Posted on 12/27/2005 11:13:27 PM PST by FairOpinion
More MSM & Dem treason.
"The recently announced troop reduction is a reflection of the domestic pressure he's currently facing, not conditions in IRAQ."
Our domestic enemies are trying to make Iraq into Vietnam.
No, Iraq is another Normandy, and the newest gang of Nazi thugs is going down as surely and catastrophically as the last.
There are so many things wrong with this article it is hard to know where to start.
> According to analysts, questions that ended President Lyndon Johnson's hopes for a second term in 1968 are now threatening Mr. Bush.
Nonsense-on-stilts! Utter bollix! In what way is he threatened? To not get re-elected? President Bush is already on his second term, and cannot have another one unless you Yanks change the rules.
'Tis a minor technicality, mind. Sadly, it makes hash of the analysts' perfectly idiotic assertion. Doesn't Al Jazeera have any Editors?
WOW! This is going to be soooo coool!
If it is like Vietnam and Bagdad is like Saigon, Then Terhan will be like Hanoi and we can send fleets of B-52's over head day and night, around the clock!
Maybe we can do a 'secret war' by crossing the border in to Syria. (sarcasm off)
Al Jazeera doesnt have any idea what its talking about.
"You are about to embark on the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these past few months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Out home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together in Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in combat. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Dwight D. Eisenhower"
Sixty-two years later. Change the names, change the places: this could have been written yesterday. 'Tis a Great Crusade, and even the Bad Heads know it. They are shaking in their cheap sandals, too. The Infidels are coming, and Death and defeat await.
That's why they're so keen to call this "Vietnam" but it's not: its a full-on Crusade, like D-Day at Normandie. With the same outcome inevitable.
God bless the Troops!
God bless America!
God bless President George W Bush!
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So, it doesn't take long for Al Qaeda Media arm Al Gazeera to pick up on what DEAN had to say about Iraq..?
Enter CLARITY...
Tran Blasts Dean: Calls for Solidarity in Iraq
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536289/posts
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“its a full-on Crusade, like D-Day at Normandie”
Please stop using WWII analogy. You know it’s incorrect. We don’t have a draft today, unlike previous Wars.
Our DOD budget per our GDP is not what you would think it should be if we are fighting WWIII. We don’t have this Armanda of men wading across Iraq for the final push to remover terrorist, like we did in WWII.
Instead of raising the number of troops for the final “Crusade” we are cutting back. If Iraq is the center of the War on Terror then we should continue to meet them head on with the finest military in the world. Instead we are going to rely on the Iraqi people to defeat the remaining terrorist.
Ironic that you attack media misrepresntation, yet your title will give the casual reader the impression that the 'Al Jazeera' you are talking about is the well known tv news station.
Oversight on your part or deleiberate dishonesty?
FWIW, Al Jazeera's (as in the one everyone has heard of) standards of journalism are much higher than this pap.
Ah, but on further enquiry I see you have been corrected before when using Aljazeera.com as a source and representing it as 'Al Jazeera' with no rider that this is not the tv station:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499272/posts
So, I'll have to assume deliberate dishonesty.
> Please stop using WWII analogy. You know it’s incorrect. We don’t have a draft today, unlike previous Wars...
> ...We don’t have this Armanda of men wading across Iraq for the final push to remover terrorist, like we did in WWII.
What you say is true, to a point. What your argument lacks, tho', is a sense of proportion. Iraq isn't Nazi Germany, it is a bizarre enclave in the Middle East, with plenty of oil and not much fighting nouse. Hence there is no need for a draft. And no need for an Armada.
It is, however, very much a solid clash of wills and ideology, of Good against Evil. With this comes a resolute requirement for valor and courage from the fighting troops, exactly as was needed in 1944.
No, with due respect I stand by the WW-II analogy. Proportionally-speaking, it is quite accurate and appropriate.
Was this written by those two well known Al Jazeera reporters, Scott Ritter or the Ex Marine Captain?
Maybe the greatest failure of President Bush was not to mobilize us for war after 9/11. At that point he could have had a military of any size of his choosing, gotten industry in line and started a genuine world wide crusade.
He didnt and now we have what we have.
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