What our Commander in Chief has led us to in Iraq

ABC News ^ | 19, NOvember 2005 | Jeff Head

[tarheelswamprat]

The removal of the threat from Saddam allows Iraq to join the Gulf Cooperation Council and develop it further into a real challange for the Euros. The balance of economic power will shift southerly from Europe into Beruit and Dubai/UAE. Riyadh and Alkhobar may also grow as they trade the new wealth being produced in Jubail and the New Bashra.

You have raised an excellent point. Iraq is poised on the cusp of a tremendous potential opportunity to become what I have referred to as "the Jewel of the Middle-East". Just as the spark existed there six-thousand years ago in what we call the "Fertile Crescent" where the beginning of human civilization occurred, there is now also a fortuitous confluence of factors that could spark a similar rebirth of human achievement.

There are huge problems and obstacles to overcome, but there are also the advantages of great natural wealth: large oil reserves, fertile soil and a climate advantageous for agriculture, and the abundance of water from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Not the least is the Iraqi peoples themselves. They are much better educated on the whole than the populations of other countries in the region, they have already had a taste of the benefits of cosmopolitan Western-style civiliation (even before the Ba'athists took over), and the decades of oppression they have endured since have left them with a hunger for the freedom and opportunity to build a better life once again for themselves and their children.

All this potential is admittedly hanging by a thread right now, and could be snuffed-out if we allow the enemies of freedom, (whether they call themselves Ba'athists, Islamicists, Democrats, or other totalitarian wannabes) to regain the upper hand. That glowing spark of renascent freedom and economic opportunity (*Note - those two things are inseparable) must be fanned until it can burn on its own.

That is why we must stay the course. Furthermore, since the only way we can fail is if we lose the battle here at home, what that really means is that losing that chance for freedom and opportunity for the Iraqis also means losing it for ourselves. It might take a little longer here, but the direction will be set, and the outcome inevitable.

[E.G.C.]

Amen, Tonk.

[Jeff Head]

What he neglects to say is that the only on of the two (he and President Bush) who even can campaign for the Presidency at this point is...HIMSELF! He is the one who is clearly in campaign mode!

[bert]

....Iraq is poised on the cusp of a tremendous potential opportunity....

Very well stated.

There is tremendous opportunity. There is another thread today about Russian oil coming out via Turkey and Israel. Israel mind you. The benefits accrue to many besides just Arabs.

The lethargic Euros are doomed.

[BIGLOOK]

"and I am sure most of our soldiers past and current would spit on his shoes if given the chance."

Actually , we'd like to piss on his grave.


Hey Tonk and Jeff....I'll bring the beer.

[cardinal4]

Can you imagine the spawn of those two? Good Lord, how did Al-Sheehadi and Jackson attain the staus they have? One is a race baiting poverty pimp (A term I learned here) and the other is drugged out granola eater whose inability to speak in complete sentences should have wiped her of the media map a long time ago. Yet both of them command the media prescence that should be reserved for heros like soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, or the members of numerous medical guard units. These same units that treat Iraqis with the same dedication and care reserved for a wounded soldier. The dishonor displayed against people who sacrafices gives me goosebumps, is akin to John Kerry Kerry claiming he could have done a better job. It is my fervent hope that the line of MSM and Democrats waiting at the Pearly Gates are told in minute detail EXACTLY why they are being denied entry..

[Two-Bits]

Excellent. Of course, I would expect no less from you.

Bump this to the top

[TASMANIANRED]

You speak much truth.

[Lady Jag]

That party has become so disgusting, in its ENTIRETY, it should be charged with treason.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Bump!
Ms.B

[eleni121]

LOL>>>>but gross out too!!!

Add me to the list of those right wing females who cannot stand post menapausal lefty females who are content with premature evacuation.

[backhoe]

It's time, in the wake of last night,s historic congressional vote and the long overdue efforts by the GOP to speak plainly, to punctuate the historic nature of the victory our forces are winning in Iraq.

Amen.

Last night was the blueprint, the template to use, and the way to answer critics.

Time to take off the gloves. And to speak plainly.

[eleni121]

Jeff---Superb summary of the victorious freedom energizing actions of Bush-Cheney team.

Can you add the Afghan Liberation as well as the Khadafi - let me be gentle - change of heart.

[F-117A]

Bump!

[jim macomber]

Hear! Hear!
And telling it like it means getting nasty. So be it.
Now if only the Republicans in Congress will keep the pressure on...

[scottinoc]

Awesome post as always, Jeff. The hypocrisy from the left just makes my head spin sometimes. You spelled things out beautifully.

[Lady Jag]

LOL>>>>but gross out too!!!

Translation:   Fairly representative of the Democrat party in all its disgusting depravity (IMO).

[Barnacle]

Jeff, I'm pretty sure the 12 points you posted are national secrets...

At least that's the way the media treats them.

?;^T

[johnny7]

I speak straight as arrow...

[Zacs Mom]