NRO Tripleheader: Wartime Washington Is An Unpatriotic Disgrace And A National Menace
Highly recommended reads. Useful stuff for educating your idiot leftist buddies at the office.
1. The Senate: Chamber Of Shame
2. Self-Imposed Defeat In Iraq
3. Our Withdrawing Won’t Be A Hollow Victory For Al Qaeda
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First article scared me. Nuclear arms race, new al-Q base, millions of new al-Q recruits- and yet people want the troops to withdraw? That’s crazy!!! If they’re pulled from Iraq, and the region erupts into total chaos, they can’t blame Bush for that anymore. The author is right: These senators will hang their heads in shame. “The public will remember.”
July 12th, 2007 at 2:38 amMy letter to republican senators:
Dear Republican “leadership”,
It has come to my attention that our once proud party has begun to resemble the democrat party. Given the fact that you in particular are starting to side with this ridiculous idea of withdrawing troops from Iraq because we haven’t reached certain benchmarks that you have given our soldiers no time to implement, tells me that you have become cowards, moved by the whims of our liberal mainstream media and perhaps other special interests who have either bribed you or have found some dirt about you that you don’t want divulged. Either way, your cowardice has many ramifications which I shall illustrate:
The military
Go to Michael Yon’s blog or patdollard.com and see a very different picture of our soldiers fighting in Iraq. All the useless tripe of the MSM is being filtered and thrown out by those who know the truth. We have built relationships with Iraqis where they are finally beginning to trust us. The soldiers tireless efforts have resulted in civilians coming to them for help. If we just leave now or give a schedule of retreat it will harken back to just after the gulf war when George senior went against his promise to Shias and Kurds and decided to follow the “will of the American people” and retreat from Iraq. The result as you know was genocide(gassing of Kurds and murders of numerous Shias) We leave now and all the progress we made is for naught, AQ etc will console our former allies, by saying quite truthfully, “you didn’t actually believe they would see you through to the end?”.
Our soldiers will have to say to this: We have been lied to about staying the course and completing the mission. What mission? The one with a time limit? The one that changes on the whims of politicians up for re-election? I thought we were being trained to lead? We are not following leaders, we are following cowards who turn away when things get difficult. Why should we fight for cowards who can’t see a plan through to its end? Why should I fight and potentially die for a mission doomed to failure. AQ has said more than once because of Vietnam and Somalia , America lacks the resolve to fight long wars. We cant handle large body counts. We are, in effect, weak cowards! I would rather fight for Al qaeda , truthfully, if they understand that fighting a war of this magnitude knows no timeline! We retreat, and they will continue to advance. Enlistments will go down. The only ones who will enlist will do it for the benefits not to serve a country of cowards. We may have to reinstitute the draft, which will tell me to encourage young men and women to dodge it. Why serve a country that is resigned to failure?
Islam
Islam is not a religion of peace. Its history is warfare from the get go. Read the quran , analyze the sunnah. You will see that warfare ended with treaties that Muhammed said could be broken once muslim strength has increased. They will fight and fight till the end of time. They must “fight the unbelievers(that’s you and me) wherever you find them, take them captive, lie in wait , ambush them using every stratagem of war.” (surah 9:5) this is the last surah , chronologically and it exhorts its followers to war, killing and stealing and enslaving until “ all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam” (8:39) “ Fighting is not only considered good it is Islams best deed” Bukhari V4B52N50
By leaving combat operations to Iraqis the imams will be preaching that Americans do not fight to the bitter end because they don’t serve Allah, and he isn’t with them in battle. Our retreat is a great victory for Islam and makes Alqaeda’s words echo the prophecies of Muhammed, where countless times Allah was said to send thousands of angels to fight the larger enemies of the Muslims.
Fighting Alqaeda for the long term will help Muslims grow impatient with Allah and perhaps for the first time cause them to question their faith, a sure fire way for them to reform their religion.
The ramifications of this proposed pullout is greater than you could possibly know!
I advise you to go to http://michaelyon-online.com/ or www.patdollard.com, to find out from a writer and former Green Beret (Michael yon) or a Hollywood agent turned documentary producer (Pat Dollard) both of whom are in Iraq as we speak imbedded with different marine units on the ground, risking their lives to document the true stories in Iraq. Dollard has already once been hit by an IED.
