Issues From the Left – Answers That Work

July 14, 2004 | Tomas B Phillips

[milford421]

Too bad the ditz's don't feel the same sense of outrage over the 3,000 dead Americans in their own country.

[ThreePuttinDude]

their thumbs up a certain orifice.


Most of the time it's their heads...

[Marauder]

Bump for later read; I just got screamed at (all caps) for sending a pro-Bush article to a family member who is a shrieking leftie goon. I have a feeling I'll need this info for the next family reunion.

Man, that is going to be a scream.

[mwfsu84]

Here are two other arguments you can use, flightleader.

Regrading our strategic alliance with dictators...none of them was worse than Josef Stalin, who made Saddam look like a choir boy. When Hitler started WWII by marching into Poland from the West, Stalin was marching in from the East - the two had formed a strategic alliance. The Polish people would not enjoy liberation for another 45 years. But here's the truly embarrassing part for America. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union - at a time when Stalin was force-starving 10 million Ukranian farmers! I would argue that the Soviet Union was more than just a strategic partner with the US. FDR enjoyed a warm relationship with this murderer, affectionately calling Stalin "Uncle Joe."

The second example I actually got from Hannity's book "Fear No Evil" Why did we supported Saddam in the 80's? It was more than just hostility toward Iran for taking our diplomats hostages. Iran, with the Shah was once a major US ally. The Shah wasn't a nice guy, but he kept a lid on the religious terrorists - until Jimmy Carter, as part of his human rights campaign, demanded that the Shah loosen up his treatement of these thugs. Carter asked the Shah to permit open trials, allow mass (and often violent) demonstrations by these zealots. And when the students went out of control, Carter demanded that the Shah take no action against them. Hannity lists a passage from Reagan's autobiography to show how Reagan felt about it.

"Our government's decision to stand piously by while he (the Shah) was forced from office led to the establishment of a despotic regime that was far more evil and far more tyrannical than the one it replaced. And as I was to learn through personal experience, it left a legacy of problems that would haunt our country for years to come."

Hope that helps.

[RightWhale]

Good responses. Especially to the imminent threat statement. The President seemed clear enough at the time.

[waRNmother.armyboots]

Wow!! Good job.

[firebrand]

Here's an exchange between me and a liberal on the Air America microphone:

Liberal: Bush is a liar.

Me: Britain still stands by their uranium report.

Liberal: Do you know how many women the British have raped?

[This answer manages to be outrageously untrue and preposterously beside the point as well. It's almost as if they purposely enrage you with their stupidity.]

Me: Why are you changing the subject? Liberals always change the subject.

But by this time the microphone was in front of her motor yap as she continued to tell the Air America audience of two how horrible the British are.

[Texas_Jarhead]

BUMPmark

[Long Cut]

Bumped, bookmarked, and PINGED because it's just so damn SPOT-ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great work!

[Long Cut]

Meek, this deserves a mega-ping if ever there was one!

[Long Cut]

Welcome to Free Republic! If your subsequent posts are this awesome, you'll have a LOT of fans pretty soon!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Why are you changing the subject? Liberals always change the subject.

When on indefensible ground, move.

[mylife]

Thanks for the ping LC

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks LC

[Soaring Feather]

bump

[GeorgiaYankee]

reference bump

[flightleader]

You have my condolences Marauder. But as Mary Poppins says, "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down."

[flightleader]

You are absolutely correct mwfsu84. I also read Sean's book and his assessment was dead-on. The US, or shall I say, the Democratic Party's relationship with the Soviet Union, particularly Stalin was shameful. It was understandable during the war howeve many Dems continued the love-fest long after. This was the catalyst for pushing many of the anti-Communist Leftist like Sydney Hook and Irving Howe into the neo-Conservative category. These men never relinquished their belief in Marxism yet even they found the Leftist love affair with America's enemies unequivocally distasteful.

[flightleader]

Air America may be an endless source of richly comical stupidity but they may get a favourable entry into the Physician's Desk Reference as a possible cure for Insomnia.

[RandallFlagg]

I usually get this:

Leftist - "Bush lied!"
Flagg - "About what?"
L - "He said Iraq was an imminent threat."
F - "No he didn't. post the link where Bush said that Iraq was an imminent threat."
l - "Well, he implied it!"
f - "Thank you for playing. You lose."