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."
Rush Limbaugh (NOT) Live Thread Nov 24, 2006 (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743406/posts) — Please read about the last posts after # 200.
Just READ it in case you missed Rush's Sex/rape of a Lamb LEAD on his “Rush Limbaugh Thanksgiving Show”!
Tell me Rush need not GO AWAY!
Bless you .............
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
When the Queen of 'perception' trumps truth attacks me, I am honored.
Thanks, Blackbird.
With your insults, I have reached the pinnacle of success as a conservative, so now I can leave this thread while at the top.
Whenever you come to the point where you understand that there is a RIGHT and a WRONG, and not just your opinion based on your feelings, let me know, and we can talk.
Until then.......
Once we are attacked by nukes the game will be back on and when that time comes there will be no screwing around.
I thought not.
Are you serious? You really don't know what the mission is?
We think alike on this.
Gosh, I'm glad Im not the only one on the planet that can see that. (we got the gulf covered too)
And heres the bigger strategy:
If Iraq can be sucessfuly made into a democratic constitutional Rebublic(and that has been done but we have to hold it together) like Turkey, The ME will be divided by freedom from Turkey to the Persian Gulf
Dittoes.
Too much worry about 'establishing democracy' and not enough about 'establishing peace' so far, IMO.
I think that's the fault of the politicians, not the military, BTW.
I don't share your opinion of yourself, as you well know. As I unsuccessfully have asked of you before on other matters, show me where ANYONE has denigrated our Troops drama queen. And in case you haven't figured it out yet, being so far out on the loopy left, I'm a man, and my Conservative credentials are as solid as your liberal ones. One piece of advice? Follow your instincts. I think you know what I mean. Blackbird.
No worries. No problem at all. Peace
In other words, in your world, you can lie as long as YOU believe it. I don't have a liberal bone in my body and your incessant drumbeat of deceit doesn't change that reality.
It is the liberals who create their own 'truth' birdie......and you do that with the best of them.
Your liberal situation ethics education has been successfully implemented. As I've said before.....thank your teachers. They brainwashed you well.
I have the weekend off,life could'nt be sweeter.
Have a good one.
"mocking"...
Show, I repeat, Show someone/somehow "mocking"....
I'm waiting....
still waiting....
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