Counter arguments and statements to the Liberal anti-war bunch.

LIBERAL: George Bush just wants to go into Iraq to get the oil. It's all about the oil. Bush doesn't care about the Iraqi people being tortured and murdered by Saddam.

MANCOW: Really? Why didn't we grab the oil wells in 1992? If Bush wanted to he could have brokered a secret deal with Saddam to sell us oil at $8 a barrel and Saddam would have gone for it. Bush would have been a hero and Saddam would have made money. Money to put towards more weapons of mass destruction to use against our allies and us. Does it make sense to spend millions of dollars and waste time and effort of sending troops and military materiel to Iraq to get oil when we can get it much cheaper in Alaska or from Russia?

LIBERAL: How did Saddam get the chemical weapons of mass destruction...hmmm? The United States supplied Iraq with them.

MANCOW: So? If that is true, and there is no proof that it is true, we did not do so with the intent of Saddam using it on innocent people within his own country. We gave him weapons to fight another enemy of ours, which was Iran, the largest exporter of terror in the world. It was using evil to fight evil. It is better to have two terrorist regimes fight each other than to have our own military fight them. That is what you do in the real world. The liberals are residing in the Sleeping Beauty castle in Fantasyland.

LIBERAL: Iraq didn't attack the United States on 9/11. There is no proof that Saddam has helped al-Queda.

MANCOW: Nazi Germany didn't attack the United States either. The empire of Japan attacked us. Adolf Hitler signed the Tripartite Pact on Sept. 27,1940 with the Japan and Italy, and because of that Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 8th 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Saddam Hussein is sheltering members of al-Queda. They are living in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein is at the epicenter of terrorism in the Middle East He is a major contributor that bankrolls international terrorist activity. Of course, he is connected to the 9/11 attack.

LIBERAL: North Korea is a bigger threat than Iraq. Why aren't we attacking them first?

MANCOW: Yes, North Korea is a threat Perhaps we should engage them militarily. But the immediate threat is Middle East terrorism. We were attacked on 9/11/2001. We need to collapse the Middle East terrorist infrastructure, which is so much of Saddam Hussein's involvement. Chop off the head of the Arab terrorist dragon and the body will die. The terrorist cells will dwindle down to almost nothing without financial or strategic support from leaders like Saddam. North Korea thrives from selling weapons to Iran and Iraq. Destroy their customer base and North Korea goes down the tubes without a shot being fired.

LIBERAL: The UN inspections are working. Why not let them keep inspecting Iraq for weapons of mass destruction?

MANCOW: If the inspections have been working why do they keep finding weapons components that have been outlawed? There are only around a hundred UN inspectors. Naturally, that means they are only finding a small portion of the weapons components and not all. Baghdad is a city of 6 million people. It has been confirmed by intelligence sources that Saddam has mobile labs hidden in truck trailers. How in the world can the UN inspectors find these mobile labs? Do you realize how many trucks there are in a city of 6 million? The trucks could be parked anywhere. They could be unloaded anyplace. Do the UN inspectors go out hundreds of miles into the Iraqi desert to check? Of course not

MANCOW: Like the terrorist attacks increased after we attacked Afghanistan? This is without a doubt the most cowardly statement from the left. It could be considered almost total capitulation. Its like saying that if the police crack down on criminals and arrest them that crime will rise. You see here is what you do. If the terrorist attacks increase then you step up your attack on the terrorists. We are the mightiest nation in the world. Remember the quote from the movie "The Untouchables." If they pull a knife, you pull a gun. If they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. That's how you handle the terrorists. It is just that simple.

MANCOW: In war there are no innocent citizens. Unfortunately, innocent people die in the interim. But in the long run many more innocent lives are spared from the brutal regimes like Hitler's. How many innocent straight-arm saluting Germans were killed In bombings during World War 2? How many more are alive and free due to those bombings? Remember that Saddam has used poison gas on about 10,000 people in Iraq. In 1992, we killed very few civilians in bombing attacks. We have the precision guided bombs that aim for military targets and not the civilians. If the Iraqi military had that capability would they extend that same courtesy to those they were attacking? The Iraqi civilians will cheer our troops when we liberate them.

