Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Raising the White Flag of Surrender
I have to admit that the Republicans have been pretty successful at branding the Democrats as the cut and run party. You can hear the frustration as Senator Kerry (D-MA) repeats it over and over in a radio interview this morning. He knows he's been tagged. And it does help that they are in fact the cut and run party, certainly in their leadership and the guys who crave face time before a camera and microphone. I'll leave Joe Lieberman out of this (as the cut and run Democrats are trying to do also). Jed Babbin has a new line if cut and run becomes a cliche--trim and trot. I like the alliteration but can't see the need for a new term yet (cheese eating surrender monkeys being taken already).
Rush Limbaugh's brother David has a good column on the exquisitely bad timing of the Murtha-Pelosi-Kerry 'new' direction (towards surrender and defeat) and Frank Gafney takes my position (or more likely I take his)--
...Iraq is just one front in the larger War for the Free World. Saddam Hussein’s despotism had to be eliminated if our necessary success in that war was to be achieved in the only way it can be: by systematically eliminating the regimes that sponsor Islamofascism and otherwise serve as well-springs of terror. If we are clear about that reality, we will indisputably have a chance to prevail, not just in Iraq but wherever freedom is under assault.
Having lost (93-6) on his proposal to pull the troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, Sen. John Kerry wants to try again with a proposal to pull the troops out by July, 2007. Snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory.
This story ought to have some legs.
Rush Limbaugh's brother David has a good column on the exquisitely bad timing of the Murtha-Pelosi-Kerry 'new' direction (towards surrender and defeat) and Frank Gafney takes my position (or more likely I take his)--
...Iraq is just one front in the larger War for the Free World. Saddam Hussein’s despotism had to be eliminated if our necessary success in that war was to be achieved in the only way it can be: by systematically eliminating the regimes that sponsor Islamofascism and otherwise serve as well-springs of terror. If we are clear about that reality, we will indisputably have a chance to prevail, not just in Iraq but wherever freedom is under assault.
Having lost (93-6) on his proposal to pull the troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, Sen. John Kerry wants to try again with a proposal to pull the troops out by July, 2007. Snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory.
This story ought to have some legs.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:33 AM 
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"If we are clear about that reality, we will indisputably have a chance to prevail, not just in Iraq but wherever freedom is under assault."
Well now that we've prevailed in iraq, where do we go next. i suspect freedom is under assault in a lot of other places.
Well now that we've prevailed in iraq, where do we go next. i suspect freedom is under assault in a lot of other places.
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: 11:12 PM
: 11:12 PM
Yes, but they'll just have to wait their turns, because the Clinton Administration drastically cut the size of our military forces back in the 90's. Patience. It's going to be a very long war.
If I hear the phrase "Cut and run" one more time by any politico, I shall open my mouth and scream so as to decompress the pressure inside my skull. "Cheese eating surrender monkeys?" Neocon, warmongering fools: Be ashamed, Be very ashamed. History is not kind to fools and inasmuch as our policy w/ respect to Iraq has been entirely foolish, do not expect history to treat either Bush kindly. Some think George I should have kept going but he stated he had no exit strategy and therefore started the policy of isolating Iraq, a policy that seemed to have been successful, unless you are one, male and female created he them, to have developed a hardon for Saddam.
Now we have George II. N. Korea, which may already have nuclear weapons, is threatening to test a missle w/ a range that would allow the delivery of a payload to the continental United States. Iran, is busy developing its own nuclear weapons.
In the meanwhile, the U.S. is squandering the lives of its children and hundreds of billions of dollars in an effort of what?
To interpret accurately the quoted Limbaugh: "Iraq is merely a backwater in the larger war for the Free World. Saddam Hussein's despotism had to be eliminated because only by going to war did the Republican party, which obtained the White House by the slimmist of margins even if it did cook the books, be reasonably assured of retaining the presidency. Let us by all means seek to eliminate Islamofascism.
The error in this thinking lies in considering that prior to our invasion of Iraq, it was a haven for Islamofascism.
Of course we cannot w/draw until the Iraqi security forces are colorably able to maintain law and order. I heard today that Saddam's chief defense counsel waqs taken from his house by persons in police garb and murdered. Was this done by anti Saddamists or pro Saddamists? For those of us who revel in the idea that we, as citizens of the United Staes, live in a nation dedicated to the rule of law, does this nauseate you, just a bit, or very much if you are a person of conscience?
But let us be honest w/ ourselves. Who amongst us is taking the over on democracy in Iraq? 6 months? 12 months after we decamp?
Had we not invaded Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi would have been nothing more than a 2 bit punk who was a concern to the Jordanian governmment. Instead, we gave him his months in the spotlight. Thef act that we extewrminated him merely constitutes what an aquaitance of meine said when he threw a towel a the companions of a young man who had puked in the booth of a bar owned by my acquaintance: "You bury your own dead."
As we bury ours, whose lives I believe were wasted in a false objective.
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Now we have George II. N. Korea, which may already have nuclear weapons, is threatening to test a missle w/ a range that would allow the delivery of a payload to the continental United States. Iran, is busy developing its own nuclear weapons.
In the meanwhile, the U.S. is squandering the lives of its children and hundreds of billions of dollars in an effort of what?
To interpret accurately the quoted Limbaugh: "Iraq is merely a backwater in the larger war for the Free World. Saddam Hussein's despotism had to be eliminated because only by going to war did the Republican party, which obtained the White House by the slimmist of margins even if it did cook the books, be reasonably assured of retaining the presidency. Let us by all means seek to eliminate Islamofascism.
The error in this thinking lies in considering that prior to our invasion of Iraq, it was a haven for Islamofascism.
Of course we cannot w/draw until the Iraqi security forces are colorably able to maintain law and order. I heard today that Saddam's chief defense counsel waqs taken from his house by persons in police garb and murdered. Was this done by anti Saddamists or pro Saddamists? For those of us who revel in the idea that we, as citizens of the United Staes, live in a nation dedicated to the rule of law, does this nauseate you, just a bit, or very much if you are a person of conscience?
But let us be honest w/ ourselves. Who amongst us is taking the over on democracy in Iraq? 6 months? 12 months after we decamp?
Had we not invaded Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi would have been nothing more than a 2 bit punk who was a concern to the Jordanian governmment. Instead, we gave him his months in the spotlight. Thef act that we extewrminated him merely constitutes what an aquaitance of meine said when he threw a towel a the companions of a young man who had puked in the booth of a bar owned by my acquaintance: "You bury your own dead."
As we bury ours, whose lives I believe were wasted in a false objective.
Loop
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