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Category: Terror War

  • Talk with Iran?

    The “bipartisan” task force on Iraq is weighing direct talks with Iran and Syria. My question is “Why?” Iran and Syria have both denied their involvement in supporting the bloodbath in Iraq, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary. How much did talking with Iran do for Jimmy Carter for more than 444 days? The Reagan Administration talked with Iran and ended up encouraging them to kidnap more Americans to exchange for more TOW missiles.

    The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly proven that he’s not even lucid enough to accept the Holocaust let alone acccept the fact that Israel and the United States have a right to exist in their present form and act in their own self-interest. The Syrian president Bashar Assad didn’t even want the job and it’s fairly clear that he’s being manipulated by the Iranians, weak little dork that he is.

    So why are we wasting time talking about talking with these two pimples on the ass of Humanity? What will it accomplish? Aside from placating the Democrats who seem to have all of the answers to questions no one asked.

    Retired Admiral James Lyons lays out a rational, workable plan in the Washington Times today;

    Therefore, our first order of business must be to stabilize Iraq — by force of our arms, not the unproven Iraqis. This will require an immediate influx of three to five brigades to bring the sectarian violence under control and, more important, to eradicate the rogue militias, the death squads, and the Mahdi Army. Trusted Iraq forces can play a constructive role, but we must understand they will not be the decisive factor.
        Further, we should use our air dominance to close the Iranian and Syrian borders. For its part, the Iraqis, led by Mr. Talibani, must obtain guarantees from both Iran and Syria that they will withdraw their support for the insurgency and cooperate in closing their borders.

    Despite Chuck Hagel’s defeatist cut and run policy, there still is a chance to defeat the dark forces in Iraq, and in no part of any rational plan should hand-wringing and cowardice be mentioned as in Hagel-cum-Murtha.

  • …but we support the troops.

    Perennial knucklehead Dennis Kucinich is yapping again – recommending that Democrats withdraw funding for the war in Iraq.

    We have to take a whole new approach. We’re spending over $400 billion a year, money that’s also needed for healthcare, for education, for job creation, for seniors. We have to take a new look at this. We need to be a strong country, but strength isn’t only military. Strength is also the economic strength of the people, their chance to have good neighborhoods. We spend more money than all the countries of the world put together for the military.

    Of course, what are all of those seniors and homeless people going to do when they can’t cash their freebies in because buses are being firebombed in downtown Cleveland?

  • Dems try to enforce policy on Iraq

    With nary a moment of military service, Democrats suddenly think they’re commanding generals (the only civilian with “commander” in his title is the President). They want to convince the real generals that they need to buck the administration’s policies in Iraq. Isn’t that tantamount to mutiny? Have the Democrats finally crossed the line and taken up the banner of sedition along with everything else they’ve done to this country?

    From the FNC story;

    “I would hope and expect that we’re going to be given some indication at that hearing that they see the need to change direction,” said Sen. Carl Levin, who will take control of the Senate Armed Services Committee next year.

    Why should Levin think that the uniformed services commanders are going to have different opinions suddenly? They’re the people who’ve been advising Rumsfeld and the President all these years.

    And they’re not going to change their minds just because a whole boatload of people voted. An election doesn’t change the tactical situation – just the political situation. Its clear to me that Democrats haven’t read Von Clauswitz, Tsun Tsu or the Constitution lately.

    “My displeasure with the president, he doesn’t understand the urgency of this,” incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Washington Post. “It’s all victory for him, but I don’t know what that means anymore in Iraq. I do know what we are doing now doesn’t work.”

    Harry Reid is right on both counts – he doesn’t know what victory means since he’s a defeatist crybaby. And what he is indeed doing isn’t working. Talking down the US troops in the media, calling our mission in Iraq wrong-headed isn’t working.

    Maybe Democrats should yank their heads from their fourth-points-of-contact and give our troops a little support with their words and deeds and take away the hope the Islamofacists have won in our last election that we’re going to cut and run. That’s the only reason those thugs have maintained their violence and, well…thuggery. The Democrats have given them their only chance for victory.

    In the end, it’s not the generals who have to be convinced, it’s the President. And given the continuing anti-Bush rhetoric in the past week, they better come up with some better methods instead of their crybaby whining and feet-stomping.

    UPDATE: In response to General John Abzaid’s remark that he is confident that the US military can stabilize Iraq and warning against timetable withdrawals, Carl Levin remarks  reported by FNC;

    “We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves. The only way for Iraqi leaders to squarely face that reality is for President Bush to tell them that the United States will begin a phased redeployment of our forces within four to six months.”

    So Levin is encouraging the commanders to mutiny against their commander-in-chief. Will they purge the ranks until they get some Shinsekis in charge?

    Despite the word from experts, Democrats are pushing forward with their cut and run strategy – surrender at all costs. 2008 is only two years away. When Iraq falls into the abyss of Islamofacism, will the Democrats admit their failures?

  • Democrats propose “redeployment”

    On ABC’s “This Week”, little Joey Biden and fat-ass Carlie Levin adopted the language of “Cut and Run” John Murtha and proposed “redeployment” from Iraq. They can’t summon enough testicular fortitude to call it what it is; de-Iraq-ization in the Left’s muddled language of the Vietnam era.

    They’d love nothing more than to have photos of US troops scrambling to a waiting helicopter on the roof of the US embassy under fire or footage of US sailors pushing helicopters into the Persian Gulf from the decks of US carriers. They pee themselves a little just thinking about it.

    We’ve already got the soon-to-be Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat Leahy taking the terrorists’ side;

    …Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.

    A spokeswoman for Leahy told the newspaper the bill would be intended to repeal portions of the law that prevent some detainees from pursuing federal court challenges to the government’s authority to hold them indefinitely.

    And Pelosi has decided to reward Murtha’s cowardice with a post as House Democratic Leader – odd that Murtha has never led troops in combat, but now he’ll get to lead them away from combat – hence the name “Cut and Run” John Murtha.

    Levin lied about the American voters when he went on to say;

     “The people spoke dramatically, overwhelmingly, resoundingly, to change the course in Iraq,” he said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” The Senate’s “first order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy.”

    Of course, given history, we know any Democrat victory is a “mandate” (including a 43% popular vote, apparently), but Levin’s ass is showing in this statement. Maybe he’d be right if any Democrat had put forth a plan for the Iraq War before the election, but we were denied access to any plan other than the vagueries of Pelosi’s “drain the swamp” plan.

    Only after victory can Democrats claim to have any kind of a plan. The American voters might have decided differently if the Democrats decided to tell us specifically what they had in mind. Of course, if the Democrats had told us what was on their minds in the beginning, they wouldn’t be the Democrats we all know.

    Maybe if Democrats had any sort of successful record of using military force in the last 60 years, we might listen to them when it comes to strategy. But the only thing they’ve been able to do with any great success is leave the enemy choking in their dust. 

  • Abu Hamza al-Muhajir tosses in hat for DNC chair

    Yesterday al-Qa’eda released a taped message that congratulated Americans on endorsing al Qa’eda’s Democrat candidates for Congress. You can almost hear them peeing themselves a little over the voters’ capitulation to al-Qa’eda’s demands that we elect Democrats.

    From the Washington Times story;

    In neighboring Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also expressed satisfaction with the Democratic gains in the U.S. vote, calling them a boon for Tehran.
        “The issue in these elections was not a purely domestic issue for America, but it is the defeat of Bush’s hawkish policies in the world,” the Iranian leader said in remarks to the ISNA news agency.
        “Since Washington’s hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation,” the hard-line cleric added.

    Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the Egytian-born leader of al-Qa’eda in Iraq tossed his hat in the ring for the DNC chair by parroting Democrat campaign commercials;

    Calling Mr. Bush a “coward” and the “most stupid president” in history, the al Qaeda leader also said, “The American people have put their feet on the right path by … realizing their president’s betrayal in supporting Israel. So they voted for something reasonable in the last elections.”

    I wonder if this will give Democrats or their supporters a moment’s pause to think about the damage they’ve done to this country just to feed their shallow egos.

  • Veterans’ Day

    Last week we were in Panama and last Friday and Saturday were Indepenedence Day there. We attended the parades and pageantry associated with that event and it gave me a chance to reflect on American veterans and what they’ve accomplished in their relatively brief history.

    The successful Panamanian revolution against Gran Columbia only lasted a few hours back on November 4th, 1903 after three failed attempts in the previous century – but only because the US Navy was posted off-shore near Colon on the Atlanitic coast where the Columbian Army landed to put down the revolution. Under the guns of Teddy Rooosevelt’s “Big Stick”, the Columbian troops surrendered to the provisional Panamanian government and signed away their claims to Panama after crossing the isthmus on the American-built and maintained railroad.

    Although the Americans sought strategic and capital gain from the successful prosecution of the revolution, the fact remains that Panamanians were finally granted their independence from Columbia and now stands as a shining jewel of capitalism in the region due to American fighting men. By extension, the canal we built there made the liberation of the world from the Axis Powers possible – the canal was the target of no less than three attempts at sabotage by the Japanese during the World War because of its strategic importance to the US who depended on the Canal to keep it’s two-ocean Navy supplied.

    Continuing along this line of thought, American veterans, back to our own Revolution through current times have freed the entire world from tyrants and despots. Where the American fighting forces aren’t applied, tyranny still reigns. We’ve lost sight of the fact that before our Revolution, every habitable spot on Earth was under the thumb of Kings. There was no relief from taxes and abuse of power. The American soldier began a worldwide liberation movement that continues today when they stood firm at Lexington and Concord.

    No other soldier in world history has left freedom in his wake like the American soldier. In our own country, contrary to popular culture arguments, the American soldier did indeed free the slaves of the South by his own sacrifice and suffering. They freed the Cubans from the Spanish boot of oppression. The arrival of American troops in Europe resulted in the surrender of the Kaiser’s army in about a year, accomplishing what the Europeans couldn’t accomplish in three years of bloody fighting. And then, when the Europeans squandered their victory and peace, it was Americans again who rescued the world from the Europeans again twenty years later.

