Posted on 07/15/2006 8:32:36 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so. In an interview in Bellevue this morning Gingrich said Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.
"We need to have the militancy that says 'We're not going to lose a city,' " Gingrich said. He talks about the need to recognize World War III as important for military strategy and political strategy.
Gingrich said he is "very worried" about Republican's facing fall elections and says the party must have the "nerve" to nationalize the elections and make the 2006 campaigns about a liberal Democratic agenda rather than about President Bush's record.
Gingrich says that as of now Republicans "are sailing into the wind" in congressional campaigns. He said that's in part because of the Iraq war, adding, "Iraq is hard and painful and we do not explain it very well."
But some of it is due to Republicans' congressional agenda. He said House and Senate Republicans "forgot the core principle" of the party and embraced Congressional pork. "Some of the guys," he said, have come down with a case of "incumbentitis."
Gingrich said in the coming days he plans to speak out publicly, and to the Administration, about the need to recognize that America is in World War III.
He lists wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, this week's bomb attacks in India, North Korean nuclear threats, terrorist arrests and investigations in Florida, Canada and Britain, and violence in Israel and Lebanon as evidence of World War III. He said Bush needs to deliver a speech to Congress and "connect all the dots" for Americans.
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Our friends the Russians will help us out. ;-)
OK, just don't marry him then, but if he runs please vote for him.
Newt's not perfect but I don't see anyone out there who is, and the people being talked up by the MSM as the frontrunners now (Rudy and McCain) are truly scary. There are very few possible Democrat nominees who are any more liberal than Giuliani, and McCain is just plain nuts.
And, this will prove to be a unique war as well. More mano-e-mano, as it were.
Gingrich has some personal flaws but he has always struck me as being extremely intelligent. I would take what he says seriosly.
maybe he should run for the republican ticket for president...
According to all the complainers on the left, America is the fattest hog using all the oil. If that is the case, cutting off sales to your biggest customer means losing business. Show me a criminal enterprise that willingly cut off the flow of goods to its biggest customer. No criminal is going to carry out a losing proposition.
Bttt!
Let's touch on the myth about Gingrich and his divorce. The story is false. The divorce had been in the works long before his wife entered the hospital, and she was not dying of cancer. She had surgery to get rid of her cancer which was successful. She is still alive today.
George Allen divorced his first wife. Here are a few negatives, admittedly cherry-picked by me. I first want to know all of the negatives about any potential candidate. The Democrats will find negatives on our nominee very quickly and publicize them much.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/George_Allen.htm
How can he do that while simultaneously calling islam the "religion of peace"? How does one justify attacking the people of a 'peaceful' religion? This is why he's trying to hunt down and kill only the "known" terrorists, and leaving their one billion supporters unmolested to strengthen, support and resupply their 'jihadist warriors'. See how this preposterous belief is hurting him and the WOT? He CAN'T connect the dots for the American people, his personal beliefs won't let him. But Newt is correct, we are indeed fighting in WWIII, and have been since 9/11.
Agreed. I think that it may take some time for this to sink into the cranium(s) of the public, however.
Newt accomplished more than any other conservative or Republican leader in Congress in living memory, except perhaps Jesse Helms. All the rest is trivia.
Some of us have known it's World War III, and people say this (and everything else) on the Internet. So what? What leaders say matters. Newt it saying it. That he's saying it later than some of us is less important than the fact that he is about the first politician to say it.
This really needs to get out by us all.
The wars going on around the world are not at the same levels as in World Wars 1 and 2.
Insanity.
Why not add China, Russia, and Pakistan to the list?!
Again, the Cold War was not at the same level as the World Wars (though it could have turned that way, as could the current conflicts).
Member Opinion | |||
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Tom Tancredo | 25.5% | 659 | |
George Allen | 22.4% | 577 | |
Newt Gingrich | 16.9% | 435 | |
Rudy Giuliani | 11.8% | 305 | |
Jeb Bush | 10.1% | 261 | |
Mike Pence | 4.4% | 114 | |
Mitt Romney | 3.3% | 85 | |
Sit it out | 3.0% | 77 | |
John McCain | 1.5% | 40 | |
Bill Frist | 1.1% | 28 | |
100.0% | 2,581 | ||
Newt Gingrich is more anti-feminist and pro-family than the others, as shown by the time and effort he has put into family rights. That would get my vote. And yes, there are many men who were divorced but are wholely against government family-breaking. It only takes one libertine/romantic/cavalier to perpetuate a divorce, and many pro-family men have been cheated by others. |
"In WWII, we had half the population and 8M in the armed forces. "
Not on the morning of Sunday, December 7th, 1941. Comrade Rooseveltsky's Secretary of War boasted that he had "cut to the bone, then kept cutting."
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