[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[Theresawithanh]

Excellent! Thanks for posting.

[writer33]

That's better than a shot of Jack Daniels. Well...maybe not better than that. Good post bump!

[Tired of Taxes]

Great write-up! Thanks for posting it.

[VideoDoctor]

No greater CLARITY have I heard.

Thanks.

[Lando Lincoln]

ping

Lando

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I'm sending this right now to my 22 year old daughter to get this out to the "Friends" Generation...

[Fishman1]

Great summary! Thanks.

[Valin]

Bump and bookmark!

[HannaUSA]

There is something else to remember too. Saudi wanted us OUT of Saudi. That was beginning to be an issue prior to 9/11 and after, it became among their top priority in an effort to appease Osama Bin Laden.

If we have no air base we can fly from within the region, we are in a world of hurt, so since it was still necessary to keep Saddam under wraps to keep him from invading Kuwait all over again, which he would have at the drop of a hat, the war may have served to solve that problem as well as many others.

[Ryan Spock]

Outstanding.

It's often difficult to stay on message with the truth when we feel like we're being drowned out by a repetitive and deliberate barrage of leftist propaganda from all sides.

Thanks for this great summary of the FACTS.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Superb article Lando.

[gatorbait]

Thanks,great post.

[MeekOneGOP]

Iraq, For Those Who Came In Late

Excerpt:

Most people don't pay attention to politics until they have to. For the last year, Democrats and Liberals have been tossing out lies about why we're in Iraq, hoping they stick, and those lies have been debunked over and over. At this point, many who hear John Kerry and his minions repeating the same lies are tempted to laugh it off, since we've "been there, done that." But those lies are not old news to those who have only just begun to pay attention to the campaign speeches. The lies Democrats tell about Iraq need to be exposed again... For Those Who Came In Late.

Lie #1: The Rush To War. There was no rush to war .....

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[backtothestreets]

Very good post.

If only one thing is learned from our involvement in Iraq, I hope we as a nation learn to finish a job once it is started. Too often we set problems aside for a future generation to resolve. We take a band aid approach. It doesn't work.

Had we finished with Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, we would probably not be in Iraq today. The UN would never have had the opportunity to skim funds meant for Iraq's poor. Oil markets might be more stable now too. It may have meant saving the lives of all our service members that have died in our recent involvement.

It's the same with the terrorists that attack us. We responded with too little in the 70's, 80's and 90's, and didn't finish what was started.

Now more then ever we need to complete our task in Iraq. We don't need a timetable for withdrawing our troops. We need to make public a set of objectives that will signal when it is time to withdraw. One of those signals must be for all attacks against our troops in Iraq to cease for a set period of time.

If not for ourselves, let's see this fight to the finish so our future generations won't have to deal with it down the road.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the post, Lando Lincoln!

Thanks, Meekie!

The lies Democrats tell about Iraq need to be exposed again... For Those Who Came In Late.

A few of the biggest lies, with source links.

Once, the BBC Helped Fight Evil

Duane Speight - Prosperity, S.C.

 

Opinion Journal.com, July 26, 2003

 

Reader Responses re. "British Broadcasting Calamity" 

 

On the River Platte, Dec. 17, 1939, the crew of the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee blew it up. This was a very painful loss for Hitler so early in the war with Britain. The Graf Spee was moderately damaged in a battle with the Royal Navy so it docked in the nearby neutral port of Montevideo, Uruguay, for repairs. The Royal Navy ships, much more damaged and still outgunned and outclassed by the powerful German warship, kept watch at sea, desperately praying for reinforcements to arrive before the Spee re-emerged.

Not wanting to provoke the British, the Uruguayan government gave the Spee's commander, Capt. Hans Langsdorff, 72 hours (the minimum permitted by international law) to effect repairs and then he must leave Montevideo.

Unable to fully repair his ship by this deadline, Capt. Langsdorff had to chose between fighting his way out into the open sea without being fully seaworthy or scuttling the Spee to keep her, and her advanced naval technologies, from falling into enemy hands. Lucky for the Spee, the enemy naval force waiting for her was still no match for the Spee's 11-inch guns (though reinforcements were rapidly approaching). Unlucky for Capt. Langsdorff however, the BBC chose, at that particular moment in history, to purposely lie it's bloomin' 'ead off. Reports from the internationally esteemed, respected and trusted British Broadcasting Corp. stated that a humongous armada of Royal Navy battlewagons were already lying in wait with bloodthirsty anticipation of some Graf Spee seafood. This "news," along with other misinformation from various covert enemy sources, convinced Capt. Hans to blow up the Admiral Graff Spee.

So in 1939, the BBC betrayed the people's trust and sullied the noble ideal of objective journalism in order to further a political agenda.

But what the hell, isn't it better to abandon veracity and professionalism in order to bring down an Adolf Hitler than a Tony Blair or George W. Bush?

Oh wait, I forgot, to the left they are all three the same!

Never mind.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Very good.. as always Lando! Keep up the good work!

[afnamvet]

Good read!

[crushelits]

Excellent.
People ten to forget these things.
All you hear is Skerry propagatin lies.

[DouglasKC]

Thanks for the summary...