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By Tony Czuczka May 4, 2007, 14:15 GMT
Republican hopefuls blast Iran, reject Iraq pullout
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Ron Paul doesn't have a realistic shot at the nomination? Glad you told me, otherwise I might have wasted my vote on someone that I agree 100% with.
Sorry boys you're way past a day late and a dollar short on talking tough. Where was the Republican Party when Bush and every word out of his mouth was bashed to pieces by a grieviously biased media and vacuous movie stars. I'll vote for my dog this time around.
These Republicans should b sent to Baghdad and spend some times i Green Zone
and, if they dare to Red zones, to know what the mess a Republican administration has made. Before fixing this they want to create a much bigger
one, i.e., attacking Iran.
I too have been disappointed in the Republican response to the Democrats - especially to the ultra-liberals. But, if you give up and 'vote for your dog' you will get your wish and have a real dog in the White House. Most of these Republican candidates are better than any of the Democrat candidates. I didn't see the debate, but I also didn't see any reporting on discussion about our open borders. We have to shut down the flow of illegals - it is necessary financially and for security. To me it is one of the top issues.
It is unfortunate that so far the GOP candidates don't have anyone who is asserting a clear, positive view on foreign policy. The debate was held at the Reagan Library-- but the candidates have so far forgotten the central success of Ronald Reagan. That is, Reagan ended the Cold War without firing a shot. He negotiated with Gorbachev, rather than confronting him, and brought Eastern and Western Europe together, with a mutual pullback of troops and major reductions of nuclear weapons.
Now, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, Henry Kissinger and others who helped in that process (Shultz was Reagan's Secretary of State)say again clearly in the Wall Street Journal: it's time for 'A world without nuclear weapons.' (WSJ, Jan. 4).
None of the candidates-- none of the Dem's either, so far-- have yet to endorse this bold, important process. We need candidates with the political courage to say-- Reagan and Gorbachev were right at the 1987 Reykjevik (Iceland) Summit, when they endorsed aiming for zero nuclear weapons, over 20 years.
If we had adopted those principles, we wouldn't be worrying about nukes for
Iran, etc.-- the world would be free of nuclear weapons today. it's time to
restore the best of Reagan and Gorbachev, when Reagan said: 'Trust, but verify.' Set up a nuclear disarmament program, use strict verification, and rid the world of these threats forever. Instead, right now the administration seeks a rollback of agremeents, and is threatening to build 10,000 new warheads, costing $150 billions. (See the RRW Program, on the Department of energy website.) The American people need to say-- enough-- go back to the positive Reagan-Gorbachev approach.
I welcome comments- and hope you'll speak to your favorite candidates, on either side of the aisle, about reversing these outrageous, wasteful, and destabilizing measures, and going back to the Spirit of Reykjavik.
Thank you.
Ron Paul has no realistic chance at the nomination? Perhaps that's correct, but they said the same thing about Bill Clinton early in the 1991-1992 primary season. I actually watched the debate last night. I was absolutely impressed with Ron Paul. I will do some more research on the guy, and if I like him enough, I will vote for him.
The candidates sound like broken records. 'Stay the course' 'Be aggresive on Iran' but no real plan. Just like the Dems that they argue with. Washington is really broken right now, and more of our sons and daughters getting killed is not making America 'safer'. The 'green zone' isn't even safe.
The debate was a rather shameful display of how to pander to religious right wing conservatives for their support and votes. I believe that a certain quote from Martin Luther King sums it all up.
' The most dangerous thing in the world is sincere ignorance and committed stupidity'
One last quote from Albert Einstein for the pro war sabre rattling Republican candidates.
' Force attracts men of low morality'
What do you mean, 'former Congressman' Ron Paul? Last I checked, Ron Paul is currently serving yet another term as a Congressman. Check your facts please. Sad to see the best Republican candidate not given his fair due.
Ron Paul has as much of a chance as Howard Dean did in 2003. To write a candidate off so long before the primaries shows a contempt for the democratic process.
