Posted on 09/10/2002 12:57:09 PM PDT by Zviadist
Interesting. Who exactly has made that claim? Richard Perle? Why don't you get serious?
The questions are a rhetorical device in the speech. Ever heard of that? Sheesh!
Because there are too many lefty pinkos in the Senate, good sir.
Well heck, there you go!! I looked back on it and you know you're right!! It's right there in black and white. To quote from Article I Section 8
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; (unless there are too many lefty pinkos in the Senate)I never thought it was there, but apparently it is. Thanks Poohbah, I've seen the light!! Bomb Iraq, heck while we're at it, let's bomb Iran, North Korea, Canada, Northern Ireland, some selected parts of China, and anywhere else we want. We've got the power apparently. Right after 9/11 Congress passes a resolution that is so openended, X42's foray into Somalia looks like a walk in the park. We're apparently going to have a roving band of soldiers going anywhere and everywhere they feel there is a terrorist until the 'War on Terror' is over (God help us if it's anything like the general government's 'War on DrugsIlliteracyPovertyAnybodywedisagreewithdomestically' we'll NEVER see the end of it). I'm sure no nation within the world will have a problem hosting the United States Army rooting around in their domestic affairs. And if they do, we'll just call them terrorists and overthrow their nation as well.
I propose that your reply serve as the skeleton for an "unofficial reply to Ron Paul's list of 35 stupid questions." I do think, however, that some of my points on questions 19, 28, 32, and 33 could be profitably incorporated.
We MUST invade Iraq. Then, by the same unassailable logic, we must invade Syria. Then Somalia. Then Sudan. Then the Phillipines. Then Indonesia. Then Colombia. Then Iran. Then North Korea. Then Red China. Then Libya. Then Cuba. Then Saudi Arabia. Then Georgia. Then Yemen. Then Egypt.
And shoot, when we run out of money, we'll just print more!
Thanks, Congressman Billybob!
It's too bad Bush and Cheney are so in bed with their oil-provider that we cannot eliminate the true threat to US. Wahhabism's center of gravity is Saudi Arabia. Bush does an immense disservice to our armed forces to deploy them against an ancillary threat rather than the true threat.
Imagine an entire U.S. Navy carrier battle group on patrolling the Perian Gulf. Now blink your eyes and they're gone. Over seven thousand man and women vaporized. Imagine a nuclear warhead exploding over the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. Now imagine the entire world economy plunged into a depression because those oil fields are rendered useless for the next hundred years due to radioactivity.
Now imagine Saddam throwing his nukes or launching a biological attack at Isreal, figuring he can wipe them off the map before they have the chance to retaliate. There's only problem, they keep there nukes in hardened bunkers. Whoever is left won't hestitate to return the favor to Saddam. The initial blasts will kill millions. The region will shut down, oil production will screech to a halt, and the economic tidal wave will make the Great Depression look like a hiccup. Saddam pasttime is to watch his prisoners on tape being tortured! I will not put anything past him.
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