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More than U.S. needed to rebuild Iraq (MAJOR BARF ALERT)
TownHall.com ^
| Tuesday, September 9, 2003
| by Armstrong Williams
Posted on 09/08/2003 10:25:22 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The key to winning a war in America is to distill a complex and terrible situation into a few inspiring images. A single grainy clip of a smart bomb crashing down a chimney in a foreign land can solicit emotions of patriotism so pervasive that they send citizens pumping their fists in defiance of a dictator they hadn't even heard of a few weeks before.
When President George W. Bush unleashed hell on Iraq, he no doubt had some pretty images in mind, like the streets of Baghdad lined with Iraqi citizens waving American flags or UN inspectors uncovering weapons of mass destruction.
All the administration had to do was manufacture a few good images and we could make the war seem great. This is why they ducked their heads and plowed through the international scorn. They fully expected to supplant the horror of war with images so patriotic that they would make France's and Germany's opposition seem shortsighted and propel the administration into a second term.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armstrongwilliams
To: JohnHuang2
What a load of fertilizer.
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posted on
09/08/2003 10:30:50 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Israel is the canary in the coal mine of Islamofascism)
To: JohnHuang2
No I don't think so Armstrong. We should go it alone if necessary.
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posted on
09/08/2003 10:31:38 PM PDT
by
WHBates
To: thoughtomator
Rubbish. This is the same kind of garbage reasoning that caused the U.S. to miss it's objectives in SE Asia.
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posted on
09/08/2003 10:35:30 PM PDT
by
ableChair
To: JohnHuang2
That should have been for JohnHuang2.
"Rubbish. This is the same kind of garbage reasoning that caused the U.S. to miss it's objectives in SE Asia."
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posted on
09/08/2003 10:38:11 PM PDT
by
ableChair
To: JohnHuang2
A single grainy clip of a smart bomb crashing down a chimney in a foreign land can solicit emotions of patriotism so pervasive that they send citizens pumping their fists in defiance of a dictator they hadn't even heard of a few weeks before.
I didnt get any further than this. America knew and remembers unlike the author of this piece of garbage
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posted on
09/08/2003 10:50:32 PM PDT
by
boxerblues
(God Bless the 101st, stay safe, stay armed and watch your backs)
To: JohnHuang2
How the Hell did this get on Town Hall? Where's the BARF ALERT?
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posted on
09/08/2003 11:29:07 PM PDT
by
11B3
(Communism is to the Democrats like lying, murdering, and treason is to the Clintons. Religion....)
To: 11B3
Armstrong Williams has clearly lost it.
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