More good stuff from the NRO

[HankMorgan]

Jed Babbin of the National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/babbin/babbin082603.asp)

[sliverchrist]

Iraq holds great promise for its people and the whole Middle East.

i hope he means promise beyond US imperialism.


We are not now, and have never been, a colonial power. Never — from WWI France to 2003 Iraq — have we tried to keep or exploit for our own purposes any nation we have freed from oppression.

what about south america? but wait, no one ver sees that so it doesn't count.


Third, and most important, is that we have no choice but to end the threat of terrorism from these nations.


no doubt by any means possible, or just the preffered.


and the same nations that made a shambles of the Security Council will do so again and again. By refusing to stand against these terrorist regimes, they will again remove the diplomatic option.


made shambles for haveing balls, thats too bad. or they just knew where it was going and wanted a clean coinciess, <sorry about the spelling>


Its soldiers can fight and we will — unless we can bring about a regime change there by covert means — have to fight them sooner or later. Global terrorism will go on as long as the mullahs rule Iran. Saudi Arabia will be the last to fall. Its dedication to terrorism runs as deep as its oil wealth and its international support — bought over the years — remains so strong even we have not yet publicly called them what they are, the bankers and farmers of terrorism.

why not just flip em the bird, press the button and blow them the hell up? jesus.

thanks for the podt hank. i always like the ones that give some good links for reading, being as I never get enough on my own. :lol:

[RevolucioN NoW]

governments of Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and others have decided to make a stand against freedom in Iraq

To say that Iraq is now &#39;free&#39; is a falsity stated only by those with their heads shoved permanently and rather securely up their asses. The Iraqi &#39;government&#39; consists of 30 unelected emigre figureheads who&#39;s leader Ahmed Chalibi is a convicted con artist and has lied for many years regarding the said WMD capacity of Iraq. Sounds like a person Dubya can get along with. As for security, it exists only in baghdad and other key cities, mainly due to represive measures taken by religous fundamentalists who often advocae terrorism. As for the role of foriegn countries, the Saudis are american allies which have a very large america supplied arsenal of terror, including M1 tanks, AH-64&#39;s and six billion worth of material for torutre during the 1990&#39;s. The islamic/facist regime in Iran is a direct result of american meddling in iranian affairs from 1950-79.


We are not now, and have never been, a colonial power. Never — from WWI France to 2003 Iraq — have we tried to keep or exploit for our own purposes any nation we have freed from oppression.

Hehe, the bullshit brigade of the right moves in once more. the US has displayed a knack for imperailist meddling in other nations, while these measures are not blatant colonialism (well leave that for Sharon) they are attempts by the US to push its will on the regimes that rule many of the worlds nations. The US has displayed imperialist ambitions towards to many regimes for me to bother listing.


Colin Powell went to Syria in May, and extracted promises from Bashar Assad that the terrorist union hall that Damascus has become would be closed down

OH MY GOD the US does something that merely resembles diplomacy and the right screams treason and terrorist. At least the civilians of Syria are saved from US bombs for a while.


They will not permit a free Iraq, and will continue their subversive and violent intervention unless we stop it.

Any evidence of these violent interventions by the terrorist regimes. anyway if the iraqi people ELECT a religious government will bush accept this, or will he intervene, that is if the US allows for democratic elections at all.


Our media, supporting the usual suspects of the left, are running the "quagmire" play from their Vietnam playbook

The media is leftist, could have fooled me. anyway i would describe 2-3 dead americans every day, sabotage and other attacks against coalition forces and attempts at reconstruction (of the oil industry that is) failing as a quagmire, wouldnt you.

The stupidity of the extreme right never ceases to amaze, i give a big HIEL BUSH to the postie of this article

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