Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on April 10, 2010 by Allahpundit
“‘The question has been raised about whether or not our president is a socialist,’ Paul said. ‘I am sure there are some people here who believe it. But in the technical sense, in the economic definition of a what a socialist is, no, he’s not a socialist.’
“‘He’s a corporatist,’ Paul continued. ‘And unfortunately we have corporatists inside the Republican party and that means you take care of corporations and corporations take over and run the country.’”
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“‘Let the world know this if it knows nothing else,’ said Pence. ‘America stands with Israel!’
“As most of the crowd rose for a standing ovation, the cluster of Paul fans — most gathered stage left — started booing, turning heads in the media section and in the rest of the room. Other SLRC delegates angrily turned on them, chanting (with an irony that amused the Paul fans) ‘USA! USA!’ until they piped down.”
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“‘It’s been 60 years since we went to war in Korea,’ said Paul. ‘Why do we have to have troops there?’
“‘North Korea!’ yelled a heckler.”
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Via Think Progress.
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Those Paulturds showing their true colors again, I see. I think it’s ironic that they think it’s “ironic” that their opponents chanted “USA, USA” as if those who stand with Israel aren’t thinking of America’s best interest. Being an ally of Israel is in the USA’s best interest. Hello, the only democracy in a sea of dictatorships.
I have religious reasons for standing firmly with Israel as well, but even from just a purely political standpoint, it’s the only logical thing to do. In a world gone mad, sane countries have to stick together.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on April 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM
straw polls are meaningless, CPAC proved that. Glad Romney and the sane didn’t let the paultards get away with spamming that one again
jp on April 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Paleocons:
Why is it that they claim to be conservative when they’re almost indistinguishable from modern liberals?
MadisonConservative on April 10, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I’m pretty sure the correct term is Marxist-Leninist. Control the means of production.
uknowmorethanme on April 10, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Rush,Mark,Jim DeMint,Palin,Marco Rubio and other are conservatives.RON PAUL IS NOT.I don,t know what he is but a conservative he not even close.
thmcbb on April 10, 2010 at 11:01 PM
I would probably vote for anything with a pulse if it stood a chance of beating Obama, but I will never, ever vote for Ron Paul. Indeed, he is one of the few human beings on earth that the GOP could run that would insure that I stayed home on election day.
I loathe Ron Paul. I loathe his mindless followers even more.
Boxy_Brown on April 10, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Well on his way, his head in a 1930′s cloud
The man of a thousand lying voices, talking perfectly loud
But so many never really hear him
Or the sound that he clearly makes
And nobody with any sense could ever like him
They can tell what he wants to do
The fool in the White House,
Sees the sun on America going down
And the Jeremy Wright eyes in his head
Wants the Muslim and Israeli world to be spun around
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Thomas, you are correct, of course. However, we should give the man credit for aspiring to the conservative ideology at such a young age. When I was that age, I was under the impression that I knew everything and I considered myself to be a liberal. Instead of flaming him, we should nurture him and prove to him that the conservative road is the best road taken. I have twin nephews his age and I would not aggressively attack them if they held his views. I believe he is on the right track and I also believe that he will take our advice if we offer it to him in a positive way.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:02 PM
I give you Demint. Marco Rubio of the Aspen Institute?
Pitchforker on April 10, 2010 at 11:02 PM
If only Paul would drop the 9-11, Rothschild, Free Masons and all the other nonsense, people may actually start taking him seriously.
Hummer53 on April 10, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Here, here. Why vote a Republican who’s foreign policy whose foreign is similar Arriana Huffington or Kos? What’s the point?
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Does anyone realize how many UNION voters that RP actually gets to vote for him? Rhetoric is one thing, but what happens in the backrooms is another.
Let’s see how many UNION LABOR Chemical Plants, Refineries, Nuke Plants and Aluminium Ore/Smelting plants are there in his district? A dozen? How about 2 dozen and maybe more?
That man brings home the bacon or else he would be gone, defeated in a route by a liberal Demoncrap.
