Posted on 12/06/2006 3:38:39 PM PST by Rummyfan
The "bipartisan" Iraq panel has recommended that Iran and Syria can help stabilize Iraq. You know, the way Germany and Russia helped stabilize Poland in '39.
Now that Democrats have won the House, they can concentrate on losing the war. Despite all the phony conservative Democrats who got elected as gun-totin' hawks, the Democrats will uniformly vote to dismantle every aspect of the war on terrorism. They've started a runaway train and can't stop it now.
The Democratic base is at a fever pitch with visions of storm troopers listening to their phone calls and ruthlessly torturing innocent accountants at Guantanamo, where the average inmate has his own lawyer, his own prayer rug and is wondering what to do about that extra weight – known as the "Gitmo 20" – he's put on since being captured. They are oddly copacetic about actual storm troopers' daily harassment of actual citizens at airport security checkpoints. Liberals have no problem with government oppression as long as it's mandatory and applied equally to all Americans.
(Column continues below)
In a broadcast on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, NBC's Matt Lauer tried to nail down the Manhattan portion of his audience by aggressively questioning President Bush about the possible use of "waterboarding" against terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Lauer said ominously, "It's been reported that with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was what they call 'waterboarded.'"
At NBC, they apparently expected most Americans to react to this fact by exclaiming: They did WHAT to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? Wait – are you sure about that? OK, that's it. I will never vote Republican again!
President Bush refused to discuss techniques used on terrorists, saying, "We don't want the enemy to adjust." But Americans "need to know," he said, "we're using techniques within the law to protect them."
While normal people would be happy if we were using cattle prods on the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, Lauer was testy about the possible use of waterboarding against him. "I don't want to let this 'within the law' issue slip," he said.
"I mean, if, in fact, there was waterboarding used with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – and for the viewers, that's basically you strap someone to a board, and you make them feel as if they're going to drown. You put them under water. If that was legal and within the law, why couldn't you do it at Guantanamo? Why'd you have to go to a secret location around the world?"
In point of fact, we strap people to wooden boards and make them feel like they're drowning all the time in this country. Mostly at theme parks like Six Flags.
Bush again said he wasn't going to talk about techniques. But Lauer's relentless grilling was getting to him. If he'd been at Gitmo, at this point Bush would have demanded a lawyer, another copy of the Quran and a couple of chocolate eclairs.
Lauer continued to pester the president, demanding to know whether these "alternative techniques you use ... if they are used, are you at all concerned that at some point, even if you get results, there's a blurring the lines of – between ourselves and the people we're trying to protect us against?"
Hey, I forget: When did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed use aggressive interrogation techniques against a known mass murderer in an effort to thwart another 9/11-style attack on thousands of innocent civilians?
There are few better examples of how out of touch liberals are. They go right to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and expect Americans to be outraged that he may have been waterboarded.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks and is believed to have played a role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Bali nightclub bombings, the filmed beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a thwarted 2002 attack on a bank tower in Los Angeles, and Operation Bojinka, a plot to blow up 11 commercial airliners simultaneously. Oh, and he took home the coveted "world's craziest terrorist" prize at al-Qaida's end-of-season office party last year.
I think waterboarding should be a reward for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: OK, you've been good, Mohammed, we're only going to waterboard you today. Let's get you out of those cold electrodes and onto a nice, warm waterboard, OK?
Now that they're our new best friends, how about we turn to Iran and Syria for help on our interrogation techniques?
LoL....
A.C. speaking truth to morons.
And, perhaps, Ann Coulter will reflect on her part in bringing it about.What exactly did Ann do, besides warning of the impending danger...
...THREE MONTHS in advance of the election......so that the leaders of the GOP could do something about it?
See also THIS thread:
Ann Coulter: Republicans will lose "a lot of seats" this election
Posted by Recovering_Democrat
On News/Activism 07/27/2006 1:39:40 PM PDT · 475 replies · 9,641+ views
Fox News ^ | 7/27/06
Ann Coulter began attacking the Bush administration last year with all the enthusiasm and single-mindedness of a moonbat liberal.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Ann hits the nail on the head again!!!!
"Now that Democrats have won the House, they can concentrate on losing the war."
That about sums it up!!!
Ann is getting too thin for my taste. She and Lindsay Lohan must be on the same diet plan.
Ann Coulter began attacking the Bush administration last year with all the enthusiasm and single-mindedness of a moonbat liberal.She, along with a DOZEN or so other true conservatives, did help President Bush extricate himself from the Harriett Myers debacle.
Too bad that she was not also as effective in getting him to challenge McCain's "gang of 14" -- and nuke the RAT's filibuster abuse.
Ann is getting too thin for my taste.From her trip to L.A. this past August:She and Lindsay Lohan must be on the same diet plan.
Nah.
Coulter and those other "true conservatives" declared a jihad on Bush for daring to have his own ideas as to who should be on the court. They created the Miers debacle out of whole cloth.
She's about as conservative as Charles Schumer. Then again, she sided with him.
Too bad that she was not also as effective in getting him to challenge McCain's "gang of 14" -- and nuke the RAT's filibuster abuse.
Oh, no, she would NEVER support that! Why, she actually DEMANDED a freakin' filibuster if Miers had gone to a vote.
We are at war--and Ann Coulter decided to join forces with Hasan Akbar.
Don't waste your time responding to the Horse guy.
:o)
Actually we are outraged. We're outraged that the SOB still maintains a temperature higher than that of the room.
Hey Soos!
I'm sorry. I should have explained. In the old "Rawhide" episodes, they had a Mexican-type character they called "Hay Soos" and I say that instead of the correct "Jesus" becsuse in the Rawhide credits, he was listed as "Hey Soos."
Oh, now I get it. It's "Cut 'n' Run". I thought it had something to do with running with scissors and wondered what the hell it meant! Somedays I don't know which is winning - my ADD or my Alzheimer's.
Another stellar job Ann!
Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I know it's not till Friday, but I couldn't resist!
Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!From LAST YEAR'S thread:I know it's not till Friday, but I couldn't resist!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ann Coulter!!! (December 8)
Post YOUR FAVORITE "Ann" photos, videos & threads here!
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 12/08/2005 5:08:00 AM PST · 191 replies · 19,862+ views
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