what does it mean to be a liberal today? apparently, to take the side of murderous thugs against your own country at a time of war, and to make common cause with david duke. http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/15/things_are_coming_to_a_head.php [rquoter]Does running for President allow a candidate to freelance at a time of war by talking to our enemies and triangulating against the president? Why is Gov. Richardson talking to North Koreans, or Sen. Kerry trying to talk to the Iranians, or Sen. Bayh to the Syrians? Wouldn’t that be like a Tom DeLay talking to Milosevic to undermine Clinton during the Kosovo bombing? Or Trent Lott dealing with the Taliban as Clinton sent cruise missiles against them? Perhaps in the interest of fairness, readers can cite past examples where Republican Senators and Presidential candidates went abroad, undercut Democratic foreign policy at a time of war, and made statements that were welcomed by our enemies. I know Senators of both parties talked to Saddam in 1989-90 and often nearly empathized with him, but we were not yet at war with him. Nota bene: Senator Nelson just returned from talking in Mr. Assad’s Syria—the serial murderer of Lebanese reformers, the clearinghouse for Hezbollah, the refuge for the killers of Americans in Iraq—with assurances that Syria wishes to be a stabilizing factor in the region. Sen. Kerry in Cairo just praised Hosni Mubarak, lauding him by chastising President Bush’s failure to listen to this voice of reason and his criticisms of the United States. And why not listen to such advice, since this autocrat has been the recipient of billions in American aid, while squelching all reform for some thirty years in the bargain? No doubt Kerry also lectured Mubarak about once hyping the WMD threat (“Mubarak lied, thousands died?”). Remember, the Egyptian strongman, as part of his reservations about Iraq, had warned our generals that American troops would be targeted with gasses of all sorts by Saddam. Kerry also called for new talks with Iran—a rogue state presently in the middle of uranium enrichment, supplying IEDs to the militias in Iraq, promising to wipe out Israel, and hosting a Holocaust denial love fest in Teheran. Surely if the senator once denigrated our own soldiers as terrorizing Iraqis he can at least say that Iranians do the same? Jimmy Carter is publicizing his indictment of Israel as an apartheid state, this apparently awful democracy that is the only country in the present Middle East where Arabs freely vote in safety, publish their views without censorship, and enjoy a material existence unknown in the West Bank. Perhaps he can offer suggestions on how to deal with Iran, since the last time he entered into that diplomatic arena he sent Ramsey Clark as an official envoy to apologize for American sins, to offer a new partnership, and in vain to beg for the return of the hostages. And we know the results of that gambit—and the subsequent moral careers of both the sender and his emissary. The Iraq Study Group insists that it is not in the long-term interest of either Syria or Iran to perpetuate the present chaos (i.e., Americans soldiers and Iraqi reformers being blown up) in Iraq. But Iran’s own military commanders praise the present violence there for tying down American forces, and presumably giving them a pass to continue their bomb-making, whether nuclear or IEDs. Among the most prominent who praise Iran’s positive role is David Duke, who at last has found a kindred host government. So all in all, it’s been a strange week, in a strange war.[/rquoter]
Yeah, those liberals are anti-american. Let's put them in jail where they belong. Kerry is a triator. He shoud be arrested. Talking to the Iranians????? Really? And the liberals supported Saddam, and dictators like Mubarak. Liberals have created the problems in the middle east. They are anti-semetic, and anti-American. They have crossed the lines of being terrorist apologist to being terrorist supporters. They have emboldened terrorists and helped to destablize Iraq, and what's worse, they have made America look week by focusing on Bush instead of America. Guys like Kerry should resign. They have run this country into the ground the past 6 years. And now at a time of war, they take the enemies side. Makes me so mad! We should send these liberals into the jaws of Al Qaeda, and they will eithe join Al Qaeda and or be killed, and then they will understand that being a self-hating America isn't going to scare these enemies away! GO TEAM AMERICA!
Need I state the obvious that Mubarak is an American ally and not an enemy of the US and that GW Bush has met and praised Mubarak. As far as meeting with Syrian and Iranian leaders. Republican James Baker has revealed that he has met with those leaders already and is enocuraging further meetings with them.
Common cause with David Duke? You mean former Republican Party gubernatorial candidate David Duke? Why I guess that's bipartisanship then.
the lines really are blurred. what does it mean to be a conservative? does spending more money than all previous 42 presidents combined make one a conservative? (bush only took about 4 years to do this, btw) does selling out out our country and handing over our sovereignty to the north american union make one a conservative? does supporting policies of torture and secret prisons make one a conservative? does eroding the constitution, which you SWORE to uphold make one a conservative? (i say no, it makes you a traitor) does illegally spying on the american people and than lying about it make you a conservative? does lying to the american people pretty much everytime you open your mouth make you a conservative? does cavorting w/ male prostitues like jeff gannon make one a conservative? i really dont know anymore?
What a crap post, basso. Sadly, I'm not surprised. I guess you just can't help yourself. Instead of slandering millions of people while "wondering" why some of our present and former elected officials are attempting to talk to the major players in the region, you might consider why your hero, Mister Bush, refuses to, and why he's busy ****-canning the report and recommendations of his father's friends. D&D. Go Can some Peaches.
basso is still stinging from the Felix debacle last week and wants to stir some more **** as a distraction.
He has been busy plotting his revenge down at the local synagogue with his friends, Tiberius Gaius Liebowitz and Rabbi Cassius Aurelius Rubinfeld, Junior.
