Posted on 05/10/2007 5:09:11 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
So be it....live in your own misery...
As usual, McCainiac has it backwards. The GOP has hurt the President’s approval ratings through their spineless refusal to take anything like a leadership position even though he nearly single-handedly gave it to them. Many of them would not be in congress today if not for George Bush.
Their utter collapse under the stern looks of the treasonous media and the left in general made it nearly impossible for this Great President to capitalize on the power sweep that put us in the White House, captured the congress and gained us one net conservative vote on the Supreme Court.
Still, he has delivered the most vibrant economy in the history of earth and freed 50 million people from brutal tyranny, all while being pelted with rocks and fruit at every turn from the traitors amongst us.
For these useless wimps to now claim harm from Bush when all they have done was undermine him, is, unfortunately, in character.
Not another damn dime. Period.
This is a typical dismissal from someone who has no argument.
In short, an ad hom. Figures as much.
The President is a big-government at-best-moderate Republican with more an interest in whatever drives him to leave our defenses down at home than in fighting the war. Oh, we’ll be funding and arming Fatah again, so I’ll just point out that the Administration doesn’t understand the “WOT” anymore than the Democrats do.
Oh, and whatever happened to “NO NATION BUILDING?” Seems that campaign promise was left in the dust?
We all expected too much. We expected things to change. Too many things haven’t.
Why is Sandy Berger a free man?
What has been accomplished in total in this WOT in the last 6 years is utterly amazing. Since Sept 11th, 2001 our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another...we have not suffered one (hell you'd be hard pressed to find a handful of actual engagements we have lost)....Changing the world is a difficult process....Which is exactly what we are doing.
Changing the ME is the only true long term solution to the WOT.....We have brought the value of self-worth and the notion of freedoms to the ME for the first time in centuries.....We have killed over 3/4+ of AQ original leadership and ditto that % for their less effective replacements...
The reality is AQ and its mimics are the ones who can't fight an effective two-front or multi-front war....We most certainly can and are....
The only arena where we are losing is the PR battle. Which without question is important....And yes this most certainly needs to be addressed....But the notion that you are disappointed is foolish when one looks at the whole.
Um, the WORLD changed on Sept 11th, 2001. Unfortunately for some like you, it didn't.
Your foolish notion that nothing is being done on our borders is laughable. If AQ could simply walk across our boarders and hit us....they would have!...They haven't because they can't....and because we have a CINC who is taking the fight to them.
The dirty secret is AQ and its mimics are the one's who can't fight a two-front (or multi-front) war....We most certainly can...and continue to do so.
Bringing the values of self-worth and freedoms are our (America's) biggest allies in this WOT. That you can't see that shows it is YOU that has no clue about this war....nor has your as$ ever been over in the box (be that Iraq or Stan).
VP Cheney was on Fox thisevening and he mentioned that the war in iraq was bigger than the Republican party and that he and GWB were going to do what they had to do.
He was being interviewed by Bret Bair (sp)in Tikrit.
Tell that to the President. Reference “border security” while you’re at it.
“Your foolish notion that nothing is being done on our borders is laughable.”
If only.
“If AQ could simply walk across our boarders and hit us....they would have!.”
Tell that to the people who found “Arab Road”.
“Bringing the values of self-worth and freedoms are our (America’s) biggest allies in this WOT. “
You don’t do that by allowing constitutions that elevate an anti-self-worth and anti-freedom ideology as the “highest law” as this Administration and State have done.
You don’t rebuild the enemy until AFTER he has been defeated.
“That you can’t see that shows it is YOU that has no clue about this war....nor has your as$ ever been over in the box (be that Iraq or Stan)”
No, it hasn’t. Your point? I clearly understand the enemy’s motivations better than you do. I’ve noticed the NDU is starting to publish on the actual enemy... all while the President continues praising them. Oh, and he’ll celebrate Eid in the WH again this year. JUST LIKE HE CELEBRATED CINCO DE MAYO (a holiday that has absolutely nothing to do with America).
Of course, I’m talking to a man who thinks the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the entire country....
You confuse “tactical” and “strategic”. What else are you confused about?
“Changing the world is a difficult process....Which is exactly what we are doing.”
“Changing the world” is not a conservative mission nor is it a power granted the Federal government.
That is a culture that is not going to be changed over night (the reality is freedoms are spreading throughout Iraq and Stan)...
And, hmm, we kept blacks as slaves and didn't allow women to vote for how many years?? (yeah, you're right, the French should have never supported us)..
You don’t rebuild the enemy until AFTER he has been defeated.
We're not at war with the peoples of Iraq or Stan. But with an enemy that hides and lives among them.....Thankfully you are back state side while the adults are in charge down range...
You don't have a clue to what you are talking about. But keep up with the "you're a true conservative bs"...It fits you.
