Political Correctness Now Precludes U.S. Winning a War
(19Sept 06) “…Bill Cosby once did a comedy routine wherein he described the “rules” of the American Revolution. Intoning, as would a referee, Cosby announced that the British had to fight in the open, wearing bright red uniforms, that they must march in straight lines and could fire their muskets only when the order was given. Meanwhile, the colonists could wear clothing that blended into the landscape, could hide behind rocks and trees and could fire at will. Unfortunately, American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan find themselves in a decidedly unfunny situation that is eerily similar to the comedic description Cosby gave us all those years ago. They are expected to observe rules of engagement that do not apply to our enemy and are guaranteed to get Americans killed. The recent airing of the ABC miniseries, “The Path to 9/11,” gave us all a brief glimpse into the timidity of today's leaders in both political parties…” Political Correctness Now Precludes U.S. Winning a War , Human Events Online “…Now we hear of a recent scenario in which American forces had the opportunity to kill nearly 200 known Taliban terrorists attending a funeral in Afghanistan and could not get the order from their superiors to take them out. Hold fire at Taliban fighters: they are attending a funeral “... These are people who will go on to kill our troops in the field. Not since the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese have we fought an enemy who so clearly required death or an unconditional surrender. We have not demanded and achieved unconditional surrender from an enemy since the end of World War II, and we won't unless and until we learn the lessons of 9/11…”Iraqi militant group threatens Vatican in Internet message
(17Sept 06) Now let me see if I've got this right. The Pope comments on some comments made by a 14 th century emperor about the violent methods of Islam. The Muslim Umma, (community) gets irritated, annoyed and very angry about this and threatens the Vatican with of all things, violence. Talk about the self licking icecream cone …Read on… Iraqi militant group threatens Vatican in Internet message and here Assailants attack five churches in West Bank, Gaza (scroll further down on the same page)
Arabs' Last Chance , If Iraq's Democracy Fails
(27Aug06) “….Iraqis deserved their chance. They got it. They voted. Three times….. Iraq doesn't have a democracy in any meaningful sense. It isn't even a nation. Iraqis didn't vote for freedom. They voted for revenge against each other… The pretence that an Iraqi national identity exists or ever will exist can be sustained no longer. Iraq doesn't have a government. It has a collection of warlords, demagogues and thieves with official titles… The terrorists, insurgents and militiamen will die for their beliefs. If other Iraqis will not risk their lives - in decisive numbers - to seize their unique chance at freedom, there is no hope…. Societies divided down the middle by religion, inhibited by tribal loyalties and conditioned to accept corruption can't build healthy democracies…” Arabs' Last Chance , If Iraq's Democracy Fails by Ralph Peters, New York Post. “…Above all, societies and cultures that refuse to accept responsibility for their own failures can't build democracies… A culture of blame prevents moral, social and political progress… No society that oppresses women, denies advancement on merit even to men, indulges in fantastic hypocrisy, wallows in corruption, undervalues secular learning, reduces its god to a nasty disciplinarian and comforts itself with conspiracy theories will ever compete with us… Arab terrorism isn't about redressing wrongs. It's about revenge on a successful civilization that left the dungeon-cultures of the Middle East in the dust…. We've done what we could in Iraq , and we've done it nobly. We should not withdraw our troops precipitously, but the clock is ticking. It's now up to the Iraqis to succeed - or become yet another pathetic Arab failure….”
(11July06) “…Killing terrorists during a conflict isn't barbaric or immoral - or even illegal. We've imposed rules upon ourselves that have no historical or judicial precedent. We haven't been stymied by others, but by ourselves….The oft-cited, seldom-read Geneva and Hague Conventions define legal combatants as those who visibly identify themselves by wearing uniforms or distinguishing insignia (the latter provision covers honorable partisans - but no badges or armbands, no protection)…. we have reached a point at which the rules apply only to us, while our enemies are permitted unrestricted freedom…” Kill, Don't Capture by Ralph Peters, New York Post “… A disguised insurgent can shoot his rockets, throw his grenades, empty his magazines, kill and wound our troops, then, out of ammo, raise his hands and demand three hots and a cot while he invents tales of abuse…integrity and courage have fled Washington. Nobody will state bluntly that we're in a fight for our lives, that war is hell, and that we must do what it takes to win…Sadly, even our military has been infected by political correctness. Some of my former peers will wring their hands and babble about "winning hearts and minds." But we'll never win the hearts and minds of terrorists….”
