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09/28/2004: "Fox Featured"

Here are all the related articles to the Oil for Weapons, Palaces, Etc scandal under the auspices of the UN humanitarian relief program that Fox News has been reporting on.

Part One of Bill O'Reilly's interview with the President aired last night and two more segments will air tonight and tomorrow followed by the first debate on Thursday. Busy week! Here's last nights transcript, if you missed it. O'Reilly asked straight forward questions and the President gave straight forward answers. Refreshing change from the usual political BS talking points and rhetoric.

O'Reilly's biggest concern is our porous border. It is a big concern and his solution is to put the military on it. I just have a question for Mr. O'Reilly. Let's say we have enough military and INS personnel to line them up shoulder-to-shoulder encircling the 360-degree border to deter and prevent illegal aliens from entering our country, we don't, but lets just fantasize that we do. Are you willing to shoot them if they dare to push their way through? The military threat has power because of its known lethality. Take that away and the effectiveness is diminished. Is your order, shoot to kill anyone (man, woman or child) who tries to come across? How about a 25-foot concrete wall topped with Concertina wire encircling us like Israel? Would that be better? I can see the Malibu property rates plummeting with that one. We need to be more secure but how much are you willing to concede to the thugs who mean us harm? I believe we have a lot of room for improvement but I am unwilling to turn this country into Stalag 13 and grant even the smallest victory to the terrorists who mean to change my way of life.

I am willing to go to great extremes to change their way of life, including ending it. That's their choice.

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The historical landscape is littered with the bleached bones of the U.N.'s failures, just look at the most recent examples in Sudan or Haiti. I hope that in 43's second term he either reforms this archaic entity or boots them out.

Tim said @ 09/28/2004 06:16 AM MST

Militarily alone, Sudan would make a good base of ground operations to keep Libya at bay. Stick an ATF and a CTF in the Mediterranean and some tanks in northwestern Sudan and you can make Gaddhafi do whatever the heck you want.

But I'm not sure whether that would be conducive to the overall war on terror. Nonetheless, where the heck is the UN on this one?

Garrett O'Hara said @ 09/28/2004 07:23 AM MST