What do John Kerry, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd, Tom Harkin, and Ted Kennedy have in common?
1. They're all Democrats
2. They're all members of the human race
3. They all support a woman's right to choose
4. They all make more money than I do
5. None of these 6 Senators have to worry about losing their seat this fall
(only Byrd is facing re-election)
6. Today, they all voted to pull U.S. troops from Iraq...
...Despite good news in the form of memos found in the ruins of Abu Mu'sab al Zarqawi's "Safe" house.
The following translated memo puts to shame the Murtha's and Kerry's of the American Left... the "Cut & Run" crowd... Those who insist we are losing in Iraq, that we can't possibly win. How will Media spin this?
This then is reason to pull American troops from the Iraqi theater? Why? Because Zarqawi was the next best thing to despondent? Because the official American death toll since the start of the War on Terror reached yet another milestone?
2,500 Deaths
More people are murdered in America each year than have died since the beginning of the War on Terror.
In America, more children are aborted in a single week, than have died since the War on Terror began.
More people die in auto accidents in a single year than have died in the War on Terror.
2,500 Deaths
Not to minimize the tragedy of even a single lost life, can anyone answer the following?
1. How many U.S. personnel died during the battle for Iwo Jima?
2. How many U.S. soldiers died training for D-Day?
3. How many U.S. personnel died in the first three years of the Vietnam war?
The fact is, we have the best trained and the most capable military in the world today. I would even venture to say we have the greatest military the world has ever known. And Americans, thanks to public education, have no historical perspective, and no love for the men and women who have secured the liberty and civil rights they enjoy... And take for granted.
I believe the bravery of our men and women in uniform equals, at the very least, that of 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopolis. American forces cannot be defeated unless it come from within... at the hands and neglect of its own nation.
So what do Kerry, Feingold, Boxer, Byrd, Harkin, and Kennedy have in common?
They all lack faith in the American Soldier.
2. They're all members of the human race
3. They all support a woman's right to choose
4. They all make more money than I do
5. None of these 6 Senators have to worry about losing their seat this fall
(only Byrd is facing re-election)
6. Today, they all voted to pull U.S. troops from Iraq...
...Despite good news in the form of memos found in the ruins of Abu Mu'sab al Zarqawi's "Safe" house.
The following translated memo puts to shame the Murtha's and Kerry's of the American Left... the "Cut & Run" crowd... Those who insist we are losing in Iraq, that we can't possibly win. How will Media spin this?
The situation and conditions of the resistance in Iraq have reached a point that requires a review of the events and of the work being done inside Iraq. Such a study is needed in order to show the best means to accomplish the required goals, especially that the forces of the National Guard have succeeded in forming an enormous shield protecting the American forces and have reduced substantially the losses that were solely suffered by the American forces. This is in addition to the role, played by the Shi'a (the leadership and masses) by supporting the occupation, working to defeat the resistance and by informing on its elements.
As an overall picture, time has been an element in affecting negatively the forces of the occupying countries, due to the losses they sustain economically in human lives, which are increasing with time. However, here in Iraq, time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance for the following reasons:
1. By allowing the American forces to form the forces of the National Guard, to reinforce them and enable them to undertake military operations against the resistance.
2. By undertaking massive arrest operations, invading regions that have an impact on the resistance, and hence causing the resistance to lose many of its elements.
3. By undertaking a media campaign against the resistance resulting in weakening its influence inside the country and presenting its work as harmful to the population rather than being beneficial to the population.
4. By tightening the resistance's financial outlets, restricting its moral options and by confiscating its ammunition and weapons.
5. By creating a big division among the ranks of the resistance and jeopardizing its attack operations, it has weakened its influence and internal support of its elements, thus resulting in a decline of the resistance's assaults.
6. By allowing an increase in the number of countries and elements supporting the occupation or at least allowing to become neutral in their stand toward us in contrast to their previous stand or refusal of the occupation.
7. By taking advantage of the resistance's mistakes and magnifying them in order to misinform.
Based on the above points, it became necessary that these matters should be treated one by one:
1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase the number of supporters who are refusing occupation and show the clash of interest between society and the occupation and its collaborators. To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance.
2. To assist some of the people of the resistance to infiltrate the ranks of the National Guard in order to spy on them for the purpose of weakening the ranks of the National Guard when necessary, and to be able to use their modern weapons.
3. To reorganize for recruiting new elements for the resistance.
4. To establish centers and factories to produce and manufacture and improve on weapons and to produce new ones.
5. To unify the ranks of the resistance, to prevent controversies and prejudice and to adhere to piety and follow the leadership.
