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  • Latin America and the Democrats

    The Gateway Pundit has a great piece today about Democrats playing Russian Roulette with our foreign policy in regards to Latin America entitled FARC You! where he catalogues Democrat hypocrisy towards our allies in that region.

    The reason it caught my eye is some of the rhetoric I’ve been hearing from the Left in regards to the Bush Administration in Latin America that’s not exactly the truth. For example, Barack Obama has a statement on his senate.gov website that claims the Bush Administration isn’t engaged in Latin America;

    I am, however, disappointed that the President has fallen so short in his promise to transform U.S. relations with the Americas. Our regional relationships cannot be properly attended to with one six-day trip, a series of photo opportunities, and some lofty rhetoric on collaboration.

    Neglect? Why, just this week, the Bush Administration has finalized trade agreements with Peru, Columbia and Panama – to absolutely no fanfare in the press. because these trade pacts are all opposed by Big Labor. Oh, and they’re good for the US – can’t see the President getting good press over anything can we? These trade agreements give these country the ecomonic power to keep their residents at home instead sending them here as illegal immigrants. (Not to mention, it might drive the price of sugar down far enough that Coca Cola might put sugar in that drink again and make it tasty again)

    In Miami this week, Obama said, “It’s not sufficient for us to have Latin American policy based on not liking Hugo Chavez and not liking Fidel Castro.” That’s pretty simplistic rhetoric, actually. The Bush administration has pretty much ignored Chavez and Castro – I don’t see any statements coming out of the White House everytime Banana-brains starts yammering paranoid rants about someone wanting to kill his useless ass. I don’t think anyone in the Administration has even acknowledged that Chavez exists. His own people can deal with him – and Castro – phht – he’ll be dead soon enough, so who cares.

    President Bush even travelled around Central and South America in the Fall of 2005 – I left Panama the day before he arrived and it was the talk of the entire country. He’s a very popular figure there, despite the bad press.

    Think maybe our stature in Latin America has suffered because Democrats won’t meet with our greatest ally in the region President Alvaro Uribe has been snubbed by the Congressional Democrats as well as Al Gore. This from a Mary Anatasia O’Grady piece in the Wall Street Journal from April entitled “One Righteous Gringo“;

    Al Gore may not have known that he was taking the side of a former terrorist and ally of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez when he waded into Colombian politics 10 days ago. But that’s not much consolation to 45 million Colombians who watched their country’s already fragile international image suffer another unjust blow, this time at the hands of a former U.S. vice president.

    The event was a climate-change conference in Miami, where Mr. Gore and Colombian President Álvaro Uribe were set to share the stage. At the last minute, Mr. Gore notified the conference organizers that he refused to appear with Mr. Uribe because of “deeply troubling” allegations of human- rights violations swirling around the Colombian government.

    It is not clear whether the ex-veep knows that making unsubstantiated claims of human-rights violations has been a key guerrilla weapon for more than a decade, along with the more traditional practices of murdering, maiming and kidnapping civilians. Nor is it clear whether Mr. Gore knew that the recycled charges that caught his attention are being hyped by Colombian Sen. Gustavo Petro, a close friend of Mr. Chávez and former member of the pro-Cuban M-19 terrorist group. What we do know is that Mr. Gore’s line of reasoning — that Colombia is not good enough to rub shoulders with the righteous gringos — is also being peddled by some Democrats in Congress, the AFL-CIO and other forces of anti-globalization. The endgame is all about killing the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

    When Mr. Uribe got wind of Mr. Gore’s decision to stand him up, he rightly interpreted its significance: Colombia is the victim of an international smear campaign that, if left unchecked, could undermine congressional support for the pending trade deal. Rather than let the whispering go on, Mr. Uribe elevated the matter, calling two press conferences over two days to refute the charges, which he says are damaging the country’s interests. He also asked Mr. Gore to look “at Colombia closely” so he could see the progress that has been made.

    By the way, President Uribe’s father was killed by terrorists – tough for them if he’s a little harsh in dealing with them. Since when is Al Gore willing to trade our friends down the river because he heard an unsubstantiated rumor somewhere?  

