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Simpson: 'Beware the 100 percenters'
Billings Gazette ^ | December 07, 2006 | NOELLE STRAUB

Posted on 12/07/2006 3:51:25 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper

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To: BigSkyFreeper
"Iran hates us," Simpson said. "They may not even want to come to the table... They may hate our guts, but there's something they hate more. That's anarchy in Iraq."

I'm sorry. It's too early in the morning for bu11sh1te...

41 posted on 12/07/2006 5:12:35 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Gerfang
You’re right. With that sort of thinking we might have allied with the Soviet Union or even supplied them with equipment. Thank God we never did that.

Yes. Just think how much better off we'd be if we had only listened to Carter and unilaterally disarmed once it was obvious that we could never defeat the Soviet Union.

We need more patriots like Carter and Simpson who understand the true value and power of strategic retreat, surrender, and compromise in the face of pure evil.

42 posted on 12/07/2006 5:13:49 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: kittymyrib
How about if we put an amendment to the Constitution as follow:

We stop fighting a war:

If we lose more than one thousand troops, or if the war lasts more than 3 months, or if the war costs more than 50 billion dollars, which ever comes first.

If the Left can have their way, we will have such an amendment.

43 posted on 12/07/2006 5:23:21 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Here's the long awaited deathrace2000 ISG report. Here's how to fight and win a War. It's the same, long forgotten strategy that served the USA well in WWI and WWII:

Recommended Strategy:
1). Send in the Troops, kill the bad guys, and move on.
2). Send in the Troops, kill or imprison the leaders of the bad guys(e.g., Al Sadr), and move on.
3). Send in the Troops, kill anybody opposed to us imprisoning the leaders of the bad guys (e.g., Al Sadr), and move on.
4). Send in the Troops, kill anybody opposed to us at all and move the F@@k on!
Key Findings:
We don't need Gitmo if we take NO prisoners.
We don't need to stay around for years like Vietnam and Iraq if we just kill all the bad guys.

Conclusion:
1). The US gets mired down when we try to limit collateral damage and appease the PC Liberal crowd! That's what went the F@@k wrong!
2). Israel has a right to exist!
3). Jimmy Carter started this mess with his pathetic response to the Iranian revolution.
4). I've lost faith in the American public. How could that many Americans vote in favor of the Liberal Democrats to solve our problems?


44 posted on 12/07/2006 5:24:33 AM PST by deathrace2000 (AP Photo shows Iran’s new President as 1979 US hostage-taker)
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To: mewzilla
Great headline and picture :)

This Iraq Study Group absolutely deserves to be mocked and more importantly defeated.

45 posted on 12/07/2006 5:27:09 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Vigilanteman

After sleeping on it overnight, I think that one theme of the report is that the bureaucracy has stiffed Iraq and refused to do its part leaving it up to the military alone.
I knew that the AID people had refused to go, but this suggests that the arabists at state, the intel community, and justice have also. That's why we have seen soldiers painting schools.


46 posted on 12/07/2006 5:27:11 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: unspun
Pardon me for butting in.

Simpson is merely pointing out how the system works and not how it should work.

47 posted on 12/07/2006 5:29:08 AM PST by verity (Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Although the Iraq Study Group's report will not magically solve the problems in Iraq, the "hell of a good try" proves that politicians of opposite parties can work together on major issues, former Sen. Alan Simpson said Wednesday.

No it doesn't. To my way of thinking it proves 2 things:

1. That only retired politicians from opposite parties can work together, and

2. The policy recommendations produced by such commissions prove the old saw about "the camel being a horse designed by committee."

48 posted on 12/07/2006 5:38:33 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: mewzilla

Excellent Post cover!


49 posted on 12/07/2006 5:39:36 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Yeah. The Simpson-Mazzoli bill was a hell of a good try at eliminating illegal aliens too. Compromise with evil is not virtuous. It is spineless.


