As the title implies... If you are a democrat or a liberal this is NOT for you! Leave now! If you stay and get upset don't blame me.

 

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's one American city folks, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq!

Worst president in history?

The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor.

Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11.

Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

Lincoln allowed the US to fall into civil war. How would you like a nice Civil war today? You could go and kill your out of state relatives!

FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did.

From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.

John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops and Kennedy was honoring that commitment.

Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.

Worst president in history? Come on!

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!

Our military is GREAT!

Posted at: 5/31/2004 05:44:57 PM : Permalink

 


Posted at: 2/18/2004 12:11:43 PM : Permalink

 

The couple have refused to make any comment on her alleged links with Senator Kerry, who is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heiress to the food empire.

No comment, this is very bad for Kerry.

Posted at: 2/14/2004 11:55:06 PM : Permalink

 

A JUST WAR: And it is in the context of such an argument that the president should clearly restate that this was nevertheless a just war. It was never incumbent on the world community to prove that Iraq had dismantled its WMD program before the war. It was incumbent on Saddam to show otherwise. He refused - either because he was being lied to and wanted to conceal weapons that did not exist, or because such an admission of impotence would have been terribly damaging to the dictator's reputation, both internally and with regard to Iran, or because he was slowly going nutsand his regime was collapsing from within. But what matters is that he refused. The responsibility for the war therefore lies squarely with the dictator. Moreover, we know that if Saddam had been left in power and sanctions lifted, he would have attempted to restart such programs - and indeed Kay has found a vast apparatus of components, scientists and plans to achieve exactly such a result. Kay has now told us that Saddam was working on a ricin-based biological weapon right up to the eve of the invasion. We know now something else: his tyranny was worse, more depraved and more brutal than we believed to be the case before. The moral and strategic case for his removal appears stronger now than ever. We also have a chance to move one part of the Arab world toward some kind of open, pluralist society. Since the appeal of Islamo-fascism is deeply connected to the backwardness and tyranny of so much of the Arab world, this is a fundamental and critical part of the response to 9/11. Iraq was and is a critical component of the war on terror. It's an attempt to deal with the issue at its very roots. I believe the victims of 9/11 deserve nothing less.

Well said

Posted at: 1/26/2004 03:01:30 AM : Permalink

 
A saying an old friend of mine used to say comes to mind, "If he's not gay, he's missing a good chance."



Posted at: 1/22/2004 12:11:18 PM : Permalink

 

"When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime," he said in an interview with Portuguese cable news channel SIC Noticias.

Posted at: 1/9/2004 11:17:21 AM : Permalink

 

"January 6, 2004

Did any of you wonder, when you saw this photo of Howard Dean and Bill Bradley Tuesday in Iowa, how the diminutive Dr. Dean, who claims to be 5'8" and three quarters(footnote), appears the same size as the 6'5" former NBA star? We did too.

Click here for the pictures and story.

(footnote) 'Chatting with reporters on his campaign jet recently, Dean complained about a New York Times story that had described him as 'diminutive.' Dean first noted that the Times reporter, Adam Nagourney, is 'about five-three.' Then he added, 'I don't know that I'm so short.' Well, a reporter asked, how tall are you? 'I'm five-eight,' Dean replied. 'Almost five-nine.' Dean probably should have stopped here, but he didn't. 'Five-eight and three-quarters,' he continued. 'The reason I don't tell anybody about the three-quarters is that it sounds like I'm very sensitive about my height. And I'm not.' Where would anyone get that impression?' "

Posted at: 1/7/2004 01:15:24 PM : Permalink

 

"January 6, 2004, 8:44 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa - Federal spending was the topic and Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich came prepared with a pie chart to argue his point about a bloated Pentagon budget.

But although many listened to Tuesday's presidential debate, few could see the Ohio congressman's prop.

The debate was broadcast only on National Public Radio.

As Kucinich challenged Democratic front-runner Howard Dean for refusing to acknowledge that the Pentagon budget needs to be cut, debate moderator Neal Conan of NPR interrupted.

