...here's the beginning of that episode...
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Posted on 01/29/2003 1:29:42 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Tom Daschle's attack on President Bush's Iraq policy on the eve of war and long after the Congress had voted to authorize the president to launch the war was shocking and without precedent. A hundred years from now, it will be remembered as an act of complete political selfishness and a low point in American politics.
There is simply no parallel in American history for Daschle's web of half-truths, wild charges and bitter recriminations. He is the leader of the Democrats and his party, which cowered from such charges before the election and now embraces and popularizes them. Daschle delivered his remarks on the very day that even a U.N. bureaucrat like Hans Blix was obliged to concede that Saddam was not complying with the U.N.'s demands, and on the day that even the softest of the European states had begun to harden. Tom Daschle revealed himself as the very last appeaser. The damage he did to the national interest may have been immense.
Any hope that Saddam might spare the world this war and bolt for safer ground in Libya or elsewhere was significantly undermined by the spectacle of the leader of the nation's opposition challenging the president's veracity. One can only wonder what might have happened had Daschle and his European allies presented the tyrant with a united front. It is easy to see, however, how Saddam might wrongly conclude that Bush could not possibly proceed in the face of such opposition. Thank you, Sen. Daschle, for helping destroy the possibility of forcing Saddam from power without the now inevitable clash of armies.
Spouses, children, parents and friends of America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have every right to be outraged. Either Daschle's bitterness at November's result has blinded him, or he truly is the most limited of America's recent political leadership figures. The carping about tax policy and the thread-bare rhetoric about class warfare are hardly offensive – just amusing and predictable. Opposition to war in the fall could even have been thought honorable, though wrong-headed. But Monday's display was just mendacious, a low moment in the career of a limited man.
Bush's speech will quickly eclipse Daschle's duplicity, which is unfortunate. I would like for every American to hear the minority leader's Monday speech played again and again. And after the liberation of Iraq, I would like for his remarks to be played not just here but for the people of Iraq. I expect that even their relief at liberation from Saddam's despotism could not conceal their anger with Daschle and his ilk.
"The Pianist" is currently in theaters, a moving story of one man's struggle to survive Hitler's killing fever. There are millions in Iraq this very day desperate for the arrival of a liberating force, whether comprised just of Americans, of Americans and troops from its score of allies, or from even a reluctant coalition of U.N. participants. The horrors these troops uncover will shock – but they will not surprise! We know what we will find – all of us do, including Tom Daschle. On Monday, Tom Daschle urged that the public disregard all of the president's many arguments about Saddam's dangers. Daschle urged that the public ignore the great number of allies we have already assembled to join us in the war. And he urged that the public even ignore his own vote and the votes of his colleagues from only months ago.
Tom Daschle also urged that we ignore the people of Iraq, the persecuted and the imprisoned. He did so just as their collective hope of liberation was beginning to mature. He did so despite the facts already in evidence and despite the facts the vast majority of responsible foreign-policy experts believe to exist outside of the published record. He did so despite the risk Iraq poses to its neighbors. And he did so despite the desperate condition of an oppressed and tortured people. It was a craven act by a man unbalanced in his political calculations by the weight of frustrated ambition.
Democrats might someday regain majority status in one or both houses of Congress, and they might regain the presidency. But if there is any justice in the world and any sense of honor in the country, the Democrats who stood by silently this week and are thus complicit in Daschle's attack will never be rewarded with the public's trust again.
"Tom Daschle's attack on President Bush's Iraq policy on the eve of war and long after the Congress had voted to authorize the president to launch the war was shocking and without precedent. A hundred years from now, it will be remembered as an act of complete political selfishness and a low point in American politics. There is simply no parallel in American history for Daschle's web of half-truths, wild charges and bitter recriminations. He is the leader of the Democrats and his party, which cowered from such charges before the election and now embraces and popularizes them. Daschle delivered his remarks on the very day that even a U.N. bureaucrat like Hans Blix was obliged to concede that Saddam was not complying with the U.N.'s demands, and on the day that even the softest of the European states had begun to harden. Tom Daschle revealed himself as the very last appeaser. The damage he did to the national interest may have been immense.