    So how exactly is Bush damaging our relations in Latin America? He’s got Democrats undermining his efforts with their petty politics, Democrats winging their way to Venezuela to gladhand with blood-soaked tyrants while they turn their backs on the people who are helping fight our enemies.

    Just like in the Middle East where Democrats have tea with our enemies and snub our allies. Maybe we have all of these problems because we present a fickle foreign policy – towards all of our allies and our enemies. Our foreign policy is ambiguous because we have 525 ambassadors in Congress – not to mention the ancillary ambassadors who are former presidents and vice-presidents. 

    I’m pretty certain that the founding fathers intended that the president be the sole voice of our nation to other nations. Maybe we need to impeach all of these extraneous diplomats floating around the world operating under a false flag.

  • So let’s start in with Iran, already

    Everywhere I look, I see reasons to use military force inside of Iran. For months now we’ve heard about the advanced conventional weaponry manufactured in Iran to use against US forces in Iraq. Now today I read that some Hezbollah doofus has been scooped up in Iraq while he was taking part in a direct-action operation directed and funded by Iranians;

    Ali Mussa Dakdouk, accused of being a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq, Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, a U.S. military spokesman, said. Dakdouk was “working in Iraq as a surrogate for the Iranian Quds Force,” organizing militants into cells for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, Bergner said.

    He also said that Dakdouk was a liaison between the Iranians and a breakaway Shiite militant cell led by Qais al-Kazaali, a former spokesman for the cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

    Bergner said Kazaali’s group attacked a provincial government building in Karbala in January and that the Iranians assisted in the attack preparations. Khazaali and his brother, Leith al-Khazaali, were captured with Dakdouk.

    How much more proof do we need that we are currently at war with Iran? Well here’s some more proof from the Washington Post (in case you’re not convinced yet), which summarizes a briefing to journalists from a military spokesman;

    While U.S. officials have repeatedly alleged that sophisticated Iranian-made weapons are killing Americans in Iraq, and that the Quds force is complicit in the violence, today’s briefing offered the most specific accusations to date of direct Iranian involvement in specific attacks against U.S. forces.

    The general also drew a new link with Hezbollah, saying an operative arrested in March had spent the previous 10 months worked with the Quds force to train Iraqis after years of commanding a Hezbollah special operations group.

    “The Iranian Quds force is using Lebanese Hezbollah essentially as a proxy, as a surrogate in Iraq,” Bergner said. “Our intelligence reveals that senior leadership in Iran is aware of this activity.”

    Bergner’s briefing for reporters in Baghdad emphasized a Jan. 20 attack on a provincial government compound in the southern city of Karbala, where gunmen wearing American-style uniforms and driving sport utility vehicles breached the compound and killed five U.S. soldiers.

    And of course the Iranians deny involvement;

    Iran has denied past claims that it was backing Iraqi militants — including accusations that it was providing them with a particularly deadly type of roadside bomb, the explosively formed penetrator. Its ally Hezbollah has denied having any role in Iraq, saying it operates only in Lebanon.

    So despite the fact that we capture Hezbollah chieftains in Iraq, they’re not operating there. That makes perfect sense to me. Southern Iraq must be where they rest and recuperate in the off season. 

    And then, we read from the Associated Press, that Putin and the President both agree that something needs to be done about Iran’s nuclear program;

    President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin projected a united front Monday against Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.

    “When Russia and the United States speak along the same lines, it tends to have an effect and therefore I appreciate the Russians’ attitude in the United Nations,” Bush said. “We’re close on recognizing that we got to work together to send a common message.”

    Putin predicted that “we will continue to be successful” as they work through the U.N. Security Council.

    Oh, and did I mention that there are at least four American citizens being held hostage in Iran to forestall economic sanctions against the rogue nation? I say at least four because there’s a former FBI agent missing over there somewhere whom the Iranian government may or may not be holding.

    Iran has been begging for an airstrike for decades, and now is the time to do it. They’ve declared war on us almost every morning since 1979, they’ve walked over us, they’ve walked over our allies – because they know they can get away with it with no repercussions. It’s time to deal them a blow. And one good stiff air strike would rock the entire terrorist community back on their heels for a minute – probably exposing themselves and their cells in the ensuing flurry of activity to deal their own counter-blow.

