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To: doug from upland
William Pitt (just like Scott Ritter) is a complete joke.

Occasionally some of his Liberal pablum puke crops up on our board at RonaldReagan.com...and how anyone can take his idiotic rambling serious is beyond me.

But for anyone not familiar with W.P. here is a post from him back in October that was posted on a board that I will not mention

"The Democratic Party has finally lost me With a few notable exceptions, Democrats in the Senate appear prepared to give George W. Bush everything he wants regarding war with Iraq. No matter that a vast majority of Americans do not want this war, no matter that the case for war has not been made, no matter that the international community repudiates such action, and no matter that this push for war has been put forth by the White House in a cynical attempt to deflect public attention from gross mismanagement of the government, and away from the catastrophes within the business community. Democratic House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt surrendered last week, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is preparing to lead GOP mouthpieces like Joe Lieberman in a total capitulation to Bush's plans.

For one, brief, shining moment two weeks ago, it appeared the Democrats would stand up to the incredibly dangerous program put forth by the Bush administration. Al Gore spoke publicly and caustically about Bush's ham-fisted handling of the economy, and the variety of ways war with Iraq will make the world a more dangerous place for America. Senators Byrd and Kennedy likewise excoriated the administration. Daschle stood in the well of the Senate and demanded an apology from Bush, after Bush flatly stated that Democrats did not care about the security of the United States. Byrd and Kennedy have since been hung out to dry, and Daschle has proven himself to be unworthy of the title of leader. His little temper tantrum at the podium is bitter dust in the mouths of every American who hoped that, finally, finally, the Democrats would make a stand.

Because these jellyfish cannot find within themselves the courage to be moral, because the truth is not in them, because they have decided to accept the spoon-fed poison of Karl Rove's Machiavellian disinformation campaign, it might serve any American who reads this to be reminded of the truth, and the stakes, in this matter.

There is no case for war in Iraq. There is no proof whatsoever that Saddam Hussein poses a threat to America or his neighbors. The marvelously absurd Catch-22 we have heard so often is that Hussein is a mortal threat, and yet will be a pushover in battle. There is no proof that Hussein retains any functional aspect of the chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs that were totally dismantled and destroyed by the UNSCOM weapons inspectors from 1991 through 1998. Repeated attempts by the United Nations to reinsert more inspectors have been spurned by the Bush administration in favor of combat.

Back in 1991, when Hussein had vast stockpiles of these weapons, he did not use them when American forces were bulldozing through his country. When he fired SCUD missiles into Israel, there was no mustard gas or other chemical agent attached to the nose comes, and there could very well have been. The only time Saddam Hussein has used these weapons was during the 1980s, while in the paid employ of the American government under Reagan, which gave him most of the stuff in the first place. Should an American army arrive in downtown Baghdad, however, and should the dire rhetorical salvos of the Bush administration prove correct, American solders may come face to face with botulinin toxin. You can put Israel on the firing line right next to G.I. Joe.

The irony is rich, wretched and deadly: Hussein only used these weapons when he was a vassal of America, after receiving these weapons from America, never against Americans, and may only actually use them against America - if he still has them - if we invade.

The idea that Hussein has connections to al Qaeda terrorists is laughable; Hussein is a secular dictator who has crushed Islamic fundamentalism for 30 years. Bin Laden and al Qaeda despise him and want him dead. Hussein would sooner stick his face into a running chainsaw as give weapons of any kind to al Qaeda, because the end result of wither action would be the same.

The concept of bringing democracy to Iraq through war, proffered by the Bush administration, is a vomitous joke. Democracy in the western sense means majority rule, and the majority in Iraq is comprised of Shiite Muslims who are ideologically and theocratically aligned with the extremist mullas in Iran. The rest of the Iraqi population is comprised of Kurds, who will not be allowed to rule Iraq or anything else because of Turkey, and by the Sunnis, from whose vicious tribal politics came Saddam Hussein. Democracy in Iraq is a concept that terrifies our allies in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia. Given the fact that the House of Saud appears to have great management control over the House of Bush, it is profoundly unlikely that anything resembling democracy will ever come to exist in Iraq through this looming process. Whomever rules there after the 'regime change' will be as bad as Hussein, or worse.

