Posted on 11/24/2006 6:46:08 PM PST by kristinn
I've said many times to many people here in the Bay Area. This Iraq War is the resumption of hostilities following Saddam's numerous breaches of the treaty he signed at the end of GW1.
Cut-and-runners: You don't like what's happening in the hot spots of Iraq? How much better would you like that happening in our home towns?
One aviation writer I know (not a Freeper), was in Fallujah. A year-and-a-half ago, he told me emphastically that we won Fallujah. Wouldn't know it from the fifth column press.
We cannot go wobbly. We have a future to protect, as do the Iraqis. Al Qaeda and their cohorts are salivating at the thought of the United States of America showing that our collective spines have dissolved.
Who will accommodate them?
We have to continue killing them in sand-land. My choice would be to put all the PC bullsh!t aside and bomb the enemy the way we did 60 years ago to Dresden and Tokyo.
But just tonight I was watching The Day After on TV for the first time since I saw it's original airing as a college student in 1983. For those of you who don't remember, it was a made-for-TV movie about the effects of a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
I remember then how it was billed as a major television event. Virtually everybody I knew watched it that night. There were discussion groups after the movie aired, and commentary from just about every political pundit. And, of course, it was a thinly veiled attack on Ronald Reagan and his policy of rebuilding our nuclear deterrence.
There was no internet, no talk radio, no new media of any type to present an opposing view. The DBM was monolithic in it's support of the movie and it's opposition to Reagan. Yet somehow, Reagan still made his case to the American people and prevailed in 1984.
It gives me hope that it's still possible to defeat the Democrats and the DBM and win this war.
You're confused because it is a democrat technique being used by republicans. Those who support an unconditional victory in Iraq, those who feel we should allow our troops to do what they do best and that's fight to win, those who question whether the war should be fought by politicians as it was during Vietnam are being called "cut and run".
It is confusing because it's not honest
amen
I could spend the next hour or two researching past threads and come up with a much longer list, but I don't think I really need to do that, now do I? Sorry...your "gotcha" game didn't work.
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I agree with you completely. Liberals have no clue how handy they are for the terrorists. I bet Old Osama busts a GUT in his cave reading his subscription to the NYT.
And let me add something from another thread (the story of Army Capt. Jeffrey Toczylowski's post-humous $100,000 party for his friends and family:
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Later in the news story, Toz is quoted:
"Don't ever think that you are defending me by slamming the Global War on Terrorism or the U.S. goals in that war," Jeffrey Toczylowski wrote. "As far as I am concerned, we can send guys like me to go after them or we can wait for them to come back to us again. I died doing something I believed in and have no regrets except that I couldn't do more."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741294/posts?page=4#4
Are you suggesting that Iraq had made specific plans to strike on our soil? There is zero proof of that.
BUMP!
I don't see how it benefits us, the taxpayers who are financing the whole thing. Read the whole sentence:
"Name one good thing it has done for us to have him (saddam) gone -- and I mean for US, not for freedom or democracy or the Iraqi people or any of that BS."
Bump!
Slight OT: Did you or anyone see the latest episode of "Criminal Minds"? A brilliant piece of unvarnished story-telling that supported the use of cross-agency intelligence sharing, Gitmo interviews (this was a chess match in motion) and ultimately strategic deception to save thousands of lives.
I was shocked.
I wanted to say that badly. I have 100% faith in our troops, but I dont have enough faith that the politicians in DC will understand it before it's too late.
We still have Syria and Iran to deal with. And North Korea. Syria and Iran surround Iraq... I say bring the war to those bringing it to us and Iraq.
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