    Fourth of July would be nice.

    Blackfive asks Can We Bomb Iranian Camps and Military Now?

    Crotchety Old Bastard finds Iran’s fingerprints on the Taliban, too.

  • So where is AP and the Washington Post on this atrocity story?

    The past few days I’ve written about poor journalism on the part of the Washington Post and the Associated Press regarding stories they’ve published about supposed atrocities that never happened – articles about Americans slaughtering innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    So where the hell are the Associated Press and the Washington Post on embedded independent reporter Michael Yon’s latest article, “Bless the Beasts and the Children“ (by way of Jewish Odysseus by way of Atlas Shrugs) about al Qaeda butchering an entire town in Iraq;

    I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.

    My feelings mirror those of Jewish Odysseus;

    Mil-Blog Journalist Michael Yon [http://www.michaelyon-online.com/] deserves a Pulitzer for this story alone, the latest in a long string of superb battlefield reports.

    You haven’t seen a word about this anywhere in the MSM, have you?

    But, hey, I hear a prisoner in Gitmo was served COLD falafel this morning…Let’s send a camera-team to confront Gates!  

    Or let some legislature member in Afghanistan accuse Americans of murdering over a hundred civilians, or some anonomous Iraqi “police” officer accuse Americans of slaughtering Iraqis in their beds as they sleep and the journalists in their hotel rooms go into a writing frenzy.  

    So why aren’t there more stories that justify our actions in Iraq? Because the media is afraid that the Left will accuse them of being a tool of the Administration – the Left doesn’t want the truth broadcast to Americans (see the latest dustup about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine) because the Left looks like a pack of knuckledragging, drooling morons when the light is shown on them. And thanks to the independent journalists who actually venture out into the battle with the troops, like Michael Yon, the mainstream press looks like the Left’s lapdog.

    Well, at least Fox News has the guts to run it.

  • What passes for unbiased press these days.

    Confederate Yankee has been dealing deadly blows to the Associated Press this week, if you hadn’t noticed. A week or so ago, AP published a story about 20 beheadings near Salman Pak that Iraqi Defense Forces can’t find. It turns out that it never happened and AP’s sources were hundreds of miles away and intentionally misleading the formerly premier news service.

    Well, here’s another nugget from the AP – intentionally misinforming the world in the model of the Washington Post story I wrote about last night;

    American soldiers rolled into Baghdad’s Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a U.S. officer described as “an intense firefight.”

    But residents, police and hospital officials said eight people were killed — all civilians in their homes, and angrily accused U.S. forces of firing blindly on the innocent. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned the raids and demanded an explanation for the assault into a district where he has barred U.S. operations in the past.

    Hmmm. Shi-ites upset that US forces fought Shi-ite militias in their protected Shi-ite strongholds. Imagine that. And to bolster their claim that American troops are homocidal maniacs, before they carry on with the US forces explanation, the AP injects this unrelated sentence;

    Separately, two American soldiers were charged with the premeditated murder of three Iraqis, the U.S. military said Saturday.

    No agenda with adding that particular sentence there, would you say? 

    The U.S. military said it conducted two predawn raids in Sadr City, Baghdad’s largest Shiite slum, killing 26 “terrorists” who attacked U.S. troops with small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and roadside bombs. But Iraqi police and hospital officials said all the dead were civilians killed in their homes.

    Can’t let the Americans tell their side of the story without interupting them, can we? And notice how the AP put the word “terrorists” in quotes – as if it was just the US forces opinion that they were indeed terrorists – despite the fact they were firing weapons at the Americans.

    “The Iraqi government totally rejects U.S. military operations … conducted without a pre-approval from the Iraqi military command,” Mr. Maliki said in a statement released by his office. “Anyone who breaches the military command orders will face investigation.”

    An American military spokesman insisted all of those killed were combatants. “Everyone who got shot was shooting at U.S. troops at the time,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, the spokesman. “It was an intense firefight.”

    The Iraqi officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, put the death toll at eight, with 20 wounded.

