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Uh, Cynthia, they said the opposite - that we shouldn't wait for the threat to become imminent. Repeating the Big Lie year after year doesn't make it any less of a lie.
Nope Cynthia (Hmm is she the Dem's brown sugga?) Clarke was demoted because he obviously didn't have a grip on how to deal with terrorists in a post 9-11 world. You don't treat them as criminals they ain't gonna fear a trial like they would a tomahawk missile. There was no inconsistency between Rice and Cheyney
I'm sure the examples will follow... let's see...
In fact, ousting Saddam Hussein has been a costly diversion from the war on terror. Cynthia's Opinion
The Bushites came into office obsessed with Saddam, and when they could find no evidence that he represented an immediate threat, they simply manufactured it. Cynthia's [ill-informed] Opinion
Now, our troops are trapped in a quagmire. Cynthia's [wishful thinking] Opinion
Osama bin Laden is still at large. True. But according to Michael Moore (and many others) we already have him. W is just waiting for an October Suprise.
And the occupation of Iraq cannot help but breed a new generation of terrorists: Every time U.S. soldiers hit a mosque with mortars or strafe a carload of civilians mistaken for insurgents, another dozen teenage boys in Egypt or Saudi Arabia or Iran become America-hating jihadists. Iraq=Quagmire=Vietnam=US Soldiers=Baby Killers. I sense a pattern.
Bush and his underlings lie when there is no reason to. Examples must be here somewhere...
In response to Richard A. Clarke's charge that his administration didn't view the al-Qaida threat as urgent, the president might simply have agreed and apologized. Few Americans would hold him responsible for failing to anticipate an attack as evil in its creation and brazen in its execution as Sept. 11. I guess it never occurred to Cyn T. that maybe Dick Clarke was lying.
Besides, Bush had already admitted his failure to forecast the immediacy of the al-Qaida menace. When did Bush admit failure to see the future?
Nevertheless, the administration greeted Clarke's charges with character assassination and fabrications. Examples coming I'm sure...
Vice President Dick Cheney dismiss[es] Clarke as "out of the loop," Brutal Character Assassination Indeed!
The entire premise of the Bush presidency -- that he is a man of principle, of honor, of candor -- is crumbling. Because of the 0 examples put forth by CynT.
Here are just a few of the captions that accompanied the tender and telling photos taken across the liberated country:
"An Iraqi girl waves an American flag to U.S. Marines of the 15th Expeditionary Unit at the Marines Battalion Combat Operation Center in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq."
"U.S. Army Spc. John Dresel from Oxford, Conn., is kissed by an Iraqi child in Baghdad. The soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment took over a section of northern Baghdad with a warm welcome from many residents . . . "
"A Kurd kisses a picture of United States President George W. Bush during celebrations in the streets of Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq . . . "
"Lance Corp. Shawn Hicks of Arizona gets a kiss Wednesday from an Iraqi man as they celebrate the arrival of American troops in central Baghdad."
"An Iraqi man puts flowers on the head of a U.S Marine in Saddam City in eastern Baghdad. Iraqis joyously welcomed U.S. Marines driving through eastern Baghdad . . . "
"Two U.S. special forces soldiers are seen atop their jeep, front, as Kurdish fighters pose for a group picture with flowers received from the Kurdish Students Union, near the town of Dibagan . . . in northern Iraq. The students' union presented them with flowers in gratitude for their war efforts."
"Samantha Sheppard, 28, from Plymouth in Britain, a soldier with the 2nd Light Tank Regiment, smiles as she receives a flower from an Iraqi man during a patrol on the streets of east Basra, southern Iraq." [Persistent pockets of liberal media resistance Michelle Malkin April 11, 2003 ]
"Coming into Basra as part of a massive military convoy, I encountered a stream of young men, dressed in what appeared to be Iraqi army uniforms, applauding the US marines as they swept past in tanks."[Applause as Marines enter Basra By David Willis Saturday, 22 March, 2003, 14:13 GMT BBC correspondent in southern Iraq ]
"It was a surreal way to invade a country. As a huge British convoy crossed into Iraq yesterday hundreds of children came to greet them. In the end British soldiers were greeted, not with gunfire, but with laughter and smiles. As the troops moved past small boys ran up to the windows, smiling and grinning. 'Hello, hello,' one shouted. A small group of teenagers sang and danced and clapped their hands." [Children run cheering as troops roll in The Observer (U.K.) | 03/23/03 | Paul Harris]
"Around 150 children spilled out of the jail after the gates were opened as a US military Humvee vehicle approached, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Padilla told an AFP correspondent travelling with the Marines 5th Regiment. "Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us," Padilla said. "There were parents running up, so happy to have their kids back." [Jailed Iraqi children run free as marines roll into Baghdad suburbs BAGHDAD (AFP) Apr 08, 2003]
JUBILANT Iraqis celebrate their new-found freedom yesterday — by tearing down a statue of hated tyrant Saddam Hussein.
