No Wonder America Has So Many Enemies (So says a conservative – a paleoconservative, that is)

The Toronto Sun ^ | September 28, 2003 | Eric Margolis

[cwb]

"and I've noticed that the administration has all but stopped assuring us that they eventually will."

I heard Cheney on MTP last week saying we will...as well as Rice on O'Reilly this week saying the same. No one knows exactly were these weapons are, but when the inspectors left in 1998, they existed...as even they admitted they hadn't got around to destroying them all. And these weapons weren't an aboration or assumption, as they were compiled after 1995 with the help of Saddam "after" he was caught when a defector led inspectors to the sites. Even Scott Ritter in one of his 1998 declarations claimed that around 5% of these weapons weren't accounted for...which is still "tons" of material. They have to be somewhere.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Jimmy Carter was honest.

No, he wasn't.

Not too good a leader, though.

The worst. Yes including BC. Carter did more long term harm to this nation and he knew exactly what he was doing.

[Sam Cree]

"I don't think the administration has needed too much help in making this thing a failure."

Well, that is the picture being painted by the media. I certainly hope it is wrong, though I concede the possibility of it being right. I don't believe we know the true picture of what's going on there, except that most Iraqis are glad to be out from under Saddam.

"if Gore were President, for instance -- I would imagine that the criticism from the right would be far more intense and would have started far earlier on (like the day after 9/11)."

I think that would depend on Gore's actions after 9/11. I did note that the Left was uncharacteristically silent for a couple weeks after 9/11. I think they were so stunned they couldn't figure out how to spin it right away.

"Do not confuse holding a politician responsible for his errors (which are many) with "doing their best to make this thing a failure."

I doubt I am guilty of that. Actually I think, regardless of whether the Left is pointing out Bush's errors, the Left is doing it's best to create failure. I believe even casual examination shows it to have started months before we even went in to Iraq.

[Sam Cree]

You know, I sometimes don't see Bush as truly being that "conservative," so I kind of wonder why the Left harbors such hatred for him.

[Lion in Winter]

Let us not forget clinton/clark leading us into the bombing of the Serbs and a war in Kosovo to end the so-called "genocide" against the Albanians.

ALL LIES!!

Plus, clinton/clark activities almost lead us into WWIII with the Russians over that airport incident in Pristina.

What is about clinton foreign policy supporters... they are beyond ignorant.

[Sci Fi Guy]

but even I don't believe that the imminent threat of Saddam's alledged WMD was the real reason for this war

Of Course, there wasn't an imminent threat of WMD. If you would recall prior to the war, Bush was heavily critized because Iraq wasn't an imminent threat. It's only after the war that the democrats are revising what Bush said. Turning Bush's position that Saddam supporting terrorist groups into saddam planning 9-11, and turning non-imminent into imminent.

[Leisler]

"So, what's for supper?"

You would halve to throw off the three blankets, various magazines, brush off chip and cookie crumbs, a pistol clean kit, then swing your feet on to the floor off the couch, push away the No. 10 can of butts and ashes, make way through the newspaper piles....and go to the kitchen. That would be the room with the plumbing tools piled on the hot plate/oven thingy.

[CanadianLibertarian]

Margolis is a columnist for the Toronto Star. I'm pretty sure he is Canadian.

[quidnunc]

CanadianLibertarian wrote: Margolis is a columnist for the Toronto Star. I'm pretty sure he is Canadian.

No, he's an American born in New York.

[quidnunc]

And he writes for the Toronto Sun, not the Star.

[Madame Dufarge]

It's a Number 8 can.