Perpetual War!
Posted on 11/24/2006 6:46:08 PM PST by kristinn
I'm reading an astonishing number of comments on Free Republic these days by posters who have joined the ranks of the anti-American left in calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Some claim to have military experience, some claim to be patriotic Americans and some claim to be smarter than the rest.
These posters are joining the Murtha-Rangel-McDermott treason caucus. Oh, they say they love the troops, but their decision to abandon them in the field speaks otherwise.
Three years ago, the United States led an international coalition to rid the world of one of the worst regimes on the planet. Saddam Hussein was an international terrorist: He financed terrorism, he trained terrorists and he harbored terrorists. He waged war on Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel. He waged war on the people of Iraq, including genocidal campaigns against the Kurds in the north and the marsh Arabs in the south.
Saddam successfully subverted the Oil-for-Food program and was wearing down support for continuing the sanctions keeping him in check.
He had numerous contacts with al Qaeda over the years. He tried to assassinate a former U.S. president. He maintained research capabilities to implement nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as soon as the sanctions were lifted. There is evidence that some of these programs would have been operational within a year even with the sanctions in place.
The decision to remove Saddam and his regime as part of the Global War on Terror was correct.
Three-and-a-half years after Iraq and the world were liberated from Saddam and his terrorist regime, there are those on Free Republic who are clamoring to give up, surrender, cut and run, stab the troops in the back, betray the Iraqis, betray our allies in the GWOT, spit on the graves of our fallen heroes and join Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and Ramsey Clark in bringing about America's defeat in the GWOT.
It's only been three-and-a-half years--only six months since the freely elected government in Iraq was formed. In that time, what has been called a mini-Marshall Plan of construction and reconstruction has come to fruition. The Iraqis have held three national elections, they have held numerous local elections, fourteen out of eighteen Iraq provinces are relatively peaceful and stable.
Six months ago, when the Iraqi government was formed, the experts said the war would be taken to Baghdad because our enemies in the region could not abide the example of a free, democratic society in the Middle East. For once, the experts were right. The battle of Baghdad has been a prolonged Tet Offensive style operation of headline-grabbing attacks intended to sap the morale of Americans and Iraqis alike.
From what I've been reading on Free Republic lately, a lot of Freepers have fallen for the enemy's ploy and are howling like barking moonbats for our immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Some of that talk is couched in talk of 'we're fighting a PC war like Vietnam!' The soldiers I met in Iraq recently told Debra Argel Bastian to pass on a message to the Vietnam vets criticizing the war: With all due respect to your service, this is not Vietnam. It is not being fought like Vietnam. Please let us finish our mission.
But our enemy is playing the Vietnam ploy to great benefit. They know they can count on the American and world media to broadcast their propaganda. They work with leftist Americans to sabotage the war effort at home. They know these leftist Americans have allies in the Democratic party. They know they do not need a military victory--only political and psychological victories are needed to defeat America.
You guys are playing right in to their hands. Congratulations.
There are those who argue that murder and dictatorship is the mindset of the Middle East and that will not be changed by our actions. Funny how those who smugly denigrate the Arab peoples' capacity for freedom forget the wholesale slaughter of millions of Westerners by Westerners at the hands of Western dictatorships just a few generations past.
I hear complaints that the Iraqis aren't standing up. Yet, to use one common example, when police recruits are slaughtered in bombings, Iraqis line up the next day at the same recruiting center. The insurgency is small in number, but they are able to do enough damage on a daily basis to stretch out the time it will take to secure the whole of Iraq.
At this time of our testing, the American people are starting to go wobbly. Sadly, many Freepers are too. Our troops and their Commander-in-Chief are not, thank God. It's only been three-and-a-half years. The progress made has been phenomonal. Throw in the towel now, and you'll just have the terrorists follow us home. Everyone knows that, including you. I'm not willing to pay that price, not now, not ever, but you are.
