Posted on 09/21/2008 3:08:33 PM PDT by FocusNexus
Myth 1. It's a dangerous world. We face an array of serious national security threats that require an experienced Commander-in-Chief.
Myth 2. The surge has worked. To withdraw from Iraq now would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and embolden Islamic extremists.
(Excerpt) Read more at middle-east-online.com ...
I read as far as the name Katrina vanden Heuvel. Yuck!
This is why the Democrat party gone over 50% in a general election only twice in the last fifty six years.
How do people this dumb manage to eat their meals and tie their shoes?
See tagline.
and Osama Bin Laden is just ‘misunderstood’....
Sure, let’s see Obama make this his campaign platform or repeat any of this garbage during a debate. Pretty please.
Every single one of these supposed myths is absolutely true and surprisingly well-stated for such an ass.
Her mother warned her that her face would freeze like that.
You know what? If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it. Just check out snopes on some of the really stupid ideas people fall for.
Remember, snopes is not fool proof and it does lean to the left.
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And it did! :)
The primary way democrats sustain their degeneracy of the Republic is with magic thinking ... the democrats want to believe their own lies as if that will make it so, so they do believe their own lies. It is extremely dangerous to the survival of the Republic.
With some help from Botox. Zot, that means she paid to look like that.
That's the impression I get.
Hold on now, do you mean the myths are myths, or do you mean the stated perspectives being attacked are actual myths thus the article is correct? ...
I don't understand that statement, plus your posts don't usually deserve the time it takes to "decypher" them.
Suffice to say that, in reading the first few "myths", the explanation of why they are "myths" is uniformly:
It's Bush's fault.
Deep.
Very deep.
about myth 1: America is facing a GROWING TERRORIST threat, and it is likely coming from Saudi Arabia (which is not at all flexable in its policies), Pakistan (which is on the brink of siding with Al-Qaeda), and Iran (who is not either militarily or economically weak). Pres. Bush has done a better job of protecting America from a terrorist attack than Bill Clinton and will, in the future, be recognized for that. A three AM call will no doubt be about a imminent national security threat, and the American people cannot trust Barack Obama to do the right thing in that sort of deadly situation.
“progressives”
That is liberal code for leftists, IIRC. Communists, specifically. That sort of gives me the author’s orientation.
Debunking myth #2: If one says that paying Sunni extremists to work for the “Awakening” has worked, and that the Malaki government has bee reining in Al-Qaeda insurgents, well before the Surge is a lie. Directly before the surge, there had been a massive increase of violence not seen since the American military captured Baghdad and Saddam Hussein (Is that last name reminiscent of someone we know?...). The Surge is what de-escalated that violence, and kept Iraq from plunging into a full fledged civil war with America caught in the cross-fire.
There has been no ethnic-cleansing caused by the Surge in Iraq, in fact, one of the many valid reasons why we invaded Iraq was to end the ethnic cleansing of the Hussein regime.
The Surge, and the repression of violence, has now allowed for more political gains in the country. the Malaki- admin. is now able to be more flexable in there objectives.
WOW...I don’t even know where to start...guess I can sum it up best by saying that the authors don’t like Pres. Bush, Iraq, or neoliberals...everything else in the article revolves around the hatred they feel for the fore mentioned.
And the post wasn’t even addressed to you! Feel better now, grumpy?
Debunking myth #3: We are not losing the war in Afghanistan, we are facing a setback caused by Pakistan not following through on its job to rid itself of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. the Afghani people have not turned against us. They know how it felt to be under therule of an extremist and oppressive government, and they have already shown us that they want to change and they will work towards a stable democracy. It is true that Pakistan is housing Al-Qada and the taliban, but we cannot just leave Afghanistan to fight in Pakistan; what is happening to us now will happen again, just in the opposite country.
Routing out terror can only benefit a nation and its people. there is no truth to the statement that th los of terror in Pakistan and Afghanistan will allow Indian interest into the two Muslim nations.
Now, Pakistan’s tribal region is the HQ of Taliban and Al-Qaeda, meaning, if we take out there headquarters, they will become so destabalized, it will be much easier to rout out terror in all parts of the world. It’s like chopping out atrees routs: if you cut the roots out from under a tree, than the tree itself will fall.
Debunking lie #4: The statement that they call a myth is actually the exact truth of the issue. A terror group will always form relations with another terror group of the same persuasion.
A nuclear armed Iran is a dead Israel and a dead America and a dead Europe. We must not allow Iran to develope nuclear weapons, that is why it is a major national security threat, if not the worst threat- since the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Because Iran is dependant on its exports is another way we can weaken it. However, that doesn’t make THEM weak. It makes us and Europe weak because we depend on the Middle East and their Commie friends for our oil.
The third paragaph is totally skewed. Iran is THE cause of the difficulties in the Middle East. It continues to support terror groups, while running their own terror groups.
Since Iran had its Islamic Revolution, it has been “wedded” to an anti-American position. Iran is an obsacle, not because we shun it, but because of the reason why we shun it: They have been and will be sponsers of an uneasy and violent repression in the Middle East.
I threw up on my keyboard before I got to the 2nd myth.
Guilty!
I forgot what she looks like, then I saw your pic and recognized that sneer from 2 or 3 years ago on Fox.
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