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2007-05-22 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-22 07:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The problem is, Senator, that your party's powers that be consider George W. Bush the only enemy, and they';re perfectly willing to ally themselves with radical Islamic terrorism (and with garden-variety tyrants and dictators) to defeat their domestic political enemy. It's too bad for our country that guys like you are no longer in charge, and are all but unwelcome, in the Democratic party today.

Posted by Mike 2007-05-22 09:27|| 2007-05-22 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "Finally, Jim Webb said something during his campaign for the Senate that should be emblazoned on the desks of all 535 members of Congress: You do not have to occupy a country in order to fight the terrorists who are inside it."

And how pray tell does that work? Do we try and buy the dictator of the country off? Terrorists are generally not going to seek bases in stable democracies. They will hide in the likes of Afghanistan under the Talibs or in the NWP or in the Sudan and other African shit holes. How are we going to fight the terrorists in these places?

Or, does his word "occupy" just mean that he is supporting the laundry approach to military force?

You know, wash, rinse and repeat as necessary.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-05-22 10:27|| 2007-05-22 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it. Al Qaeda in particular has targeted for abduction and murder those who are essential to a functioning democracy: school teachers, aid workers, private contractors working to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, police officers and anyone who cooperates with the Iraqi government. Much of Iraq's middle class has fled the country in fear.

With these facts on the scales, what does your conscience tell you to do? If the answer is nothing, that it is not our responsibility or that this is all about oil, then no wonder today we Democrats are not trusted with the reins of power.

Ya know, Bob, you have a point there. The dhemmis are in hyperclusterf*ck mode just about all of the time. Come to think about it, I can't think of a time when they are not.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-22 10:36|| 2007-05-22 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 "Finally, Jim Webb said something during his campaign for the Senate that should be emblazoned on the desks of all 535 members of Congress: You do not have to occupy a country in order to fight the terrorists who are inside it." He might mean simply that having troops fighting in a nation does not mean you are occupying that nation. Nobody seriously (outside of the warsaw block) claimed we were occupying South Vietnam after all and we had a lot more troops there.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-05-22 14:11|| 2007-05-22 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 - and look how well that turned out.

Courtesy of - guess who? - CONGRESS.

Yes, girls and boys, CONgress is the opposite of PROgress.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-22 17:25|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-22 17:25|| Front Page Top

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