Kermit on April 10, 2010 at 11:05 PM
I foolishly voted for Bush twice. I believed all the lies and deceit until the outrageous bailouts opened my eyes. 80% of the republicans need to be purged. We need constitutionalists who promote the free market and individual liberties as opposed to the rest of the phonies.
Pitchforker on April 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I was a conservative 19 year old and needed to be dressed down by adult conservatives before I got my sea legs and knew what I had always thought that I knew. He needs to learn how to listen before he’ll ever understand. He has potential.
thomasaur on April 10, 2010 at 11:07 PM
because he is from the unhinged Anarcho-Capitalist crowd, they have always danced with the Socialist ironically throughout history. Just as unhinged as the Left, stand on the same side with Tyrants effectively like the far-left, etc. If you read the LRC blog, they routinely cite Glenn Greenwald on Security/foreign policy matters. The Paultard cited far-left professors with debunked theories on “Suicide Terrorism” for his reasoning that the US Not being Isolationist made 9/11 happen to us. That if we were Isolationist ‘free traders” that the Jihadist are Western minded “Free Traders” at heart too and we’d all be singing Kumbaya together…if only we were Isolationist..
In addition to being idiots, the only other difference is they’ve learned Libertarian Economic Philosophy that overlaps with Conservatism a good bit. They know it as talking points against Govt. mostly.
jp on April 10, 2010 at 11:07 PM
:-)
You obviously don’t know me at all. If I cared about being liked in real life, I wouldn’t express my conservative views. If I cared about being liked here, I wouldn’t challenge conservatives when I feel they’re dead wrong. And I definitely won’t be talking or typing less because someone can’t handle what I have to say. But back to the topic at hand…
The Barbary Pirates; good example. Speaking of them. Paul and his followers like to think they we somehow bring terrorism on ourselves. How do they explain the conflicts our founders had with those Muslim terrorists?
Narutoboy on April 10, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Which explains the 9-11, Rothschild, Free Masons, Pentavirate nonsense.
29Victor on April 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM
If you want Ron Paul foreign policy….vote for a Democrat. It’s really that simple.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM
They have been. Hope you like socialized medicine, cap and trade, amnesty and a stacked supreme court.
Boxy_Brown on April 10, 2010 at 11:09 PM
ditto
jp on April 10, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 5 star General, Supreme Allied Commander and 34th President of the United States of America.
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Kudos to you as well. I was enrolled in architecture school where it was cool to be liberal and against Reagan. I was 35 years old before I realized that I was really conservative. Late to the game, but still able and ready to play. I believe there are many liberals who are really conservatives but just don’t realize it yet. The popular culture has a way of incubating the liberal ideology and that is the thorn in the conservative’s side.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:11 PM
I am not paralyzed by foreign policy issues unlike many republican voters. I don’t lose sleep at night over a North Korea that can’t even feed their populace or an Iranian regime with paper airplanes for an air force. Now if China ever became belligerent I may change my tune, but the rest of these adventures are a joke. Completely irrelevant.
Pitchforker on April 10, 2010 at 11:12 PM
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:10 PM
yet WW2 for the US was “Pre-emptive”, as was the policy of the Cuban Missle Crisis….and the Gulf War, as leader of the “Empire of Liberty” the founders dreamed of. Which ended in a Cease Fire agreement, which Saddam proceeded to violate over and over, each time being an Act of War. Not to mention his financing and harboring of Islamic Terorism. http://husseinandterror.com
Libs/paulnuts playing games with language and out of context quotes, completely dumbing down the issue and allowing scoundrels like the Paultard to do his thing. despicable.
jp on April 10, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Like I said vote Democrat if you feel like that. Because if have two isolationist parties in America we are doomed.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Make Peace not War–Ron Paul
Make Piece,er,Love not War!
-A sign at any Vietnam War Protest.
Empire/Occupation=Ron Paul
Freedom/Liberators=USA,Australia,England,and Canada too.
——————————————————-
Now we dance,sort of,
The Warrior Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs6a0ORdQU
canopfor on April 10, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Yeah, isolationists really took care of Hitler didn’t they? /sarc
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Our disastrous economical situation will doom us far before any foreign threat does. That I can assure. In ten years, our debt will consume 90% of the nation’s GDP.
