Posted on 12/13/2003 5:28:03 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Interview with Chris Matthews:
Matthews: General, do you think Osama bin Laden, if we catch him, when we catch him, should be tried here at the U.S. or in The Hague, the international court?
Clark: I would like to see him tried in The Hague, and I tell you why. I think it's very important for U.S. legitimacy and for building other support in the war on terror for trying them in The Hague, under international law with an international group of justices, bringing witnesses from other nations. Remember, 80 other nations lost citizens in that strike on the World Trade Center. It was a crime against humanity, and he needs to be tried in international court.
Matthews: Well, 3,000 Americans were killed here. Do you believe he should be held exempt from capital punishment, because if you send him to Hague he will be. They don't have capital punishment at The Hague.
Clark: I think that's a separate issue. I think that's a separate issues.
Matthews: No, it's a key issue, because the sentencing limitation, they do not execute people at the Hague.
Clark: I think that you can adequately punish Osama bin Laden, and you've got to look beyond simple retribution against an individual. You have to look at what's in the long-term security interest in the security in America and you have to look at how we handle the war on terror from here on out.
Matthews: But doesn't life in Holland beat life in a cave?
Clark: Not in a Dutch prison. Chris, they're under water, they're damp, they're cold, they're really miserable.
Has Clark been hitting the Dutch courage? This is supposed to be the "electable" Democrat, the tough military man, the alternative to peevish peacenik Howard Dean. Does he really think he can get elected by saying "Vote for me. I'll send Osama bin Laden to a Dutch prison"? BestoftheWeb
John the F-bomb Kerry knows all the right people.
Touting his own relationships with foreign governments, Kerry disclosed that he was recently told that French President Jacques Chirac is willing to assist with the occupation of Iraq, and Chirac has even signaled a willingness to send French troops to Iraq.
"I've talked with a friend of mine who was in Paris the other day who was meeting with President Chirac at length, exploring some ideas, and the clear conclusion was that there is a place where the president is prepared to be involved and even perhaps put troops on the ground," Kerry said.
Pressed, Kerry refused to identify the friend who spoke with Chirac, or offer further details. "I don't want to drag the president of France into this presidential race." [Aw c'mon JF, Chirac should get you oodles of votes.]
Kerry predicted that Bush's campaign will launch "withering attacks on patriotism and security" against his Democratic opponent, and argued that he is best positioned to defeat that strategy with his own background as a decorated Vietnam War veteran. [Whew, thought he might have tried to obscure that decorated Vietnam War veteran info.]Link
Wish I was on your Christmas list...Great movie in many aspects.
CHRISMAS 2003
It was explained to me that is WIDE screen you see so much more. You see what was filmed, and in FULL, some has been cropped, and what is left fills the screen.
Holland's prisons are under water? Do they issue scuba gear to all inmates?
What a complete and utter moron Weasley is.
THE fund-raiser the other day for Wesley Clark (a.k.a The General) was a reunion for three of the most creative members of Bill and Hillary Clinton's vast left-wing conspiracy in Hollywood. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Harry Thomason and Tom Baer - who all toiled on Clinton's two presidential campaigns, conventions and inaugurals - parachuted into the Clark campaign with a Thomason biopic on Clark featured at a heavily produced event by Baer (lights, bugles, flags and Juilliard musicians). Where were Harold Ickes and Susan Thomases? (PageSix)
Will someone please tell that frumpy chambermaid to shut her yap?
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright has criticised Washington for its lack of a proper post-war roadmap for Iraq. Ms Albright, served under former US president Bill Clinton, described the US-led war on Iraq as "a war of choice, not of necessity," in a speech at a conference in New Delhi organised by the Hindustan Times newspaper....
Ms Albright sought the help of the international community to help organise another reconstruction conference and "drive the Taliban and Al Qaeda out of business permanently." [We all know how effective the "international community" has been in dealing with terorists, Maddie] full story
However, a search of the records shows that nobody in the administration has ever even insinuated that Democratic congressional leaders or presidential candidates were unpatriotic, the magazine said.
"There is, however, one political figure who's been accused time and again of being unpatriotic: President Bush. The accusers? Democrats.
"[Florida Sen. Bob] Graham said Bush's Iraq policy is 'anti-patriotic at the core, because it's asking only one group of Americans, those soldiers in Iraq and their families, to pay the price of the occupation.'
"[Massachusetts Sen. John] Kerry was harsher. In a candidate debate last September, he said Bush 'lives out a creed of greed for he and his friends. I'm tired of seeing chief executives be permitted to take their millions or billions to Bermuda and leave the average American here at home stuck with the tax bill. You know what I call that? Unpatriotic.'
"Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton complained of Bush, 'Real patriots don't put troops in harm's way on a flawed policy.' And [Howard] Dean has questioned the patriotism of Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft." WashTimes
CNN says the lights are on at a lot of important offices in Washington...offices normally closed at this time. Presser in about 1 1/2 hours.....PRAY!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, PRESIDENT BUSH!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was found hiding in a dirt hole....and he looks it!
What?! Saddam is caught? We're screwed!!
"Er, did he have 'the files' with him?"
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