    President Bush’s response should be to start packing up and moving out of Iraq. No, I’m not some Leftist anti-war nut – but if Maliki starts insisting that we approve our military operations with the Iraqis, we don’t need to bleed for his country any further. I’ll bet Maliki would change his tune fast enough.

    Sadr City is the Iraqi capital’s largest Shiite neighborhood — home to some 2.5 million people. It is also the base of operations for the Mahdi Army, a militia loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The fighters are blamed for much of the sectarian killing in Baghdad.

    In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Sheik Salah al-Obaidi, a spokesman for Mr. Sadr condemned Saturday’s raids: “The bombing hurt only innocent civilians.”

    Oh, well, that tears it then, if Sadr’s spokesman says it was all civilians, that must be the case.

    The U.S. military statement said soldiers riding in armored vehicles “used proper escalation of force rules to engage four civilian vehicles.”

    “You start with warnings and work your way up to firing on a vehicle,” Col. Garver said. “Every structure and vehicle that the troops on the ground engaged were being used for hostile intent,” he said.

    U.S. soldiers fired a barrage of bullets at one vehicle after it failed to yield at a checkpoint, Col. Garver said. The other civilian cars were being used as a cover for insurgents, who hid behind them and fired on American forces, he said. Some of the 26 victims were in civilian cars, some had been hiding behind the cars and others had fired on U.S. troops from nearby buildings, Col. Garver said.

    But according to Iraqi officials, the dead included three members of one family — a father, mother and son. Several women and children, along with two policemen, were among the wounded, they said.

    And it would be the first time that the cowardly terrorists used innocent civilians to attack American forces, right?

    But back to the AP – why didn’t the supposed “journalists” (as if it’s someone’s opinion that these people who are write for the AP are journalists) get in their damn Mercedes SUV and drive out to Sadr City before they wrote the story and check to see who was in the morgue and the hospitals and see if they were indeed civilians?

    Of course, then they probably wouldn’t have been able to write the story the way it turned out if they’d see it with their own eyes.

  • This is journalism? (UPDATED)

    Today’s Washington Post is running a story writen by Griff Witte and Javed Hamdard entitled “100 Civilians Killed in NATO, U.S. Assault, Afghan Officials Say“ – pretty serious charge, huh? The brief on the front page says;

    Possibly 100 or more killed in a NATO and U.S.-led assault in southern Afghanistan, Afghans say.

    Well, the main story goes like this;

    Just a week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised international forces for being “careless,” Afghan officials reported Saturday that possibly 100 or more civilians had been killed in a NATO and U.S.-led assault.

    I’m sure the Afghanis should be mad if NATO and the US were bombing civilians in groups of a 100. But let’s read on shall we?

    The battle in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, which was prompted by a Taliban ambush, began Friday night and continued into Saturday morning, Afghan officials said. It ended with international forces bombing several compounds in the remote village of Hyderabad.

    “More than 100 people have been killed. But they weren’t Taliban. The Taliban were far away from there,” said Wali Khan, a member of parliament who represents the area.

    The Taliban was far away. This is a member of parliment telling us the Taliban was far away. Ok, let’s see if any one else was interviewed;

    Another parliament member from Helmand, Mahmood Anwar, said the death toll was close to 100, and that the dead included women and children. “Very few Taliban were killed,” he said.

    Very few Taliban were killed – but wait the other member of Parliment said the Taliban was far, far away – so which was it. A few – or none?

    Spokesmen for the international forces acknowledged that civilians were killed in the battle, though they disputed the numbers. Maj. John Thomas, a spokesman for the NATO-led force, said the civilian death toll was “an order of magnitude less” than what the Afghan officials reported.

    Thomas said U.S. ground forces helping carry out a NATO mission had come under fire by Taliban insurgents using small arms, rocket propelled grenades and mortars. Thomas said the troops responded by firing on insurgents who were shooting from a compound and a network of trenches. U.S. helicopters and NATO bombers were later brought in for support, he said.

    Thomas said troops returned to the area after the battle and found what appeared to be civilian bodies among the dead insurgents in the trenches. “This confirms for us again that militants are willing to fire from among civilians,” he said.

