Posted on 12/12/2005 2:53:34 AM PST by Jim Robinson
That's right - their policies resulted in the mass murder of millions and they try to take the moral high ground by mischaracterizing who is doing the actual murdering and that we are trying to kill the murderers - a distinction that they are incapable of making.
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live. Thoreau
Yeah, just like the gov't lied to us about the Viet Cong being Communists, when they were REALLY just patriots who wanted to run their country in their own unique way. Anyway, as the commies told us at that time, we were just there for the oil (or was it for the tungsten, I forget).
Fast forward to Iraq. Different war, same commie script.
Iraqi's were involved in the 1993 WTC bombing.
Sir: You are standing with those using the stick of intimidation, weapons of mass cultural destruction (WMCDs), Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, and Dean.
President Bush has a solution and it is called Winning the WOT, a stance 85% of Americans favor rather than your advocacy of 'cut and run'.
Sincerely, XXXXX, a true American
There is such a thing, imo, as a feedback loop that gets created by a traumatic event in our lives. Certain sights, sounds, smells, etc. trigger the loop to be replayed in our memories. Someone, for example, might have 9/11 triggered in their memories by the sight of a huge cloud of dust reminiscent of the rolling cloud that engulfed that region around the WTC when the towers fell. Part of the treatment for PTSD is to break into that feedback loop with another more positive message.
That doesn't mean, though, that the Iraqi insurgency should not be connected with Al Qaeda. The 2 basic reasons for this is first, that the old Ba'athists did participate with the terrorists that Saddam did harbor, aid, and abet within his own country. Zarqawi was protected in Iraq PRIOR to the Iraq War. Second, those old saddamites are now participating with al qaeda.
The connection between old Iraq and al-qaeda is not a nefarious scheme designed to play on a trauma feedback loop.
It is a fact.
"Washingtons public relations experts have 'justified' the cold-blooded murder of 100,000 Iraqis and the daily humiliation of an entire nation."
This boy just justified all of Saddam's murders, insulted Iraqis and called American troops 'murderers' because America has given him a free pass to do so, signed by John F. Kerry. Swift Vets only mission was to keep Kerry from CIC and any further action on their part, they feel, would cloud their reputation. It is time for someone else to pick up that torch, and I would wholeheartedly support efforts by Free Republic to be that 'someone' in a concerted effort to get the message out that this behavior will not go unchallenged by any silent majority. The White Flag video was put together by a grassroots organization of the GOP. SW laid out the blueprint, all FR need to is follow it. I've asked a couple FReepers and got support on this idea, What say you?
Do you have a cite?
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