those were the days

Need we say more........



Ahh, the good ol' days

by kos
Wed Aug 17th, 2005 at 11:47:32 PDT

Quotes from when Clinton committed troops to Bosnia:


"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--S
ean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)


Funny thing is, we won that war without a single killed in action.
(Jiminy sez: Somebody called in to Rush Limbo yesterday and tried to smear him with some of the above (since he said some of this too) and did he ever squawk! He really hung up on that guy fast!)

What IS it about Sagbama Express Road?!

Amazing. We just rec'd an email from someone named Nwaokorh Adams, a barrister in England, contacting us because of some horrible car crash that took the life of Thomas Richard, his wife and their three children on a stretch of road in Nigeria called Sagbama Express Road.

Well, we were curious about the accident, and looked up "Sagbama Express Road" on the internet, and boy were we shocked! So far, we can record at least THIRTY traffic fatalities on this road in the past YEAR, gang! A brief list of notables follows:

Pitts Roberts and his only daughter died on it.
Engineer Terry Thomas died on it solo.
So did:
Mr. Patrick Sr. (whoever HE is)
Mr. Michael Creek
Luis Garratt
Jim Sun
Mr. Jenson
Daniel A. Flatt
Mr. Cooney
Mr. Frederick Herzog
Mr. Harrison Mitchell
Mr. Paul Tate
Mr. Patrick S. Gresham
Mr. Alan Donohue
Mr. Kenneth Giggs
Engineer A. Boele
Engr. Alfred Hoffmann
Mr. Mark Jensen
Eng. Mark Lord
Mr. Geoffrey
Mr. Mark Bishop
and Mack Caunt (with poor cousin Mike Hunt riding along, no doubt)

Outrageous! We've never heard of such a bad road in our lives! How does Nigeria sleep at night knowing that Sagbama Express Road is such a death-trap!? We mean, really, Cleveland's Dead Man's Curve out on Interstate 90 isn't even this bad, geeez!

This is certainly a matter that should be brought before the consulate or the DOT division in Nigeria.

Maybe they can patch up the potholes, get some of those guardrails replaced, maybe shoo away a few wildlife that meander aimlessly around, or SOMETHING. Then again, it could be the make of car. Maybe Ford or GM or Mercedez Benz should consider a recall of their vehicles; it certainly sounds like something might be going hellaciously wrong with them in Nigeria. Or it could be cannibal tribes living in Nigeria incognito, and they come out at night to feast on any wandering motorists passing by, steal their cars, then run them off the expressway to make it look like an accident. Of course, no current coroner reports have authenticated documentation of such a vile desecration as mastication of the flesh, but you never really know with Nigeria!

They have car crashes, bus crashes, airline crashes, collapsed bridges, rebellious uprisings, rampant viruses and diseases, bomb blasts, earthquakes, tsunamis and several have suffered questionable and unexplained strokes and heart attacks apparently after winning lotteries of some sort.

This is a VERY, VERY dangerous country, this Nigeria!

We must plead to the Nigerian consulate to consider doing SOMETHING to make this country more safe. No wonder we've got so many Nigerian scams! So many people in that country are trying to make enough money to get the hell OUT of there!

So anyway, we sent the poor barrister almost this same reply ver batim, and surprisingly we've not heard back from Mr. Adams yet. We're hoping he does get in contact with us soon, though.

Like he said in his email, this is a matter of extreme urgency. The fate of many a Nigerian could rest in his answers.

...TheScribes...