Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!
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.
No, a year from now it will be forgotten.
Or in a hundred years from now the Politburo in DC will select Tom as one of the "People's Hero's" and have Christian slave labor build him a monument where the status of Lincoln used to be.
Unless we drive the Socialists into the ocean in the short term, I fear for the future our children will inherit.
Whenever your Party gets their butts whipped in an election, it's obvious that the best thing to do is to elect a hyper-liberal SF feminist ball-buster as your leader in the House and then have your Congressional membership stoop to a childish pettiness that is simply breathtaking.
I hope they keep it up. I really, really do.
The Blix Report; Nancy and Tommy go bananas
After Monday's interim "progress" report on wonderful Iraqi "compliance", the only conclusion one can draw is that Iraq -- and Democrat backers -- have rather curious ways of defining "cooperation." Maybe Saddam, like his playmate Clinton on the meaning of "is", reserves unique definition for words.
We hear ad nauseam that the President has 'failed to make his case.' That Saddam is, like Osama Mama Murray says of her darling namesake, really just the kindest, sweetest, gentlest lil' dictator you'll ever know. Don't believe me? Just ask the Kurds.
Saddam is, say Democrats, allowing the inspections process to move forward, so why can't bully Bush?
But is Saddam really cooperating, as Democrats assert?
Gee, let's see:
-- Iraq, says chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, hasn't "come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it." The 12,000-page weapons report was a sham, a web of falsehoods and omissions, "a reprint of earlier documents," he said. They don't "seem to contain any new evidence that will eliminate the questions or reduce their number," he added.
-- Iraq's "cooperation" on process is a fig-leaf. Saddam still offers nothing on substance. "It is not enough to open doors," Blix told the U.N. Security Council Monday, adding that "inspections is not a game of catch-as-catch-can. Rather ... it is a process of verification for the purpose of creating confidence."
-- Anthrax? "There are strong indications," said Blix, "that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date."
-- On Iraqi assertions that remaining supplies of deadly VX nerve agent were destroyed after Desert Storm, Blix says the U.N. "has information that conflicts with this account."
-- A Mustard gas precursor had been uncovered.
-- Iraq has thus far failed to produced scientists for private interviews. Kinda strange if, as Saddam claims, he's got nothing to hide. Blix noted, moreover, that U.N. inspectors have also been targets of Iraqi harassment and intimidation.
-- Thousands of chemical warfare bombs have not been accounted for.
-- Construction of missiles with ranges beyond the 90-mile limit imposed by U.N. resolutions continues.
-- Iraq has refused repeated requests by inspectors to deploy a U-2 surveillance plane.
No 'smoking gun', granted, just freight-loads of semen-stained dresses with Butcher-of-Baghdad's DNA all over 'em.
No amount of proof will, of course, ever convince the 'With-Our-Souls-And-Our-Blood-We-Sacrifice-To-You, Oh-Saddam!' Democrats, who everyday sound more and more like Tariq Aziz.
Democrats want Bush -- not Saddam -- to be the issue here.
Some are even upbeat Saddam will beat the rap.
Iraq has had more than enough time to comply, says the U.S.
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.
-- U.N. resolution 1441 calls on Iraq to comply fully. Saddam's reply? The middle-finger salute. The French Vichy wannabes and the German Nazi wannabes call this "progress" -- hey, he could've launched chem or bio weapons that he doesn't have on Israel, right? Besides, anyone who hates Americans and Jews like Saddam can't be all that bad.
-- Saddam would've willingly allowed inspectors back in -- Bush's threatened use of force, backed by large-scale U.S.-British troop deployments to the region, has had nothing to do with it.
Democrats argue that the world will be a lot less safe without Saddam in power because if we remove Saddam from power the Arab world will get really, really mad at us even though they were really, really mad at us even before 9/11 which is why 9/11 occurred and Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 and even if he did Bush has not made the case that he did therefore it didn't really happen....
Confused yet?
As I noted several months ago, Democrats are in 'Defend-Saddam-At-All-Costs' mode, eerily similar to 'Defend-Clinton-At-All-Costs during the Monica mess.
Nothing Saddam has done, say Democrats, rises to the level of removal from office/Nothing Clinton did rose to the level of impeachment and removal from office.
Sure Saddam lied to weapons inspectors, but so what? All politicians lie/Sure Clinton lied to Ken Starr but so what? All men lie about their sex life.
Sure Saddam violates human rights, but so what? So do Iran and Syria and China/Sure Clinton had sex with Monica, but so what? All men do it.
Sure the Blix report was pretty scathing, but so what? Where's the 'smoking gun'?/Sure the Starr report was pretty scathing, but so what? Where's the 'smoking gun'?
Interestingly, Democrat leaders Monday rallied around Saddam in much the same way Democrats rallied around Clinton at the Rose Garden after impeachment.
Where's the proof? demanded Tommy Daschle and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Appearing jointly at the National Press Club in a "pre-buttal" to the President's Tuesday Address, Tommy and Nancy sought to undermine Bush, insinuating the White House lacks evidence to back up its claims that Saddam possesses weapons of mass destruction.
If you have the proof, let's see it, they said.
The onus is not on Saddam, but on Bush.
Hanoi Jane had nothing on Nancy and Tommy.
Anyway, that's..
My two cents..
"JohnHuang2"
FReegards...MUD
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Yep...and Tommie D'A$$HOLE will be Permanently Outta ElectedPolitics two (2) years from today, IMHO...MUD
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15 posted on 11/16/2002 7:01 AM EST by Mudboy Slim
RATS're Dolts and FReepers Must Educate Dems...MUD
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