The Coming War, Talk Radio, Demo's -- a Rare BibChr Rant

2/6/2003 | Daniel J. Phillips (BibChr)

[BibChr]

This essay could be titled:

An Isolationist Comes 'Round

or

Why Talk Radio Is Successful

or

Just In Case You Can't Think of Things to Thank God For, Here's One

I'll be brief. Not "Rush is really hot! Tune in!!!!!!!! Nothing follows" brief, but brief.

Having seen or read most of Colin Powell's somber, wide-ranging, damning presentation, and having caught a sampling of the responses from the French, the Demo's, and other fools, I reflected. And, having reflected, I offer you this.

First, How the world has changed. By conviction, I tend more towards isolationism. Have for years. The thought of trotting off to a Middle Eastern country and whacking its dictator, presented that way, would be abhorrent to me.

However, 9/11 has changed my perspective, and for a reason. Think of this: in our Founding Fathers' day, you would know of an enemy's intention either by his declaration of hostility, or by the sight of a fleet sailing towards America across the ocean blue, or by troops marching towards us across terra firma. Words would fly, armies would mass, attack would be visibly imminent. The weapons of mass warfare were close-range and limited.

Today, nineteen well-financed mongrels with a (literally) diabolically well-conceived plan can kill thousands of our citizens. This attack can be launched from half-way across the earth's globe, by one or more demonic despots. People like, oh, I don't know, help me out here....

Well, people like Saddam Hussein.

And these people needn't come in huge sailing ships, nor with tanks and jets. No a few suitcases will do. Even one. And tens of thousands of us can die.

How do you wage that war? How do you confront that enemy?

In a word, differently.

Second, leadership must emanate from grown-ups. You hear the Demo's saying things like, "I heard nothing new. I don't see the proof. There is no smoking gun. I am so confused, this administration has presented so many different conflicting positions, I can't follow it. One day it's because Saddam is evil, the next day he's a threat to us, the next day he's abusing his own people, the next day he's in with Al-Qaeda...."

I can clean it all up in one sentence. Ready? Here it is: the Bush Administration has proven that Saddam Hussein has the means to inflict colossal damage on America and others, that he has the intention of doing so, that he has in fact taken actions of this sort in the past, and that he has absolutely no moral compunctions against doing so.

Can you follow that? So can I. Why can't the Demo's? That ties up all the "conflicting lines" the Administration has taken. Saddam must be dealt with because he has the means, the will, and the stated intent of doing us grave damage. Left alone, he will. So he must not be left alone. Peaceful actions, taken over more than a decade's time, have failed. Time to escalate. I can follow that.

Third, the success of talk radio. You and I feel terrible frustration as we see public figures — actors, politicians, pundits — saying foolish things. What can we do?

Well, thanks to talk radio, even an insignificant, invisible, inconsequential nothing such as myself can get on and speak truth to power. We can do as I did on the Eric Hogue show today. (Eric says "Hi" to y'all, by the way.)

We can get on and say to the Demo's and their ilk, "THANK GOD you aren't leading! THANK GOD it isn't your decision to make! THANK GOD adults are in office, at the wheel, in charge!"

And those are my thoughts, free with the meal, hastily thrown together, for your amusement and edification.

Dan
Biblical Christianity web site

[BibChr]

A FWIW ping

[Redbob]

Amen to that "Thank God for talk radio!"
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"Can you follow that? So can I. Why can't the Demo's?"

Here's a hint: substitute "Dim" for "Demo," and I think the reason begins to surface.

The rest of the reason is that there are truly those in our country, in the Dim Party, who would sooner see thousands of Americans killed if it would improve the (currently miserable) lot of their "Party."
If you don't believe that, you've never seen or heard Nancy Pelosi, Tommie Daschle, et al.

[SittinYonder]

Why can't the Dem's understand it? I think they do. The anti-war movement boils down to those who have an honest belief that no war is good because people get killed. They're bleeding hearts, they're wrong, but at least they're honest.

Then there's the leaders of the anti-war movement - Marxists who are anti-American. They support Hussein because they hate this country because this country is the antithesis of Marxism and they hate it. It's that simple.

Then there's the politicians - the Democratic leadership like Kennedy and Daschle and (ugh) Clinton. If they back Bush and we win the war they gain nothing and lose their base (the Marxists) - all they did was back the president of the other party. If they back Bush and the war in Iraq goes bad, they lose their base and they backed a bad cause. If they oppose Bush, though, oppose what's in America's best interest, and we win they retain their base and (some) people will forgive them because they're the opposition party. But if they oppose Bush and we lose the war, they win.

Daschle and Kennedy and the rest of the Dems opposing Bush are setting themselves up to be the beneficiaries if America loses! Isn't that treason or something damn close to it?

[BibChr]

Right -- though "Dim" almost praises by faint damn, doesn't it? And it's remarkable they're showing their "dimness" right in front of God and anyone, and feel they'll get away with it without consequences!

I've thought, if I were writing the headlines, mine would be something like

Demo's Confess Inability to Deal with Evidence

"Too Many Facts! Can't Follow It All!" Dems Squawk

"Okay, Hussein Has the Means, the Will, and the Intent — But What Does That Have to Do With Reproductive Rights?" Dems Squeal

Stuff like that. I'd be fired, but it'd be a memorable career.

Dan

[EggsAckley]

insignificant, invisible, inconsequential nothing

You left out sniveling. JUST KIDDING!!

