I haven't forgotten about this question and I will answer it as soon as I have the time. I have too work for a living, you know.

This is shocking. I didn't think anyone would feel obligated to ever spend any time responding to Ass Crack with anything that goes beyond, 'Go screw yourself.'

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The best thing about debating a liberal is watching them spin after you wack 'em!

Fuck off traitors. Buy your ticket to isreal. real patriot will worry about America

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Cussing out low class inbreds isnt uninteligent, its honest

Good typing is not inteligent its dexiteritous.

Everything you just said is total bullshit

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V8Ek...eature=related

Neo Libs all do that too.

For those who are wondering why I am wasting my time answering a question from a guy who really doesn't understand world events, the answer is: "I don't know". But as Forrest Gump says "A promise is a promise" and I'll answer it quickly.

In 1990 the U.S. & it's allies invaded Iraq because it had invaded Kuwait. Kuwait was one of the few Democracy's - or near democracy - outside of Israel in teh Middle East. The problem was that we went in with the UN and under the UN resolution could not finish the job we had started. however, under the conditions of ending the assault of Iraq were conditions that Hussein had to follow without exception and that he in fact had agreed to including but not exclusive to: all access for spot inspections from UN inspectors, the dismanteling of all chemical weapons (he had them because he used them during the war with Iran), various human rights initiatives and so on. Well, 13-14 years later and 16 UN resolutions later, Hussein kicked UN inspectors out of the country denying them the access they sought, he continued to violate UN resolutions, fired at our Air Force with rockets, violated restricted air space, slaughtered his own people by the hundreds of thousands,offered $25,000 to families who would send their loved ones to detonate themselves with bombs strapped around their chests to kill Israeli's, harbored terrorists from other countries bought other countries votes in the UN through the 'Oil-for-Food' scandal and countless other human rights violations. After 9/11 - rightly or wrongly- bush and Company felt that in addition to the war in Afganistan that it was necessary - more than ever - to take out this regime. Again, some thought it was the right thing to do at the time and others didn't. I did and I stand by that. I don't stand by the methods the US used for the first 4 years of this war. They were not prepared and I lay the blame at the feet of Donald Rumsfeld though again, his job wasn't as simple as others would lead you to believe. The problem with this war in my view was that they didn't have a Plan 'B' for what would happen if things didn't go as planned. They didn't block the borders for other terrorists to come in from Iran & Syria, they should have involved the iraqi police immediately rather than disband them and so on and so forth. There were too many mistakes that should have been researched better. The fact that Bush placed all of his marbles in the WMD basket was yet again another error in judgment though it was hardly the reason I supported the invasion in the first place. However, disappointed I was, I was equally encouraged with the promotion of General Patreaus and the dividends his leadership has paid. Especially considering what the man was handed. Of course, most Democrats thanked him with the infamous "Did General Betray-Us?" Dispicable!

So, there is a brief but reasonable answer to your question. It is honest and that's all I can do. Sadly, your quite particularly astute so having a sincere dialogue with someone like yourself probably won't happen and that's too bad.

May 21, 2008
History Will Redeem Bush
By Ed Koch

We are now getting down to the homestretch as we wrap up the Democratic primary and begin the race to the November general election. We will be electing the next president of the United States, and almost everyone expressing an opinion, informed or uninformed, believes the Democratic candidate will be Barack Obama.

I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton, but I too believe the odds of her defeating Barack Obama are overwhelmingly against her. It looks as if Senator Obama will prevail in the Democratic primary before or at the Democratic convention.

His rise has been phenomenal and swift. I believe a major attraction for Democratic voters is his optimistic personality, a strong desire for change and racial reconciliation. I believe the U.S. has indeed entered its Golden Age in which discriminatory views are rapidly breaking down. The result is that there is virtually no bar to the election nationally and locally of minority candidates, whether they be black, Hispanic or Jewish, and that gender bias in the selection of candidates, whether or not Hillary prevails, has been thoroughly defeated for elections to come. So our efforts now should be devoted to nominating and electing the best candidates available, particularly for president of the United States.

Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a proud American and a proud Jew who, while not religiously observant, fiercely loves and defends his faith. It has become fashionable for Americans in general, Jew and gentile, to hold President George W. Bush up to derision. As I believe many readers and listeners of my commentaries know, I crossed party lines in 2004 to support the President's reelection, saying at the time that I did not agree with him on a single domestic issue, but I did believe he was the only one running who appreciated the threat of Islamic terrorism to American values and Western civilization and was prepared to wage a war to defend those values.

