Troll of the Day

[Necronomicon]

Hey there! Anyone catch the front page of the Washington Post this morning? Seems as if some of the Big Wigs are starting to reveal that they think the War could last for months! Hurray for Don Rumsfeld!! Hurray!!

 

I hold the shrub personally responsible. If he would have stayed up past 9:00 to listen to the briefings from the CIA on the true nature of the Iraqi popular conception of the US, or made himself the slightest student of history, he wouldn't have katowed to his bosses and slung our friends and family members over to the middle east with less than superior forces. I can find no words harsh enough to disparage him.

 

[freeclimb9]

Necronomicon said:

Hey there! Anyone catch the front page of the Washington Post this morning? Seems as if some of the Big Wigs are starting to reveal that they think the War could last for months! Hurray for Don Rumsfeld!! Hurray!!

 

I hold the shrub personally responsible. If he would have stayed up past 9:00 to listen to the briefings from the CIA on the true nature of the Iraqi popular conception of the US, or made himself the slightest student of history, he wouldn't have katowed to his bosses and slung our friends and family members over to the middle east with less than superior forces. I can find no words harsh enough to disparage him.

It's "kowtowed", sparky.

[Necronomicon]

It's "sparkie" fuckhole.

[allthumbs]

Necronomicon said:

It's "sparkie" fuckhole.

morning sunshine

[freeclimb9]

Necronomicon said:

It's "sparkie" fuckhole.

Okay. It's "kowtowed", sparkie fuckhole.

[erik]

everyone on this thread needs a hug from bab jesus

 

[freeclimb9]

erik said:

everyone on this thread needs a hug from bab jesus

 

Dude's my co-pilot.

[specialed]

The Iraq's love baby Jesus too, they just don't know it yet

[vegetablebelay]

 

Lawmakers Seek National Day of Prayer and Fasting

 

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

 

WASHINGTON — Harking back to the Revolutionary and Civil wars, the House is talking about a national day of humility, prayer and fasting to seek guidance from God during a time of war and terrorism.

 

 

A vote on urging President Bush to designate such a day was expected later in the week.

 

"It is a resolution that I think all of us can support with humility and grace and our love for our great nation," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., said Wednesday.

 

But several lawmakers were less sure. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, an opponent of the war in Iraq, said, "This resolution may be seen by some as an attempt to inject religion into this war at a time when some of America's enemies abroad are asserting that this indeed is a war about religion."

 

Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, said he supported the resolution but was "a little troubled that we would presume to tell the American people what they should do to secure the blessings and protection of Providence."

 

But Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., chief sponsor of the measure, said it has long been America's way, "when we get into an armed conflict, to turn to God and to ask his support."

 

The resolution notes that the Continental Congress, on March 16, 1776, called for a day of "humiliation, fasting and prayer" in light of the dangers to American liberty, and that on March 30, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, "recognizing the need of the nation to humble itself before God in repentance for its national sins, proclaimed a day of fasting, prayer and humiliation."

 

The resolution says Americans should use the day of prayer "to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings and to learn how we can do better in our everyday activities, and to gain resolve in meeting the challenges that confront our nation."

 

The Senate approved a similar resolution last week, stating that it was the sense of the Senate that March 17 should be a national day of prayer and fasting.

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82259,00.html

 

 

[fern]

vegetablebelay said:

 

...The resolution says Americans should use the day of prayer "to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings ...

 

I bet there's a fair number of mortals willing to help with this that'll even let you eat a samwich while you listen

[erik]

JAH LIVES!!

 

 

[freeclimb9]

The Senate approved a similar resolution last week, stating that it was the sense of the Senate that March 17 should be a national day of prayer and fasting.

That is plain wrong to step on St. Patrick's day, IMHO. But whoever claimed that the Senate always exhibited sense?

[Necronomicon]

The march down the road to oblivion continues...

 

How about "National Day of Recognition of the Fact that the Population of this Country is not Entirely Monotheistic" or "National Day of Recognition of the Fact that our Federal Legislature is Packed Full of Simple-minded Reactionaries with no Clear Vision of the Future"?