Pitchforker on April 10, 2010 at 11:16 PM
It’s that kind of ignorant arrogance that was around 70 years ago when people said “So what if we enact an oil embargo? What’s Japan gonna do about it? Throw rice at us?”
MadisonConservative on April 10, 2010 at 11:16 PM
It’s a shame that Ron Paul’s foreign policy views are so extreme (removing our military presence on a global scale would most likely usher in WW3) because he is spot-on which his Austrian economic views and the Fed should be abolished.
BPD on April 10, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Keep voting for losers like Ron Paul then.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:19 PM
That’s what it is–the cool factor, and the perception that conservatives have. It effects both kids and adults. My mother, for instance–despite being a fiscal and social conservative–still voted for Obama. I’ve always had conservative views, but I only started identifying myself as such when I saw how badly Bush was being treated in the media.
Narutoboy on April 10, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Interventionists, like Wilson, helped to set the stage for Hitler.
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:22 PM
And good for you for identifying that. I considered myself lazy, politically, and prone to go with the flow of those who surrounded me in college. It never felt right – being a liberal. I always considered myself to be acting in a play where I knew deep down inside that I did not believe my lines.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Narutoboy: I am curious as to what your mother feels now about Obama; being that she voted for him and considering the unraveling of his administration so far.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM
That came from Eisenhower? I like him a lot, but that is just crazy talk. Hitler invented preventative wars? I guess that’s just hyperbole because it couldn’t possibly be true. Preventative wars seem like a natural instinct to me. If you know an attack is on coming, your instincts tell you to preempt your attacker.
Narutoboy on April 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Sigh. Sounds like Glenn Beck would say. I wouldn’t take history lessons from him.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Ron Paul:
They’ve Turned Their Attack Dogs Loose On Me
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Believe it or not, it is election time again. The Texas Republican Primary is only seven short weeks away and already both parties have turned their attack dogs loose on me . . . doing everything they can to make sure I am defeated.
http://www.bigeye.com/ronpaul.htm
canopfor on April 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM
I have no idea. We don’t discuss politics anymore (huge Obama fan + McCain/Palin support…not a good mix). Not since the election. Politics in my immediate family is like Joe Biden in the Democrat Party. Nobody mentions it unless absolutely necessary. :-P
She feels that any attack on Obama is an attack on his race, so I doubt anything has changed.
Narutoboy on April 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM
And did you just wake up one morning and wonder if you’d been changed in the night? Did you think, am I the same as when I went to bed last night? Could you almost remember feeling a little different. But if you weren’t the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s always the great puzzle!
Cheshire Cat on April 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Fuller Ike quote:
All of us have heard this term “preventive war” since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time, if we believe for one second that nuclear fission and fusion, that type of weapon, would be used in such a war — what is a preventive war?
I would say a preventive war, if the words mean anything, is to wage some sort of quick police action in order that you might avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later.
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn’t preventive war; that is war.
I don’t believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn’t even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.
… It seems to me that when, by definition, a term is just ridiculous in itself, there is no use in going any further.
There are all sorts of reasons, moral and political and everything else, against this theory, but it is so completely unthinkable in today’s conditions that I thought it is no use to go any further.
jp on April 10, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Haha! Politics is off-limits in my family since my dad is a Southern Democrat and absolutely hates Bush and watches Olbermann.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:35 PM
That came from Eisenhower? I like him a lot, but that is just crazy talk
Narutoboy on April 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Narutoboy:The Famous Patton Speech
The Speech
Somewhere in England
June 5th, 1944
http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html
canopfor on April 10, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Absolutely. It is meant to be taken as a guild, and a strong one, but not an absolute rule in all circumstances.
