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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (209018)	12/12/2001 12:05:58 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

As it always could be, ie the war on drugs.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (209018)	12/12/2001 12:25:58 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

A General Talks to His Army "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. ALL REAL Americans, love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers . . . Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in Hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post, don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating. Now we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know . . . My God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. My God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel. Now some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you'll all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood, shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo, that a moment before was your best friends face, you'll know what to do. Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything, we'll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose, and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose. Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home, and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War Two?" You won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana." Alright now, you sons of bitches, you know how I feel. Oh! . . . I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere. That's all." General George S. Patton, Jr.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (209018)	12/12/2001 1:14:52 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Charade is Now Over by JohnHuang2 December 7, 2001 bulldogbulletinarchives.lhhosting.com At the end of the day, Leahy's much ballyhooed 'hearings' became the proverbial dog that didn't bite. The proceedings, ostensibly to plumb the administration's "controversial" decision to use military tribunals to try Osama Bin Laden and other foreign terrorists for war crimes, were billed in advance by the press as the moment America had been waiting for -- the greatest show on earth! U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft would be shamed and humiliated -- reduced to smoldering ash over Leahy's flaming grill, the ash in Ashcroft acquiring new meaning. Last week's hearings with Michael Chertoff, Ashcroft's point man at DOJ's criminal division, were sold as dress rehearsal, a taste of what awaited his boss the following week. Chertoff was treated rudely, spitefully by tactless Committee Democrats. 'Ashcroft is toast now, and we're rearin' to go,' Democrats would gleefully tell their media chums afterwards. The Bush haters had everything vested in these Kangaroo hearings. They hoped the scintillating spectacle would light a fire under this issue, setting off a storm of popular resistance. The opposite proved to be the case. For Ashcroft, the hearings yesterday were certainly no Waterloo. Following Leahy's rambling/disjointed opening, the proceedings became a boring, humdrum display of mediocrity -- on a grand scale. Rather than blazing fireworks, the only detectable heat on that committee billowed from flaming liberals, who spend sleepless nights distressed over 'poor' Osama Bin Laden's "constitutional" "rights" and "liberties." To hear the paranoid rantings of Leahy and his ilk, America becomes a totalitarian police state UNLESS Osama Bin Laden is read his Miranda rights, is formally served an arrest warrant and is accorded nothing less than all of the "rights" and "protections" reserved for every American. Hold on, not so fast: Last time I checked, Osama Bin Laden wasn't an American... Gee, apparently, the clique of demented black Helicopter schizoids on Leahy's side of that committee have yet to notice there's a war going on. Oh, and the putrid hypocrisy of it all. The same charlatans piously feigning "concern" over "privacy rights" and the 'rule of law' -- without the vaguest hint of irony -- demanded to know why DOJ denied an FBI request for records of background checks on private citizens who purchase firearms! Ashcroft calmly and gently reminded the gun grabbers that, er, that's the law of the land. The New York Times conveniently omitted this niggling detail from its Thursday 'blockbuster' from which Committee Democrats were obviously drawing their asinine line of questioning. End of story. On the public relations front, in an effort to limit negative fallout for Democrats, the media till now has been careful to frame this issue under the phony cloak of 'bipartisanship' as if opposition to military tribunals and other anti-terrorist measures derived equally from both sides of the aisle. That charade is now over. Last time I checked, leaky Leahy was not a Republican. Nor was that guzzling boozer, Teddy Kennedy. Nor was greedy-shyster-lawyer-turned-pol John Edwards of North Carolina. Near as I could tell, all the sniveling and snuffling and bleating emanated from the Democrat side. But, through it all, America's top cop handled his detractors with aplomb. His steadfast composure, his grace under fire, his patient demeanor frustrated his former Democrat colleagues who tried desperately to trip him up. Everything the loonies threw at him, he would toss right back in their faces. Man, am I glad adults are back in charge! My two cents.. "JohnHuang2"