Posted on 03/30/2006 7:35:18 PM PST by pissant
--Great link. For the good info and for this ad picture for Fredericks of Hollywood. ;o)--
Now, let's get FRedericks as a regular sponsor for FR ;-)
Hubba hubba...
IF Saddam had a WMD program(s) it was half assed and no where near yielding usable results. As for freeing Iraqi's I could give a rats a$$. Most of them would slit your throat in your sleep for $10.
On immigrants - HELL NO.
I am even less comfortable with our Republic turning into an empire. If we go the way of Rome the eventual cost will be hundreds of millions.
A small special ops war? Would that have routed the Taliban? Sure we could have assisinated Saddam, but that would leave Uday, Qusay or some other Saddamite in charge. In other words, no regime change & and the continued (if not expanded) support of worldwide terror. Think Iran.
You may or may not think transforming the ME from terrorist enclave to modern world is worthwhile, but it is worth a shot. People say "the muslims will never change". Well, in my learned estimation, there is Turkey, Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, and a few others that ALREADY are fighting terrorism in their midst, and at least are allied with us enough to know that their govt's are not going to be sliding nukes and chemical weapons to the Bin Ladens of the world.
Afghanistan, with our help of course, is stacking up taliban remnants and terrorists like cordwood, and we are doing the same in Iraq. Libya gave up the ghost and now is looking for US assistance to destroy its WMD remnants. Lebannon held elections, and it looks like a multi party democracy will take hold. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 3 of the places infested most with islamo fascists are killing off terrorists in their midst. And I predict Hamas will soon change their tune, ehich they have started to already.
And how did Bush sell out the middle calss exactly? Unemployment in my state went from 6.8% after 9-11 to about 4.3% now. And don't even try to tell me it's all WalMart jobs. Every engineer working for independent consulting firms is employed beyond 50 hours a week and has the luxury now of choosing which company will pay him the most. Boeing is booming. Microsft is booming, Weyerhauser is booming, Paccar/Kenworth is booming. Small businesses are booming. Good luck finding an electrician or a carpenter or a plumber or a steelworker that has much time to breathe. State coffers are spilling over and tourism is high once again.
That would be quite the incentive to spend MORE time on FR, if we ran those ads here! Someone talk to JimRob.
They are still dancing around it the best they can. But the tide is turning.
Consider the implications of the neoconservative arguments. Mr. Mugabe, the crazed ruler of Zimbabwe has made a mockery of democracy in his country, impoverished her citizens and killed his opponents. Zimbabwe is smack in the middle of a region that could certainly benefit from an infusion of democracy and it is unarguably true that a choice between living in Mugabe's Zimbabwe and Hussein’s Iraq would be no choice at all. Still, no one has seriously proposed sending U.S. troops into that unfortunate nation to rescue her citizens from the tyrant who runs the place.
A major difference that he overlooks is that Mugabe is essentially powerless beyond his own border. Hussein was sitting on trillions of dollars of oil and could export terrorism by the barrel.
I think many conservatives are misunderestimated Bush on this issue. I'm hopeful that he's using the guest worker program, which will take eons to get up and running, as a fig leaf for cracking down on the borders and deportations without losing the Hispanic vote.
On this issue hopefully. The rest is out of the question.
The author was not overlooking it, he was stating the anti-"humanitarian" argument. And makes it clear that that is why Bush avoided using the democracy/humanitarian argument and foceused more heavily on UN violataions/WMD/terror support.
Well, since the economy is clicking on all cylinders, I'm guessing he'll be remebered for his tax cutting as well, which I have every confidence will be made permanent. And he's pushed for new nuke plants, which warms my heart. And he changed the official fed gov't position on the 2nd amendment to that of an individual right...not small potatoes in my book.
If he plays the immigration cards well, which he still can, then I'll be writing his first biography.
He sucks.
Who would you prefer as CIC right now?
Me.
that's what I thought. But I think you'd vote for me instead.
How's that "new" grandkid doing, BTW?
All huge victories for the human race that would have been at least as significant defeats if johnjohn esq. had taken the helm.
Just think how many more people would be alive today that needlessly died in the world's hotspots, and if the prophet of doom had been stopped from advancing during the mid/late 90's Toons.
She's a year old now. About 45 more and she will be President.
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