Bush says regrets talking tough

O'Bill--You guys are comPLETELY out of control!

I saw your portrait with Brooke. If you can get her to convert to the Cheesehead religion, please show the pictures!

She's already a member of the Cheesehead sect... she just doesn't wear the habit. She does follow as closely as Soz and I though. :wink: (And damn, can she write hot? )

The dancing was about Iraqi Freedom and the possible capture of Zarqawi, though. Didn't you see the crowd gather there?

I know you folks all subscribe to the Suskind differentiation between 'reality based' and 'faith based' as regards this administration.

Anyone wish to do a careful analysis of David Brook's last column? I like Brooks, at least half the time, and think him an independent-minded fellow. But that column is, to my view, flown off into upsidedown land.

Where would find it?

O'Bill!

I did read to see what the hub-bub was about. I haven't heard anything about a possible Zarqawi nab. Heard anything new?

<PS--Nervous, but THRILLED at the upcoming elections!!!! I feel like I could dance, too!!!! A victory over not only Saddam, but those murdering mercenaries. I love it when freedom and courage beat the hell out of control and oppression. Solidarity with Iraqis!!!!!>

Ukraine...Iraq...next?

No Blatham, It's the domino theory, inverted. That's what is causing such giddyness.

deb

The Brooks column at
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/opinion/22brooks.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fDavid%20Brooks

Sadly, no. Probably just a rumor, but I can still hope!

Some how it went from it'll never happen-to> there won't be enough turnout to make it legitimate- to> to 80% turnout is insignificant () and it won't change anything anyway--- and seemingly the doom-criers will admit no progress, concede no underestimation of the drawing power of self-determination or the humans in Iraq's desire for same… and they are seemingly digging in deeper than ever. It must suck to be that attached to pessimism.

I can't tell you how much I hope Bush tries his damnedest to proceed with his newly stated goals and it's high time the rest of the world wake up and smell the security that only free peoples everywhere could bring. Instead of hurling accusations of doubt, the world body should be joining forces to push forward towards freeing the oppressed masses everywhere. So what they doubt his sincerity; then attempt to hold him to the words you don't believe he believes. Net good is the result either way, and so much the better if we could just put the petty bickering aside. Stop arguing about who really wants to work towards ending oppression and just do it.

Ps. Before spell checking I had typed doomcriars instead of doom-criers… guess what the spellchecker thought I was looking for? Democrats.
(Damn, spellchecking technology is getting really good.:razz:)

Hmmm - well Blatham - I can only HOPE that what Brooks said in his column is true.

It would be great to think so.

Interesting to think of politicians' words as providing any standard to which they can be held. I wonder if they ever are? I guess the more integrity the politician has, the more they might live by their words. High rhetoric, here, has had a nasty habit of turning on its speaker in recent years - and causing much ironic laughter down the track.

I suppose I better read the damn speech!


Speaking of articles - did Canada become hooked on Monty Python's Flying Circus?

Here is a funny/awful one from Terry Jones, if you did....

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,882459,00.html