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Sigh!! You’re too stupid and I’m too tired.
thomasaur on April 10, 2010 at 11:36 PM
It’s true.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM
It would be nice if Ron Paul would just fade away.
jeanie on April 10, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Actually it was the 2000 election and GW Bush that finally turned me around. Also, my sister would always tell me, before then, that I was a conservative but I just didn’t realize it yet. I voted for Clenis, the first time around, and in 1994 she rubbed my nose in the republican take over of congress. I was very anti-political from ’94 to 2000 and did not even pay attention to the Clinton Impeachment. But around 2000, I began listening to talk radio and realized that, Hey! I am a republican! I voted as such in 2000 and have voted straight-ticket GOP ever since then. I am actually more of a Libertarian Republican than anything else. I want the government to protect us, handle the judiciary and keep our mail coming on time. Other than that, I want them OUT of our lives.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Hopefully R’s, Conservatives, Liberatarians, et al. will sober up enough to vote for viable candidates during 2010 and 2012
The Left final grew up and stopped voting for Nader…we will have to do the same.
There can be no staying at home as a “protest”.
r keller on April 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Yes, Yes it is
thomasaur on April 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM
I would have gone with one word: EPIPHANY
Americannodash on April 10, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Yes, or as alcoholics say: moment of clarity.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM
It’s funny how some of the same folks that attack Ron Paul here in Hot Air defend Glenn Beck. They basically have the same views people.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:51 PM
You’re as full of sh!t as a port-a-potty at the county fair.
thomasaur on April 10, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Not by a long shot. How do you believe that? Beck is ten times more sane than Paul.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:53 PM
LOL…
ddrintn on April 10, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Tell me where I am wrong.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:54 PM
No he is not.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Tell Thomas and I where you are right.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM
There are differences. I’m not a complete Beck fan, either.
ddrintn on April 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Why? You refuse to admit it every time it’s done. No one is as smart and enlightened as you and the progressives you favor.
thomasaur on April 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Indeed, neither am I, but saying he is the same as Paul is quite the stretch.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Nope.
I figured it out about the time I heard he went to Rev. Wright’s BLT church.
Jenfidel on April 10, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Well, on left wing sites they attack Hitler and defend Obama and they basically have the same views.
MB4 on April 10, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Beck wants us to remove all our bases from all over the world….how is that any different from Ron Paul? Glenn Beck is against the Patriot like Ron Paul.
terryannonline on April 10, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Of course. Isolationists never are.
…or haven’t yet gotten their ICBM to work properly…
…but who are working on nukes and the missiles to deliver same so that the problem with the airforce is moot…
…come to think of it, I should have changed my tune a couple of years ago, but I’m tone deaf…
Including the Russians and those cave-dwellers up in Pakistan.
Heh.
unclesmrgol on April 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM
But .. but he didn’t hear a word Jeremy Wright said, I tell you! He slept through all 20 years of his sermons, thus earning a place in The Guinness World Book of Records for the longest known case of narcolepsy.
MB4 on April 11, 2010 at 12:01 AM
“Our reckless foreign policy?”
Please be more specific.
BTW, our foreign policy wasn’t all that reckless under either President Bush 41 or 43, Nixon, Ford or Ronald Reagan.
It’s only the Clinton, Carter and Øbama foreign policies that were reckless.
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Hard to argue that. I would say that Carter’s Regime had the worst foreign policy by far. Obama’s is on pace to surpass Carter. Time will tell.
carbon_footprint on April 11, 2010 at 12:03 AM
So he made 52% of the electorate believe (or at least the part that wasn’t black who also went to BLT churches) and of course there was his “epic and stirring” speech on race to convince the sheeple that if these issues were even raised it was “racist.”
To make matters worse, when Sarah Palin pointed this out, McCain made her stop it.
Unreal.
What a horrible election…I still wake up screaming.
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:04 AM
I like Glenn-bless him!–but he has kind of a scatter gun approach to the whole mess and ends up shooting up the living room, as well as his own foot, as often as he hits the right targets.
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:08 AM
Very true. South Korea could trounce North Korea handily, though not without an expense in blood and treasure, if all other nations stayed out of it.
China would not stay out of it. North Korea is a valuable buffer state to them.
So much for it all being very simple.
didymus on April 11, 2010 at 12:08 AM
Barack Obama:
They’ve Turned Their Attack Dogs Loose On Me
Poor Ron. Poor Barack.
unclesmrgol on April 11, 2010 at 12:09 AM
The only rational explanation is that soon after getting the Republican nomination, he decided that he really didn’t want to be president.