"Congressman Kucinich is holding up a pie chart, which is not truly effective on radio," Conan told his listeners.

Kucinich was not deterred.

"Well, it's effective if Howard can see it," he replied.

Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press "

Posted at: 1/7/2004 12:05:04 PM : Permalink

 

"All of this twisted, blame-America-Bush-bashing and mind-numbing negativism has obscured some very important facts that need to be re-emphasized:

Saddam is responsible for two horrific wars and the deaths of hundreds of thousands. His record is replete with the kind of atrocities that brought the United States into two world wars, as well as a bloody campaign in Korea and the war I fought in - Vietnam. He raped, tortured, robbed, starved and murdered his own people. He acquired and used weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors and countrymen. He attempted to assassinate an American president. He trained and supported Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who killed Americans. Are we to believe that Al Qaeda was the only Middle Eastern terror group that Saddam did not support?"

Posted at: 12/20/2003 01:39:52 AM : Permalink

 

'She said, 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?'' said Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. 'She was not smiling.'

Posted at: 12/17/2003 02:15:28 PM : Permalink

 

"Dean said it was not worth trying to woo French support on foreign policy initiatives. 'The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy,' he said. "

I spotted this on Andrew Sullivan.com. You guys should really check him out.

Posted at: 12/16/2003 05:09:01 PM : Permalink

 
"The interview, the first time Dean has been questioned in detail about his foreign policy views, appeared to be part of an effort to transform Dean from a candidate known largely for a single, defining issue - opposition to the war in Iraq - to someone with the gravitas to be president and deal with the complex foreign policy challenges of the age."

HEY! Look, I found the gravitas... Is anybody surprised?

Posted at: 12/14/2003 03:07:10 AM : Permalink

 
"NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years.

The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3% this year."

More...:

Posted at: 12/11/2003 10:41:22 PM : Permalink

 
December 05, 2003

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - It's a little-known footnote in postwar Iraq that an unassuming Army Civil Affairs captain named Kent Lindner has a bevy of blushing female fans.

Every time Lindner checks in on the group of young, deaf Iraqi seamstresses at their factory here, the women swarm him with admiration. 'I love you!' one of them writes in the dust on Lindner's SUV.

Such small-time adoration is not the stuff of headlines against the backdrop of a country painfully and often violently evolving from war. So on this day, when Lindner and his fellow soldiers are cheered as they fire the deaf workers' boss, a woman who has been locking the seamstresses in closets, holding their pay and beating them, the lack of TV cameras on hand is no surprise.

But later that night, mortars hit nearby. Cameras are rolling, and 15 minutes later folks back home instead see another news clip of Baghdad's latest violence. It's a soda-straw view that frustrates soldiers, like those in Lindner's Civil Affairs unit, who are slowly trying to stitch together the peace while the final stages of the war play out on television.

'We've got a lot of good things going on, but when I went home (on leave), people were just like 'We never hear that stuff,' ' said Civil Affairs Pvt. Amy Schroeder. 'That's what makes the families worry.'

What Iraq looks like on TV, and what Iraq is like for the 130,000 troops living here, sometimes feels like two different realities."

More...

Posted at: 12/10/2003 12:14:06 PM : Permalink

 
"A crowd of about 100 people attended, and roughly half of them were members of the news media."

"This is huge," said Donna Brazile, who was Mr. Gore's campaign manager in 2000. "It gives Dean what Dean has been missing most: stature."

What, no gravitas?

In 2000, Dr. Dean, then the governor of Vermont, considered running for president and met with Mr. Gore, who dissuaded him in what one former Gore aide described as "awkward conversation." At the time, the aide said, Dr. Dean told Mr. Gore that "he's going to challenge him for the presidency," and Mr. Gore "made a bunch of snide comments after he left."

"Aides to Mr. Gephardt seemed equally surprised, noting that Mr. Gephardt had put aside his own bid for the presidency in 2000 to endorse Mr. Gore."

