[Rhodes22-list] Wally - Re: Fred Thompson

[Brad Haslett]

Anne,

Pretty funny!  Thompson is already getting flack for his lack of ambition in
the Senate and his apparent reluctance to seek the Presidency and he hasn't
even announced yet.  Those are plusses with me.  Frankly, I'm a bit
skeptical of candidates who lusted after the office from birth.  I like
people who have had a life and have done something before they got into
politics.  Thompson will be a good addition to the mix.  Who's the
Libertarian candidate?

Brad

On 4/9/07, Anne M <anima13 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Funny small video about Fred Thompson and our campaign process.
>
>
>
> http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid716052875
>
> Anne
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TN Rhodey" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Wally - Re: Fred Thompson
>
>
> > Brad, Interesting but I wouldn't really call it his stand but it is a
> > start.
> > I do like the fact that he seems to be stressing Sanctions and
> > Diplomacy. -
> > Wally
> >
> >
> >>From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
> >>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Wally - Re: Fred Thompson
> >>Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 05:08:44 -0600
> >>
> >>Wally,
> >>
> >>You said you were waiting for Fred Thompson's stand on Iraq and Iran -
> >>here
> >>it is.  The word in blogsphere is he's running.  This was posted
> >>yesterday.
> >>
> >>Brad
> >>
> >>----------------------------------
> >>
> >>The Pirates of Tehran  By Fred Thompson Posted in Foreign
> >>Affairs<http://www.redstate.com/sections/foreign_affairs>- Comments
> >>(148)<
> http://www.redstate.com/stories/foreign_affairs/the_pirates_of_tehran#comment
> >/
> >>Email
> >>this page » <http://www.redstate.com/forward/30082> / Leave a comment
> >>»<http://www.redstate.com/comment/reply/30082#comment_form>
> >>
> >>Oil prices fell. The stock market rose. Video images of smiling British
> >>soldiers with Iranian President Ahmadinejad were everywhere. So were
> >>pictures of the 15 freed hostages embracing family members back home.
> The
> >>relief over the return of the Brits was so tremendous; you could almost
> >>hear
> >>birds singing.
> >>
> >>Maybe it's because military action won't be needed or maybe it's just
> >>because the ordeal won't drag on and on, but the world is breathing
> easier
> >>now. A lot of folks are happy. The problem, as I see it, is that
> >>Ahmadinejad
> >>seems to be the happiest.
> >>
> >>And why shouldn't he be? He has shown the world that his forces can
> kidnap
> >>British citizens, subject them to brutal psychological tactics to coerce
> >>phony confessions, finagle the release of a high-ranking Iranian terror
> >>coordinator in Iraq, utterly trash the Geneva conventions and suffer
> >>absolutely no consequences.
> >>
> >>The UN Security Council summoned its vaunted multilateral greatness to
> >>issue
> >>a swift statement of sincere uneasiness. The EU, which has pressured
> >>Britain
> >>to rely on Europeans for mutual defense instead of the US, wouldn't even
> >>discuss economic sanctions that might disrupt their holidays. Even NATO
> >>was
> >>AWOL.
> >>
> >>*Please do keep reading . . .*
> >>
> >>Tony Blair doesn't appear to be in much of a mood for celebrating. I
> don't
> >>know how he could be, given the troubling spectacle of British soldiers
> >>shake the hand of their kidnapper as a condition of release. In the old
> >>days, they would have kissed his ring -- but wearing Iranian suits and
> >>carrying swag more appropriate to a Hollywood awards ceremony may have
> >>been
> >>as embarrassing. Ironically, Blair's options are fewer by the day as his
> >>own
> >>party moves to mothball the British fleet, once the fear of pirates and
> >>tyrants the world over.
> >>
> >>Some in the West seem part of Iran's propaganda war; claiming that the
> >>release of the hostages was a victory that proves the Iranian
> dictatorship
> >>can be reasoned with. To misrepresent unpunished piracy as a victory is
> as
> >>Orwellian as the congressional mandate banning use of the term "the
> global
> >>war on terror." What are we - Reuters?
> >>
> >>Ahmadinejad must be particularly pleased to see "deep thinking"
> >>journalists
> >>making the case that American actions in Iraq were the true cause of the
> >>kidnappings. To believe this, all you have to do is ignore the history
> of
> >>the Iranian Revolution, which has been in the extortion business ever
> >>since
> >>it took power. Between the 1979 American embassy crisis in Tehran and
> the
> >>seizure of Israeli soldiers last year by Iran's Hezbollah proxies, there
> >>have been more than a hundred other examples.
> >>
> >>If you include the imprisonment of pro-Democracy dissidents and
> non-Shi'a
> >>Muslim minorities within Iran, the number reaches easily into the tens
> of
> >>thousands. The dwindling and persecuted Christian population of Iran, I
> >>suspect, found little joy in Ahmadinejad's explanation that he was
> freeing
> >>his victims as an "Easter gift."
> >>
> >>It is critical that we see this incident as part of a long pattern of
> >>behavior -- that will continue as long as the current leadership is in
> >>power. More importantly, it will escalate unimaginably if Iran achieves
> >>nuclear status, and with it the ability to hold millions rather than
> >>individuals hostage.
> >>
> >>I have no idea if Ahmadinejad and those who put him in power really
> >>believe
> >>the Shi'a Twelver doctrine that they can spur the messiah to return by
> >>triggering Armageddon. You have to admit, though, that the possibility
> >>that
> >>they look forward to entering paradise as martyrs would make them a
> whole
> >>lot scarier as a nuclear power than the USSR ever was.
> >>
> >>There is hope, though. The Iranian people are not an anti-Western horde.
> >>They're an educated and freedom-loving people for the most part, and
> >>reformers there have been begging us for support and sanctions that
> would
> >>weaken the ruling theocracy. Instead, they've just seen the Iranian
> >>dictatorship successfully bully the West into impotent submission. This
> is
> >>not a good thing.
> >>
> >>We need to understand this and use every means at our disposal, starting
> >>with serious and painful international sanctions, to prevent Iran's
> rulers
> >>from becoming the nuclear-armed blackmailers they want to be.
> >>Unfortunately,
> >>we are hearing demands that we abandon the people of the Middle East who
> >>have stood up to Islamo-fascism because they believed us when we said we
> >>would support them.
> >>
> >>If we retreat precipitously, the price for that betrayal will be paid
> >>first
> >>in blood and freedom by the Iranian people, the Kurds, the Afghanis, the
> >>secular Lebanese, the moderates in Pakistan and the Iraqis themselves.
> And
> >>America's word may never be trusted again.
> >>
> >>Right now, the pirate Ahmadinejad is clearly more confident about the
> >>outcome of the Global War on Terror than we are. That ought to give us
> >>pause.
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