Posted on 05/02/2011 8:37:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke at a military appreciation rally in Lakewood Monday evening.
Palin took the stage and thanked the members of the crowd for their service.
Freedom is not free but a god given right said Palin. I thank you for being part of the solution.
She then addressed the death of Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US forces.
One of the evil leaders of the Islamic extremists..has met justice at the hands of Americas finest. She said. We thank our president, we thank President Bush.
Palin also mentioned that Americas war on terror is still not over.
Those who would kill in the name of religion must be sought, added Palin. We are still at war with a brutal enemy.
The program included a former Pentagon official who disparaged Islam while he was a senior military intelligence official.
She is giving credit where it’s due. the military still considers Pres Bush as the C-I-C
That is exactly what she did, and what she should have done. They both get kudos. I can’t stand bambi but for once in his life he did the right thing.
disparaged Islam -—
Yeah that worse than having special Obama assassination teams, murder a Muslim, while violating another countries Sovereignty, eh?
She did thank them both, she is all class.
Lower-case “g” in “God.” Now the liberal msm wan’t to diminish God in standard journalistic style.
Eight Deuce on the loose!
>> The only true deities to them are Gaia(Mother Earth) and Allah.<<
You forget their newest deity: teh one!
Does ANYONE really think Obama would have set up anything to actually capture or kill Muslim terrorists? Totally laughable. Thanks President Bush.
Get off the golf course and do your job, Pres__ent Obama.
"PALIN POLITICIZES BIN LADEN'S DEATH IN FRONT OF TROOPS..."
(from the movie Troy) Odysseus: [to Achilles] “War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.”
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Does ANYONE really think Obama would have set up anything to actually capture or kill Muslim terrorists? Totally laughable. Thanks President Bush.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is not quite over yet. NATO is pi$$ed.Can’t say as I blame them much. They spent millions hunting for Osama Bin Laden, and didn’t even get so much as a wiff of the body.One cannot help but ask WHY.
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A feast of fools Posted by Richard Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Nothing could have been further from my mind as I scanned the morning’s news yesterday than spending the best part of the day exploring the recent history of Osama Bin Laden’s many deaths.
If, as increasingly seems likely, but not yet proven to any satisfactory degree, Bin Laden has finally been despatched, then all the previous commentators including heads of state and senior government officials who confidently asserted that the man had already been killed, were wrong. Further, the journalists who wrote the stories publicising these views were portraying falsehoods. They too were wrong.
As it stands, however and certainly as it stood yesterday those, including those in the US government, who were asserting that Bin Laden had now been killed were offering no more or better evidence than those who went before them.
Further, the source of the claim was the US government. And like all or any governments, it is prone to error, to deception and even outright lying. No such organisation has any right to expect trust, and anyone who unconditionally trusts any government is a fool.
Thus, as of yesterday and still, until the US government has proven its assertions, we reserve our position. We do not disbelieve the US government, but nor do we believe it. We simply expect a reasonable level of evidence which translates acceptance of its claim from one of unsupported belief to one of reasoned conclusion, thus also enabling us to reject previous claims as wrong.
Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and sense would, on reading my piece, readily have divined that this was my position. Two, however, did not one was Tim Montgomerie who used his fool machine to label me an “OBL denier” and the other Tom Harris MP, who on the basis of Montgomerie’s jolly little intervention, decided on the label “nutter”. That Harris is an MP and should know better does not surprise me in the least. We expect very little from our elected representatives these days.
Subsequently, however. we see reported that White House is weighing whether to release photographs of Osama bin Laden’s corpse “amid calls from some key lawmakers to do so to prove the Al-Qaeda chief is truly dead”.
John Brennan Obama’s anti-terror adviser responds by saying: “We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden.” And that now includes determining whether to release photograph claimed to have been taken.
“It may be necessary to release the pictures - as gruesome as they undoubtedly will be, because he’s been shot in the head - to quell any doubts that this somehow is a ruse that the American government has carried out”, says Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman.
Senator Susan Collins, the most senior Republican on Lieberman’s committee, declares she has “absolutely no doubt” Bin Laden has been killed, but adds: “... I recognize that there will be those who will try to generate this myth that he’s alive, and that we missed him somehow, and in order to put that to rest it may be necessary to release some of the pictures, or video, or the DNA test.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, says US officials are working through whether to release photos of bin Laden’s corpse. “We want to make sure that we maintain dignity - if there was any - in Osama bin Laden, so that we don’t inflame problems other places in the world and still provide enough evidence that people are confident that it was Osama bin Laden,” he adds.
None of them have precisely got the point, but they are closer to it than either Montgomerie or Harris. It is no part of the duty of a responsible and alert citizen to believe unsupported assertions made by governments and every bit a duty to exercise sensible scepticism. Neither governments nor anyone in authority should ever be given an easy ride. If they make claims, they should be required to support them.
Interestingly, the White House’s original plan had been to bomb the house, but Obama ultimately decided against that. “The helicopter raid was riskier. It was more daring”, an official said. “But he wanted proof. He didn’t want to just leave a pile of rubble”. The president wanted proof which is deemed reasonable. When we ask for the same, Montgomerie and Harris would have us as “deniers” and “nutters”.
The very fact that clever sophisticates like Montgomerie and Harris could not see this inconsistency, and resorted to their silly comments, tells us we have a problem. For all their cleverness, they are too gullible, too trusting. They are fools at large dangerous to themselves and the rest of us. And there are far too many like them.
The meaning of the picture, incidentally, may be obscure, but the title of the website from which it comes makes the point. You may chose who is who.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/05/feast-of-fools.html
Thanks for noticing that. If this is not just a clerical error , but is another a new piece of politically correct terminology for “journalists”, it could be Sunstein driven, to the effect that humans have no more rights than animals, or for that matter, bacteria. Western civilization is based on the idea of idea of transcending principles that come from one all powerful “God”, which no man or government can violate. Without this concept, there are no moral limits to the power of people in government.
That's obviously what she did but as it's quoted, We thank our president, we thank President Bush. it could mean she believes Bush is 'president in exile' and she doesn't recognize Obama. The comma leaves ambiguity.
That'll be the spin as implied by the article title.
It’s like having a grandmaster play a game of chess for you, letting you make the last move to checkmate and everyone thinks you are a genius.
Sure... he signed off on a plan formulated and executed by much better men.
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