uncle_sam

&quot;Uncle Sam, Just yesterday you posted words to the effect &quot;If you don't respect my President, you don't respect my country&quot;.&quot;<BR><BR>That is NOT what I said.... those are merely your &quot;words to the effect&quot;!<BR><BR>I never said respect, what I actually said was, &quot;you attack my President, you attack me regardless of the President?<BR><BR>I would never, ever have used respect and Bill Clinton in the same sentense!<BR><BR>And my point is and was this!<BR><BR>While I disagreed with Bubba about virtually everything he stood for and did. When it came time to put troops in play then I supported the action and would not accept people trashing him, even my Republican friends.<BR><BR>This is exactly what I expect Operaboy to do when the troops are in play. I doubt he will because he does not have the character to do so!<BR><BR>So the next tine you folks decide you want to gang up on the conservative... at least get it right.<BR><BR>Between the distortion of my quotes and the posting of garbage by operaboy frorm questionable sources at best y'all are laughable!<BR><BR>US

RNC

Uncle..We are all still waiting for Operamans alternate solutions for disarming SH and getting him out. Inspections and resolutions don't work,so what will?

uncle_sam

Correct and I did give hin the opportunity to answer this question as well:<BR><BR>**And answer my question ...when are you going to support our President and the men and women in our armed forces?<BR><BR>US<BR><BR>His answer:<BR><BR>**1969-1973, before I knew better<BR><BR><BR>So based upon that answer it appears to me that if you do not support your own President and your own military...whose leader and military do you support?<BR><BR>US

sheila

I have often disagreed with you, but that's the first time I have lost respect for you.<BR><BR>You did say it. You were talking about Bush, and, I suspect, forgot, it would have applied to Clinton too.<BR><BR>Just because it's not here any more son't mean it wasn't there in the first place.

orgy7

CNBC the Bush administration will start too get more involved in the palestinian/Isaeli issue.. <BR><BR>I guess finaly Bush is reolzing or is getting it bashed over his head that the road too peace in the midle east is not threw Bagdad but threw the Jerusalem.. <BR><BR>but I see this new change of events as a green light for war.. since so many countries kept on throwing the Pal/isael issue on the table when saying they were against the war.. hell I did..<BR><BR>

uncle_sam

Sheila, <BR><BR>I do not recall it that way. However we both post here a lot. And if you say that I did then you either misunderstood or I actually did it!<BR><BR>If I did in fact say that, I apologize!<BR><BR>US

uncle_sam

&quot;I guess finaly Bush is reolzing or is getting it bashed over his head that the road too peace in the midle east is not threw Bagdad but threw the Jerusalem.. '<BR><BR>Not neccessarily so!<BR><BR>The road through Bagdad eliminates the funding and cover for terrorist organizations like Hammas and the rewading of homicide murderers families receiving cash from Saddam.<BR><BR>US

JoeG

Buzzy,<BR>Thank you for your succinct summation of the situation &lt;I think that if the French had not sought to split the UN in the first place we may never had needed to go to war&gt; You hit the nail on the head. Also you did a great job of bringing it back to a travel question - especially on a personal level.<BR> No one wants to go to war. This is not a board game of RISK. People will die. You have to ask yourself - are their causes that you are willing to die for? After 9/11 Americans realized that our way of life way was threatened. Traditional methods of defending our way of life would not be effective. Going after Al Quaida and overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan was a heroic and proper response. At some point last summer, US and British intelligence realized that it was only a matter of time before a rogue dictator, ie. SH, would be in a position to provide nuclear weapons to Al Qaida terrorists. Bush and Blair realized that if they sit back and do nothing at this point, in two years, five years, 10 years when terroists will detonate a nuclear bomb somewhere in the world, History will ask , Why didn't you do something when you had the chance?<BR>Unfortunately, Bush has bungled the handling of this from a public relations standpoint. Instead of rallying world opinion in our favor, he has set himself up as this huge target for dozens of divergent groups,interests and countries to vent misguided hostility and anger. Instead of staring down Saddam, he antagonized the world. It's like the hypnotist, who instead of hypnotizing the intended victim, he mesmerizes the person standing behind him.<BR>There is still time to see the light!<BR>JoeG