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At war with an enemy of an unspoken name
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W
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"This is why Mr. Bush...has seemed (to his critics) foolish or deceitful"
Downright moronic, actually. Just a couple examples:
"The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it." - G.W. Bush, Jul. 18, 2005
"WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: I don't really understand. How is it the new [Social Security] plan is going to fix that problem?
DUBYA: Because the - all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those - changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be - or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the - like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate - the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those - if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."
If anyone is fluent in dumbass please translate Bush's "sentences" into English.
Posted by: W on September 14, 2005 09:09 PM
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Charles Martel
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Blankley is a card carrying member of Bush's club who believe that "we-can-win-the-war-if-we-continue-to-say-that-Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace-hijacked-by-a-small-minority-of-extremists". Either that or he is utterly clueless as to the bloody history and tenets of Islam spelled out in the Qur'an and Hadith. "Militant Islam is postmodern rather than premodern"? Please. Muslims have been invading, conquering, subjugating, and colonising other nations and civilisations for 1350 years. Like any disease or parasite, Islam occasionally goes into remission or hibernation when environmental conditions are not hospitable or the host organism is resistant, but it inevitably revives to continue consuming or deconstructing anything in its path that is not genetically identical to Islam. We are simply in the latest phase of a condition that has persisted for over 13 centuries.
Posted by: Charles Martel on September 15, 2005 05:49 AM
At war with an enemy of an unspoken name
By Tony Blankley
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of The Washington Times, calls for a sweeping response to the threat of militant Islam in his book, "The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?" (Regnery Publishing).
Last of three parts
(Part 1 "An Islamist threat like the Nazis")
(Part 2 "Needed: Old war spirit in a new war")
When President Bush declared war on terrorism, he did not, legally, put the country on a war footing. Up until now, we have never accurately named the enemy or the danger. If the government can't speak the real name and nature of the enemy, it becomes impossible to explain, or even design, a policy for victory.
This is why Mr. Bush -- who has tried to talk around the problem of radical Islam -- has seemed (to his critics) foolish or deceitful, neither of which he is. What we need is a clear congressional declaration of war, as prescribed by the Constitution. Congress should declare war on the Islamist jihadists.
Naming the formal enemy limits the focus of our war effort to the militant Islamists who have declared jihad against the West. There are many terrorist groups in the world. Many are no threat to the United States. The current danger is the Islamist one.
Naming the threat also expands the scope of our war effort to all the networks of radical Islam, including mosques, schools and radical sites on the Internet. It is not only terrorist acts that we are confronting, but the propaganda and organizations that make them possible.
Some people would argue that we would be declaring a religious war against more than a billion Muslims. But this is not true. We would be declaring war on a particular, violent, political ideology within Islam that threatens the West and the health of Muslim societies themselves.
By declaring war on the Islamist jihadists, we can underline why we stand side by side with peaceful and democratic Muslims and are opposed in Afghanistan and Iraq only by those Muslims who believe in car bombs, terrorism and murder. (continue)
Posted by Ted Belman at September 14, 2005 09:06 AM