MANCOW: Where is Nazism today? Where is the Imperial Japanese war machine today? Communism isn't looking too well either. The Civil War ended slavery in the United States. That is sort of important to many African-Americans. More Americans died in that war than any other war. By saying that war is never the answer is an insult to the dead that sacrificed their lives for our freedom. The liberals probably would have preferred that the American colonialists remain under the yoke of the tyranny of King George III of England. There would have been no Constitution and no First Amendment Then the liberals would have had to keep their big mouths shut or risk being hanged. Maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad situation after all.

LIBERAL: The United States was never attacked by a pre-emptive strike. It would make us look bad in the eyes of the world.

MANCOW: Did the liberals get hit in the head and suffer amnesia? Remember a place called Serbia? The Clinton Administration launched a pre-emptive strike on a sitting duck target. By the way the Serbs were Christians, which would account for Clinton making war on them. The Kosovars are Muslims. The Kosovar Liberation Army is whom Slobodan Milosevic was fighting. Milosevic's "crime" is that he defended his country against the Albanian-Muslim terrorists, the same people who destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11. The KLA is one of the biggest terrorist gunrunning outfits in the European area. They supply AK-47 automatic rifles to Muslim terrorist groups. They also trafficked heroin that they got from the Taliban when they controlled Afghanistan. We have been conducting over a hundred air strikes on Iraq since 1992. We have taken out SAM missile sites and radar installations. How can it be considered pre-emptive if WB have been attacking them all along? We are already are disliked by the rest of the world, except England. We already look bad to those clowns. So who cares? We are d***** if we do or d***** if we don't. Might as well be d***** if we do. Its the right thing to do.

MANCOW: Oh please! (See 1992) our weapons are more advanced since the first Gulf War. Saddam's military is a fifth of what it was in 1992. It's not going to be much of a fight. With the mass defections and surrenders that will be forthcoming, ifs doubtful that the major battles will last 2 weeks. Mop up operations maybe 6 to 8 weeks. Saddam, will more than likely either be killed by the bombing attacks, his own people, or by his own hand. It would seem unlikely he would survive to be put on trial.

Epilogue: If you can only remember one thing when arguing with a liberal war protestor, remember this. Just keep saying to them when they try to dazzle you with their BS, "There's no proof to what you are saying." They will try that same statement on you and will then put you on the defensive by throwing out either inaccurate or made up information to argue with. Challenge their statistics. Make them prove their claims. Turn the tables on them and make the same type of wild assertions. It's fun to do even if you know what you are talking about and don't need to do that It's entertaining to watch the left-wing loonies go nuts over your wild and crazy comments. The liberals are masters at making it seem like they know what they are talking about because they make it sound like their claims are indisputable facts. In reality ifs 99% BS. You can't change their minds, so mess with their minds. Do the same thing right back to them.

MANCOW: To those who believe no explanation is needed, to those who don't believe no explanation is possible.

I listened to Mancow on the Blaze, WBBZ in Chicago for a few years. He was amusing for a while and then he turned into a Howard Stern wanna be. I got to like him again once I saw him on Fox and Friends. I still won't listen to him. There is better talk radio on in the morning in Chicago.

2 posted on 06/11/2004 4:56:56 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)

I hope he will get over his hard feelings with the FCC. My kids like to listen to his show in the morning. I don't particular like his brand of humor but sometimes he can be very insightful politically...especially about the liberal anti-war bunch. My kids need to hear this and take it to school. Question liberal authority.

I haven't listened to him since I left Chicago for Baltimore, MD in 1999. However, since Stern has been going on his liberal war path, I've had more of a yearning for Mancow.

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