    OK, so now there civilian bodies “among” the dead insurgents. That sounds like there were more fighting forces in those trenches than civilians. Civilians who happened to be going about their daily business in those trenches from which rockets, mortars and missiles were fired.

    So out of the three available scenarios, the Washington Post’s “writers” (I refuse to call these people who write stories from information they probably got over the phone “journalists”) picked the scenario least likely to be closest to the truth for their headline. Seems to me that someone could’ve gone out to the village and looked for themselves before they wrote this bogus-ass headline.

    So why would they do it? Well, so the illiterate and attention-deficit stricken “intellectuals” on the Left will write things like this;

    So, not surprisingly, the US has killed more civilians in Afghanistan in the last year than the Talaban has. link

    And I wonder what the government “officials’” reaction was to this;

    Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Saturday, three civilians were killed and seven injured when a Taliban rocket missed a NATO base in the eastern province of Kunar.

    Karzai should be lecturing the Taliban about being more “careful”, too.

    UPDATE: From CNN, of all places;

    An investigating team was sent to Helmand province’s Gereshk district, where fighting took place between insurgents and Western forces late Friday, said Dur Ali Shah, the mayor of Gereshk, and Mohammad Hussein Andewal, the provincial police chief.

    NATO’s International Security Assistance Force has acknowledged some civilians were killed in the southern battle but has said the death toll was nowhere near as high as Afghan officials have claimed.

    Because of the battle site’s remote location, it was impossible to independently verify the casualty claims. Afghan officials said fighter jets and ground forces were still patrolling the region and that the fighting continued into Saturday.

    So, if the Washington Post goofs had waited a day until this investigation was completed, they might have saved themselves from this embarassment.

  • Militantly militant militants

    Just checking my news today and I found this from the AP in a story that was titled “Israeli troops kill 10 Palestinians“;

    Israeli fire struck a Gaza City house, killing four people, including two militants and a 12-year-old boy, medics said. Five militants were killed in fighting with the Israelis in another outlying part of the city, Palestinians said.

    In southern Gaza, an Islamic Jihad militant was killed in a clash with troops in the town of Khan Younis. Hospital officials said a total of 40 people were wounded by Israeli shells in Gaza City.

    Two more Palestinians died in other violence. In Khan Younis, a Hamas militant was killed while mishandling explosives, and a senior Islamic Jihad member was killed in what Palestinians said was an airstrike. Israel, which usually acknowledges airstrikes, denied involvement.

    Another Palestinian militant died from wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, medical officials said.

    So doesn’t anyone at AP have a Thesaurus? 5 uses of the same word in 4 paragraphs and seven sentences.

    Oh and the story was misleading – the Israelis didn’t kill Palestinians – they killed those rabid dogs that travel in that pack called “Hamas’. And since the 12-year-old boy was killed along with two “militants”, what’s to say that 12-year-old boy didn’t have his militant days, too?

  • Spineless RINOs give Reid hope

    According to S.A. Miller in today’s Washington Times, Limp-rag Lugar and Voinovich (RINO – OH) have given Dingy Harry Reid hope;

    Ohio Sen. George V. Voinovich yesterday called for a “military disengagement” from Iraq, the second Republican this week to voice doubts about President Bush’s troop-surge strategy while simultaneously discrediting Democrats’ plans for an abrupt pullout.

    Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech Monday that the president should “downsize the U.S. military’s role in Iraq” and forge a new Middle East strategy.

    Democratic leaders and antiwar groups seized upon the remarks, especially Mr. Lugar’s, as evidence their plan to isolate Mr. Bush from his Republican allies was working.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who vows by fall to pass a troop-withdrawal bill, called Mr. Lugar’s speech “a turning point” in the war debate.

    But Mr. Voinovich and Mr. Lugar oppose Democratic alternatives, including pullout timetables they say would undermine U.S. credibility.

    So why’d they even say what they said? As Jules Crittenden wrote “[Lugar] and Voinovich don’t want to be against a U.S. troop presence in Iraq.  They just doesn’t want to be for it.”

