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by Ann Coulter
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 2:04 AM
None of the Democrats has the guts to come out and demand that U.S. forces turn tail and run when the going gets tough. If only one of them had the courage to demand cowardice like a real Democrat!
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has been issuing diatribes against the Bush administration that would surpass even Tariq Aziz with severe menstrual cramps. This strategy has made him the runaway favorite of the Democratic Party. Even Mr. War Hero, John Kerry, is getting shellacked by Dean. At times Kerry seems almost ready to surrender, making him look even more French. (If only Kerry had a war record or an enormously rich spouse to fall back on!)
In the wake of Dean's success, the entire Democratic Dream Team is beginning to sound like Dr. Demento. On the basis of their recent pronouncements, the position of the Democratic Party seems to be that Saddam Hussein did not hit us on 9-11, but Halliburton did.
Explaining his vote for a war that he then immediately denounced, Kerry recently said his vote was just a head-fake, leading some to wonder how many of Kerry's other votes in the U.S. Senate this would explain. He voted for war only to bluff Saddam Hussein into letting in the U.N. weapons inspectors. "It was right to have a threat of force," Kerry said, "because it's only the threat of force that got Hans Blix and the inspectors back in the country." But he never imagined that Bush would interpret the broadly worded, open-ended war resolution as grounds to start an actual war! "The difference is," Kerry said, "I would have worked with the United Nations."
None of the Democrats has the guts to come out and demand that U.S. forces turn tail and run when the going gets tough. If only one of them had the courage to demand cowardice like a real Democrat! So instead, they stamp their feet and demand that Bush go to the United Nations. Apparently it is urgent that we replace the best fighting force in the world with an "international peacekeeping force," i.e., a task force both feared and respected worldwide for its ability to distribute powdered milk to poor children.
Inconsolable that their pleas to "work through" the U.N. did not stop Bush from invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein, now all the Democrats are eager for the U.N. to get involved so it can wreck the rebuilding process. Since we didn't let the U.N. lose the war for us, the least we can do is let them screw up the peace.
The idea that we would involve those swine in the postwar occupation of Iraq is so preposterous that it's under serious consideration as next week's slogan for the Howard Dean campaign. I hesitate to raise it to the level of a serious argument by offering a rebuttal, but as luck would have it, we have two models for how to occupy a country after a war. Getting "the allies" involved is not the winning model.
After World War II, the United States ran the Japanese occupation unilaterally. Without the meddling of other nations, the Japanese occupation went off without a hitch. Within five years, Gen. Douglas MacArthur had imposed a constitutional democracy on Japan with a bicameral legislature, a bill of rights and an independent judiciary. Now the only trouble Japan causes is its insistence on selling good products to Americans at cheap prices.
By contrast, the German occupation was run as liberals would like to run postwar Iraq – a joint affair among "the Allies," the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. It took 45 years to clean up the mess that created.
The Soviets bickered with the French, refusing to treat them as "allies" (on the admittedly sensible grounds that they didn't fight). While plundering their zone, the Soviets refused to relinquish any territory to France. Trying to be gallant, the U.S. and British carved a French zone out of their own sectors. The Soviets then blockaded Berlin, built the Berlin Wall, and Germany was split for the next 45 years.
The British made Germany's war-torn economy worse by trying to impose socialism in their zone (as well as in their country). Predictably, economic disaster ensued. Over the next five years, the U.S. was required to spend the equivalent of about $200 billion annually in today's dollars to bail out Western Europe under the Marshall Plan. I note that there was no need for a Marshall Plan in Japan.
And the disastrous German occupation is the best-case scenario for "international peacekeeping." The less rosy picture involves the defaced corpses of American servicemen being dragged through the streets by dancing, cheering savages, as happened under "international peacekeeping" forces in Somalia in 1993. Showing that America is not a country to be toyed with, our draft-dodging, pot-smoking commander in chief responded by withdrawing our troops.
So naturally the Democrats are rooting for an international force in Iraq. The Democratic logic on national defense is: As soon as anyone in the military gets his hair mussed, we must pull out and bring "international peace-keeping" forces in. Our boys are in harm's way! People are dying! Bush lied when he said major combat operations were over! Let's run. That'll show 'em.
