[Lando Lincoln]

This is an absolute must read! Incredible pro-American piece. Bill Whittle has asked that we only post excerpts. You can read the whole essay at his site. His other essays are archived there also.

[Lando Lincoln]

Bill Whittle ping! Incredible as always!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

This might be of interest also!

TRANSCRIPT OF 3/30 CENTCOM BRIEFING

BRIEFER: GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS, CENTCOM COMMANDER

[BluH2o]

This is an absolute must read! Incredible pro-American piece.

My question ... where is the barf alert? Pro-American? Are we on the same planet here ... is this a joke?

[BluH2o]

Whoops ... sorry, I blew it ... didn't read far enough into the article, stopped at the president is a buffoon part and went into my rant mode :]

[tentmaker]

Absolutely, amazing incredible. If you read nothing else today, READ THIS NOW!
This is very long but worth every minute. It will inspire and educate and illuminate.

[MHGinTN]

As Chamberlain walked his line one last time, he smiled, and shouted, “Stand firm, ye boys of Maine, for not once in a century are men permitted to bear such responsibilities!" It is America that begins this current century bearing that responsibility, as a means for our own survival, for the preservation of this Union. Will our course in History establish peoples of likeminded goal? Only time will reveal it. But make no mistake, if we do not bear this responsibility of pre-emptive deterrence, this nations as it is will not much longer endure. The clash of civilizations will mutate US into something far different from the espoused values of our founding documents.

I have a suspicion that our armed Soldiers in the Persian Gulf feel the first inklings of this truth in their guts, yes guts (double entendre intended). Bravery before the enemy, realization welling up in their consciousness. We the People, viewing this morass from afar, had better awaken also, else the longer task ahead will faulter for lack of convinced resolve.

[Klein-Bottle]

Thank you,

What an incredible article. This really is a must read.

[tictoc]

Yes.

Inspiring beyond measure.

Thank you for posting the link!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

an absolute must read! . . . read the whole essay at his site.

Done!

Dittoes!

[PoisedWoman]

All freepers and everyone else should read this amazing piece! I'm sending it to my peacenik friend whose nephew. Narine corporal Patrick R. Nixon, was just announced dead in Iraq in hopes that he will pass it on to the young man's father, who is a veteran and who needs to know that so very many of us believe this to be a just war. Young Patrick did not die in vain.

I especailly like this paragraph in Whittle's piece:

In the fall of 1999, the Clinton Administration took the hugely unpopular decision to invade Afghanistan to root out Islamic terrorists organized by a largely-unknown fanatic named Osama Bin Laden. Operation Homeland Security cost the lives of almost 300 servicemen, and did long-lasting damage to our relations with NATO, the UN, and especially Russia. President Clinton, at great political cost to himself and the Democratic Party, claimed to be acting on repeated intelligence that Bin Laden and his “phantom” organization – whose name escapes me – planned massive and sustained terrorist attacks against the United States. Peace protestors gathered between the towers of the World Trade Center in September, 2004 on the five-year anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion, calling on President Gore to pay the UN –ordered reparations to the Taliban Government.

[reformed_democrat]

Wow!

Its going to take a while to absorb all that . . .
Thanks for posting this.

[Interesting Times]

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

It would be nice if there were a way around this. History, not merely my opinion, shows us that there is not. If all you are willing to do is think happy thoughts, then those are the consequences. If you want justice, and freedom, and safety, and prosperity, then sometimes you have to fight for them.

Whittle is a clear thinker whose words carry the crack of a whip.

[HanneyBean]

I am sitting here all alone at my computer terminal. I finished reading this editorial over 5 minutes ago, but I couldn't type a reply until now because I've been crying uncontrollably over this piece.
Bar none, this is the finest thing I've read yet on why we are fighting this war. It should be mandatory reading.
I'd encourage any freepers with family/friends in the military to print this out and mail it with your next care package.

[bart99]

Wow - just read the entire piece. What a powerful story...... and sharp rebuke to Sharon Sarran too. *s*

[BraveMan]

Truely an amazing piece. If you read one article this week, let this be the one . . .

[nutmeg]

bump - read later

[Alouette]

Whittle's "If the South Had Won" scenario:

So when I stood on Little Round Top and walked down that little hill for the last time that day, I saw more than dead and dying men littering the ground. I saw two nations where today there is one. I saw a Second Civil War, perhaps in 1909, or 1913, for these two countries would never peacefully co-exist – not with people as proud and energetic as we. I saw not seven thousand dead at Cold Harbor, but 70,000 cut down in an hour by machine guns in the Battle of Tallahassee, saw the gas attacks along the Cleveland Trenches that left half a million dead and dying. I saw, perhaps, the dimmest outlines of a Third American War, fought perhaps in ’34 or ’37 with millions of civilians killed in great air raids over Washington and Richmond. Of course, these millions never died. They lived long and full lives, most of them – and had children, namely us. They didn’t die, these millions, because the men at Cold Harbor and The Angle and Little Round Top did.

I got chills reading this.

[iceskater]

bump for later

[FierceDraka]

Bill Whittle is amazing. Whenever I try to write an inspiring pro-America piece, it degrades into an inflammatory rant. LOL

When I read the excerpt from the media's treatment of Lincoln, I first thought it was some CNN hack spewing Bush-hatred. Until I found out it was directed at President Lincoln, of course. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[reflecting]

a must read for us all Bump