Comments on: RUNNING FROM HISTORY

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:04:14 +0000

Dems once again fail to find unified message on Iraq

Afraid of looking soft on terror, some Dems are expressing concerns that the loud chorus of antiwar remarks by top Dems like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Howard Scream, er, Dean, will hurt the party going into next year’s elections:
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By: Boghie

Boghie — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:54:56 +0000

If President Clinton decided to fight Islamofascism after:

the 1st World Trade Center bombing
the twin African Embassy bombings
the Khobar Towers bombing
the Cole bombing

would anyone have taken him seriously…

He looks like Winston Churchill compared to Kerry, Pelosi, Murtha, Biden, Kennedy, and the chairman of the Democratic Party - Howard Dean.

A truly pathetic clique they belong to…

Small and getting smaller…

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:10:09 +0000

Bill Knee:

We’re supposed to take at face value the rantings of liberal hack Bill Reeves and a bunch of left-wing academics?

The church-state complaint is loony. The part about “improving productivity” at the expense of jobs is demonstrably false. The “unwinnable” Iraq war is being proven wrong every day.

Bush Derangement Syndrome just doesn’t affect drooling idiots like you - it is especially prevalent in academia.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:39:17 +0000

docdave:

I respectfully disagee that specific opinions are not of value. Ideas drive behavior for individuals and nations. Political debate is vital. Your statement that emotions drown out debate is so true. In some quarters it seems mandatory to hate Bush if you disagree with him about anything. This also seemed to be the atmosphere during the Clinton years.

You stated that the proper retaliation for 9/11 was against the known enemy. The operations to shut down the terrorist training camps of the Taliban and the attacks on bin Laden fit the bill. It is vital to identify and neutralize further terrorist threats. A major problem is that wars happen between states. The terrorists are not nations, so the primary fight must, by definition, be law enforcement efforts and spying operations to intercede in planned terrorist attacks and the funding sources that can make the attacks possible. Military action can only be an adjunct to these efforts.

I agree that nations that support terrorists are indeed enemies. Since we cannot declare war on all of those nations, we are back to the painstaking efforts to identify and intercede in terrorist plots, useful planning in handling the results of attacks on American soil, and putting political and economic pressure on terrorist supporting nations. But then again, that’s just one opinion.

By: The Right Nation

The Right Nation — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:26:08 +0000

You Can Think It, But You Can’t Say It

“Dean’s take on Iraq makes even less sense than the scream in Iowa: Both are uninformed and unhelpful”. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) is very harsh, but according to the Washington Post, he is not the only Democrat to fear that his leaders’ rhetorical …

By: docdave

docdave — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:34:53 +0000

ed and everyone, opinions are a worth about as much as ‘free’ advice but the right to voice an opinion is a right that is not available to people in many societies something that we Americans need to be continually reminded of and should be grateful for. My opinion of politics in our country today is that it has evolved into a love/hate relationship with the president and those emotions are so strong that they drown out the debate. Bush is not perfect, no president ever was and no president will ever be. I think it is too easy to forget that the attack on our nation on 9/11/2001 was near the magnitude of the attack on Pearl Harbor which has its anniversary today and as the country replied in kind after Pearl Harbor, the country under president Bush had to retaliate after 9/11/2005. The proper retaliation is against the known enemy. After Pearl Harbor the identity of the enemy was obvious because their symbol, the rising sun, was displayed for all to see. The problem after 9/11 is that the identity of the enemy was not obvious and even today remains in doubt. Is the enemy as the president stated at that time any nation who supports the terrorists in some way directly or indirectly? If that is not correct, then just who is the enemy and how does one go about defeating them?

By: Bill O. Kneebender

Bill O. Kneebender — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:21:44 +0000

The article “Is George Bush The Worst President Ever?” is now in its sixth day on the Yahoo News Most Popular list.

The zeitgeist is a beautiful thing.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Q) What do chickenhawks and crackwhores have in common?

A) Both prefer to work with their mouths.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:01:48 +0000

Eric, my suggestion was to follow his lead in being thoughtful and articulate in writing. I frequently disagree with Rick’s positions, per my first comment in the thread, but I do appreciate the thought that goes into his writing.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:52:30 +0000

Ed is a democrat, lawyer like. The enemy is the ancient Arabian death culture, like the Roman General when asked 250 AD why Rome hadn’t conquered the entire Arabian peninsula, he told them that the people were of a savage nature, that considered death by natural causes as unworthy. He said there was no real value to gain and they would ultimately have to slaughter everyone. 1800 years later, we are Rome and can not conquer militarily the Arabian peninsula. We have far greater reason to attack Saudi Arabia for 9/11 than Iraq, but such an effort would inflame the entire Muslim world and be disastrous. Name an Arab country that we could attack with an adaptive culture to democracy and has a historical regional influence, Iraq. Democracy is the only and least destructive weapon to civilians available to destroy this enemy. Democrats are our Sunni insurgency, doing everything possible to prevent progress. In Iraq and the United States, they will both fail.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:46:30 +0000

Ed, Mr. Moran is not a lead to follow. Spewing anti-democratic rhetoric while ignoring the blatant failings of the republican stewardship is tired propaganda. I hear as many republicans against the Iraq nightmare and an equal number on both sides for the mistake. The continued attack on any opposition is a sign of weakness from the apologists needing to prop up their failing ideology.