Posted on 09/18/2001 5:29:07 PM PDT by Rome2000
Yeah, right!! Sounds like the liberals to me.
You cannot shut these people down - you have to cut the head off and bury the body! Anything less is wasted effort!!!!!!
Unfortunately too many people in our government are in love with the idea of having a "coalition". All a coalition does is tie your hands much like it did during the Gulf War. We are the only superpower in the world and it is time we started acting like it.
You know, for all of my life, people have been trying to lay down the gauntlet of the jittery effects of what happens if there is a "war" in the middle east. I went to high school in the 70's, and I remember the mock "UN conventions" we had then that set up the fear of what would happen if we had a "big" war in the middle east. I've now seen something that I thought my eyes would never see, I've seen my own cities bombed by suicide terrorists in civilian planes. I've seen an attack on the city, on the government, and on the financial system that is absolutely unfathomable.
There has been nothing in the history of our country that in any way measures this. Yes, the middle east in unstable, it has been for thousands of years. BUT THIS WILL NOT STAND.
"The commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time."
President George W. Bush, National Cathedral, September 14, 2001
And how do you know what you are "illustrating" is true?
You don't. But are perfectly willing to trust an questionable source.
Which suggests to me that you merely want this delusion to be true. Or wish to convince others that it is true.
In either event, you are aiding and abetting what is probable leftist propaganda.
And you've been very persistent about it...
That, as I recall, was the Vietnam problem.......
Back when the tax cut was being negotiated, the New York Times ran a piece which said that Bush was caving on the tax cut, according to an anonymous administration source. Fred Barnes talked to everyone he could find at the White House, and not one thought that was even a remote possibility. The inescapable conclusion is that the New York Times made it up out of whole cloth.
A more recent example is this flapdoodle about Italy's participation. The BBC was the culprit on that one, and much mockery was made of the Italians, who are of course, sending troops if they are needed. Another lie from the press was exposed.
Now, this paper is not known for its admiration and support of President Bush. In fact, they have actively sought to discredit his presidency. Would anyone who served the president talk to these people? No.
Who WOULD talk to them? Clintonistas.
Why? Because Clinton does not want this war to be successful. Hence also all the Clitnonistas on the talk shows tonight. Successful wging of war and a successful presidency causes Clinton to shrink even more than he already has.
People who refuse to understand what is going on here, when presented with clear logical reasons for why this story is not true, are simply interested in disruption, undermining morale, and hurting the war effort. Rather like Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose, the pushing of this article is meant to create doubt in our minds.
The commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
These Taliban jackoffs probably don't even know where Geneva is.
And jihad has nothing to do with military conventions or the Geneva Convention.
The Bush Administration is probably loving the "jihad" talk from the Taliban.
It's playing right into the strategy that Common Tator laid out. Or is it possible you still don't get it?
While your analysis is quite plausible and interesting, I believe all hell has already broken loose.
There are close to 6000 Americans dead in one day on US soil at the hands of islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
All nations whose governmnents are or have been sympathetic to, aided, abetted, or are unable to control these types of organizations within their borders are our enemy and must be dealt with accordingly.
And one other very important thing.
All these countries together haven't been able to take out tiny Israel.
That should speak for itself.
He has no problem with getting differing opinions and then deciding on the way he wants to go - that is the way he set his administration up.
He also will be under no pressure to act before they are ready to act. In fact, I expect him to string Bin Laden along. Nothing worse than waiting knowing something is coming.
If bombing the guys who bombed us going to alienate someone, then we don't want that someone in our "coalition."
The same so-called allies who today are urging caution and moderation will someday produce the Islamic bomb that will kill 10,000,000+ Americans.
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