Smells funny!
Posted on 09/09/2005 9:17:19 AM PDT by xt5rt45
I'll make two points in response to that.
1. I find myself questioning the sanity of any Freeper who cites Bill Clinton as a reliable measure of why the U.S. went to war in Iraq.
2. One of the most baffling aspects of the run-up to the war in Iraq in late 2002 and early 2003 was the way so many so-called "conservatives" were willing to accept the same silly "weapons of mass destruction" mantra that was nothing more than a deliberate campaign by the Clinton administration had used to garner political support among soccer moms with double-digit IQs.
If anyone has any doubts about either of these points, just ask yourself why the Clinton administration suddenly determined that Iraq represented some kind of major threat to the U.S. in the fall of 1998 after it became clear that Bill Clinton was going to be impeached.
Then ask yourself why those "legitimate security concerns" suddenly vanished in early 1999 -- only to be replaced by "mass graves in the Balkans" as the primary foreign policy concern of that sh!tbag administration.
Well said, sir.
ping
Smells funny!
"You know what really sucks? Some clueless Al Jazeera 'journalist' will tell the arab world that Ron Paul is a conservative, and considered very strong on defense, blah-blah-blah..."
Al Jazeera has it's agenda that is for sure. I don't think they are anywhere as clueless as we would like to think. They must operate via. deceit. Misinformation is their method much like most of the world's news media. Shade the facts with one's own version, to propagate one's ideologies.
It demonstrates an unbelievably short-sighted ignorance of what the situation really was in Iraq pre-OIF, particularly coming from an elected official who has the information resources to know better.
(Hint: Don't waste your time, you won't find any.)
Please feel to detail what are troops are doing in Iraq that is ignoble. How many terrorists have you killed this year?
But I suppose you consider him to be a treasonous scoundrel as well.
Being an idiot does not make one a traitor. Neither does being a liar. But when he lies in his polemic essay, he does come awful close. You might have the excuse of ignorance. Paul doesn't.
And I am proud of him too.
What in the world is going on here?
I have only one thing to say and someone said it much better than I. God bless our troops AND their mission
Steve Newton
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things:
The decayed and degraded state of moral thinking,
which thinks NOTHING is worth war, is much worse.
a man who has NOTHING for which he is willing to fight
and NOTHING he values more than his own personal
safety is a miserable creature who will never be free
unless made and kept so by the efforts of better men
than himself.
Yes, and so the VK won't starve.
AMEN!
Been a while since I've read that. It gave me goose bumps. I don't know whether or not my son has ever read that, but he will tonight. Thanks.
BTW, for the reasons I use the term "lie," see my posts 126 and 130 in this thread.
if Saddam wasn't building WMD why did he send the head of his nuclear program to Niger to buy nuclear materials?
Ron Paul for President in 2008!
Your very welcome sir
And give him the thanks of an old Marine/Navy vet.
Steve Newton
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