    Why couldn’t these two goofballs carry their monkey-asses up to the White House and talk to the President in private instead of shooting off their big, fat mouths in public?

    The lawmakers’ careful moves to challenge Mr. Bush while not outright joining antiwar Democrats highlights the rocky political landscape confronting Republicans as the war they have loyally supported grows more unpopular each day.

    Hey! Dumbasses! War is always unpopular, for Pete’s sake. And the only reason it’s dragged out this long is because stupid morons such as yourselves won’t

    Mr. Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, plan in September to pursue more measures to end the war.

    They backed down last month when Mr. Bush vetoed a timetable to pullout troops by April. Next time, they hope enough Republicans will defect to give them the two-thirds majority vote needed to override a veto.

    Of course, two Republicans don’t mean squat in the Big Scheme of Things, but I’m tired of Leftists who email me these articles about some Republican that the Left thought was the stupidest moron on the planet last week – but suddenly he’s a freakin’ rocket surgeon because he agrees incidently to some goofball Leftist tenet – yeah, I’m talking about you, Bink.

  • Iran worries John Bolton

    Yes, Iran has asked for UN inspectors to take a look at their nuclear program to prove the Iranians aren’t building weapons, according to the International Tribune;

    A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will travel to Tehran in the coming weeks at the invitation of the Iranian government to try to clear up longstanding questions about the Iranian nuclear program, the nuclear agency said Monday.

    Iran issued the invitation after a flurry of meetings among Ali Larijani, its chief negotiator; Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the nuclear agency, and Javier Solana, foreign policy chief of the European Union.

    The purpose of the visit is to “develop an action plan for resolving outstanding issues” relating to the Iranian nuclear program, a spokesman for the Vienna-based agency said. She added that the inspectors would leave for Tehran “as early as practicable.”

    Diplomats close to the agency said the move by Iran seemed calculated to stem the rising tide of pressure over its nuclear ambitions. With Tehran refusing to suspend its enrichment of uranium, the United Nations Security Council has begun to deliberate over a fresh set of sanctions against the country.

    Of course, they’ll show the inspectors every tiny detail of their program (notice; that’s sarcasm). Yeah, they’re running out the clock on sanctions. They saw Hussein play the same game with the UN for 12 years and they took notes. Hussein just didn’t use his time to build nukes. John Bolton, in the Jerusalem Post, says it’s too late for diplomacy with Iran;

    Bolton, however, was witheringly critical of the ongoing diplomatic contacts with Teheran, which he said were merely playing into the hands of the regime.

    “The current approach of the Europeans and the Americans is not just doomed to failure, but dangerous,” he said. “Dealing with [the Iranians] just gives them what they want, which is more time…

    “We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily,” he complained. “Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade… We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited.”

    I tend to agree with Bolton – and although the responsibility ultimately lies with the president and his failure to act forcibly against Iran, part of the blame has to be visited upon the anti-war-at-any-cost Left. Iran is the source of all evil in the Middle East – they supply Syria (who supplies Hezbollah and Hamas), they gave shelter to al Qaeda and Taliban operatives during the US-backed liberation of Afghanistan, they supply al Qaeda in Iraq as well as Shi’ite militias (the Mahdi Army, for example) and they gave shelter to Mooky al Sadr in the early days of the “surge”.

    The reason we ended up doing so poorly strategically in Vietnam is because the our own Left resisted  our incursion into Cambodia to shut down the Ho Chi Minh Trail – a few kilometers inside Cambodia. Without that supply line, the North Vietnamese Army in South Vietnam as well as the Viet Cong would’ve withered and died – and millions of Vietnamese lives would have been saved.

    Unless we can stem the flow of weapons, reinforcements and supplies at the source (in Iran), we’re going to learn the same lesson all over again – while the Left dances on the graves of our troops like they did for twenty years after the Viet Nam War.

    Just like we have to learn the lesson that Arabs don’t negotiate well with the West all over again – every year.

    Pamela Gellar Oshry of Atlas Shrugs is reporting riots in Iran that I’m not reading about anywhere else (Gateway Pundit has videos and photos of the aftermath) and Mike at Lamplighter is reporting another assasination of an Iranian mullah.