Who thought Iraq had WMD? Most everybody
(24 May06)“…51 percent of Americans, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, think the commander in chief "deliberately misled" us about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. "Deliberately misled"? Once again, let's go to the videotape:… Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright , February 1998: " Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."… Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger , February 1998: "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has 10 times since 1983..” Who thought Iraq had WMD? Most everybody by Larry Elder “… Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso , October 2003: "When [former President Bill] Clinton was here recently he told me was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."… French President Jacques Chirac , February 2003: "There is a problem -- the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq . The international community is right . . . in having decided Iraq should be disarmed." Gen. Wesley Clark , Vermont Gov. Howard Dean Remember him??...” And the list goes on…
Where was George Clooney during the genocide in Iraq?
(14 May06) Typical of your vacuous, dopey Hollywood Himbo…
“…It is the first genocide of the 21st century," (George) Clooney said after his first visit to Darfur, where he used his "celebrity credit card" to call attention to looting, murder, rape and refugees….The last time celebrities told us to "do something" in Africa, President Clinton sent troops to Somalia in 1993 and we lost 18 soldiers (Blackhawk Down) ….Now Clooney wants us to "do something" about Darfur, where Arab Muslims who control the government have murdered about 300,000 black Muslims. But where was Clooney during the past 20 years while 2 million Christians and non-Muslim black Africans were murdered in Sudan by Islamic fundamentalists who declared a jihad against "infidels" in 1983? Where was George Clooney during the genocide in Iraq? By Peter Bronson “ ... But for some reason, Clooney doesn't mention Islamic fundamentalists. He blames President Bush instead…Clooney gripes that America "has been slow to respond" to Darfur . Not true. Bush has done more than any president or foreign nation: $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid and visits by a real secretary of state long before Clooney discovered Darfur….People like Clooney are in favour of using the U.S. military to protect anyone but Americans….Clooney also erroneously insisted "there was no connection between al-Qaida and Iraq" and said our government operates "exactly like the Sopranos."…. Hollywood foreign policy operates exactly like the Simpsons…”
Who Pays When the Last Helicopter Leaves?
(4April06) “…The real question is who will lose the most when that last helicopter leaves? If the history is our guide, it would not be the US but those countries left behind. Future American presidents may figure out a different way to fight and win the war on terror just as they figured out a different way to fight and win the Cold War. But the same cannot be said about the places left behind…” Who Pays When the Last Helicopter Leaves? By Judith Apter Klinghoffer “…The worse thing that can happen to a country is to have the last American helicopter take off. The best thing that can happen to a country is to have Americans consider its well being as its own affair. So, yes, it is possible to make Americans leave. Indeed, it is easy. Both France and the Philippines asked them to leave and they did in a timely and orderly fashion. But the price of evicting them in an untimely and violent fashion is horrendous, not as much to Americans as to the country the last helicopter leaves behind…”
The “Loyal” Opposition
(25Mar06)…The “You're Wrong” link takes you to the full story-Filed by Mike Jericho on Saturday, March 25, 2006
“… Remember those charming Christians who went to Iraq hoping to find evidence of coalition war crimes and generally attempt to obstruct the American military and their allies as much as possible? The same Christians, who were kidnapped, tortured and (in one instance) butchered by the Jihadists whose cause they advance? The same Christians who thanked everyone but the troops who rescued them from certain death, and whose PR department manipulated the story of their rescue, making it out to be a release? ... Think they couldn't do much worse, don't you? ”
You're wrong . “... Just like captured enemy terrorists, they're now refusing to cooperate with American and Iraqi officers sent to question them …”
Terror Meets Delusion: The Murder of Tom Fox
