Dixie Chicks singer apologizes for Bush comment

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[sneakypete]

Pete, I'm surprised at you. You of all people.

Why? Because I've been to war? What better reason to oppose a unneccessary war?

We've got kids in the Gulf about to go into battle, you've been through Vietnam, how can you possibly ignore what is starting with these people. YOU know what they're trying to do, and YOU know who will suffer.

NOW is the time to speak out and try to stop this,not when the war has already begun. The people who are blindly following the White House without question are the ones putting these young men and women at risk,not me. Nothing I am saying or doing will make any of them suffer in any respect.

As to them not endangering us, I guess old Hanoi Jane didn't really endanger us either, hmmmmm?

No,she didn't. In fact,I would have to say sitting at that AAA gun backfired on her and her commie pals. She hasn't been able to get a job since,and she works in a industry that loves the kind of crap she did. Her actions proved that the old showbiz saying "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is false.

[jwalsh07]

Who is Ali Bubba and where in the world did you get the idead that radical islamists and Saddam Hussein don't have a common enemy?

He supports Hamas and Hezbollah with equal vitality. He gave refuge to Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal. Remember Leon Klinghoffer? Do we give people a pass when they harbor the murderers of Americans because you got a political problem with the administration?

I don't think so pete.

[sneakypete]

Who is Ali Bubba

Bush.

and where in the world did you get the idead that radical islamists and Saddam Hussein don't have a common enemy?

Who said they don't have a common enemy? Not me. I said they were enemies to each other,but never tried to claim they don't both consider the US to be a enemy also. The thing is they were each other's immediate enemy because they were right next to each other,and because of the fact that the US was content to ignore them instead of attack.

He supports Hamas and Hezbollah with equal vitality.

Yeah,as long as they are in Israel and killing Jews. He kills them in his own country.

He gave refuge to Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal.

I may be wrong about this because I am tired and too busy working another thread I started to do a lot of checking,but I think the Abu Nidal thing has been proven wrong. I know nothing one way or the other about Abu Abbas.

Remember Leon Klinghoffer? Do we give people a pass when they harbor the murderers of Americans because you got a political problem with the administration?

Correct me if I'm wrong,but wasn't it the PLO who pushed him off that ship? As for harboring murderers goes,the US has given visas to the both Jerry Adams of the IRA and the nutcase Protestant preacher to come to the US and make speeches and ask for money. No country has clean hands when it comes to their dealings with foreign countries and political elements.

[Godfollow]

Slut in this case is a derogatory term, much the same as asshole would be used to categorize someone who is utterly offensive in their stated position and self righteousness, except that slut carries the nuance of whoring oneself for the benefit of self ingratiation.

[cake_crumb]

"Then why is he going to start a war against a country that hasn't attacked us,where soldiers and children WILL be killed?"

Many reasons. In 1988, his forces overran a tiny, oil rich nation and committed atrocities. After moch agonizing and delaying, the US, the Brits, the Canadians, the Aussies and even the French went in and liberated Kuwait from Saddam. Saddam surrendered and agreed to a cease fire. The first UN resolution was made concerning that cease fire.

Unfortunately, the Party of Rats effectively ruined the elder President Bush so that he lasted only one term on office.

Along comes Clinton. He A: doesn't pay US dues to the UN. B: Refuses to go head to head with the UN over what to do about Saddam murdering his people. C: Leaves US and British forces stuck enforcing the no-fly zones to protect the Kurds D: Does not even honor his entire agreement to ensure that the food from the oil for food program makes it to the Iraqi people. There are other letter...let me cut this short:

Saddam and the rest of his regime are still as much a clear and present danger today as they were in 1998. Sadam has continuously and publically advertized his export and payment to the families of homocide bombers since 1995...in competition, BTW, with Qaddafi, who did it first but offered only $10,00 grand as opposed to Saddam's matching $10,000 and subsequent raise to $24,000 grand.

