Debunking Katinulas

Katinulas has taken up the flag and attempts to rebut this post. Game on! I'll answer some of what she says:

19 al-Qaida terrorists used planes to attack America. Their leader and mastermind of the attack is still at large

My response: He wouldn't be if Clinton took him when the opportunity arose, before OBL hit the caves in Tora Bora. This should also answer her fourth bullet.

As it wasn't GWB's fault or Israel's fault, it WAS NOT Clinton's fault. Blame can never be lain at anyone's feet, however, historical policies could show pattern of behavior that led to the generation of the hate-America crowd--it is valuable to study these policies.

Historical policies? They don't hate us because we are imperialist, they hate us because we are a liberal democracy that pushes capitalism as a way to enrich the lives of all people. The rulers of the Arab world are authoritarian, dictatorial kleptocrats that have used the US and Israel as the carrot to lead their oppressed citizenry away from the the idea of revolution and stuck in the sinking farce that in pan-Arabism. America is not the greatest evil in the world, in spite of what is a concrete belief in the liberal mindset.

Two words, Strom Thurmond. Just because he's dead, doesn't mean you get a pass on a man who championed segregation and fathered an out-of wedlock, adulterous child with a black servant of his household. He'd still be in the Senate if alive and healthy.

How about two more words, Trent Lott. The new conservative movement (and neocons) saw that he could not be the leader we need and refused to allow him to ascend to that position. How is Clintons sex life off-limits but Thurmonds isn't? As for segregation, what party was the real impediment to the Civil Rights Act? 80% of Republicans versus only 61% of Democrats voted to pass the Civil Rights Act. Your former standard bearer, Al Gore's own father led a charge to stop its passage.

Hussein, Mugabe and Castro...does this mean we're going to Cuba next? There are numerous leaders around the world that inflict pain upon their citizenry; are we savior to all? And if we are going to go around the world bringing peace and democracy abroad, there are several countries that would have been in front of Iraq in the 'hell on earth' category.

We are not the savior to all, democracy is. The world now has two new democracies in a part of the world that does not adapt well to new types of anything. Will it work? time will tell. What if Iran, Syria and the emirates hold true elections in the next few years, will you concede that perhaps Bush had it right? I hope so, but highly doubt it.

Not supporting GWB's policies does not make you a traitor, unAmerican, or mean that you do not support the troops.

Granted, but your party is in a precarious position whereby if we have success they can't cheer because it's good for GWB, if we have a bad situation, the lefty community gets downright giddy because it's bad for GWB. That's not support. In the minds of the left, the only solution is to bring home the troops and any future use of those troops shows that we are imperialistic and hegemonic. Here's a simple question, how hard do you search for the good our troops are doing in Iraq? Would you even consider posting Chrenkoff's updates? I dare you.

The reason we live in a representative republic is because majority does not rule. The rights and priveledges (sic) of the minority must NEVER be subjected to the will of the majority.

How true, except the majority actually does rule, that's why they lead the committees that make up our legislative branch. Name one right or privilege that has been taken away from the minority party. As I said in yesterday's post about the Japanese internment, that was an enormous violation of civil rights.

Now, I didnt include any of my own reality such as Texas redistricting, Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson, free press (or paid pundits?), GWB's dubious at best military record or the tactics of fear-mongering to get elected.

What of Texas redistricting? If it involved Delay it must be illegal, right. Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are nothing but fame-seeking nobodies involved in a case that was overblown. I see you neglected to add Sandy Berger stuffing classified documents into his pants--documents that would've implicated Clinto era decisions in 9/11--among your reality. As for GWB and his military record, I have the utmost respect for anyone who served, active duty or not. Flying a fighter jet at the speed of sound is not an office job. And finally, fear-mongering has been a part of politics since the Roman Empire was in diapers. How about this for fear mongering, remember that? That was the most disgusting display of fear mongering I've ever seen.