Hitchens the Trotskyite

[White_Male_Canada]

Just found this elsewhere.

Watch the power of reason destroy a leftist in regards to the WOT and Iraq. Ironically the left wing kook here is ron reagan jr.


http://www.exposetheleft.com/2005/07/09/1910/

http://thepoliticalteen.com/video/reagahitch.wmv

[guyone]

C'mon now! Saddam was a good guy! And by the way didn't you know that the 911 commission had determined that George Bush and Dick Cheney flew those planes into the World Trade Center while Rumsfeld was flying the one that hit the Pentagon. Luckily they all parachuted to safety just before impact. It has also just been revealed by the 911 commission that George Bush had been masquarading around the middle east as Osama Bin Laden trying to stir up trouble thus causing the US to go to war just to make Halliburton a lot of money. Osama Bin Laden is actually a very peaceful man who runs a chicken kabab stand just outside Kabul. His chicken is actually quite tastey!

If you don't read all of the propaganda then how do you expect to believe it?

[White_Male_Canada]

C'mon now! Saddam was a good guy! And by the way didn't you know that the 911 commission had determined that George Bush and Dick Cheney flew those planes into the World Trade Center while Rumsfeld was flying the one that hit the Pentagon. Luckily they all parachuted to safety just before impact. It has also just been revealed by the 911 commission that George Bush had been masquarading around the middle east as Osama Bin Laden trying to stir up trouble thus causing the US to go to war just to make Halliburton a lot of money. Osama Bin Laden is actually a very peaceful man who runs a chicken kabab stand just outside Kabul. His chicken is actually quite tastey!

If you don't read all of the propaganda then how do you expect to believe it?

Well duh !

Weren`t you at the 10,000 person rally over the weekend ?

Everyone knows 911 was an inside job/sarc off :

PS: Over 100,000 show up at the Right to Life rally and not a peep from the dominant media. A few thousand show up with kook signs and it`s plastered everywhere.

PPS: I swear that`s chefmike on the left 8)

[chefmike]

Bush can't dodge Webb's critique
Les Payne
January 28, 2007

The president's State of the Union address was rocked Tuesday by the improvised explosive device set off by the freshman senator from Virginia. The eight-minute rebuttal by Democratic Sen. Jim Webb tracked closer to the reality of the current affairs of state than the 49-minute ramble of George W. Bush.

Having squeaked past Republican George Allen for his seat, Webb is stranger neither to conflict nor to the written word. The novelist, filmmaker, Vietnam veteran and author of books on military strategy is also a former U.S. secretary of the Navy. Not one to suffer fool politicians, Webb reportedly resigned as secretary rather than shrink the Navy.

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi welcomed the president as the Democrats' warm smile, Webb came on as the party's clenched fist. In November, when Bush inquired about his Marine son, Webb answered, "I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President." Bush shot back, "That's not what I asked you. How's your boy?" The newly elected Webb countered, "That's between me and my boy," who'd just had a battlefield brush with death.

During his rebuttal, Webb's high regard for the "war president" worked its way into the set of his jaw as his cold eyes measured Bush's speech and found it woefully lacking in credibility.

Bush proposed a tax-cut scheme for health care, alternative fuel sources and a balanced federal budget. In announcing a five-year plan to eliminate huge deficits, Bush neglected to mention that upon taking office in 2001 he inherited a huge surplus. Still, in his imagined economy, Bush inclined all arrows upward.

Webb described a different country entirely, one that distributes benefits unfairly. "When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it's nearly 400 times," he said. "Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world. Medical costs have skyrocketed. College tuition rates are off the charts. Our manufacturing base is being dismantled and sent overseas. Good American jobs are being sent along with them."

Recalling President Andrew Jackson, Webb urged that "the health of our society [be measured] ... not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street."

On the Iraq war, the highly decorated Marine combat veteran looked down at Bush from a high place. Already, his 2004 column in USA Today had blasted the "war president" as a shirker who avoided the Vietnam-era draft and evaded the battlefield. "Bush used his father's political influence to move past many on the Texas Guard's waiting list," Webb wrote. "He was not required to attend Officer Candidate School to earn his commission. He lost his flight status after failing to show up for a required annual physical. ...

"[As a war president] Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace. Our military is being forced to trade away its maneuverability in the wider war against terrorism while being placed on the defensive in a single country that never will fully accept its presence."

Webb opened up with the same guns Tuesday, attacking an ersatz commander for wasting lives through gross incompetence. "[Our national leaders] owed us - sound judgment, clear thinking, concern for our welfare, a guarantee that the threat to our country was equal to the price we might be called upon to pay in defending it. The president took us into this war recklessly."

Even at this late and tragic hour, Webb called upon Bush to start acting in the best interest of the American people. Otherwise, "we will be showing him the way." It's about time.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppay285069236jan28,0,2321412.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

[White_Male_Canada]

Les Payne
January 28, 2007

The president's State of the Union address was rocked Tuesday by the improvised explosive device set off by the freshman senator from Virginia. The eight-minute rebuttal by Democratic Sen. Jim Webb tracked closer to the reality of the current affairs of state than the 49-minute ramble of George W. Bush.

You can post Webb`s pedophilic nonsense all you wish,it won`t make it true. And I won`t even get into retention rates of the Armed forces which is further proof Webb has no clue as to what he speaks.

Chris Hitchens is an absolute destroyer of pipsqueak propagandists the likes of you. 8)

The average CEO salary in the United States today is $1.2 million according to a survey by Pearl Meyer & Partners mentioned on Money Central. What Webb failed to mention is that at the largest 50 companies the average is $10.7 million. Meanwhile the average worker salary in the U.S. was $37,000 in 2002 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. I don’t know about Senator Webb’s calculator but when I divide 1,200,000 by 37,000 the answer is 32. The average CEO salary today is 32 times the average worker salary. That’s up from when Senator Webb and Elvis Presley were serving in the armed forces but it’s a long ways from the 400 times that Webb gave in his speech.

Even worse, the average CEO loses 50% of his salary in state & local income taxes while the average worker loses 20%. So it’s really $600,000 vs. $30,000 which is a factor of 20. Wow. When take-home pay is compared the average CEO makes 20 times the average worker. Just like when Elvis was singing in the Army. How about that. And speaking of fair, the average CEO pays almost 100 times as much in taxes ($600,000 vs. $7,000) as the average worker. Some people might not call that fair as it’s unlikely the CEO is using 100 times as much in government services as the average worker.

"Victory" isn't a word you find in the Democratic lexicon these days, and it wasn't in the Democratic response by freshman Sen. James Webb of Virginia. It wasn't on his lips when he cited President Eisenhower speaking of the stalemate in Korea: "When comes the end?" Webb opined that Eisenhower took "the right kind of action" by "ending" the Korean War.

But if Korea ended with a successful peace, why do we still have tens of thousands of troops there, and more based in Japan, and on Okinawa? Does Webb suggest we withdraw from Japan and South Korea until these countries "step up" and defend themselves?

For the Democrats, it's about ending the war in Iraq, not winning it. Webb didn't mention Somalia, where the withdrawal of U.S. forces by Hillary Clinton's husband had "grievous and far-reaching consequences." Osama bin Laden saw it as a confirmation of American weakness as he planned 9/11. How would abandoning Iraq be perceived?

When Webb spoke of "the lost opportunities to defeat the forces of international terrorism," was he thinking of Somalia? Was he thinking of the missed attempts to kill or capture bin Laden in the Clinton years, or our failed responses to the attacks on our African embassies, Khobar Towers or the USS Cole?

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