Comments on: Turkey Defiant On Possible Iraq Invasion

Amid Diplomatic Row With U.S., Leader Says They’ll Go After Rebels "Whatever Its Price"

[oj_simpson6]

Let Turkey go in and do what they have to do to protect their country. Maybe the US will take a look at what real balls are.

[clestes-2009]

This is not good news. The ONLY part of Iraq that was mostly peaceful is under attack from Turkey. Respect for the US is at an all-time low. Foreigns head of state are basically ignoring the Bush admin. Turkey is suppose to be an ally!! They HAVE to know that invading the Kurds is going to significantly worsen the already unstable Iraq.

You want to know just how low respect for the US by foreign leaders has drop


Turkey is a US ally

[iceman_1960]

Two men were sentenced to death for their participation in the Whiskey Rebellion, but George Washington, however pardoned both of them, on the grounds that one was a "simpleton," and the other, "insane."

No doubt if Washington were president today, he''d pardon Bush and Cheney for the same reasons.

[iceman_1960]

RE: "Was George Washington a wartime president ? Yes, he defeated the Whiskey Rebellion in America''s first undeclared war, and was one of only two presidents to pesonally commmand troops at the front."

"L. Neil Smith''s novel "The Probability Broach" contains an alternate history where Albert Gallatin convinced the militia force not to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, but instead to march on the nation''s capital, execute George Washington for treason, and to replace the Constitution with a revised Articles of Confederation. As a result, the United States becomes a libertarian utopia called the North American Confederation. Albert Gallatin''s intervention in the Whiskey Rebellion comes as a result of an additional word in the Constitution, which in the parallel universe contains the phrase "deriving its just powers from the unanimous consent of the governed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion#Popular_culture

[iceman_1960]

"...music to the enemies ears it further emboldens them..." - notblue

al Qaeda couldn''t possibly get any bolder than they were on 9/11.

[iceman_1960]

The Elder Bush was a very good wartime president.

Bush the Younger -- the worst.

Reagan flunks because of Beirut. Granada hardly made up for it.

[notblue]

rafterman, your pascifism will be. Your lack of basic understanding of the enemy we fight and your daily anti-American rhetoric and obvious lack of understanding of the threat posed by global terrorism is not only music to the enemies ears it further emboldens them and helps there cause not Americas.

[iceman_1960]

RE: "Some of our best wartime presidents had no significant military experience - Polk, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt. (Washington, Truman and of course Eisenhower did.)"

If forgot Bill Clinton, who achieved Mission Accomlished in the Balkans against the terrifying Serbs, an enemy even the Mongols feared, in a few weeks, without losing a man in combat.

Was George Washington a wartime president ?

Yes, he defeated the Whiskey Rebellion in America''s first undeclared war, and was one of only two presidents to pesonally commmand troops at the front.

That would be an admirable Amendment to the Constitution: if the President wants to wage an undeclared war, he must do it in person.

[bizzzz-2009]

Iceman_1960- By the way, I don''t think anybody should overpay their taxes. I never do. They get enough from me. If the government owes you money, I''d get it back.

[iceman_1960]

RE: Post by bizzzz at 04:12 PM : Oct 12, 2007

By the way, I never called you a "phony soldier." I leave that trash talk to the Right. If you say you served as you did, I take your word for it.

I just said that such claims cannot be verified, and opinions hold the same weight with or without those claims, as long as the opinions are fact-based and based on sound reasoning.

Some of our best wartime presidents had no significant military experience - Polk, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt. ((Washington, Truman and of course Eisenhower did.)

And I did too overpay my taxes last year.

I''m not a "phony taxpayer."