Aug. 28th, 2002

shit.

Aug. 28th, 2002 08:38 am
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I mrmph I grngkle I ack choke

Oh, OK, dammit, [grits teeth, girds loins, firmly supresses northerly motion of gorge] I agree with Maureen Dowd.

Somebody just shoot me.

Note to passing Free Republic denizens: It's a figure of speech.

If America is going to have a policy of justified pre-emption, in Henry Kissinger's clinical phrase, why not start by chasing out those sorry Saudi royals? If we're willing to knock over Saddam for gassing the Kurds, we should be willing to knock over the Saudis for letting the state-supported religious police burn 15 girls to death last March in a Mecca school, forcing them back inside a fiery building because they tried to flee without their scarves. And shouldn't we pre-empt them before they teach more boys to hate American infidels and before they can stunt the lives of more women?

And of course in reference to Mr. Cheney, you smut-minded heathens, the crystalline perfection of the headline "I'm with Dick"

It offends my sensibilities, but sadly I'd rather have her inside the tent pissing out.
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or why they call him "Rummy"

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is casting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a menace who cannot be appeased and suggesting that it may not wait for full allied support before launching an attack.

"It's less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decision and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.

In a lively exchange with Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Rumsfeld predicted that most U.S. friends and allies would support American U.S. military action against Iraq if that is what Bush decides is required to deal with the threat of being attacked with weapons of mass destruction. So far no allies have voiced firm support. Many have raised great doubts or outright opposition.

"Leadership in the right direction finds followers and supporters," Rumsfeld told members of the 1st Marine Division, who peppered the defense secretary with numerous questions about war against Iraq.

When a Marine asked whether Rumsfeld thought victory in Iraq would take long to achieve, he refused to answer directly. "The frenzy on this subject, it seems to me, is not useful," he said.


Subsequent to which no-one roughed him up.

It's the small victories you have to keep an eye out for.

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