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| Reid Releases Rant about Renegade Recapture |
| 2005-08-23 |
| Page 9, I think, from the DC Examiner. Just a little note on the editorial page.... Ugly Numbers 1,422 day since Sept. 11, 2001, that Osama bin Laden has gone uncaptured. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently released this number and compared it to the number of days from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until the Japanese surrendered (1,365). But is the bin Laden figure quite as âuglyâ as it seems? Sure, itâd be nice to have bin Laden behind bars, but Reid seems to conveniently forget that, leading up to the Japanese surrender, the United States lost nearly 52,000 soldiers in the Pacific, dropped two atomic bombs and killed more than 100,000 civilians. Is Reid actually advocating such measures in the hunt for Osama bin Laden? Or is he simply spinning numbers for political fodder to use against the president? Reid didnât forget, but he knows many Americans have forgotten, or for the younger generation, never knew. A lot of folks will say, âYeah, wossamatta wid dat Bush?â |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #8 GK - if it fails, try http://www.dcexaminer.com/, but you hafta page forward thru Adobe. Sorry. I tried to get to the source.... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-08-23 21:40 |
| #7 ..but he knows many Americans have forgotten, or for the younger generation, never knew. Maybe that's a good thing in disguise; those types wouldn't have the stomach for another Omaha Beach, Tarawa, or Iwo Jima. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-23 21:27 |
| #6 The higher the price of oil and natural gas may put an end to thouse who don't think we are at war. Reid would rather go after Bush on the cheap and easy than fight a real war. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0´ Doom 2005-08-23 16:12 |
| #5 How far from mini-stroke to croak? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-23 15:00 |
| #4 Cannot link to source. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-08-23 14:03 |
| #3 There's a large portion of our country that doesn't believe we are threatened and therefore doesn't believe we're at war. Regardless of how ridiculous that is in the face of 9/11 that's the way it is. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2005-08-23 13:29 |
| #2 In WWII, the party out of power didn't actively court treason. It cooperated with the administration, as politics truly stopped at the border. In WWII, after Pearl Harbor, the isolationists, America-Firsters and American Bund were ignored or prosecuted, depending on their actions. In this war, our equivalents to the traitors looked at 9/11 as an opportunity, started organizing while the Towers were still burning, and the equally traitorous press started running their lies as soon as it was safe. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-23 12:54 |
| #1 What's ugly is that in 1945 nobody doubted the Dem party could provide wartime leadership. Now, it's unthinkable. |
| Posted by: JAB 2005-08-23 12:43 |