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ze_dscherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:45 AM
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Wolfowitz Says U.S. Will Not Be Driven from Iraq
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz vowed on Thursday that the United States would not be deterred by the almost daily attacks in Iraq and declared U.S. forces were winning their mission.
Wolfowitz, addressing an audience of several hundred people at a function where a conservative think-tank honored him as a "liberator" of Iraq, said Saddam Hussein holdouts and "foreign terrorists" were trying desperately to undermine Iraq's progress and throw the country into chaos.

"The terrorists in Iraq believe their attacks on innocent people will weaken our resolve. They believe we will run from a challenge. They are mistaken. Americans are not the running kind," he said.

"Our troops will not be deterred by the desperate acts of a dying regime or ideology ... We are winning," he added.

Wolfowitz, a major intellectual force behind President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, received the "Keeper of the Flame" award from the Center for Security Policy.

More: http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3590528
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Corgigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:48 AM
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1. Then I guess
we have to drive you out of Washington, on a rail.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:50 AM
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3. Don't forget the tar and feathers...
...when we run him out on a rail he has to dress properly.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:23 AM
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24. BRING EM ON SAYS "MF " CHICKEN HAWK WOLFIE
He's way beyond disgust
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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:33 AM
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28. Real easy for the chickenhawks to talk so macho.
Dressing up in an airman's jacket and blowing tough just doesn't get it for me, especially when it comes from chickenhawks who never saw any combat action. Let's get the children of all political appointees and the top administration officials over there and see how long the occupation of Iraq would last.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:49 AM
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2. Duh
It's not a case of being "driven out".

It's about leaving voluntarily because we're only there because of lying bastards like Wolfy.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:53 AM
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4. Sounds like the "no retreat" order given by Hitler on the Eastern Front.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 06:56 AM
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5. So many windows, so little time...
"Our troops will not be deterred by the desperate acts of a dying regime or ideology ... We are winning," he added.

***Translation: Bring it on!

Wolfowitz, a major intellectual force behind President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, received the "Keeper of the Flame" award from the Center for Security Policy.

***A major intellectual force? By whose definition? Oh, sorry, my bad, I guess in this administration anyone can be a major intellectual force by comparison to the imbecile in chief!

"The terrorists in Iraq believe their attacks on innocent people will weaken our resolve. They believe we will run from a challenge. They are mistaken. Americans are not the running kind," he said.

***One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It would, however, be very reassuring to see Wolfie putting his money where his mouth is, in other words, in Iraq, in uniform. Then we might see just how fast HE can run. Snarf!

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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:17 AM
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6. My thoughts exactly. Couple weeks in Bagdad for
Wolfie oughta cure what ails him.
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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 12:44 PM
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35. "great act of liberation"
"This will go down in the annals of military history as one of the great acts of liberation of a country from a brutal tyrant."

Does he really believe that?
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malachi Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:06 AM
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15. wolfie in uniform
The only uniform that I want to see this vile piece of shit wearing would be a state or federally issued garment with a number across the front. wolfie wearing a uniform of any branch of the military would be an obscenity and insult to those that have served.
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:24 AM
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7. I'm running for office
and I've been out canvassing neighborhoods, with a particular emphasis on independent voters. I was talking to an elderly man last night - never voted in a Democratic primary in his life - and he tore into Bush something fierce.

"He's just looting the country and giving it all to his rich friends."

"They ought to make him and Cheney go out and direct traffic on those street corners. That'd put an end to it."

People are waking up. Slowly. But they're waking up.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:36 AM
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8. Every time I fall into that trap
I get a wake up call.

Fox news and the other two whores are under perfect control to keep the folks ignorant.
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reprobate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:37 AM
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9. He's actually reading from the vietnam transcript.

Do neocons have no long term memory? Even an old man like me can remember them saying this in the 60s.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:57 AM
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19. The neocons deliberately forgot Vietnam.
Since they were all busy dodging it, having "other priorities", anal cysts, deserting, and all of that, it's much easier to pretend it never happenned at all. At least until the PNAC body count tops the 58,000 killed in 'Nam. And if those fucknuts get 4 more years, it's not out of the question.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:46 AM
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10. Well he's batting a thousand percent
Edited on Fri Oct-10-03 07:54 AM by teryang
He's been wrong on everything else so far. Why break a record?

Interesting how unelected officials at a secondary level in the Pentagon make "vows" on behalf of the American people.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:12 AM
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23. "wrong on everything else"...for the past 30 years!
Wolfy was part of the "Team B" exercise foisted on the CIA back in '76, by congressional hawks who thought its in-house analysts were underestimating the strength of Soviet forces. We've since learned the CIA was overestimating its strength and the "Team B" analysis was pure RW paranoid fantasy.

But, unlike us mere mortals, failure never seems to damage these guys' careers.
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lefty_mcduff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:53 AM
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11. Hey Wolfie -
Gun. Parachute. Plane ticket to Baghdad.

Go knock yourself out.....
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PsychoDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:58 AM
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12. I thought the war was over ?
Mission acomplished, we had won, The Iraqis were free, they love us, etc etc etc....