MB4 on April 11, 2010 at 12:10 AM
LOL…I remember that. The funny thing is, I’ll bet there isn’t an O-bot that can quote more than 10 words of it, and at the time it was compared by media sycophants to the Gettysburg Address or “the most important speech on race in this country EVAH”.
ddrintn on April 11, 2010 at 12:10 AM
Why just say it here with only words terryann? As the saying goes: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Produce a Venn diagram supporting your claim, and post it on your web site. I’m pretty sure a lot of HotAir readers wouldn’t mind viewing an image of that comparison. There’s a chance that Allahpundit will link your blog to the headlines again. You are looking for employment, yes? The more exposure you get, the chances increase of some employer admiring your skills. BTW, why haven’t you posted anything in the Greenroom, if I may ask? You don’t have to answer that, but it just crossed my mind while writing this comment.
Americannodash on April 11, 2010 at 12:14 AM
On my grouchy days, I think he made every mistake there was to lose the election on purpose.
Worst. Candidate. Ever.
Too bad America has to pay the price for his lack of b*lls or fortitude or whatever his problem was.
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:15 AM
You know who the Paultards are?
Okay, remember that scene from The Blues Brothers, just after Elwood gets Joliet Jake out of the Illinois State Pen? They happen upon a rally in Skokie led by Henry Gibson and the Illinois Nazi Party?
That’s the Paultards. They are the Republican equivalent of the Illinois Nazi Party from The Blues Brothers. Ron Paul is thier Henry Gibson.
“Gruppenfuhrer! Gruppenfuhrer!”
victor82 on April 11, 2010 at 12:15 AM
I doubt very much that they could trounce North Korea handily. My point was that they have had plenty of time, and they have plenty of population, and they have plenty of money to well by now be in a position to do so, which would probably make a North Korean attack on South Korea even less likely than it now is.
We do not know whether China would stay out of it this time or not. My point was never that we should have hands off regardless of whether China were to intervene, but that we are doing too much for South Korea’s defense and they are not doing nearly enough.
Again, they are like a 60 year old still living with mom and dad and getting an allowance to boot.
MB4 on April 11, 2010 at 12:17 AM
I’m not a Greenroom contributor :(
terryannonline on April 11, 2010 at 12:17 AM
Let’s just say that the Neo-Nazis at Storm Front love them some Ron Paul.
Oh, yes, they do!
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:17 AM
Why all this talk of “preventive” war? Bush never engaged in any such thing.
We went into Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to turn over Al Qaeda to us … this was only after AQ attacked and killed 3,000 U.S. civilians. Hardly preventive.
We went into Iraq after Sadaam refused to comply with UN Sanctions and Bush made it perfectly clear that we were going in to seize WMD’s – which our best intelligence (and the best intelligence of our allies) indicated he had. Not only that – he acted like he had them. That was one reason – but it was also articulated that Sadaam supported terrorists organizations and terrorist acts – this cannot be denied – Sadaam was a supporter of worldwide terror. It was also articulated by Bush that Sadaam had mistreated the Iraqi people. None of this is anything near “preventive” or “pre-emptive”.
Sorry – but peeps can’t make up facts – it’s really against the rules.
HondaV65 on April 11, 2010 at 12:20 AM
They are pretty lazy and content to let American troops do their defense work for them and then have the nerve to have huge public demonstrations where they protest about how much they hate us and how much they wish we’d get out of SoKo.
Yet, the minute those NorKs come over the wall, they’d run screaming back to our protection.
I don’t know how we change this situation, though, as it has been the status quo for 60 years.
The NorKs would probably try to retake South Korea if we pulled out–you know it and I know it.
Jenfidel on April 11, 2010 at 12:21 AM
There are a few people who don’t like Ron Paul (although most people do approve of him if they know where he stands). It would be easy to get behind another politician. But who else in politics is against both the Obam-Bush domestic agenda and the radical Obam-Bush foreign policy agenda? Ron Paul isn’t perfect, but he’s the best available choice for traditional conservatives.
