Rep. Dennis Kucinich on Thursday will offer his rebuttal to President Barack Obamas Monday night speech outlining reasons for international attacks on Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafis military.
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03/31/2011 15:12 ||
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Can't agree with your premise, Mike. A speech by O. would put you to sleep. With K., it'd be more like "WTF! What did that flaming steatopygian just say?!?!!"
ste·ato·py·gia definition
Pronunciation: /ˌstē-ət-ə-ˈpij-ē-ə also stē-ˌat-ō-, -ˈpī-j(ē-)ə/
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: an accumulation of a large amount of fat on the buttocks
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Maybe DHS made some sense when Bush created it but it is currently a bloated, poorly-managed inefficient agency headed up by a political pogue. In financial year 2010 it was allocated a budget of $42.7 billion and spent, net, $56.4 billion.
Jim Vicevich catches this suggestion from Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), usually considered one of the clearer Democratic thinkers on national security and the military in Congress. Air strikes havent forced Moammar Gaddafi to flee Libya, she told Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC yesterday, but you know what would work? A warrant for his arrest, courtesy of the International Criminal Court. All we need to do is to, er, go in and arrest him:
Pray tell, Senator, just how does one execute an arrest warrant without putting boots on the ground? Mitchell makes the same point after Feinstein suggests that the third option would be to handle Gaddafi the same way we handled Saddam Hussein, which would be a massive ground war and occupation. Of course, Feinstein doesnt actually put it that way, but smirks when Mitchell points it out.
So can we consider Feinstein a neo-con now? At least in Iraq, we invaded after Hussein repeatedly violated the cease-fire that ended operations in the first Gulf War and ignored seventeen UN resolutions demanding his compliance. Suddenly, Democrats seem awfully comfortable with the idea of ground forces, invasions, and regime change through military means in Arab nations, with much lower thresholds for action. Unless, of course, Feinstein is so delusional to think that the US can send an envoy with an ICC summons and believe that (a) the envoy could locate Gaddafi, (b) the envoy would survive long enough to deliver it, and (c) Gaddafi would flee Libya out of fear of the ICC after standing up to two weeks of air strikes from NATO. Hell, maybe hed laugh so hard that he asphyxiates.
Perhaps Feinstein should avail herself of the right to remain silent.
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jeebus. And to think, she's the "smarter" CA Democrat Senator
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Like the other 'gals', its OK to do it when its for 'humanitarian' purposes. They must have a deep need to fill a moral void they've developed in their lives. It's the same old 'guilt' game played out.
Ours is a national government for national interests, not the salve for the personal moral shortcomings of peoples.
We should have left the guy a stain on the desert floor for Lockerbie years ago. Mess with us and die. That's national interests.
Woodrow Wilson (D) World War I
Franklin Roosevelt (D) World War II
Harry Truman (D) Korea
John F. Kennedy (D) Vietnam
George H.W. Bush, Sr. (R) Gulf War I
George W. Bush, Jr. (R) Iran and Afhanistan
Barack Obama (D) Lybia
Did I leave something out? Oh yeah:
Bill Clinton (D) Somalia (You talk about your stains.)
Democrats don't believe in peace. They say they do but they don't. For the most part they are a lot of godless bastards. They believe in getting their way no matter how they have to do it.
As for Feinstein being the "smarter" or "more responsible" or "less loonie" of the two California senators, I wouldn't bet on it.
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Dang! How could I forget?
Bill Clinton (D) Bosnia
Bill Clinton (D) Kosovo
What a guy...a real man of peace.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Who was the Pres during Grenada and Panama?
Posted by: retired LEO ||
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..or Eisenhower in Lebanon. And nearly everybody at some point some where around the Caribbean. It gets back to the notion of having a limited size military to prevent the executive from engaging in adventures which was a fundamental principle of the Founding Fathers [just recently former Englishmen who had the distaste of Cromwell still in their heritage]. The problem is that similar to Rome after the Second Punic War, we were left after WWII with an international position and commitments for which the original Constitution of the nation was never intended for, but for which no one has yet stepped up and specifically addressed honestly because it is messy, will alter the Constitution and the balances between branches of government, and there is no perfect solution. This causes stresses and fractures in the base political model of the republic which only exacerbates the natural tensions inherit to multiparty systems.
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Yet another post-mens, lefty loon moonbat who hasn't the sense to poor piss from a boot if the directions were imprinted on the heel.
Ever see two men, or worse, a man and a woman quarreling in a bar? What was your inclination? That's right, stay the bloody hell out of it!
The world is a giant bar fight. Let's quickly finish our drink, find the back door, and get the hell out of there. Yes, it is tiny and remote, but Switerland has not been in a war in nearly 7oo years. They keep to themselves; stay out of other people's business; and let natural selection take care of business.
If somebody invades our space, we whack'em with everything we've got and get out! No apology, no nation building, no bullshi*. Are we so connected to the military industrial conflict that we can no longer function without getting involved in the killing ourselves? [rhetorical]
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Jim Vicevich catches this suggestion from Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), usually considered one of the clearer Democratic thinkers on national security and the military in Congress. Air strikes havent forced Moammar Gaddafi to flee Libya, she told Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC yesterday, but you know what would work? A warrant for his arrest, courtesy of the International Criminal Court. All we need to do is to, er, go in and arrest him:
