You bet we can win

NYDAILYNEWS.COM ^ | 21 May 07 | FREDERICK KAGAN

[Paperdoll]

>If we can’t defend our own borders, we will lose the war.... The first nuke detonated in an American city will be brought here by an illegal immigrant.<

You are definitely on the right thread, James.

[elhombrelibre]

Come on. We can be for securing our borders and for defeating terrorists who attack us abroad. The two are not mutually exclusive, so when you imply that they are you’re hijacking this thread for more of the same monomania about the border.

[James W. Fannin]

You know what Paperdoll, I want to win the war more than these summer patriots do, by far.

[lonestar67]

How much are you paid by democrats to be on these threads?

[elhombrelibre]

Kagan is a very astute observer of the world.

[Paperdoll]

Those suitcase bombs would be far easier to get over the borders or through one of our ports than they would by an aircraft, no question about it.

[elhombrelibre]

Summer patriots? How long have you been in Iraq, pal? And if you wake up with a headache do you blame the Mexicans?

[jrooney]

Name calling and thread hickjacking, not cool. I will correct you, all of us that support the Iraq war and the WOT terror want to win very much. You have no more desire than the rest of us.

[elhombrelibre]

The war on terror should be comprehensive; it must include securing our borders. But it doesn’t mean we can lose abroad because we haven’t secured the border. Both are necessary.

[jveritas]

Agree 100%.

[ExTexasRedhead]

I recommend we send this thread and information to all the talk show hosts. We need to get the word out. We have to bypass the MSM, which is irrelevant, and get the word out ourselves. If we had financial backing, we could print the truth on billboards all over the country including using Pelosi’s own words against her. Exposure is what any Liberal fears the most. There has to be a way to counter the propaganda and brainwashing being done by the MSM and Liberals.

[Paperdoll]

Absolutely!

[small voice in the wilderness]

FGS, can’t we discuss a little GOOD NEWS without the doom and gloom prophets of certain death and destruction begin their dire warnings?? IT’s bad enough coming from the other side over and over and over, etc. WE GET IT. And contrary to your quatrains of quagmire, we are making progress. Maybe not as fast as James W. Fannin wants, but progress, none-the-less.

[jrooney]

Great thread info. Thanks for posting it. We are winning in Iraq and will stabilize it. We will then bring home our brave troops with a completed mission and a victory in the WOT, with a partner for peace in the middle east.

[elhombrelibre]

There may be a long road ahead. See this link. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2085192,00.html

And http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837448/posts

[jrooney]

It may be long and bring much more death and destruction first, but we are winning and will win. Thank goodness GW will not waiver and thank goodness we have the best military to fight this war. The Iraqi’s are stepping up and fighting the good fight with us. God bless and speed to them all.

[elhombrelibre]

True, they are. And one of the strongest things we have going is the obstinate spirit Bush has had in this fight. Weaker politicians would have broken. In fact, war is about breaking the will of your enemy, and the Democrats will was broken after about two months. They’d give it all to Iran and al Qaeda and blame Bush if they could.

[ChessExpert]

Excellent article - thanks for posting.

Here is a video (previously posted by someone else) that tells the same story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLywXaXhB8M&NR=1

[Marine_Uncle]

At least we get these reports to offset what the L/MSM produce. The reality is Iran is so hell bent and scared that Iraq is close to destroying the AQIR and other elements that support the insurgency and offering to give most of the Sunni and Baathist a break and let bygones be bygones in the name of peace and future developement that, they shall continue to step up their efforts to in anyway disrupt such a thing from happening. After all. Iran has a growing number of people that truly hate the Mullah regiem and what it stands for.
They simply cannot allow for Iraq to become a stabilized budding democracy that can get tons of aid from the worlds banks and business sector to eventually become the jewel of the ME.
I interject these thoughts I commonly preach on yet again to add to what the author had to say.
As Sandrat mentioned in another post, something big may be ready to happen in Iraq. Perhaps so. But it may be not what some would expect.
I am not so sure the Iraqi Shia majority at this point mostly composed of Arabs, are willing to allow Persians to become their masters. And Sistani simply will not advocate anything that would have Iraq fall into their hands.
And Sistani is ultimatly the supreme Shia leader in Iraq.
When he takes action, things move. Sadr and Hakim and the like must bow to his demands and those of the majority senior Shia clerics in Iraq whom are Arabs, NOT Persians.

[jwalsh07]

This is exactly the reason that I am so angry with President Bush. He can not or will not understnd the nexus of the WOT and illegal immigration. His unfailing willingness to all ow the borders to remain sieves severely damages the argument that we are in a global war against jihadism. Somebody needs to slap him right upside his head.