Posted on 07/07/2005 6:56:02 PM PDT by baystaterebel
People fix candles during a vigil for victims killed by the London bombings in Edinburgh July 7, 2005. Four blasts tore through packed London underground trains and a bus on Thursday, killing at least 37 people in the British capital's deadliest peacetime attack and disrupting a summit of world leaders. Photo by $Byline$/Reuters
Invade and take over Iran and Saudi Arabia from their selfish indigenous peoples [/ s/2] (ie. I'm only being half sarcastic)
The anarchists are no doubt angry that the Islamic terrorists upstaged them.
forget about the Guardian...from time-to-time I listen to Err America for a laugh at the pathetic lies of the left...this jackass Sam Sedar was on this afternoon and without directly saying it basically said that America's war in Iraq caused the bombings in London.
I'm still with you. I'd just love to see that! I'd be there with the best of them. But I just wish the people had leaders able to engage them.
I'll check it out when I get back from the gym. I'll let you know. I am sure it is my kind of website!!!
If Al Qaeda blew up a bunch of buildings - or cities - in the shape of a peace sign, would liberals really object? I mean, it sends a message after all. A message of peace.
We look for feedback and try to send emails to Lt. Col Al.
He is over there training people how to fight.
When I was a kid I was brought up in public school to see that the "America First"-ers in WW2 were anti-semitic, anti-American dopes. This was not presented as a "viable" alternative; this was presented as the WRONG point of view.
The liberals are the America Firsters (how ironic!) of today. They are the Fifth Column. Period. It is impossible to even argue otherwise.
That might be the most brilliant idea I have heard on here yet.
"We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."-- -Speech made to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941.
And for those who would treat the terrorists like honorable adversaries with whom they can negotiate, failing to recognize that these barbarians on 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7 have declared war on America, Spain, England and the entire civilized world, Churchill's advice would be:
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
I recall an e-mail from a British friend of ours a day or so after 9/11. She said America should not seek vengeance. Yeah, right! Three thousand of our countrymen murdered and we're supposed to hold hands around the campfire and sing Kumbayah!
Our response, if anything, was restrained. I can think of at least two countries in the Middle East that should have looked like Wal-Mart parking lots on 9/12/2001.
There reasoning is like that I had when I was ten years old. It is mind boggling to me that these are the people who are supposed to be smart.
True story: I woke my husband up early this morning with the news that Tthe BA$TARD$ have bombed London." He sat up in bed and said, "Was it the French?"
Oh its far worse then that check out Hugh Hewitts blog http://www.hughhewitt.com/index.htm
He has a transcript of Al Franken talking to Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe where he comes right out and says it.
Oliphant: We'll I'll tell you something, Porter Goss, at the CIA right now, is probably scared to death that there might be a revelation in the next few days that some of the people involved in this had moved across international borders. Because if this wasn't a completely home grown thing, the question arises, given the logistics of arranging horrific attacks like this, after four years, how could we have picked up nothing again?
Franken: This is where I am going to disagree with you, because this seems to be your thrust about what happened today. And I think that, and I buy this, and maybe I am naive, that you gotta bat 1,000 and they just got to bat 1. You know, and I don't know what's been stopped and I don't know any way we can know what's been stopped. We don't know. We had Jane Mayer on talking about the abuse at Gitmo, and there's no way to know because they are so secretive, this is the most secretive Adminsitration, we don't know, they say, they've saved American lives from their interrogations there. We don't know that. We don't know if it has cost us in terms of getting information, because it is the wrong way to get information.
Oliphant: That's right, and because of Congress now we have no way to really rigorously oversee what the intelligence community does so we can come to an evaluation about its effectiveness. But all you have to do is look at the pictures from London, imagine the logisitical work that was necessary to arrange four coordinated attacks within an hour, imagine that a few of these people might have come into Britain in recent weeks or months, and you wonder, what use has this allegedly smooth functioning system, erected over the past four years, what, what's its value? That's the short term consideration. And then you look at the longer term political and diplomatic issues that involve the sea from which these people come, and you ask, are we making enough progress on the basic issues that create the environment out of which terrorism emerges...
Franken: Or have we made things worse...
Oliphant: Or have they gone in the wrong direction...
Franken: Right
Oliphant: In other words, imagine whoever did this, let's assume for a second that the authroties are correct, that it appears to be jihadists, um, were they inspired by the American occupation in Iraq? The middle east situation? What was it?
Franken: I mean, Rumsfeld himself said, openly, a couple years ago, we don't know if we are creating more or less in Iraq.
Oliphant: Not only that, he's begun to acknowledge that our very presence in Iraq, ah, ah, one reason that he doesn't want to increase the force level is to increase the magnitude of the American occupation and its impact in Iraq.
Franken: And, on the other hand, they just killed, you know, Zarqawi's people just killed the Egyptian envoy.
Oliphant: Yes they did, and they just missed on a couple of other hits.
Franken: So these are monsters. We are dealing with monsters.
Oliphant: Yes we are, but not very well in my opinion. And, um, what I think is so awful, in the short term, is that we don't see, is this culture that lacks acountability in the United States, just fascinates me.
Franken: You are talking about the Administration?
Oliphant: Yes! And Congress is complicit in this. And I don't care whether you are talking about 9/11 itself, the run-up to the war in Iraq, or the insurgency since then.
Franken: And that's why the [president's] speech [last week] just fried me, because there was not one acknowledgement of a mistake that they've ever made, and it was the same old crap.
Oliphant: If that fries you, then get get ready, because there is going to be a blitz, you watch, from here, ah, about how, despite what happened today, we're in fact making great progress in the international war on terror, to which I say, bunkum."
This is the kind of leader we need, this is the kind of rhetoric we need to inspire confidence in the people for the challenge ahead! We need passion for victory in our leaders in order for us to believe that victory is possible. We need leaders who speak the truth unafraid and can enunciate a vision for the future.
"Those who refuse to meet on the battlefield, while attacking innocent civilians at will, are pussies"...budwiesest
"Nagasaki and Hiroshima ended a war, guess what ends terrorism, d*ckhead?"..budwiesest
Kum-ba-ya, My Lord. Kum-ba-ya.
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