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Fleeing, facts and feelings
World Net Daily ^ | July 11, 2007 | Andrew Longman

Posted on 07/12/2007 1:07:20 PM PDT by FarRockaway

The schizophrenia of allowing emotional aversions to govern one's war policy cannot, even on a good day, inspire much fear in the enemy. Consider: When we launched war in Iraq (to prevent the terrorist-industrial-complex from have a willing nuclear benefactor in one S. Hussein) even the thespians at home insisted it was … correct. Indeed, the J.F. Kerrys voted for the war before they voted against it. But as soon as they began to insist withdrawal was the only brave course of action, they demanded that it was because we were, "not fighting al-Qaida in Iraq," and we had to "focus our resources on the true fight" in order to keep our "eye on the ball." But now that we are daily fighting al-Qaida In Iraq, their insistence is that we must never do that and must instead run away right now.

Casting our mind further back in the war on terror, we have know since the beginning that the game was to persuade the rank-and-file Muslim that the genocide-club faction of their party needed to be identified, rejected and exorcised. Indeed, Western republics have droned this from 9-11 onwards. But again, now that this very thing is happening in Iraq, the left drum is beat loud for fleeing the terror instead of cheering and helping the local Muslims as they fight it. Said another way, are Senate Democrats now really in favor of abandoning good Muslims when good Muslims are doing the right thing and killing al-Qaida?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; surge; terrorism
We abandoned the Hmong. We later arrested the Hmong plotting the overthrow of the communists. Are we now going to ditch the Sunnis in Anbar who have started to fight al Qaeda with us?
1 posted on 07/12/2007 1:07:22 PM PDT by FarRockaway
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To: FarRockaway

GREAT article


2 posted on 07/12/2007 1:28:11 PM PDT by kitkat (I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
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