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2007-10-28 Europe

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

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Posted by Mike 2007-10-28 10:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 And you missed "You've been on the military defense dole of the US for fifty years. The time has come for welfare reform, yours."

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-28 10:53|| 2007-10-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually they would not be a province of Nazi Germany. The land would be a province of Nazi Germany. Dutch leftists would be lampshades decorating a province in Nazi Germany.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-10-28 13:09|| 2007-10-28 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The Dutch are threatening to remove their 1,600 troops from Afghanistan to protest Gitmo.

Tell them to do just that -- but don't call when hugo wants aruba back....

Posted by dan 2007-10-28 14:30|| 2007-10-28 14:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Peters said: We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.

I recommend we close the GITMO confinement facility and move it to the Island of Texel. The muzzies will feel right at home with all those noisy goats and sheep. If the Dutch protest.... we can always start winking at the Germans eh?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-28 14:34|| 2007-10-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Liberal or not, it requires someone who still vividly remembers the lessons of WWII to put things in perspective. Only a Holocaust survivor has enough moral authority to pimpslap these cringing Dutch morons. If the Nazi concentration camps were run like like Gitmo, the Holocaust would not have happened.

When I was in Denmark, each and every Wednesday, they revved up the air raid sirens. In almost every Danish town, in one of the traffic roundabouts, is a German machine gun pillbox left intact as a reminder to future generations that it could all happen again. I find it curious that tiny Denmark has shown more spine in the GWoT than other nations many times its size.

I'm beginning to think that all the major cities in Europe should have left a square kilometer of bombed out buildings and rubble as a similar reminder to later generations of what awaits complacency and willful ignorance. Much like how America's primary goal in the MME (Muslim Middle East) should be eradicating shari'a law; If we are ever forced to rescue Europe from itself one more damn time, we'd best make sure to wipe out every last trace of socialism on the continent.

When history closes its bookssocialism, in all its statist forms of communism, social democracy and totalitarianismwill be found guilty of killing more people, starting more wars, destroying more wealth, causing more human suffering and doing more ecological damage than any other form of government or socioeconomic system. Europe has been diddling itself with this absurd nonsense for nearly a century with ZERO results. When will they learn that government must be the people's servant and not their master?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-28 15:45|| 2007-10-28 15:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Green Party legislator Mariko Peters said: We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.

How about you get your lazy Green ass on the frontlines then, Mariko? I feel We need to see that. You're not an American legislator, you're a minority party member of a third-tier country's weak-ass political system. Frankly WE don't care what YOU think.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-28 16:05|| 2007-10-28 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "When will they learn that government must be the people's servant and not their master?"

Never, Zen.

For all their elections, Europeans deep-down (or maybe not so deep) still think of themselves as subjects. And subjects have ~~kings~~ masters.

Americans, on the other hand, are citizens.

(As, I believe, are most Australians.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-28 16:39|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-28 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Have yet to meet an Aussie who was anything other than citizen instead of subject.

Then again, I've mainly met soldiers.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-28 16:58|| 2007-10-28 16:58|| Front Page Top

#9 "If we are ever forced to rescue Europe from itself one more damn time, we'd best make sure to wipe out every last trace of socialism on the continent."
I'd be happier if you'd wipe out every last trace of socialism in Hillary/Obama 2008 and let Darwin handle Europe.

Posted by Darrell 2007-10-28 17:09|| 2007-10-28 17:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Western Europeans have used up their 3 strikes in the last century. Again, the US needs to get completely out of western Europe, starting with Germany, and given a wakeup call that Uncle Sugar isn't coming back.

Posted by ed 2007-10-28 17:16|| 2007-10-28 17:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Are you sure that the majority of Americans are willing to do the work necessary to be citizens? We have been moving consistently toward state authority for many years. The TSA is one example. They harass the citizens to avoid offending the bad guys. And the citizens accept it, even though many people don't believe that we are getting better security.

Hillary/Obama and the democrats are examples of the elitist thinking that is so prevalent in the EUSSR. They do think that they know better than the rest of us, and that being elected will give them the right to force the citizens into line with their program, a trend that left unchecked leads to the gulag and the concentration camp.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2007-10-28 17:40|| 2007-10-28 17:40|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree, YF-12-A I don't know which is worse, the TSA or the sheepish acceptance of it by innocent former Americans.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-28 20:01|| 2007-10-28 20:01|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't know which is worse, the TSA or the sheepish acceptance of it by innocent former Americans.

I'll pick "sheepish acceptance" every damn time. People get the government they deserve. The Soviet Union and Islam have proved that in spades.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-28 21:19|| 2007-10-28 21:19|| Front Page Top

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