Nov 29 2005
Great New Site Supporting Success In Iraq
Unlike people in Pajamas behaving silly, there is a new website with a really important purpose that I have joined (and I know Top Dog is going to be really mad at me for not joining the Able Danger Blog – yet). But supporting our efforts in Iraq is too critical not to at least give it a good shot.
Check it out!
Top Dog – I will redouble my efforts to cross post on your site.
Here is something to get your Juices Flowing!
ROCK ON !
Opps Sorry here is the link!
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~dwong/nov%2026/Bush_Was_Right.mp3
There is a great article in the Wall Street Journal today by By JOE LIEBERMAN
November 29, 2005; Page A18
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It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority.
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Israel has been the only genuine democracy in the region, but it is now getting some welcome company from the Iraqis and Palestinians who are in the midst of robust national legislative election campaigns, the Lebanese who have risen up in proud self-determination after the Hariri assassination to eject their Syrian occupiers (the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias should be next), and the Kuwaitis, Egyptians and Saudis who have taken steps to open up their governments more broadly to their people
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While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America’s bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113323207590108762.html