US military - and the Brit, Irish, Aussie forces, too.

Looking forward to learning about the Poles, Japanese, Romanians, and others brave enough to defy the bullying big-talkers who defended Saddam even knowing that he terrorized the Iraqi people.

...."there was never a doubt in mind that at the end of the day it would be exactly as our people said it would be: The regime would be gone, the Iraqi people would be free." "A low point in terms of doubting, no sir, I never had it." He added that on a particularly bad day he told his staff and the commanders: "Don't ever, ever second-guess what you are doing. You are doing a wonderful job. Get your heads up and it will turn out just fine." ~ Gen. Franks tells how Iraq war plan came together , June 19, 2003.

22 posted on 07/26/2003 7:52:55 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("I don't find myself in any quandry. I'm a soldier." Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez *CENTCOM* July 23)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Im glad I e-mailed Andrew, hope others will do the same.
23 posted on 07/26/2003 7:59:19 PM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil.)
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To: Paul Atreides
Powerful graphic! A fine illustration of the "choice" being considered by many leftists.
24 posted on 07/26/2003 8:11:09 PM PDT by arasina (Conservatives, be CONFIDENT! [My new fightin' words!] WE WILL PREVAIL!)
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To: mystery-ak
So am I (glad you mailed him, lol!). E-mailed my thanks, too. This has been the best week - getting the bad boys of course - and the troops finally having courageous voices giving them their due in the press.

He's going to get hammered by the VLWC. I think we can take 'em. Hugs.

25 posted on 07/26/2003 8:13:08 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("I don't find myself in any quandry. I'm a soldier." Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez *CENTCOM* July 23)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks for the ping, RC!

26 posted on 07/26/2003 9:30:07 PM PDT by windchime
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To: mystery-ak

Oh, I may email Andrew myself. But his article is spot-on. He illustrates the inability of the Left to see a good thing, the death of the squalid Hussein pair, for what it is-a Very Good Thing.

But Sullivan doesn't have the guts to go to the core of the issue. The Left, both online and in the press, does this kind of thing not because it hates Uday and Qusay less, but because it hates George W. Bush more.

See, the core sickness of the Democratic Left is that it is animated by hate, the kind of hate DeLay focused on two days ago. It is a hatred that surpasses anything the Left might feel against either bin Laden or Hussein. This hatred manifests itself in various ways, on DU or Truthout, for instance, or in the printed screeds of the demented Maureen Dowd. Anger, malice, contempt, slight regard, paranoia: all are on display, and all are the same fruit from the poisoned tree. Hate.

Bin Laden and Hussein are abstractions to the Left. Bin Laden is some mythical figure sitting off in a cave somewhere dispatching dark emissaries to the four corners of the globe. The farther we get away from the attacks on the U.S., the more it recedes into memory, the greater the ability of the Left to rationalize inaction and blame the messenger, George W. Bush.

Hussein is a fallen fascist dictator who shook his fist at the Americans, thus earning the admiration of the Arab Street and the American Left. To the extent that he resisted American ambition, he was to be protected. It matters not that his people were butchered in their thousands: the left has always found a way to apologize for butchery when it suited their purposes. But it was not to be: George W. Bush was the Greater Threat. So, despite all the dead Iraqis, they choose to hate Bush, and not Saddam, Uday, or Qusay.

These are vile people, these Leftists. Sullivan has barely scratched the surface.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

27 posted on 07/26/2003 10:22:54 PM PDT by section9 (Major Kusanagi is back from vacation, ready to kick the liberal ass....)
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To: I still care
Here's a DU comment posted the other day on another thread here at FR to add to your collection

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951897/posts

post #88

I know we aren't supposed to get into FR-DU comments but this comment made over there takes the Cake.

They knew it was a fight they could not win, against odds they could not match, with a result that could only be death, and still they fought it. No matter how they lived, they died well. They have set a glorious example to the rest of their people.

How can People think like this?

I have the link if anyone wants it.

beaversmom speaking now--guess there wouldn't be enough space on this site to post and talk about every ignorant, anti-American, traitorous comment made at DU. Sure glad Andrew took the time to make it more pubically known though. Maybe some of the fence straddlers will finally decide which side they want to be on.

28 posted on 07/26/2003 11:53:10 PM PDT by beaversmom (Celebrating May 5th and all days with an American Flag)
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To: section9
great analysis--dittos to what you said.
29 posted on 07/26/2003 11:55:17 PM PDT by beaversmom (Celebrating May 5th and all days with an American Flag)
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To: beaversmom
P.S. The person at DU was speaking of Uday an Qusay.
30 posted on 07/27/2003 12:01:36 AM PDT by beaversmom (Celebrating May 5th and all days with an American Flag)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Andrew hit one out of the park.Disgusting posts from DU.I shudder to think they would be in charge of this Nation.Our troops are doing a great job in dangerous conditions.
31 posted on 07/27/2003 12:33:56 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: beaversmom; section9
Great posts.
32 posted on 07/27/2003 12:41:43 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: I still care
This all goes back to Gore's attempted coup during the election. I knew this was going to cause a big problem in this country for years to come, and it has. Although the left would not be happy that Bush won, they would not have this absolute hatred had Gore not tried to steal the election and totally lied about the votes not being counted.
33 posted on 07/27/2003 12:47:29 AM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: ladyinred
Can't they see that failure in Iraq is dangerous to our Nation?The Islamofascists don't separate Dem American from Republican American.
34 posted on 07/27/2003 12:53:20 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: George W. Bush
Maybe this is a first for DU to get a mention in a media piece.

There was the FR hit piece from the San Francisco Chronicle a few months ago that featured DU. I think DU may even have had a hand in formning the article.

-PJ

35 posted on 07/27/2003 1:04:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: section9
Totally agree.
36 posted on 07/27/2003 4:22:26 AM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil.)
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To: mathluv
Some do want us to fail.
37 posted on 07/27/2003 6:08:54 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: MEG33
Thanks for the ping! This is sooooo disgusting! But what can we expect when the 'leaders' of the dims are so vocal on TV? I loved watching Sean make Charlie Rangel admit how two-faced and horrible the dims really are the other night. I hate to say it, but this is really typical of DU. I appreciate those who have the stomach to go there and report back to us.
38 posted on 07/27/2003 6:22:56 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: mathluv
Not long ago I would not have believed the words were said by Americans of any party.
39 posted on 07/27/2003 6:25:34 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: Lexington Green; txradioguy; Vets_Husband_and_Wife; yoe; kellynla; MoJo2001; ...
I don’t know about you, but with every new mass grave being discovered, with every gruesome torture chamber unearthed, with every children’s prison exposed, the more obvious it is to me that this war was not just morally defensible; it was morally essential.

Andrew Sullivan in the UK Sunday Times, defending the war effort - taking on the left - press and and DU.

40 posted on 07/27/2003 6:29:09 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("I don't find myself in any quandry. I'm a soldier." Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez *CENTCOM* July 23)
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