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shawa
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 Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: 97 Reasons Democrats Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime |
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A long article but this one is really a keeper.
I wish my old brain could memorize it all so I could spout it when in a discussion with some recalcitrant Dems I know.
| Quote: | 97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime
Posted 9/29/2006
Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens' travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and (3) pardoned draft evaders.
President Carter (4) also stopped B-1 bomber production, (5) gave away our strategically located Panama Canal and (6) made human rights the central focus of his foreign policy.
That led Carter, a Democrat, (7) to make a monumental miscalculation and withdraw U.S. support for our long-standing Mideast military ally, the Shah of Iran.
~SNIP~
Oil is also vital for our national defense. In 1952 we produced 93% of the oil we consumed. Now we depend on the Mideast and others for 66%. Democrats have been largely responsible for this because they have blocked all efforts to drill in Alaska and certain offshore areas estimated to contain 10 billion to 20 billion barrels of crude.
Democrats (96) in Congress condemn current efforts to intercept terrorist phone calls, to mine data to ferret out future attacks against us, and to trace the movement of terrorist money through banks. All the while they want special treatment for enemy prisoners captured on the battlefield. This helps the enemy and undermines our troops in the field.
We're in a war. Something always goes wrong in a war, and our military leaders have made mistakes in Iraq. But quitting and leaving would amount to defeat for the U.S. in the global war on terrorism and create chaos. Quitters never win.
Here's the problem: America needs two strong, sound political parties. As far as domestic policy is concerned, it really doesn't make much difference if Democrats or Republicans are in power. Ours is a free, entrepreneurial society where anyone can do anything he or she wants if they have a positive attitude and the desire to work, learn and achieve. Ambitious people come from all over the world to take advantage of this tremendous opportunity. This is one reason our economy is so resilient, continually bouncing back from periodic setbacks, driven by new inventions and achievements.
However (97) when it comes to which party has proved more capable in acting to defend and protect Americans from foreign enemies, there is only one choice. From Johnson to Carter to Clinton, virtually all the defense policies and decisions made by Democratic administrations have been unsuccessful. And in many cases, they have unintentionally but materially increased the danger to our national security and the safety of all Americans. |
Read all the "in-between" at: Investor's Business Daily
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LewWaters
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| Quote: | | Shortly after a meeting at which Carter kissed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on each cheek, (23) the USSR invaded Afghanistan. Carter the appeaser was shocked. "I can't believe the Russians lied to me," he said. |
Laughable, if not down right deceitful. I have begun digging around more into the Carter administration time and recently discovered this little jewel from a 1998 interview, originally in French;
| Quote: | Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
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Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentlaism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? |
WARNING! Marxist web site.Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski
I'm still digging around looking for more information on this. I don't know if Carter is more duplicitous in all this, or trying to rebuild a legacy of not being such a failure.
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dusty
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97 reasons why everybody that can vote needs to vote in Nov.
We can not let the Commiecrats have control of Congress again. At least not right now while they are so subverted by the Communists.
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Deuce
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Wow, Lew, What a find...
Brezhnev's answer, above, in that interview you dug up is classic! I don't know how you are looking at it, but his answer, while partial is spot on! There would have been no way for this generation to fight both the Soviet Union AND the jihad!!! so he was absolutely right, Winning the Cold War was essential for Peace on the planet then as today....now, Winning the War on Terror is the ONLY 'exit strategy' as Kissinger has said recently!
Until the Libs come to that realization, the jihad will only grow!
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