Bush: U.S. will enforce resolution on Iraq

UPI ^ | March 1, 2003 | Kathy A. Gambrell

[MadIvan]

Keep right on, Mr. President.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[headsonpikes]

bump.

Go, W, go!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, amigo. And for all your timely threads.

[SierraWasp]

"Promises of a Marshall Plan-like reconstruction plan for Afghanistan never materialized, Peter Singer, a foreign policy fellow with the Brookings Institution..."

I heard on the radio a couple of days ago that FREE ENTERPRISE was exploding in Afghanistan!!!

That's one heck of a lot better than any "Marshall Plan-like reconstruction!" But it's what these Bush "critics" fear more than anything!!!

[CoolGuyVic]

"The safety of the American people depends on ending this threat," Bush said during his weekly radio address."

BS.

If that was true, we should have taken Saddam out long ago.

If someone is a threat to the safety of your family, wouldn't you take immediate action?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Unfortunately, a very simplistic statement, sir.

[cardinal4]

Ivan, you are truly a friend of the US. We greatly appreciate your support.

[Amerigomag]

At first I thought the American left knew Bush was deadly serious but felt that through public wailings they could force the first term politician to succumb to reelection pressure.

Today I think the left has listened to their own mantra too long and will be absolutely shocked when the bombs start falling. These self made apologists now actually believe that Bush has worked himself into a political corner and wouldn't dare step outside the UN mandates.

My guess is that given a choice between a second term and resolving the Iraq issue, Bush wouldn't even blink as he picked up the phone to call Franks.

[Travis McGee]

I heard that property values in Iraq are exploding, anticipating the return of overseas Iraqis with dollars in their pockets and business deals to cut.

Property value rise is the most accurate barometer of the true Iraqi feeling of hope and anticipation at their impending liberation.

[livius]

I don't know. I read that Powell today said that the US would be willing to wait a couple of more weeks for the inspectors, that there was no hurry about voting on the US resolution, and that the US did not intend to put in place a new government or system in Iraq. He made a couple of perfunctory statements at the end about how Saddam should disarm now and how the Iraqis would like democracy, if that's any help.

I'm getting really tired of this.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If someone is a threat to the safety of your family, wouldn't you take immediate action?

You've had the years from 1992 to 2000 wiped from your memory. Right?

[geedee]

. . . and make sure that Iraq's 55,000 food distribution sites . . .

Christ! Are these Seven-Elevens? Or Wal-Marts? Or liberal media outposts? Shouldn't this be a damn clue to somebody? Like the bleeding-hearters who "care so damn much" while us war-mongers only want to "maim and kill?" If a country, any damn country, needs 55,000 HAND-OUT CENTERS, I would think those self-righteous little bastards on the leftist side of the fence would be concerned about all "the little people" who have to trudge to these governmental places pulling their little red wagons to beg for food.

Oh yeah, I forgot, that's the conservative take on this problem so . . . NATURALLY . . . the grubby maggots have to espouse the opposite view and compare GW to Adolf.

Silly me. Charles Darwin's Evolutionary Ladder wouldn't be complete without shitbugs to start the process.

[umgud]

The Iraqi people will surely be better off without the likes of Saddam and his henchmen. Other Arab states will think very hard about their support of terrorism and so we will be safer not just from Saddam's removal but from the attitude adjustment his neighbors recieved. Don't ever forget Qadaffi's behavior modification Reagan instilled in him. Force works.

[RobbyS]

It is estimated[by Mr. Singer (who IS this Solomon?]it would take about $20 billion to get Afghanistan on track Exactly what does this mean? Is this seed money he is talking about or some public works funding that socialists are so fond of? The West Germans have pumped that much into the former DDR without result. I think, however, that the Afghanis are better businessmen than the Ossies.

[CoolGuyVic]

"You've had the years from 1992 to 2000 wiped from your memory. Right?"

Must have, because I have no idea what you mean.

[MadIvan]

It is already happening - one example of which I am aware is mobile telephones: because it's very expensive to set up the cabling required for conventional phone service. wireless services are stepping in and are wildly popular in Afghanistan.

The Afghanis' biggest problems are re-starting the schools which the Taliban shut down, and repairing the roads and infrastructure. Beyond that, they are not incapable of helping themselves.

Regards, Ivan

[geedee]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't a rapist in charge for the eight years before GW took over? One who worried more about his date-date-book than if So-Dumb and Kim the Kewpie Doll developed WMD's or not.

I seem to remember GW took on the "axis of evil" far, far sooner than he had to.

[MadIvan]

Must have, because I have no idea what you mean.

Fellow named Bill Clinton was in charge. You know, the evil blighter who was more interested in the fresh crop of college girl interns than doing his duty.

Ivan