Posted on 03/26/2003 4:09:38 PM PST by anncoulteriscool
The enemy within
Posted: March 26, 2003
6:55 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 Universal Press Syndicate
Just five days into the war in Iraq and the New York Times was hopefully reporting that despite a thrilling beginning, American troops had gotten bogged down. This came as a surprise to regular readers of the Times who remembered that the Times thought we were bogged down the moment the war began. The day after the first bombs were dropped on Baghdad, the New York Times ran a front-page article describing the mood of the nation thus: "Some faced it with tears, others with contempt, none with gladness."
Apparently some people greeted the war with gladness: The stock market had its best week in 20 years. What people do with their money is a rather more profound barometer of how people feel than any stupid poll, much less bald assertions by New York Times reporters. The Times subscribes to Arab-style proclamations in defiance of the facts. Like Saddam Hussein, the truth for them has no meaning. They say whatever honor commands them to say.
Five days after the Baghdad Times was morosely reporting that no one viewed the war with gladness, things had gotten even worse. In a single editorial, the Times said our troops were "faced with battlefield death, human error and other tragedies." The task "looks increasingly formidable." There were "disturbing events," and American forces were engaged in a "fierce firefight – an early glimpse of urban warfare." There were "downsides," "disheartening events" and "grievous blows."
We're losing this war! The Elite Republican Guard is assembling outside New York City! Head for the hills! The "fierce firefight" referred to in the editorial concerned a battle in Nasiriyah in which American troops took an entire city with nine casualties. That's what most people call a "triumphal a**-kicking."
CNN's favorite general, Wesley Clark, has also been heard to opine that our troops are getting bogged down in Iraq. His competence to judge American generals is questionable since his command was limited to working for NATO. We prefer to hear from American generals. Clark's contribution to international relations consisted of mistakenly bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. In his zeal to prevent troop casualties, he ordered pilots to fly at such high altitudes that the pilots complained that they were being forced to incur unnecessary civilian casualties.
On MSNBC, Forrest Sawyer compared Iraqi forces killing our troops to American revolutionaries and said the war was likely to turn into a "nightmare." Liberals are like the Republican Guard. They never quit.
American forces have taken two-thirds of Iraq and are fast advancing on Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers have surrendered or disbanded, thousands more have been captured, and thousands more have been killed. Meanwhile, American forces have suffered less than two dozen deaths. One can gauge the success of the war by the increasingly gloomy expression on Dan Rather's face. Indeed, Saddam's lieutenants are so demoralized that they have turned to lashing out at the Jews. Saddam's Vice Despot Tariq Aziz says the war is being fought only to "create something called greater Israel." Aziz seems to be positioning himself to run for Congress as a Democrat.
Most auspiciously, the Arab League has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the war. One can only hope the Security Council will agree to intervene. How would they stop us? Would France threaten us with war? Young men across America would have to enlist as a matter of honor. The Army could use as its recruiting slogan: "Are you afraid to fight the French?" Even liberals would enlist as a way to pick up glorious service with no risk of injury.
Not surprisingly, the New York Times gave Saddam's recent speech more exultant coverage than they did Bush's State of the Union address. Since the first bomb hit Baghdad, everyone at the Times had been itching to use the word "quagmire." Somewhat surprisingly, Saddam beat even Maureen Dowd to the punch, thus allowing the Times to use "quagmire" with abandon the day after his speech. Not only that, but according to Saddam – and the Times – the invading forces are "in real trouble." The Times isn't afraid we'll do badly in Baghdad; it's afraid we'll do well.
After the Arab television network al-Jazeera repeatedly ran footage of U.S. prisoners of war over the weekend, the New York Stock Exchange threw al-Jazeera reporters off the trading floor. They ought to remove the Times.
These things are so hard to judge with clothes on. Anybody have more evidence for the jury?
Dreamworks Nashville Darryl Worley. That's the best I can do. I'm still wiping the tears away.
Could it be they are one and the same?So you think that "JohnHuang2" is Ann Coulter's screen name?
Naw.Our most recent research data suggests that JH2 is:
...a cabal of college students operating under the nom de plum "JohnHuang2"
...a part of the the Internet that "went rogue," acquired sentience and is assisting us, or
...a salad shooter hooked up to a T-1
JH2 ping to post #66
I just got back from a Nashville Music site and heard a song by a fine young man named Darryl Worley.See also:
The name of the song is, "Have You Forgotten". It's a tear jerker and well worth the listen.Dreamworks Nashville Darryl Worley.
That's the best I can do. I'm still wiping the tears away.
"Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley
[Call Your Radio Station and Request This Song]
Posted by Doctor Raoul
On 02/24/2003 8:28 PM PST with 13 comments
Leo's Lyrics ^ | Darryl Worley
Someone needs to ask Weasley about what happened to his armored Mercedes-Benz staff car and how it was stolen when his wife borrowed it for a golf outing.
Oh, if they would only follow through on their promise.
Clintons favorite general...is it true that perfumed prince ordered his spec op units to the atf at waco... under the direction of his aceboonkoon billy boy clinton Americas first "beige" president
The DUer's are the lost souls of this generation. I'm sure you know that too. Just do as I do.
I go there laugh at their ignorance of current events, I take joy in their whining, and look forward to the day when their total lineup of posters drops from the current 300 (my estimate) to less than 10.
This happend to FreeDem (they couldn't even think of an original name, had to knock off the FreeRepublic name). They still exist, but as a site for pathetic losers.
Man, that brings back memories........I used to post there, somehow I included one of their monitors in a multiple emailing. I called them a bunch of losers, I think I said their women were too ugly to do anything but sit home and post. THEY POSTED MY EMAIL ON THE SITE! What a hornets nest that raised. I got kicked off, of course, but it was more than worth it. I grinned for days. Couldn't have worked out better if I had planned it.
I imagine many average Dems going to the site must be stunned by the amount of anti-American leftism there. What these average Dems should realize is that their party leadership is infested with similar traitors like Jim McDermott and others of his ilk (I've always wanted to use ilk in a sentence). Oh and furthermore, most of the posters are foul-mouthed louts who sabotage their arguments out of hand by their inability to phrase their arguments in terms not using profanity. In short they are also a good indication of the breakdown of civility in the U.S.
We should send Ann Coulter over to Iraq and let her kick Saddam's butt. She could do it.
What if the skinheads formed a satellite network and showed holocaust footage because they like what happened there. Would these skineheads be accredited on the NYSE floor? No. But because Al Jazzero is representative of a precious, non-western world culture, we must pretend they are legit.
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