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Jewish World Review ^
| May 30, 2002
| Michael Kelly
Posted on 09/10/2006 1:34:12 AM PDT by thegreatbeast
I wonder how many people rang in Memorial Day this year sitting in a darkened room watching HBO's documentary of the slaughter of the World Trade Center and weeping. This was a different sort of Memorial Day; these are different times. It is hard to always remember really how different they are, and that catches and sometimes trips up even people whose business it is to be sensitive to fresh rhythms. The other day, reacting to not much of a story about not much of a warning that President Bush was given before Sept. 11, Democratic congressional leaders went a-shrilling all over the place demanding to know What the President Knew and When Did He Know It, and Republican congressional leaders shrieked in response their horror that anyone would Question the Commander in Chief in a Time of War.
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We are now entered into a serious time, a time of protracted conflict. To some degree, we will be engaged in this alone; certainly in the sense that a leader is alone. And we must lead. No one else has the capacity to direct what will become a fluid and shifting alliance between the nations that wish to promote democracy, trade and order arrayed against the nations and extranational forces that wish to promote fascism, gangsterism and smash-and-grab anarchy. We have a president who seems to understand this, which is helpful. We have a people who seem to understand it too, which is essential.
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Tweak the names and this column from a writer who died in Iraq back in 2003 still works. And it still illuminates the key dilemma-- how to manage the work-around of September 10th leadership.
Reading this years ago, I thought we were entering a new epoch, that 'serious time' that Kelly described. Unfortunately only a minority of our fellow citizens have been able to discern the new realities. The Reids, the Pelosis, Schumers, Albrights and the Murthas have been successful in their misdirections. The general public has lost track of what we are doing and what needs to be done in the way of guarding our national security.
It's pretty clear that we're going to have to take another critical blow before the rest of the citizenry wakes from its slumber and realizes that we are in a struggle to the death. And that we need real leaders to bring us to victory.
To: thegreatbeast
It's pretty clear that we're going to have to take another critical blow before the rest of the citizenry wakes from its slumber and realizes that we are in a struggle to the death. And that we need real leaders to bring us to victory.
The London plot doesn't seem to have had any effect on the sleepy ones. How much more of a wake-up call do they need?
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posted on
09/10/2006 1:43:15 AM PDT
by
madconserv
(Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
To: madconserv
It's pretty clear that we're going to have to take another critical blow before the rest of the citizenry wakes from its slumber and realizes that we are in a struggle to the death.
The future doesn't hold much promise for escalation by the enemy.
The Religion Of Pieces
Especially made for the 9/11 Fifth Anniversary
5 Minute Video
Warning: Graphic Content
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posted on
09/10/2006 1:45:51 AM PDT
by
lmr
(The answers to life don't involve complex solutions.)
To: thegreatbeast
This may be slightly off topic (I apologize), but my husband, a retired military intelligence First Sargent, has been awakened several times per night, several days in a row, by nightmares.
In his nightmares he is stunned and horrified by a terrorist attack that occurs around the 9/11 date. He has no clue what kind of attack, as the dream always seems to start "in progress", and he is confronted only by the aftermath of the attack. He described the feeling as being paralyzed and not even being able to help. I've never seen him this worried by a dream before.
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:11:15 AM PDT
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
To: madconserv
You expressed my sentiments exactly - and I love your tagline!
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:11:26 AM PDT
by
vimto
(Blighty Awaken!)
To: lmr
Awesome web site. Sadly there is alot of moonbat garbage there also. More people need to see stuff like this. Maybe then they will "get it."
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:37:27 AM PDT
by
madconserv
(Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
To: vimto
I won't believe that Jesus will let us loose this war. He will not watch America walking around in burcas, he just won't.
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:44:45 AM PDT
by
madconserv
(Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
To: thegreatbeast
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:49:40 AM PDT
by
USMCVet
To: madconserv
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posted on
09/10/2006 2:53:32 AM PDT
by
lmr
(The answers to life don't involve complex solutions.)
To: thegreatbeast
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posted on
09/10/2006 3:11:52 AM PDT
by
saveliberty
(I'm a Bushbot and a Snowflake :-)
To: madconserv
The London plot doesn't seem to have had any effect on the sleepy ones. How much more of a wake-up call do they need? Americans don't really care about the rest of the world, something will have to happen in the USA again before they wake up and then it will only be for a few years.
To: madconserv
You speak of Jesus not allowing us to lose, and yet his alledged apostles here on earth at this time are allowing an ex-Iraqui President to speak at the National Cathedral an at Georgetown University. A heathen speaking inside Christs churches.
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posted on
09/10/2006 3:31:58 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: thegreatbeast
Good post. Thanks.
The enemy must be defined. It is Islam.
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posted on
09/10/2006 3:36:49 AM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: madconserv
"How much more of a wake-up call do they need?"
No matter what happens there will be no wake-up call. Have you already forgotten who was in the Whitehouse for eight years before our current President? It was a lying draft dodger that "Loathed" our military. Look at the two past democrat candidates for President, both hate our military. If this country suffers another major attack, the democrats will be celebrating and dancing in the streets. Just for the sheer chance that their party may regain control of the White House and Congress. No matter how many innocent Americans die, to them, it will be worth it.
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posted on
09/10/2006 3:58:48 AM PDT
by
Inge_CAV
To: sgtbono2002
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Do you know what he all said?
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posted on
09/10/2006 4:15:25 AM PDT
by
madconserv
(Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
To: ReformedBeckite
Perhaps you are right. But on the security issue, the Dems still can't touch Bush and that really is the point that the Dems missed in their 2004 and now 2006 polling.
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posted on
09/10/2006 4:19:47 AM PDT
by
saveliberty
(I'm a Bushbot and a Snowflake :-)
To: Inge_CAV
Have you already forgotten who was in the Whitehouse for eight years before our current President?
Blame America first crowd, blame Clintoon.
Then make sure you vote for the best republican you can and don't waste your vote by not voting.
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posted on
09/10/2006 4:23:15 AM PDT
by
madconserv
(Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
To: Inge_CAV
If this country suffers another major attack, the democrats will be celebrating and dancing in the streets. Just for the sheer chance that their party may regain control of the White House and Congress. No matter how many innocent Americans die, to them, it will be worth it. Our enemies are media-savy. They get PR among Muslims from attacking America, but they also risk giving a George Bush the PR he needs at the selfsame time. They have to have figured out the difference between a Democratic POTUS and a Republican one by this time. If we suffer another severe attack our enemies foreign and domestic will rejoice . . . and then start sweating our response. The public won't vote Democrat because the Republicans couldn't "be right all the time when they will know that the Democrats criticize like crazy but ultimately the Democrats are incoherent and don't even try to make the government effective at keeping the country safe.
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posted on
09/10/2006 4:32:32 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: madconserv
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies live at peace with him. Proverbs 16:6-8 As long as abortion and hollywood exist, I don't think we can say our ways are pleasing.
Just a thought.
To: madconserv
"I won't believe that Jesus will let us loose this war. He will not watch America walking around in burcas, he just won't."
Read the end of the Book. We win!
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posted on
09/10/2006 5:36:21 AM PDT
by
rightazrain
(Past is prologue.)
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