Ron Paul is a current congressman from Texas. He clearly won the debate, as evidenced by the official MSNBC poll where he got 45% of the votes of who won. The American public are speaking and they love this man. Please write an article completely about him next time. Just look at your comments on this article-- who are people talking about? People love this man.
Ron Paul did not pander to the 'religious right' as the other candidates did-- that means he is a true stand-up individual, a former physician who is not a liar and a man who is a true American success story.
I get the feeling that you would have said a certain poor, self-taught lawyer from Illinois would never have been elected in 1859, and Abe Lincoln became one of America's greatest leaders. Let's put Ron Paul in the White House and see what he can do.
...the utterly stellar economy. Huge tax income, lower taxes, record employment and financial figures. Do you notice the libenzi press ignores this, almost every day?
We are in the renaissance of the supply side miracle. No nation on earth has the prosperity America generates. Yet, the lib press ignores it, for years on end, until the story changes.
They have predicted, wrongly, a recession for every year Bush is in office. They whine about 'balance of payments' as they have for thirty years, when no negative result has ever been detected. No one outside of the financial publications has given the Bush economic juggernaut any of the credit for the extended prosperity we've been blessed with.
Let's run on that and see what happens. No one will miss it until it's gone.
more soilders in body bags will keep the body bag sales soaring .
for everyone that gets blown up we have a good laugh.
what else is there left but laugh..
can we say screw the soilders?
Harry Reid is doing that for you.
I do not see any of the rep candidates running away from the war issue. McCain did a closely argued speech in favor of it, just a week ago. He was crystal clear about a must-win.
Either they expect Bush to deliver them from this issue, or they think Reid wil do it for them, or they are willing to face the people with it.
Knowing Bush, they'd better practice. Everyone thought he was a pussy. God, how can so many folks be so wrong? Has their ever been a press more off the mark than they have with Bush? Not in my lifetime.
Gotta like that kind of character...no voting for it before voting against it here. Going down in flames? Maybe, but you WILL get a clear choice.
a lousy conservative.
Where does SP4 get his figures on the economy ? - the dollar is weak against the Euro and the £ sterling, the European stock exchanges have now overtaken the US in capitalisation, most of the wise money - from the many Russian billionaires to Middle East investment is through London, China & India (and probably Russia) will also overtake the US economic terms within the next few years
Also the US economy is propped up by cheap oil because pricing is in dollars so the dollar's decline hides the way the US economy is falling
However, SP4 spends most of his time trying to stir up debate on these pages, so I expect he's still in senile decline, crouched over his terminal and isolated from the real world
My guess is that SP4 suffers from wishfull thinking .I can sum up at least ten countries where standards of living are better than the USA ,higher incomes on the average,less difference between high and low wages,higher minimum wages,better social security and much better medical assistance for all.My guess is that SP4 has no knowledge of the rest of the world but has his brain fried by too much neocon propaganda .Keep on dreaming boy.
...we,ve heard this crap for 3 decades. In the world you live in, those factors no longer drive the economy. Rather than blather, take a look: Our output keeps climbing, personal wealth is at an all time high, our employment is stellar, and our tax reap is HUGE! All, while cutting taxes! deficits? Go see 'Europe'.
My belief is that we utilize our investments better. Otherwise, why would euro and Japanese companies be investing billions in plants in the USA? It still is the best place to invest.
So My questions are:
What 'cheap oil' do you refer to? We buy at the world price, same as everyone else. What a stupid comment!
Market capitalisation means dick. Governments only benefit by tax revenues, and ours are stellar. Compare that to the strapped euro nations with double digit unemployment, lousy productivity, etc.
Our output keeps climbing BECAUSE of foreign investment in the USA. Toyota made 14 billion last year, and we reaped the benefits in the USA with plants, jobs, etc., as well as the other foreign investors.
The Japanese have a saying 'Never count America out'
If is wasn't for BUSH fighting the war on terror, the UN and Euro counties could not focus on global warming, apparently that is more of a threat to anyone than Iran with nukes.
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