[Rhodes22-list] Bashing Bush is fun.

[stan]

knowing most Rhodes owners on and off line, here is more support for my 
count that there are many more Rhodies with their heads properly screwed on 
than there are with their heads a bit loose.  would hate to see the List's 
broader outlook curtailed - it really is more important than selling more 
Rhodes.     (did I say that).

stan/ECP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "petelargo" <petelauritzen at earthlink.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bashing Bush is fun.


>
> Personally I would prefer this a political free zone as sailing is the 
> escape
> from daily woes and there are plenty of other sites to nit-pik these
> political posturings. From the river kayaking community from wence I came,
> we posted lots of exciting trip reports, which I wish there were more of
> especially for the newbies with general excitement about sailing and the
> RHODES 22.
>
> However, since this is a "bar" that I can avoid getting into a physical
> fight that might compound my class four river injuries here are some other
> perspectives:
>
> 1) Had we simply stayed in Afganistan, we realistically would actually 
> have
> stabilized that country, the reductionist war cry of 'fight dem der so we 
> we
> don't fights dem here' would still work, no one had a problem with our 
> being
> there and Bush would would be a hero with big approval ratings.
>
> 2) There are influences above politics that 98% of us rarely see and the
> media never reports and so all of us get stuck in the polarized squabble
> rather than "paying attention to the man behind the curtain".
>
> 3)  It is a matter of continual history repeating itself time and time 
> again
> that conventional warfare does not work on terrorism, period. It never 
> ever
> has and it never ever will.
>
> 4) 15 of the 18/19 9-11 terrorists were saudis and the saudis finance al
> queda. Bin laden came after America not because he "hates our freedoms",
> because he is a wealthier than 95% of americans, but because of presence 
> of
> American troops in their holy lands. You will NEVER see Bush or anyone go
> after Saudis because if they pulled their wealth from here there would be 
> an
> economic crash of biblical proportions. The real CUT AND RUN occurred in
> 2003 when Bush did buckle to the Saudis and pulled all US soldiers out of
> Saudi lands, even though if you want to "blame" a country for 9-11 they
> would top the list.
>
> 5) Iran does supply arms to Iraq. They are getting those arms from CHINA 
> who
> very well knows where they are going. You will NEVER see us go after China
> for this because they continually buy and hold the majority of American 
> debt
> and if they pulled that plug you would see that biblical economic crash
> again.
>
> 6) You will now see a huge attempt to blitz on "things going ever so right
> in Iraq' because the 'bush republicans' are barely holding it together 
> with
> regular defections (another occurred yesterday), but by the end of August
> you will see an exodus that will look like someone sprayed raid on an ant
> hill.
>
> 7) The country is just beginning to wake up that this group that hijacked
> the republican party has shown nothing but incompetence and disrespect for
> the law, and every and I mean every crystal ball prediction has been 
> wrong,
> will continue the definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and 
> over
> expecting different results) until stopped.
>
> 9) Does it really take an expert to know that when attacked the FIRST 
> thing
> you do is secure your borders and if we stopped illegal immigration and
> kicked out every illegal immigrant for violating the law there would be 
> that
> damn economic collapse again.
>
> 10) Our fine National Guard should be doing just that, guarding the 
> Nation.
> If we are going to war we should declare it so per the constitution and
> institute a draft showing our commitment of our sons and daughters blood.
> If we don;t have the stomach for that we don;t get to go on preemptive war
> parties to blow things up.
>
>>From the crystal cool waters of Lake Watauga.......
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