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1 posted on 09/12/2002 6:48:26 AM PDT by LisaAnne
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To: LisaAnne
What can one say in reply to that, except "Amen"?
2 posted on 09/12/2002 6:53:38 AM PDT by wimpycat
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To: LisaAnne
Thank you, Tony Parsons
3 posted on 09/12/2002 6:55:02 AM PDT by jdub
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To: LisaAnne
Preach it brother! Should be required reading in all schools.
4 posted on 09/12/2002 6:57:15 AM PDT by chance33_98
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To: LisaAnne
Thank you, I needed that.

5 posted on 09/12/2002 6:57:56 AM PDT by DB
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To: LisaAnne
good stuff
6 posted on 09/12/2002 6:58:20 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: LisaAnne
But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.

C'mon over, Tony...you're welcome here...and we'll treat you a darned sight better than a dog!!!


7 posted on 09/12/2002 7:00:27 AM PDT by HiJinx
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To: LisaAnne
Wow. Good post. Amen.
8 posted on 09/12/2002 7:02:45 AM PDT by Pern
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To: LisaAnne
You just about sum it up... only one thing I would add.

These bastids are in about 10 different countries in the world. Even in Indonesia and the Philippines.

The problem is we are not fighting a country or an alliance. We are fighting a religion.

9 posted on 09/12/2002 7:07:32 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: LisaAnne
Amen and bump.
10 posted on 09/12/2002 7:09:59 AM PDT by dpa5923
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To: LisaAnne
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell", if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

An apt description of what we could do. In Richard Rhodes' book about the making of the hydrogen bomb, he quotes a witness to the first test shot (the "Mike" shot) as saying that it felt "like opening a the door to a blazing hot oven right in front of your face." That witness was standing on the deck of a ship 30 miles from ground zero.

(steely)

11 posted on 09/12/2002 7:12:51 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: LisaAnne
Hear! Hear!
12 posted on 09/12/2002 7:12:53 AM PDT by wildehunt
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To: LisaAnne
I'm starting to become a fan of Englishmen named Tony, at least in as far as the stands they are taking on this war are concerned.
13 posted on 09/12/2002 7:16:12 AM PDT by chimera
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To: LisaAnne
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell", if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth.

AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength.

We couldn't have said it better. Our patience with the rhotomontades at the UN and the running dogs of a liberalism that demeans the very word is growing thin. The UN can either be part of the solution or part of the problem.

Today, the UN sits in furious irrelevancy, filed with putrescence and bile at America's ability to act where it will not. The UN today has no more power or will to oppose tyranny than did the League of Nations when Hailieh Selassie stood before them asking aid against Mussolini's poison-gas using invation of his country. The members of the UN with the ability to pay for a military that could project power are too timorous, those who would if they could are ususally the enemies of freedom. Bah!

If the UN fails to act, we must. Will it take another major attack on the US or one of the European Powerlettes (since they can no longer be considered great powers in the traditional sense)? Then, those who have demanded restraint of us will 'cry havoc,' demanding that we 'release the dogs of war' -- and we will: and millions will die who did not need to had we but acted now. Make no mistake. Radical Islam will not prevail. The question is but whether some form of the religion will become peaceful enough to survive or, if not, whether its present adherents will choose to disappear with it.

14 posted on 09/12/2002 7:24:28 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: LisaAnne
Thank you so much for the post. I was beginning to think that all of England and other so-called allies had lost their way. It is encouraging that someone over there "gets it".
17 posted on 09/12/2002 8:39:58 AM PDT by Jerry Attrick
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To: LisaAnne
Thanks Lisa... this is heartwarming. I want crumpets for teatime today.
uhhh.... What are crumpets? When is teatime?
19 posted on 09/12/2002 10:34:35 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: LisaAnne
Great post. And pretty amazing coming from a yellow tabloid that has done more than its share of American-bashing recently.
26 posted on 09/12/2002 12:04:50 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: LisaAnne
Well, this article shows that at least some of the EUros "get it".
28 posted on 09/12/2002 3:27:31 PM PDT by Southack
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To: LisaAnne
Dear Tony:

Thank you for your kind words but personally, I don't deserve them, not if restraint in the face of attack is something to be admired. I feel no restraint. You say be glad America did not "push the button" on the dancing Palestinians? That's because certain Americans, me for instance, don't have access to that button. If I had it, I'd push it. I'd have pushed it on September 11th. Today it is 367 days later. I'm still just as furious, perhaps more so. All ten of my fingers itch for that button.

Tell your wretched countrymen that I have heard every craven word they've uttered against me, and the kid-brother American whose admiration that they have always been so confident of has grown up and seen his own slaughtered. Speaking for myself, I am not bound to England by blood or culture.

The England I admired, the England of George Eliot, Jane Austen, the Brontes, it's gone. What's left is a wet wedge of land full of sniveling socialists with incredibly bad teeth, and I feel nothing for any of you. Stay out of my way. If many Americans are beginning to feel like I feel you'll find that resting complacently on our good will is not as safe as it used to be. I'm looking out at the world and my eyes are not filmed over with any misty sentiment about the common humanity of all. No, I look out and I see a pack of jackals sitting just beyond the campfire's edge, licking their chops hungrily, waiting for us to fall asleep. And don't think we don't know it.

32 posted on 09/13/2002 11:33:19 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: LisaAnne; Siobhan; american colleen; sinkspur; livius; Lady In Blue; Salvation; Polycarp; narses; ..
Remember, remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America. No, do more than remember. Never forget.

Time to resurrect this post! This is what we are fighting for. May God bless and protect our troops.

NEVER FORGET!!

33 posted on 03/24/2003 6:29:33 AM PST by NYer (God Bless America. Please pray for our troops!)
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To: LisaAnne

bump


35 posted on 09/12/2006 9:09:38 AM PDT by lowbridge (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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