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I don’t think that means what you think it does.

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Rob,

Heh.  Notice that NATO just endorsed Bush’s missile defense proposal… Look good in public or advance the goals… Hmm, hard choice for a leftard, not so much for anyone else.

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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Every Picture Tells A Story

Not quite.

Every picture tells many stories.

Pictures leave out context. You can tell your own story.

Pictures leave out context. You can tell your own story.

Hmmm, my take on the picture is that Bush was posing for the camera whereas I’m sure that poodles take is something demeaning.

The Supreme Court is a bunch of black robed tyrants

I thought it was the end of an end of a Saturday Night Live show where Bushy said goodnight folks.

Yeah, like we should give a rat’s patoot what the Euro-weenies think. The utility of NATO is long past anyway. It has pretty much gone the way of the UN in terms of a functioning entity.

My thought is that B appears isolated .
It’s not a defining moment.

My thought is that B appears isolated .

My thought is that you ever had a thought, the surprise might kill you!

So, you base your conclusion on the appearance of the fraction of a second involved in capturing this image?

WOOF: You’ve reached new heights of shallow!

A troll is someone who only wants to stir up trouble, not have an honest debate.  Some signs that a poster is a troll:
* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

Good Ol Boy:

give a rat’s patoot

First, NATO is alive and well.  There are many NATO troops in Afghanistan and, as RGraves just pointed out, they gave Bush what he wanted; the missle shield initiative. While we must always be prepared to go it alone, collective security has worked for 60 years.

Second, I’m going to commit conservative heresy and say that the greatest blunder of the Bush administration in Iraq was his “either you’re with us or you’re against us” stance early on. Had President Bush allowed Sec. of State Colin Powell time to do the necessary diplomatic leg-work, we might have had far more useful help in that prolonged conflict. We`have paid a huge price for ignoring France and Germany.

Senator McCain, right or wrong, has made it clear that when he is president, he will work to reestablish links with our traditional European allies.  Long overdue, and hardly a rat’s patoot.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The stakes are high. Whether the issue is the economy, or energy, or the federal courts or national security, the right answers are coming not from the Democrats, but from the Republicans. The surge of operations that began a year ago is succeeding. The only way to lose this fight is to quit. Richard M. Cheney, Vice President, 30 May, 2008

woofie is right! That picture does tell a story, the story of an international leader who is ready to take care of business, enough with the hand jive, pocket change-jingling, heel rocking in their pennyloafers bullshit. And from the results I’d say they got the message.

Good find, woofie.

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From the number of heads contemplating feet in that picture I’d also venture that there where no few private, face to face come to Jesus sessions just prior to the photo-op.

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woof is nothing more than a liberal hack that can take a picture of basically nothing and try to make out that no one will play with Bush, give me a break.

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Hi ho the dairy-o....

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

RBB:  um… did you mean hi, ho, the derry-o? 

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The stakes are high. Whether the issue is the economy, or energy, or the federal courts or national security, the right answers are coming not from the Democrats, but from the Republicans. The surge of operations that began a year ago is succeeding. The only way to lose this fight is to quit. Richard M. Cheney, Vice President, 30 May, 2008

No, I meant to say the cheese stands alone.

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

Leaders usually do.

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I meant to say the cheese stands alone.

From one of the biggest cheese cutters (rbb) of our time!

A troll is someone who only wants to stir up trouble, not have an honest debate.  Some signs that a poster is a troll:
* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

I’m going to commit conservative heresy and say that the greatest blunder of the Bush administration in Iraq was his “either you’re with us or you’re against us” stance early on. Had President Bush allowed Sec. of State Colin Powell time to do the necessary diplomatic leg-work, we might have had far more useful help in that prolonged conflict. We`have paid a huge price for ignoring France and Germany

This is far too simplistic IMO! It can just as credibly be argued that France and Germany, making lots of money from Saddam, stabbed us in the back at a critical moment in our history. It can just as credibly be argued that France was striving to assume leadership of the EU and in the U.N. Security Council to feed the massive ego of its two leaders. It can just as credibly be argued that a real leader is willing to go it alone if he feels the mission is vital in the defense of liberty, whether he was right or wrong is beside the point. It can just as credibly be argued that France and Germany were making those decisions out of fear of their own very large and militant Muslim populations.

I must add the Liberal PM Tony Blair, based on British intelligence data and despite his sympathies towards the EU, urged Bush to not delay in striking Iraq. I would trust his judgment, as did Bush, versus trusting the ingrate French pigs or a damnable country we had to defeat twice in the last century.

It always irritates me a bit when people, having the clarity of hindsight, choose to criticize decisions which had to be made without that better intelligence data. I appreciate your feelings on this matter, I simply disagree with your statement.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

I’m going to commit conservative heresy and say that the greatest blunder of the Bush administration in Iraq was his “either you’re with us or you’re against us” stance early on. Had President Bush allowed Sec. of State Colin Powell time to do the necessary diplomatic leg-work, we might have had far more useful help in that prolonged conflict.

Your view of Secretary Powell’s ability and the prestige he brought to his position may be a bit more optimistic than is warranted by reality.

An equally compelling case can be made that had Powell actually done the job assigned him and secured passage through Turkey for the Army’s 4th Division, there might well have been no Sunni “insurrection” in Anbar at all.  Instead of being at their assigned location as called for in the original plan, the 4th spent an additional 6 weeks in transit through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, around the Saudi Peninsula, up the Gulf to Kuwait, and then into Iraq.  This delay was crucial in that it allowed the Sunni Ba’athists and al Qaeda time to organize, deploy, and become active… like a proverbial tick.

To be sure, hindsight is always 20-20 and there is no way to know what wudda, cudda, shudda happened alternatively.  Still, it is clear that Colin Powell’s influence was apparently lessened the farther he was from US soil.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Got to agree. At no point in recent history has surrender to Islam been an option for the US Government. No matter how long Colon held his breath, nor how many times he stamped his diminutive little foot. Listening to Colon was exactly why we did not accomplish the mission the first time out.

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BatOne, 2Hotel9, strong statements.  I, too was disappointed when the Turks voted not to allow us to traverse their country in order to invade Iraq from the north, but I also was proud of America for respecting their democratic vote.
We did the job anyway and in spite of their decision.  The Kurds are our allies and I really think that the Iraqis will endure and come out of this stronger without that sadistic dictator, Sadam and his sons.

Communism is evil

The Turks are more concerned with being a nation than with being popular. I never saw that as a bad thing.

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Chief,

I couldn’t agree more that our respect for the vote of the Turks is exactly the sort of leadership by example that the Bush administration almost never gets credit for.  Perhaps that is because liberals in the press and among the Democrats have so little regard for the will of the people when that will goes against their chosen agenda.

Still, there is no denying that the 4th Division’s 6 week delay was a critical factor in the Sunni “insurgency” and the operation of AQI.  We can only hope that in the end, the tactical defeat can yet be turned into a strategic victory.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”