"If that's true, it would be surprising," said Steve Murphy, Mr. Gephardt's campaign manager. "Al Gore and Dick Gephardt fought side by side to pass the Clinton economic plan, to defend against the Republican efforts to cut Medicare, to pass the assault weapons ban and to save affirmative action. Howard Dean was on the other side of every one of those fights."


Posted at: 12/9/2003 01:54:06 PM : Permalink

 
The problem with this tactic is that it isn't true. However, this minor obstacle shouldn't be a problem for dems. It was Huey Long, I believe, who said, "A lie is as good as the truth, you just have to say it more often." This is what the dems are using to gen up their troops. But to recap, in case you've forgotten, here are the facts in a nutshell:

• Gore had a 25% lead going into the race and lost it.


• Gore lost his own state.


• Gore lost Clinton's state.


• If he had won either of those he would be president now.


• The Florida supreme court (all dems) violated the constitution in it's finding. Don't believe me? The chief justice, and the oldest back justice of the Florida supreme court said so in their dissent. The vote was 4-3 and those two voted against it.


• Gore knew he lost but tried to steal the election and it was the US Supreme Court who prevented it.


• After the fact and with multiple counts by multiple news services Bush still won. Even if the courts had let the count go on Bush would have won. It is only possible to steal an election you have won if you have the convoluted mind of a dem.

The dems are doing this because they are following in the footsteps of Huey Long. Huey died, (Gov of Louisiana many years ago) killed in office. He was a colorful and crooked character and he was a dem.

Posted at: 12/7/2003 01:20:08 AM : Permalink

 
"I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything'? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f - - - it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did,"

I guess this is the sound of frustration from the impending loser to Dean. Pity. Perhaps if he had told the truth about the war he wouldn't have to say it was "f---"ed up.

Posted at: 12/7/2003 12:56:28 AM : Permalink

 
"By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 5, 2003; Page A31

Diane Rehm: 'Why do you think he [Bush] is suppressing that [Sept. 11] report?'

Howard Dean: 'I don't know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I've heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved -- is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?'

-- 'The Diane Rehm Show,' NPR, Dec. 1

It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: 'Secondary Mania,' Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven't been looking for new ones. But it's time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.

Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush. Now, I cannot testify to Howard Dean's sanity before this campaign, but five terms as governor by a man with no visible tics and no history of involuntary confinement is pretty good evidence of a normal mental status. When he avers, however, that 'the most interesting' theory as to why the president is 'suppressing' the Sept. 11 report is that Bush knew about Sept. 11 in advance, it's time to check on thorazine supplies."

more

Posted at: 12/5/2003 01:01:21 PM : Permalink

 
"Planting trees to curb the effects of global warming is unlikely to work.

A US-Brazilian team has found that some parts of the Amazon rainforest emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) than they absorb in very wet conditions.

Their report, published in the journal Science, says previous studies have almost certainly over-estimated how much CO2 the Amazon can take in."

Posted at: 12/5/2003 04:09:39 AM : Permalink

 
It is a sad comment that I don't feel I can put this on the prebleny site. There are those who would object to having this there.

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We knew there was a dinner planned with ambassador Bremer and LTG Sanchez.

There were 600 seats available and all the units in the division were tasked with filling a few tables.

Naturally, the 501st MI battalion got our table. Soldiers were grumbling about having to sit through another dog-and-pony show, so we had to pick soldiers to attend. I chose not to go.

But, about 1500 the G2, LTC xxxxx, came up to me and with a smile, asked me to come to dinner with him, to meet him in his office at 1600 and bring a camera. I didn't really care about getting a picture with Sanchez or Bremer, but when the division's senior intelligence officer asks you to go, you go.

We were seated in the chow hall, fully decorated for thanksgiving when all kinds of secret service guys showed up.

That was my first clue, because Bremer's been here before and his personal security detachment is not that big. Then BG Dempsey got up to speak, and he welcomed ambassador Bremer and LTG Sanchez.