Hundreds begged US troops to help tie a rope around the 17ft high bronze figure and take a blowtorch to its ankles. An elderly man added in broken English: "Good, good, good — Mr W. Bush, no Saddam."
As US troops proudly wore flowers given to them by townsfolk, a 25-year-old said he could not understand opposition to the war.
He asked: "Everyone who refuses this war — why?" Pointing to the statue, he went on: "Come here and live two days with this man, and then refuse this war." [Iraqis celebrate freedomBy MIKE DARVILL The Sun News UK April 7 2003]
Around the city, Iraqis ventured out into the streets, greeting U.S. troops with smiles, waves or a thumbs-up. Hundreds of Iraqis cheered U.S. troops in Saddam City, a poor neighborhood in northeast Baghdad. ``Thank you, thank you, Mr. Bush!'' one shouted. [Iraqis Cheer Arriving U.S. Troops Baghdad Associated Press| Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and HAMZA HENDAWI]
"I'm 49, but I never lived a single day," said Yusuf Abed Kazim, a Baghdad imam who was pounding the statue's pedestal. "Only now will I start living. That Saddam Hussein is a murderer and a criminal. " Other Iraqis picked flowers from a nearby garden and handed them to Marines. [Iraqis — With American Help — Topple Statue of Saddam in BaghdadWednesday, April 09, 2003 FOX News]
Thousands of Kirkukis danced, sang and cried with joy in the city’s streets and public squares. They smashed statues and defaced portraits of the deposed Iraqi dictator. Serbaz Kareem, a Kurdish communist peshmerga from the enclave city of Sulaimaniyah, said "people threw flowers at us and gave us water and food and tea" as U.S. and Kurdish troops entered the city.
Some held up hand-scrawled, misspelled signs – "Thanks you U.S.A." or "We are free, thank you, Mr. Bosh." Sirwan Hassan, 32, had not returned to his hometown for a decade. As he drove into the city in late afternoon, a mob surged around his car, waving and chanting "George Bush! George Bush!"
Hassan broke down in tears. "My dream has been realized," he explained. "I can’t express it in words." Such sentiments were heard throughout the day, as people hugged and shouted, "I’ve waited for this all my life!" ['It is like a dream': Kirkukis overjoyed By Betsy Hiel TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, April 11, 2003 ]
Hundreds of Iraqis shouting "Welcome to Iraq" greeted US Marines who entered the town of Shatra yesterday after storming it with planes, tanks and helicopter gunships. A foot patrol picked its way through the small southern town, 20 miles north of the city of Nasiriyah, after being beckoned in by a crowd of people. "There's no problem here. We are happy to see Americans," one young man shouted. [Crowds Greet US Marines Who Stormed Town In The Search For 'Chemical Ali' | 4-1-2003 | Donald Macintyre/Sean Maguire]
As a small harbinger of what may be to come, a man appeared at the side of the road and waved frantically at a passing military vehicle. The 34-year-old Iraqi planted a bristly kiss on the cheek of Flt Lt Ritchie Wylor-Owen of the RAF Regiment when he realised that his surrender had been accepted. [Kisses for the British and curses for Saddam in Basra| April 4, 2003 | Patrick Bishop]
Adal Hussein, a 44-year-old civil engineer, who said: "Please, I beg you to give our thanks to Mr Bush and Mr Blair and tell all the people in all the world how happy we feel. This operation is completed. All the people will feel great happiness."
"I didn't expect this. I didn't think they were going to like us like this. The kids are all smiling and happy." Cpl Mal Petfield added: "I think they're overjoyed that the regime has nearly fallen." [Handshakes and high fives as the Paras are swept along by the joy of liberation | April 8, 2003 | Martin Bentham]
Television screens, newspapers and magazines across the globe this week featured images of a joyously liberated Baghdad. Iraqis danced in the streets, kissed the cheeks of coalition soldiers, threw flowers in the path of tanks and cheered as U.S. Marines helped bring down a statue of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. [April 13, 2003 Television, newspapers wrong on war in Iraq By James G. Lakely THE WASHINGTON TIMES]
We were. And we still are. But time is running out. The Iraqis are like children with huge appetites and short attention spans. The fact a predominantly Christian country has occupied an islamic country for a year without 'massive' unrest speaks volumes about the adaptability of our great military and the evils of Saddam Hussain.
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Only one that sticks is the Medicare one.
IIRC, this is the broad that savaged Katherine Harris on her looks during the 2000 election fiasco.
Why does the Atlanta Urinal keep her on as a columnist?