Please don’t respond to me by pontificating about we are not making enough progress or that Bush lied, because I know that so many of you career politicians haven’t been doing your jobs, reviewing the intelligence, protecting our borders, or prosecuting known terrorists. Be leaders for real and do what’s right for the American people and the iraqi’s and don’listen to the polls of uniformed citizens. If necessary take a poll of soldiers and Iraqis to gauge the situation. You just may be surprised at the sentiments you hear.
Lets continue the fight and stay strong as a nation and keep our enemies on the defensive.
Sincerely,
XXXXX
July 12th, 2007 at 3:55 amTJ-what a beautifully crafted letter… that’s all I got to say about that-Forest Gump
July 12th, 2007 at 4:49 amSomeone else likes my idea of polls. Hmmmm…maybe we’re on to something here.
Chamber of Shame…I love that metaphor. Nice find Pat. Those authors are so right on.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:43 amThere really is only one question to ask those who want a pullout, how will leaving Iraq make America any safer? This really gets to the heart of the entire military operation in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were engaged to build a safer environment for us and really the entire free world.
Its remarkable to me that many people in the world “get it” as do most of the people I know but our enlected dimwits don’t seem to. I beleive thats why Turkey has 140,000 troops poised on the border, to swoop in and stabalize things if we pullout. They understand the cancer of AQ will spread to their country as well if AQ is allowed to take over in Iraq.
What is motivating our senators and congress to want a pullout? Unbridled lust for power, they view this as a way to make political points and the left is beholdened to extreme leftists in the Democrat party. And the republican senators in some cases are simply RINO’s and are more interested in the approval of the press and their friends in DC than they are doing to the right thing.
We need a large scale political purge. Vote the bastards out!!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 6:38 amI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - that’s what we get when we fill Congress with a bunch of lawyers and career bureaucrats.
If you want to change things in Washington, start sending people there who work for a living - people who have to take some responsibility in their own lives rather than people who are trained to lie for a living - and you will see an entirely different character of people in Congress.
[climbing down off of soapbox]
July 12th, 2007 at 7:02 amAnd the password is: TERM LIMITS.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:40 amThe politicians in DC are an embarassing disgrace, both dem & GOP. Really, there are very few who I trust. Even though I disagreed with McCain’s immigration stance, I still respect him as a leader. He’s one of the very few. He paid the ultimate price for standing by his principles (albeit unpopular), his presidential run is just about over. Lieberman is another–he was backstabbed by his party for his Iraq/GWOT stance, and he stood up to them and he’s still running on principle. They are both members of a very small minority.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:57 amMcCain’s campaign is over because of many reasons, yes he has stood by the president but thats not why he is going down in flames. Lets review a couple of his more memorable lapses in thinking
1. McCain/Fiengold
2. Leader of obstructionist gang of 14
3. Seeking and even boasting of his friendship with the MSM
4. His desire to grant amnesty for illegal aliens
5. His strong opposition to accepted interogation techniques and his opposition to Gitmo.
6. He also participated in the fight against the justice department doing what they need to do domestically to root out terror threats.
There are others as well and he has been such a thorn in side of advancing the conservative agenda I personally would not vote for him to be dog catcher.
He may not be a RINO specifically on winning the war in Iraq but on many other issues he is definitely a full fledged RINO and some of these pertain to winning the war against AQ.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:07 amGang of 14 got Roberts and Alito confirmed, for which our country will be grateful for decades to come (having them on the court). McCain/Feingold may be garbage. His interrogation stance based on being a POW (I haven’t been one, can’t comment). His actions are based on his beliefs. I don’t agree with anyone 100% of the time, if it’s 60% of the time I’m doing good. Nothing personal but, “the conservative agenda”–would that be prescription drugs, earmarks, accepting bribes from Abramoff (DeLay), and no child left behind (the testing part is gettin good results although the growth of Fed. educ. bureaucracy is not)?
July 12th, 2007 at 12:35 pmTJ great letter, send it to Pete Domenici
July 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pmNo, no, no. You don’t understand the PLAN. The MSM will continue to convince the public that the ME is hostile to us only because we dare to intervene. “Human rights” are a luxury only the West can afford, and we cannot force them down unwilling throats.
If disaster strikes after flight, then it’s only because we were foolish enough to let GW offend the nice Arabs et al.
See how nicely it hangs together? The PLAN! Get with it, NOW! Stop bothering that nice scorpion!
July 13th, 2007 at 6:30 am