posted on June 4, 2004 04:04:22 PM new
Kiara, I remember him reading to the school children for 7 minutes after he was told about the 2nd plane, saying he did so because he didn't want to alarm the children.
Fenix, I was only teasing. In fact, I've never found you to ever be cranky, even though you deserve to be once in a while.
posted on June 4, 2004 04:14:42 PM new
Krafty - I usually try not to post when I am feeling too cranky or irritated. I have a vicious streak that sometimes I know is better to walk away from than let loose (like during last weekends attack-a-thon from the lithium twins). As a general rule - the worse my typing is the crankier I am feeling although I think some of it is just keyboard-computer connection since sometimes entire phrases that I know damn well I typed do not end up in the final product. I think it is a conservative based virus that causes it.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on June 4, 2004 04:15:17 PM new
kiara - Perhaps you should read resolution 1444. It's very clear there will be consequences IF the terms are not met. And the UN Security Council did vote for that 15-0.
We did not need, nor were we required under that resolution to get prior approval from the UN. And all were aware of that because some wanted that clause in there when it was written.
But you still haven't addressed my question to you.
which Arab country you believe has stated saddam should have been allowed to remain in power.
Imo, those who supported leaving saddam in power - supported saddam. And he has stated he saw it that way too.
You're right....none of us are going to change our positions. We either support the actions taken or we don't. But kerry will not be doing anything differently than this President already is doing.
And I fear for my country if we put an ultra-liberal in control of our nation who wants to only have our military act when the UN approves it. The UN is almost totally worthless and has no power to inforce the resolutions it does make. And now we're dealing with the Oil-for-food scandle. Will be interesting to see which countries had their hand in that pot.
posted on June 4, 2004 04:16:49 PM new
Kraft, he could have just told the children that he had something important to do, some important business to take care of. After all, he is the President and kids are supposed to look up to him so they would have understood. It's no different than if a parent gets called away when reading to a child.
But that's just how I think of it and it's always easy to say that after the fact or if you aren't in the situation. Perhaps because I don't have much confidence in Bush for being able to really handle an emergency as he doesn't strike me as a quick thinker. Even when he's asked questions at a press conference he seems to be a bit fuzzy at times when it comes to responses.
posted on June 4, 2004 06:38:46 PM newWhat if he had to go to the bathroom while reading?
Yikes! Kraft, that's an image I didn't really want to think about.
Linda, I'm not playing games. I'm serious. You and I are at opposite ends of the spectrum with our feelings towards President Bush and the war in Iraq and no matter how much we go back and forth neither one of us is going to convince the other to change. You worship, adore and idolize Bush and can see no wrong and I can barely tolerate him after what he's done to America and the rest of the world.
BTW, do you have pin-ups of him on your walls?
I googled Bush pin-up and this was the only one I could find. Almost like a rock star, eh?
posted on June 4, 2004 08:07:04 PM new
Linda, I'm new and may have missed it but could you tell me what Bush has done to make you such a strong supporter.
posted on June 5, 2004 05:29:38 AM new
Linda: Oh I see...another game because now YOU don't wish to answer a question.....fine
Just like you choose not to list the good things Bush has done during his term....a question is a question.
Re-defeat Bush
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In the words from Cher:
We’re gonna love one another ’til morning comes
Sweet salvation for what we’ve done
Give up resisting one by one one by one
posted on June 5, 2004 05:38:04 AM new
Linda: You guys are going to have to make up your minds whether this was planned or unplanned. You can't have it both ways.
I believe the war was planned before Bush took office and it was not planned by Clinton. If a war can be planned why couldn't a plan be set up to prevent 9/11. Oh wait 9 months was not enough time to prevent 9/11 because Clinton didn't have a plan, Bush had to devise a plan because Clinton didn't leave Bush anything.
Linda: IF the war is really a war??? come on..you're kidding right?
Well what would you call it Linda? A disagreement, an exchange of words, a playful fight with guns.
Re-defeat Bush
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In the words from Cher:
We’re gonna love one another ’til morning comes
Sweet salvation for what we’ve done
Give up resisting one by one one by one
We’re gonna love one another
[ edited by logansdad on Jun 5, 2004 12:24 PM ]
Just a suggestion...You need to put quote marks at the beginning and end of Linda's remarks just in case, god forbid, someone might mistake her remark for yours.
And if you want to italicize those nasties just use [i $] at the beginning and [/i] at the end.(wihtout the $ that I included in the first one). Each line needs those tags unless there is no line break by hitting enter.
For example, you can italicize an entire paragraph with only one tag at the beginning and one at the end if you keep typing without hitting enter.
Another way of course is to simply write, Linda says...etc.
posted on June 6, 2004 08:16:18 AM new
there she goes again.....telling everybody just HOW they should approporiately do their OWN posting.
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More Connections
Two new members of the Iraqi interim government insist that Saddam and al Qaeda were linked.
by Stephen F. Hayes
06/03/2004 8:15:00 AM
SADDAM HUSSEIN "always had links with international terrorist organizations."
On the face of it, this is not a controversial statement. It comes from a CNN interview of Iyad Allawi, recently chosen as the interim prime minister of Iraq. Allawi expanded on this assessment in a December 31, 2003, interview with CNN's Bill Hemmer, when he estimated that more than 1,000 al Qaeda terrorists were operating in Iraq. But his more interesting comment came moments later.
The al Qaeda fighters, he said,
were present in Iraq, they came and they were active in Iraq before the war of liberation. They were inflicting a lot of problems on the--and inflaming the situation in northern Iraq, in Iraq Kurdistan. They killed once about a year and a half ago 42 worshipers in one of the mosques in Harachi [ph] in a very ugly way.
Again, on the surface, this was not a particularly revealing statement. After all, Colin Powell told the United Nations Security Council that al Qaeda was operating in Iraq--almost certainly with the knowledge and approval of the Iraqi regime--before the war.
CIA Director George Tenet has testified to the presence of al Qaeda in Iraq on several occasions. Allawi went on:
Those people have had the backing of Saddam prior to liberation, and they remained in Iraq after the collapse, and after the vacuum was created. After the way, they remained in Iraq. Many joined them since then.
