From: "Gary Britt" 

Cheney's non-service in the Vietnam war is as irrelevant to his
qualifications to be vice-commander in chief as was Kerry's four months of
boat driving in Vietnam was to his qualifications.

Better to be a "chickenhawk" than a "chickenshit".

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>I  sure the neo-hystericlists can deal with the 'pain and fear
>transference' . It's not liberalism that gets there panties in a twirl over
>that realization. It's those like Cheney that 'had better things to do than
>serve' when given the opportunity that are now the are 'warriors' of the
>far right.
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>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>> What crap.  Was that Harry "we killed the Patriot Act!!!
Yeah!!!!" Reid
>> he was quoting as the sane voice keeping us safe.  Was that the British
>> Government with far more and wide spread wire tapping abilities than even
>> Republicans would allow Bush and all without judicial involvement
>> whatsoever that this putz was bragging on for stopping this plot?  Wasn't
>> it reported yesterday that NSA communication surveillance played a
>> significant role in this matter with the NSA picking up and forwarding to
>> the Brits various surveillance info.
>>
>> I'm not scared of Bush.  I'm scared of guys like this Putz and those who
>> think as he does.  Rather than support a return to sanity about the
>> global war on terror which definitely includes Iraq, he is desperate to
>> make people afraid NOT of the enemy who wants to melt the skin from our
>> children's bodies but afraid of Bush.
>>
>> Its classic liberalism can't deal with the pain and fear transference.
>> Rather than be concerned about the real bad guys over which they have no
>> control and therefore feel powerless in their chickenshit thinking to do
>> anything about, they irrationally transfer their fear to something a
>> *lot* more friendly and over which they do have some *control*, i.e.
>> their own elected representatives.  Then in an irony of all ironies,
>> while this putz is pissing his pants and so panic stricken that he is
>> engaging in all sorts of irrational psychological defense mechanisms he
>> tries to claim with a straight face that its not he, not the real bad
>> buys, but Bush and his supporters that are scared and fear mongering.
>>
>> Send the putz and those like him to re-education camps.  They'll thank us
>> later.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:44dc7ec7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/red-081106-greenfield,1,78
27791.column?coll=chi-news-hed
>>>
>>> Published August 11, 2006
>>>
>>>
>>> Scared yet? Well, you may be soon.
>>>
>>> What we almost certainly will see in aftermath of the alleged plot to
>>> blow up several planes en route to the U.S. is a thunderous response
>>> from President Bush and other Republican leaders.
>>>
>>> With the midterm elections less than three months away, they will
>>> attempt to scare Americans into re-electing Republicans or risk facing
>>> instant annihilation at the hands of an evil and murderous enemy.
>>>
>>> Choose us and live. Choose them and die. Your call.
>>>
>>> Nice way to end the summer, isn't it?
>>>
>>> Believe it or not, Thursday was actually a good day. Everbody in his or
>>> her right mind knows there are always terrorists plotting to attack the
>>> U.S., so it didn't bother me that some people were discovered to be
>>> doing just that.
>>>
>>> What made it a good day was that at least one government, even if it was
>>> the British government, knew how to foil a massive terrorist plot.
>>>
>>> But back to the fear. President Bush gave a brief speech Thursday on an
>>> airport tarmac in Green Bay. In the speech he brought up 9/11, which, of
>>> course, for him, is a synonym for fear.
>>>
>>> Then he moved on to the real point he was trying to make, which is some
>>> people (read: Democrats) think the world is made up of sugar and spice
>>> and everything nice.
>>>
>>> "It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the
United States of
>>> America," he said. "And that is why we have given
our officials the
>>> tools they need to protect our people."
>>>
>>> Scaring the public has worked so well for so long that you can't blame
>>> him, really. Except when you consider that it's immoral and unpatriotic.
>>>
>>> Now, even if you're a great admirer of President Bush, do you really
>>> think Democrats or any adult in this country believes that
"there is no
>>> threat to the United States of America" from terrorists?
>>>
>>> It's a patently absurd statement, but with just a short time allotted
>>> for his speech, President Bush chose to try to scare the public into
>>> believing that Democrats, if in charge, would fight terrorists with love
>>> beads instead of guns.
>>>
>>> The good news is Bush doesn't have the political leverage to scare
>>> Democrats into rolling over anymore. Just nine days after the 9/11
>>> attacks, South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle, then the Democratic leader in
>>> the Senate, said: "We want President Bush to know-we want
the world to
>>> know-that he can depend on us. We will take up the president's
>>> initiatives with speed. We may encounter differences of opinion along
>>> the way, but there is no difference in our aim."
>>>
>>> On Thursday, current Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.),
>>> said: "The Iraq war has diverted our focus and more than
$300 billion in
>>> resources from the war on terrorism and has created a rallying cry for
>>> international terrorists. This latest plot demonstrates the need for the
>>> Bush administration and the Congress to change course in Iraq and ensure
>>> that we are taking all the steps necessary to protect Americans at home
>>> and across the world.''
>>>
>>> Hard to believe the contrast, isn't it? The Democrats, at least ones not
>>> named Joe Lieberman, know better than to trust President Bush ever
>>> again. I don't think the public will get fooled again by Bush's scare
>>> tactics.
>>>
>>> But like it or not, it's the Bush administration that is most
>>> responsible for keeping us safe from terrorists right now. It's also our
>>> job to keep an eye on the Bush administration.
>>>
>>> Don't ever forget that, no matter how scared you get.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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