Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 1913270)

I agree.

Europe has sold its soul for a testicular and ovarian transplant, the donors being folks who are contemptuous of the host. The long-term prognosis is grim.

Originally Posted by Vronsky (Post 1913325)

:) If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about Europe...

Originally Posted by Chad300tdt (Post 1905321)

Interestingly, a video posted recently by ohiomike of a lecture/book sales speech by Lindsey Williams sort of predicted something like this. In the video he stated that America will have to deal with Iran in the very near future to avoid the actual threat they are planning ... which is to flood the world market with cheap oil which would supposedly collapse the American economy.

I believe Mr. Williams said that we would have to cook up a reason to attack Iran before they carried out their plans.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=225600&highlight=energy+crisis

Originally Posted by Mistress (Post 1913353)

Did we ever find those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

Originally Posted by PaulC (Post 1913375)

They've been secreted in RichC's garage.

Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 1913267)

Do you think our historical relations with France began in 2003?

B

Originally Posted by Vronsky (Post 1913214)

Looking at the plain facts, not such a bad approach after all, I'd say.
At least Europe has captured and tried the London and Madrid terrorists.
The US Government doesn't seem to care much about briinging the 9/11 mastermind to justice, and hijacked the radical Islam issue they created themselves instead to pursue their own Lebensraum agenda in the ME.

Originally Posted by Mistress (Post 1913353)

Did we ever find those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

Originally Posted by MTI (Post 1913769)

Senioritis and Legacy Building on Overdrive

May 15, 2008, President's Speech to Israel's Knesset

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided. We have an obligation to call this what it is, the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

July 16, 2008: WH Press Secretary, Donna Perino:

As I said, there is no negotiation here. We are going there. Under Secretary Burns will be there as a part of the international community showing our unison that we are going to provide two paths for the Iranians from which to choose -- one, that they could accept the incentives package, and then if it's verified that they have halted their uranium enrichment, then there will be negotiations. And that's what I would seek to explain to the American people.

July 18, 2008: Sec of State, Condaleeza Rice:

The United States doesn't have any permanent enemies, and we hope that the signal that we're sending that we fully support the track that Iran could take for a better relationship with the international community is one that the United States stands fully behind. We will see what happens on Saturday but that is the message that Bill Burns will be delivering.

Originally Posted by DieselAddict (Post 1913778)

Another flip flop if you will: Bush agrees to "time horizon" on troop withdrawal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Isn't that cutting & running? :D

Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 1913799)

You have forgotten his speeches in which he repeatedly said, "As the Iraqi security forces stand up we will stand down."

This week the coalition forces returned another province to Iraqi control. That is what we call, "Standing up".

Standing down is when coalition forces remove themselves from the theater of operations -- as the UK did in S. Iraq upon their turn-over to Iraqi forces.

B

Originally Posted by DieselAddict (Post 1913834)

You're missing the point.