It was not lost on Osama bin Laden that it only took 18 dead in Somalia for the Great Satan to pull out. It should not be lost on Americans that this is what the Democrats are again demanding we do in Iraq.
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by Yuppie Conservative
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 2:07 AM
She makes me hoooorrrrrrnyyyy, BABY!
YEAH!
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by Yuppie Conservative
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 2:07 AM
She makes me hoooorrrrrrnyyyy, BABY!
YEAH!
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by Ned Lyle
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 2:48 AM
Ooooh, Ann, I love those legs. I bet they look great wrapped around you neck.
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by .
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 2:52 AM
Nice to know that Ann upsets you so. That means she must be doing the correct thing.
Keep writing, Ann. They don't like it, and that's good.
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by Spade
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:00 AM
She's playing you for a sucker chump.
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by Bush hater.
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:05 AM
It confirms all I thought about the fascist-right: ignorance of the truth, dishonesty, selfish egotism.
She's doing the anti-fascist cause a lot of good. We love laughing at her.
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by Noam Chomsky
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:06 AM
Playing people for suckers!?! Hey!! That's my schtick!!
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by Cypress Joe
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:12 AM
You wanna talk about suckers, come on down here to the everglades and I'll take ya frog giggin'. We got some leaches down here that can suck a man dry in 'bout 45 minutes.
I don't see what all the fuss is 'bout over this Ann lady though. She just sounds like she hates Communists and traitors is all. Ain't nuthin' wrong with hatin' Communists. Hell, we get one passin' through on occasion and we just take 'em out in the woods and tie 'em to a tree. Usually, when come back in a week, theres little left 'cept a knawed on carcass.
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by Spade
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:16 AM
AC and the morons that 'love' her support a govt that is larger, more intrusive, less acountable,more coercive, more deeply indebted than ever, more accomadating of the worst polluters, has more weapons, more prisons, more spies, more soldiers, and more police than ever before in history.
It's a fraud.
Its fascism.
Its what conservative imbeciles are trying to ram down the throat of all Americans.
And like bush's pathetic speech yesterday in nyc, it will fail.
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by Anarchist Joe
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:46 AM
I don't see anything wrong with Ann, she helps us identify brownshirts. She's our fly paper. The brownshirts are the flies.
I live out here in Baltimore. When we spot a brownshirt, we tie him to a fork-lift, driving him through the streets, and call on workers to spit upon him. After we're done, we strip him naked, lie him face down on the road, and march over him.
Yup, nothing like killing a fascist.
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by Ace
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:47 AM
>Its fascism. Its what conservative imbeciles are trying to ram down the throat of all Americans. Is this before or after FEMA puts everyone in concentration camps and the space aliens take over? HAHAHAHA http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/84149.php
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by Anarchist
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 3:49 AM
He also posted the "space alien" post.
Simple technique. Seen it before.
Hey, Ace, can you say, "duh?"
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by hehe
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 4:01 AM
Gee, you think!
I never hardly use the same name twice. I used to post under the same name, but *I* became the issue rather than what I would say, so I quit. If I ever determine you idiots can discuss the issues rather than personalities, I might go back. I'm not counting on you imbecils being able to do that though.
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by You are the issue.
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 4:02 AM
In fact, you have many issues. Seek help.
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by susan
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 4:09 AM
man oh man. i see more and more right wing stuff posted on these indymedia sites. i'm starting to feel dirty just scrolling through the crap. So, i'm moving over to wsws.org. and joining the John Burton socialist campaign. bye.
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by hehe
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 4:19 AM
No way I'm leaving. Not with space aliens coming to join FEMA and take over the world. How can I keep up with what's going on without being here.
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by Al Franken
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 4:58 AM
and what a marvelous lover he is!
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by Cypress Joe
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 6:24 AM
Anarchist! What a laugh that is. You call yourself an anarchist but I doubt you last 3 hours in the marsh. I'm all for anarchism though. Damn gov't taken too much of my money and people/cities creeping out into my home. First thing I'd do in an anarchist society would be to saw off my shotgun. Then it would be judgement day for city slickers like you.
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