Bin Laden dead? Who will be our enemy now?

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Wishfull thinking. Osama has been dodging bullets for decades, he's a tough little bastard and is unlikely to die from anything less than a solid silver .50BMG round to the head. Or a few kilos of explosives hidden in his outhouse:)
 
Heres the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060925/cm_thenation/15124430

The Nation | September 25, 2006



The Nation -- For a little thought experiment, go to the website of Newsweek's international edition. There, running down the left side of the page, are three covers, all the same, for the European, Asian, and Latin American editions of the October 2 issue.

Each has a dramatic shot of a Taliban fighter shouldering an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade). The cover headline is: "Losing Afghanistan," pointing to a devastating piece on our Afghan War by Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai, and Michael Hirsh, "The Rise of Jihadistan." which sports this subhead: "Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they--and Al Qaeda's leaders--can operate freely." The piece begins: "You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban." (In fact, the magazine's reporters found a gathering of 100 of them in a village just a two-hour drive south of the Afghan capital.)

Now, go back to the international edition and take another look. Scroll down the page to the cover which doesn't match the others. That's the one for Newsweek's American edition. No Taliban fighter. No RPG. Instead, a photo of an ash-blond woman with three young children dressed in white, one in her arms, and the headline: "My Life in Pictures." The woman turns out to be Annie Liebovitz, photographer of the stars, and the story by Cathleen McGuigan, "Through Her Lens," has this Taliban-free first line: "Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she' s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue."

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Failing the Litmus Test: The following 16 senators voted against H.R. 5441 to prohibit the confiscation of firearms during an emergency or major disaster:

D. Akaka (D-HI), B. Boxer (D-CA), H. Clinton (D-NY), C. Dodd (D-CT), D. Durbin, (D-IL), D. Feinstein (D-CA), T. Harkin (D-IA), D. Inouye (D-HI), E. Kennedy (D-MA), F. Lautenberg (D-NJ), C. Levin (D-MI), R. Menendez (D-NJ), B. Mikulski (D-MD), J. Reed (D-RI), P. Sarbanes (D-MD), C. Schumer (D-NY).

Do you Detect any pattern ?
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The NRA magazine this month called them the not-so-sweet sixteen. They are indeed the enemy. But the pattern is not JUST that they are democrats. It is that. But it's also that they're all elitists from anti-freedom states. You don't see any Democrats from southern or big sky states on there, do you? Except for Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is likely to go the way of the dodo and Daschle come next election, voting as he is. So it's not just Democrats. It's *particular* types of democrats, who are one or more of the following:

1. at the FEDERAL level
2. from traditionally anti-gun states (southern democrats are far far more pro-gun than New York Republicans, so it ain't the party affiliation per se)
3. big government elitsists, not populist Democrats
4. worst of all, they include some of the LEADERSHIP of that party, including Schumer and H. Clinton
5. Except for Harkin and Levin, they are all east coast, west coast, or from little islands.

Well said badbob, exposing the poster's (common) fallacy of a false dichotomy; that one MUST be pro-Kerry if one is anti-Bush. Ridiculous. Kerry would have beeen better than Bush in some respects, but worse in others - he sucked badly (and still does). Mr. flip-flopper. Like BB says, how about cleaning house and getting all the rotten idiots of of government. If you're not voting www.constitutionparty.org , then you're not part of the solution; you're part of the problem.

If there's one area of focus we need to accomplish as gun owners, it's getting rid of Harkin in Iowa and Levin in Michigan, as Senators, and getting rid of Doyle in Wisconsin, as governor. Those three traitors to the constitution need to graduate to careers in burger-flipping.
 
Gun confiscation

QUOTE;

"We got plenty of enemies right here in the U.S.

Failing the Litmus Test: The following 16 senators voted against H.R. 5441 to prohibit the confiscation of firearms during an emergency or major disaster:

D. Akaka (D-HI), B. Boxer (D-CA), H. Clinton (D-NY), C. Dodd (D-CT), D. Durbin, (D-IL), D. Feinstein (D-CA), T. Harkin (D-IA), D. Inouye (D-HI), E. Kennedy (D-MA), F. Lautenberg (D-NJ), C. Levin (D-MI), R. Menendez (D-NJ), B. Mikulski (D-MD), J. Reed (D-RI), P. Sarbanes (D-MD), C. Schumer (D-NY).

Do you Detect any pattern ?"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the President have the power to stop the gun confiscation WHILE IT WAS GOING ON??? How come no body seems upset about his complete failure to step up to the plate during the state of emergency when it may have saved lives, prevented rapes and stopped looting?
 
Who'll be our enemy now?

It doesn't matter who. The goobermint will always find one and hire a PR firm to turn public opinion against them to keep the sheeple whipped up into a frenzy demanding to be saved from the boogyman.:barf:
 
How about because he's the GD president and what he says goes. Had he known about it anyways...

Hearing anyone in any current political office talk about pucker-topics seems to give them amnesia.

"I haven't read that article"

"I'm not familiar with that report"

"I haven't heard this"

"I haven't fully gone over that"

I seem to have been hearing that from some very important people lately that frankly seems about as guilty as assuming the 5th. Except you can't DO that in the court of public opinion.
 
Well if my statement was incorrect, someone should inform the president...

As the decider, wouldn't he have the ability to stop the confiscations?
 
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