Posted on 09/09/2003 8:51:38 AM PDT by NYC Republican
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It's one of the ironies of the debates about liberated Iraq that the same anti- war, anti-Bush types who claim that America needs to "internationalize" the administration of Iraq are the ones speaking contemptuously about the 29 countries that have already contributed troops in varying numbers to the American-led coalition. These allies include Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Holland, Honduras, Hungary, Italy (which has contributed some 3,000 troops), Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain and Ukraine.
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What they are really wanting is to pretend we didn't liberate Iraq but, if we did, let them take over and put it back like it was and reap the rewards for themselves.
See, i didn't know that (the Italy and Holland part), and I FOLLOW the good news. What about those who don't know, too lazy to seek it out? What is wrong with our country? Well, at least 30-40% of it? Why don't they like America?
That's what frustrates me to no end... Each time Deanie Weanie says that we're doing this unilaterally, someone (Cheney?) should call him out on it, and say that he's lying... The more the lie is repeated, the more it becomes entrenched into voters' minds, and the more difficult it is to dispute.
You've got to wonder how many people are in the same boat you're in, where the lib media just drowns out any productive-Iraqi news... You've been following it closely and didn't know this... Surely the typical Joe won't know about it...
Southack- any thoughts on how the Reps are going to get this message out, challenge the Dims, and let America know that this truly is an international effort, that France's and Germany's reticene to get involved doesn't disqualify it from being international?
THESE ARE the 29 ALLIES for IRAQI people’s (women & children included) FREEDOM
U.S., Britian, Australia, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Armenia, Lithuania
Slovakia, Denmark, Czech Republic, Quatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Albania, Kuwait, Israel, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Georgia Republic, Marshall Islands and Japan
FREE the IRAQI people!!!
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That's absolutely awesome!
More commentary here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978634/posts
Why fight it? Even without knowing that fact, more than 70% of Americans support our involvement in Iraq.
You see, what's going on in the media is that the liberals are confusing their ability to spin and cover up facts with the ability to change widespread public opinion. Rather than admit that most Americans feel a certain way, the leftists are trying to change most Americans.
It won't work.
But it does get the media and other leftists wrapped up in various lies that will come back to haunt them later.
For instance, the media is now firmly associated with their "quagmire" rants of March 2003, making the entire press corps the butt of countless jokes by Joe Average and Joe Sixpack throughout America. Ditto for their claims of Bush being a "cokehead" and "drunkard" as well as their rants about Bush not knowing how to handle foreign policy.
Right now the press wants to pretend that there is no international consensus and no international coalition in Iraq, even though the clear facts are that Polish and British troops are there on the ground with us. Eventually those plain facts are going to get through to mainstream Americans, especially since America on the whole is overwhelmingly in favor of what we are doing in Iraq.
And that leaves the leftists stuck with being associated with yet another wrongheaded claim of theirs. The longer it takes for the truth to get out, the more damage will eventually be done to said Democrats, too.
In short, there are times when you just let your opponents continue to dig their holes deeper.
Consider how it would look to middle America if it turns out that Polish troops capture Saddam Hussein in Iraq, while Australian troops capture Osam or Mullah Omar in Afghanistan. The media will be squirming tryuing to explain how there is no such "international" coalition at that point.
Basically, the Left is so desperate right now that it is willing to engage in absurd lies for the most temporal of tiny gains for their side.
So be it. Lets give them some more rope.
Exactly... As well-informed as we here are, we mustn't forget that the liberally biased alphabet networks still have a stranglehold on the information received by most of Americans...
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