There are dangers in ignoring or not paying attention to warnings. Pearl Harbor is one example and more recently Hurricane Katrina provided another good example. Each time the cry was heard “Why didn’t someone do something to prevent this from happening?” FDR was accused of knowing about the coming attack on Pearl Harbor in advance but did nothing because he wanted to be in the war. I can’t remember whether or not Ted said this in one of his tirades or not but there have been people who actually accused Bush of not only knowing about the attacks on 9/11 but helping to make it happen.
In any event, there are those that seem to think that we are living in Dodge City and that Marshall Dillon is bound by the rules to always let the guy in the black hat shoot first before he can draw his gun.
The question is whether or not our government should actively prevent attacks or whether or not it should let the attack happen and then do something. On one hand if we actively try to prevent attacks, we have Dave accusing us of killing people for the simple act of thinking. Dave seems to be on the side of letting the attack happen and then doing something about it. This same mindset then is the first to cry out after the fact: “Why didn’t someone do something to prevent this?” A real life Catch 22 if you will. Ted is easier to understand. We shouldn’t do anything at all unless it’s a Democrat doing it and then its okay.
I am amazed at the self deception that we get from our political establishment in that NO MATTER what the party in power tries to do, the other party decries. We need more troops in Iraq, the Democrats cried. Okay, let’s put more in and call it the surge. The Surge won’t work, we are putting more of our soldiers at risk, the Democrats cried. When it did in fact work the Democratic party shills (Mainstream Media) ignores the subject. The Democrats refuse to this day to recognize the progress in Iraq and still maintain that Bush did it all to help is oil buddies.
We now have a Democratic candidate for the US Presidency that is proposing to sit down with the heads of governments that sponsor terrorism yet will not talk to the American Military. Lunacy! His stated intention if elected is to pull out. It is no wonder that he like so Hamas are endorsing Barak Hussein Obama. I would imagine that the Taliban and al Qaeda are endorsing his candidacy as well.
Vietnam finally fell because our Democratic controlled congress pulled support from South Vietnam. Iraq will only revert to an Islamic fundamentalist state if BO repeats the actions of Vietnam.
No, Dave, I’m not moving out when the BO becomes President. I’m going to bitch and whine and complain everytime I have to fill my care up with gas because it is the stated policy of this Presidential candidate to drive us out of our cars. He’s going to drive us out of the energy that drives our economy and fuels our nation.
I had to laugh when McCain finally had the temerity to speak out against the ban on drilling out own oil. That squarely place the Democrats on the opposite side of that argument. I know that gas in a Democrats car is just as expensive as gas in a Republicans car. At least Republicans have somewhat a right to bitch about the cost. The Democrats have to bear the pain with a smile as they are getting exactly what they have been demanding for years.
We have a clear Presidential issue: either you smile at the gas pump and vote for Obama and the rest of the Democrats running for office or you bitch at the gas pump and vote the dumb bastards out.
