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November 15, 2006

Ben Stein The Appeaser

I'm dissappointed. Ben Stein, respected conservative, has lost his sense of duty.

As reported at NewsMax:

Political commentator Ben Stein said the decision to invade Iraq was a huge mistake and the U.S. was better off with Saddam Hussein in charge of the country.

In an interview with NewsMax pundit Steve Malzberg, who was filling in as host on "The Mike Gallagher Radio Show" on Salem Radio, Stein declared: "We're losing the war. We're three years in and things are getting worse."

And he concludes the interview with:

We were better off with Saddam Hussein running Iraq. It breaks my heart, but it's true."

We were better off with Saddam.

Hmm.

We were better off with Saddam.

We were better off with Saddam?

Funny. I didn't take Ben for a save-his-own-neck kind of guy.

I'll retort by quoting Ronald Reagan's 'A Time For Choosing':

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, and you can have it in the next second, surrender."

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of terrorism by committing an immorality so great as saying to twenty six million human beings now enslaved under a brutal dictator, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave master."

Mr. Stein, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Posted by Richard at November 15, 2006 7:08 PM

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Brilliant!

Posted by: Dave at November 22, 2006 6:38 AM