6. To create division and strife between American and other countries and among the elements disagreeing with it.
7. To avoid mistakes that will blemish the image of the resistance and show it as the enemy of the nation.
In general and despite the current bleak situation, we think that the best suggestions in order to get out of this crisis is to entangle the American forces into another war against another country or with another of our enemy force, that is to try and inflame the situation between American and Iraq or between America and the Shi'a in general.
Specifically the Sistani Shi'a, since most of the support that the Americans are getting is from the Sistani Shi'a, then, there is a possibility to instill differences between them and to weaken the support line between them; in addition to the losses we can inflict on both parties. Consequently, to embroil America in another war against another enemy is the answer that we find to be the most appropriate, and to have a war through a delegate has the following benefits:
1. To occupy the Americans by another front will allow the resistance freedom of movement and alleviate the pressure imposed on it.
2. To dissolve the cohesion between the Americans and the Shi'a will weaken and close this front.
3. To have a loss of trust between the Americans and the Shi'a will cause the Americans to lose many of their spies.
4. To involve both parties, the Americans and the Shi'a, in a war that will result in both parties being losers.
5. Thus, the Americans will be forced to ask the Sunni for help.
6. To take advantage of some of the Shia elements that will allow the resistance to move among them.
7. To weaken the media's side which is presenting a tarnished image of the resistance, mainly conveyed by the Shi'a.
8. To enlarge the geographical area of the resistance movement.
9. To provide popular support and cooperation by the people.
The resistance fighters have learned from the result and the great benefits they reaped, when a struggle ensued between the Americans and the Army of Al-Mahdi. However, we have to notice that this trouble or this delegated war that must be ignited can be accomplished through:
1. A war between the Shi'a and the Americans.
2. A war between the Shi'a and the secular population (such as Ayad 'Alawi and al-Jalabi.)
3. A war between the Shi'a and the Kurds.
4. A war between Ahmad al-Halabi and his people and Ayad 'Alawi and his people.
5. A war between the group of al-Hakim and the group of al-Sadr.
6. A war between the Shi'a of Iraq and the Sunni of the Arab countries in the gulf.
7. A war between the Americans and Iraq. We have noticed that the best of these wars to be ignited is the one between the Americans and Iran, because it will have many benefits in favor of the Sunni and the resistance, such as:
1. Freeing the Sunni people in Iraq, who are (30 percent) of the population and under the Shi'a Rule.
2. Drowning the Americans in another war that will engage many of their forces.
3. The possibility of acquiring new weapons from the Iranian side, either after the fall of Iran or during the battles.
4. To entice Iran towards helping the resistance because of its need for its help.
5. Weakening the Shi'a supply line.
The question remains, how to draw the Americans into fighting a war against Iran? It is not known whether American is serious in its animosity towards Iraq, because of the big support Iran is offering to America in its war in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Hence, it is necessary first to exaggerate the Iranian danger and to convince America and the west in general, of the real danger coming from Iran, and this would be done by the following:
1. By disseminating threatening messages against American interests and the American people and attribute them to a Shi'a Iranian side.
2. By executing operations of kidnapping hostages and implicating the Shi'a Iranian side.
3. By advertising that Iran has chemical and nuclear weapons and is threatening the west with these weapons.
4. By executing exploding operations in the west and accusing Iran by planting Iranian Shi'a fingerprints and evidence.
5. By declaring the existence of a relationship between Iran and terrorist groups (as termed by the Americans).
6. By disseminating bogus messages about confessions showing that Iran is in possession of weapons of mass destruction or that there are attempts by the Iranian intelligence to undertake terrorist operations in America and the west and against western interests.
Let us hope for success and for God's help.
This then is reason to pull American troops from the Iraqi theater? Why? Because Zarqawi was the next best thing to despondent? Because the official American death toll since the start of the War on Terror reached yet another milestone?
2,500 Deaths
More people are murdered in America each year than have died since the beginning of the War on Terror.
In America, more children are aborted in a single week, than have died since the War on Terror began.
More people die in auto accidents in a single year than have died in the War on Terror.
2,500 Deaths
Not to minimize the tragedy of even a single lost life, can anyone answer the following?
1. How many U.S. personnel died during the battle for Iwo Jima?
2. How many U.S. soldiers died training for D-Day?
3. How many U.S. personnel died in the first three years of the Vietnam war?
The fact is, we have the best trained and the most capable military in the world today. I would even venture to say we have the greatest military the world has ever known. And Americans, thanks to public education, have no historical perspective, and no love for the men and women who have secured the liberty and civil rights they enjoy... And take for granted.
I believe the bravery of our men and women in uniform equals, at the very least, that of 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopolis. American forces cannot be defeated unless it come from within... at the hands and neglect of its own nation.