50 posted on 12/07/2006 6:05:35 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Then Simpson said "We need to understand that not everyone with a (D) next to their name signed up to be guards at Lenin's tomb, and not everyone with an (R) next to their name just crawled out of a cave."

It was actually a pretty funny rant. BTW there were only so many job opportunities at Lenin's tomb, so many Dems were disappointed. And I walk out of my cave, it's a big one.

51 posted on 12/07/2006 6:19:08 AM PST by Sender ("Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain)
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To: JCEccles
Yes. Just think how much better off we'd be if we had only listened to Carter and unilaterally disarmed once it was obvious that we could never defeat the Soviet Union.

One of the reasons we beat the Russian in the cold war is our relationship with China. They had to expend a lot of resources on the Chinese border after Nixon. They also had several armed clashes with the Chinese army during the 1970’s.

LWe need more patriots like Carter and Simpson who understand the true value and power of strategic retreat, surrender, and compromise in the face of pure evil.

And let me be the first to welcome you to the real world were sometime you have to work with evil to fight eviler. Politics is a game. Lrn2play.

52 posted on 12/07/2006 6:25:42 AM PST by Gerfang
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Alan Simpson.....what a putz.

L

53 posted on 12/07/2006 6:29:19 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: mewzilla

BFLR


54 posted on 12/07/2006 6:34:01 AM PST by Christian4Bush (Don't blame me - I didn't vote for these DEM b**tards. (redacted to satiate religioncop TXBlair))
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Sounds like simpson is becoming more democrat with old age creeping in. Yep, this report is a wonderful piece of work done by a bunch of out of government, former government workers, who spent a lot of our tax money, meeting, flying around, meeting then got together and followed the democrat line of surrender. Too hell with the troops and their effort to free a nation of a sadistic family and bring the peace and their form of democracy.


55 posted on 12/07/2006 7:04:01 AM PST by tillacum ( b)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
"....but there's something they hate (Iran) more. That's anarchy in Iraq."

What utter nonsense! Iran is DIRECTLY F**king responsible for the anarchy in Iraq.

56 posted on 12/07/2006 7:08:10 AM PST by Pietro
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Somebody forgot the "Barf Alert!"


57 posted on 12/07/2006 7:08:32 AM PST by Gritty (Iran and Syria will stabilize Iraq the way Germany and Russia stabilized Poland in '39 - Ann Coulter)
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To: kittymyrib
Can you imagine this taking place during WWII?

Yes, but you cannot spare blame for Bush, Rumsfeld and the Pentagon Pussies, who failed to bring massive, ruthless power to bear in Iraq from the very beginning. In May 1945 we killed 100,000 civilians in Tokyo in a single evening. In Fallujah we sent our boys door to door like Avon ladies so we wouldn't have any bad press from "collateal damage". After the war ended in Germany, any uniformed "SS" officer was shot on sight without trial. MacArthur had nearly 1,000 Japanese executed, many of whom were merely Communist agitators. In Iraq we wouldn't even kill Al Sadr.

We have become completely and utterly soft in the West, and ripe for conquest by Islam. Unfortunately, to make things worse we have traitorous bastards like James Baker III, who is actively working towards that goal on behalf of his Saudi masters.

58 posted on 12/07/2006 7:18:17 AM PST by montag813
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To: EternalVigilance

Simpson is "stuck on stupid." Homer Simpson has more insight on Iraq than this guy.

If my thoughts make me a "100 percenter" then so be it.


59 posted on 12/07/2006 7:20:05 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: BigSkyFreeper

The epitome of our loss of sovereign constitutional government is the farce of a "study group" deciding how to execute the Iraq war.

Why are Americans just placidly accepting the corporatist fascist concept of a study group instead of citizen through constitutional government affecting our national policy?

Instead of arguing over their report, citizens should be firing all the politicians who put together and support the breakdown of our government like this.


60 posted on 12/07/2006 7:23:08 AM PST by hedgetrimmer (I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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