Pick your favorite metaphor for an unlikely event. Perhaps you like pigs are flying, or possibly the more traditional hell is freezing over. Whatever you pick will apply to this piece by David Horsey.
I won't give away the contents, but I will say that I hope that Horsey's former colleague, D. Parvaz, was close to a hospital emergency room when she read it.
I won't speculate on why Horsey wrote this now, but I will say that I am pleased to welcome his step back toward the real world.
By way of Orbusmax.
(But that doesn't mean that I will call off next week's Horsey editorial cartoon.)
Posted by Jim Miller at March 26, 2009 12:30 PM | Email ThisThey are totally in need of a diaper change right now.
Posted by: johnny on March 26, 2009 01:41 PMhmm. He must be referring to those lies by Bill Clinton and a gaggle of other Democrats who called for "regime change" in IRAQ long before George Bush was on the scene.
Pop Quiz Horsey: Who said this?
[What if Saddam]"fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop his program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made? Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction."
The president's warnings are firm. "If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." The stakes, he says, could not be higher. "Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal."
A: President Bill Clinton on February 18, 1998 speaking at the pentagon after meeting with the Joint Chiefs of staff.
The difference between George Bush and Bill Clinton is that like many liberals with their head in the clouds diplomacy, Clinton believed "regime change" could be achieved through the innocuous (yet simplistic) placing of a bumper sticker slogan ala 'free tibet'on your rusted out gas bucket of a vehicle right here in Seattle and for that matter, Anytown,USA.
Very intimidating I know, but not quite the encouragement needed to induce a sea change needed to a dangerous part of world still largely living in the 7th century mindset.
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Posted by: Leo Kabigting on March 26, 2009 01:45 PMReminds me of one of the lines from that old cartoon, "A Charlie Brown Christmas",
"Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree."
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 26, 2009 01:52 PMNow if only the millions of other media folks would do the same, and start to realize that Obama deserves just as much scrutiny as Bush, as does any President.
I guess their editors were let go. . . .
Posted by: Frank Black on March 26, 2009 03:24 PMBut on the way to his admission of those facts, he got out his bass drum and beat desperately to repeat every lefty talking point that the MSM spewed during their 6-year negative campaign against the Bush administration. And in signing off he did his best to sneer that the historical verdict on President Bush would, apparently, agree with himself on what a minor niche Bush would be assigned in the Great Sports-Analogy Hall of Statistics written by leftwing history professors of the future.
Thank heavens those aren't the only historians who will write about the Bush presidency. And it won't be too long before they'll have an Obama presidency for comparison. So far, Obama has admittedly trounced Bush in the slick-talking, the self-admiration, the defeatist and the obscene-national-debt categories. Oh yes, and the failed-educational-funds disbursement in Chicago category too, though it was 'only' 150 million. What other records might he score heavily enough on to defeat Bush in the Great Sports-Analogy Hall of Statistics?
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on March 26, 2009 04:09 PMFrom Wayne's World: Yeah, and monkeys might flight out of my butt.
Horsey is, indeed, showing a bit of uncharacteristic foresight. And is that the crowning head of a winged monkey I see?
Posted by: Chad Minnick on March 26, 2009 04:12 PM"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."
But that's OK, the Leftist dolts will still claim it was just George Bush's desire to avenge his daddy...
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on March 26, 2009 05:18 PMOTOH, Medved pointed out that even AP at a presser this week was asking Obama "the hard questions" about B.O.'s wild, out-of-control spending. Maybe with all the newspapers failing and dying, these people are looking around and hearing the deriding criticisms that "they aren't reporters; they're supporters"! (of B.O., that is). maybe they decided they better appeal to the other half of the country, as well, if they don't want to go down the drain, as well.
There is nothing lower and more traitorous than a liberal.
Posted by: pbj on March 26, 2009 06:46 PMNo one can predict the future. What Horsey is saying is Iraq may turn out well, and this will prove Bush was right.
Nothing could be stupider.
I opposed the attack on Iraq from the beginning, not because I thought it wouldn't work out.
I didn't know whether it would or not, neither did anyone else. For the sake of our troops and the Iraqis, I hoped it would go magnificently.
But it was the wrong thing to do, regardless of how it ultimately turns out. It's always wrong to be the first to resort to violence.
Morality has to drive policy.
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Posted by: UBayane on March 27, 2009 01:57 PM