Category Archives: War On Terror

2008 Election, Immigration, Judiciary, Media, Politics, War On Terror

Are Democrats Using Wrong Language?

Confused as to why Democrats aren’t just steamrolling over the administrations foreign policies as regards to Iraq, Iran, health care and the lot, they think its because they just aren’t using the right words.   That their message is not persuasive.  I think they are wrong in that assessment.  Their agenda is not being widely accepted because people DO know what their message is.  Trying a different color lipstick on the pig just won’t fly any more.

Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a widely circulated critique of House Democratic communications strategy.

2008 Election, Immigration, Media, Uncategorized, War On Terror

Was A Good Week For The Country, Bad Week For Harry Reid And Nancy Pelosi

In case you haven’t heard, what with the California fires and how everything is Bush’s fault, and they can’t put out the fires because the fire truck is in Iraq or some such, Congress’s dynamic duo, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have finished a stellar week in utter failure. And that’s a good thing. Here’s the checklist as I see it.

  1. The bad Dream Act S.2205, a stealth amnesty bill dreamed up by Dick Durban and Jack Murtha, did not pass. This is the bill that the media says is about helping illegal alien children. Oh how my heart beats for “the children.” The media never told you that these children could be 30 years old. And they could register for the program and no documentary evidence is required to qualify. And they could bring their (ostensibly) relatives living in Mexico, up to 18 or thereabouts, and no DNA test is required or even available to prove relations. And here’s the kicker, once registered they are all given legal status and they are exempt from ever being deported. Even if they have criminal records. Anything for a voting block. However, don’t go to sleep on this because Harry Reid can bring it to the floor again.
  2. The next bill to fall was the Democrat bloated SCHIP bill, H.R. 976. That was designed to increase the dependent voting block (and double the tax burden) by calling a person a child up to age 25, and to people with incomes in the middle class, 60-80k /yr.
  3. They lost an important aspect to the Domestic Surveillance Bill in the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday. They agreed Thursday to a provision that would grant immunity to telecommunications companies that have helped the government in its domestic surveillance programs. They also didn’t want us listening in on Bin Laden if he called someone, anyone, in the United States.
  4. Nancy Pelosi pulled the Armenian Genocide Resolution from the floor, intended to put a stick in the spokes of the war in Iraq after it was clear to everybody, including the MSM, that the timing was more than suspect.

You’re not hearing much about how successful the surge is either. All measure of attacks are down from 40-80 percent. Marines in Anbar province are getting bored. Haven’t found an IED since April. It was Sen. Harry Reid who made the statement that the war is lost and that was late last Spring before the surge was fully in place.

All in all, I’d say the Democrats in Washington pretty much accomplished nothing. Another good week for the country.

related link: Congress.org

War On Terror

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, Ocotber 22-26, 2007

Did you know that this week is Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week? Well it is, and here are two links to get you started. Not for your kids. I warned you.

Michelle Malkin: Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off

The Religion of Peace.com

Study:69% of American Muslims are great Americans. It’s the other 31% that concerns me.

Funny that CAIR doesn’t have mush to say about Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

Tempers may flare over Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. David Horowitz, a ’60s anti-war radical who later took a right turn, says he’s trying to sound an alarm about radical Islam. His efforts have drawn much criticism.

Then there’s this gem: Killing of Non-Muslims is Legitimate (British Mullah)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHSOB2RFm4[/youtube]

Media, Russia, War On Terror

Putin’s Caspian Summit

They didn’t tackle their biggest problem, like who owns what of the Caspian Sea? But Putin wants an agreement on a defensive alliance against foreign military forces or attack on any single member of the Caspian Summit. OK, he’s acting paranoid, but he’s just getting tight with Iran while keeping the Caspian Sea off limits to all vessels not under a member state’s flag. This is Putin’s move to put more distance between Iran and any supply route that the U.S. might use in case they need to pay a visit to Tehran.

And then there’s this gem from Tehran Times. A sister paper to the New York Times I think.

First Vice President Parviz Davudi said on Wednesday

that the Iranian government is willing to develop relations with other countries and foster political, economic and social cooperation with all countries excluding the illegitimate regime of Israel.

From the reporting of the summit it seems that Putin is driving the bus.

Politics, War On Terror

Congress Needs A Good House Cleaning

The problem with Congress is no different than the problem in the country.  After all, it is the citizenry that elects these people.  We’re looking in a mirror like the ones at the county fair.

The problem we face is that way too many citizens have either forgotten about or refuse to acknowledge that we are in a global war defending ourselves (and the world BTW) against Islamofascism.  Way too many wish to return to a 9/10 mindset, which IMHO is suicidal.

To make matters worse, many are focused in expanding government further beyond our means to support, and changing the American paradigm of freedom and capitalism to some socialistic nightmare, while preferring to not fight the war.

al-Qaeda would also like us to stop fighting the war.

As to why it is this way is debatable but I have to think that 6 years of pounding us with the anti-war anti-Bush liberal views (war for oil, Haliburton, Cheney, Bush lied, torture, domestic spying, no WMD’s, etc.)  by the media has contributed to this phenomena in no small way.  They’ve done well in that regard. We are looking at, and facing the result of that propaganda machine, and America is much weaker for it.

A lot of them need the boot.  I think Bush is doing as good a job as he can under the circumstances of fighting the war practically by himself. He’s the one who stood up to the enemy and went after them. He stays focused on the enemy (al Qaeda, not Democrats), while Democrats seem focused on Bush, (not the enemy) instead. That makes for a protracted war with the increased casualties that go with it.  Those are the ones who need the boot.

We need politicians that will do what they think their constituents want instead of the agenda of the people that they take money from. The ones who have been bought are the ones that need to go.

