Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Reno, says liberals should be used as human shields in Iraq

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The audience even laughed and clapped at this comment:

3/1/2005 11:30 pm - Nevada Democrats are decrying a speech given last week by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Reno, in which he condemned “tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals” for their opposition to the war in Iraq.

Gibbons, a possible contender for governor in 2006, made the remarks at a Lincoln Day dinner Friday in Elko, according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

While praising the efforts of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gibbons accused liberals, movie stars and song makers of “trying to divide this country.”

“I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else,” he told the crowd, according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

He then said it was “too damn bad we didn’t buy them a ticket” to become human shields in Iraq.

His comments came a week after he apologized for calling those who oppose corporate donations for President Bush’s inaugural parties “communists.”

In a statement released Tuesday, Gibbons did not back off of his Elko remarks.

“I support our troops, and I don’t apologize for that,” he said.

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/htm...ocal+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

You know what, though? Those "tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals” you hate so much WERE RIGHT! They said there were NO WMDs, and they were laughed at. They said Saddam wasn't a threat. They were laughed at. They said Saddam had no ties to 9/11, they were laughed at.

But guess what? When all was said and done, THEY WERE RIGHT! THE PRO-WAR PEOPLE WERE WRONG!
 
Well Republicans are almost always Douchebags, at the very least they can be entertaining tin foil hat wearing douche bags.
 
[quote name='elprincipe']What a moron. Not apologizing means he's not a very shrewd politician, either.[/quote]
Not necessarily: he may in fact be a vey shrewd politician. It depends entirely on the makeup of his constituency. Its quite possible that these sort of jokes got him elected to office, and may keep him in office for the rest of his life.
 
Actually I think it's a damn good idea. I think we should send over every damn peace protestor in the country to walk through the Sunni triangle spreading their message of peace and see how that works out. You wouldn't be seeing open Presidential elections in Egypt, Libya giving up its WMD programs, Lebanese taking to the streets by the 10's of thousands demanding Syria withdraw or regional Suadi elections take place or Russia giving up its 300 year long claim to the Ukraine without what happened in Iraq. Likewise I doubt you'd have seen a non-militant leader succeed Yasser Arafat and take the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table while asking militant groups not to act violently disrupting the peace process.

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw the abandoned Oslo Accords Clinton fell flat on his face supporting being resurrected and enacted and pushed through as a treaty between Israel and the PA. Your protestors are going to be a footnote and your claims that "they were right" are going to be such a footnote in history that their actions, words and predictions will not even make the history books.

How do I know this? Where are de-nuclearization protestors mentioned 23 years after the Pershing II and Tomahawk cruise missiles were placed in Germany? Where are the hundreds of thousands of street marchers that mocked Reagan on the streets in DC, London, Paris, Amsterdamn and Bonn? They're not mentioned. The left of the 80's was as historically insignificant as the left of the early 21st century. They were on the wrong side of liberating oppressed millions and several countries then as they are now. That's the unifying trait of militant leftists on the world stage with military action or buildups. They're always wrong.

BTW, where is your outrage at Robert "KKK/Sheets" Byrd going to the floor of the Senate calling proposed rules changes voting on the advise and consent of Federal Judges reminescent of Nazi thuggery?
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Actually I think it's a damn good idea. I think we should send over every damn peace protestor in the country to walk through the Sunni triangle spreading their message of peace and see how that works out. You wouldn't be seeing open Presidential elections in Egypt, Libya giving up its WMD programs, Lebanese taking to the streets by the 10's of thousands demanding Syria withdraw or regional Suadi elections take place or Russia giving up its 300 year long claim to the Ukraine without what happened in Iraq. the peace process.
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That's pure crap. Just like other repubs you have to keep making excuses for the invasion of Iraq. Although I do have to admit, the nonsense you post does give me a good laugh in the morning. :)
 
You're right, the people of Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Ukraine were all inspired by Ted Kennedy and Robert "KKK" Byrd. Quadaffi was inspired by the intellectual discussion he had with Madeline Albright to give up his WMD programs.

Keep dreaming Zarthos.... keep dreaming. The world is being reshaped around you and the population of the middle east and Arab world is going to remember George Bush as a liberator the way the Eastern Europeans regard Reagan.

I know you want to laugh, I know you don't want to belive it, I know you wish it was done on caretaker Clinton's watch. However the Iraqi elections were the Berlin Wall falling as far as the democritization in the region goes.

Yesterday Saudi's gave women the right to work outside the home as well. They had to with 1/3 of the Iraqi legislature being female and them getting equal rights.

Cry, whine and say you're laughing. In 10 years we'll be pointing and laughing at the likes of you that stood in the way of real world progress.
 
[quote name='Msut77']Well Republicans are almost always Douchebags, at the very least they can be entertaining tin foil hat wearing douche bags.[/quote]

Does that make Democrats almost always turd sandwiches?
 
Yes, it most certainly does make Democrats turd sandwhiches.