"Any hope that Saddam might spare the world this war and bolt for safer ground in Libya or elsewhere was significantly undermined by the spectacle of the leader of the nation's opposition challenging the president's veracity. One can only wonder what might have happened had Daschle and his European allies presented the tyrant with a united front. It is easy to see, however, how Saddam might wrongly conclude that Bush could not possibly proceed in the face of such opposition. Thank you, Sen. Daschle, for helping destroy the possibility of forcing Saddam from power without the now inevitable clash of armies. Spouses, children, parents and friends of America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have every right to be outraged. Either Daschle's bitterness at November's result has blinded him, or he truly is the most limited of America's recent political leadership figures. The carping about tax policy and the thread-bare rhetoric about class warfare are hardly offensive – just amusing and predictable. Opposition to war in the fall could even have been thought honorable, though wrong-headed. But Monday's display was just mendacious, a low moment in the career of a limited man.
"Bush's speech will quickly eclipse Daschle's duplicity, which is unfortunate. I would like for every American to hear the minority leader's Monday speech played again and again. And after the liberation of Iraq, I would like for his remarks to be played not just here but for the people of Iraq. I expect that even their relief at liberation from Saddam's despotism could not conceal their anger with Daschle and his ilk. "The Pianist" is currently in theaters, a moving story of one man's struggle to survive Hitler's killing fever. There are millions in Iraq this very day desperate for the arrival of a liberating force, whether comprised just of Americans, of Americans and troops from its score of allies, or from even a reluctant coalition of U.N. participants. The horrors these troops uncover will shock – but they will not surprise! We know what we will find – all of us do, including Tom Daschle. On Monday, Tom Daschle urged that the public disregard all of the president's many arguments about Saddam's dangers. Daschle urged that the public ignore the great number of allies we have already assembled to join us in the war. And he urged that the public even ignore his own vote and the votes of his colleagues from only months ago.
"Tom Daschle also urged that we ignore the people of Iraq, the persecuted and the imprisoned. He did so just as their collective hope of liberation was beginning to mature. He did so despite the facts already in evidence and despite the facts the vast majority of responsible foreign-policy experts believe to exist outside of the published record. He did so despite the risk Iraq poses to its neighbors. And he did so despite the desperate condition of an oppressed and tortured people. It was a craven act by a man unbalanced in his political calculations by the weight of frustrated ambition.
"DemonRATS might someday regain majority status in one or both houses of Congress, and they might regain the presidency. But if there is any justice in the world and any sense of honor in the country, The DemonRATS who stood by silently this week and are thus complicit in Daschle's attack will never be rewarded with the public's trust again.
Hear hear, Mr. Hewitt...MUD
I hope so.
The only question I have is how low will they take the country before they go?
...here's the beginning of that episode...
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I've ALWAYS believed Slick swung from both sides of the plate...MUD
I was watching "BraveHeart" fer the umpteenth time the other night and couldda sworn I heard "Molon Labe" spoken...is that where it is derived from?! And what EXACTLY does it mean, my FRiend?!
FReegards...MUD
"Molon Labe!"Here is ONE explantion, from http://www.thefiringline.com/HCI/molon_labe.htm:I was watching "BraveHeart" fer the umpteenth time the other night and couldda sworn I heard "Molon Labe" spoken...is that where it is derived from?!
And what EXACTLY does it mean, my FRiend?!
Molon labe
(mo-lone lah-veh)
Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind.From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it.
When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back.
Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)
They mean, "Come and get them!"They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It reads: "Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie."We have adopted this defiant utterance as a battle cry in our war against oppression because it says so clearly and simply towards those who would take our arms.
It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you will – rights to suit their own ends."
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"The Heart of a Warrior" FReegards...MUD
I pulled into DeeCeeTown...met Dubyuh 'bout half past ten...
"Patriot, help US, please"..."Sir, I'll do my best!!"
"Hey Mudboy, can you tell me, how to counteract The Left?!"
MUD just grinned )=^D and shook his hand, "Yep!!" was all I said!!
Take the load off, Dubyuh, leave Ol' Slick fer ME!!
Take the load off, Dubyuh...and...and...and...
You put the load...put the load...Right on ME!! (ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-aheee...)
Gathered up my facts...Willie Clinton gots no place to hide!!
Folks saw MUD's karma...and James Carville walkin' side by side...
MUD said, "Hey Carville...come on, you/me throwin' down!!"
James said, "NO...I fear ya, bro...but Mary'll stick aroun'!!"
