Gingrich: “War On Terror? Pleassssse.”
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Newt, The War On Terrorism
That’s right. He calls it bogus.
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Washington — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a “phony war” on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.A more effective approach, said Gingrich, would begin with a national energy strategy aimed at weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil and some of the regimes that petro-dollars support.
“None of you should believe we are winning this war. There is no evidence that we are winning this war,” the ex-Georgian told a group of about 300 students attending a conference for collegiate conservatives.
In other news, Newt is officially not running for President. Well, unless he’s going to run on a 3rd party ticket as Ron Paul’s VP.
And to that point…
“I believe we need to find leaders who are prepared to tell the truth … about the failures of the performance of Republicans … failed bureaucracies … about how dangerous the world is,” he said when asked what kind of Republican he would back for president.
Who knows, maybe he’s testing the waters. After all, if Newt is anything he’s a political survivor.
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August 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
“Washington — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a “phony war†on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.”
Me and Newt aren’t cut from the same cloth but what he says here is true. “This” war IS phony, don’t get me wrong, we face a real enemies but the most damaging person to America isn’t Osama Bin Ladin, it is our own president. Who’d gotten rich off this war? Bush and his no-bid winning Haliburton and who else? Oil is swimming in profits, and the American people? We are swimming in debt that will conceivably swallow the next 3 generations of Americans.
So, even though I hate to say I agree with a conservative stalwart like Newt, what he is saying is true. This is a phony war, and it’s an unjust war and thus making it a very un-American war. America’s values don’t jive with “pre-emptive” strikes. They don’t jive with torturing people. They don’t jive with “occupying” sovereign nations under shallow, false pretexts. And if anyone has seem to forgotten, the word “occupations” that’s not a virtue, “The” occupation is an UH? Occupation folks, drugs are bad, mmmmkay? occupation is bad, mmmmkay? Occupation is something Nazi Germany undertook. Last I checked America fought against the very idea of unjust invasions and occupations.
Oh! and another thing. Anyone figure out exactly when America became the “Homeland” ?, Nazi Germany had a “Homeland too, they just called theirs the “Fatherland.” Sieg heil! Amerika, long live the Homeland.
August 5th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[...] Justin Gardner ponders what Newt Gingrich is up to with his criticism of the so-called “war on terror.” [...]
August 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Hey, JG and Jeremy…perhaps you should listen to the whole speech before you comment. I think you will realize that “phoney war” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Click here to watch.
Jeremy, pay close attention to the Israel part – you probably would have agreed with everything he said there, except that he was being sarcastic.