Juess this outs a new "spin" on it.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 07:59 AM
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13. what a creep
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Alpharetta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:05 AM
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14. PNAC vision: Iraq as a model for the rest of the Middle East

Okay, Wolfie. So your PNAC blueprint says the Arab states are tottering to democracy. Tell me how a protracted occupation is going to sway the balance in Saudi Arabia?
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LevChernyi Donating Member (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:27 AM
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25. oh, it very well may..
Perhaps not in the way they thought, but our satraps of the House of Saud may well fall over this.
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Alpharetta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:06 AM
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16. He forgot to say "Bring it On!"
n/t
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SodoffBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:14 AM
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17. Ok. Then plan on a lot of our soldiers dying
Cause/effect.
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mumon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 08:50 AM
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18. F*ck you Wolfowitz.
Nazi Wolwitz fuck- go there yourself you fucking war pig.

And I mean that in the nicest possible way!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:00 AM
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20. Everytime a news story starts with "Wolfowitz Says..."
I hear Gene Wilder from the movie The Frisco Kid, saying "Will somebody please show this poor asshole which way is outta town." (or something along that line.)
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:02 AM
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21. "We are winning."
I thought we'd won?
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:05 AM
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22. The Republicans Will Defend Iraq!!
Till the last drop of YOUR blood!
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:27 AM
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26. C-Span Reich Wing Fri. Continues the theme...
Had Harlan Ullman/PNACer's GURU on this AM. He is the author and inspiration of the Shock and Awe brought to Baghdad. Brian Lamb asked all the "right" questions to make the PNAC agenda appear down right patriotic... :puke:
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 09:29 AM
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27. denial is a truely wonderful thing....
Pretty soon we'll be able to see "the light at the end of the tunnel."
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:37 AM
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31. A total reality block.
Notice how Bush Co is handling the Iraq problem? War not going well? Simple just apply a little PR blitz, some spin and hype and the problem is solved. Just like the economy. Stand in front of a sign that says “Jobs and Growth” and just like that the economy is all better.
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Flying_Pig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:16 AM
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29. Wolfowitz is a fascist little worm. I wonder how he would fare in
a cell block of hardened criminals, which is where he should be? The entire membership of PNAC are guilty of crimes against this nation, Iraq, and the world. If a Dem government is elected, does anyone think the country will have enough gumption to call for justice against these people? We'll need Nuremberg type trials, in an effort to quash these fascist forever, and insure they can never again rise to power in this country!

:grr:
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:25 AM
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30. 'The desperate acts of a dying regime'
You mean like sending the men and women of the US armed forces into a sovereign nation under false pretenses to try and hide the fact that the Clothes Have No Emperor?

Is that the kind of desperate acts and dying regimes you're talkin' about there, Wolfie?

Let them go to Baghdad!

:grr:
dbt
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BigBigBigBear Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:58 AM
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32. Sounds like
"It's ours and you can't have it."

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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 11:00 AM
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33. wolfie go to Iraq & setup house put your money where your piehole is?
Edited on Fri Oct-10-03 11:02 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 11:03 AM
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34. Audience was GOP idea of a scientific sample.
Like Cheney today and Bush always, the audience is hand-picked. These conservative think tanks are more than just pseudo-intellectual paper mills. They also supply a ready, enthusiastic audience when the "cons" want their ideas applauded.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 12:48 PM
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36. wolfowitz is right
They are not going to drive us out of Iraq

They will slowly bomb us out
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 01:13 PM
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37. Wolfowittless "keeper of the flame" or "Fire starting Chickenhawk"?
The idiot is trying to rally the troops... he's too filled with bloodlust to notice that no new recuits are signing up for his little war. He should get his chickenhawk ass over there. Somebody give him a rifle, a pat on the back, and tell him to "bring it on" to Saddam Bin Laden.

idiot.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 01:50 PM
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38. Yes they will be driven from Iraq
As they should be.
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:46 PM
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39. I would like to quote from
Stratfor.com: a web site run by former intelligence officers from the CIA. Sometime in June, it became clear that there was something dreadfully, horribly gone wrong in Iraq. Americans were getting killed at an average of 1 soldier per day.

Of the insurgents, they wrote, "this is a war they just might win".
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:56 PM
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40. I believe this regime will eventually be destroyed by its own evil
But even if this is so, we must analyze, first, how such a horror came to be in our USA, and, what we can do to make sure it never happens again. Instituting real campaign finance reform would be one giant step forward. Fair and consistently conducted elections, with voting apparati (whatever they may be) producing paper trails, is absolutely necessary. Regulating the media so it cannot under any circumstances become monopolized by one political faction is also mandatory.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:13 AM
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41. Earth to Paul, Earth to Paul, the "dying regime" over there is US.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 01:15 AM
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42. We were "winning" in Vietnam too
Right up till the day of the siege of the US embassy. Winning hearts and minds. The threat of the international spread of communism was ever present in those days to justify the fight.

I guess every generation has to be treated to one of these, otherwise our lives wouldn't be complete.
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TryingToWarnYou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 01:45 AM
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43. It's easy to be a brave chickenhawk....
when everyone else is doing the dying.:puke:
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 02:24 AM
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44. Pure Nixon era hot air

When they start talking about not being driven out of something, you know that getting out is all they're talking about behind closed doors.

As someone said of Tricky Dick, "Someone who says in public that he won't resign four times, will." The more Wolfowitz talks about 'not getting driven out', the likelier it becomes.

These boys are just like Stalin's Communist leadership elite: they can only hold one idea about any particular item in their minds at any given time. So it comes very easily for them to say the opposite of what they mean to do, because they see it all as one idea with two forms of embellishment rather than two contradictory notions. Small minds have such advantages of efficiency....
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