(13Mar06) “…Yesterday, peace activist Tom Fox was found murdered in Iraq….He belonged to the leftwing Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which provided “human shields” in Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, works side by side with the anti-Israel, quasi-terrorist International Solidarity Movement …He believed he was doing a righteous thing by essentially throwing stones in the path of the U.S., Iraqi and Coalition soldiers, the same men and women who are trying to round up the Islamist terror-mongers washing the streets of Baghdad in blood and misery, terror-mongers like those who murdered him…” Terror Meets Delusion: The Murder of Tom Fox in The American Thinker “… After reading most of his blog entries , it seems to me that Fox's tragic flaw, the one that ultimately got him killed, was that he did not really believe that some men are more evil than others…Crippled by this moral confusion, Fox habitually ignored the greater of two evils…All Tom Fox was to his captors and murderers was filth—a piece of garbage; a weak, vile, subhuman infidel of the Western variety; a creature to be spit on and reviled and, when no longer useful, slaughtered like an animal and then discarded….If there are lessons to be learned from the murder of Tom Fox, they are primarily for the Left: Like a person, it is never too late for it to abandon its suicidal march until the moment the executioner strikes…”
Arab and Muslim Identity Is Based on Hostility towards the Other
(15Feb06) Whenever we question America 's values, we must also question our own values. If we ask any question about the American occupation of Iraq , we must also ask: Was Saddam Hussein anything less than the worst occupier of Iraq ? What does identity mean for the Arab and the Muslim? His identity is based on two elements. The first is hostility towards the other. In other words, I define myself as the enemy of so-and-so. The second is entrenching this hostility.” Arab and Muslim Identity Is Based on Hostility towards the Other by 'Uqab Saqr China did not need to send airplanes to crash into towers, to kill innocent people, and to distort the Chinese culture, in order to be in opposition [to the U.S.]. China has built a strong economy, established a network or relations with the markets, and developed scientific capabilities.
Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror
(11Jan06) “..Actually, Saddam Hussein knew plenty about terrorism. In essence, he owned and operated a full-service general store for global terrorists, complete with cash, diplomatic aid, safe haven, training, and even medical attention. Such assistance violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 687. The results not only broke international law, but also were deadly ….The public evidence of Saddam Hussein's cooperation with and support for global terrorists is abundant and clear. The Baathist government's contacts and collaboration with terrorists in general, al-Qaeda in particular, and even the September 11 conspirators should make all Americans highly grateful that President Bush led an international effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.” Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror by Deroy Murdock “.. The federal trial judge was Harold Baer, Jr. a Clinton appointee. He took testimony from Clinton-designated CIA director James Woolsey and American Enterprise Institute scholar Laurie Mylroie, an adviser to the 1992 Clinton campaign. Baer learned about the Salman Pak camp, and considered other evidence of Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda. To be fair, Baer did not hear Hussein's side, as the Iraqi dictator did not respond to the suit. Nevertheless, Baer issued his decision….As the May 8, 2003 New York Post and other news outlets reported, Baer ruled that Saddam Hussein's government was complicit in the September 11 attacks and that the Baathist government owed the plaintiffs a judgment of $104 million…”
(10Jan06) “…The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes has been trying for a significant amount of time to get released publicly the captured Iraqi documents (only 2.5 % of which have as yet been translated)… some are about to be released. And they should put an end to the preposterous claims that the Baathists would never work with the Jihadis”…... Saddam's Terrorist Ties from the American Thinker “Here is what the soon to be released documents reveal, Hayes says: The secret training took place primarily at three camps-in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak-and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence….Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000….Taken together, this collection could give U.S. intelligence officials and policymakers an inside look at the activities of the former Iraqi regime in the months and years before the Iraq war…”.
Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber
(4Dec05) This is beyond brainwashing…This is an infection, a disease
“..She came from an ordinary family in an industrial Belgian town. She used to sell baguettes in a bakery and worked as a waiter in a cafe…. As a teenager, Muriel was difficult…. As an adolescent, she dabbled in drugs, smoked, drank heavily and ran away from home…. She married and divorced a Turkish man and had a long relationship with an Algerian, who persuaded her to convert to Islam in 2001…” Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber by Anthony Browne and Rory Watson, The Australian “… Three years ago she met and married Issam Goris, who was born in Belgium to Moroccan parents, and followed him to Morocco …. She had become "more Muslim than Muslim, The religion was totally ingrained in her. She only lived for that…. According to conflicting reports, Muriel killed either only herself or six people in a suicide bombing in Baghdad on November 9. The same day, in a separate incident, her husband was shot dead by US troops before he could detonate his belt-bomb…."
