Posted on 10/15/2005 12:07:24 PM PDT by freedom44
I think it was a big mistake to dye the index finger. The next finger over would have sent a stronger message to the terrorists and naysayers. Why do we keep making these blunders?
It wouldn't surprise me if that ink wears off before coalition forces have a chance to neutralize every eligible voter who doesn't have a purple finger. If it does, it's probably supplied through a no-bid contract.
Well, I understand your point---there is certainly some validity there---but I think you are overly harsh on yourself and other Americans and also underestimating the power and versatility of the worldwide organized hard left (WOHL).
"It takes no courage to stand up for what's right over here in the U.S., it should be a natural but yet we allow ourselves to be browbeaten by the ACLU and other idiots, we are willfully allowing them to degrade our society and take away our rights--why? Lack of courage and conviction. period. Pansies in other words."
First of all, the WOHL (which includes the ACLU) is organized on a worldwide basis. True, the organization is very loose in many ways---but it's there. Secondly, their techniques are extremely sophisticated.
One of their primary goals is to strip away people's motivation to oppose them. There is a multidimensional strategy in this record. Personally, you experience it as, "Oh, what's the use." You are not aware of the way different messages from different sources are adding up to discourage you---but the WOHL is.
The techniques of the WHL also sometimes include blackmail and murder---even here in the US.
(Please read this book: Hillary’s Secret War, The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists, by Richard Poe, WND Books, 2004.)
"It seems that all our citizens with true courage, conviction and guts are in Iraq and Afghanistan--or are rotating back to the bases."
I'm sure you realize this is an exaggeration. These troops are part of us---the best of us, in many respects,but still Americans, like we are. The vast Republican volunteer effort to elect George Bush in 2004 was one example of ordinary people acting with energy and purpose to do something to preserve our freedom.
Hi, OhioWfan, I didn't see your post until now, but you are right. It's actually insulting, the minimal coverage they've given the successful vote. They only focus on the negative (and now they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find such negatives, IMO!)
Had it been a Dem successfully bringing democracy to a former dictatorship ... the mind reels.
They are taking this monumental, earth moving event, and turning it into a ho-hum event with their lack of coverage.
My only hope is that the American people are paying enough attention to see that the progress being made in Iraq is stunning, and that the media's near black out of the event will be seen for what it really is..........a hatred of this President that has no limits.
You are absolutely right.
I made it a point to be home in front of the t.v for the Sunday news shows. I was late--half an hour into Fox News Sunday, just in time for the panel, and then caught the last half-hour of MTP.
I was expecting a lot of coverage of the Iraq vote. Instead I was treated to a lot of inside-the-beltway speculation on Judith Miller and Karl Rove (honestly, do people outside Washington care about this? No, they don't, not unless the media hypes it), and then, on MTP,. an interview with Louis Freeh (which was very interesting).
But still... there is a major event going on, they can devote endless ink/air time to bad news, but when there's good news going on? You have to search for it.
I do think that with email, and better communications, that those on the front lines can communicate with those back home. Thank Goodness! Otherwise, everyone would be completely demoralized.
Anyway, all the best to you and yours, OhioWfan. :)
"After placing the ballots in the plastic boxes, the Iraqis had the forefinger of their right hands marked with violet ink."
I almsot thought they were going to say that thier forfingers were cut off.
Sorry.
:)
"... saw that and wondered when in his 30 years of life did he remember it safe ?"
I imagine members of the Nazi Party were feeling the same way in 1946.
More liberal insanity:
I caught a few minutes on the radio on NPR of the Diane Reem show( I can't stand that leftist, lying B*tch!). She asked the interviewed person ( who had been in Iraq for these voting days),,,(get ready!) " I heaard that only men voted in this Constitutional election!" The guy responds, "Oh, no , not at all. The women were voting too!" She then says,
"Oh, so SOME women did vote, well, that's good."
The libs are just disgusting!
did I say Daschle is very concerned?
What HE said!!!
"VIVA LA DEMOCRACY!!! "The PEOPLE united, will always VOTE for FREEDOM!" Sorry liberals, you are on the wrong side of the aisle today. There is nothing your silly protests can do to stop the tsunami sized movement of democracy in the middle east. The people don't want your socialist tyrants anymore. We are tired of oppression and WE WANT FREEDOM!"
Iraqikurd,
TODAY is YOUR day for justice. I have been thinking all week about your parents murder.
Link:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/18/D8DAJL488.html
"Saddam was in high spirits and "very optimistic" on the eve of the start of his trial, al-Duleimi said.
"I have just left him five minutes ago. His morale is very, very, very high and he is very optimistic and confident of his innocence, although the court is ... unjust," al-Duleimi said.
If convicted, Saddam and his co-defendants could face the death penalty, but they could appeal before another chamber of the special tribunal set up to try the former leader and officials from his ousted regime.
Court officials have said they are trying Saddam on the Dujail massacre first because it was the easiest and quickest case to put together. Other cases they are investigating _ including a crackdown on the Kurds that killed an estimated 180,000 people _ involve much larger numbers of victims, more witnesses and more documentation.
Saddam and his co-defendants are expected to hear the charges against them during Wednesday's hearing.
An American adviser to Saddam's defense team said Tuesday the former dictator's rights were violated after his capture."
BWA HA HA HA he he he snicker snicker barf gag....
I will be watching the news today Jesse, and thinking of your family. Thanks for putting a little terrorized boy and his parents into my mind as I think of this man and his crimes. I look at my own sons and wonder how their lives would be if they were to watch my husband and I brutally murdered by socialist thugs.
You are in my prayers!
Jenny
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