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He Stopped Loving Her Today

Yes, if we had wanted oil we simply would have dropped sanctions against Saddam Hussein. The responses between your comments and mine are prime examples of ideological caused blindness.

^^^^^^^^ The global warning nuts never have an answer for that question.

Why was there global cooling from 1940 until 1975?

Why would a conservative think UN backing is an asset?

We have empowered Iran by ridding them of their enemy. We rejected traditional conservative balance of power politics. We had a secular Sunni run state balancing a fundamentalist Shiite state. We should have left it alone. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Our support of Saddam in the Iraq/Iran war was done to keep Islamic fundamentalism in check. The neocons (Wilsonian liberals) ignorantly ignored the conditions in the ME.

Please, Pat Buchanan is no libertarian. He is a paleoconservative. His foreign policy is straight from a man, who in his era was referred to as Mr. Republican, Robert Taft. His views on gay rights is straight from Corinthians. His policy on immigration is oppossed to libertarian open border philosophy. I am sorry if your attention span is too short to read a lengthy quotation. That disability may be what would lead you to classify Pat as a libertarian. The fact is the US had a long standing policy, before 1898, of staying clear of foreign wars and entangling alliances. The fact is neoconservatism is nothing more than Wilsonianism spread at the point of a gun. It is impossible to have small government and an empire. Let me quote our last Republican President, ironically also named George Bush: "Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." -- George H. W. Bush, in his 1998 memoir A World Transformed

Baa Baa, butchered and eatan. Snowball, butchered and eatan. Wanda Wooly, butchered and eatan.

Thoughts of a true conservative Excerpts from: A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan March 25, 2000 Sadly, our response to 9/11 was more of the same failed Wilsonian ideology.

Thanks, Walter got me a rock.

No, she is not. Political opposites. Hillary has no core values, Maggie did.

Nothing is perfect in the world of man.

We killed 150,000 civilians at Okinawa. No one bitched then.

I still ain't taking it up the ass.

My compliments to the surgeon..

Yes, the ole do your kids a favor by sodomizing them before they go off to college school of thought.

Have a nice day.

Yellow......

We have a constitutional republic. Our founding fathers put in many obstacles to rule by a temporary majority. The founders, rightfully, feared pure democracy. Of course, you kept mentioning 30K gun deaths earlier, despite the fact assault weapons account for a small percentage of that number.

I look at it like it like a football game (American football) and giving the proponents of gun control an assault weapon ban is akin to giving them a first down.

"In the field of medical care. We have a socialist-communist system of distributing medical care. Instead of letting people hire their own physicians and pay them, no one pays his or her own medical bills. Instead, there's a third party payment system. It is a communist system and it has a communist result. Despite this, we've had numerous miracles in medical science. From the discovery of penicillin, to new surgical techniques, to MRIs and CAT scans, the last 30 or 40 years have been a period of miraculous change in medical science. On the other hand, we've seen costs skyrocket. Nobody is happy: physicians don't like it, patients don't like it. Why? Because none of them are responsible for themselves. You no longer have a situation in which a patient chooses a physician, receives a service, gets charged, and pays for it. There is no direct relation between the patient and the physician. The physician is an employee of an insurance company or an employee of the government. Today, a third party pays the bills. As a result, no one who visits the doctor asks what the charge is going to be—somebody else is going to take care of that. The end result is third party payment and, worst of all, third party treatment." - Milton Friedman

The fact is the assault at Va Tech has produced no outcry for gun control (besides from the usual gun control nuts), much less banning of weapons. I suspect a similar assault with an assault rifle would at most provoke another ban on assault weapons. In politics things usually follow a slippery slope. The proponents of gun control don't want just a ban on assault weapons. You let them ban assault weapons they will go on to the next item in their agenda. Don't give them an inch.

I modified my cell phone to turn it into an assault cell phone.

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can."

I suspect our founders would have locked the nutcases up and allowed the rest of us to have our assault rifles. There is a point where a significant state interest exists to allow infringement on individual rights guaranteed in the constitution. I believe laws prohibiting child porn are constitutional despite their infringement on freedom of the press. I can support banning grenades, rocket launchers and WMD's in the hands of individuals.There have been very few incidences involving assault rifles, banning lightening strikes would save more lives.