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| 10.01.04 (2:48 pm) |
Just a couple random items today:
First, a longstanding peeve of mine. One of the things that continually gnaws at me is the continual slamming of the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the carrier that the President visited. Why is this an issue? The banner was true. These guys had just gotten done serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and now were coming home. [i]Their[/i] mission [b]was[/b] accomplished. Of course, it’s easy to purposely misinterpret it as a statement about the whole Iraq situation, if you choose to, but it’s fairly obvious that the mission referred to was that of the carrier.
John Kerry and his allies are trying to scare us into believing that the Bush administration is trying to revive the draft. There’s only one problem with that: It’s a lie. There is currently legislation on the docket in Congress to revive the draft: Senate bill S.89 [url=] http://www.congress.gov/cgi-b...:SN00089: [/url] and HR 163 [url=] http://www.congress.gov/cgi-b...:HR00163: [/url], which are both sponsored by Democrats. To state that the Republicans are trying to revive the draft is an outright lie. The Kerry campaign has to be pretty desperate for an issue they think they can win on when they start inventing issues.
Speaking to Diane Sawyer on GMA, John Kerry attributes his famous “I voted for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.” To being tired. [i]"No, it wasn't classic at all. It just was a very inarticulate way of saying something, and I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn't say something very clearly."[/i]
The only problem with this is, it wasn’t in the evening. It was made at a [b]noontime[/b] appearance at Marshall University.
This guy’s pathological. He can’t even keep the simplest story straight. As Neal Boortz says in this morning’s Neal’s Nuze [i]“When John Kerry is up against the wall, or when he is caught in a lie by the media, he just makes something up to cover his tracks. This is the second time he has done it on ABC, the first being when he said he did actually throw away his medals. This lie was exposed when those medals showed up on a wall in his Senate office. It was then that we learn that Kerry actually threw away someone else's medals.”[/i] [url=] http://boortz.com/nuze/index.... [/url] Between that story, Cambodia, “I don’t fall, that SOB pushed me”… it’s becoming increasingly simple to tell when John Kerry is telling a lie. His lips are moving. If he can’t even tell the truth about the little stuff, how can we trust him in the White House?
-Submitted By: RedneckBob
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posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (2:55 pm)
Just for clarity's sake, this was written 9/30/04, posted today (10/1)
posted by: Stephen89702
post date: 10.01.04 (3:01 pm)
No matter when it was written, it a very good commentary. The "Mission Accomplished" remarks were right on the mark.
posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (3:08 pm)
Reply to: Stephen89702
'preciate that. Thanks for reading, and thanks for the comment.
posted by: DrForbush
post date: 10.01.04 (3:15 pm)
The Mission acomplished sign was paid for by the Bush administration and it was intended to prove to the country that worst was over. Unfortunately looking back 18 months it doesn't seem like it was a good idea. The Bush administration tried to deny that they posted the sign, but it has been shown that they bought it. Of course they squirm every time the sign comes up, because they know that they were way off the mark.
The point on the draft is that Bush can not accomplish his plan without more manpower in the military. So, either he is going to cut back on his plan or find a way to get more soldiers. Raising pay, offering a GI bill or something like that could be an idea, but it requires money to implement.... Which he doesn’t have because of his tax cuts for the wealthy.
So, what will he do? Raise Taxes or implement a draft? My money is on the draft, because the wealthy love their money.
Of course they won't say anything until after the election, when suddenly they will anounce the "shortfall."
posted by: stepdad
post date: 10.01.04 (3:17 pm)
Reply to: DrForbush
"The Mission acomplished sign was paid for by the Bush administration"
Source please. If your going to make allegations please provide evidence. You know, proof.
"So, what will he do? Raise Taxes or implement a draft? My money is on the draft, because the wealthy love their money."
Again your research fails you miserably. The only people talking about the draft are democrats, not republicans. They were trying to put a bill on the floor of the house to scare people for the upcoming election.
Shameless, nes pas?
posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (3:29 pm)
Reply to: DrForbush
"Navy suggested it, White House made it, both sides say"
From Dana Bash
CNN Washington Bureau
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Posted: 9:18 AM EST (1418 GMT)
The banner has been used by critics of the Bush administration as evidence of bravado and an unclear sense of how dangerous the postwar conflict in Iraq would be.
Assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, is not a typical move for the Bush administration and raised suspicions among critics.
Cmdr. Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman, defended the president's assertion.
"The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," Chun said.
[b]"The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment,"[/b] he said, noting the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history.
posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (3:29 pm)
Reply to: RedneckBob
Ok, so bold tags don't work, but you get the point. Does that make it clear enough?
posted by: DrForbush
post date: 10.01.04 (3:29 pm)
Rove admitted he put up the banner:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4760238/
posted by: DrForbush
post date: 10.01.04 (3:33 pm)
If the Democrats are the only ones talking about the draft it only means that the Democrats are the only ones with common sense. The Republicans ignore the inevible choice they will need to make... That's great leadership... LOL
posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (3:37 pm)
Reply to: DrForbush
From your linked article:
"President Bush’s top political adviser said this week that he regretted the use of a “Mission Accomplished” banner as a backdrop for the president’s landing on an aircraft carrier last May to mark the end of major combat operations in Iraq.
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“I wish the banner was not up there,” White House political strategist Karl Rove said Thursday at an editorial board meeting with The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio. “I’ll acknowledge the fact that it has become one of those convenient symbols.”
Rove echoed Bush’s contention that the phrase referred to the carrier crew’s completing their 10-month mission, not the military’s completing its mission in Iraq."
I'd like you to point out to me where he says "he put it up". You can't? No, as a matter of fact the last paragraph again supports my contention. He states that he regrets it being up there as a backdrop, but nowhere does he 'admit' to being responsible for it, and then states (again) that it was referring to the -carrier's- mission.
Done yet?
posted by: RedneckBob
post date: 10.01.04 (3:38 pm)
Reply to: DrForbush
Nice stretch. If that's what they are doing, why don't they say that, rather than making statements that the Bush admin. is trying to restart the draft?
More lies from the left, and you're having to almost break yourself in half to defend them.
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