Palin Did OK Last Night, Except for… (Follow-Up)
In my original post a few hours ago, I criticized Sarah Palin for her comment directed at Senator Joe Biden, “Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq.”
I said:
Her ultimate and unforgivable insult to all Americans who oppose the war in Iraq–“waving the white flag of surrender.” She might as well have called us “traitors.”
In the last couple of hours, Joe Biden left his campaign and traveled to Dover, Delaware, to bid farewell to his son, Joseph “Beau” Robinette Biden, and to his fellow 261st Signal Brigade soldiers, who are heading off to combat in Iraq.
As part of his farewell address to his son and to his over 100 brave fellow soldiers, Biden said:
Let me simply say thank you, thank you for answering the call of your country, thank you for doing what brave men and women in the military have always done and always do. Stand strong. Stand together. Serve honorably. Come home to your families that love you. May God bless you, and may he protect you.
These are not the words of a man who is “waving the white flag of surrender in Iraq. “
Joe Biden has never waved the white flag of surrender, nor have those who oppose this disastrous war.
Governor Sarah Palin was way out of line with her scurrilous remarks to Joe Biden.
At the very least, she owes an apology to the Senator and his family–if not to the American people.
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6 Responses to “Palin Did OK Last Night, Except for… (Follow-Up)”
My very first thoughts about the orchestrated and illegal invasion of Iraq, all in the name of “freedom, liberty and democracy” *urp* were of course, that it was all about oil from day one; which made me immediately suspicious of 911's events and the peculiar way they unfolded right under the nose of our nation's highest security..
*ahem* I digress..
Anyway, my thought was that we are not invading Iraq, but rather Islam, since that's the religion they ascribe to in the Middle East by and large. And I thought, “they think they're going to WIN against an ENTIRE RELIGION??” Of course we won't. And it's why Al Qaeda is expanding and not shrinking. Islams outrage is expanding and not shrinking.
Anyone who finds a problem with this need only imagine how we would feel if Iraq invaded our cornfields for food, all in the name of “Islamic law” and justfied their actions to the world as “conquering the infidels”. Would patriotism lie down and piss on itself? Would we not expand our counterterrorist activities (for that's how it feels to them)…
We will not ever 'win” the fight in Iraq, that we started, illegally.. It will go on forever until every last Islamic is gone. That will never happen. Our finances will run out sooner than that.
In short, Biden proposes sanity while Palin proposes insanity. That's all it really boils down to. Biden's position seeks to preserve American lives and our very cohesion as a nation. Palin's position seeks to commit more American lives to certian death and is reckless, foolhardy and uninclusive of extremely compelling extenuating circumstances surroundly the war.
It's the typical shoot first and ask questions later approach that Dubya/Cheney ushered in. And we're supposed to believe the McCain/Palin ticket is a ticket of reform?
Bullocks..
I am tired of hearing “If you dont support the war you don't suppoprt the troops.”
I suspect her statement was based on them wanting to end the war, rather than win the war. Whether we should have gone in or not, we are there. The question is what do we leave when we leave. We cannot just leave Saddam in control, he is dead. Do we prefer leaving a peaceful country, or one at war with itself and its neighbors?
The whole point is that we shouldn't have invaded illegally.
When you pull out a weed, you'd better get the root.
There would be no conflict in the Middle East (perhaps only Israel notwithstanding) if oil was not involved. We would not be wanting their oil if the BigOil monopoly hadn't been actively suppressing alternatives here for decades…pushing GM to produce the guzzling Hummer at the expense of the Volt recall. It was and is all about shortsighted profiteering and ingoring what scientists were telling us all along about the future of oil reserves and the population explosion.
The root: the most important part of the equation of a solution…
If the instant reaction meters are to be believed, that white flag statement was the biggest failed talking point of the evening. By all means, let them keep using it as often as they like.
Right on, Dorian. Biden's farewell speech to his son and to his son's brigade is soul rendering and purely from the heart. In sharp contrast is Palin's farewell speech to her son Track's brigade where she described the Iraq war as “a righteous cause” and exhorted the soldiers “to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the deaths of thousands of Americans”….a reference to the attack of 9/11.