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PATRIOTS RALLY FOR AMERICA IV ON C-SPAN TODAY, 1:05 P.M. EST, 3/02/03
C-SPAN ^ | Sunday, March 2, 2003 | Kristinn

Posted on 03/02/2003 5:36:42 AM PST by kristinn

Shiver along with the D.C. Chapter, FReepers from across the country, other patriotic Americans and Iraqi exiles as C-SPAN broadcasts the Patriots Rally For America IV today at 1:05 p.m.

Recorded yesterday at the cold, fog-shrouded, snow-covered grounds of the Washington Monument, the rally held to support our troops, President Bush and the American policy on Iraq features former Rep. Bob Dornan, Aziz Al-Taee, Blanquita Cullum, John Armor, James Parmelee, Kevin Martin, Adam Ramey and yours truly.

Also featured are singers Cullen Martin, Stephanie Souders and, from Nashville, Lowell Shyette.

The program, if shown in it's entirety, should run three hours and fifteen minutes.

Get some hot chocolate ready, pop some popcorn, put on your red, white and blue sweaters and get ready to root for the home team: the men and women serving in our Armed Forces.

EAGLES UP !!!


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: azizaltaee; dcchapter; infinitefreep; march1report; patriotsrallyiv
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To: FreeTheHostages
Truce? I can admit when I've gone too far.
481 posted on 03/02/2003 2:04:11 PM PST by jmstein7
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To: jmstein7
Well, I hadn't seen you for 20 posts, so I already kinda figured we had one of those non-official truces like in Korea. :)
482 posted on 03/02/2003 2:05:05 PM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: kristinn
Thank you to the DC Chapter for having me as a guest speaker and for the surprize of the Veteran on stage with me. Thank you to the members of Freerepublic for the all the kind comments that I have seen on the thread you guys and girls make me feel special, okay Freepers I am considering and I do mean considering a run at Maryland's 2nd Congressional District I will be talking to Maryland's Republican Party Leaders in the next couple of weeks at their thoughts on if we can retake the district in 2004, I will have to see what their feeling are on the matter.
483 posted on 03/02/2003 2:06:16 PM PST by Trueblackman
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To: jmstein7
And for good measure: who was the original plaintiff in Neff v. Pennoyer?

Bugs Bunny, but everyone knows that.

484 posted on 03/02/2003 2:06:36 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (The "Anti-War Leaders" Have Blood On Their Hands, look and you'll find, they are NOT anti-war)
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To: FreeTheHostages
ROFLOL ! You are good !
485 posted on 03/02/2003 2:07:55 PM PST by smokeyb
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To: FreeTheHostages
Funny.

This one is official. I don't want to be lumped in with the denziens of DU and certain lurkers :)
486 posted on 03/02/2003 2:07:57 PM PST by jmstein7
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To: Angelwood
Thank you, friend, for all of your hard work in organinzing this.
487 posted on 03/02/2003 2:08:49 PM PST by Bigg Red (Defend America against her most powerful enemy -- the Democrats.)
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To: FreeTheHostages
It stands to reason that mainstream conservatives might be more interested in showing up if they didn't have to transgress a crowd of the unwashed left.

You are stating what I have often said. Our pro-rallies will, I think, always gain more participants than counter demonstrations.
488 posted on 03/02/2003 2:11:42 PM PST by Bigg Red (Defend America against her most powerful enemy -- the Democrats.)
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To: Doctor Raoul
lol!
489 posted on 03/02/2003 2:11:55 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Deb
The left didn't start with a million person rally (nor have they ever held one), but they've got a 40 year headstart.

What we are able to do is get our message out in the media. The mainstream are now at least aknowledging who's behind the anti-war rallies. The public wouldn't know that now if we had not done our events.

490 posted on 03/02/2003 2:12:15 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (The "Anti-War Leaders" Have Blood On Their Hands, look and you'll find, they are NOT anti-war)
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To: Badray
Hah, oh yes, the banned ones!

