Posted on 07/30/2006 7:16:37 AM PDT by AZRepublican
Love it.
Well, it depends. If you're CNN et al, yes, the IDF committed mass murder. (Women and children -- doubtless put there by Hezbollah as human shields -- cowered in the building which IDF flattened. Hezbollah was firing rockets from that building.) Isn't it odd that western civilization isn't supposed to kill in defense of itself, but barbarian hordes murder thousands in the name of Allah and that's okay.
And he's let the media turn one of those wins into an effective loss that virtually ties our hand from launching a further war if needed. He's let the media kick his ass daily and commit multiple acts of treason without being held to any accountability. So I think not.
Reagan caught hell from the media yet managed to effectively communicate and fight back when necessary. Sorry, but ultimately this administration will be considered mediocre. President Bush in many ways has the vision of Reagan and Lincoln, but all too often the effectiveness of Carter. Good intentions are not enough.
A shame this is 2006 instead of 2009. We need a strong and effective leader now, a Churchill. We need a Giuliani, because as Steyn points out, war is ultimately about the will of nations, not simply technical superiority. How many years has the media been allowed to redefine reality, while the admin's response was deer-in-the-headlight-eyed Scott McClellen? Yes, Tony Snow is a vast improvement, but how many years too late?
One can arguing that all this public handwringing about what in actuality is an amazingly low loss of civilian life in the current Israeli war is simply diplomatic posturing and 'playing the game', but it conveys weakness. The President's poll numbers are down not so much because of individual policies but because many have questions as to the level of his admin's competence and effectivenes. And spare me the usual apologists' claims whenever they get in a corner that somehow someday we'll miraculously discover that it was all a big 'rope-a-dope'.
Thank goodness President Bush sees the parallel to the 1930's, and that idiots like Straw are Chamberlain reincarnated. (Yes, the "Turn every corner of Islam into nuclear glass" crowd are also just as idiotic.) But he's also made mistakes, and the current response and approach is conflicting and conveys weakness, while allowing the media to define perceptions and parameters.
You know the old saying, whip, dead horse....etc
Many people besides Freepers felt that Dalton helped or enabled Kerry to change his Navy record re his dubious medals and maybe to even remove charges filed after he became a Benedict Arnold. The link below gets into the one of the so called Combat V.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/jochn.htm
John Kerry's Mysterious Combat “V”
The daily thread was and is a stupid idea...
Dalton was a key player in the Texas S&L scandal which ended up costing taxpayers $100 million. He ended up as an executive with Stephens, Inc., a Little Rock investment banking firm. There he became a FOB, a key Clinton supporter, helping finance Clinton's run for the WH. He was appointed Sec. of the Navy in 1993 by Clinton. As Navy secretary he was considered by many a failure, leaving the Navy in a deplorable state of readiness. It was said Dalton did more damage to the U.S. Navy in his tenure than Japanese Admiral Yamamoto managed in all of WWII.
All that is probably true, but this scandal was about two years ago...wish I could remmber what it was...he lied about something to cover up something....anyone know??
I just saw the video on Fox......the date of it is 7/22/06....9 days ago.......
Love the photo of Karthryn Harris on that horse (from your homepage)
She's a beauty!
Criticize President Bush, or his decisions regarding Israel/Lebanon on this thread. I double-dog dare you. I criticized Harriet Miers, immigration policy, and the DPW stance. No less than 50 FRiends got zotted in those days.
I openly claim that Hizb, the Lebanese government, and Israel all are equally to blame for the current conflagration. Now watch the blind Israeli supporters flame me.
I just hope they have the good sense to leave the women and children at home.
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I haven't seen it yet, but will look for it.
Wasn't much of a video, was it?
Reagan made huge blunders, in the midst of otherwise brilliance.
Today you hold him up way above W and say he's great but W is mediocre.
Reagan held the nation with his rhetoric. Bush lets events and the rhetoric of others unfold just enough to show the hands, lay the cards on the table. That includes the media's, then he points to what we have seen and heard with our own eyes and does his best to place it in proper perspective and historical context.
The glass is more than half full, not half empty or more than half empty. Is it all just right? Nope.
Neither was it with Reagan.
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