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Why Does Hannity Continue to Aid the Terrorists? -- Sean and Santorum Must Be Prosecuted (49 comments )
(Another Lords of Loud Commentary by Steve Young)
I nearly swerved into a ditch last week when Sean Hannity brought on Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) to leak a classified report revealing that we had actually found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Why didn't they just stick a white flag in the back of everyone of our fighting men in harm's way™?
Fox News's decision to run a story about classified government information revealing our discovery of WMD only supplies terrorists with national security information giving them a heads up that can only undermine the war effort, endangering our troops while they are in harm's way™.
It seems that Hannity and the leakers, Santorum and Hoekstra, feel that TV/radio ratings and getting elected is more important than the safety of our fighting men and the protection of our borders. Don't they realize that we are in a post 9/11 world™ with a post 9/11 mentality and a post 9/11 fear of everything?
Some say the terrorists aren't stupid and they already knew that we are looking for WMD. Does that makes it okay that we reveal the fact that we are have in fact found WMD? Terrorists now know specifically where we have looked and conceivably, where we will continue to look. With Hannity's treasonous behavior, terrorists can conceivably move the WMD from places they are conceivably hiding them to many more conceivable locations where they might use them against our fighting men. Conceivably, those same hidden WMD can be delivered to those intent on attacking America on our own land...conceivably.
Are we going to give Hannity a Pulitzer Prize because this is proper media oversight? I hope not. There can be no excuse for disclosing this vital and damaging information. It's a disgrace. Hannity and Santorum are only tying our hands in the war on terrorism. This obvious hate-Bush™ activity is not worthy of an award. This is worthy of jail. When the media is wrong they have to be held accountable.
Tyranny has its rightful place in a Democracy. I'm sure someone said that. We need to make talkshow hosts like Hannity legally accountable for these outrageous outings of secrets by prosecuting and persecuting them in the most tyrannical manner. Same goes for the leaking politicians who have taken an oath to protect our freedoms. Freedom to prosecute those exercising freedoms that we do not agree with. I don't see anything in their oath that says they can leak secrets and harm our fighting men in harm's way™.
This is not about politics. This is about the security of the American people and is the very reason our founding fathers opened this country. The Founders never showed up on any radio show and revealed Washington's attack on the Hessians sleeping in Trenton. If it were up to Hannity and Santorum, they would have had the Hessians stay up to watch Fox News warning them of the coming assault. If to were up to Hannity, we would be speaking Hessian today.
It's now for Congress to step up and protect our eyes and ears by introducing a resolution, law or whatever they call it, to proclaim the talk show host and his blame America first™ ilk as, um, anti-American. If not, don't be surprised if this July 4th, Tony Snow, Dick Cheney and President Bush make a pro-American proclamation by skewering Hannity and Fox News for indeterminable damage to the war effort.
It's about the security of all of us. It's about freedom for most of us. It's about time.
Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press) and the forthcoming "15 Minutes" (7/06 - Harper Collins) www.greatfailure.com and his weekly Sunday column appears to the left of Bill O'Reilly's every Sunday in the L.A. Daily News.
10 comments:
Is this an attempt at humor?
Sad if it is.
Real humor, The funny stuff anyway, should have a basis in fact. -
You know as well as all reading this post that the information Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) brought forth on the floor of the house was declassified. Your post stated they "leak(ed) a classified report revealing that we had actually found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Actually this news is not NEW. Those who have been paying attention had heard and believed earlier reports of WMD's including - Sarin Discovered In Iraq Was A Relic, Not A Weapon - The left wants to claim these weapons did not count because they are "old and degraded"
I challenge you and any lefty to lick one of the 500 shells that are on the list Santorum and Hoekstra presented. Then tell the world that Saddam would not have used them in any way shape or form against any good people in the world. -
The NYT and LAT gave to the world information which was stolen classified material at the time of it's release.
The news of WMD's is slowly percolating to voter's understanding that Bush did not lie and Saddam was a real threat...
Good luck in the next election cycle. You will need it.
"The news of WMD's is slowly percolating to voter's understanding that Bush did not lie and Saddam was a real threat..."
What hole have you been living in? Latest polls have disapproval of the war in Iraq at 62 percent. Those "weapons" you talk about are no threat and is not worth destroying a country over.
Most people are not stupid enough to fall for the lies of the Bush administration when it comes to the Iraq war - well, most of us anyway.
Saddam was no threat to the United States, and Iraq is in worse shape now than under Saddam. That is the sad truth of the matter.
By the way, have you found Osama yet? You know, the guy who attacked our country?
Prying1 Incredibly Wrote: I challenge you and any lefty to lick one of the 500 shells that are on the list Santorum and Hoekstra presented. Then tell the world that Saddam would not have used them in any way shape or form against any good people in the world.
What planet are you from? What was Saddam going to do: walk over to America and say "Here. I demand you lick this." Of all the stupid statements made on WMD's that don't exist, you just vaulted to #1. Are you Dubya's secret Brother?
By the way, it should be noted that the worse these "weapons" can do now is give you a rash. Dangerous!
alas it was humor. some words from fox news:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html
"The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.
Hoekstra said the report, completed in April but only declassified now, shows that "there is still a lot about Iraq that we don't fully understand."
Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.
"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war." He also said that the Defense Department statement shortly after the March 2003 invasion saying that "we had all known weapons facilities secured," has proven itself to be untrue."
anyhoo- i didn't actually write the post and i think that it was tongue in cheek humor and if it fell flat- well so be it. i will have to disagree with your assertion that "real humor, the funny stuff anyway, should have a basis in fact." funny is funny whether fact or fiction- apparently you didn't find this funny. anyhoo- i don't think that 500 decrepit cannisters that pre-date 1991 should have led to the iraq war- i think that we can all agree at this point that wmds were not the main focus. apparently, in the third incarnation of why we went into iraq- saddam hussein was a bad, bad man and needed to be taken out for the iraqi's own good. it is only now that we are bringing the wmd card back out. thanks for stopping by. sorry about the non humor.
future was yesterday: quote - "What planet are you from? What was Saddam going to do: walk over to America and say "Here. I demand you lick this." Of all the stupid statements made on WMD's that don't exist, you just vaulted to #1. Are you Dubya's secret Brother?"
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With the sad shape of our border security I can honestly say yes, The crappola from these shells could have been given to a terrorist and walked across the border. - That is one area that I will criticise Bush and his administration so please don't suggest that I'm in Bush's hip pocket... Open borders did not start at the beginning of Bush's term. He inherited the problem and has done nothing to change the situation. I've heard complaints about the borders for the last 40 years and I know people complained before then.
Just because you want bunches of new and shiny WMD's does not mean that these shells were not dangerous. Had we allowed Saddam to continue in place it would have given the terrorists a nice place to set up shop.
The Serin was there. Despite U.N. sanctions!!! Terrorists could have brought some across the U.S. border and attacked any school in any border state. Then the left would really have had something to howl about...
Would or could this have happened? A simple yes or no would suffice.
Betmo I'm sorry I did not recognise your style/brand of humor. - I (somewhat) get it now and will humbly read and reread anything you post before jumping into the fray.
XXXOOO - Paul -
paul- come and visit anytime. i welcome folks from the right just as i welcome folks on the left. i expect you all to call me on any crap- and i will do the same for you. deal? :)
Hannity is a GOP stooge though. I liked him for awhile, but then realized that his show is about three things:
Making crack comments about anything DNC, explaining away anything bad for the GOP, and sycophants calling in to praise Sean for his extreeme wonderfulness.
That stuff will melt your brain after too long.
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