So what do Kerry, Feingold, Boxer, Byrd, Harkin, and Kennedy have in common?
They all lack faith in the American Soldier.
16 Comments:
Thank you, EL!
Awesome!
I confess I didn't read but the first and last of this post.
Let me add No. 7 to the first list: They voted their conscience. Republicans in Congress should try it sometime.
And let me add to your last remark:
Meadow muffins. They all lack faith in the president and in the Republican Party's ability to resolve this unnecesarry war with honor.
I will assume "meadow muffins' means cow caca. Also, have you considered that perhaps most Republicans DO vote their conscience? We're all the same animal, Dems, Repubs, Indies, Greenies, and we all-- for the most part --vote our conscience.
The difference is Ideology. We do not all think the same, and we therefore do not all hold the same values in high esteem.
The following was, inded, an unfair rhetorical slap: "Republicans in Congress should try it sometime."
Retracted.
FYI -- and for Solomon, yoo hoo, are you here? -- I posted a link to the now-closed post from yesterday, along with the discussion of creation-evolution I menioned seeing.
ALL are welcome. (And I really, personally invite you, ELash). But the bouncer is in. :-)
EL. The problem is that 2,500 isn't the only number people are thinking about.
How about 18,000? That's the number of soldiers injured in Iraq that have been returned to the US.
How about $360,000,000,000? After Congress approved another supplemental spending bill, that's the cost so far for the war in Iraq.
How about 39? That's the President's job approval rating.
How about 5? That's the nubmer of months until the midterm elections.
How about $750,000,000,000? That's the amount is would take to just reapir the infrastructure that's been damaged by this war in Iraq?
After the vote on the Constitutional marriage amednment failed, Republicans have to come up with some issue to divide the country and rile up their base. Congratulations EL! Your doing just what Dennis Hastert and Trent Lott want you to.
There must be a division between those who prefer our country's defeat in order to regain political power and those who view victory as the only option!
That's what the resolution was for. To show that division clearly. Let America sees who truly will sell their soul--along with their mothers' souls to regain control of our government.
If the antiwar, anti-victory left gains control of congress--I'll quit blogging. My confidence in America will be completely shaken.
I'll disengage myself from anyone outside my family, close friends, and church.
I'll clean my weapons and stock up on ammunition for when the government comes to arrest or kill me for my reasonable conservative religious and political beliefs.
I'll protect my property and my family--if I must.
But I don't believe it will come to that. I believe in America. I believe in Americans.
Besides, I believe that I will meet Jesus Christ--in the air, of all places--before it comes to that.
"When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more...when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there!"
I have to correct and add to my previous post.
1. I was wrong about 18,000 soldiers being returned to the US after being injured. The nubmer is only 8,500. The rest of the soldiers apparently returned to combat.
2. I must add this number 38,000-98,000. This is the nubmer of estimated Iraqi civillian deaths. The low end by Iraq Body Count. The high end from a 2004 study by The Lancet.
D.Dad I have to ask you what is your definition of success? "We must fight until victory!" That's something I hear all the time from conservatives, but noone evere expands on the sentence and outlines just what such a victory would entail.
EL (and Ben),
Just so y'all know where I stand, I'm not for pulling troops out any time soon. Most liberals I know aren't either, and I think that's reflected in the 93-6 Senate vote.
But citing 2,500 American deaths as the human cost of the war is a little like citing 58,000 deaths as the human cost of Vietnam.
2-3 million Vietnamese died in that war. 58,000 deaths is huge (and tragic), but it's rounding error by comparison.
We often hear 58,000 cited as the most important number in Vietnam. I hope we don't make the same mistake about Iraq.
Oh- ER, thanks, I'll check out your post!
I wonder what the numbers would be for the periods both before and after Vietnam?
Those are the important ones!
D.dad hasn't/doesn't want to answer my question about what he thinks victory in Iraq would be. I hate that word "victory" a better word would be success.
I often feel when conservatives, especially Christian-conservatives, talk about victory they're speaking about victory over Islam not the actual military engagement against Al-Qaida/Iraqi Insurgents. To me it seems as if people like D.dad won't be happy until America has gone out and decimated every Islamic mosque/holy site in the world. Until every country is ruled by a system of laws based on old testament commandments. But that's just my viewpoint.
Victory in Iraq will CLEARLY be when the US is ABLE to reduce its prsence to about 50,000 or so troops stationed at US military bases in Iraq.
Victory in the WAR, is not quite as simple. Success in the global war on islamofascism will be when islamofascist regimes cease to be a threat to their neighbors and the rest of the world.
I've answered your question. I NEVER avoided it.
This "we don't have a plan" argument is pure baloney!