Still blaming Bush, is he? At least he’s consistent. He’s been blaming W for his political failures and weaknesses since 1999.
Of course he’s expanded his repertoire. He’s since elevated his back stabbing, party hopping RINO ways to an art form. A transparent, uninspiring art form but an art form all the same.
Are they? Apostasy is still a killing offense in Afghanistan and Iraqi Christians don’t seem to feel these new “freedoms” all that much. In WWII, we changed German and Japanese culture pretty darn quickly, but that was fought as a WAR, not a “liberation”.
“(yeah, you’re right, the French should have never supported us)..”
The French never supported us to bring freedom to the world (France, after all, was a monarcy far more oppressive than the British), but to fight the British.
“We’re not at war with the peoples of Iraq or Stan. But with an enemy that hides and lives among them.....Thankfully you are back state side while the adults are in charge down range...”
We’re at war with Islam. One we didn’t start. As to what I do for a living, you make a lot of assumptions.
“You don’t have a clue to what you are talking about. But keep up with the “you’re a true conservative bs”...It fits you.”
Look at the big picture for once. Not just your next set of orders.
No, not at all. Our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another (the loss of Stan and Iraq as secure bases of operations...are large strategic losses...The reality of free elections are again, strategic defeats)...As for tactical defeats, please, not enough time or space to list them all. They happen daily to our enemies.
“Changing the world” is not a conservative mission nor is it a power granted the Federal government.
Foolishness. It most certainly is the responsibility of the Federal Gov't when it means the security of this nation. When it means the survival of this nation. Thank God we have a CINC who understand such.
Just caught your sign on date. Don't have time to talk such foolishness with a noob...
Lack of GOP Solidarity Hurts Bush's Approval Ratings
-PJ
All while we increase Muslim immigration, reduce border security, and begin to push through “hate crime” legislation throughout the West. Yes, you do confuse “tactical” and “strategic”. We are not fighting an enemy that will meet our forces in open warfare at large scale. We are fighting an enemy that has an active component of their Jihad (bombings and assassinations) and a political component. We’re in the process of surrendering to their political agenda across the West. You haven’t noticed that part. Considering you probably never bothered to read up on Islam beyond the touchy-feely brochure they gave you for cultural familiarization, I can’t really blame you for that.
” Foolishness. It most certainly is the responsibility of the Federal Gov’t when it means the security of this nation. When it means the survival of this nation. Thank God we have a CINC who understand such.”
Considering his earnest desire to surrender the country through mass amnesty, I don’t think the President has much interest in the “security of the nation”. At least, it isn’t his primary interest. When does this war end, if our goal is to force “freedom” worldwide on people unprepared for it? I don’t think you realize just how unusual America was in the time of the Founders.
The President also thinks “DEMOCRACY!” is inherently freedom granting and protecting.
“Just caught your sign on date. Don’t have time to talk such foolishness with a noob...”
Retreating again? Fine with me, son.
I should hope we don’t have a GOP that has “solidarity” with mass amnesties and increased government.
Such BS. Agian, more is being done on our borders then can be actively talked about (and smartly so). Think outed NSA Ops...
As for amnesty (ahh, you're one of those? Gottcha). GWB was not giving a blanket amnesty....there were requirements, enforcement of criminals, etc.
The lie of nothing being done on our borders is old and tiring. Come up with something new. There are more enforement agents on our borders today then in 2000. There are more people being returned today then ever.....Again, if AQ could simply cross our border and hit us....They would have (but keep that bogeyman alive if it helps you).
if our goal is to force “freedom” worldwide on people unprepared for it?
Spoken just like many at during WWII. The Japanese could never have any quasi democracy, they are godless, they aren't white, they believe in false gods, blah, blah, blah.
The reality is in all men, the value of self-worth and the yearning for freedom lives.....For far too long the citizens of the ME have been allowed to live in the dark ages...ruled by dictators, mullahs and warlords....That was fine, until the world has become too small and our national security is now at stake.
No, changing the ME is essential to our national security. And it won't be easy. But it must be done. What we have accomplished to date is utterly amazing....But go ahead and harp on a few domestic political issues (that blow with the wind)...and ignore the reality of successes we are having throughout the ME...and against our enemies...
Exactly!
I should hope that we don't have a GOP that is only motivated by the flavor of the day. "Solidarity" should also mean commitment to a sense of values that drives long-term vision such that one weathers short-term squalls. Our GOP is willing to throw someone overboard at the first sign of choppy waters. < /metaphors>
-PJ
Who are you, really? Are you hiding behind a very recent, very topical screen-name?
Like McCain hasn’t had a huge part in Bush’s poll numbers being down. Every freaking Sunday Morning he is helping the cause.
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