Oh that we still had the unity that existed for about 3 or 4 months after 9/11. When Democrats split from that unity by Dec. 2001 and Jan. 2002, led by Ted Kennedy, it was a move that insured that Democrats could never take credit for winning this war.  Since that time they have done everything in their power (except defunding it) to hang a loss on Bush regardless of the consequences on the country.  Had their support held, I think we’d be way closer to being out of Iraq by now, if not already out.  And we all could say that WE won.  WE broke Iraq, and WE fixed it, and WE took another sanctuary away from al Qaeda, and WE made the world a safer place, with the help of the Iraqi people and our allies.  But no, it has morphed into “Bush’s war” and it’s up to him to fight it without their support.

Politics, War On Terror

Democrats Pull Armenian Genocide Resolution

Being generous in calling it the ‘genocide vote,’ the Christian Science Monitor reports the House resolution condemning Armenian genocide is being shelved because its passage “has stumbled on pragmatic concerns.” Pragmatic to what? A war maybe?

The sudden misgivings about a popular House resolution condemning as “genocide” the large-scale killings of Armenians more than nine decades ago illustrate a recurring tug of war in US foreign policy: when to take the moral high ground and when to heed the pragmatic realities of national interests.

And the idea of this vote being ‘popular’ says more about these democrats than it does about something that had already been done twice before.  To suggest that Congressional democrat leaders are only now, after the fact, considering the pragmatic realities of such a move demonstrates just how incompetent they are to run this country.

This legislative mischief, seemingly righteous and a long way from anyone’s congressional district, has the same echo of the cultural and political ignorance that followed the U.S. invasion into Iraq: good intentions brought down by hard realities no one ever thought about or expected.  A throwaway vote on a feel-good resolution has deeply insulted a steady ally, with grim consequences for the U.S. presence in Iraq. Access to an invaluable airfield could be yanked away.

Big lesson here is everybody sees just how far they would go for a political goal. It is what we could expect from another Clinton, or name your democrat, administration, because it’s what we are getting now.

2008 Election, Media, Politics, War On Terror

Hillary Understands ‘War For Oil’

Have you seen this much in the newspapers?  On TV?  She said it last week in a little town meeting to an audience of about 300 people.  That’s 300 people in South Carolina.  Speaking to the threat of Tehran interfering with oil supplies she said . . .

“I will make it very clear to the Iranians that there are very serious consequences attached to their actions,” Clinton said. The presidential candidate spoke at a town hall meeting with 300 people at a high school in a Democratic stronghold in early voting South Carolina.

The New York senator, responding to a question, said blocking oil shipments “would be devastating to the world economy.”

If the U.S. took military action as a result, she said, “I would hope that the world would see that was an action of last resort, not first resort. Because we need the world to agree with us about the threat that Iran poses to everyone.”

Forgetting the fact on how this issue is demagogued by the rabid left, who say it is about taking their oil for ourselves, it is good to see she is coming around to making sense.  I’m sure much to the chagrin of the Soros wing of her party.  Then again, it remains to be seen if she would utter the same words in California.

Media, Politics, War On Terror

United States Responsible For Darfur Genocide?

That ridiculous statement came from Muslim Brotherhood Leader in Sudan Sheikh Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed during an interview on Al-Jazeera TV dealing with Darfur. That’s not all he said. There’s this gem from him, “Islam does not permit a non-Muslim to rule over Muslims.”

Any questions?

Here’s one. If Islam wants to control the world both physically and spiritually, and blow up people trying to accomplish that goal, does defending yourself against that constitute a War on Islam? Isn’t a War for Islam more correct?

Link to transcript and video.

Media, Politics, War On Terror

MSM Ignores Gen. Sanchez’s Comments, About Them

The so-called mainstream media (MSM) was all over Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez speech, or so you may have thought. We heard his criticism of the Bush administration for inadequate strategy and prosecution of the war. But these so-called journalists couldn’t bring themselves to tell you what else Sanchez had to say in the same Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention last week.

For starters . . .

Sanchez opened by criticizing the U.S. news media, saying he was unfairly labeled “a liar” and “a torturer” because of the Abu Ghraib scandal, and he alleged that the media have lost their sense of ethics. He said that members of the media blow stories out of proportion and are unwilling to correct mistakes, and that the “media environment is doing a great disservice to the nation.”

Democracy Project link

Politics, War On Terror

Democrats Flunk Foreign Relations 101, On Purpose

Unable to secure defeat fast enough, house Democrats decide to vote on a resolution to condemn Turkey for genocide from a hundred years ago. Turkey is also our ally, a key ally in the war on terror. Key is an understatement. Turkey is supporting the war effort by allowing transit to Afghanistan and Iraq through Turkey allowing a re-supply line to northern Iraq and west.

About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. In addition, C-17 cargo planes fly military supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties.

Now, why do this now? Now that the surge seems to be working, now as we are seeing opposing Iraqi factions beginning to work together and get along? Could that be why it is NOW?

Meanwhile, Turkey has recalled their Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Nabi Sensoy. Last year France’s national assembly voted to condemn the Armenian deaths and Turkey responded by canceling contracts with the French military. These Democrats have learned from history, and in this case, wish to repeat it. It will surely put a stick in the spokes of supporting our troops in Iraq and the war effort. Oh that’s right. They support the troops.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says . . .

Why do it now? Because there’s never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported it.

President Bush says . . .

Its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror.

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul was right on . . .

Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States have once again sacrificed important matters to petty domestic politics despite all calls to common sense. This unacceptable decision by the committee, like its predecessors, has no validity or respectability for the Turkish nation.

Is this their idea of how wartime allies should be treated? With them in the White House, it is questionable if we would ever have a wartime ally again, should we need one, or several, or many.

AP: White House raps lawmakers on Armenia

Ambassador Sensoy’s ‘Exit Interview by John Gizzi