Democrats call for Powell mission to Mideast

http://www.cnn.com/ ^ | March 31, 2002 Posted: | CNN

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With violence in the Middle East escalating, two leading Senate Democrats said Sunday the Bush administration should ratchet up the level of U.S. diplomacy by getting Secretary of State Colin Powell more directly involved.

"I think there needs to be something dramatic done, and that means the president has to step up his involvement," said U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on CBS' "Face the Nation."

[Defender2]

NO To U.S. Troops in Israel!!!! Unless they are there to help Israel eliminate the Terrorists Period!!!!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

MY opinion is :We should back out completely and let them take care of it themselves and force the un to back out as well let the israelies take care of their own buisness and obliterate the palistinians wherever they are period .

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I think there needs to be something dramatic done, and that means the president has to step up his involvement," said U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware,..."

And do what? Legitimize the terror tactics of Hamas and Company by negotiating with them?

Why aren't Biden and Liberman and Specter all over the talk shows DEMANDING that Arafat stop aiding and encouraging terrorists?

[TheHound]

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut, said ..."I fear that a fanatical group of extremist terrorists has captured, hijacked the very legitimate cause of Palestinian nationalism".

So I ask: "What is that legitimate cause Joe"

[Defender2]

I truly believe the DemoRATS want us over there to be targets of terrorists!!!!

[white trash redneck]

I beleive that Gen. Rumsfield should have a bigger role in Mideast affairs.

I was thinking more along the lines of General Lemay.

[Defender2]

If the DemoRATS want us over there to stop Israel from eliminating the terrorists, I definitely say NO to that!!!!

[mass55th]

From "Ghostbreakers"...a Bob Hope movie:

Hope asks co-star Richard Carlson what "Zombies" are. Carlson replies:

"A Zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring..."

Hope's response:

"You mean like Democrats?"

[Defender2]

I truly believe General Lemay would say, "I'm Serious!!!! One more terror attack on U.S. or Israel, Baghdad needs to be turned into ashes!!!! any more terrorist attacks by any terrorist entities or states should share the same fate!!!!"

[TheHound]

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut, said ..."I fear that a fanatical group of extremist terrorists has captured, hijacked the very legitimate cause of Palestinian nationalism".

So I ask: "What is that legitimate cause Joe?"

[RichInOC]

The scary thing is that that exchange was written several years before Bubba was even born.

I think this is a dumb idea. Why do we need to send Colin Powell all the way over there just to tell Yasser, "Dude, you're screwed"?

[otterpond]

So I ask: "What is that legitimate cause Joe"

Joe made such an Issue of being Jewish during the 2000 election. That must be a memory of convenience.

[LarryLied]

I truly believe the DemoRATS want us over there to be targets of terrorists!!!!

They want to tie the mid east around Bush's neck. Everyone knows it will be a mess no matter what happens. The goal is to pin it all on the GOP.

[TheHound]

oops. I always wondered how someone could do a double post like I just did.I was sneezing, ok.

[mass55th]

The scary thing is that that exchange was written several years before Bubba was even born.

1940 to be exact.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Laurie Dhue asked Henry Kissinger about this today on Fox .. it was a great question and Kissinger had a great answer.

He said Powell shouldn't go over there unless there were concrete results that could be obtained and that it wouldn't do American prestige any good to have the Secretary of State travel to the Middle East and spin his wheels. In short, it made a lot of sense.

And somehow, I think the Administration knows this.

[11B3]

Since the Rats are so afraid for their Pallie buddies, why don't they all just go over there to act as human shields for them? Two birds with one stone........

[TheHound]

Now now, lets not be extreme. Lets just say 1000 palestinians per Israelie. Do you think Joe would go along with that?

[McGavin999]

Powell should go nowhere near the mid-east until the Israelis are done with their terrorist hunt. There is no way he should lend his legitimacy to negotiations until it is perfectly clear to all that the terrorists have been rounded up and imprisoned.

We are in our own war against the terrorists, we can't spare Powell right now, sorry!

[Recovering_Democrat]

"I think there needs to be something dramatic done, and that means the president has to step up his involvement," said U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on CBS' "Face the Nation...

Joe Biden was the man who poo-pooed the idea of an attack on America in a speech to the National Press Club. The date of his speech?
September 10, 2001.

Joe, you've got seniority in the Senate, and your party has a one-member majority. Quit tryin' to make like your some "expert" on the subject, okay? Just get back to plagiarizing British statesmen and bringin' the pork home to Delaware.