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Posted on 10/12/2003 5:20:11 PM PDT by max_rpf
You might not think so from listening to me, but I like to be liked. Not only that, I like my country to be liked around the world and it isn't.
I wish President Bush would try to make this country less hated. He could do it if he set his mind to it.
To begin with, we should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own - for our own sake. Iraq isn't our problem. It's the world's problem.
When the president spoke at the United Nations, he came off as arrogant and it made all of us seem arrogant. We are a little arrogant, of course, and we ought to watch that.
The United States can't force its ideas on the whole world. We have great military power and a store of nuclear and biological weapons that would send us running to the U.N. for help if any other country had as many.
The trouble with our weapons is they don't work against one terrorist with a jar of anthrax or a religious nut with a truckload of dynamite. We're wasting our money on weapons we can't use.
It doesn't matter what I think, but I think like millions of Americans and they do matter. I was opposed to going into Iraq without the approval of the U.N. Things went well at first and I decided I was wrong and apologized.
Now I want to apologize again. I want to apologize for apologizing. We should not have attacked Iraq without the OK of the United Nations. It wasn't all President Bush's fault. U.N. delegates were infuriating - sitting on their hands.
It's an ineffective, namby-pamby organization. The French and the Germans were against attacking Iraq because they do a lot of business there.
The president made the mistake though of deciding to attack anyway and now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it and too many of our guys are dying with it.
I hope we remain the strongest country in the world but it isn't a sure thing that we'll always be what we are today.
Look what's happened to Great Britain, France, and Germany. They aren't what they were. Things change in the world. It could happen to us - may be happening.
It happened to the great Greek and Roman civilizations. They didn't disappear because there was anything wrong with the ideals on which those civilizations were based. They disappeared because there got to be fewer and fewer Greeks and Romans who believed in those ideals, and they were taken over by people who didn't believe in them at all.
We've got some people who don't believe in our American ideals -- so watch out.
Written By Andy Rooney © MMIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Send them a comment on this one. This one is WAY over the top.
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Ah, but Clinton and Chirac didn't get UN approval for their 1999 War on Serbia...and little old Andy Rooney didn't bother to criticize that small oversight.
There is, we call Him God.
Saddam had the UN on his payroll with the Oil for Food program so Kofi and his buds weren't about to cut him off. Andy would rather have the UN dictate US foreign policy than the President. What a loser.
Time to put this old fartbag out to pasture with Dan Rather and most of the network dinosaurs.
Times are a changin and the old establishment still has it's head up it's arse.
Even the youth of Iran are more politically savy than these old fartbags!
I don't.
There is, we call Him God.
We've got some people who don't believe in our American ideals -- so watch out.
Yes, and they are all represented at the United Nations.
Yep. They do business with known dictators and keep them in power because they want cheap gasoline (or "petrol").
CNN kept their mouths quiet about torture and murder in Iraq so that they could keep their Baghdad bureau.
No blood for ratings and no blood for oil. There does not have to be a war for blood to be spilled when a blood thirsty dictator (and his 2 sons) are in power.
NO KIDDING!!!!!!! They need to check this poor man in...right away!! His dementia was never more obvious than with tonight's drivel....absolutely incoherent!!
It's embarrassing to every intelligent conservative here. The only thing I find more infuriating than articles like this one are the masses of 'conservatives' who label anybody they disagree with as a 'communist'... without having a clue as to how that term applies to the person they have just labeled.
Relax, and take a deep breath before you start attacking people you don't even know. As for getting into a tit for tat as to what the definition of a "Commie" is -- forget it. I went back and read some of your other posts and am not interested.
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