[b4its2late]

Great writing Michael.

[sarasota]

A CNN poll...well that's about useless. Don't they know they're falling on their faces in this country?

[anniegetyourgun]

Actually, I predict that Berg's family will be made into Left-wing fodder. I'm certain that they have already been contacted by the DNC. They will be paid handsomely to complain bitterly about Bush, Rummy, and the entire war effort.

[sauropod]

Good post.

[Williams]

Amen Brother! Kerry and his ilk helped the communists kill and imprison millions in SE Asia. They could care less. I think the president of the United States should say something similar to this article.

[darkwing104]

Good Article

[against_kerry]

Is there not a way we can jam these websites and spew out our own stories? Don't we have a group that could create our own propaganda? Couldn't we jam all there news?

[snooker]

Thanks ... this perspective is just what we lack.

[BushisTheMan]

Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.

[Bea Elysian]

Nancy Pelosi screeches the same thing  

 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called for Rumsfeld's firing, intoning that, "The sad fact is that the abuses could have been prevented with proper leadership at the top of the chain of command." In her own state of California, however, she did not apply this standard to the ongoing scandal of California prison conditions. Even in her state's youth facilities, studies document widespread tolerance of violence and inmate rape. The recent hanging deaths, apparently suicides by two teenagers unable to deal with conditions, have not yet been fully investigated.

Arab intellectuals say the fact that Coalition soldiers took prisoners, rather than burn and hang their remains from a bridge in Fallujah, or decapitate them, shows just how brutal Coalition soldiers can be.

Force is what the the Arab nuts respond.

[Ron in Acreage]

ErrAmerica host Tokyo Rhodes said we are an "evil nation". Our troops are worse than Saddams. That we round up and torture more INNOCENT Iraqi people in a day, than Saddam does in a year.

[GaltMeister]

Michael, this needs to be forwarded to every idiot congressman and reporter that ever said "We have no business in Iraq; Al Qaeda is not in Iraq, and Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda."

Think they will start to see why GW widened the war to Hussein's Iraq?

[some guy in the mountains]

...Or would you rather wait until it's "outside your front door?"

I at first thought the thread was about torture being outside my front door.

My question is: would our torturing of Iraqi prisoners prevent this from happening?

[MizSterious]

Good column. You expressed a lot of what I'm feeling--but haven't yet found (printable) words to express.

[B.O. Plenty]

It's all adding up....the muslum attacks in the past(olympics, beruit...et al)...911...Daniel Pearl....Madrid....and today...the beheading of Nick Berg...

I wonder how much more will be needed to finally convince our President to wage a proper war on radical Islam...but at some point, the p.c. "war" must come to an end, and real hostilities begin. The American people deserve better than having to listen to whining from the left about how mean the U.S. military is to a bunch of murdering thugs....probably most of them with American blood on their hands.....and ALL of them would if they could.

So, how much more are we to endure. Will 5000 more dead do the trick?....10000?.....1000000?.....

[OpusatFR]

They intend to wipe us out. Plain and simple. They don't care who they kill. I don't care if it Hamas and Hizbollah killing 4 little girls and their pregnant mom, Islamofascists beheading Daniel Pearl and this man, or Baathists running around firing RPGs.

I got it. They want us dead. Can the left get it?

[4everontheRight]

Good article!!
Why is it that the liberals won't allow Americans to be outraged over 9/11 or the killing of our contractors or our soldiers?? Why are other countries always allowed to have outrage about America but we can't have outrage over what other countries and peoples do to us?????

[Christian4Bush]

I live in Los Angeles, California. I woke up this morning to the sounds of my alarm clock (not an air-raid siren or the ack-ack of machine guns).

I brushed my teeth with water that didn't make me sick or kill me. I packed my gym bag while standing upright (not on the floor dodging bullets).

I calmly walked to my truck, in the cool of a morning that was gray with clouds (not smoke). I drove to the end of my street without having to pass through a military checkpoint (military or adversary). I didn't drive past tanks, soldiers, cars on fire, or mosques on every corner...just "normal Los Angeles traffic".

I arrived at work (in a high rise building), worked out in my gym, and reported to a great job at a great desk, with great co-workers, able to earn a living, of which the government gets a small percentage.

All of the above, and so much more, is possible because of these brave men and women who serve our country night and day, who stay vigilant and determined to make sure that stuff like 9-11 does not happen on our shores, nor in our skies, again.

Someday the elites, who seem to have everything and still hate President Bush and any conservative leader for it, will realize this. I'll not hold my breath, though.

[Ohioan]

A new CNN survey touted on the news this morning, indicates that more than 50% of Americans believe that the Iraqi war was not "worth it." How many more Americans' deaths will it take before it becomes worth it?

This is really a rather strange question. Certainly American deaths, trying to rebuild Iraq, will hardly make what has gone before more worthwhile. Such deaths will never make it "worth it," if it is not already worth it.

Frankly, I think the Administration is entitled to the benefit of the doubt on the decision to invade Iraq. But, as I have repeatedly posted, trying to change the Iraqi culture is folly, and expending American lives and resources in pursuit of such folly, is tantamount to strategic madness. (See Iraq.)

Up until now, my concern has been focused on two facts: (1) that our real enemies, the Internationalists (Al Quaida) who refuse to recognize borders, would use our appearance of meddling with Arab culture, for recruiting purposes; and (2) that there is no justification for expending our resources for such meddling. Frankly, the events in the past week or so suggest another very, very dangerous effect, and that is that while the brilliant initial execution of the War would have served to boost military morale, and draw high quality people to our military services; the protracted pursuit of folly is now beginning to have precisely the opposite effect.

That is a very serious concern. It is not the one that the Leftist critics of the War will focus on; but it should be one that is very, very important for Conservatives critics of the post-conquest policy to consider.

William Flax

[Ladysmith]

Hear! Hear!!