Eyes wide shut in an orgy of fallacy (Bush made the mistake of being Republican)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 13 2003 | Miranda Devine

[KMJames]

C. S. Lewis BUMP

[KellyAdmirer]

Since they all hate us anyway, might just as well start bombing. Won't make them think any less of us.

[MEG33]

Good read.

[Illbay]

[The New Zealand] Prime Minister ... has already sold off all her nation's fighter jets and is implacably opposed to any American-led intervention in Iraq...

That's because she is counting on the U.S. (and possibly Australia) to protect her country in case of attack. And who would attack NZ anyway?

(N.B. to the Kiwis: Don't think that you don't have any Muslim extremists to worry about. If they see you as willing to roll over, then you are on their list, big-time).

[Numbers Guy]

Since they all hate us anyway, might just as well start bombing. Won't make them think any less of us.

Exactly. JUST DO IT!

[an amused spectator]

How different if she had been a Democrat in former president Bill Clinton's White House, where the uses for women were rather less sophisticated.

LOL!

Things To Do In New Zealand When You're dead? ;-)

[areafiftyone]

You got a point. The Democreeps, Labour Party and Peacniks want to impeach Bush and Blair before the war even starts what's the difference we might as well get on with it. Even going the U.N. route did nothing for them. They might as well go for broke.

[vbmoneyspender]

America has not been blameless in its past dealings with Iraq, as Four Corners pointed out. But if it was wrong to tolerate Saddam's brutal regime in the 1980s, why is it OK now?

Lord how I get sick of these people. Either we are idiots who apparently picked the wrong side in the Iran/Iraq War by preferring Baghdad over Tehran, or we are isolationists if we turn our back on hellholes like the Middle East or we are cut-and-runners if we do help people out like the Moujahadeen (sp?) in Afghanistan but don't continue to provide aid to them for the next 100 years.

I also wish that non-Americans would figure exactly what attack line they are going to use to describe us. Depending on the particular news report I read, we are either gun-loving, bible quoting, liberty obsessed crazies (Die Zelt or Le Monde), or we are weak-kneed, Oprah loving, money grubbing wussies (Al Jezeera and/or the latest bin Laden audiotape).

[BibChr]

How different if [Rice] had been a Democrat in former president Bill Clinton's White House, where the uses for women were rather less sophisticated. At least she wouldn't have been a conservative.

Worth the price of the essay all in itself.

And it's a good essay, even beyond that nugget.

Dan

[JasonC]

"The capitalist system is a way of living that I don't agree with."

There is the rub. The problem with W is the man actually believes the American way of life is just and good. That makes anathema everything he touches, everything he thinks, everything he approves of. Because he cannot be dragged to global socialism by pressure politics, bad press, raised eyebrows, sneers, or street theater. Why, the man is actually moving things the other way on issue after issue, and isn't even ashamed of it. All commies everywhere have gone ballistic, in consequence.

It would be amusing how blatant, shallow and thoughtless it all is, if they were as impotent as they deserve to be. Since they aren't impotent (yet), it is maddening...

[The_Victor]

Bump for a great read! Thanks dead!

[SuziQ]

Since they all hate us anyway, might just as well start bombing. Won't make them think any less of us.

Reminds me of Randy Newman's song "Let's Drop the Big One."

[Blue Collar Christian]

The conservatives here in the USA are never going to win the popularity contest for more than a few moments at at time(like our Dubya did at Ground Zero and held on for a few months)because the truth is never going to be as lovely as a liberal fantasy of peace, love, free room and board and medical care, and BJs from fat girls.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Can you see the cause of what you observe to be anyting other than jealousy?

[Dataman]

In other words, it's all Israel's fault and Bush can't think for himself.

This is so typical of the way lefties all over the world "think" that I'm beginning to wonder if isn't the great deception.

[Blue Collar Christian]

And how much Euro-brats, like this kid, love Clinton surely does point out that us conservatives aren't the only ones who recognize Clinton's true party.

[Salman]

There were also the tomato-throwing, flag-burning assortment of students, Rastafarians and Greenpeace activists banging drums outside Wellington's "Beehive" ...

Rastas in NZ? Jamaicans or local converts? Sheesh!

[dead]

liberal fantasy of peace, love, free room and board and medical care, and BJs from fat girls.

Stop it. You’re making me turn liberal.

[baseballmom]

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