(4Dec05) One of the most frequent charges is that President George W. Bush hyped a non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida…In 1998, for example, when the Clinton Justice Department indicted bin Laden, the writ read: "In addition, al-Qaida reached an understanding with the Government of Iraq that al-Qaida would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al-Qaida would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq." Terrorist and Tyrants by Victor Davis Hanson “…Then in October 2002, George Tenet — the Clinton-appointed CIA director — warned the Senate in similar terms: "We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida going back a decade…. Saddam worried little over the agendas of these diverse terrorist groups, only that they shared his own generic hatred of Western governments. This kind of support from leaders such as Saddam has proven crucial to radical, violent Islamicists' efforts..”
(30Nov05) “..A war is over when the population of the country whose army has lost abandons all hope; when the people have been crushed so thoroughly – when the daily business of staying alive is so god-awful – that they wish only to clean up the mess and re-start their lives… We haven't won the war in Iraq because too many Sunnis still think they can win… And as long as they believe this – it doesn't matter whether it's true, only that they believe it to be true – the war in Iraq won't end. Why it Isn't Over, Over There The American Thinker “…Lenin, who was a vicious bastard but also a smart vicious bastard, understood this psychology perfectly. He didn't order the Czar and his entire family to be shot out of revenge; he did it to convince the White Russians who were still fighting the Bolsheviks that a return to the old regime wasn't possible… From what I can see, a high percentage of our generals hold advanced degrees. That's nice, but in the real world there is such a thing as being too sophisticated. Perhaps our generals should spend less time learning the intricacies of Excel and PowerPoint , and more time studying how Sherman's brutal march through the South helped end the Civil War. And perhaps our political leaders, in both parties, should shut up long enough to read Sherman 's memoirs. They just might learn something about how to end a war…”
(13Nov05)“…The former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has revealed links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda which have come to light from the archives of Saddam's regime.” That non-existent link again by Melanie Phillips “… Allawi is but the latest to attest to the links between Saddam and al Qaeda, a relationship the existence of which has always been denied with religious fervour by the anti-war crowd who claim furthermore that Saddam posed ‘no terrorist threat' at all to anyone outside his own country.
So now let's all look at how this is reported in the mainstream media...”
David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial
(16Sept05) “..The latest indications are that David Hicks' trial could now be delayed until next year. That trial of course must be fair…. To the public, the system seems to be less about justice and more about technicalities, and excusing behaviour by the sane on sociological and psychological grounds. David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial by David Flint, emeritus professor of law “..Another bar to such a (civil court) trial may be the Miranda Rule “ …To use any evidence obtained in questioning him, Hicks would have had to been advised before the interrogation, or any informal discussion, of his right to remain silent, that anything he said would be used against him in a court of law, that he was entitled to the presence of counsel, and that if he could not afford this one would be appointed. It is doubtful that the Northern Alliance had a Miranda card to read to him when they apprehended him, nor the American soldiers when they received him…”
Just One Question for Opponents of the Iraq War
(4Sept05) Anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who slit the throats of innocent people, who place bombs in the middle of markets, and who murder anyone attempting to help women achieve basic human rights is a moral imbecile. Just One Question for Opponents of the Iraq War by Dennis Prager FrontPageMagazine.
Why Do They Hate Us? Not Because of Iraq
(26Jul05) “..Conflicts in the Middle East have a tremendous impact on Muslim public opinion worldwide. In justifying its terrorist attacks by referring to Iraq, Al Qaeda is looking for popularity or at least legitimacy among Muslims”. Why Do They Hate Us? Not Because of Iraq by Oliver Roy from The New York Times “ ….First, let's consider the chronology. The Americans went to Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11, not before. Mohamed Atta and the other pilots were not driven by Iraq or Afghanistan . Were they then driven by the plight of the Palestinians? It seems unlikely. After all, the attack was plotted well before the second intifada began in September 2000, at a time of relative optimism in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations….. From the beginning, Al Qaeda's fighters were global jihadists, and their favored battlegrounds have been outside the Middle East: Afghanistan , Bosnia , Chechnya and Kashmir . For them, every conflict is simply a part of the Western encroachment on the Muslim Ummah, the worldwide community of believers….”
