Posted on 11/07/2006 11:45:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson
We do indeed live in interesting times.
I believe our resolve is about to be tested like it's never been tested before and I pray we're up for it.
The Democrats and the leftist media see this election as a mandate against the president and the war. They are about to pull out all the stops in their mission to totally demoralize the American people. If they succeed to the point we pull out of Iraq before the Iraqis are strong enough to defend themselves, I'm afraid it'll be the Killing Fields all over again. Only this time much much worse and much closer to home.
Praying we have the national resolve to resist the enemy within. Praying we maintain the will to continue the fight against the global jihadists. Our very right to survive as a nation and a free people depends on it.
Our president and our troops are going to need our prayers and support now more than ever.
God willing, America will survive!
Took the GOP to the woodshed? LOL. Enjoy your victory.
No cause, or country is ever lost as long as there are right-thinking people ready and willing to fight for it.
Things may seem dark now, rather like they were for me on May 2nd 1997, the morning after the Conservative party was so crushingly defeated by Tony Bliar's rebranded Labour party.
Step back, observe, regroup, fight on.
Do not despair, it is not over. It never will be.
Starting in January,we are about to see what Dubya is really made of. The dems have out the long knives and Bush is gonna get cut. A bunch of cuts.
If anyone thinks comments about President Bush were
as vile as trying to market an assination movie about him,
watch the ungodly horrific crap coming.
Now the media knows they did effect an election (and how) and Air America is the anti Rush ,I expect Air America to stay on the air and Matthews and Olberpaid to get stay awhile bonus contracts.
As PO'ed as I am right now, I echo your impeachment conviction.What a waste of time and energy that would be.
It goes back to what works and what doesn't. Going into a war with any goal other than to achieve a precise military victory via elimination of the enemy OR the unconditional surrender and laying down of arms does not work. Show me a war the U.S. fought and won in which it did. Going in and trying to fight with one hand tied behind your back with the idea to rebuild a nation does not. Show me one U.S. war in which it did. We tossed aside the military wisdom of Generals Washington, Patton, McArthur, Ike, Sherman, Abrhams, Forrest, and many others who knew what the price of war required to purchase victory.
People want to have Iraq both ways and it can't be done. Either wipe it out and be done about it which should have been stated clearly by congress, or get out. I don't like option #2 especially since American Service members have died in combat so IMO that option is off the table. But I don't think option number one can include rebuilding a new Iraq either especially while terrorist cells will be operating there with what we build them. This is not the culture of Germany or Japan we are dealing with or any European or Asian culture that understands Surrender or STOP. The hate inside that nation is as old as our Bible. That is reality. They understand might and charity of their enemy is a weakness to expliot in their eyes. Charity has no place in war especially to the enemy. We have forgotten that as well. No charity was even shown our own people in our own Civil War.
We're not going to make the three factions get along even if we if we stay there till 2100. Which comes back to what is the purpose of war? War is a punishment of an enemy nation. You can not punish and reward at the same time which is what's going on.
Solution? Do as we did up till 1945 and fight the same. Fight a war as if our very survival depended on it. That means you take out the nation and all infrastructure that could be used in the future as a threat. It wasn't done in Iraq in Gulf War one and it isn't being done now.
Iraq should have been history a year ago and our forces in the draw down stage or likely home with a victory under their belts. The Iraqi tribes should be fighting each other with rocks now. The whole thing has become a diplomatic boondoggle including the trials. Saddam isn't dead yet and the longer he lives the longer people fight in his name. A U.S. military tribunal should have happened and his execution been over and done. This man was the reason why we went there to start with according to the congressional declaration. Should we have turned Hitler over to Germany? Remember they put him in power. It was insane the way it was handled.
Our nations concept of war and how we fight changed right after WW2 and it wasn't for the better. Our education system was invaded by Marxist and unfortunately they brainwashed several generations into believing war can be won by playing by the enemies rule book. Many are now elected office holders making defense policy.
I do not believe in using troops to oversee nation building. That is not the purpose of a United States member of the armed forces. Their job is to defend the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. That means their job is to kill. You want nation builders? Call Carter but leave our armed forces out of it. Untie their hands and let them be soldiers and get the job done.
Its strange. The media and left (same thing) are saying that our party rejected their own because they disagreed on the war yet the exit polls showed the Republicans overwhelmingly supported the war.
If there was ever a no win election for conservatives then this was it.
Did you catch his concession speech? Ahh it was music to my ears. And who knows if they find enough discrepancies to overturn just one senate seat, then the win by Corker will have been crucial.
Sigh... GOD HELP US! The whole country has gone stark raving mad.
I missed it! Ford is one person that reminds me of a snake oil salesman and am so glad he went down to defeat!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Just absolutely could not disagree more! There will a lot of one-term wonders losing in 08. Two years of RAT agenda will slap people on the side of the head and clear out the dementia, much like as happened after seeing the first two years of Clinton.
I think it's more of a mandate against not being decisive in Iraq. A decisive victory may not be in the cards with the resources we've employed or possibly with the military tactics we've employed since the fall of the Iraqi Army, but a decisive victory would have been irresistible to the American people.
He kept pointing to people in the audience and saluting. He doesn't know how to salute and it came off looking awkward.
When Viet Nam fell, the US accepted about 1 million political refugees (of their 16 million population).
If Iraq and Afghanistan fall due to the Dems, that's 50 million people who would be instantly eligible for political asylum in the US. Do we extend equal fairness to Sunnis and Shi'a here?
ROFLOL! I bet we don't see a rerun of Ford on that one!
I remember. Bragged about not voting. Well, Arnold won big time.
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