Let me close by offering similar sentiments recently offered by two men 'in the know' on the situation in Iraq who are not giving up. First, Kurdish Regional Government Prime Minister Barzani: "When I was in the United States recently and read the negative news in the Washington Post, New York Times and in the network TV broadcasts, I even wondered if things had gotten so bad since I had left that I shouldn't return."
Next, Gen. Abizaid: "When I come to Washington, I feel despair. When I'm in Iraq with my commanders, when I talk to our soldiers, when I talk to the Iraqi leadership, they are not despairing."
Have you checked that out, bobby?
Thanks for the ping ohio....I read some of this thread last night and don't care to read anymore of it....I don't need this angst in my life right now.
My husband served in the Navy 53-56..My grandson is in the Navy right now, I think you are wrong.
I hope so!!LOL... I just posted another one !
That's too bad. It was a learning experience for me.
FReegards.
Interesting that you should use troll words to mock me with.
Speaks volumes about you, IMO......
I think you need to reread what kristinn said.
Thank you.
If you hawks were even one-quarter as good at arguing as you are at sloganeering, you'd have convinced the American people long ago.
I wonder why they didn't buy it on November 7?
I appreciate it.
We'd put a heavy burden on fine young people. We are derelict in our duties if we do not afford them the wherewithall to accomplish what we ask and demand of them.
Perhaps we can arrive at the point in time when the American warrior is so respected (and feared by the enemy) that no adversary dare challenge them in the field of battle.
Until then, we must back them with all the support we can.
The best thing for us military families to do might be to read the good articles and ignore the trolls and losers who are here arguing with it.
Perhaps FR is not the home it used to be for the military, mystery. Perhaps the Bush haters on the right and the left have taken over, and now are trying to destroy the support for the military as well.
kristinn's article is awesome, though, isn't it?
I know without a doubt that the enemy is savoring the Dem victory and upping the violence to force us out of Iraq.
And with some stupid, cowardly freepers, their tactics are working.
Does that make you a 'dove'..........or just a loser?
Every time I read how we should bomb the innocent until the resolve of our enemies is broken I have to wonder how many of our "Carpet Bombers" have studied war as we have fought it. This country choses it targets wisely and efficiently, fights it's wars to suffer the least amount of casualties on both sides while achieving it's tactical and strategic objectives.
The radical loser (Long Read)
Der Spiegel ^ | 1/12/05 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694568/posts
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Contrary to what the West appears to believe, the destructive energy of Islamist actions is directed mainly against Muslims. This is not a tactical error, not a case of "collateral damage". In Algeria alone, Islamist terror has cost the lives of at least 50,000 fellow Algerians. Other sources speak of as many as 150,000 murders, although the military and the secret services were also involved. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, the number of Muslim victims far outstrips the death toll among foreigners. Furthermore, terrorism has been highly detrimental not only to the image of Islam but also to the living conditions of Muslims around the world.
The Islamists are as unconcerned about this as the Nazis were about the downfall of Germany. As the avant-garde of death, they have no regard for the lives of their fellow believers. In the eyes of the Islamists, the fact that most Muslims have no desire to blow themselves and others sky high only goes to show that they deserve no better than to be liquidated themselves. After all, the aim of the radical loser is to make as many other people into losers as possible. As the Islamists see it, the fact that they are in the minority can only be because they are the chosen few.
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I can't think of anything the terrorist would like more (other than America cutting and Running) than America Carpet Bombers (insert your favorite middle east city here). These carpet bombing/nuking type of statement are what I would expect to hear from a 7 year old, not from adults, particularly CONSERVATIVE adults, We're supposed to know better and to be able to think, not just feel.
And there is evidence of the success of the enemy right here on this thread.
In the end, when victory is achieved, those who had faith and stood with honor will have reason to be proud.
May God Bless those who defend us all, despite our moments of weakness.
Amen, Thumper1960
Perpetual War!
Perhaps the Bush haters on the right and the left have taken over, and now are trying to destroy the support for the military as well.
ONLY if we let them. I for one refuse to let them.
Read it again.
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