Posted on 04/04/2003 1:49:27 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Madonna has decided, what with the news and all, that the time may not be right for her new video, "American Life." Maybe it's that troupe of video actors costumed as transvestite American soldiers that now gives the pop diva a case of cold feet. Or maybe it's her own star turn on the video as an assassin targeting a President Bush look-alike with a hand grenade. "I do not wish to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning of this video," the singer explained by way of announcing that the "shock video" would not be making its U.S. debut. Which is probably a good thing since cross-dressing GIs and exploding presidents are so easily misinterpreted.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Over the weekend, watching the shells fall and destroy the mud huts those people in Iraq live in, I couldn't help but notice that when missles fell on their neighbors in Kuwait, less than 100 miles away, it didn't fall on mud huts and dirt floors.
It fell on a Starbucks at a galleria.
You'd think they'd connect the dots, wouldn't you?
This time there's little doubt the end is near. In the war's early going, the combination of Saddam's party enforcers and paramilitary units -- along with bitter memories of the US refusal to aid the 1991 Shiite uprising -- kept the reaction to the US and British troops muted, even hostile. One of the best accounts of the long reach of terror's tentacles came from the Arab News, a Saudi Arabian daily, whose correspondent, Essam Al-Ghalib, reported: ''On camera, the general feeling among the crowd was sorrow at losing Saddam. Off camera, the citizens of Umm Qasr and Basra appeared genuinely exhilarated at the prospect of a brighter future after Saddam had been removed.''
Interviewed off camera, one man who had been chanting pro-Saddam slogans for the TV cameras said he had done so because he knew the baleful eye of Saddam's police state remained upon him. ''If the Americans were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before, we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as Baath go house to house killing everyone who voiced opposition to Saddam,'' he said. ''In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts we feel something else.''
And as The New York Times reported on its website Wednesday, the crowd that greeted US forces in Najaf had two questions: Would the troops stay? And could they say when Saddam would be finished? That's impossible to say for sure. But as US troops close on Baghdad and the doubts about whether Saddam now holds power hardens to a belief that he soon won't, the long shadow of his terror should begin to fade.***
No second-place winner, no "third way" solution-- it's March or Die time, folks.
It's Us versus an eighth-century "culture" of plunder, forced religious "conversions," and the mistreatment of women.
The sooner we face this fact realistically and quit dancing around PC talking-point nonsense about diversity and tolerance, the better off we'll all be.
Remember when Afghanistan was freed and we saw the men and children running in the streets, getting their hair cut, and flying kites?
I pray we see that again. Freedom looks mighty good on a satelite dish.
I agree with that. They ARE going to kill us if we don't kill them first.
We didn't pick this fight- which really has roots in Jimmy Carter's appeasement in 1979 of militants- but we had damn well better see it for what it is, and be prepared to face it and finish it.
I'll put it in raw, personal terms-- I don't want Sharia law visited upon my women, and I don't want a goatroper "culture" infesting my land.
I don't want their vile, nasty weapons of mass destruction loosed on my fair country, either.
They picked the fight, so it's up to us to finish it- balls to the wall, hammer and anvil, fire and blood and iron... freedom is never, ever free, and the coin of the realm is men's lives.
Let's roll...
Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Archbishop Daniel Cronin bestows a blessing on Tyler Jordan, 6, during a funeral service for Tyler's father, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Phillip A. Jordan at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Enfield, Conn., Wednesday, April 2, 2003. Jordan was killled March 23, 2003 in Iraq. Tyler is with his mother Amanda Jordan. (AP Photo/Chip East, Pool)
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