Bush's resolution for war that is about to be swallowed whole by Congress speaks of making war on the "region," not just Iraq, thus giving him legal cover for total war upon the entire Middle East. This is the passionate dream of the extremist neo-conservative hawks within the Bush administration who are actually running American foreign policy and the War on Terror: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Democratic Congressional leaders know these men, and know the dangers they represent, and yet appear fully capable of giving them a legal blessing to extend eternal war across the planet. George W. Bush is not running this government, and this war is not just about Iraq.

Should we attack Iraq with the purpose of removing Saddam Hussein, there will be no easy repeat of the Gulf War. American troops will face house-to-house combat in the streets of Baghdad, a city of five million people. One former combat general interviewed on a cable news station predicted the possibility of American casualties amounting to a battalion a day. In order to prosecute this urban war, Baghdad will have to be 'reduced' via aerial bombardment and artillery, which is likely to cause tens of thousands of civilian deaths. The resulting outrage – termed the 'Al Jazeera effect' after the Arabic news station that will broadcast the shattered bodies of Iraqi civilians all across the Middle East – will spawn new and more horrible terrorist attacks on our shores.

Last, but not least, it is painfully obvious to any clear-headed person that the Bush administration has pushed this war to shove Enron, Harken, Halliburton, Arthur Andersen and the woeful state of our economy and the stock market off the front pages and out of TV news rotation. Andrew Card, the White House Chief of Staff, looks at his President in terms of marketing. In fact, he was quoted last August as saying that the administration would not bring up war against Iraq at that point, because August is a bad time to introduce new products. They have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.

By not pointing out this obvious and bloody tactic, the Democrats have almost completely guaranteed their doom in the midterm elections come November. Today, they say they wish to see this war vote through "to get the Iraq debate behind us," thus fundamentally misunderstanding the planet they exist on. The media will feast upon this coming war, and will report on nothing else. Democrats could walk on water and raise the dead out by the Lincoln Memorial, and the media would show old footage of the Gulf War and slobbering Republicans pounding the war drums. Bank it.

Let us remember a few other key facts, as long as we are skipping down memory lane. When the conservative Supreme Court intervened in the Florida recount, in defiance of every states-rights platitude ever spit from their tall seats, when they handed the election to Bush based upon a dizzying twisting of constitutional law, Congressional Democrats rolled over and died. Only the Black Caucus stood tall in the aftermath, walking out of the chamber as the disaster was sealed with legislative wax. The Democrats overwhelmingly voted for the PATRIOT Anti-Terror Act, perhaps the most fundamentally contra-constitutional piece of legislation since the Alien and Sedition Act. There have been gut-checks upon gut-checks for these 'leaders,' and they have failed time and again. When Mr. Bush says "Frog," they jump. Period.

Now, we have this.

I have for my entire life been a Democrat. My parents came of age with the rousing words of John F. Kennedy ringing in their ears, and I was given their passionate liberalism with mother's milk. Mine has never been a starry-eyed liberalism; I voted for Clinton twice, and Gore once, both times without regret. Whichever way my own personal views have tended, I have always been a pragmatist when it comes to elections and politics. Win first, I have always said, and hope that the issues I believe passionately in will find their way into the policy realm. I have been feasting on half a loaf for years, and have never cried for my empty stomach.

That is all finished now. You may now call me a Street Democrat. I am unrepresented by the leadership of the party to which I have always given my loyalty. Accordingly, I have, and will continue, to take my opposition out onto the streets and news stands and bookstore shelves of America. I was in downtown Boston protesting Bush last Friday, I will be in Washington on October 26th for the massive anti-war rally that will be taking place, and I will be out on those streets at every opportunity. My leadership has failed, and I am forced to do their jobs for them. I am not interested in electoral gamesmanship, pragmatism or being a good party man any more. My essential core of ethics have been battered and bruised by the Democratic leadership for years. I have always accepted that half a loaf, and never cried for my empty stomach. No more. Not on this one.