A Hostage To Public Opinion At Home
(24June05) Douglas Wood survived his murderous terrorist kidnappers in Iraq so no doubt he will survive the sharks of public opinion in Australia writes Miranda Devine in the Sydney Morning Herald in A Hostage To Public Opinion At Home. Ever since Wood opened his mouth and said he was in favour of George Bush and John Howard's policies in Iraq, praised the Iraqi Army, called his captors "arseholes" and said "God bless America", the knives have been out from all those who disagree with an opinion he is probably more entitled to hold than most.
(5Apr05) '...the suicide bomber who carried off the worst atrocity in Iraq, since the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime was a 32-year-old Jordanian, Ra'ed Mansour al-Banna, who had lived for two years in California .'
“…Banna apparently loved America , reporting back to his family about the people's honesty and kindness; “They respect anybody who is sincere.” The California Suicide Bomber By Daniel Pipes
Ra'ed al-Banna's biography inspires several observations:
(1) When it comes to Islamist terrorists, appearances often deceive. That Banna was said to “love life in America ,” be “not very religious,” and be interested in “building a future for himself” obviously indicated nothing about his real thinking and purposes. The same pattern recurs in the biographies of many other jihadis.
(2) Moving to the West often spurs Muslims to despise the West more than they did before they got there. This appears to be what happened with Banna.
The Arabs Berlin Wall has crumbled
(4Mar05) "Democratisation is a process, not an event". Far too often, it's treated like an event: ship in the monitors, hold the election, get it approved by Jimmy Carter and the UN, and that's it. Doesn't work like that, writes The Arabs Berlin Wall has crumbled
(4Mar05) "Democratisation is a process, not an event". Far too often, it's treated like an event: ship in the monitors, hold the election, get it approved by Jimmy Carter and the UN, and that's it. Doesn't work like that, writes Mark Steyn in The Arabs Berlin Wall has crumbled “…What's happening in the Middle East is the start of a long-delayed process. Eight million Iraqis did more for the Arab world on January 30 than 7,000 years of Mubarak-peace marching”
Revealed: The women who suffered Saddam's tyranny
(27 Feb05) For those who may have forgotten about the Sadaam Hussein regime, you may like to refresh you memory with a read of this Robert Fisk piece, Revealed: The women who suffered Saddam's tyranny “Their names - along with the names of their torturers and executioners - are at last known. One man, Abu Widad, once boasted that he had hanged 70 female prisoners in one night at the Abu Ghraib jail outside Baghdad…...There are frequent accounts of women and children tortured in front of their husbands and fathers. In 1982, for instance, a Lieutenant Kareem in Basra reportedly brought the wife of an insurgent to the prison, stripped and tortured her in front of her husband, then threatened to kill their infant child….”
(02Feb05) “…At last, democracy has come to Iraq . And still our sneering "elite" insist it would have been better to leave the murderous Saddam alone” writes Andrew Bolt in Freedoms Triumph “….The terrorists – whose true enemy is Iraq's democrats and not the United States – are too weak to defeat them. With its economy growing fast, Iraq is now likely to become the first true Arab democracy in history – the beacon of freedom the despotic Middle East so desperately needs…” Freedom's triumph by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun
How the Left Betrayed My Country – Iraq
(9Jan05) “…it came as a shock to us when millions of people began demonstrating across the world against America's build-up to the invasion of our country. We supposed the protests were by people who had no idea about the terrible atrocities that the regime had inflicted upon us for decades. We assumed that once they learned what had happened in Iraq, they would change their minds, or modify their opposition to the war.” So says Iraqi, Naseer Flayih Hasan in How the Left Betrayed My Country – Iraq from frontpage magazine
(28Nov04) “….Treason is really not that difficult to define. Treason is when your country is at war and you want the other side to win….The root cause of the division in this war, as in the war in Vietnam , is a left that is alienated from our national purpose. It is a left that in the Cold War gave moral and political support to our Communist enemies and in this war has entered an unholy alliance with radical Islam.” writes David Horowitz in Why We Are In Iraq “ ….How is it possible that people who think of themselves as advocates of social justice can lend aid and comfort to Islamic radicals who behead people and blow women's heads off with AK-47s when they are suspected of having sexual relations outside of marriage? How can self-styled progressives embrace these people? They embrace them under the logic that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and their enemy is the United States .”