The guy lives to gain weapons....with which he LOVES to kill...and he BREATHES the fear because it makes him feel POWERFUL. Saddam's cut a deal with Syria...the idea is that one-world, Sharia government they all go on about, even though Saddam himself - and Binny and other organized terror kingpins - could care less about religion except as a propaganda tool.

[sneakypete]

Many reasons. In 1988, his forces overran a tiny, oil rich nation and committed atrocities. After moch agonizing and delaying, the US, the Brits, the Canadians, the Aussies and even the French went in and liberated Kuwait from Saddam.

True as far as it goes,but let's be honest about this,ok? Nobody really gives a damn about Kuwait. The purpose of the war was to keep Saddam from becoming too powerful.

Saddam surrendered and agreed to a cease fire. The first UN resolution was made concerning that cease fire.

Yup,no doubt about it.

Unfortunately, the Party of Rats effectively ruined the elder President Bush so that he lasted only one term on office.

Nope,that useless old RINO SOB did it to himself by stabbing his natural supporters in the back.

Along comes Clinton. He A: doesn't pay US dues to the UN.

The odds were that sooner or later he HAD to do something right.

B: Refuses to go head to head with the UN over what to do about Saddam murdering his people.

It's really none of our business if he's murdering his own people. How many tens of millions of their own citizens did the Russian and the Chinese communists murder? Did we go to war with them over this?

C: Leaves US and British forces stuck enforcing the no-fly zones to protect the Kurds

Wasn't it Bush-1 who was responsible for this?

D: Does not even honor his entire agreement to ensure that the food from the oil for food program makes it to the Iraqi people.

Then they should revolt and take him out of office.

[McGavin999]

I know you went to war Pete, although I didn't, I still carry the scars of war myself. Yet I back this war because I think it's necessary. There's a whole Big Picture the encompasses far more than Iraq. This is a very public blow to those who sponsor terrorists. This move alone will make those kids safer and this country safer.

Clinton started the downfall with his shameful behavior in Mogodishu. That act has been thrown in our faces at least a dozen times by the terrorists. That and Haiti. Before that people feared the US.

This is NOT an unnecessary war Pete, it's vitally important. I say that as someone who knows the pain of losing someone, I know first hand what that does to the lives of those left behind. Still, it must be done.

As to the protestors, I was spared the pain of going through that. I was too numb at the time to notice it. I will NOT stand by and allow anyone else to have to go through that again.

[jwalsh07]

Correct me if I'm wrong,but wasn't it the PLO who pushed him off that ship? As for harboring murderers goes,the US has given visas to the both Jerry Adams of the IRA and the nutcase Protestant preacher to come to the US and make speeches and ask for money. No country has clean hands when it comes to their dealings with foreign countries and political elements.

I apologise, I conflated my Abu's. Abu Abbas was the the head mook of the PLF in charge of the Achille Lauro hijacking and Leons murder. They picked the guy in the wheelchair to kill, a lovely bunch.

Abu Nidal's outfit was the ANO and he was tied to Lockerbie but I'm not sure if that was real. What is real is that he was a murdering terrorist who put a lot of notches on his small gun and ended up committing "suicide" in Baghdad with four shots to the squash.

Husseins ties to terror are undenaible.

[sneakypete]

Clinton started the downfall with his shameful behavior in Mogodishu. That act has been thrown in our faces at least a dozen times by the terrorists. That and Haiti. Before that people feared the US.

I'm not sure many people feared the US after we pulled out of VN and abandoned them to their fate after promising them everything,but there can be no doubt that Bubba-1 contributed to this problem.

I say that as someone who knows the pain of losing someone, I know first hand what that does to the lives of those left behind.

I am sincerely sorry for your loss. I'm trying to prevent others from suffering this unneccessarily.

As to the protestors, I was spared the pain of going through that. I was too numb at the time to notice it. I will NOT stand by and allow anyone else to have to go through that again.

Like I wrote earlier,NOW is the time to protest. It's too late once the shooting and dying starts.

