Posted on 01/23/2007 5:16:43 PM PST by jdm
The majority of the people do not care about the affairs of this nation. They majority of citizens in this country do not know who their U.S. senator is or who is their state senator. All they worry about is will they get a paycheck and will they get to work on time. If they care about the country, it is what the media feeds them. For them it is for others take care of it all for them. We have created a nation of collectivist through our schools and our culture. May God help the individual who has the answer for the misery of other and cares about the affairs of this nation.
Is he talking about President Bush's (41)national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft? What chief of staff of the army? What former commanding generals of the Central Command? What Warnings? Even if there were warnings, that is part of the process. With war there is risk and failures. What Senator Webb fails to say is that the failure to act risks the security of this country. Unfortunately the Democrats have not put forth a military strategy for success. If they think it will come on the diplomacy level, they are mistaken. Only through military success will come the diplomacy.
"I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be President Dwight Eisenhower ..."
I respect General Eisenhower, but he was an administrator more than a combat general. Eisenhower was much more a politican than he was a soldier by the close of WWII.
As I've done before, if you want to know the mind of a true fighting general, than Webb need look no further than General George S. Patton Jr. General Patton's outlook on victory speaks to us today and stands in stark contrast to the majority party in congress. A few excerpts will suffice.
General Patton wrote this while a mere Major:
"All down the immortal line of mighty warriors the same is true. Hannibal, Caesar, Heraclius, Charlemagne, Richard, Gustavus, Tourraine, Frederick, Napoleon, Grant, Lee, Hindenburg, Allenby, Foch, and Pershing; were all deeply imbued with the whole knowledge of war as practiced at their several epochs.
But also, and mark this, so were many of their defeated opponents. As has been pointed out, the secret of victory lies not wholly in knowledge. It lurks invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning -- the warrior soul."
"The fixed determination to acquire the warrior soul, and have acquired it to either conquer or perish with honor, is the SECRET OF VICTORY.
G. S. Patton, Jr., Major
March 26, 1926"
You can read the whole thing here:
http://www.pattonhq.com/unknown/chap11.html
...to read it is to get goosebumps. We need leadership in Washington D.C. that possesses this "warrior soul" and it's clear that not one single Democrat and more than a few RINO's in Congress will ever be able to grasp the concept, let alone possess such a trait.
The Republican Party is also the party of losers, and that's the continuing problem with both major U.S. political parties! When the choices are "loser" Democrats v.s. "loser" Republicans, losers win every time!
Those four counties ARE Northern Virginia. They have a larger population than all those other red colored counties shown in your map combined. The vast majority of those living in Fairfax, Loudon, Arlington and Alexandria are NOT native Virginians. Even the congressman for this district, Jim Moran, speaks with a yankee Massychoosits accent.
Oh, and FYI, that is Webb's only redeeming quality.
Oh, and FYI, that is Webb's only redeeming quality.
That map has the GOP blue with the communist democrats in red.
And then immediately after making this point he says the dims are doing something about it. They increaed the minimum wage. Oh boy.
Then if the CEO pay gap is their measure and standard for this gross inequality, and their only action is to raise minumim wage, why didn't they raise it to $367.00 an hour so they could get closer to eliminating the CEO pay gap that exists today?
The Berlin Airlift happened from 1948 to 1949 when Jim Webb was 2 and 3 years old. I can't even remember what I was doing when I was that age so how does he remember taking a picture to bed with him?
The people around Reagan left a lot to be desired.
Wonder who vets these losers?
Seems like WEbb would be the prefect candidate for a dem administration. He can share his memories of Sir Edmund Hillary with her heinous, and the memories of all those churches burning with slick willie.
Facts get in the way of dem rhetoric. The truth is never part of the equation.
I think you have discovered why Democrats love him so much. They are without class and full of hate.
"This moron is an embarrassment to my state."
I feel your pain. I have Feingold, Kohl and my CongressLesbian Tammy Baldwin (not) representing me!
Did you catch Nancy Pelosi passing her gavel around "to the gals" and leaving Tammy in charge when she needed a bathroom break? Cripes. It was like they were passing a (sexual device) between them. *CRINGE*
And I say:
"It would not be possible in this lifetime to rebut the stupidity of Senator Jim Web!"
"Did you catch Nancy Pelosi passing her gavel around "to the gals" and leaving Tammy in charge when she needed a bathroom break? Cripes. It was like they were passing a (sexual device) between them. *CRINGE*"
No but the scary thing is God is watching us and He is just.
Well, there is a difference. We Republican types elect losers. Democrats on the other hand, get elected by losers, and I think they realize that all too well. Part of the problem is that politics as a career is a refuge for people who would otherwise be losers themselves. Where would Ted Kennedy be if he wasn't part of a political dynasty, wasn't a Senator for life, and wasn't a Democrat? He'd probably be worse off than many of his nephews.
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