Excuse me, but even the French headlines said "We are all Americans today." Arab countries throughout the world condemned the actions of the hijackers. We had nearly unanimous worldwide support for the action in Afghanistan and Bush decided to throw out all of that goodwill to start a war that did not need to be fought RIGHT THEN.
Was Zell Miller voting on PRINCIPLE when voting on defense and intel bills? His voting record on those bills are identical to the voting record of John Kerry. Was Zell Miller supporting someone on PRINCIPLE when he was working with Lester Mattox?
And those countries support is how relevant? Their soldiers our brave for serving their country, but how meaningful is the contribution of those countries? Especially when compared to the support and aid from other countries in our invasion of Afghanistan it's next to nothing. Look at what help we got during the first Gulf War. In GW1 we had Syrian ground troops marching on our side. Strong leadership and/or a just cause will always gather more meaningful support.
Excuse me but that "We are all Americans..." is the essence of empathizing. We had empathy until Uncle Sam's long fingers started pointing out other suspicious parties. Quaddhafi knew the score and got right.
As has been pointed out, the "support" we got for Iraq didn't rise to anywhere NEAR the level of support we had for the war in Afghanistan because Afghanistan was clearly harboring terrorists and as such was a threat.
No, we had empathy until GWB started pointing fingers at parties that were not a threat, had nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11, and for whom we had questionable "intelligence" provided by a hostile government.
He learned those facial expressions from his party. I'm disappointed that he didn't let out a primal scream ala - Dean...Or shake and spit like Gore...Or point with red-faced wrath like Kennedy... The passion was great from Zell...He has reason to be angry with the neo-demos...
busted! http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83149&perpage=30&pagenumber=1 Flip-flop! Flip-Flop! You're almost as bad as Zell himself! (aside: I think flipflopping arguments are stupid and am only pointing this out for that purpose)
He needs to be dragged out to the back of Uncle Tom's cabin and strung-up. Nothing but an old-south, "yella' dawg" Democrat that slipped through the civil-rights exodous of Dixie-Crats to the Republican party--preferring to "work within" I guess...I wish he would jump ship, good riddance to bad rubish
Kudos to Wolf Blitzer, who's usually a republican softballer, for making Miller look pretty bad in this interview, the last line is hilarious: me angry?
I will give Zell Miller is due because he gave the kind of speech that needed to be made at a political convention in a tightly contested race. Even though he claims to be a Democrat he gave a truer voice to the emotions of the Republican faithful and stripped off the moderate facade that the Republicans put on for two days. In the same way that Al Sharpton did for the Democrats. These are political conventions and they should be polarizing. If they don't get your own supporters rabid or at least annoy your opponents I'm not really sure what value they have to either party.
