Last week I posted a link to a very good article by Steven Schwartz that provides a comprehensive explanation of Islamofascism as well as a good understanding of what fascism in general involves. On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

And yet you offer no solutions of your own and, instead, spend all this time worrying about the dictionary definition of a term. Interesting….

- Even in this most recent example of why the totalitarian mind will never negotiate, al-Sadr, Barney and his merry gang of propagandists try to turn it around and avoid the embarrassment that appeasement just flat fails with fascism, so he tries to blame Bush for that too. Ankle biters are just that. Desperate out of power, sour grapes, noise makers, that just want to confuse, and shake things up, because they think thats their only hope. The mistake they’re making is in thinking it will fool anyone with a bit of world experience.

- Bang

You offer so much to this debate… Is this how you like your life to go? With meaningless irrelevant attacking debate instead of making progress? Wouldn’t you like a change in the way discussions move forward?

What are you alleging anyway. That the army had him surrounded and then what? Rummy micromanaged the generals and had the army do something else? Where is your proof? Why do you make false allegations and continue on with such condescension.

False accuations is what the left/facists do in order to justify the power grab.

The only appeasers I see are Bush and Rummy. How may times did Rummy appease Muqtada al-Sadr? The army had him surrounded on at least two occasions. The man is responsible for the death of American forces, and the main source of sectarian violence in Iraq today.

Newt, on Meet the Press, declared that Bush was practicing the policy of appeasement with Iran and North Korea. Now you can add Hezbollah to the list.

Does “I don’t think about him much any more” count as appeasement?

They wish to have government overpower rule with an iron fist whether it is central or not central. Your point is weak because you are arguing whether Islamofacists want to be ruled under Sharia law by a federal power or state like power or even more local power which is irrelevant.

Jim M hit the nail on the head. Less government is what people right of center want. More self-reliance and less handouts. NOBODY argues that handicapped and elderly need a safety net or not. That is a given. Libertarians believe in an 80% cut in government spending. Conservatives are more moderate. Liberals want MORE government spending. If you feel like you are a liberal and want a cut in government spending then you need to re-evaluate if you are a liberal or not. The media does a poor job at edcating what right and left of center means but it is CLEAR if you do research what it is. Political Science 101 will teach you (unless you have an idiot for a professor).

Jim’s definition was correct and it doesn’t matter how many idiots try to redefine the word.

The Nazi’s were leftists. They were for more government control. The government book banners were oppresssive, they terrorized and put their foot on the necks of people. That is LEFT of center. Big government. In every case the more government grows the more people have to fear.

The extremes are total and big government and the other extreme is anarchy or very little government.

Brining some common sense into the argument, you must realize that this country’s federal budget, size, regulations, spending, has gone up every year for over 6 decades. THere have been ZERO cuts despite what the press irresponsibly say. The numbers are indisputable. Spending has gone up for Health, education, veterans, environment, social services and help for the poor. It is indisputable and you can’t find the budget dropping for these things from one year to the next in any of the last 60 years. Period.

Now. What does that mean? It means that this country has been GOVERNED to the left for over 6 decades. WHile from 1940-1994 the Democrats fairly well controlled Congress and then the Republicans pretty much changed that in 1994 it hasn’t changed the fact that this country has moved towards the left every year. Conservatives have been hammered by the media as slashers, cutters, not caring about the poor, the environment, etc… and all I can say is that these leftists are LYING. The Drive By Media is not doing due diligence to find out the facts and spew out Democrat talking points whether it is true or not.

It’d be great if this country was better prepared to handle the baby boom generation retiring but Democrats will irresponsibly lambaste any attempt at fixing the structural issue with Social Security.

Instead of Debate, the Democrats and the left irresponsibly attack and attack and add no value to the political scene. They only weaken this country and weaken or standing in the world with irresponsible accusations that the foriegn people and press pick up on.

Remember this if you can. Conservatives CARE about the environment, poor, race, security of the nation etc. Listen to and read what we say for once and you will be able to see that what we are saying may have points. If it is better to teach a man to fish rather than give him fish maybe that means we do care but love differently. If we see that the air has gotten cleaner over the last 20 years and see that data dramatically by many scientists maybe there isa point to that. Instead of attacking try to listen and see an ALTERNATE POINT OF VIEW.

Evil, scum-sucking, cowardly, assholes that have the blood of pigs that run through their veins, whom the majority are Muslim and take Islam to the Extreme to kill without compunction.

Never in history have I seen such bending over backwards to try and appease terrorist, terrorist supporting regimes.

It does worry me though, could we have won the war against Nazi germany and defeated Hitler if the same propaganda swallowing and making Media was thriving then?

It sickens me to see so many seemingly willig to support terrorism by propagandizing it, all in hte name of making Bush look bad.

This may sound pessimistic, but I don’t hold out much hope that we will not be hit very hard some time soon, becaus we just can’t seem to learn our friggin lesson the first time around when we got attacked. Most act like it is a one time thing, it won’t happen again.

What is next, Iran gettting Nukes, and Israel becomes a wasteland? What then? Will we ask for another friggin resolution from the terrorist appeasing and castrated (no balls) UN?

Why the hell are we still a part of such a waste of an organization?

- You are aiding and abeting a very definate neo totalitarian “movement” by trying to deny and evade, exactly the way pacifists in Europe did in the 20’s and 30’s, and we all have history to tell us how well that worked out. You’re doomed to try to repeat the mistakes of the past Barney. That wonderful approach ended up with 50 million dead. Propagandize all you like, just don’t expect the rest of us to follow the progressives suicidal agenda.

- Bang

Apply those principles to the theory of Islamo- fascism? You can’t! There is no central government, movement or leader that is directing attacks by:
-Hamas
-Hezbollah
-Iraq Insurgency
-Sadr Militia
-al Qeda
-Iran

Most of them don’t even belong to the same sect of Islam (Shi’at, Sunni, Wahhabi, Sufism) or the same race (Arab, Persian, Asian).