From the Washington Times:
Amid a general chorus of U.S. approval for the Iraqi election results yesterday, Rep. Charles B. Rangel called the vote “a success by Republican standards” and said Americans “don’t want their children to die for other people’s freedom.”
“I don’t believe that the American people think that it was worth the lives of 1,200 Americans and 25,000 men and women in the armed services wounded, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Iraqis dead,” the New York Democrat said.
Mr. Rangel, a Korean War veteran, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the war in Iraq is a “fraud” and that the United States cannot and will not bear the price of its children’s blood to spread democracy abroad.
“We cannot afford to free people all over the world. We don’t have that many lives to give up,” Mr. Rangel said.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini could not be reached for comment. Nor could the 407,000 US troops who died in WWII—though, to be fair, Western Europe did send a cheese plate. Which is nice.
Yeah….I officially could give a shit what Charlie has to say about anything.
mmmmmmmm…cheeeeese.
In related news, French authorities recorded an earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale in the Normandy region as thousands of American war dead simultaneously rolled in their graves.
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There were several vintages of French whine proferred with that cheese, Jeff. The French, after all, are not stingy, uncivilized war-mongers; and as Rep. Rangel can attest, they so thoroughly enjoy a good rimming.
Sure! Cheese for the elite but NONE for the common citizen who did all the blood shedding and dying!
Rangel is right! No freedom for the brown peoples! Booooooooooo!!!! We heart freedom but they deserve nothing except sandstorms and possibly the occasional eggplant kufta. Possibly. All your freedoms are belong to us.
Jeebus H. can you even imagine if someone on the right said that [insert oppressed people group] didn’t deserve freedom? That they weren’t worth our trouble?
“We cannot afford to free people all over the world. We don’t have that many lives to give up,†Mr. Rangel said.
Rangel added: “Now, if my bill to bring back the draft had passed, then we would have had plenty of lives to waste in vain.”
A friend of mine told me that Rangel said some of this stuff yesterday and I thought he was joking.
Holy crap.
Well, if we can’t spread democracy I’m sure we’re not allowed to defend it either … at least not for those third worlders… The South Koreans must feel a whole lot safer today knowing how committed we are to defending the free peoples of the world from tyrants.. The Taiwanese too… Well, I doubt that “Dear Leader†Kim Jong-Il or Hu Jintao of the PRC noticed those comments…
-BPP
Don’t you just love, “…a success by Republican standards”?
Apparently there were not enough felons, dead people, and Syrians or Iranians voting to make it a success by Democrat standards.
Maybe if they recount the votes over and over until the Sunnis win… Just a thought.. It worked for Gregoire …
-BPP from WA
…and said Americans “don’t want their children to die for other people’s freedom.â€Â
Holy living crap! He said that? He actually said that? Jeebus. The Democrats sure have come a long way from, “pay any price, bear any burden.”
The common refrain among the Dems nowadays seems to be, “We’ve got our freedom, so fuck you!” And to think they call us heartless conservatives greedy and insensitive to the downtrodden.
Thanks, Jeff. I was looking for a link to Rangel’s comments yesterday.
So just how does Rangel get his hair to do that “lie down but wavy thing” anyway?
Lots and lots of pomade, Beto. Lots and lots of pomade.
I am sorry, world! If I had not given up my place in the warmup tent to Charlie, he would have frozen to death and the country would have been spared his pink blackness.
I love the smell of Pomade in the morning.
“Mr. Rangel told NBC’s “Meet the Press†that the war in Iraq is a “fraud†and that the United States cannot and will not bear the price of its children’s blood to spread democracy abroad.”
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty”.
Inaugural Address
President John F. Kennedy
Washington, D.C.
January 20, 1961
I wonder if anyone thought to ask Rangel how it felt to be a “war criminal” and to have participated in a “fraud” spreading that awful democracy thing to the Korean Peninsula.
This is one thing that often bothers me about most on the left the Korean War was good but Veitnam and everything that came after it was bad. Why? Were the goals for both Korea and Vietnam not the same, stopping the spread of Communism from spreading? Sure the UN endorsed Korea but they had little to no choice wince there was still a very real threat of the USSR rolling over most of Western Europe if they were percieved to be weak. Also most of those governments still remembered that they owed the US for pulling their bullocks from the fire a few years earlier. So what is the difference between spreading democracy to Korea, Vietnam, or the present day ME?
I think that one of the reasons that Vietnam is still considered to be a bad cause (by those who are not actually communist sympathisers)is that we failed.
The good guy always win. We did not win, ergo we were not the good guys.
Very simplistic, I know, but lots of people think that way.
That would also explain why so many of the Chopskyite leftists are desperately hoping for U.S. failure in Iraq – it would validate their beliefs that the U.S. is the source of all evil.
Hey, I like that: Chopskyite leftist. Kind of like a cross between Chopin and Trotsky.
No, wait a minute. Check that.
I predict Rangel will begin calling for reparation payments to Saddam any day now…
“We cannot afford to free people all over the world. We don’t have that many lives to give up,†Mr. Rangel said.
50 million people freed, 1,200 US casualties = 41,667 people freed per US casualty.
Using those awesome figures, it would take “only” app. 48,000 US casualties (about the number lost in the Vietnam War) to free *** 2 BILLION *** people.
Obviously, different conflicts could and would result in different casualty ratios, but I would say that the USA and other free nations of the world coudl easily afford the loss of life to free *ALL* the people of the world, if they chose to.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty 
Addendum by Charlie…
But that is just for us. I mean screw the poor 3rd world countries and shit. Who cares about the poor and downtrodden anyway. Stupid hateful Rethuglicans.
Yeah, that really helps…