Posted on 09/13/2003 6:18:13 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford
France, Germany Offer to Pay for Rebuilding Iraq
(2003-09-08) -- France and Germany announced today that they would pay the estimated $87 billion that U.S. President George Bush plans to spend to rebuild Iraq.
In a joint statement, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac said, "We can never pay back the United States and her allies for saving our nations from the clutches of a brutal dictator in World War II. However, we can pay it forward by funding the renovation of Iraq, which has been freed from another evil despot."
The European leaders say their people are eager to set an example of gratitude for the world.
Iran Prepares for U.S. Invasion in 2015
(2003-09-10) -- The government of Iran has begun preparations to resist a military invasion by the United States scheduled for the year 2015. The attack will come after 12 years of attempts to get Iran to cooperate with United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding its nuclear program.
The revelation comes as France, Germany and Britain prepare to submit a U.N. resolution calling on Iran to accelerate its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA alleges that Iran may be in violation of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty due to its possession of enriched uranium, and other factors.
A high-ranking Iranian official said his nation's war plans are based on a study of the history of U.S. and U.N. policy toward Iraq.
"We know the clock is ticking," said the unnamed source. "We only have so much time before the international community takes action against us."
These were absolutely hilarious :)
Some things are objectively true. It is a PRINCIPLE to hold to pro-life views. It is NOT PRINCIPLED to look the other way when a candidate supports killing one's own offspring (in addition to gun control and various other liberal nostroms).
If you want to hire someone to take care of California's fiscal crisis (and that's all) then hire a FRIGGING ACCOUNTANT!!!
So, yes, I am saying that those that do not agree with me do not have certain principles. I am coming right out and saying it. Not insinuating anything. Not afraid to state out loud what is right, Howlin.
At what point in a candidate's trip further and further to the left do folks not vote for him just because he has an (R) after his name?
And BTW, I am always right. It's a force of nature ;-).
You have just invented a new word: "pung" meaning the past tense of having been pinged. I hope it catches on. It is linguistically correct as in the phrase "hung by the neck until dead." LOL.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.
You have been come really good at taking posts off agenda, haven't you?
That is a sure sign that you know you don't have a leg to stand on. Take your pompous pontification somewhere else.
At what point do you stop supporting someone with an (R) after his name?
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