Posted on 02/01/2008 5:45:40 PM PST by Maelstorm
After years of failed diplomacy and limited military pressure to restrain Saddam Hussein, President Bush made the difficult decision to liberate Iraq. Those who criticize that decision would have us believe that the choice was between a status quo that was well enough left alone and war. But there was no status quo to be left alone.
The years of keeping Saddam in a box were coming to a close. The international consensus that he be kept isolated and unarmed had eroded to the point that many critics of military action had decided the time had come again to do business with Saddam, despite his near daily attacks on our pilots, and his refusal, until his last day in power, to allow the unrestricted inspection of his arsenal. Our choice wasn’t between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war.
It was between war and a graver threat. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents.
And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam’s Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls.
Whether or not Saddam possessed the terrible weapons he once had and used, freed from international pressure and the threat of military action, he would have acquired them again.
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Anyone who does not use their vote on Election Day to stop the Democrats is a traitor unworthy of American freedom from that day forward.
I agree. And if he manages to pull out a win in the face of a conservative rebellion, he will have done it.
People tout McCain’s 82% approval rating on conservative matters. That’s his overall rating. I heard his most recent rating, the last voting year, is only 65%. I don’t think he’s getting more conservative. I could live with a John McCain of several years ago. Sadly, now he is becoming a caricature of the angry old man.
PS-Obama’s rating is standing at #1 as most liberal Senator per his voting record. I think I read that Hillary! is around #11.
Agreed. In the end, it boils down to voting day this year in November. The simple question is, “What did you do to keep Obama or Hillary out of office on that day?”
McCain may not be the first, second, or third choice but he is far better than anything the Democrats have to offer.
Unlike most of the pansy a**es on this site, when I get my ballot I am going to kill as many democrat-looking voters with papercuts as I can before they stop me.
I may not be able to vote myself for McCain, but I will hopefully stop many from voting for Hitlery!
I am a true patriot deserving of American Freedom!
I also agree. However, it will only be a moment before the mad rinophobes begin to spit venom. We all dislike the "RINOS." But one needs to be blind not to see that the Dems primary goal is the destruction of liberty.
That's ridiculous.
Here, HERE!
Good plan! And you are:
a true patriot deserving of American Freedom!
ROFLOL
I left off the “SIG hail, Sig Hail”
“Anyone who does not use their vote on Election Day to stop the Democrats is a traitor unworthy of American freedom from that day forward.”
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Why wait until then? Stop McCain in the primaries so that he won’t be the Dole of ‘08....cause he will be.
And he will be my never choice.
Anybody who says they would not vote for McCain in the general election is a liberal communist.
orininalbuckeye said: “PS-Obama’s rating is standing at #1 as most liberal Senator per his voting record. I think I read that Hillary! is around #11.”
I thought I heard Hillary and Obama had the same voting record. Anyway, everyone knows Hillary is the most liberal member of the Congress.
Anyone who votes for John McCain is voting to destroy the American Conservative movement and is, therefore, a traitor to their nation.
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