With the anti Americans it's all about politics. They are so totally submerged in their insane hatred for Bush, that anything he says or does they HAVE to be against it. They want their power back. It's that simple.

Great rant, btw!

[EggsAckley]

But What Does That Have to Do With Reproductive Rights?" Dems Squeal

now, THAT'S FUNNY!!

[BibChr]

Tellya what, SY, I think in the same direction. Listening to Daschle and some of these trophies, I have thought more than once, "Okay, so remind me here: the difference between this and treason is...?"

I'm sure there may well be a difference... but it's growing hard to see.

Dan

[malakhi]

Well said, and I couldn't agree more. Powell's speech clinched it for me.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Your rant is about as right as right gets, Dan. I hope this is bumped numerous times and seen by many. It has great points for everyone to repeat to others, who may still "not get it".

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

You'll like this.

[Mia T]

LEFT-WING TALK RADIO

THE UNSTATED MESSAGE OF THE POWELL EVIDENCE

BUMP!

 

 

 

LEFT-WING TALK RADIO 2: "It's the terrorism, stupid."

 

by Mia T, 1-21-03

 

NOTE: Program in two parts.

Hear clinton stupidity, smallness, banality, fecklessness, ineptitude, prevarication, corruption, perfidy and utter failure directly from the rapist, himself. clinton provides the perfect foil for Bush, who makes a cameo appearance or two.

Pay special attention to Dan Rather's little story about terrorism hitting the U.S. "bigtime" during the clintons' tenure.

In particular, connect the following dots: the '93 WTC bombing. a certain bin Laden protégé and clinton's admission that he passed up bin Laden. Note clinton's spurious argument for this monumental failure.

To this day, clinton seems not to understand that bin Laden is -- and was in 1996 -- an enemy of the state, not a simple criminal.

clinton still seems not to get it -- the same terrorist --the terrorist he refused to take--hit the same building in '93.

Notwithstanding this, to hear clinton tell it, his disastrous decision not to take bin Laden when offered on a silver platter by Sudan, (arguably the worst decision ever made by a president), derived from his scrupulous avoidance of abusing power and trashing laws...

Yeah, right.

 

HEAR:

 

• the attacks on America

   

• Dan Rather saying: terrorism came to America "bigtime" during clinton years

   

• Dan Rather relating OBL protégé, Ramzi Yousef threat to clinton FBI that the terrorists WILL complete the job

   

• the clinton non-response to terror

   

• FDR response (says national security a president's raison d'être)

   

• Bush response, "I can hear YOU...," "I [as opposed to clinton] will not wait on events, while dangers gather," etc.

   

• Mike Moran "Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass" battle cry

   

• "go home hillary!" chant, etc.

PART 1

PART 2

 

 

 

LEFT-WING TALK RADIO 1

hear

 

Another mistaken 'conceptzia'

[WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER CLINTON]

 

hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin

 

THE INTERMINABLE clintons 

It's time to throw out the trash...

A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...

 

 

THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992

 

 Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office -- 02.05.03 update

[Chad Fairbanks]

Thanks for the ping... :0)

[SittinYonder]

I was opposed to our intervention in Kosovo for a political reason: I thought Bill Clinton was allowing the United Nations to lead our military, and I thought that was a mistake. But I only voiced that opposition a handful of times and only to my wife while we watched the news.

Stephen Decatur, the hero of the Tripolitan War (or as I like to call it, the first war on terror) used to make a toast that went something like: "To my country, in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right, but my country, right or wrong."

Political disagreements are fine within the borders, but once a course is set and war seems inevitable - my country right or wrong. When the boots hit the ground in Kosovo, the only thing I said about it was: "Let's get the job done and get the hell out."

[SittinYonder]

I was opposed to our intervention in Kosovo for a political reason: I thought Bill Clinton was allowing the United Nations to lead our military, and I thought that was a mistake. But I only voiced that opposition a handful of times and only to my wife while we watched the news.

Stephen Decatur, the hero of the Tripolitan War (or as I like to call it, the first war on terror) used to make a toast that went something like: "To my country, in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right, but my country, right or wrong."

Political disagreements are fine within the borders, but once a course is set and war seems inevitable - my country right or wrong. When the boots hit the ground in Kosovo, the only thing I said about it was: "Let's get the job done and get the hell out."

[BibChr]

Thanks very much. That Dem hatred is backfiring on them, isn't it? It isn't very winsome, isn't very compelling, and shows them to be the ugly, clueless little toads they've become.

I've wondered whether their best stance during Bush mightn't be to say among themselves, "You know, this is a pretty decent president, a decent man, and he's well-liked. For those of us in office already, our best stance is to let America — who likes him — see that we aren't obstacles to his larger goals, and so they won't need to replace us. For our base, we'll occasionally gripe, and score minor victories. But our wisest course right now would be to be perceived as non-threats to a capable and popular president."

Bust finding wisdom in the DNC is like finding a good ham sandwich in Jerusalem, I imagine.

Dan

[BibChr]

Thanks, young lady.

Dan

[justshe]

Thanks for the ping, South!

[BibChr]

You and me, on the same page?

I'll watch for news of a cold snap, 'way down under.

Dan
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[Thinkin' Gal]

In a little less than twelve months from now, what will Bush be speaking about in the next SOTU address, Daniel 4:30? I wonder if he noticed the tree that was hewn down from the heights of heaven, over Texas.