Oct 22 2006
Stay The Course? Absolutely
Only a few thought the Iraq war would be quick and easy. We all hoped it would turn quicker and smoother into the new Muslim democracy. But Al Qaeda and ethnic friction (as we see in Bosnia and the old Yugoslavia) can make the transition from dictatorship to free nation take longer than it should. But progress is being made:
Iraq today is the central battlefield in the global war between two mutually exclusive visions of the future. Yet the jihadists now know they can’t win on that battlefield. After three years of near-daily killings, often in the most horrible manner imaginable, they’ve failed to alter Iraq’s political agenda. Nor have they won control of any territory or even broadened their constituency.
The jihadists have suffered thousands of casualties, with many more captured by Coalition forces and the new Iraqi army and police. Despite more than 120 suicide operations, and countless attacks on civilian targets, the jihadists have been on the defensive since they lost their chief base at Fallujah last year. Their strategic weakness: They can’t translate their killings into political gains inside Iraq.
They kill teachers and children, but schools stay open. They kill doctors and patients, but hospitals still function. They kill civil servants, but the ministries are crawling back into operation. They kidnap and murder foreign businessmen, but more keep coming. They massacre volunteers for the new army and police, but the lines of those wishing to join grow longer.
They blow up pipelines and kill oil workers, but oil still flows. They kill judges and lawyers, but Iraq’s new courts keep on working. They machine-gun buses carrying foreign pilgrims, but the pilgrims come back in growing numbers. They kill newspaper boys, but newspapers still get delivered every day.
This a must read and share article. It tells a stunning story of then coming end of the insurgency and new unity in the Muslim world. In the face of this historic battle, in response to the day-to-day bravery that deserves to be told for generations as an epic struggle for good, as a people fight to be free, Democrats want to run from the field and cower in the US. The end of this great nation will come when people hide behind their Latte’s and say life is good, but won’t lift a finger to help a person dying from evil oppression. Stay the course? Absolutely. The goal must remain, no matter how many times we need to adjust our path to get there.
What we are trying to do is so complicated and monumental why are we even talking about leaving. It is so important that we get this right, leaving is a political strategy not a vision for the future.
Both Pres Bush and John Kerry were on This Week w George Stephanopoulos. It was a good time to see the difference between an adult and an immature child-like person.
I don’t believe Kerry has two brain cells rubbing together. All he could do is say Bush is lying, we need to cut and run, all the usual trash talk of the Far Left and Liberals. He is a real joke.
He actually said that if we leave Iraq, it will bring more unrest in the Middle East and “that is a good thing” We could use that as a threat to the Middle East to keep it from happening. Huh?
They had a real fair and balanced panel on that show. Sam Donalson, Cokie, and EX-conservative George Will. You would have thought you were in the Amen corner with that group
America’s Wars…
To capitalize on our brave soldiers sacrifices just so you can win an election is sickening and yet those very people that voted for the war on terror and now wish to cut and run, are doing exactly that. What kind of monster does this?
The answer:…..
Democrats who have constructive ideas about how to WIN ths war should be given a fair hearing, but we need to close our ears to the defeatists who are parrotting the terrorists’ propaganda.
As for TW with Georgie I couldn’t help but notice that when Sam Donaldson started talking about Rep’s worries with the ‘new’ house leadership Ms.Roberts stopped him and said ‘hey, those are the Republican talking points’….and the conversation switched back to Iraq is lost, lets let them fight it out and leave……….
From where I sit, and where I’ve already seen Drudge’s headline that the GOP will remain in the majority … The real losers are the donks. No “rim shots” for them. Even their outting didn’t work the way it was intended to work.
George Soros and his money. Gave us CREW. Now he can go put an “S” in front of his logo. In all the years he’s been trying to buy up America; he’s coming in short.
Ditto for the sunnis. Who are also palestinians. As tablecloths go, and you have to figure out whose a shit’i and whose a sunni.
And, this time around? Our election saw a lot of Iraqi deaths! Because it was being done to INFLUENCE our election on November 7th.
Sometimes, the hardest nut to crack is the “silent majority” when they stop buying your nutworks drivel. And, the propaganda two of america’s deadliest newspapers put out. The COMPOST, and the Slimes.
Probably ahead?
Bush holds steady on the course.
And, Americans don’t care what the europeans “think.” Heck, we didn’t in 1776, either. And, even then, the obvious brain drain was occurring in europe. Still is!
Of course, it’s not going to continue unabaited. One thing to learn from WW2 is that England was ALONE for two years. And, it seemed she’d lose to the nazi’s. So a lot of ordinary citizens began turning ordinary items into killer instruments. You’ve just never seen what it looks like, when a rat is captured in a hole. Or an enemy turns up hidden in some haystack on a french farm. No notes were taken.