I saw Barbara Boxer on some show the other day. She asked "What have we seen that we can view as success?" (paraphrased) She then went on to accuse the current administration of hyping things before listing those things it has allegedly hyped:
Those things were: Victory in the initial invasion.
Toppling of Saddaam Hussein.
Dragging Saaddaam hussein from his rat-hole.
One election.
Two elections.
Interim government.
Government.
250,000 trained Iraqi troops.
She gave a laundry-list of successes in her condemnation of the war as one that can't be won.
Liberals need to get a freaking life, dude!
Democrats--liberals NEED America to lose this war. It's why they have fought our leadership AND our troops so hard. It is why they have aided and comforted the enemy from the very beginning.
My only hope is that America is still America and can see through the lies and distortions that have harmed our noble efforts so deeply!
"I have never, that I can recall, heard the subject of a permanent base in Iraq, discussed in any meeting," said Rumsfeld.
D.Dad you don't know what liberals/democrats want. You only know what Bill O'Riely and Michael Savage want you to think democrats want. You don't read liberal websites. You don't have reasoned discussions with liberals. You don't post on serious democratic chat rooms. Your views are based on ignorance.
Hasty freaking generalizations become you, Bent!
I watch O'reilly a total of 15 minutes a week--if that much. I've not listened to talk-radio in over ten freaking years.
So please....do shut up about things you can't begin to have any knowledge of!
"You don't have reasoned discussions with liberals. You don't post on serious democratic chat rooms. Your views are based on ignorance."
Again Bent, you are completely ignorant if you believe this!
"Serious Democratic chatrooms" like they even freaking exist.
What...the Daily Kos? Is that a "serious liberal web-site"?
I frequent liberal websites because I like to know my opponent.
I spend twicw as much time on MSNBC and C-SPAN as I do on FoxNews.
If Cfreaking NN wasn't 150 freaking channels away on my DirecTV, I would watch more than I do on it. (Favorite Lists are not my cup'o tea!)
"The problem is that 2,500 isn't the only number people are thinking about."
But it was the issue Media was talking about yesterday. And that is the issue I wrote about. For comparison I asked about Iwo Jima, preparations for D-Day, and the 1st three years of Vietnam, but those questions were purely rhetorical... Their answers obvious to all (except perhaps for the D-Day question)
What was not at issue were 8,500 wounded soldiers-- not returned to battle, $360 Billion, the presidents improving job approval, midterm elections or infrastructure costs. These numbers constitute an attempt at obfuscation, and misdirection... a political shell game. Congratulations BenT, you're doing just what Pelosi and Reid have asked you to do!
By the way, "Victory" means: Having won, clear and outright. And we're almost there.
As for Vietnam, let's be honest here. If our elected officials had allowed the military to win the war, had not Walter Cronkite single-handedly changed the American mind in regard to the war, the numbers would have been far, far less. Instead, once we abandoned that last outpost in Saigon in April of 1975, the killing escalated. Cambodia was further emboldened, and the Khmer Rouge slaughtered millions more.
As long as we "stay the course"-- to repeat the much bally hoo-ed phrase --America WILL win in Iraq. The Zarqawi memo beautifully illustrates just how close we are. Chin up, guys! We can't lose this one unless we give up the fight.
Moving on... If one's idea of "conservative right-wing" can be summed up with the names Bill O'Reilly and Michael Savage, then that "one" has little understanding of "Conservative" or "Right-wing". O'Reilly could be seen as being on the Right, but certainly not right "wing". Savage, on the other hand is pure Militant. He hits the nail squarely on the head about Liberalism, but he doesn't do Conservatives any favors with his "presentation". In point of fact, he's not particularly fond of Conservatives either.
The point is. America is winning the war in Iraq. Even the terrorists think so. But that doesn't mean the end game is going to be pretty. For example... Can anyone tell me how many years America had to occupy Germany before things truly settled down? Again, how long did we have to occupy Japan? And by the way, we're still in Korea guarding the 38th parallel.
Methinks the war protestors here at home have a false image of war and casualties burned into their retina's and seared onto the convoluted surface of their minds. Perhaps Hollywood puts out too many "Three Kings" and not enough "Saving Private Ryans". And perhaps the American people are just too sheep-like to ever question the stories Big Media tells them about the war. Believe it or not, there is more good coming out of Iraq than bad... Far more good. But roads, schools, new businesses, aren't sexy enough for the evening news.
And that's a shame. If Big Media spent just six months telling mostly good news, I'd wager the attitude in America toward this war would be very different.
But Media has invested too much into America's defeat, and the Left's hatred of George W. Bush-- being willing participants themselves. To change course now would damage what little reputation and credibility they have left.
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