Today, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be a Democrat.

Know this well, you fools. I am not alone in my disdain. Americans have been so badly abused by the process of politics in this country that more than half of them now refuse to vote. The rest wander the streets of this nation like Diogenes with his lamp, looking only for one honest man. The closer you cuddle to this administration, the farther you remove yourselves from your duties as the loyal opposition, the less of a distinction you offer to an American voting public desperate for leadership that knows what is right, and knows what it is doing.

Perhaps you have some master plan in the works. Perhaps you will take the dangerous words and intentions weaved through the Bush resolution for War on Iraq and turn it against him. Perhaps it only seems like you have left great men like Senator Byrd hanging out to dry. Perhaps there are wheels within wheels in this matter. I have always trusted you, always believed there was more than one game afoot. I do not believe it anymore, and woe unto you because of it. If you have lost me, you can be damned sure that you lost millions of others before me. I am the bitter end of your support, and I am finished with your farcical excuse for leadership.

Remember one last thing before you trundle into the chamber and sell us all down the river. The Democratic Party was virtually annihilated the last time it made a bad decision about a war. History may well record the coming debacle in Iraq as a Bush war, but I will remember you. I will never forgive, and I will never forget."


Which after reading that pablum puke I posted on our board at RonaldReagan.com quoting my good buddy Dutch, who summed it up best when he said....

"Here’s a clue for all the liberal/democRATs: IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU! YOU’RE REALLY NOT THAT IMPORTANT! GET OVER YOURSELF, YOU POMPOUS ASSES. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE GOING TO BE RISKING THEIR LIVES SO YOU CAN BE CONDESCENDING "HATE AMERICA FIRST" DROIDS... TRY BEING AN AMERICAN FIRST, BEFORE BEING A FILTHY, LYING POLITICAL HACK."

And here are some pictures of Will at a Liberal function with added quotes from his post above.






18 posted on 01/17/2003 6:07:29 PM PST by The Finman
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To: The Finman; TLBSHOW
Come on. Are those real photos of him? Is he holding a cigarette?

He apparently just had it out with Aaron Brown, and I don't think he will be welcome on CNN. (Note: I cut and pasted. Typos were done by Whackjob.)

WilliamPitt (12810 posts)
Jan-17-03, 08:14 PM (ET)
I justn spent 1/2 an hour on the phone with Aaron Brown

LAST EDITED ON Jan-17-03 AT 08:41 PM (ET)
His producer got me on the phone with him, and he proceeded to scold me for the emails he got from those who read my letter to him. Apparently, a bunch of people wrote him to castigate him for not covering the iussue properly, and saw my letter as an invitation to that scolding, because I named him in it without stating clearly that I had written it without having seen his show. I told him that I wrote him specifically because I thought he'd speak truth to power, maybe. He didn't. Hence, the emails.

Let the record show that his program was NO DIFFERENT than the whores who had been on before him.

OOOHHH, it was a battle. Back and forth, "Excuse me, I'm Talking" and "Wait a minute" and "Hold on a second" and "You are SO wrong." I JUST HAD A F***ING PHONE WAR WITH AARON BROWN.

I f***ed him up. Bank it. The scolder became the scoldee.

I lectured the man, because he had phone etiquette.
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO TELL A CNN PERSON, I told him tonight. Everything.

It was joy.

We parted on good terms, but I am doubting I'll ever be on his show, unless I get unavoidably famous.

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Why did Whackjob lecture Brown because he had phone etiquette? Phone etiquette is good.

20 posted on 01/17/2003 6:17:31 PM PST by doug from upland (May the Clintons live their remaining days in orange jumpsuits)
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To: The Finman
No matter that a vast majority of Americans do not want this war

Hey Pansy Pitt...

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IS NOT B.J. CLINTON! HE LEADS, HE DOES NOT ACT BASED ON POLLS! GET USED TO IT YOU LITTLE WORM!!

And besides...What's your definition of "Vast Majority"?? I don't believe a simple "Majority" has ever been against this war??

21 posted on 01/17/2003 6:19:40 PM PST by The South Park Republican
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