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Audacity of Truth
Flyswatter in Chief:
"He had this fly that was persistently buzzing around him during the interview...he swatted his hand and he said ‘I got the sucker’...it was a, you know, Dirty Harry ‘make my day’ moment."- The NYT's John Harwood, describing Obama's killing of a fly - 6/16/09
They know
I have battled for years with liberals who have claimed in so many words that our enemy does not have the time nor are they interested in monitoring via the media what we say and do here in America. I have shown them the words of PAVN Colonel Bui Tin from an interview he did with the WSJ back in August 1995, where he cited the anti-war movement here at home as being critical to Hanoi’s victory. That doesn’t seem to compute, either. I think liberals like to claim that what we say here doesn’t have much, if any, impact on how the enemy conducts itself because if they admitted that the enemy paid attention to what we said and did here carefully, then they’d be admitting that the harsh statemetns coming from the mouths of top Dems like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry actually did impact the war negatively. Very negatively.
Wonder what they’ll think of this?:
DUBAI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – A purported audio recording by the leader of Iraq’s al Qaeda wing said outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quit to flee the Iraqi battlefield.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, said in the recording posted on the Internet that the group has 12,000 armed fighters and 10,000 others waiting to be equipped to fight U.S. troops in Iraq.
“I swear by God we shall not rest from jihad until we … blow up the filthiest house known as the White House,” he said.
The Democrats’ victory at Tuesday’s Congressional elections were a step in the right direction, the speaker said.
“I tell the lame duck (U.S. administration) do not rush to escape as did your defence minister … stay on the battleground,” the speaker said. “The American people have taken a step in the right path to come out of their predicament … they voted for a level of reason.”
The authenticity of the tape could not be verified.
“The (U.S.) enemy if now wobbly. Today they are loading their gear to flee,” the speaker said.
Khamenei has called the Democrats’ victory on Monday a victory for Iran:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush’s defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran.
Bush has accused Iran of trying to make a nuclear bomb, being a state sponsor of terrorism and stoking sectarian conflict in Iraq, all charges Tehran denies.
“This issue (the elections) is not a purely domestic issue for America, but it is the defeat of Bush’s hawkish policies in the world,” Khamenei said in remarks reported by Iran’s student news agency ISNA on Friday.
“Since Washington’s hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation.”
The Democrats wrested control of both houses of Congress from the Republicans in this week’s mid-term elections, partly because of voter concern over the war in Iraq.
Khamenei, a senior cleric in power since 1989, has the last word on matters of state in Iran’s complex system of Islamic rule, while the government, under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in charge of day-to-day decision making.
“The result of this election indicates that the majority of American people are dissatisfied and are fed up with the policies of the American administration,” the IRNA state news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
Yes, the American people thankfully have the right to vote, and they made their voices heard on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the wrong message has been sent. Our actions here at home have consequences abroad. Those who will suffer the most will be our troops, who will face an enemy who has been emboldened now more than ever. Afterall, when you’ve got the House Speaker claiming that the Iraq war is “not war to be won but a situation to be solved”, why wouldn’t you be emboldened if you were a terrorist?
The enemy has been listening to the Democrats’ defeatist comments on Iraq the whole time we’ve been there. And you can be assured that enemy hasn’t forgotten what those Dems, who weren’t in the majority then but are now, have repeatedly said about how the war was a “mistake” and how we “shouldn’t be there” and how we need to get out as soon as possible. They know what we are saying and doing here in America. The question is: is the new majority in Congress listening?
Hat tip: Stop The ACLU
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but I have had many friends who died in Vietnam and according to the Left they died for nothing
They did not die for nothing. Ask one of the hundreds of thousands of people who were executed by the communists after the fall of Saigon what they were fighting for. There are too many people who want to judge the outcome of a war by land, money, or power. I guess saving the lives of thousands is not a good enough reason anymore. Our fighting spirit from the WW II days are long gone.
We are an instant gratification generation, one that wants no sacrifice, no pain, very little personal responsibility, and if keeping our word interferes with any of these goals, then to hell with our word.
Precisely!!! Not only will people be afraid to trust us they will no longer work with us if they fear that we will tuck tail and run when things get tough. We have also given any enemy from this point forward a perfect blueprint on how to defeat the U.S. You cannot do it on the battlefield, but if you can draw it out long enough the American people will wear down and demand a withdrawal, with the help of our one party media, of course.
