I also posted this on the humor board.....

"Please read and think."






    There were 39 combat related killings
    in Iraq during the month of January.....
    In the fair city of Detroit there were
    35 murders in the month of January.


    That's just one American city,
    about as deadly as the entire war torn country of
    Iraq.


    When some claim President Bush shouldn't
    have started this war, state the following ..


    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 18,334 per year.


    John F. Kennedy...
    started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
    Vietnam never attacked us.


    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 Libya,
    Iran and North Korea
    without firing a shot,
    and captured a terrorist who slaughtered
    300,000 of his own people.


    The Democrats are complaining
    about how long th e 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 Ted 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 Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
    The Military morale is high!


    The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize
    the facts.

    PASS THIS ON!  THANKS!

Hint:  The answer is Zero.  

Certainly not any reason for us take the focus OFF of Al Qaida and Osama Bin Laden, so we could go on an unrelated misadventure in Iraq.  Which, BTW, has gotten over 900 of our finest and bravest people killed, and another 5000 more maimed.

GWB has stated it is a was on terror, NOT JUST a war on Al-Quida.
Saddam was paying 10K to the families of Homicie bombers. Seems pretty straight forward to me...

BYW, how do you define maimed? According to Kerry, he was maimed 3 times in 4 months...

   Had we attacked Mexico after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, your comparison could have historic parallel.  Germany was on the brink of conquering all of Europe, while Saddam's army was a burned out rag tag force who couldn't even move around in their own country beyond the no-fly zones.  Our forces were patrolling Iraq's skies everyday but I certainly don't remember reading about inspectors destroying most of Hitler's weapons and allied forces imposing no-fly zones in Germany.  
   Within a year Kennedy realized he was being fed a bunch of crap about Vietnam and was already deliberating ideas on minimizing involvement and pulling out entirely.  Which is probably the real reason why a bullet found his head.
   Clinton should have stopped the genocide in Rwanda and was right to stop the genocide in Bosnia.  
   However, Tom Delay and the rest of the republiCONS didn't want to "liberate" the people of Bosnia.  I distinctly remember how they said the soverignty of Milosevic should not be violated, and somehow they felt that Clinton's blowjob was a bigger crime than genocide.  So the BS about liberation is also discredited.
   Bush himself said yesterday that even if he knew there were no WMD he still would have invaded.  Which means WMD was never the real reason to invade or he is just a warmonger plain and simple.   And Wolfowitz admitted a very long time ago that WMD was settled on for bureaucratic reasons.  
   And to finish in your poetic spirit here is a line for you....
 
It took Bush less time after
9-11 to "think" Saddam was
behind it then it took Monica
to finish blowing Clinton!!!!!

Perhaps you mean Hamas?  Of course, they've never committed a terrorist attack against the U.S.  You aren't suggesting that we are fighting the Iraq war for ISRAEL, are you?   I never heard Bush mention that when he asked for authorization to go to war.  He did, specifically, mention a gathering threat TO THE U.S. from Weapons of Mass Destruction, including Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological weapons under Saddam - a justification that events have proven to be completely wrong.  But perhaps you missed that memo yourself.

And, BTW, I would define "maimed" as having been wounded to the point of being permanently disabled or impaired.  So, for example, Bush maimed himself by having killed a significant percentage of his brain cells from binge alcohol abuse and cocaine abuse in his younger days - resulting in the obviously diminished mental capacity we see presently, but Kerry is not maimed from a few minor shrapnel wounds which have had no long term detriment to his activity.



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Totally unconnected- unless you are gonna start rounding up all the US, European and Latin Americans who give to Palestinian charities.

Not saying I'm totally against that- just it has large political costs.

And I seemed to have missed the round up of thousands of Irish Americans who have funded the IRA for the last, say 150 YEARS?  So many policemen would have to arrested that law enforcement in SF, Boston, NY and Chicago might be shut down.

How about Right wing Jewish Extremists?  They are pretty much all funded here.  And Basque American funding of Eta?  

This is NOT a war on Terror.  If so, we should have finished Afghanistan first.

Never heard the maimed comment.

the post 9/11 speech. Hammas, Hezbolah and others were mentioned. It IS a global war on terror. I believe that he is currently targeting what he believes to be the greatest threats to the U.S. Smart move in my book

While I agree with some of the sentiment of this post, it does compare some apples to oranges.  Like comparing the time to wage war on Iraq to the Florida recount.  Apples to oranges.  And we still aren't done in Iraq (despite the aircraft carrier press photo of Bush's).

So I would contend that this is simple revisionism, designed to obscure the fact that we can't find any WMDs, despite statements that we KNEW Saddam had them, and they were a gathering, soon to be imminent threat to the U.S.

BTW, saying you KNOW Saddam has WMDs, when you merely THINK Saddam has WMDs, happens to be a LIE.  Just one of many from the Shrub administration to justify this fiasco of a quagmire of a war.

Reon't you remember

So we are going into Syria, Iran and Lebanon?  Did not get that memo.  THAT would really stretch our forces thin unless we come up with a couple of corps.

I'd like to say Bush talks a good game, but we all know what I mean.  He has a good game sometimes written for him to butcher, but the reality so far has been a poorly handled Afghansitan campaign (toppled the Taliban-good- let Al-Quada escape-bad Did not finish-bad)and a goofy off-topic war on Iraq that was also not thought out.  As well as a wierd cluster fuck war on Terror at home that confuses and scares as much is it re-assures.  Do you think Heaven's Gate is a Great movie?

You don't seem to have let the FACT that Iraq was NOT A CREDIBLE THREAT sink in.  I think a bubble bath with some Champers while watching some reputable news org might be the tonic you need to get your faculties back in order!  Click OFF the Fox- click ON the BBC or Deutsche Vella (sp?) and watch.  The truth shall set you free- and make your posts more coherent.

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Maybe not...

It seems Libya stepped in line as soon as Saddam got dragged out of that fox hole. Knock down a few and you will be suprised how the rest will come in line. Pretty easy concept and smart politics...

BTW, the left was decrying how we would get bogged down in Afghanistan and stuck there for years in combat. WRONG!!

3 years and counting. With an election coming up.  We are doing pretty well there all things considered but not out of the woods by  long shot.  And way behind on recovery (and yes I know its from 30 years of crap).

a.k.a. Suicide Bombers (hope that clears it up for you.

"Hammas has never commited a terroist act against the US" - sdstud

WHAT!! How many Americna citizens have died over seas from Hammas bombers. Or is your attitude, "Well, you left US soil, so FU"? Just because an attack does not happen on US soil does not mean it is not an attack against the US. You are TOTALLY wrong on that point! I've added a link with just one example, but there are plenty to choose from.

BTW, your boy Kerry also preached about Saddam's WMD's, so I guess you will be voting for Nader!