I have no regrets for having made that decision and helping the President to win a second term. Today, according to the most recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, "71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as President, an all-time high in polling." His position can be compared with that of Harry Truman who left Washington unpopular and alone in 1953. Today, with the passage of time, most historians and certainly the American people, see Truman in a different light, primarily for his willingness to stand firm against Soviet aggression, whether against Greece or South Korea, and proclaim the Truman Doctrine, effectively defending the free world from Soviet efforts to expand their hegemony. Like Truman, George W. Bush, in my view, will be seen as one of the few world leaders who recognized the danger of Islamic terrorism and was willing with Tony Blair to stand up to it and not capitulate.

In the days of Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an organizer and supporter of terror, Western European countries led by France, Germany and Italy, had understandings with Islamic terrorists that if the terror was confined to acts against Israel, the European countries would allow the terrorists to function without challenge. What those European countries came to understand was that they could not buy peace by offering up Israel as a sacrificial lamb, because the ultimate goal of the supporters of Osama bin Laden, and other jihadists throughout the Islamic world, was and remains the reestablishment of the caliphate (or Islamic religious rule) in all Muslim lands, including in any nation that was once under Muslim rule, e.g., Spain. If successful, this would place one billion, 400 million Muslims under one theocracy.

As part of their master plan, the jihadists intend to bring the West to its knees, and to replace moderate Arab regimes, e.g., Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Turkey, with Islamic republics, ultimately to become part of the reborn caliphate.

For most of Osama bin Laden's career, the destruction of Israel was not a priority. However, this has now changed as the jihadists believe that Western countries have grown weary of unending war and may be convinced to offer Israel up as a sacrificial lamb.

Recently, President Bush went to Israel to celebrate its 60th birthday as a nation and addressed its parliament, the Knesset. He said, "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Bush's remarks were heavily criticized by leading Democrats, particularly Barack Obama, who said, "Now that's exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world."

Really? Is it wrong to call the philosophy supporting negotiating at the highest levels - President to President without pre-conditions -- with the terrorists and radicals by its rightful name - appeasement?

The President was accurate in my opinion in recalling the specter of Neville Chamberlain's pre-World War II efforts to satisfy Adolf Hitler. Those efforts responded to Hitler's siren call that all he wanted was the Sudetenland, with Chamberlain responding, "yes," and returning to Britain waving a paper and announcing, "peace in our time." Must we really learn the terrible lesson of Munich all over again seventy years later?

Israel and the Western world are in great danger from a declared enemy that knows no limits when it comes to achieving its goal of destroying Western civilization and spreading militant Islam through threats and terrorism throughout the world.

The danger to Israel comes not from any unwillingness of its citizens to fight. They are willing to fight the enemy, and Israel is willing to suffer the deaths of its young men and women in battle to preserve its values and its very existence. The Western world appears in many parts of Europe in particular to have lost its self confidence and willingness to stand and fight an enemy willing to continue the war until victory is achieved and their goals met. When one side loses its resolve to fight and win and the other retains its resolve, that side which has lost its courage will look for ways to appease and entice the enemy to bring the war to a conclusion. If the enemy says, understanding the weakness, "give us the Sudetenland," and later says "give us all of Czechoslovakia," as we know from history, such demands will be met. Bin Laden, recognizing the willingness of some in the Western world to give up today's Czechoslovakia - Israel - in two messages within the past few days, has emphasized his demand that Israel be delivered to the jihadists, saying, "To Western nations...this speech is to understand the core reason of the war between our civilization and your civilizations. I mean the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian cause is the major issue for my (Islamic) nation. It was an important element in fueling me from the beginning and the 19 others with a great motive to fight for those subjected to injustice and the oppressed."

In fact, in most prior bin Laden threats, Palestine and Israel were rarely mentioned. Shrewdly, bin Laden, believing that with the war-weariness rising in the U.S. and Europe, and anti-Semitism escalating in Europe, there are fertile grounds to make Israel the new Czechoslovakia.

The reason I believe history will redeem President George W. Bush is that he is one of the few leaders on the planet today who understands the larger picture. He has not lost his courage and vision of the future. He knows what calamities await the world if it engages in appeasement and deserts an ally in order to buy an illusory peace. We will recognize his worth long after he is gone.

Ed Koch (D) is the former Mayor of New York City.

Fuck th UN theres useless and its resolutions meaningless

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Cussing out low class inbreds isnt uninteligent, its honest

Good typing is not inteligent its dexiteritous.

Everything you just said is total bullshit

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V8Ek...eature=related

If Ed Koch wrote that article, I have gained respect for his insight on the real truth.. I totally agree..

What is so plain to me and the more astute is also being swept under the rug by the suicidal Neo-Lib Bush Haters who want to shoot theirself in the foot out of stupiditiy and vainity without thinking of the big picture, yet spouting "Save America" by cowardance and fearful retreat.

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If it ain't broke, Don't Fix It!

No matter where ya go, there ya are..

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!

Kock did indeed write that article.