Excellent quote

Originally posted by Abraham Licoln

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much … [power]. If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'"

-Abraham Lincoln

Do you have a link to where you got that from?

I didn't know Lincoln was able to post.

However that brings to mind Neville Chamberlain

"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing." (After Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland)

Which reminds me of another less known one from Churchill

"When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken! Some neck! "


So it'll be cool to start whipping out a bunch of quotes from historical figures. There are legions of them so we can go on and on.













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Originally posted by inferno
Do you have a link to where you got that from?

I got that one from a news site, but this link is more credible. Scroll down 1 page.

http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_oct2002/rls_oct2002/rls_oct2002_2.html

I point out, Germany did not attack France until well after France had declared war on Germany, both in WW1 and WW2. I just felt that quote was somewhat poignant, and was describes my viewpoint.

Originally posted by YogsVR4
I didn't know Lincoln was able to post.

If he did,he'd probably be able to spell his name correctly...;)





So it'll be cool to start whipping out a bunch of quotes from historical figures. There are legions of them so we can go on and on.

Sounds like a good thread for Completely Off Topic.:D

The quotes from Chamberlain and Churchill are ironic becuase they are refering to an enemy that did in fact pose a threat.

The quote from Lincon is far more relevent as it is refering to an enemy that infact poses no threat.
Iraq does not poses a single weapon capable of reaching the United States, or any of its out lying colonies.
They can just reach some of the US's alies but in a very limited capablity, and one of those neighbors poses the worlds 4th most powerful military, and the other is now being defended by Nato.

If bush is really worried about countrys that are hostile to the US, and not his bussiness interests then he should be paying far more attention to North Korea, Indonesia and China.

Originally posted by taranaki


If he did,he'd probably be able to spell his name correctly...


:o You caught me redhanded impersonating the dead former President of the US :lol2: