Category: Terror War

I’m reading that the US is expecting to hand over 100% of military and police ops to the Iraqis in 18 months. Although I don’t doubt it, I’m pretty sure that the Left, who is probably whooping and hollering that they’ve won isn’t going to like what has to happen in the next 18 months to secure Iraq’s peaceful transition. It’s going to take cross-border ops into Syria and Iran to stem the flow of incursions. Look for an expansion of the war in coming months.

When President Bush says something will happen, it will happen (not like his predecesor who promised us an exit from Bosnia in 1996) and the only way I see it happening is ending the interference from those two rogue nations (not “Nations of Concern”, Ms. Albright).

Sitting here watching the Sunday morning shows, I was struck dumb listening to Democrats discussing options for the Iraq War. Specifically, it was on Fox News Sunday that I heard Joseph Biden posit the option to allow the Iraqi military to conduct a coup d’etat and unseat Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki whom Biden considers weak and not up to the task of leading Iraq. I immediately flashed on the 1963 coup in Viet Nam that the US State Department facilitated by looking the other way. It became the bloody shirt the Left waved through the later years of that war to illustrate the imperialist ambitions of the United States – fickle and blood thirsty ambitions.

Now, here’s a child of the 60s, Joe Biden, endorsing the same type of policy that the Left told us was wrong with this country. Well, at first I shrugged it off – until Juan Williams, a scant few minutes later endorsed the same option.

So now, having learned nothing from history, the Left, the party of the status quo, is promising us a return to the same types of programs that led to the downfall of their President Johnson who continued the policies and programs of  John Kennedy in regards to Viet Nam.

Democrats have been comparing the war in Iraq to the Viet Nam War since the opening shots in 2003, and now they want to follow the same failed policies that embroiled us in Viet Nam – and all the while preaching to us about “quagmires” and “Tet of ’68”. Add this to their alternating calls for more troops in Iraq while, in the same breath, calling for troop strength reductions. Telling us how they support the troops, but they don’t believe our troops can get the job done. Democrats hamstring our intelligence efforts which are clearly preventing attacks against the US.

Is this the kind of delusional, bipolar “plan” we’re being asked to support in the mid term election? 

75 US troops have been killed this month so far. The average has been 70/month since the US attacked the Hussein government in 2003. US and Iraqi troops are prying al Qa’eda combatants from nooks and cranies in Baghdad. The Iraqi town of Amarah briefly fell into the hands of Shi-ite militia combatants yesterday - just a few miles from the border with Iran. That pudgy butterball with a novelty beard glued to his face al-Sadr is kicking up dust again. You have to ask yourself why this upswing all of a sudden?

Easy answer – the Iranian government (the real enemy here) want to influence our elections. They want it to look as if the Republican Administration is losing the war. They want the Democrats to win the election, so the Iranians will win in their Islamic Revolution in Iraq. It’s the reason they launched missiles against Israel this year, its the reason Kim Jong-Il test-launched his sorry excuses for missiles and faked his nuclear explosion (I’m still convinced it was just a “dirty bomb” -type explosion). It’s the reason Hugo Chavez has been shooting off his big mouth lately – again.

The enemies of this country, the enemies of our way-of-life and our relative tranquil existence know that they can defeat us only if Democrats have a say in our foreign policy. They saw what happened after Tet ’68 when the Viet Cong were reduced to the combat effectiveness of an understrength Boy Scout troop, yet they chased the world’s greatest Superpower from the continent.

Our enemies saw a crude crowd in loincloths with little more than peashooters chase us from Somalia. They saw the crowds of Haitian teenagers chase our Navy from their port by simply waving their cane knives and machetes at the sea.

And Democrats are more than willing to offer them peace at any cost. Not peace for Americans, by any measure, but rather peace for the enemies of freedom. In my 51 years, I’ve learned that the solution to any problem that seems the easiest, is always the wrong solution. The solution that always seems the most difficult, the one that requires the most investment of time, money and labor from me always has the longest lasting favorable effect.

Cutting and running is an emotional response, and it’s a short term solution. If Americans put Democrats in charge of the House and Senate next month, it will be a cheap, emotional response to a complex problem. The same kind of cheap, emotional responses that have gotten us wrapped up in this war against islamic extremists in the first place. And it will only lead to greater, more expensive confrontation in the future.

Peter Hoekstra, R-M, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has suspended an as yet unknown Democrats staffer on the suspicion that he/she released the “Secret” classified document to the New York Times. Of course, the al Qa’eda wing of the Democrats party is outraged. California’s Jane Harmon, ranking Democrat on the Committee wrote Hoekstra that she’s “appalled” that Hoekstra would not allow the staffer near classified information while an investigation continues.

Doesn’t this just sound like Democrats? They want to close down the Guantanmo Bay detention facility because someone spreads some rumors that our troops are being mean to thugs and murderers (prompting Senator Dick Durbin to compare our troops to SS concentration camp guards).

They’re more upset at Reservists pointing at gentalia in Abu Garaib than they are upset at thugs and murderers cutting off the gentalia of our troops when they fall into the hands of our enemies.

They don’t want intelligence agents to listen to the phonecalls of people who call from the US to known terrorists’ phone numbers.

And now they don’t want a suspicious staffer to have his access to classified intelligence curtailed while he’s being investigated.

What exactly will Democrats let us do to protect our National Security?