(21Nov04) Do the math yourself…Crunch the numbers in this Andrew Bolt piece Death By Numbers . This is a classic case of G.I.G.O.…(ie) Garbage In Garbage Out. “….If the Lancet survey of its residents is right and one in six people have been killed since the invasion, then nearly 50,000 residents died violently even before this month's fighting. If we assume that the American casualty rates of seven wounded for one dead apply to civilians, too, then more people have been killed and wounded in Fallujah than actually live there.”
Kofi Annan and the insanity of international law
(17Nov04) “….Moral equivalence is the hallmark of the United Nations. Equating American troops with Arab terrorists is child's play for an organization that places Sudan on the Human Rights Commission. Listening to a human rights organization that includes Sudan lecturing American troops on war crimes is somewhat like listening to Ted Bundy lecturing Mother Teresa on acts of violence.” Kofi Annan and the insanity of international law - Ben Shapiro (townhall.com 17 Nov 2004)
(13Aug04 ) A Return to Childhood -The new immaturity. "I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad." writes Victor Davis Hanson in the nationalreview.com on 6 August 04,
(5 June04 ) In War: Then and Now Thomas Sowell compares the D Day Landings with the war in Iraq . As Sowell observes,“These two wars were of course different, as all wars are different. But the biggest difference was not between the wars themselves, but between the media of that day and today”.
Pictorial Essays
(5 June04 ) Several pictures are worth several thousand words.
(1 June04 ) Photos that will never make the news- seen them before, see them again- but make sure you pass them on.
WMD's
(19 May 04) Weapons of mass destruction- Iraq and Syria- visit these 2 web sites and make up your own mind : Syria a State of Terror and Saddam of Iraq vs Asad of Syria
So Syria is smuggling their WMD’s to Sudan!!!! It shouldn't’t be too difficult to join the dots vis a vis Iraq.... Syria smuggling WMD to Sudan - 15 April 2004 in WorldNetDaily.com
What's Behind the Double Standard
(14 May 04) For an insightful explanation as to how the West "....came to recoil in revulsion at photos of Moslem prisoners being abused, while the Islamic world danced for joy at the photos of the charred bodies of murdered dhimmi hanging from a bridge". What's Behind the Double Standard by Samuel Z. Anvil.
email from1st Sgt Dave Jobe of Baker Company
With Anzac day coming up, this may serve to remind us that apart from the weapons and the fields of combat, nothing much has changed for the troops in the trenches- with the mud and the wet and the privations they must endure, far from the little luxuries that we just take for granted.
So when snuggling up into your cosy bed, secure in the freedom that they are fighting to ensure, for those of you who complain that they can't get to sleep at night, spare a thought for those who give up not only their comfort, but sometimes even their lives. This email from1st Sgt Dave Jobe of Baker Company says it all.
Lest we forget…
There has been an excuse that last week's protestors in
Reconstruction of Iraq By Elan Journo
”Although the
The pathetic tale of an American college student killed by a bulldozer when she ‘chose to defend a society that teaches its young to blow themselves up and which deliberately targets children for death'
Here is the link to the conversation between the Iraqi Refugee and the “little Girl” Peace Activist- thanks to Talk Radio 570 KVI in
Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web
This is the story about Saddam Hussein's “shredder” from Times Online.
And even more about
Having witnessed many other causes and institutions being white anted over the last 30years or so, pacifism would seem the ideal motherhood stalking horse for those that want to present and promote themselves as something other than what they really are. What an ideal vehicle to hi-jack. What better way, in the name of your cause, that to attach yourself, for the supposed sake of humanity, to the horrendous events of September 11. In light of the events of the last few weeks the “pacifists” at least had the decency to keep their heads down and their mouths shut…. for awhile. These three pieces Pacifists are not serious people and Pacifists (part 2) as well as Pacifism and War make for an interesting insight as to their danger to society. It is tempting to pass them off and make light of them and say that they don't understand. But the scary thing is I think that they do understand. Either that or they are just plain, bone headed stupid.