Posted on 05/30/2005 10:31:15 PM PDT by goldstategop
Americans love to second-guess themselves.
It has become a national sport since Vietnam.
But it is dangerous business when we have so many Monday-morning quarterbacks in wartime.
Two years after our dramatically successful invasion of Iraq, leading to the liberation of 26 million Arabs and Kurds, the second-guessing is at all time highs.
They ask:
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Where are the connections between the regime of Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001?
Where was the threat Iraq posed to America?
May I remind the second-guessers that no one knew for certain whether Iraq could produce nuclear weapons when we invaded two years ago. However, there was widespread agreement that Iraq would be in a position to do so shortly – certainly by now. Had we not invaded Iraq two years ago, we might be faced with doing so today against an Iraq armed with nuclear weapons – or almost certainly against an Iraq that would be in a position to obtain nuclear weapons and place them in the hands of the terrorists groups they had supported for so long, including al-Qaida.
That was the threat we faced in Iraq two years ago. And that's why invasion was the right call to make. Have we done everything right as a nation since? No. Have we made mistakes along the way? Yes. Do we continue to make errors in the execution of our war policies and the making of the peace? Yes.
But where would we be as a nation had we backed down and permitted Saddam Hussein to remain in power?
There is no question the world would be a more dangerous place.
And that brings us to the crisis we face with Iran today.
Now the second-guessers are suggesting that history is repeating itself – that warmongers in the United States are making a case against Iran based on the same arguments they used with respect to Iraq.
This second-guessing appeasement mentality is having an effect on the national psyche.
Here is the truth about Iran:
It is committed to producing nuclear weapons.
It is already reprocessing nuclear material it can use for that purpose.
It is a terrorist-sponsoring state that may already possess some small nuclear arsenal.
It has advanced missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons and of hitting Israel and other Middle East neighbors.
It is fully cooperating with rogue nuclear state North Korea.
It has already attacked the United States through its proxy army, the terrorist militia Hezbollah.
It is capable of attacking the United States with nuclear missiles from offshore in ships disguised as commercial vessels.
It is actively conducting discussions with the anti-American Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela about nuclear cooperation with that Latin American nation.
The second-guessers tell us there is no threat to the United States posed by Iran.
I don't know how anyone could reasonably come to such a conclusion.
There is an imminent threat.
Second-guessing appeasers of this tyrannical regime will only place our country in graver danger in the future. They always do.
Don't listen to those who are still debating as to whether or not we were right to fight Adolph Hitler and imperial Japan.
Don't listen to those who are still wringing their hands about Vietnam – those who brought shame on our country and a predictable holocaust to Southeast Asia.
Don't listen to those who look at victory in Iraq and see defeat.
Remember Sept. 11.
Defend America.
Defeat the terrorists.
Destroy Islamo-fascism.
Free Iran.
Today, our nation faces a growing danger from a mullah-led Iran that seeks weapons of mass destruction and whose ruling ideology calls for "Death To America." We must stop wringing our hands in the face of the present danger. We will act to remove the threat - and we must defend America, defeat the terrorists sponsored by the Iranian regime, destroy the Islamo-fascist regime itself and free Iran. A tall task. And the horror of 9/11 calls us again to the great work of our generation: to spread freedom and to ensure our honor, country and flag are respected everywhere. God Bless America.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I could swear that Joseph Farah was against the Iraq war, and President Bush, as well. Do you remember reading such at wnd.com? Has he changed his mind?
Bombing Iran would be stupid. Support the people for revolution - the President knows what he's doing.
Iraq's freshly minted legislators pounded out their first agreement on the 15 basic articles to guide their new constitution — including democracy, federalism, separation of powers and making Islam the state religion.
Whats the use? We spend in the end a trillion dollars and probably 5000 lives for a country that makes ISLAM THE STATE RELIGION.
Thats like a cured lung cancer patient telling you they are taking up smoking unfiltered Camels.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Oh, it was the domestic policies?? OK, now it makes sense.
But Joseph Farah said on his radio show sometime before the election that he did not have a "dog in the fight." I wonder how Farah could even SAY that Bush and Kerry were comparable, when our security is a stake (despite domestic issues).
I LOVE wnd, and like Farah, too, but sometimes I really can't figure Farah out.
Iran was a secular empire/government for over 5,000 years Iraq was created by England in the 1920's.
Please do not compare.
Farah is an idiot. Is he still eating Y2K rations, or waiting for his rapture to avoid the AntiChrist-Bigfoot-UFO hybrid? Better that I suppose, with his mouth full, than spitting out his anti-Bush venom at every turn.
Just like we should have waited for people to revolt in Iraq?
How are they going to revolt against a well armed brutal regime?
It's a wonderfull thought, but impossible to do when the people are powerless and unarmed. Any uprizing in Iran is snuffed out, the people responsible buried. And no, you won't hear about it in the news.
The mullah Mafia is deeply rooted throughout society in Iran. You don't know who might report your activies to the Mullah mafia. In order to get rid of that regime, you have to make war which will resolve on the street just like Iraq.
Islam was forced on everyone in the ME. Iraq and Iran (Persians) were Zoroastrians, with large Jewish communities, and early Christians as well. Their culture has been slowly stripped away over the centuries, and they have become Arabianized, although they aren't Arabs.
All this happened within the last 1400 years I might add. beginning with the Muhammadan crusades.
prior to that, the whole region was considered part of the holy lands. The Crusades were attempts to retake the holylands back from the Muhammadans.
Revisionist historians like to ommit the Muhammadan (Islamic) crusades and paint the Christian crusades as a brutal offensive, rahter than defensive ones aimed at retaking the region from Muhammad's murdering caliphs.
Farah's political views seem inconsistent until you appreciate that his primary issue is Christianity. He doesn't separate his religion from his politics as Republicans sometimes do. This makes his views occasionally inconsistent with the Republicans and conservatives in general. Farah always defaults to the position that most effectively strengthens the propagation of Christian belief.
Then please explain the failure to guard our borders.
Explain the 15 million illegal aliens swamping our public services and draining our treasury (our tax dollars).
Explain the cutbacks in military procurement and the huge increases in global and domestic welfare.
At some point, I trust Joseph Farah more than I trust George Bush, and that point was reached long ago.
Tom, give me a call, I'm home and you've go my number. Its 7:37 p.m. right now
"Farah's political views seem inconsistent until you appreciate that his primary issue is Christianity. He doesn't separate his religion from his politics as Republicans sometimes do. This makes his views occasionally inconsistent with the Republicans and conservatives in general. Farah always defaults to the position that most effectively strengthens the propagation of Christian belief."
I agree with Farah on that, but I was puzzled why he would act as if Bush was about as bad as Kerry. I know Bush is not perfect, but there is not contest between Bush and Kerry.
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