Bill O'Lielly: U.S. should leave Iraq "as fast as humanly possible"

[VP505]

because "there are so many nuts in the country" :web: http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220007

[obnoxiousdrunk]

1. Who cares what

Loofah has to say ?

[VP505]

4. Only his wing-nut followers,

but it's interesting that with all the disgusting rhetoric he has spewed over this, now he thinks it's a good idea.

[marmar]

2. "there are so many nuts in the country"

If that's not the pot calling the kettle...

If that's the case, he would fit right in. Baghdad Bill. :crazy:

[Democrats_win]

3. Arab oil boycott in 1973 showed America that the ME is nuts. 30 years on,

the Republicans are figuring it out and calling for us to end our dependence on their bloody oil. Only thing is, we were on the right track before arrogant Raygun ended our goal of getting out of the ME.

[Montauk6]

5. Oh... sniff... you're giving me serious 70s nostalgia pangs...

Gasohol, solar energy, compact cars, Woodsy Owl, Iron Eyes Cody...

[zbdent]

6. A little bit from history:

David Stockman's book "The Triumph of Politics" where they cut research funding into "alternative" fuel options.

Paperback edition, first Avon printing, 1987, page 125.

"Among the wasteful corruptions of the Second Republic, the Carter Energy Department stood out in my mind as a great, malodorous garbage dump. The Carter budget had allocated $17 billion for the Energy Department over the years 1982-86. What for? So that it could subsidize such economic white elephants as a multi-billion-dollar coal-liquefication plant for the Gulf Oil Company, windmills, fluidized bed combusters, solar-power towers, gasohol plants, shale plants, Stirling engines, photovoltaic cells, and countless other experiments in high-cost, unproven energy technologies.

There was nothing wrong with all this experimentation. It's precisely the kind of thing Adam Smith had invented the free market to accomplish. But the federal bureaucracy was neither competent nor called upon to usurp the job."

...

"The synfuels (synthetic fuels) plants he (Jim Edwards) was fighting to save would 'put cap on world oil prices,' he (Edwards) said. Never mind that it was not in the power of the U.S. Department of Energy to alter something called the law of supply and demand."


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Stockman later goes into detail that, left to the Carter budget, the deficit was going to go down . . . of course, all the promises alzheimer Ron made destroyed any hope of even coming close to keeping the deficit in check . . .

[Dawgs]

7. Think about why he wants out.

If they leave now they can still claim victory. If things really start going south then pull out it will look like we're just giving up.

[Caretha]

8. O'Reilly - Then & Now

NOW February 23, 2006

From the above Media Matters article:

Summary: Bill O'Reilly suggested that the United States "hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "here are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them." O'Reilly has previously called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler appeasers.

Can't you just imagine the right wing wackos shaking their mutual brain in agreement with this idiot as he referred to those against the war as "pinheads" and compared them to "Hitler appeasers"!

Then Sept 23, 2005

From Fox on the O'Reilly Factor

DONAHUE: Let me tell you what's radical. What's radical is to send more Americans to die in this war, which is a monumental blunder...

O'REILLY: All right.

DONAHUE: ... by a president who swaggered us into it with, by the way, the at least tacit approval of the Democratic Party. There's a lot of sin to go around here.

O'REILLY: What's radical...

DONAHUE: You want to send more people to this war? Is that your position?

O'REILLY: If we cut and run out of there like you want to do, we would be putting every American in a thousand times more jeopardy than they're in now.

DONAHUE: We're going to cut and run anyway, Bill.

O'REILLY: Well, that's your opinion.

DONAHUE: It's not my opinion. American military leaders have said we're going to draw down, beginning next year. The reason they said that...

O'REILLY: There's a difference between drawing down and cutting and running.

DONAHUE: Well...

O'REILLY: You're a cut and run guy, and I don't want my family in danger because of you..

DONAHUE: You want to stay the course, don't you? You don't...

O'REILLY: Look, here's what I want to do. I want to give the Iraqis a chance to train their army so they can defeat these people who are trying to turn it into a terrorist state.

DONAHUE: Bill...

O'REILLY: That's what I want to do.

You can go to Crooks & Liars to see the complete vid of O'Reilly & Donahue.

O'Reilly and those like him truly have no soul. The O'Reilly's, Coulter's, Hannity's & Limbaugh's and those like them deserve a last request - as in what color they want their blindfold and brand of cigarette. I hold them as responsible as the Shrub administration for every death in the Iraq war. Though they will probably never be held responsible in a court of law, I hope and pray that one day they will be shunned by society to the point where they go into hiding and change their last names

[jseankil]

10. ^ This post needs to be nominated.

Where's the no spin zone bill?

[Harald Ragnarsson]

9. These a**holes screamed their way into Iraq

and now can't cut and run fast enough. Guess these rightwingers are a bunch of chickens**ts afterall.