Hello All,
Some stories that definitely deserve comment seeing as most people will nod in approval of the comments without considering the hypocrisy or Pot Calling the Kettle Black implications of what is being said. The first story that caught my eye was this one: Bush brands Iran leader a 'tyrant' "US President George W. Bush branded Iran's president a tyrant and compared leaders in Tehran to Al-Qaeda terrorists who cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. "America will not bow down to tyrants," he said in the second of a series of election-year speeches defending his handling of the war on terrorism and Iraq. "The world's free nations will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon." http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/05/060905185045.tl1hkfen.html This coming from a man who advocates the rounding up of people for the purposes of accusing them of being 'terrorists' on the flimsiest of evidence and be held indefinitely without trial. This from the man who supported the Draconian Patriot Act which has burdened businesses with a whole lot of unnecessary regulations and when you take the time to read it amounts to State sponsored Terrorism of the citizenry. This from a man who has no problem with using torture on suspects of 'terrorism' for the purposes of extracting information even though this sort of questioning in notoriously unreliable. This from a man who routinely sends out his minions to scare the citizenry into further acquiescence of their individual liberties. This from a man who approves of surveillance of the conversations of Americans. You know what they say George, it takes one to know one! I agree we shouldn't bow to Tyrants, starting with the one occupying the White House. The next story that caught my eye was this one: Newsman to Tony Snow: 'Don't Point Your Finger At Me!' NEW YORK A not especially eventful press briefing at the White House today turned rancorous with NBC's David Gregory telling Press Secretary Tony Snow, "Don't point your finger at me," and Snow accusing the newsman of being "rude" and delivering Democratic talking points. Earlier, speaking to reporters, Snow, continuing the administration's media focus on the war on terror, accused "some in the Democratic Party" of saying "we shouldn't fight the war" and "we shouldn't apprehend al-Qaeda" or even "question al-Qaeda." Snow got into a tussle with Gregory after the NBC journalist told him, in a lengthy remark, that the public may wonder why the president's statement and report today on the war on terror did not admit more failings on the administration's part. Snow observed that he had nicely summarized "the Democratic point of view," and Gregory took exception to this. This exchange followed. * Q Actually, Tony, I don't think that's fair, if you look at the facts. If you look at the facts. MR. SNOW: Well, I do, because -- no, because, for instance -- Q No, no, no. No, I don't think you should be able to just wipe that, kind of dismiss the question -- MR. SNOW: Well, let me -- Q It's not a Democratic argument, Tony. MR. SNOW: Let me answer the question, David. Q But hold on, let's not let you get away with saying that's a Democratic argument. MR. SNOW: Okay, let me -- let's not let you get away with being rude. Let me just answer the question, and you can come back at me. Q Excuse me. Don't point your finger at me. I'm not being rude. MR. SNOW: Yes, you are. Q Don't try to dismiss me as making a Democratic argument, Tony, when I'm speaking fact. MR. SNOW: Well, okay -- well, no -- Q You can do that to the Democrats; don't do it to me. MR. SNOW: No, I'm doing it to you because the second part was factually tendentious, okay? Now, when you were talking about the fact that it failed to adapt, that's just flat wrong. And you will be -- there has been -- there have been repeated attempts to try to adapt to military realities, to diplomatic realities, to development of new weapons and tools on the part of al Qaeda, including the very creative use of the Internet. So the idea that somehow we're staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong. * Elsewhere, Snow denied that the president's statement and report today on the war on terrorism were political in any way. "I think it belittles it by trying to dismiss it as politics," he said. But later, when a reporter asked, "But you don't disagree that he's trying to frame the debate for what is an important political choice?", Snow replied: "Absolutely. Of course, of course." Here is an excerpt from Snow's remarks: "There have been some in the Democratic Party who have argued against the Patriot Act, against the terror surveillance program, against Guantanamo. In other words, there are some people who say that we shouldn't fight the war, we should not detain -- we shouldn't apprehend al Qaeda, we shouldn't detain al Qaeda, we shouldn't question al Qaeda, and we shouldn't listen to al Qaeda. In other words, they're all for winning the war on terror, but they're all against -- they're against providing the tools for winning that war. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003087485 No Mr. Snow you are dead wrong. To quote V from V for Vendetta,"Fairness, Justice and Freedom are more than words, they are perspectives." These perspectives are things we cherished and they are things your administration has trashed with the Patriot Act, Surveillance of the American Citizenry, and the Concentration Camp in Guantanamo not to mention torture and mass murder in Iraq. By taking these things to task Democrats are doing what's right to defend all these ideals even if their motives for doing it may be colored by Partisanship. The War on Terror is a ruse for Government expansion and oppression and it needs to be exposed for what it is before things get any worse. One final story that caught my eye: Bush Defends War Strategy WASHINGTON (AP) - Quoting repeatedly from Osama bin Laden, President Bush said Tuesday that pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq would fulfill the terrorist leader's wishes and propel him into a more powerful global threat in the mold of Adolf Hitler. With two months until an Election Day that hinges largely on national security, Bush laid out bin Laden's vision in detail, including new revelations from previously unreported documents. Voters were never more united behind the president than in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his speech was designed to convince Americans that the threat has not faded five years later. Democrats have been increasing their criticism of the president's policies in Iraq as the congressional elections approach, with the latest salvo coming in a letter Monday that suggested he fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The White House rejected the idea. (AP) The cover of a report titled "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism" is seen as released by the... Full Image "It's not going to happen," spokesman Tony Snow said in a lengthy rebuttal to the Democratic letter. "Creating Don Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for good politics but would make for very lousy strategy at this time." To make the administration's strategy clear, the White House on Tuesday published a 23-page booklet called "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which Bush described as an unclassified version of the strategy he's been pursuing since Sept. 11, 2001. The booklet's conclusion: "Since the Sept. 11 attacks, America is safer, but we are not yet safe." Bush also quoted bin Laden saying: - "Death is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us." - Al-Qaida can cause the U.S. economy to collapse by implementing a "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan." - The defeat of American forces in Beirut in 1983 is proof America does not have the stomach to stay in a fight. "In Somalia, the United States pulled out, trailing disappointment, defeat and failure behind it," Bush said bin Laden wrote. - "The most serious issue today for the whole world is this third world war that is raging in Iraq. ... The whole world is watching this war and that it will end in victory and glory or misery and humiliation." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060905/D8JUUVH02.html Two comments about this piece. 1. The comment that,"Since the Sept. 11 attacks, America is safer, but we are not yet safe." is properly translated to we have far more work to do to reach total Tyranny in America. 2. Regarding the Bin Laden quotes I see one quote noticeably absent that should give all Americans cause for concern far more than any of the quotes above and it is the following quote: "I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed.... The U.S. government will lead the American people in and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life." http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-08-02.html Some almost 5 years since 9/11 and Bin Laden could not be more right about that one. Vic [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
