Bill Frist quote from today …and I think he believes what he said:
“Last night’s claimed nuclear test by North Korea is a dangerous provocation that demands a strong response by the United States and by all nations. If Kim Jong Il believes that his claim will intimidate our allies or blunt our determination to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, he is gravely mistaken”
Message to Frist and his Republican colleagues in the Senate and House:
North Korea and Iran have proved beyond any doubt that you are intimidated by them!
The fault lies with this Republican Congress –
More than 1/2 of America voted for Bush in 2004 (including me) because we saw a gathering threat in N. Korea and Iran, and we knew we had to fight hard to win the peace in Iraq!
Yet the Dems constant hounding and to be expected volatility in Iraq have caused the Republican Congress to cower in the face of possibly loosing a mid term election.
Since Abu Ghraib, Frist & Co. have been more concerned with re-election than protecting the U.S, Now, sadly, neither the Republicans, or Dems, can save us from the fate we await. And our fate was just foreshadowed to us in the subterranean earth under the Korean Peninsula.
The only ones who have been stalwart are GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condi, and FREEPERS. Yet the Frist Congress went soft on this War time President with regard to Iraq and fell victim to 24/7 MSM hounding, and ultimately this manifested in showing weakness to our enemies.
Now we have N Korea with a nuclear weapon… and Bill Frist is talking trash on his Blog?
It’s so 21st Century America!
Sure, the Republicans attacked the Democrats on the airwaves – but the problem has been that this Congress could not muster more support for the Iraq effort after Abu Ghraib.
Now nothing the Republicans say will stop our enemies from coming at us – and we have given them their victory – which is a paralyzed Congress that will not be able to react to this recent military provocation.
Congress should have taken the mandate that the American voters gave it in 2004!!!
Today, in response to N Korea’s action, Joe Biden and Hilary bashed Bush for not talking directly with N. Korea? Obliviously they know the history of the Clinton Presidency, but they trust the stupidly of the American Voter!
It’s too terrible to think that the Democrats are soon going to take control of Congress, but it’s a reality – thanks to feckless leadership in the Senate (and House).
Since 2004 this Congress has not been willing to underwrite the necessary financially commitment to win the peace in Iraq!
It has been painfully clear that the last thing any Republican incumbent would want to do is support more troops in Iraq, coupled with a militaristic foreign policy towards Iran and N. Korea. We all know the President, and his astute advisors, had wanted more money from the start for Iraq, and were talking tough on Iran and N Korea.
Thus our wonderful system of checks and balances will (in my opinion) manifest in 30 million dead American civilians when the WMD attack on our soil hits us sometime in 2007 or 2008. It seems only then will this nation come together to defeat Militant Arab Extremism.
How sad.
Ponder these two comparisons:
WW2 – a universally acknowledged war against evil that had to be won at all costs -
1. More than 40% of our GDP was expended 2. We lost 100,000 lives per year
Iraq – 1/2 the country honestly does not recognize that Iraq was the only logical starting point to defeating Militant Arab Extremism, and today’s political rants on the left about the cost of the war in Iraq, in terms of money and lives are as insane as Cotton Mather’s views on witches and fears against inoculation to prevent disease.
1. We are spending LESS than 4% of our GDP 2. Less than 1000 lives per year are lost
We CAN afford more dollars for more troops (but the political will is not there)
Meanwhile – innocent Iraqis keep dying because we have been doing just enough to keep that country INCHING toward free markets – BUT – while Frist & Co. thought the bit by bit approach would protect America AND allow Republicans to retain control of Congress the cost of doing nothing was that Iran and N Korea saw our political weakness, and fast forwarded their WMD programs!
Now the horse is out of the barn and it’s heading on a slow boat across the Atlantic or Pacific to our major cities – and anyone who thinks otherwise is in for a terrible emotional shock when we are attacked and its 1000X worse than 9/11 – and 10 cities are hit simultaneously!
