Al Franken, Forbes, Solid Gold, President Bush

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From Solid Gold To Forbes, Stuart's A Hit





Did you know that Al Franken could dance?

Neither did we, but from the 1980s, all the way to 2006, 'ol Stuart Smalley proves he's quite a pro. Back then, of course, he was actually on stage, appearing as Mick Jagger on (are you ready for this) Solid Gold.


Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, here it is, complete with Marilyn McCoo's introduction:





Now, of course, Franken's dancing is of a political nature, carefully stepping around specific solutions to the biggest problems facing our nation. Case in point: a just- released Forbes interview, where Smalley bashes President Bush over Iraq, but provides no solutions of his own for dealing with Middle East terrorism:

Forbes: How did Sept. 11 change your world?

Franken: A lot of people ask me why the dialog in this country is vituperative nowadays. After Sept. 11th, it wasn't. We were totally united as a country, and the world was almost all behind us. Bush had this golden opportunity to lead the world in a spirit of mutual sacrifice, and he blew it. He hijacked all this suffering to go to war in Iraq.

We haven't learned the right things, that's for sure. Yes, there is a jihadist movement that wants to kill us, but I think we've made it a lot worse by attacking Iraq. We played totally into their hands and have been essentially recruitment for them. By torturing people, by attacking an Arab country under false pretenses and to go in a fake international coalition, we have undermined our own position in our world, and our influence has eroded tremendously.

Forbes: Terror is …

Franken: Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

A perfect example is Hezbollah firing missiles into Israel. Is Israel bombing villages in southern Lebanon "terrorism"? I don't think it is, but I think the way they handled it was very ill-advised. I think it should have been up to the Israeli military to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible.

Another example of terrorism is the Golden Mosque in Samarra in Iraq. It was blown up to stoke violence, and its purpose was to have Shiites go after Sunnis, and it succeeded.

We responded to Iraqi insurgency in a way that made enemies. It was the fault of the president and the Pentagon, and we didn't adapt fast enough, which was the most difficult part.

What "mutual sacrifice" is Franken talking about? Just about any action to eliminate terrorism abroad would have failed to secure "sacrifices" from the likes of France and the other European powers. Just look what it took to get them to commit to anything more than a token percentage of the UN's new "peacekeeping" force in Lebanon.

Franken & friends will simply never stop bashing the US and covering for Euro- stupidity, it seems.

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