Posted on 06/03/2003 8:59:14 PM PDT by Pokey78
I agree, I think his liberal mind got him off track by the end of the article.
One of my favorites as well. :-)
After Clinton, moderates were disgusted with him. The Left is trying to put Bush in the same position with the moderates but the moderates are in love with Bush.
Once the war was over and I saw the mass graves and the true extent of Saddam's genocidal evil, my view was that Mr. Bush did not need to find any W.M.D.'s to justify the war for me. I still feel that way.
I think he has touched on how a lot of people feel with that sentence. I'll give him a passing grade for this piece even though I don't necessarily share his conclusions about the damage to credibility that the President might suffer.
Do you notice that the false reports from Iraq have stopped? This is the security lid being screwed down tight. The next report you hear will be the real deal.
One more thing I don't hear Arab countries saying that there are no WMD.
Blowing Gaza to dust would also help the Arabs understand terrorism is not profitable, however we are destroying the only democracy in the entire Middle East and feeding the wolf pack with it.
All we are going to reap is bigger wolves, and a whole lot of blood on our hands.
It is called Anthrax.
I'm OK with that.
When a mob is coming down an alley toward you, and running is not an option, you pick the biggest, mouthiest, and most vulnerable one of the lot, and jump on him. The others will lose their momentum, and will be thrown off their plan of attack. Iraq was the perfect target; the fact that he is a mass murderer is not unrelated to his presence in the mob, and the fact that we picked him first, or almost first.
The fact that we have been at war with him for 12 years is also not unrelated, and the fact that he shoots at our planes every day for 12 years is also not unrelated. And that, as Russia and France and Germany concluded their deals with him, the strategic advantage was slipping steadily away from us, in his favor, was not unrelated.
Lump it all together, and his quotient put him at the top of the target list, and we would have been fools not to take him down.
I will agree with Friedman on another point; it is absolutely necessary that we not leave a mess behind when we go. Prior to the war I was predicting a 10 year occupation; I hope I'm not right, everyone is now predicting something on the order of 2 years, but we had better be prepared to do what ever it takes. Leaving a power vacuum for the nutballs to fill is not an option. Something Rumsfeld said gives me some confidence, in response to a question about the possibility of a democratic election bringing the mullahs to power; "What, out of everything that has happened, would lead you to think we would allow that?"
He sees the road...but he walks in the mud.
Actually with the elite lefties of the NY Slimes, they just imagine that they are walking in the mud as they wordsmith their so sensitive remarks in their air conditioned suites at the the NY Slimes.
The failure of the Bush team to produce any weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.'s) in Iraq is becoming a big, big story. But is it the real story we should be concerned with? No.
If they go ballistic and scream no WMDs, they will be hurt worse than anyother liberal group when the WMDs are revealed and documented in their post Blair time.
Maybe the mistake was to look at the wrong country. Next could be Iran and this time it might work. Like in a cartoon at: http://www.ucomics.com/tomtoles/2003/05/29/
Can we settle on just a "gentleman's C" like they used to give out when Tom attended school?
I haven't read it, so I don't know....
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