The Dean on April 11, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Attacking al queda in Afghanistan was not really “preventive war”, but staying there Islamic “nation building” till God only knows when, sure is.
Iraq was pretty much “preventive war” from the start and certainly was after the first few months.
MB4 on April 11, 2010 at 12:26 AM
So are you saying that rebuilding Germany and Japan after WWII was a “preventive war”?
terryannonline on April 11, 2010 at 12:28 AM
Paul is such a moron on foreign policy….
therightwinger on April 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM
Paul draws an artificial distinction between socialism and corporatism. By the content of your post, you should be aware that socialists who worked through corporatism were called fascists. But rather than call Obama a fascist, he calls him a corporatist but not a socialist, as if he isn’t both.
There actually is a valid point behind Paul’s statement, in that a lot of Republicans are “in bed” with corporations. But the central point Paul makes is in fact dead wrong.
And I’ve noticed several others make the same point about fascism, socialism, and corporatism.
didymus on April 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Well your facts are pretty wrong there. We invaded Afghanistan after we gave them the choice to hand over AQ to us. AQ attacked us – and Taliban left us no choice. There’s not an ounce of “preventive” in any of that – because it didn’t stop US from being attacked.
In Iran – the guy had been non-cooperative with UN sanctions and the peace treaty HE signed with us at the end of the Gulf War. That’s not “preventive” – that’s putting teeth to sanctions.
As far as staying there being “preventive” … what? Staying there was simply an attempt to provide some stability to Iraq after the previous government was destroyed by us. And it wasn’t Bush that invented this idea. We kind of did this with … oh, Germany, Japan, South Korea … and a few others probably. Long before G.W. Bush was born.
Bush did not engage in Preventive nor PreEmptive war. Period.
HondaV65 on April 11, 2010 at 12:32 AM
I personally don’t understand how any guy could watch Beck. I don’t care for the crying. Most of his crap seems like an act to me. I don’t care for all the emotional stuff. It all seems so hokey and corny to me. But i guess it makes for good tv.
I prefer a spectrum of talkers like.
Michael Medved – moderate and even keeled (doesn’t cry)
Rush Limbaugh – almost always right 99.5% of the time
Michael Savage – on the cutting edge, sometimes too much
cubbieblue25 on April 11, 2010 at 12:32 AM
I think he’s moron on more than just foreign policy. Didn’t he ask Bernanke some stupid questions on the FED?
terryannonline on April 11, 2010 at 12:33 AM
This.
Connie on April 11, 2010 at 12:35 AM
John Voight doesn’t mince words on what Barak Hussein is.
Shy Guy on April 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM
There’s been a couple of outright LIES that we’ve allowed to be perpetuated – and they are devastating lies that we need to combat every single time we see them uttered …
The first is that Bush engaged in preventive or pre-emptive war and that was the motivation for moving into Iraq. It most certainly wasn’t – as I’ve stated in previous posts. Sadaam was not complying with UN inspections that he agreed to comply with at the end of the Gulf War. Sadaam was supporting worldwide terror. Sadaam was also abusing the Iraqi people and those – were the rationale Bush used for the war.
The second lie is that somehow Bush “lied” about the WMD’s. He didn’t. Clinton said (as President) that Sadaam had WMD’s before the GW Bush for President campaign ever kicked off. All major Democrats supported the Iraq war on the grounds that they were convinced Sadaam had WMD’s. Tony Blair was convinced as well as many other nations that Sadaam had the weapons. There was NO “lie” in anything Bush did here. He may have been wrong – but he wasn’t the only one. Oh well – he gave 25 million Iraqis freedom from Sadaam and a chance to build a free nation for themselves and their children. What an evil guy huh?
A third … lesser … lie – is that somehow Bush’s wars were “illegal” or something. There is no such thing as an illegal war. Sorry.
HondaV65 on April 11, 2010 at 12:39 AM
Right on.
cubbieblue25 on April 11, 2010 at 12:42 AM
Agree.
Connie on April 11, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Jon Voight is a true American hero.
Connie on April 11, 2010 at 12:45 AM
Straw Brain and All, Paul.
Travis1 on April 11, 2010 at 12:46 AM
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