Repugs on Clinton's Bosnian Actions. HYPOCRITES

[Koyaanisqatsi]

can someone say..uh....HYPOCRITES????????

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Repugs on Clinton's Bosnian actions

"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

" President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

Cross posted from here: http://www.radionewsamerica.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1029

[Cocoa]

1. they're emboldening the enemy

and demoralizing the troops!

[Dogmudgeon]

2. We can say it. Who will hear it?

Start small, and make a lot of photocopies. That's what I've been doing, and I've managed to convert quite a few conservatives, and even a number of Fundamentalists.

It's not difficult if you're patient and don't berate the person for having bought into the lie. Most people actually don't need conversion per se; they just need to get started thinking about the issues. Then it comes naturally.

The first murmurs of rebellion can be heard in the dead of night, a gentle soughing like a baby's breath that will build to a full-throated cry by late afternoon.

And the crickets ... they've been around for thirty million years or more. They've seen and heard it all throughout the time that sapient humans have trod the Earth. I sometimes imagine that they're laughing, maybe remembering when George Washington and Tom Jefferson were around.

I'm lapsing into poeticism, so it must be getting close to my bedtime. Either that, or the ozone from my laser printer has affected my brain. Again.

--p!

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. Governor George Bush demands that Clinton have an exit strategy

Those quotes should be plastered on billboards across the country,if you could find a company that would allow them and isn't owned by the RW.

I LOVE how Bush DEMANDS that Clinton have an exit strategy. How telling...

[pnorman]

4. Here's another one:

"My biggest fear is going to be going to the funeral of some young Iowa man or woman who dies in this conflict and having their mother or father come up to me and ask whether or not their son or daughter died for America, or died to save Bill Clinton's presidency. I don't know what I would say to those grieving parents. For that reason I believe the President must resign immediately."

- Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA), Congressional Record, H11963, 12-18-98

pnorman

[Koyaanisqatsi]

5. Yes! Keep 'em comin!

Anybody else have more to contribute to the list?

This is handy.

:)

[Adelante]

6. Today's Philadelphia Inquirer

Casey accuses Santorum of failing to challenge Bush

By Carrie Budoff

-snip-

"I have a very clear track record of being supportive of the policy, but not necessarily all of the tactics," said. "That shows a level of involvement and sophistication that my opponent has not grasped... . I still have concerns about our level of activity with respect to fighting the insurgency, and the number of former Baathists who are put in positions of power in the country and their relationships with Iran. I have expressed those concerns publicly and privately."

However, his public statements on those issues could not be found.

Casey maintains that Santorum should be as pointed in his questioning as when Clinton, a Democrat, carried out U.S. missile attacks as part of NATO's efforts to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. To prove his point, Casey unearthed Santorum's comments from March 1999 that sound similar to current critiques of Bush's Iraq policy.

"President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy," Santorum said after voting against U.S. involvement in Kosovo because Clinton failed to offer a compelling national interest. "He is yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And, he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home."

Santorum emerged a vocal opponent, saying in April 1999 that the conflict was beginning to resemble Vietnam.

Casey called Santorum "plainly inconsistent," saying his support for Bush's Iraq policy should not prevent him from demanding an exit strategy. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, a Democrat who commanded NATO forces during the Kosovo war, said in an interview yesterday that Santorum's criticisms are "precisely, to the nth power, what has been wrong with the Iraq strategy... . So when he doesn't apply the same standards, it makes you believe his criticism was purely partisan in nature."

-more-

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/12429559.htm

[Koyaanisqatsi]

7. This reply rocks.

Thanks for posting this. I've cross-posted it on other message boards I visit.

Anyway, I liked the Dubya quote so much I slapped it on a shirt in my shop





Can be found here if interested.

http://www.cafepress.com/koy/787622

Keep 'em comin if ya can! :)

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Why did Santorum not support our troops and hate our freedoms?

Traitor,terrorist kind of traitor!!

[GoneOffShore]

9. Something similar on Crooks and Liars

Just got the following in my email - It's from http://www.crooksandliars.com


"Some quotes that should be taken into account, when condemning supposed 'partisan' criticism of President Bush's Iraq War, American Armed Forces, etc.:

Here's what Republicans once said about President Clinton and American military intervention in Kosovo, a venture that was a truly 'noble cause', as well as a resounding military, humanitarian and foreign policy success:


Why did they second-guess our commitment to freedom from genocide and demand that we cut and run?


"President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."

-Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)


"No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say, back out of it, because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That's why I'm against it."

-Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/5/99


"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)


"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."

-Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of presidential candidate George W. Bush


Why did they demoralize our brave men and women in uniform?


"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning...I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."

-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)


"You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo."

-Tony Snow, Fox News 3/24/99


"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years"

-Joe Scarborough (R-FL)


"I'm on the Senate Intelligence Committee, so you can trust me and believe me when I say we're running out of cruise missles. I can't tell you exactly how many we have left, for security reasons, but we're almost out of cruise missiles."

-Senator Inhofe (R-OK)


"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)



"I don't know that Milosevic will ever raise a white flag"

-Senator Don Nickles (R-OK)



"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"

-Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99



Why didn't they support our president in a time of war?

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."

-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)


"This is President Clinton's war, and when he falls flat on his face, that's his problem."

-Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)



"The two powers that have ICBMs that can reach the United States are Russia and China. Here we go in. We're taking on not just Milosevic. We can't just say, 'that little guy, we can whip him.' We have these two other powers that have missiles that can reach us, and we have zero defense thanks to this president."

-Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)


"You can support the troops but not the president"

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)




"My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made .. not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do."

-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)



For us to call this a victory, and to commend the President of the United States as the Commander in Chief showing great leadership in Operation Allied Force, is a farce"

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)


Why did they blame America first?

Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly."

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)



"Once the bombing commenced, I think then Milosevic unleashed his forces, and then that's when the slaughtering and the massive ethnic cleansing really started"

-Senator Don Nickles (R-OK)


"Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode"

-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)


"America has no vital interest in whose flag flies over Kosovo's capital, and no right to attack and kill Serb soldiers fighting on their own soil to preserve the territorial integrity of their own country"

-Pat Buchanan



"These international war criminals were led by Gen. Wesley Clark ..who clicked his shiny heels for the commander-in-grief, Bill Clinton."

-Michael Savage


"This has been an unmitigated disaster ... Ask the Chinese embassy. Ask all the people in Belgrade that we've killed. Ask the refugees that we've killed. Ask the people in nursing homes. Ask the people in hospitals."

-Representative Joe Scarborough (R-FL)



"It is a remarkable spectacle to see the Clinton Administration and NATO taking over from the Soviet Union the role of sponsoring "wars of national liberation."

-Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-ID)



"America has no vital interest in whose flag flies over Kosovo's capital, and no right to attack and kill Serb soldiers fighting on their own soil to preserve the territorial integrity of their own country"

-Pat Buchanan


"By the order to launch air strikes against Serbia, NATO and President Clinton have entered uncharted territory in mankind's history. Not even Hitler's grab of the Sudetenland in the 1930s, which eventually led to WW II, ranks as a comparable travesty. For, there are no American interests whatsoever that the NATO bombing will either help, or protect; only needless risks to which it exposes the American soldiers and assets, not to mention the victims on the ground in Serbia."

-Bob Djurdjevic, founder of Truth in Media


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[Koyaanisqatsi]

10. Good ol' Crooks & Liars.

Perfect! Thanks!

[ComerPerro]

11. Arrogant, condescending little jerks, aren't they?