Comments on: 4 thinks I like about the Bush administration http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/ Critical Thinking Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Muttrox http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Muttrox Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:36:31 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-741 JRo, What about Castro? I'm not gonna say he should win a Noble Peace Prize, but it's been oh... 40 years or so since the Cuban Missle Crisis? He's long since been defanged. Hussein -- that's a good one, because it gets to the heart of where folks like me differ from a large part of the country. It has been crystal clear, basically forever, that Hussein, whatever his other crimes, had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al-Queda. Gulf War I took care of him. The resources we spent taking him out and continuing with this mockery of a war could have been used to do something significant about terrorism. Further, because we have wasted so much time, resources, good will, money, american lives, etc. with Hussein and Iraq, we do not have them to do anything good with what we have left. How long did it take us to do the littlest bit of nothing in Darfur? What about Iran, or North Korea? Both of them are basically laughing in our face, because we've bankrupted ourselves in every way conceivable in Iraq. JRo,

What about Castro? I’m not gonna say he should win a Noble Peace Prize, but it’s been oh… 40 years or so since the Cuban Missle Crisis? He’s long since been defanged.

Hussein — that’s a good one, because it gets to the heart of where folks like me differ from a large part of the country. It has been crystal clear, basically forever, that Hussein, whatever his other crimes, had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al-Queda. Gulf War I took care of him. The resources we spent taking him out and continuing with this mockery of a war could have been used to do something significant about terrorism.

Further, because we have wasted so much time, resources, good will, money, american lives, etc. with Hussein and Iraq, we do not have them to do anything good with what we have left. How long did it take us to do the littlest bit of nothing in Darfur? What about Iran, or North Korea? Both of them are basically laughing in our face, because we’ve bankrupted ourselves in every way conceivable in Iraq.

]]> By: JRo http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-739 JRo Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:23:19 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-739 "Humanitarian" aid props up governments just as surely as military aid, and perhaps more so. In the aforementioned cases, food = power = weapon. PS - Amen to Arafat going to hell, but the mixed messages remain: engage in the peace process (Palestinian Authority), arm and incite terrorists (Fatah). It's as if the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and the US and other governments feign ignorance as well. PPS - By the way, if one attributes progress in the peace process to Arafat's death, how long was the wait for that $#!@ to die? Now how about Fidel Castro? Now imagine the wait for not only Saddam Hussein, but his sons as well. Hm...I can be impatient, sometimes. “Humanitarian” aid props up governments just as surely as military aid, and perhaps more so. In the aforementioned cases, food = power = weapon.

PS – Amen to Arafat going to hell, but the mixed messages remain: engage in the peace process (Palestinian Authority), arm and incite terrorists (Fatah). It’s as if the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and the US and other governments feign ignorance as well.

PPS – By the way, if one attributes progress in the peace process to Arafat’s death, how long was the wait for that $#!@ to die? Now how about Fidel Castro? Now imagine the wait for not only Saddam Hussein, but his sons as well.

Hm…I can be impatient, sometimes.

]]> By: Aaronmg http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Aaronmg Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:50:49 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-738 The sad reality is that no matter how much progress is made in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and no matter how well the stock market performs, Robert Byrd is still a former sheet-head. The sad reality is that no matter how much progress is made in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and no matter how well the stock market performs, Robert Byrd is still a former sheet-head.

]]> By: Muttrox http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-737 Muttrox Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:09:15 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-737 No matter how you slice it, even with Hamas winning the elections, the situation with Israel and the Palenstinians is better than it was five years ago. I credit Bush's policy, and Arafat finally going to hell. Not sure what your point is on N. Korea and Iraq -- feel free to elaborate. No matter how you slice it, even with Hamas winning the elections, the situation with Israel and the Palenstinians is better than it was five years ago. I credit Bush’s policy, and Arafat finally going to hell.

Not sure what your point is on N. Korea and Iraq — feel free to elaborate.

]]> By: JRo http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-736 JRo Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:19:02 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-736 So now Hamas is going to renounce violence and terrorism in order to receive foreign aid (whatever happened to a Palestinian economy? Oh! Everyone works in Israel...)? You mean, like the PLO did? "Look at the violence and strife! Only we, the Palestinian Authority, can stop it (um, because we're causing it)!" Haven't Adid in Somalia and Hussein in Iraq and Kim Jong Il in North Korea taught people that "humanitarian" aid can be tantamount to military aid? So now Hamas is going to renounce violence and terrorism in order to receive foreign aid (whatever happened to a Palestinian economy? Oh! Everyone works in Israel…)? You mean, like the PLO did? “Look at the violence and strife! Only we, the Palestinian Authority, can stop it (um, because we’re causing it)!” Haven’t Adid in Somalia and Hussein in Iraq and Kim Jong Il in North Korea taught people that “humanitarian” aid can be tantamount to military aid?

]]> By: Aaronmg http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2006/01/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Aaronmg Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:12:01 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/2006/01/18/3-thinks-i-like-about-the-bush-administration/#comment-734 Great idea for a post, I'm sorry you had it before I did. Timely, too, as I had one of those extremely rare but unmistakeable "Thank God for W" moments when Hamas cleaned up in the elections last week. His response was great. Great idea for a post, I’m sorry you had it before I did. Timely, too, as I had one of those extremely rare but unmistakeable “Thank God for W” moments when Hamas cleaned up in the elections last week. His response was great.

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