Byron...some allies just can't read, listen, or see. Either that, or they are holding out for additional foreign aid and/or a guarantee that THEIR oil source won't be interrupted.
Shame on them!
Posted on 09/09/2002 5:26:51 AM PDT by SJackson
How outrageous, that the world wants to see some actual evidence, before signing on for a war.
Byron...some allies just can't read, listen, or see. Either that, or they are holding out for additional foreign aid and/or a guarantee that THEIR oil source won't be interrupted.
Shame on them!
Maybe, but don't count me in with that rabble. I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but I'll say it for the umpteenth time :
Where is Bin Laden?
Does no-one care? Or, just how short can a collective memory span be? Osama's down the Tora Bora memory hole, and Saddam's the new bogeyman of the week. Incredible. This Administration, colluding with the media, steering the American people the way you do, when you draw a woollen thread in front of a kitten. Milking 911 for emotibucks, the way they did with Diana, or JFK Jnr. And me, roaming the threads like a downunder Diogenes, trying to find a Freeper honest enough to say, 'I'm mad as hell, and I won't be manipulated any more!'
Some say it via Freepmail, for which I'm grateful.
Tony, I'll tell you what you owe to future generations:
protecting the shining jewel that makes it all possible, the US Constitution.
Not throwing away your freedoms, and wrapping yourself in the putrid security blanket of More Government. Not suspending disbelief, and opening wide for every lie, that comes down the pike from DC. And not cheering for an attack on a tinpot dictatorship, an attack produced and directed by cynical opportunists, so arrogant and so contemptuous of the American publics' critical faculties that they can't be bothered to present any but the most spurious 'reasons.'
Instead we're going to milk this thing for political bucks, test a bunch of new expensive weapons, and end up with a new Iraqi government that is marginably better than the current one. That is what I don't like about the deal.
The President hasn't talked about attacking Iraq ..... he has mentioned regime change. But the media have been playing up the talk of war for months.
I don't understand why so many people are so bent out of joint over our going to war with no proof when the only talk of battle, invasion, etc. has come from the media.
If we end up with troops in Iraq with no explanation, then there will be plenty of cause for concern ...... but so far we only have hype from the media and the talking heads and so-called "experts" .......
I have confidence that the President will inform the American public .... and the world .... before taking action.
I completely agree with this. My problem is that 1) I'm not going to agree with the action. And 2) I'm pretty suspicious of the timing of the thing.
I do not favor a deal where we run Saddam out and let a marginally better leadership take control. Look at Afghanistan.... have we left it in good shape?
short collective memory span
This Administration, colluding with the media, steering the American people
milking 911 for emotibucks the way they did with Diana, or JFK Jnr. trying to find a Freeper honest enough to say, 'I'm mad as hell, and I won't be manipulated any more!'
Some say it via Freepmail, for which I'm grateful.(unsure what THIS indicates, except for they don't have the courage of their convictions to speak in open forum)
wrapping yourself in the putrid security blanket of More Government
Not suspending disbelief and opening wide for every lie, that comes down the pike from DC.
not cheering for an attack on a tinpot dictatorship
cynical opportunists, so arrogant and so contemptuous of the American publics' critical faculties that they can't be bothered to present any but the most spurious 'reasons.
I wish you well in your quest. Apparently you REALLY go out of your way to start threads simply to Bash-Bush.
Now I know. And I won't support or play your game again.
Look at Afghanistan.... have we left it in good shape?
They knowingly harbored terrorists that killed 3,000 of our people.
Maybe we should build them houses and shopping malls or something.
They lived in the dirt before we got there, they live in the dirt still. The fact that we left most of them alive was rather forgiving of us, I’d say.
I've never done anything of the sort, and neither you nor anyone else could produce a single example of that. Matter of fact I had very high hopes for this president, and for months was in denial about his real agenda for America.
Pigeon pucks.
Go read today's selection, from the panel to the right. Start with any front page from the New York Post.
War sells news, Quilla.
I don't think we should have built them shopping malls. I think it should be an american colony right now... being run by american's.
Running a perpetual police state on the other side of the world might sound like a good idea, but it would cost us many many billions of dollars and likely the lives of thousands of US soldiers. It’s not in our best interests.
I don't like the idea where we let the warring tribes take over.... because in a few years the stronger of those will prevail and they hate us too.
Then we blow them up again, and keep doing it, until they get it right. That’s the cheaper, and likely more effective, method.
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