    It was American blood and treasure that pushed the Communists back from South Korea and the American youth that was spent in Viet Nam was for the freedom of the Vietnamese and all of the people of that region. In Grenada and Panama, American troops removed despotic rulers who had prevented democratically-elected governments from serving their people. American troops historically rolled back the forces of Saddam Hussein and liberated the people of Kuwait after months of rape and plunder.

    Today, the American fighting forces have liberated millions of people in two countries and have put the dictators of the world on notice. The most fearsome thought for those who mistreat their people is that of the sight of US fighting men landing by land, sea or air on their soil. Witness the constant blather coming from Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-Il about American plans to kill them. They know there’s nothing they can do to stop the inevitable if the decision is ever made.

    But look who are our heroes from these fighting forces; not professional fighting men, but farm boys from Tennessee and pushcart merchants from New York City. Take two of my favorite examples; Sergeant Alvin York, the most decorated  soldier of World War I was a reformed alcoholic draftee with nine-months of education from Tennessee who after accomplishing the most amazing one-man attack in history returned to his farm in Tennessee until his days ended. Audie Murphy was a little Texas farmboy who was rejected by the Marines and the paratroopers in the opening days of World War Two and went on to be the most-decorated soldier of World War Two, and then became a reknowned actor.

    American veterans come from ordinary existences, they accomplish mighty tasks after sacrificing everything, many times without support from their countrymen, and then return to the ranks of citizens with little mention of their herculean acheivements. The friends that they’ve lost in battle are never far from their thoughts and they have a knowing glance and soft spot for other members of this vast “band of brothers” than spans generations. They fought for their friends, not some lofty political ideal, but, in the end, the American veteran has freed the world. He’s given his life, he’s given his youth for the freedom of all people around the world.

    And all veterans have ever asked is that Americans treasure the gift of peace and security that veterans have given them.

  • Republicans’ biggest sin

    What will really cost Republicans the most votes this election. It’s not pedophiles or campaign bribes. It’s not because soccer moms don’t like wars or that soccer dads don’t like immigrants. It’s because Republians have been successful keeping Americans reasonably safe in the War Against Terror. Who would have thought that we’d have gone this long since September 11th, 2001 without a major attack on our civilian population on our soil?

    The worst part – no one believes it. The White House has listed terror attacks it has foiled, but because there’s no blood, because there are no terrifying pictures, it just doesn’t resonate with the media, and so it doesn’t resonate with the public.  Michael Moore’s “There is no terrorist threat” statement is much easier and comforting to believe. Who wants to believe that there are people out there who want to kill us?

    We can watch “French youths” burn buses and cars in Paris and wipe our brows while sighing “at least that isn’t happening here”. Not yet. Bombs go off in London’s underground, Spanish police corner terrorists in their bomb factories and bust recruiting rings for al-Qe’ada. Italian police bust terrorist cells just last month – but nothing sets off bells in the American public’s collective mind.

    This Republican President has done the best with what he was given, and he kept his promise to keep us safe and because of that, his party will lose votes in their elections this Fall. Of course, if there had been attacks with all of the blood and gore that the media craves, he’d probably lose votes, too.

    Democrats want to keep us safe, too, they say. They also want to strip away the PATRIOT Act (which they all voted for), they want to release the terrorists in Guantanamo, they want to stop tracking phone calls from terrorists to people inside the United States, they want to stop killing terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq (which really has become a meatgrinder that processes and packs all of the sociopaths from throughout the world).

    They want us to keep funding Hamas and they want to keep paying off Kim Jung Il, they’re scared of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bluster so they’ll start paying him protection money soon enough. They will cave into Hugo Chavez (because he’s really no different than they are) and just to keep Communism alive, they’ll prop up Raul Castro. And, oh, how happy they’ll be if Daniel Ortega wins in Nicaragua again.

    Just because there’s no real proof that this Republican Administration has kept us safe. And because it’d be uncomfortable to think otherwise.

  • Europe smoldering

    AP is reporting that a Danish court threw out a lawsuit by Muslim organizations against Jyllands-Posten is response to their “evil” depictions of Mohammed last year.

    No Pasaran! (via Powerline) has a localized view of the beginnings of riots in Paris last night on the anniversary of last year’s riots. Four buses were torched by gun-wielding “youths” (“youths” is apparently French for Muslims). It looks like Europe couldn’t insulate themselves well enough against Islamofacism.

    I’m sure anger about the Danish courts and inaction of the French police will fuel even more riots tonight and through the weekend.

    Also via Powerline is this story from Argentina which has decided to issue an arrest warrant for former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani (and seven others) for his role in the planning and approval (apparently by the Iranian government) of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenas Aires.

    Let’s just see if the Iranians’ new friend and fellow goat-roping aficianado, Hugo Chavez, has any influence over his South American (and oil-rich) neighbor.Â