Bremer thanked us all and pulled out a piece of paper as if to give a speech. He mentioned that the President had given him this thanksgiving speech to give to the troops. He then paused and said that the senior man present should be the one to give it. He then looked at Sanchez, who just smiled. Bremer then said that we should probably get someone more senior to read the speech.

Then, from behind the camouflage netting, the President of the United States came around.

The mess hall actually erupted with hollering. Troops bounded to their feet with shocked smiles and just began cheering with all their hearts. The building actually shook. It was just unreal.

I was absolutely stunned. Not only for the obvious, but also because I was only two tables away from the podium.

There he stood, less than thirty feet away from me! The cheering went on and on and on. Soldiers were hollering, cheering, and a lot of them were crying. There was not a dry eye at my table. When he stepped up to the cheering, I could clearly see tears running down his cheeks.

It was the most surreal moment I've had in years.

Not since my wedding and xxxxx being born. Here was this man, Our President, came all the way around the world, spending 17 hours on an airplane and landing in the most dangerous airport in the world, where a plane was shot out of the sky not six days before. Just to spend two hours with his troops. Only to get on a plane and spend another 17 hours flying back. It was a great moment, and I will never forget it.

He delivered his speech, which we all loved, when he looked right at me and held his eyes on me.

Then he stepped down and was just mobbed by the soldiers. He slowly worked his way all the way around the chow hall and shook every last hand extended.

Every soldier who wanted a photo with the President got one.

I made my way through the line, got dinner, then wolfed it down as he was still working the room. You could tell he was really enjoying himself. It wasn't just a photo opportunity. This man was actually enjoying himself!

He worked his way over the course of about 90 minutes towards my side of the room. Meanwhile, I took the opportunity to shake a! few hands. I got a picture with Ambassador Bremer, Talabani (acting Iraqi president) and Achmed Chalabi (another member of the ruling council) and Condaleeza Rice, who was there with him. I felt like I was drunk.

He was getting closer to my table so I went back over to my seat. As he passed and posed for photos, he looked me in the eye and "How you doin,' captain." I smiled and said "God bless you, sir." To which he responded

"I'm proud of what you do, captain." Then moved on.

Posted at: 12/4/2003 10:59:46 PM : Permalink

 
"The goal of the Baathists in Iraq is not to remove the coalition forces by military means, but to so weaken Western morale that the American and British publics decide to throw in the towel. A critical part of the enemy's calculation is the lesson it took from Beirut and Somalia: that the American public cannot tolerate any casualties. So broadcasting every funeral plays directly into the hands of the Baathists. It's what they want. Why does it honor soldiers killed by these thugs to give the enemy an easy propaganda victory?"

Posted at: 12/3/2003 11:52:30 AM : Permalink

 
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 — Beyond issues like Iraq and the economy is one political reality that both the White House and Democrats say is already shaping next year's presidential race: If President Bush carries the same states in 2004 that he won in 2000, he will win seven more electoral votes.
"Before a vote is cast, we've increased our margin,' Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for Mr. Bush's campaign, said. 'In a race that's very close, those small readjustments in the electoral map will have significance.""

Posted at: 12/2/2003 05:44:56 PM : Permalink

 
Image that you are Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein and you wanted to give some money to a political party or a candidate in America in order to help you win your war against America. Which party, which candidate would you give your money too?

Posted at: 12/2/2003 03:48:44 PM : Permalink

 
"December 2, 2003 -- SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has just returned from a badwill tour of Iraq, seeking to use the facade of saluting the troops and sharing their Thanksgiving to undermine the political support for their mission."

Posted at: 12/2/2003 02:52:15 PM : Permalink

 
"The common wisdom holds that 'both parties' have to appeal to the extremes during the primary and then move to the center for the general election. To the contrary, both parties run for office as conservatives. Once they have fooled the voters and are safely in office, Republicans sometimes double-cross the voters. Democrats always do."

Posted at: 11/28/2003 10:59:19 PM : Permalink