[Consort]

Like I said: It's the voters, stupid.

[abnegation]

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Sorry there have been no Cavuto posts from me for awhile. I've not been able to post due to a puppy with a broken leg, but she will all better and I am back.

[alpowolf]

Comparing the Iraq war to WW2 is just plain ridiculous.

[Hostage]

Bush is nowhere near to becoming abandoned by his followers.

The American people are waking up to the Media's propaganda. They know there is another side, another perspective that is supportive of the President. They are also aware that the threat has not been extinguished. The American people are now awake and vigilant.

Cavuto got it wrong this time because he cannot help but be influenced from time to time by New York journalistic circles.

[BluH2o]

The man who originally took on terror, would later be thrown out of office by the very people who rallied around him because of terror.
No, I'm not talking about a president named Bush. I'm talking about a prime minister named Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill was tossed out of office by the Brits shortly after WWII ended ... 1947 if my memory serves me correctly. However, it wasn't many years later (in the mid- 50's) when the Brits began to recognize him for the great wartime leader he was and re-elected him Prime Minister. Churchill got a well deserved second chance, Bush won't.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Difference is, in this case the ogre had already attacked when Bush rallied a response--and the al Quaeda threat is not susceptible to final conquest in 3 years. It won't go with a bang but with a whimper. Even after Afghanistan and Iraq, the Axis of Evil is still in business.

It's like having an election after the fall of Italy but with the Nazis and the Japanese still very much in business.

It's not like political parties never changed any other positions, of course--

for example Jack Kemp's reversal of Republican policy from "balanced budget uber alles" to "tax rates must be reduced for the health of the economy"

--but has anyone else noticed that the Democratic Party has switched from internationalism to pacifism and de facto isolationism?

[George Smiley]

Funny he should say that.

I'm re-reading Churchill's History of World War II.

The first volume discusses, among other things, the Italian invasion and conquest of Abyssinia.

The parallels to the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations with respect to that situation to the ineffectiveness of the UN with respect to Iraq are nothing short of amazing.

Both bodies apparently studiously avoided taking any actions which could have possibly been effective in preventing each subsequent conflict.

[putupon]

[Republican Red]

On another thread from the Washington Times:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988979/posts

The commentary by Doug Saunders of Toronto's Globe and Mail began in a fashion familiar to readers and viewers of the Western news media:

"Six months before, the world had cheered as the statues of the dictator came crashing down. The Americans had seemed heroic. But now things were going very badly. The occupation was chaotic, the American soldiers were hated and they were facing threats from the surviving supporters of the dictator, whose whereabouts were uncertain.

"Washington seemed unwilling to pay the enormous bill for reconstruction, and the president didn't appear to have any kind of workable plan to manage the transition to democracy. European allies, distrustful of the arrogant American outlook, were wary of cooperating."

Doug Saunders was writing not of Iraq in September, 2003. He was writing about Germany in November 1945. His article provided something rare in the news media today: perspective.

[lawgirl]

I love Cavuto! he's smart and down to earth and CUTE! ;)

[nutmeg]

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