(2007-12-15) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, now polling ahead of Republican presidential rivals in Iowa and South Carolina, today put to rest concerns about his lack of foreign policy experience by criticizing the Bush administration’s “saber-rattling against the land of Persia.”
In a landmark speech slamming George Bush’s “arrogant bunker mentality“, Mr. Huckabee also questioned the president’s judgment in fighting the current war in the same region.
“The president should have listened to his Army Chief of Staff, ” said Mr. Huckabee, “It’s my understanding that Gen. Eric Shinseki told him it would take a lot more troops after the initial attack to control the land of the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Chaldeans. But Shinseki was ignored.”
The former Baptist minister, who has rocked the political world with his high poll numbers despite a relatively small campaign war chest, said his administration would “restore America’s reputation everywhere, from the heart of the fertile crescent to the very edges of the known world.”
“I have a message of hope that will unite Occidental civilization against the terroristic Moorish hordes,” he said. “Although I have never met their leaders, I believe I can re-establish American credibility with the Gauls, the Huns, the Saxons and even the noble Romans.”
24 responses so far ↓
1 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:06 am
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!
God Bless You!
2 camojack // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:08 am
What a Philistine.
3 Ms RightWing, Ink // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:16 am
Whatever you do, don’t shave his head
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:27 am
I could be wrong but (after reading the linked-to article) I can’t help wondering: Is Bush running for re-election?
(If so, he gets my vote)
5 mig // Dec 15, 2007 at 10:36 am
Oh yes, the great practice of fighting backwards; of fighting and watching ones back. Just have to be careful that the tip of the sword doesn’t catch the warrior in the gut!
6 gafisher // Dec 15, 2007 at 10:54 am
That’s a hoot! What a maroon!
By the way, if anyone’s interested in Iran’s official tourism site, it’s at http://www.persia.org/.
7 Darthmeister // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:08 am
I believe Huckabee might have to also befriend the Mongol hordes in his big group hug.
But Huckabee, shuckabee. My money is still on Fred Thompson.
With respect to the war in Iraq under commanding Generals Abizaid and Sanchez, Patrick O’Donnell in his “We Were One” validates most of the things we’ve been saying here at Scrappleface for the last three years. Excerpt from page 194:
The point (about creating new terrorists as a result of our actions) might have been valid if Fallujah had been defended by a genuine, home-grown insurgency, but such was not the case. A month of intelligence work would reveal the bulk of the jihadi forces defending Fallujah came from outside Iraq. Most so-called “insurgents” were carrying the same version of an Iraqi ID card. The facility manufacturing the cards was later discovered by Marine 3/1, and documents found at the site revealed that the jihadis came from 18 different countries. The Marines found rosters of entire companies of Syrian and Saudi volunteers, and evidence of a large presence of al Qaeda memebers. Iraq is clearly just one front in a greater, worldwide war.
And where in the liberal media have you ever read so a cogent and documented assessment of the Iraqi war starting with Fallujah?
8 mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:35 am
I can’t get the links to work……anyone else having that problem ?
9 mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:37 am
And I am still pushin’ and shovin’, can’t it all just get along?
10 charmingtail // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:59 am
Well we have our Dennis Kucinich Candidate Ron Paul…why not have our Jimmy Carter candidate UP CHUCK HUCK…. Can we just not have Govenors from Hope Arkansas as candidates PLEASE!!!
God Bless Fred Thompson
11 charmingtail // Dec 15, 2007 at 12:01 pm
What do you get when you cross Jimmy Carter with Bill Climton? Huckabee
12 charmingtail // Dec 15, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Jimmy Carter + Bill Clinton = Mike Huckabee
13 gafisher // Dec 15, 2007 at 1:35 pm
All the links seem to be working for me, MKK.
Back on topic, I’ve heard Huckabee has been known to refer to Myanmar as “Burma,” and Palestine as (get this!) “Israel!” Clearly, Arkansas has not well prepared the man for game shows.
14 Scott Ott // Dec 15, 2007 at 3:37 pm
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15 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 15, 2007 at 3:50 pm
As a (much) younger man, I toured through several small towns from IL to AR with a carnival; county fairs, mostly.
AR was somewhat otherworldly, shall we say.
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18 mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 4:29 pm
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19 mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Would Fred Thompson please wake up !! ??
20 segalsegal // Dec 15, 2007 at 4:35 pm
This is very interesting. The New York Times keeps referring to Al Qaeda in Iraq as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia”, as chronicled by James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today column (e.g. the “The Enemy’s Imaginary Friend” item at http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010996).
Is Gov. Huckabee financing his campaign by moonlighting at the New York Times?
21 Ms RightWing, Ink // Dec 15, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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22 mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm
But if this is a test will we be graded on it ? If so maybe in the interest of “fairness” you should grade on a curve for our resident trolls’ sakes.
What is the sign up button for ? Inquiring minds seek to know….
23 camojack // Dec 16, 2007 at 1:34 am
mindknumbed kid // Dec 15, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Would Fred Thompson please wake up !! ??
Thompson is working as hard as the other top tier candidates
24 antodav // Dec 21, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Fred Thompson’s candidacy is a joke and he himself is a fat, lazy, dirty old man, a Hollywood fossil with no serious intention or qualification to become President. I live in Tennessee where everyone and their grandmother is talking about how much they adore him and are excited about voting for him, but personally I’m sick of it. You can only call him a “true conservative” because he hasn’t actually done anything in office, either to bolster or damage his conservative credentials. A majority of voters have seen this and that is why Thompson is lagging far behind in the polls. While I may agree with Thompson on most issues I’m not going to vote for a man who’s married to a woman young enough to be his daughter, especially one who gives off the aura of a large, smelly troll rather than a dignified leader who can adequately follow in George W. Bush’s footsteps.
There are several things that I don’t agree with Mike Huckabee on in this race, and this statement about Bush’s foreign policy tops the list. However, given the choice between Thompson, Romney, and Huckabee (the only three candidates I would seriously consider voting for), Huckabee is the one who comes across as most sincere, most truly conservative, and most qualified to be President. He’ll have a hard time winning the general election, but frankly I feel that will be the case with the Republican nominee no matter who he is. At least with Huckabee I’ll be able to vote for an honest Christian, someone who won’t make me feel like a sellout after voting for him, and require me to take a hot shower. If a RINO like Giulani or McCain, a sleazebag like Thompson or Romney, or a racist, fascist paleocon idiot like Hunter or Tancredo wins the nomination, we might win the War on Terror overseas, but we’ll lose the war here at home. Huckabee is the least of several evils by FAR, and the only thing keeping me from supporting him up to now was that he seemed to have no chance to win. Now that’s all changed, and I am very grateful for it.
Charmingtail, how dare you compare Huckabee to Clinton. Huckabee is a far cry from the philandering, lying heap of human filth who for eight years ran this country into the ground morally, kow-towed to terrorists and hostile foreign interests, ignored the warning signs before 9/11 and provided aid, comfort, and military secrets to our enemies. Nor is he like Carter, the anti-semetic, cowardly appeaser who nearly let the Soviets win the Cold War and wrecked our economy into the worst state it had been in decades. All of Huckabee’s supposedly “liberal” actions while governor make sense when taken in context, and unlike all these other candidates his record on social issues is clean. He’s exactly the kind of man we need in office to fight the Democrats in Congress without seeming like a hypocrite in the process. America could do a LOT worse than Mike Huckabee. I hope they make the right choice in ‘08.
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