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What our Commander in Chief has led us to in Iraq
ABC News ^ | 19, NOvember 2005 | Jeff Head

Posted on 11/19/2005 8:31:44 AM PST by Jeff Head

Edited on 11/19/2005 10:06:39 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]

Regarding Senator John Kerry's comments this morning (November 19, 2005) on Good Morning America's Weekend edition, where he said of President Bush and the War in Iraq, "What we need is a little more commander-in-chief, and a little less campaigner-in-chief,”...let's see, Mr. Kerry, President Bush took us to war in Iraq as the Commander in Chief. In the midst of that war, he defeated you in a presidential election where this very issue was the principle part of the deabte...and he defeated you with the largest voter turnout in the history of this country, by a clear majority. In that time and since, our military and diplomats, under his command and leadership, have:

  1. Completed the fastest, most effective military advance in military history.
  2. Defeated the 4th or 5th largest military in the world in quick fashion.
  3. Freed 30 million people from abject tyranny.
  4. Deposed one of the most ruthless tyrants of the last fifty years, along with his Ba'athist party.
  5. Destroyed all attempts by the remaining Ba'athists and their terrorist allies to regain the upper hand, killing the tyrant's two sons and capturing him in the process.
  6. Secured the vast majority of the nation and handed sovereignty back to the Iraqi people on schedule.
  7. Held the 2nd largest, freest vote in Iraqi history to vote on their own interim government, in the face of and despite terrorist attempts to thwart and disrupt that process.
  8. Had the interim Iraqi government develop and introduce a republican constitution on schedule, in the face of and despite terrorist attempts to thwart and disrupt that process.
  9. Held the largest free vote in Iraqi history to approve the constitution that the interim government proposed, with even the Sunni minority now participating in that vote, in the face of and despite terrorist attempts to thwart and disrupt that process.
  10. Assisted the Iraqis themselves in putting the former tyrant on trial for his crimes.
  11. Are preparing for what will undoubtedly be the new largest vote in Iraqi history to elect their own government under their new constitution, again, in the face of and despite terrorist attempts to thwart and disrupt that process.
  12. Trained an Iraqi military that is now actively taking major support and lead roles in fighting for their own free nation against their terrorist enemies, losing many more of their own lives, and spilling more of their own blood in that process than our own soldiers.
No, Mr. Kerry, your lame attempts to paint this historical mission and tremendous victory in negative terms and throw that negativity on the very leader who had the foresight and the commitment, in the face of abject corrupt opposition abroad and here at home, do not "carry" (or should that be "Kerry") any weight of moral certitude whatsoever. These attempts by yourself and others to try and use your political position to influence us to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory and, "cut and run", are nothing Moore than odorous political gas passing in the wind.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; bushlegacy; bushlegacyiniraq; cic; cutandrun; d; iraq; iraqifreedom; liiberalchickenshts; oif; wariniraq; waronterror; winningiraqifreedom
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To: editor-surveyor
Post it as widely as you so desire. If you are so inclined...point back to this thread on FR, or to the article on my home page.
241 posted on 11/20/2005 12:45:37 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Zacs Mom; PhilDragoo; Prime Choice

fabulous.


242 posted on 11/20/2005 1:16:38 PM PST by bitt ('"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Boazo

can we get in "Macho, Macho Man...I wanna be a Macho Man"...


243 posted on 11/20/2005 1:19:20 PM PST by bitt ('"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Jeff Head
Since it's Sunday, I'll just add a loud "AMEN" (maybe a Hooah, too). Nice concise post.
244 posted on 11/20/2005 1:21:59 PM PST by SergeantsLady (I support my soldier by supporting the mission he believes in...)
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To: SergeantsLady
Amen and Hooah are both absolutely appropriate and acceptable to me!

We all need to raise our voices and set our feet against the wholly political and shameful efforts of the few in our own government and amongst our own people who would endanger our forces and us all for their political gain and ideological advancement.

245 posted on 11/20/2005 1:31:43 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Lady Jag

That guy in the green shirt,ah... what's he doing? LOL


246 posted on 11/20/2005 2:44:29 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Boazo
That guy in the green shirt,ah... what's he doing? LOL

Oh, nothing that most people in his party don't do incessantly. They'll do anything but an honest day's work.

247 posted on 11/20/2005 3:40:10 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: Lady Jag

"Hey, I report, you decide!"

LOL!

Check out some great photos here. Click on thumbnails to enlarge.

http://operationminnesotanice.com/photos.html


248 posted on 11/20/2005 4:20:27 PM PST by JLO (http://operationminnesotanice.com/)
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To: PhilDragoo

Good one, PhilDragoo!


249 posted on 11/20/2005 4:42:42 PM PST by JLO (http://operationminnesotanice.com/)
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To: JLO

That picture is awesome!!!


250 posted on 11/20/2005 5:44:55 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: PhilDragoo

VERY nice post Phil!!


251 posted on 11/20/2005 6:04:45 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Boazo; Registered; Zacs Mom

Registered made that one! Yes - awesome skills all you have!


252 posted on 11/20/2005 6:30:31 PM PST by JLO (http://operationminnesotanice.com/)
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To: JLO
Thanks so much for that link!!
What an awesome group of picts of a totally awesome group of people!!!


These 2 really cracked me up!!!


but this one brought a lump in my throat and made my eyes blurry with tears!

I absolutely love this one!

253 posted on 11/20/2005 7:36:17 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom; JLO
This one says it all!
254 posted on 11/20/2005 9:25:04 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: PhilDragoo

Excellent job, Phil!


255 posted on 11/20/2005 10:17:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Watch the rats re Iraq in 1998: http://media1.streamtoyou.com/rnc/111505.wmv)
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To: Zacs Mom
Excellent!

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.



An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly.

But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very hall of government itself.

For the traitor appears no traitor.

He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims,
and he wears their face and their garments,
and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men.




He rots the soul of a nation.

He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city.

He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared."

Cicero, 42 B.C.



256 posted on 11/20/2005 10:22:41 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Watch the rats re Iraq in 1998: http://media1.streamtoyou.com/rnc/111505.wmv)
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To: Grampa Dave
Thanks - BTW, did you see this post The (Very) Big Lie?? A must read!
257 posted on 11/20/2005 10:27:41 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

Thanks, I had not read that.

Hopefully all of the big lies will be turned back on the liars, and it will destroy their political power in this country.


258 posted on 11/20/2005 10:34:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Watch the rats re Iraq in 1998: http://media1.streamtoyou.com/rnc/111505.wmv)
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To: Jeff Head

Thanks for the ping, good buddy. And keep up the good work! Mega ping coming up....


259 posted on 11/21/2005 12:08:35 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Jeff Head; xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ...

Jeff Head MEGA PING!


260 posted on 11/21/2005 12:09:22 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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