[sneakypete]

What is real is that he was a murdering terrorist who put a lot of notches on his small gun and ended up committing "suicide" in Baghdad with four shots to the squash.

Good riddance to bad trash. It looks like that in this case Saddam and his boys took care of a problem for us.

[CARepubGal]

A disgrace is my take. Saudis need a change in government ASAP.

[jwalsh07]

Good riddance to bad trash. It looks like that in this case Saddam and his boys took care of a problem for us.

Yeah, but only as a show of "good faith" because of Ali Bubba's pressure.

[McGavin999]

Right. Tell that to the leftists that spit on our guys coming home. Tell that to the "journalists" who endangered our troops while they were fighting for their lives.

They got away with it before, this time they're starting before a shot is even fired. If you think for a minute that they will stop after the war starts, you've got a surprise coming. Pete, if they're allowed to get away with it this time at the beginning, I hate to see what'll happen once the shooting starts. This snake has to have it's head cut off NOW.

You and I have been through this before, we saw first hand the damage that was done. If we allow this to start there will be no stopping it and only our military will suffer.

I don't know about you, but I have no intention of allowing it to happen again.

[Kevin Curry]

You're becoming irrelevant. You sound like an old crank. And, BTW, you have no greater claim to insight into the horrors of war than many of the rest of us. The difference is, some of us remember there are only good reasons to fight--never perfect reasons. The world is imperfect, our ways of navigating its dangers are imperfect. We cannot fight every battle against evil in the same way. Some enemies we can take on straight up. Others we must patiently wait out. But we do what we can with each hand that is dealt us.

Cowards and cranks fold early in the game. The valiant work it through to the end.

[Rome2000]

I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American," Maines said

Platitudes and nonsense, the old "I support our troops but not this war"

That statement makes my blood curdle.

You don't support our troops by protesting the war and undermining the sacrifice they make to keep the USA free.

The soldiers need pyschological support and need to know that their countrymen support their killing of the enemy.

Leftist scumbags like Maines are the reason 57,000 soldiers died in Vietnam for nothing.

It aint happening this time around, because the lefts monopoly on the nations propganda machine is over.

We must fight these domestic subversives who undermine the war effort and sap the nations will to fight with every weapon at our disposal.

The annihlation of the "Dixie Chicks" (you would think bands with ridiculous names would refrain fron commenting on the invasion of Iraq) career is a must.

[Mark17]

I wonder if this is because she's seeing her career flushed down the toilet or whether she had an ephiphany.

Probably the first one. Frankly, I had never even heard of them before this. LOL, maybe I should get out more, but I am sure I will never buy any of their music.

[Mark17]

"While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost."

A lot of innocent lives were lost already. It happened on 9/11/01. We are simply trying to keep this from happening again, by eliminating as much of the threat as possible.

[sneakypete]

The valiant work it through to the end.

And that would be you,right? ROFLMAO!

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

I'm well aware of Texas culture; I lived in Houston, while on a consulting assignment for two years (1998-2000). I worked on McKinney St. downtown, at One Houston Center (lived near Hillcroft and Richmond). I ran into more liberals than I did conservatives, at the office. I had to keep my mouth shut. I wasn't there to talk politics and get fired; I was there to redesign the corporation's HR processes. I would have liked to argue politics, though. I met a lot of wonderful people, on this particular project; however, I also ran into quite a few raging leftists, too!

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"We must fight these domestic subversives who undermine the war effort and sap the nations will to fight with every weapon at our disposal."

And we will prevail in Iraq, and elsewhere. I'll be able to sleep at night once it's been confirmed (and it will be confirmed) that tens of millions of lives have been saved, in the long-run, thanks to the unflinching courage of the U.S. and Britain.

Unarmed casualties are terribly unfortunate, of course; however, in the long-run, who can (successfully) argue that liberating 24,000,000 tortured (living) souls wasn't worth it? Give democracy a chance.