[catbirdseat]

You've got that right. Their simplemindedness is simply a refection of the electorate.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

vegetablebelay said:

 

Lawmakers Seek National Day of Prayer and Fasting

 

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

 

WASHINGTON — Harking back to the Revolutionary and Civil wars, the House is talking about a national day of humility, prayer and fasting to seek guidance from God during a time of war and terrorism.

 

 

A vote on urging President Bush to designate such a day was expected later in the week.

 

"It is a resolution that I think all of us can support with humility and grace and our love for our great nation," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., said Wednesday.

 

But several lawmakers were less sure. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, an opponent of the war in Iraq, said, "This resolution may be seen by some as an attempt to inject religion into this war at a time when some of America's enemies abroad are asserting that this indeed is a war about religion."

 

Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, said he supported the resolution but was "a little troubled that we would presume to tell the American people what they should do to secure the blessings and protection of Providence."

 

But Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., chief sponsor of the measure, said it has long been America's way, "when we get into an armed conflict, to turn to God and to ask his support."

 

The resolution notes that the Continental Congress, on March 16, 1776, called for a day of "humiliation, fasting and prayer" in light of the dangers to American liberty, and that on March 30, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, "recognizing the need of the nation to humble itself before God in repentance for its national sins, proclaimed a day of fasting, prayer and humiliation."

 

The resolution says Americans should use the day of prayer "to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings and to learn how we can do better in our everyday activities, and to gain resolve in meeting the challenges that confront our nation."

 

The Senate approved a similar resolution last week, stating that it was the sense of the Senate that March 17 should be a national day of prayer and fasting.

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82259,00.html

 

 

Morons. We're in the middle of Great Lent. What are we doing adding a day of prayer, fasting and humility into the middle of 47 days of prayer, fasting, and humility?

[Bronco]

Seems to me that not too long ago the Iranians would have waved the suicide boats on through.

 

 

Iranian gunboats intercepted an Iraqi speedboat filled with explosives in Iranian waters, U.S. Navy officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday, adding that they continue to be extremely vigilant for further Iraqi coastal activity.

 

 

 

 

 

Navy officials confirm the incident and say several similar boats also feared to be carrying explosives escaped back up the Shaat al Arab waterway, which marks the border between the two countries.

 

The Navy has been worried about this "fast boat" threat, which could threaten coalition vessels or commercial shipping. Keeping the waterway open for humanitarian aid and to move ships through and give them safe harbor are crucial on the agenda of naval coalition forces.

 

SEAL Special Boat units, Coast Guard and air assets are keeping a very close eye on any activity on the waterways, and have discovered several vessels laden with mines, Fox News learned.

 

U.S. Central Command discovered a sophisticated influence mine set in the channel to Umm Qasr and showed a picture of it at Thursday's briefing in Qatar.

 

The arrival of the first relief ship, Sir Galahad, has been held up by the discovery of this mine. The sinking of a vessel in the narrow channel would pose a real problem for reopening the port and pumping in significant amounts of relief supplies, Fox News learned.

 

The Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday night that coalition naval forces were on high alert against suicide attacks after the speedboats, packed with half a ton of high explosives, were intercepted. The explosives were discovered after one of the Iraqi boats was run aground during the confrontation.

 

The Herald reported that three other Iraqi speedboats, feared to be carrying the same amounts of explosive, escaped when Iranian forces engaged Iraqis at the mouth of the waterway.

 

All 30 Navy and Royal Fleet auxiliary vessels in the Gulf have mounted round-the-clock force protection squads on deck, The Herald reported, and all have permission to open fire on vessels if they continue to close on a ship after ignoring signals and warning shots across the bow.

 

Since the suicide boat attack against the USS Cole in October 2000, which killed 17 American sailors, and the ramming of the French oil tanker, the Linburg in 2002, warships in the area from Britian, America and Australia have been on high alert for Al Qaeda strikes.

 

However, the intervention of the Iraqi speedboat is the first tangible evidence that attacks are being plotted in the region.

 

Before Operation Iraqi Freedom stated Rear Admiral David Snelson, the British naval commander in the Gulf, told The Herald that the threat of small speedboats packed with explosives was "uppermost in his mind" in terms of threats to the Royal Navy.

 

Fox News' Major Garrett contributed to this report.

 

[vegetablebelay]