Look closely, you can see humans. They are Americans. What are you?
Posted on 09/24/2002 11:51:53 AM PDT by Protagoras
Look closely, you can see humans. They are Americans. What are you?
Lets extrapolate that line of logic to all battles ever engaged.
And why would their opinions outweigh those who celebrated the Talibans defeat. Particularly in a country founded on "Give me liberty or give me death."
True. Yet we are being asked to blindly trust our leaders who are career politicians. I try, yet cannot muster such blind faith. I've been taught all of my life to take anything that comes from a politicians mouth with a grain of salt.Now they expect lockstep consent. Not from me.
Ahem, yes...you're very welcome Old Boy.
Can you believe the guile? Such insolence from the pee-ons. I must say in my day they would've received a good thrashing for such remarks. Who are they to speak ill of another? The hubris of youth I say! As if simple Americans knew what their Statesmen were really doing & why.
Bullocks!
It is we'ee who are the masters of fate...not mere citizens...we'ee direct the machinations of freedom...we'ee discern the intent total & complete of elders long past.
Harumgh! Jolly good bearing TJ, jolly good.
I wish.
If Doug Bandow is too "liberal" for you, who the hell do you read while forming your opinions besides GWB?
I don't know who Doug Bandow is. I just looked him up and saw that he works for Cato. Fee fi fo fum. I smell a libertarian. I found some pearls of wisdom from Mr. Bandow, circa 1998:
The GOP viewpoint seems to be captured by the lament of North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones: ''The U.S. military that won the Cold War and the Gulf War no longer exists.''But there's no reason why that military should still exist. The Cold War is over. America won. Even though the world remains dangerous, it isn't particularly dangerous to the United States.
Monday, December 7, was the 57th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II. But the world, and America's place in it, is much different today.
He's got a college degree. He was a bureacrat for Ronald Reagan. I'm not saying he is ignorant. I'm not saying he is a liberal. I am simply saying his arguments are the same as Phil Donahue's.
So, do you agree with our Founder, and just want what you consider "satisfactory evidnce"?
What kind of reply was that?
Let me ask you, and see what your opinion is:
What would you have done in 1938, regarding Hitler? And mind you, back then they did not have WMD as people like him (Saddam) do now.
Lovingly waiting for your reply...
What has GW Bush done "in light of the past" in the WoT that draws this conclusion for you? I think some people live in fear.
The problem is not just countries like Iran and North Korea, which seem to have or have had serious interest in developing atomic weapons. It is China, which could use them in any conflict with the U.S. over, say, Taiwan. And India, Pakistan, and Russia, which face unpredictable nationalist and theological currents, enjoy governments of varying instability, and offer uncertain security over technical know-how as well as weapons.
Considering that it only took a few years in the early 1940s for scientists without previous experience, computers, designs or advanced materials to conceptualize, design and fabricate a nuclear bomb, I find the forced absence of inspectors since 1998 (4 years ago) prusuant to surrender terms more than disturbing.
As for the others, the ones who have it, have it. We can't do anything about that, because the genie is out. My gut feeling is that the Iraqis are closest to having one done - and thte rest can be dealt with at a later date.
WTF? If that is the basis of your posting and thoughts, then forget it, it ain't worth the time...
Removing Saddam is a part of the War on Terrorism. Do you know what started that? Did we? Good grief. You can't be serious.
Even if they hadn't, they run the risk that WHEN we are attacked again that any connection (and their will be some connection) either direct or indirect to Iraq will spell their complete defeat as a viable national party. After all the 20/20 hindsight stuff they imposed on Bush will come back to destroy their credibility.
Can you imagine Bush in front of a photo of a destroyed nuclear plant saying that "I could of got the crawdad in his hole if I was just given the authority".
Please demonstrate that this is false or withdraw. Thank you.
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