Then, if you don't want to vote for either, we put a hood on your head, put you on a horse backwards and banish you from a village to the PETA encampment in the wilderness where you are forced to take an animal bride and discuss camp policies with a goat.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Cry, whine and say you're laughing. In 10 years we'll be pointing and laughing at the likes of you that stood in the way of real world progress.[/quote]

Progress through death and destruction eh? Interesting idea you have there. Obviously the women's movement in America did it all wrong. Oh and MLK Jr. and his nonviolent protests were obviously wrong too!
 
Now, how many people have died in Lebanon trying to throw off the shackles of Libyan occupation? How many died in Egypt gaining the direct Presidential vote? How many Ukranians were gunned down in the street calling for a follow up to a corrupt election? Where are the headlines for the massive amount of death and destruction that befell Libya forcing them to give up their WMD programs and have trade sanctions and embargoes lifted against them? Where are the bodies of Saudi women that had to go through police lines, armed guardsmen and the army to gain the right to work outside the home?

Oh yeah, death and destruction abounds!
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Zo, it's a South Park epsisode JSweeny and I are referring to. It's not a real conversation or statements about the opposition.[/quote]

Yeah. I was just trying to throw in a little levity to the converstation.
As you've seen, many of these vs mode threads can get very negative, and people begin to take themselves too seriously.

Since an earlier poster decided to throw out the statement about douchebags, the turd sandwich comment just kind of flowed, and would offset some of the blatant negativity that PAD just seems to always inspire (of course, much of it is deservedly so.)
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']You're right, the people of Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Ukraine were all inspired by Ted Kennedy and Robert "KKK" Byrd. Quadaffi was inspired by the intellectual discussion he had with Madeline Albright to give up his WMD programs.

Keep dreaming Zarthos.... keep dreaming. The world is being reshaped around you and the population of the middle east and Arab world is going to remember George Bush as a liberator the way the Eastern Europeans regard Reagan.

I know you want to laugh, I know you don't want to belive it, I know you wish it was done on caretaker Clinton's watch. However the Iraqi elections were the Berlin Wall falling as far as the democritization in the region goes.

Yesterday Saudi's gave women the right to work outside the home as well. They had to with 1/3 of the Iraqi legislature being female and them getting equal rights.

Cry, whine and say you're laughing. In 10 years we'll be pointing and laughing at the likes of you that stood in the way of real world progress.[/quote]

PAD, you seem to forget that women had the right to work in Iraq before we invaded. The world is changing in the Middle East outside of Iraq, but it is not due to anything Bush has done. I do thank you for your ill-informed posts though, they are quite entertaining.,
 
Ooops, looks like he stole his speech from Beth Chapman, State Auditor from Alabama.

http://www.auditor.state.al.us/speeches.htm



I’m here tonight because men and women of the United States military have given their lives for my freedom. I am not here tonight because Sheryl Crowe, Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Fonda or Phil Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me.

If my memory serves me correctly, it was not movie stars or musicians, but the United States Military who fought on the shores of Iwo Jima, the jungles of Vietnam, and the beaches of Normandy.

Tonight, I say we should support the President of the United States and the U.S. military and tell the liberal, tree hugging, hippy, Birkenstock wearing, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and music and whine somewhere else.

After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn’t be allowed the freedom of speech they’re being given here today - - ironically, they would be put to death at the hands of Sadam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden.

I want to know how the very people who are against war because of the loss of life, can possibly be the same people who are for abortion?

They are the same people who are for animal rights but against the rights of the unborn.

The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as human shields for the Iraqis, I say let them buy a one-way ticket
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[quote name='ZarathosNY']PAD, you seem to forget that women had the right to work in Iraq before we invaded. The world is changing in the Middle East outside of Iraq, but it is not due to anything Bush has done. I do thank you for your ill-informed posts though, they are quite entertaining.,[/quote]

:rofl: The wheels on the short bus go round and round!
 
Looks like Gibbons is too stupid to write his own hate speech:

ELKO - The speech delivered by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., during Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner in Elko was largely plagiarized from a copyrighted speech by Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman.

Chapman told the Elko Daily Free Press this morning Gibbons had not requested permission to use her speech, which she said she delivered Feb. 2, 2003, at a Stand Up for America rally in Alabama.

She said Gibbons apologized today for using large portions of her speech.

"I spoke with him this morning and he has apologized," she said.
http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2005/03/03/news/local/news1.txt
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']Looks like Gibbons is too stupid to write his own hate speech:

ELKO - The speech delivered by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., during Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner in Elko was largely plagiarized from a copyrighted speech by Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman.

Chapman told the Elko Daily Free Press this morning Gibbons had not requested permission to use her speech, which she said she delivered Feb. 2, 2003, at a Stand Up for America rally in Alabama.

She said Gibbons apologized today for using large portions of her speech.

"I spoke with him this morning and he has apologized," she said.
http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2005/03/03/news/local/news1.txt[/quote]

The only thing I respect less then a fascist bigot is a lazy fascist bigot.
 
[quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='Msut77']Well Republicans are almost always Douchebags, at the very least they can be entertaining tin foil hat wearing douche bags.[/quote]

Does that make Democrats almost always turd sandwiches?[/quote]

Hey, we too can choose between a douche and a turd! "Let's get out and vote!"
 
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