[rollei_list] Re: OT: Miscellany
- From: "Gene Johnson" <genej2ster@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:41:08 -0700
Hey, how bout them Padres?
On 9/10/07, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let me get this straight: GW is a leftist, the Nuremburg Doctrine is stupid,
> pumping every last drop of oil from under the earth's crust is a plan for
> energy independence, and the Republican Party didn't want the war in Iraq
> even though it made it possible (twice consecutively)... I think you're the
> one who has a way with words.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > At 04:53 PM 9/10/2007, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >Wow, and I bet we listen to the same radio, and read the same papers -
> > LOL!
> > >I wasn't talking about the pols... I did say "half a brain", I meant
> > >"At least half a brain."
> >
> > Well, you do have a way with words!
> >
> > I doubt that we listen to the same radio stations
> > or read the same newspapers. But I am
> > politically involved and do know what was going
> > on in the ramp-up to the Iraq War. In the
> > political spectrum, George H W Bush and George W
> > Bush are moderate leftists who accept an
> > interventionist role for government -- George H W
> > Bush lost in 1992 primarily because the
> > Republican rank-and-file, those little old ladies
> > in Tennis Shoes who worked the polls for the GOP,
> > stayed home after he signed the Family Leave Act and the like.
> >
> > The core of Republican Party leadership strongly
> > advised against intervention in either
> > Afghanistan or Iraq as no vital US national
> > interest was at play. The advice of most of
> > these folks was to start a dialogue in the Middle
> > East which included a US distancing of its policy
> > from a blind support of Israel. Bush was
> > unwilling to do this, and so we ended up with a
> > war unwinnable unless we are willing to blindly
> > kill thousands of civilians who may or may not be
> > involved in any hostile activities. The US
> > rather stupidly bought into the Nuremburg
> > Doctrine which includes a ban on "collective
> > guilt" and thus forbids mass retaliation against
> > the populace of recalcitrant territories.
> >
> > My take? Dump Israel. The Arabs loved the US in
> > 1945. Let's get back there again. Let's work
> > for energy independence: adopt a flat $5 a
> > gallon tax on imported gasoline. Open up
> > ANWR. (No, I do not advocate shooting Green
> > folks, but I would certainly ignore them on this
> > point.) Open up all of the Gulf of Mexico and
> > Atlantic Littoral to gas and oil exploitation
> > with appropriate safeguards. Open up shale oil
> > deposits -- I would exempt oil so derived from
> > that $5 a gallon tax, of course, as it is
> > internally generated. Once we have energy
> > independence, then we can ignore the Middle East
> > and can be a friend to everyone.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> >
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