Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Biden To Deploy U.S. Military To Gaza To Help The Palestinians: Report Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:33:21 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 117 Message-ID: References: <17bb80004f59a21f$3$856620$cd54664@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:33:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bd0c541618a287d785fece4b76c3ffe4"; logging-data="3799247"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Li+z2m4c58T6AZrRrlAn4" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:23QpmH5m8ezxDBcFqt8x7/Y0o4w= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 7257 On 3/10/24 4:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article <17bb80004f59a21f$3$856620$cd54664@news.newsdemon.com>, > moviePig wrote: > >> On 3/10/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/8/24 10:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , FPP >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 3/8/24 2:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>> In article , >>>>>>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> President Joe Biden will reportedly announce during his televised State >>>>>>>> of the Union speech on Thursday that he is deploying the U.S. military >>>>>>>> to Gaza to help build infrastructure for the Palestinians. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> He wants to build a pier/port for Gaza in the Mediterranean. But swears >>>>>>> this won't require any U.S. military involvement in the Israel/Gaza war. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How exactly will this work, Joe? We're going to have several dozens >>>>>>> ships and other machinery right there on the shore building the pier >>>>>>> and presumably several Navy ships there to protect them, so what >>>>>>> happens when Hamas inevitably starts lobbing missiles at all of them? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When you're forced to return fire and break your promise that this >>>>>>> pier-building wouldn't result in us involved in the war, are you going >>>>>>> to then pretend this wasn't a foreseeable development? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman called the >>>>>>>> announcement "a cheap political trick". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It's a political trick, all right, but there won't be anything cheap >>>>>>> about it, either in materiel or lives. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Remember that billions of dollars of aid has come into Gaza over the >>>>>>>> past >>>>>>>> 15 years and almost all of it was used to build terror tunnels and >>>>>>>> rocket >>>>>>>> launchers. How will that be prevented this time? Won't a port just >>>>>>>> accelerate and exacerbate this risk?" he posted on X. "And even with a >>>>>>>> port, the humanitarian aid has to be loaded onto trucks to get to their >>>>>>>> destination-- yes, the same trucks that Hamas is commandeering and >>>>>>>> preventing from going to the right people!" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Exactly. We're going to spend billions building this port for Gaza (a >>>>>>> city that essentially doesn't even exist anymore, FYI) and when it's >>>>>>> finally open, any aid that's offloaded there will just be hijacked by >>>>>>> Hamas after it leaves the port. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Which will then lead Biden to say, "Well, I know I promised no American >>>>>>> boots on the ground but we didn't foresee the problems with the aid >>>>>>> after it leaves the port, so now we need to send in tanks, APCs, and >>>>>>> troops to protect the aid until it gets to the people." And whammo, just >>>>>>> like that we're in a shooting war in Gaza. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If only Biden put this much effort into securing the southern border >>>>>>> here in America... >>>>> >>>>>> YOU guys crafted the bill, then YOU guys shot your own bill down and now >>>>>> want to pretend Biden is responsible for it. >>>>> >>>>> Biden is responsible for the entire border mess for the last three years >>>>> since he took office. It wasn't Republicans who signed 94 EOs ordering >>>>> everything from cutting holes in barriers so that illegal could have >>>>> easier entry into the country, to ordering the Border Patrol to refrain >>>>> from stopping illegals entering the country. >>>>> >>>>> Pretending three years later that he has nothing to do with the raging >>>>> chaos that resulted from his EOs, and it's all the fault of Republicans >>>>> whose RINO members crafted a bill that makes the problem worse, is >>>>> idiotic. But it's a brilliant trick if you can find someone stupid >>>>> enough to fall for it. >>>>> >>>>>> People aren't as stupid as you want them to be. >>>>> >>>>> No kidding. That's why we see right through this 'bipartisan border >>>>> bill'. >>>>> >>>>>> Pretend all you like, we had a solution to the border problem. >>>>> >>>>> Allowing up to 8500 illegals per day to continue to flow unvetted into >>>>> the country isn't a solution to the border problem under any definition >>>>> of 'solution' in the English-speaking world, other than, I suppose, it >>>>> would be legalized under this bill so I guess you could claim they can't >>>>> be illegals if their entry was legalized and that would give a victory >>>>> in the language war. >>>>> >>>> Again, Republicans put together a fix for the border. >>> >>> Again, continuing to allow thousands of illegals unrestricted access to >>> the nation is not a 'fix'. It's just leaving everything broken and >>> pretending you fixed it. >> >> You *DO* understand that, even if the bill had hermetically sealed the >> border and deported all current non-legals, it would *STILL* have been >> shot down like an escaping doe. Not sure you should be celebrating... > > And if such a bill had been shot down by Republicans, I'd be the first > one bitching about them for doing it. > > But in this case, shooting it down was the right move, even if some of > them had dubious motives for doing so. > It WAS shot down by Republicans. What do you mean "if"? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0