IF the muzzies think they’re ahead; the only department where they are actually “ahead” is in the spending of wealth. It’s not cheap. And, the House of Saud might have more future problems than you can shake a stick at? Do I care? NOPE. But consider this. Formed by England and France, between the two world wars, the “brothers” who started this rat’s nest, are dying off. Current prince occupying the top seat? In his 80’s. And, his younger brother is 77. Then, there are 10,000 or so princes who want the chair. Let the bidding begin.
You mean you didn’t know? Okey dokey. I just told you so.
The UN is also dead meat. The biggest problem? They turned LIES into currency. A problem like this once broke out in france, before. And, you needed a wheelbarrow to cart your money to the baker’s, for a loaf of bread. And, I don’t even wish those bastards good luck, now.
This has been a bad month in Iraq. It is disgraceful that our soldiers are being targeted to help sway an election. I would not vote for a Democrat at this point if you put a gun to my head.
The Democrats have been all about “Hate Bush” and nothing else! I consider myself a Conservative GDI and have many conflicts with GB and the PUBS, but The DIMS would destroy this country just to regain p0wer!
Truely Depressing and Disgusting!
http://www.usatoday.com/educate/war28-article.htm
which is it Strata? do you have a short attention span or do you hope your readers and Americans do?
Rummy, Cheney and Wolfowitze among many other Bushies
predicted a very short war, in their lying, incompetent haze
of hubris, as the above link shows.
Education/schooling is well under the attendance level before the invasion…oil is severely limited by sabotage….the “political agenda”
has been changed to the tune of three years plus so far, and in fact Sistani put an end to Bush’s planned agenda by demanding the election changes Bush was forced to cave to…al Sadr has more influence than ever though Bush vowed to jail him three years ago…
Muslim unity? Hardly, but such as exists is several times more
anti-US and anti-Israel than was extant in 2002, Turkey being
a shining example of the shift against America.
Iraq is a FAILED war though predicted to be a weeks long venture by the Bush team.
I thought the article by Amir Taheri made an interesting point about the clerics getting together across sectarian lines and harmonizing their sermons.
It sounds like they are going for something like a “national Islam.”
Most countries have to have something that unifies them. In America it is shared political values, but in Iraq it may be that the clerics will deemphasize the differences between the two sects so that religion can accomplish this.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,223577,00.html
Ken, and you are doing what about this?
It’s always darkest…….
….before the dawn. The drumbeat of negativity about Iraq drowns out any positive news. Wh……
Despite your and FE’s inane comments, I am not French nor a French citizen. But you have already expressed your disapproval for strong French nationalism, exemplified by Jean Marie LePen. It is the kind of nationalism that will preserve not only France but America–or both will be lost.
Article: IRAQ- Uniting Against the Jihadis…
A significantly positive article (below) -Ht: Strata-Sphere; shows the greater picture of our commitment towards the Democratic Freedoms of the Iraqi people.. (not represented in the ‘negative politics’ of the U. S. left.)…
Ken:
No I don’t think you re French. I just think you are wrong about just about everything. Not easy to be that screwed up, takes a real talent to be that wrong all the time. I hear that the jihadis are running propaganda about ow they will sway the elction by killing our troops. How does it feel to be a tool for the terrorists?
“””” How does it feel to be a tool for the terrorists?””””
It must make the American leftist feel soooooooooooooo good.
They seem to do it every day. Right now they seem almost giddy with their ability to get American soldiers killed, to send their message
to America’s enemies–just hold on a little longer, then you can do what you want. American leftists are doing exactly what the American Communist Party wants them to do.
Terrye
How does it feel to be a tool for the Likudist dual loyalists who
create unnecessary enemies for America by using the clout of
“the Lobby” to have America fight Israel’s battles? Not that a part
hasn’t been played by “big oil’s” refusal to make America energy self-sufficient when we were warned in the early 1970s by then quiescent Arabs of this imperative. But the oiligarchs prefer Empire and
close control of “their” preserve.
Pagar
Anyone who uses the American Communist Party in important
political discourse these days isn’t worthy of a response.
http://www.jb-williams.com/10-13-06.htm
That’s exactly what the leftists want us to do, not think about their
roots.
Check the list of goals of the US Communist Party as stated in the
Congressional Record 10 Jan 63 if you don’t think the Communist
Party is moving their agenda forward.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
#15 on the list is the key reason for their support of the Democrat
Party today.
45 goals listed and the ones they have not yet achieved are very few. Not a single one of their goals have been stopped completely.
I’ve seen Communism all my life, and don’t want my children or grandchildren to have to live under it. Anyone who wants to ignore
it is doing exactly what they want you to do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200937.html?nav=hcmodule
is Iraq War Vet Tillman a “leftist” commie dupe too, or is he hip to
what you 1950ish atavistic retreads are willingly oblivious?