Posted on 10/23/2005 10:04:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
Sen. George Allen said Sunday that last week's vote on the Iraqi constitution shows that the U.S. is making "great progress" in the war on terror - contrary to claims of Bush administration critics who say the White House has no plan for success in Iraq.
"There has just been a monumental benchmark achieved," Allen told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Now, they're still counting the votes, but it appears that the people of Iraq, in stronger numbers that even in January of this year, have come out and voted for this constitution.
The Virginia Republican noted that the Iraq constitution codifies "individual rights, men and women having freedom of expression, religious freedom, where rights are not enhanced nor diminished on account of religious beliefs."
Sen. Allen said the new constitution assures that the Iraqi people will be governed under "the rule of law," noting that it "will give them a motivation [for] what they're fighting for, for themselves, for their children."
"I think this is great progress and we ought to celebrate it," Allen insisted.
"Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, however, sounded unimpressed, responding to Allen's call for celebration by noting: "But there has been no weapons of mass destruction."
Russert is a jackass, 50 million people are free from oppression and he still wants to dwell on weapons that everyone agrees Saddam did have (he used them on the Kurds) and they are probably in Syria now, which is why success in Iraq is so vital to the region and the world.
Of course we are making great process in Iraq but the left in their hate for the president can not admit it
It sounds as if we're about to hold Syria's feet to the fire, too. Analysis on Fox this am had US special forces operating in Syria for the past couple of months...they're not on a rest cure. Bombs away.
It is this polarization of Liberals from Conservatives which is a real question. Is this the making of the next civil war in America, over, "culture wars."
The Liberal press spews propaganda about national policy, seeking to invoke knee jerk emotional reactions against the President. Courts make new law led by liberal judges who have a paternalistic wisdom over ordinary citizens.
Liberal Idealogue prosecutors abuse the Grand Jury system
in order to disassemble elceted representatives from Congress.The CIA launches a covert operation to discredit Bush's foreign policy by using a plausably deniable former ambassador.
All this because the Liberals can't beat us at the ballot box. If this continues, will it lead to Civil War in the USA? What is next, will Liberals take to becoming the terrorists they so admire??
I hope we put the libs to bed before it gets that far, IN THE NEXT ELECTION !!
Note to Timmy, the WOT did not begin and will not end in Iraq.
Despite the carping at home from left AND right he just keeps on keeping on.
Not only is he keeping us safe here at home, he's expanding freedom for millions across the water.
No weapons of mass destruction? That's not what congress said in the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998:
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm
Clinton even added his own bona fides:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/libera.htm
Why don't we hear much about this?
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