Are we going to be nuked at election time?

Come on Charles! ALL Arabs want the destruction of Israel? What a simple-minded generalization!

edit - important clarification: Not calling you "simple-minded" Charles; referring to the sweeping generalization.

 

At least we agree on something!

I find it best to keep a cool head, for the most part, because I VALUE other people's opinions regardless of whether I think they are "right" or "wrong".

I think F-chat is one of the best online communities available to discuss these types of differences. Potato-PoTahto, Gayardo, Gallardo. Right?

 

Bob, I am sorry that you have taken what I said as an insult, maybe it came across that way. Nevertheless, Blix said LAST NIGHT on Bill O'Reilly ( before you say it, I also think he's TOO full of himself) that HE believed WMDs were around as recently as late '02 and I stand by the "hate america" comment because Blix has all along been bad-mouthing us in a back-handed way since Clinton left office. Now WHERE do you think his politcs are? Blix has NO backbone because he LET Saddam stall, and tell the UN inspectors to get lost. That is FACT.

Presidents brief legislators ALL the time when it comes to issues like this and you are obfuscating the FACT that the dem leaders AGREED that this was the RIGHT thing to do, WMDs WERE there and when "Slick Willy" was in office they stood next to him and said yeah, yeah we need to go after Saddam, we need regime change ( to quote Tom Daschle) but NOW it's election time they change their tune.

Sorry to offend you. I did not mean to. BTW, I AM as intelligent as I think I am!! LOL

 

Thanks for clarifying you statements.

Best,

Bob

 

Ken, no worries, as you probably can imagine, it sparked rapid emotion in me. No hard feelings.
I hope you have visited or will get to visit Jordan soon, as its a wonderful place. Petra is just plain cool, esp. if you are an Indiana Jones buff. Just don't do my mistake of going in summer!

 

With narry a negative word from the US government--who at the time was supporting Saddam in his war with Iran.

Bush is really evil. You convinced me.

The real question is why we (USoA) is allowed to have all the WMDs necessary to destroy every living thing on this planet many times over, and nobody else gets to say anything about it?

Should we not pull the WMDs our of our own eye before pulling the splinter out of our neighbor's eye?

 

The real number is around 25 and growing at the rate of 2.5 per year

If we had invested half as much nation building money in Palestine from 1950 through 1990 as we did in Isreal the Palestinean problem would have been history 20 years ago.

 

I am not even touching that one...

 

Mitch, I can only assume that you like the intellectual exercise and enjoy the discourse and do NOT really believe SOME of what you say. We are allowed to have the arms because, as I stated awhile back, the United States is a country of liberators, not of enslavers and imperialists. We have had the power, ability and resources time and time again in the last 50+ years to use our power incorrectly yet we have not. If we wanted to arbitrarily bring about death and destruction and RULE the world we could have already, especially after the fall of the paper Soviet bear.

We are responsible enough to have these weapons, we have not used them since 1945, we abide by our treaties and agreements to protect our allies (NATO) so therefore, in my eyes, we are responsible enough, along with Britain, France and others to have them. The same cannot be said of these Middle Eastern countries. BTW, Israel has plenty and as crazy as many think they are they have not used them either, despite innumerable provocations to do so.

 

I am in Israel at this moment. Art: Maybe I should ask someone ?

Ciao
Ralph
Hadera, Israel

 

I heard the same thing Art.

 

the money still there to use, that's why ARAFAT is listed int he FORBES 400

 

Bullseye!!!!!

 

mitch, i guess the subtle phrase was lost on you again. clear the red mist and re-read my lines you quoted.

you are another candidate for taking a trip to a non-democratic or despotic country. you have no concept what evil is if you attach that moniker to gwb. get out a little and look past the new york times version of the world. you just might learn something.

 

Thanks HMS, I'm glad someone read that 5 pages or so ago!

 

I don't think they'd tell you Ralph - I think the "official" policy is to neither acknowledge nor deny the existence of the nukes.

Have a safe trip back to Houston.

Regards,
Joe

 

Joe you are correct. Outstanding weather.


Thanks
Joe

 

No problem...I think 5-10 years from now, the WAR ON TERROR will make sense to everyone in this country. I really could careless what europe or any other nation thinks on how we defend ourselves against these cowards who hide bombs in trains and fly planes into buildings. Blunt force is the only language these animals understand. This is what I like about Bush. Call him a cowboy or whatever, he is doing something about the problem. The last guy ignored every intel briefing on A.Q. and let Bin Laden plot and plan the murder of 3,000 Americans because he didn't want to offend the Afgani government...thanksl,3K of you'r people paid for you'r cowerdness. Iraq was a must also. That tyrant has been thumbing his nose at us for over a decade. Playing games and lying to the world on a daily basis. Does he have WMD's.???who knows. I really don't care. After 9/11 all the rules have been rewritten. The presdident of this country must act on any and all possible threats that these animals could present to us. In Iraq, we took the fight to the enemy's own turf. Iran and Syria and a few other terror harboring nations are now on notice. I think these guys will think twice now that we've parked 150K troops and heavy weapons in their backyard. I just hope Bush gets re-elected so we can continue the fight against these animals. It will be a joyfull day for every terrorist if Kerry is elected.

 

Does any other country invest in Palestinians however ?

And.....Saddam Hussein's payments to the families of homicide bombers do not count.

 

SR 71 is a photo bird. It is not a comm bird. Maybe the story got twisted a
little ? Talking and listening birds are usually loaded with antennas.