Regards,
Peter H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdiq2oycTg

It’s a 1992 speech given by Al Gore in which he literally rants for 10 solid minutes about how the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations IGNORED all of the evidence that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator guilty of horrible atrocities against his own people, that he was unquestionably in possession of WMDs because he had ruthlessly used them on innocent, defenseless people (poison gas), that there was clear evidence to show that he was actively seeking to acquire nuclear technology, and that he had actively assisted in the escape of terrorists responsible for scores of civilian deaths (the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, for one).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwSDvgw5Uc

Bush went to war in Afghanistan in response to an act or war. Check.

As Dan noted, we were in a state of war with Iraq when Bush assumed office… a war that was being fought at a lower level by Pres. Clinton (no-fly zones and occasional missile strikes). Bush was acting on what he (and about everyone else – including a lot of Dems like Hillary) knew AT THE TIME. What else could he do? You have to act based on what you know now, not what you’ll know in six months or a year.

Now that we’ve made our point, I think we should leave Iraq and Afghanistan with a stern warning to not mess with us or our interests again unless they want a hellish response.

As John Derbyshire wrote: rubble doesn’t make trouble. (I know it can but I like the sentiment.)

Now THAT’S f’ing sad.

Nope, war was not launched unilaterally. And we weren’t the first to attack. By international law, since Saddam Hussein did not fulfill his obligations under cease-fire agreements to first Gulf War, we we remained in a state of war with the tyrant.

And citing Jon Stewart as a source kind of puts you beyond parody.

If you’re gonna accuse the GOP of lies, please specify the fabrications–you know specific comments Republicans made which they knew at the time were false.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-19-2009/fox-news–the-new-liberals

Now THAT is funny …

While most of us respect the right of our fellows to believe, and speak up, in protest of war, the fundamental a.) misunderstanding or b.) obfuscation of reality is mind boggling. The world changed on Sept. 11, 2001 along with every historical paradigm. Were that we could live in some “buy the world a coke” moment the rest of our lives. Ain’t gonna happen, you seem to have trouble dealing with that.

Recent “GOP myths” about media
1. Dan Rather forged memos
2. MSNBC “gun toting racist” report
3. John McCain love affair, NY Times
These are outright falsities.

For further clarification of this issue, try a little homework. Compare sound bites and talking points on particular hot button issues of the day from reporters and anchors at CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times, AP, McClatchy, WaPo, and the DNC, and various Dem leaders Pelosi, Waxman, Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Kerry, plus the activist community HuffPo, DKos, MoveOn etc. The wording, the phrasing, the emphasis, are identical and in lockstep. That’s fact. For our side it’s not the end of the world, just the way it is. Yes we love pointing it out because calling you guys out makes you react in such a stereotypically humorous way, but at the end of the day we’re motivated by doing the right thing over doing the popular easy thing.

Continue to enjoy this country and your freedoms that have been bought and secured by all of the “needless” deaths of brave Americans fighting in “nearly endless” wars, that you and those of your ilk would never have the courage or vision to view as necessary.

I’ll make a pledge right now: if Obama unilaterally starts any wars in which we are the first to attack, I will wholeheartedly agree with your complaints should protests of such wars fail to receive media coverage. Last I checked though, there has been a heck of a lot MORE media coverage of protests of a public policy trying to SAVE lives, than there was for the first several years of the Iraq war, when the media gave Bush and his cronies an embarassingly free pass to pursue a policy that needlessly led to the death of thousands of Americans. If only the “liberal” media was not a wholly-concocted GOP myth, they might have actually done some real scrutiny of the lies behind the Iraq war before we were years into it, as well as some actual scrutiny of the lies being spread about health care, instead of just “even handedly” reporting the lies as “well, this is what one side is saying.” The media is so pathetically flacid that it will simply report whatever each party wants it to — unfortunately, when one party is more more likely to traffic in outrageous half-truths or outright lies (the GOP), their lies get a lot more air play than those of the left.

Don’t these lefties realize how obvious their phony moral outrage is? (Not that they’d care.)