Grove Nordquisling was really mad about those!
491 posted on 03/02/2003 2:13:57 PM PST by Seeking the truth (I'm going on the FRN Cruise - How about you? - Details at www.Freerepublic.net)
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To: halfdome
Ya know somebody has to put down the $$$ to Reserve these buses and that aint cheap. The tshirts and buttons etc are sold by enterprising socialists who undoubtedly will be at the top of the politbureau shooting their useful idiots when the revolution comes.

And of course if you want to ride the bus around you have to pay for it such that the organizers will have enough left to pay the printers for the nicely printed international World Workers Party signs they hand out to everyone. But you must understand that these big rallies are state and corporate sponsored as illustrated by the number of flags from despotic nations, international socialist flags and anarchists that accompany them. These buses and the fuel for them is not cheap.

You try chartering a bus to cincinatti sometime and you will see. I imagine that if the freepers could get ourselves a 503(c) Tax Exempt designation that we could get some corporate sponsorship. But then we would end up having to pretend to be an 'educational' site and not blatantly political like we in reality are.

But that's a line of thinking for another thread. And would probably require that we become as nefarious and dishonest as our liberal counterparts. Their exempt status would never survive an IRS Audit if it werent for the probability that they would scream about 'discrimination'.

anyway... /rant
492 posted on 03/02/2003 2:15:33 PM PST by Samurai_Jack
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To: FreeTheHostages
I was there with my husband, but I didn't know about the sign-in sheet.
493 posted on 03/02/2003 2:15:35 PM PST by Bigg Red (Defend America against her most powerful enemy -- the Democrats.)
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To: RobFromGa
Oh, come on now......lay off Jmstein7, he's just young and you know the rest. We were all there once but most of us did not suffer from all that hubris!
494 posted on 03/02/2003 2:16:37 PM PST by Seeking the truth (I'm going on the FRN Cruise - How about you? - Details at www.Freerepublic.net)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother
Our parents get the Washington Times. Call your mother.

You got some 'splainin' to do hermano.

Regards, Jimmy Valentine's Brother's brother. (you ain't heavy)

495 posted on 03/02/2003 2:17:08 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: FreeTheHostages; jmstein7; All
Here's a good thread about lawyers...

Those Suing Over Nightclub Fire May Not Find Any Deep Pockets


496 posted on 03/02/2003 2:17:11 PM PST by RobFromGa (Real Americans Support Our Soldiers 100%)
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To: Trueblackman

Kevin, you rocked. Awesome!


497 posted on 03/02/2003 2:18:59 PM PST by RobFromGa (Real Americans Support Our Soldiers 100%)
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To: prairiebreeze; Howlin
Bill Tierney on Wolf Blitzer today.  Blitzer cut off Tierney: 

 

TIERNEY: What the IAEA could do is act on information I sent to both UNMOVIC and IAEA on the location of an underground chamber used to enrich uranium. I worked this when I was within the United States government. I continue to validate it.

And I believe, about six kilometers away from Tarmea (ph) Nuclear Research Facility, the Iraqis have put an underground chamber where they have calutrons used for the electromagnetic isotope separation method.

And all they have to do, hop in their cars, go up Canal Road, take a right at the Baghdad Mosul (ph) Road. Forty, 50 clicks up the road, take another right. Go down to the river. There it is. Bring your ground-penetrating radar team.

And all they have to do is go there. Prove me wrong.


BLITZER: Well, if they have this information, the U.N. inspectors, presumably they can go there, and the Iraqis probably would have no choice but to let them.

Joe Wilson, what's wrong with that recommendation?

WILSON: I think that's exactly right. I mean, I think that they probably should. They should be acting on that intelligence information, other good information that they have. They should be ratcheting up the pressure. They should be pressing ahead with disarmament.

If you have disarmament as the objective, then you have a broad international consensus. If you have regime change and redrawing the political map of the Middle East, you have no consensus whatsoever. We go in and do it alone.

BLITZER: All right, David, I know -- I see that you were shaking your head before. What do you have -- you disagree with Bill Tierney on his assessment?

ALBRIGHT: Well, I don't know. I don't know that specific case. I mean, I know the Iraqi -- past Iraqi gas centrifuge EMIS programs that he mentioned intimately, and I know efforts they've made to reconstitute those programs.