Take the load off, Fuzzball...I'll do Slick fer FRee!!
Take the load off, Limbaugh...and...and...and...
You hand the ball...PASS the Damn BALL to ME!! (ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-aheee...)
Stalked down RATS' Lib'rals...US FReeper Boyz, we don't play!!
Left fears the Truth...next election is Left's Judgement Day!!
The Truth, my FRiends...we shall make the Leftists[/Med'yuh/Soc'lists/Lib'rals] see!!
MUD says, "Country's worth savin', folks, won't you help stand against Left's Tyranny?!!"
Take the load off, Granny...strike a blow fer FRee!!
Take the load off, Seniors...and...and...and...
Please put the load Right on me!!
Willie's Jesters hounded me...but I fought them with my thoughts...
Left said, "We would fix yer a$$, but MUD don't break no laws!!"
MUD said, "Wait a minute, Agent...you know MUD's a Peaceful Man."
He said, "That's Okay, Boy, I sure pray you git that pr**k!!!"
Take the load off, Country...fer OUR Country, FReep!!
Take the load off, Sheeple...and...and...and...
Just put the load, put the load, Right on ME!! (ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-aheee...)
Get your COURAGE UP...folks, let's FReep Slick fer Left's crimes!!
The Left is sinking low, and I do believe it's time...
To take back this Great Nation...y'all know we'll have some fun!!
Right sent me here with my FReegards fer everyone!!
Take the load off, Ashcroft...INDICT SLICK WILLIE!!!
Take the load off, Congress...and...and...and...
Just fight Dem 'Ho's, Justice knows...RE-IMPEACH!!
Mudboy Slim (26 October 2001)
1 posted on 10/26/2001 6:22 AM EDT by Mudboy Slim (Justice@int.Negotiable!!)
Thank you, thankyouverymuch...please tip yer waitresses...MUD
Excellent article on Daschle's ineptness and cheap shots by Tony Blankley in today's Washington Times. It's called Stumbledee and Stumbledum.This is Free Republic, so NATURALLY someone did. :o)Perhaps someone will post it.
See the post by xsysmgr:
Stumbledee and stumbledum [Saddam & Daschle]Poor soon-to-be-ex-Senator Daschle!
The Washington Times ^ | January 29, 2003 | Tony Blankley
Posted on 01/29/2003 5:17 AM PST by xsysmgr
Ouch! First, Hugh blasts Tommy, and then the Washington Times...
I think I read in a fortune cookie once that "He who has foolish enemies possesses the Mandate of Heaven." In that sense, President Bush is twice blessed.
I'm not sure who is President Bush's stupidest opponent: Saddam Hussein or Tom Daschle.
Of course, a powerful case can be made for Saddam, whose career-long fetishistic love affair with weapons of mass destruction exposed him to potential oblivion whenever a United States president should come along with the clarity of vision and guts to call him on it. Now that George W. Bush is in the White House, Saddam's fatal hour is upon him. With even Hans Blix and Colin Powell now beating the drums of war, we shall see if the Assyrian dunderhead is capable of giving up his toxic dreams and accepting exile. But like the poor devils who feel compelled to seek the deadly AIDS infection, Saddam has probably eroticised possession of the deadly weapons, and is likely to stand his ground and draw his terminal breath in the next month or two—perhaps on the Ides of March.
But a persuasive case also can be made for Sen. Tom "I-don't-have-the guts-to run-for president" Daschle being the more politically stupid.
At least Saddam has the excuse of being an insane megalomaniac...
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Couldn't agree more, my FRiend...MUD
"...Iraq has had more than enough time to comply, says the U.S.LOL!No way, say Democrats. Bush isn't being fair. Disarming is a big job, time-consuming -- not something a dictator can do lickety-split. Between torturing and hanging opponents, extracting confessions, running detention camps, chopping hands off, kidnapping, training terrorists -- c'mon, where's Saddam suppose to find the time?
The Butcher is a busy guy. It's not like sonny boy Uday can handle the workload alone, you know.Iraq, of course, denies there's any torture and killing going on. Okay, maybe just a little.
Hey, it's not our fault, you see. If we torture and kill people, the U.N. embargo made us do it, they say.Follow the "logic" here:
-- Inspections have failed, so we need more of 'em..." -
from JohnHuang2's "My Two Cents"
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