I.M., thank you for your service as well as the service of your nephew and grandson. GWR thank you as well. I think the Vietnam vets got the worst deal in history. My uncle was in the Marines in Vietnam, he doesn’t talk about it much, and he is one of my heroes as you all are.
Let’s see: a timeline for troop drawdown is announced, and the non-existent al-Qaeda forces in secular Iraq cheer a Democrat victory in Congress, brand us as retreating cowards, and announce plans to bring back the Caliphate while blowing up the White House.
Nope. A timeline won’t embolden the terrorists or be seen as a date for surrender. It’ll be viewed as an opportunity for diplomacy, and a chance for the “international community” to join hands and buoy the fledgling Iraqi democracy!
RUN,
CAMBODIANS!KERDS, RUN!- Bang
I fully expected the back-biting, and carping to begin in earnest, once the Dems realized just what a potential train wreck they’ve jumped in front of, but the speed with which it’s happening is surprising. The Reps need to recognize the “message” this election/electorate was sending them, and get back to their root principles. They also need the right candidate, with a wide appeal, for both the Pres., and VP, slots, to really grab the brass ring in ‘08.
- Recover their root principles – A little at least. They’ve been given a shot across the bow by a fed up electorate, but just enough of one to limit any real effectiveness on the Dem side of the aisle. The nutroots are already in meltdown because Carver is citing the shortfall in the “mandate”, opining on how much better they could have done with a real winner like Ford in the driver seat instead of Dean. Kos and Hampsher are declaring open war on the Clintonesta’s, and bad-mouthing Hilldebeast as fast as their fingers can type. But really if/when the Dems can’t overcome the gridlock they now own, the Reps can just play off that, and next time with it fresh in thier minds, they’ll have the incentive, and therefore the initiative and momentum.
- The right candidate – Nobody on the National scene, with the exception of the first term Clinton, when no one knew how much of a diddler/empty suit he really was, has a thimble full of the massive widespreaad likability, and proven leadership that Guiliani exudes from every pore. The Left is so scared witless about his natural, country wide, bipartisan popularity, they won’t even bring up his name. Mate him with a well liked black American running mate, like Condi or Steele, (the Reps/Rove just made sure Steele was appointed RNC chair for a reason), and I’d spectulate on a modern record landslide. the party in power the next time around needs a mandate in both the White House, and the congress in this atmosphere of conflict partisan politics. Of course a great deal rides on what the Dems do with the
VietNamIraq “problem”.- I’ve felt all along, leading up to the elections, that the best possible outcome, given it was enevitable that the Reps would lose something, would be for the Dems to get just enough rope. It’s a no-brainer now, that that’s exactly what’s happened. The Dems aren’t faking their new found friendliness toward the Right. They, better than anybody, once the initial Yeehaws wore off, have looked at the situation, and realize it’s a DOH’ moment.
- Rove you evil genius!
- Bang
I would like to think the Republicans learned their lesson this year; but on other blogs and via the media I have been hearing that Republicans think they lost because they were too conservative, had they been more moderate and even liberal they would not have lost the Congress. That is nonsense! They lost because they could not be trusted to stick to our conservative principles!
Then I read that many of the Democrat election victories were due to conservative Democrats running against milk-toast Republicans; which means if the Republicans decide being more liberal is a winning strategy and enough Democrats believe being Blue-Dog (Conservative) Democrats is a winning strategy, then why should we expect the Republicans to regain control?
There were many good posts under this thread (
For some reason most of my comments were not accepted in the post above, so I’ll try here to finish:
There were many good posts under this thread (
“and via the media I have been hearing that Republicans think they lost because they were too conservative”
That would be hard to understand. They Republicans have governed to the left of center except for the fact that they lowered taxes and have treated the GWOT more seriously. How is to the left of center “too conservative”. Drive-by legacy media is so irrelevant.
I’m with you. There appears to be a mini-rift in the center-right blogosphere over this issue (e.g., the Captain), but:
– decimating the Patriot Act
– pillorying the NSA terrorist surveillance program
– eradicating SWIFT terrorist banking surveillance
– etc.
makes us inarguably _less_ safe. Until the Democrats decide that bare-bones, common-sense steps such as these make sense, they deserve all the epithets they’re getting.