Unfortunately, when Bill mentions that information, if it's there, the Iraqis would have cleaned it out. And so, it's actually -- one of the problems is -- and I think, you know, if the inspectors can go there and look, I support that.

But one of the problems has been in the inspection process, particularly on the nuclear side, is a lot of the information that the inspectors have been provided by the U.S. and other governments has not been any good, and that it's been leading to a lot of negative results.

And it may be -- and I personally believe there probably is a nuclear weapons program in Iraq -- but the information, as some inspectors have been quoted saying, has been garbage.

BLITZER: Why do you think, Bill Tierney, that it hasn't been cleaned out a long time ago?

TIERNEY: Well, there's a particular reason why I chose to come out with this. An underground chamber can't be put on the back of a truck and moved out.

Now, if they act on it speedily, they should see some kind of residual radiation that they can pick up. And they'd also have to explain why there's this huge empty room under a power- generation station for a water-treatment plant.

Now, if you're the Iraqis, what better place to put a nuclear- weapons program than under a water-treatment plant, after all the flak we took from the Gulf War for striking this?

BLITZER: All right.

TIERNEY: There are other reasons I could get into...

BLITZER: Let me let David Albright...

ALBRIGHT: I would say, I think it's important to pursue any lead. And we could call inspectors, and the U.S. could do it, Bill could do it, and they could go to this site tomorrow. And I think that's worthwhile.

If they don't find something there, unfortunately it doesn't prove there is not a secret nuclear-weapons program. That's one of the real dilemmas that we're all having to face now, is that we're seeing no evidence of activity, and I think we shouldn't be too quick to assume that that's no activity.

BLITZER: We'll be getting that new report March 6th, this coming Friday, from Hans Blix, the chief inspector.

You have a provocative article in the new issue, the March 3rd issue, of "The Nation," and among other things, Joe, you write this, and I'll put it up on the screen: "The underlying objective of this war is the imposition of a Pax Americana on the region and the installation of vassal regimes that will control restive populations."

Those are strong words, but tell our viewers what you're driving at.

WILSON: Well, the underlying objective, as I see it, the more I look at this, is less and less disarmament, and it really has little to do with terrorism, because everybody knows that a war to invade and conquer and occupy Iraq is going to spawn a new generation of terrorists.

So you look at what's underpinning this, and you go back and you take a look at who's been influencing the process. And it's been those who really believe that our objective must be far grander, and that is to redraw the political map of the Middle East...

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: But is there something fundamentally wrong with that notion?

WILSON: Well, it's not so much that it's fundamentally wrong. It's the way that you go about doing it. The idea of bringing democracy to the Arabian Peninsula is a noble idea, and I think that there are a lot of Arabs of our generation who would respond well to that.

The question is, can you really bring democracy at the point of a bayonet or at the point of a gun? And is it really America's military's responsibility to go in and occupy a country for 10 years, in the hopes that you're going to create a democracy, which probably will not be any more pro-American than what you've got in the region?

So, you know, you measure stability against instability, you measure our interests in the region, and it's not at all clear to me that you're going to get there by imposing democracy. You may get there by imposing vassal states.

BLITZER: On that provocative thought, we'll leave it right there. Joe Wilson, thanks very much.

David Albright, thank you very much.

ALBRIGHT: Thank you.

BLITZER: Bill Tierney, appreciate your joining us today.

TIERNEY: Sure.

BLITZER: We'll have all of you back to continue this conversation.

498 posted on 03/02/2003 2:19:07 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: Seeking the truth
Thanks.

Hubris? No. We all have to have goals in life, right?
499 posted on 03/02/2003 2:22:48 PM PST by jmstein7
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To: jmstein7
Truce? I can admit when I've gone too far

That is very nice to read!

I hereby withdraw my statement re: You are young and you know what.

You have just shown something to me and I daresay other Freepers as well.

From hubris to humility on one thread. Hell, that may be a Freeper First!

500 posted on 03/02/2003 2:23:06 PM PST by Seeking the truth (I'm going on the FRN Cruise - How about you? - Details at www.Freerepublic.net)
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