Comments on: I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This

By: VRB

VRB — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:06:59 +0000

From what I have looked up, ( didn’t know what dhimmi meant) I don’t see how it applies.
Anyone can call someone a fool when they don’t agree, So what’s the big deal. You act as if I really was making policy. This is just my opinion and I don’t believe there are any politicians left or right who think like I do. And how do you know how that policy would have served us. It might have scared the living sh*t out of the terrorist. Let them know they have no place to hide. If you thought that Iraq was making any difference, then how come North Korea is flaunting its bomb. For a good price you don’t think they would not be willing to sell to terrorist? Kim Jong Il seems crazy enough to just give it away.

By: Wulf

Wulf — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:24:28 +0000

I don’t see your logic when you say Iraq was the next logical place.

What Republicans mean when they say that as follows;
1) Iraq’s continued flouting of the UN was frustrating and embarassing, and it encouraged the rest of the world to expect that kind of treatment in a similar situation. It encouraged terrorists to think they could handle the consequences of standing up to the USA and the UN.
2) Saddam was a soft target compared to the regimes in Iran and North Korea.
3) It is possible to draw anti-American Islamic fighters from Morocco to Malaysia to come fight our troops in Iraq instead of planning attacks against US civilians in the US itself.

VRB, you sound like a fool. Advocating a scorched-earth policy in Afghanistan and hinting at invasions of Pakistan is hardly the foreign policy that would have served us best. Let me take a wild guess… you ever throw the word “dhimmi” around?

By: VRB

VRB — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:23:24 +0000

BurtB,
I don’t see your logic when you say Iraq was the next logical place. If we thougt WMD’s were going to be sougth out, why would you look for incomplete technolgy when there were better places to get. With the money Bin Laden had, don’t you think he could have bougth some of the same scientist Iran has. As for UN violations, it had already passed the time to do anything about them. And how many other places have UN violations. I don’t think we should have made friends with Pakistan until we had had caught Bin Laden. I think his capture would have stopped more of the terrorism than this war. His mystique would have disappeared and he could no longer been viewed as near godlike leader. We should have lusted for revenge, and scorched the earth in Afghanistan. I think it would also be best if we stopped trying fight as if morally superior, we should fight to strike terror in them.

By: BurtB

BurtB — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:05:36 +0000

Richard Fields is incorrect.

“Giving all the power to the GOP has brought us war”

No, the Terrorists brought us War.

And Saddam and his 17 UN violations was just the next logical place to take the war in our effort to deny the Terrorists places where they have free rein.

If we do not finish up and go after Iran, there will be Nukes in New York by 2020

By: Richard Fields

Richard Fields — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:03:58 +0000

While the Monica follies provided distraction we did have a centrist Democratic government with Clinton. And more to the point a divided government. Which was good because the Democrats checked the worst instincts of the GOP and vice versa. Very little bad got done. And a few good things, like welfare reform, did get done. The budget got balanced (albeit using bogus government cash accounting principles which would get a corporate CEO prison time). Giving all the power to the GOP has brought us war, bigger deficits, more welfare (the medicare drug benefit), more intrusions upon our privacy (the Patriot Act), and a spending spree that makes LBJ look like a tight fisted Scotsman. The only Republican who will get my vote this November is Tom McClintock for Lieutenant Governor. Elsewhere on the ballot I’m voting Libertarian or Democratic if the LP doesn’t have a candidate.

By: VRB

VRB — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:23:40 +0000

Hundreds of thousands to millions there? You may be a minority. People usally get the government they want in a society like ours. When it comes to having bread the society will tolerate a lot. Only so many ‘individuals” will go down.

By: Stephen Macklin

Stephen Macklin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:49:23 +0000

Libertarianism to me is best summed up by Thomas Paine “That government is best which governs least.”

That can hardly describe the Democratic party – an d increasingly cannot describe the GOP either.