Posted on 08/28/2003 6:23:09 AM PDT by shortstop
The war in Iraq isn’t being lost in Baghdad. It’s being lost in America.
In Iraq, it’s going quite well. In America, we’re too stupid to realize that.
So let me explain.
These idiots on the news who count each fatality from the announced end of major fighting are doing more to hurt the cause than all the suicide bombers in Baghdad. One uses explosives and the other uses lies.
The kind of lies that are told by diversion and distortion.
The simple fact is that of course we have sustained more casualties since the actual battle stopped. On the battlefield, they were on our turf. In Baghdad, we are on their turf.
We are a conventional military. Lots of tanks and troops and nobody can stand up to us. Rolling over the Iraqi military, we were in our element.
But in the chicken-crap terrorist world of shoot and run, the jihad boys are in their element.
When we were in a position of advantage our casualties were lower than they are when we are in a position of disadvantage.
So, naturally, we continue to take casualties.
Does that mean we’re losing?
Only if you need a blow dryer and a TelePrompTer to do your job.
I would point out that during the conquest of Iraq, we took over a nation, advanced hundreds of miles into enemy territory, toppled a military numbering in the hundreds of thousands, overthrew a government, took control of a good chunk of the world’s oil supply and put vast amounts of our power on the ground in somebody else’s country.
On the other hand, in their guerilla war, the jihad boys have accomplished not a freaking thing.
We still own the nation, we still own the oil, we’re still in charge, they’re still out of power, we still operate freely a long way from home.
They’re like a dog chasing a car. Lots of noise, plenty of bravado, not a damn bit of difference.
So the daily television score of who died when means nothing, except as a needless insult to the families of brave Americans 100 times more noble than the pretty boys on TV.
Here’s another lie: There is no link between Iraq and terrorism.
In fact, the war with Iraq is one of our most important tools in protecting America from terrorists.
Here’s how: Before we went into Iraq, the target of international Muslim terrorism was American civilians in the United States. Since we went into Iraq, the target of international Muslim terrorism has been American servicemen in Iraq.
Good.
More than good. Wonderful.
Thousands of these jihad boys, all coked up on their gutter religion, have streamed into Iraq to be martyrs against the infidels.
Good. The more the merrier.
On September 11 they attacked us where we were weak. Now we’ve tricked them into attacking us where we are strong.
The idiots.
Think about it. Their objective was to attack women and children, businesspeople and flight attendants, in our homeland.
So we changed the venue.
We started breaking the furniture in their neighborhood.
Now all the little Osamas are sneaking into Iraq to take on G.I. Joe.
You pick: Do you want them attacking unarmed citizens in America, or trained and equipped soldiers in Iraq?
Personally, I like our odds now a lot better.
Personally, I think it’s worthwhile and successful. In every battle there are casualties, even in a battle like this. That is to be accepted and understood.
Two facts that escape the self-appointed gods of the media.
Many have died and more will do the same. But each will have sacrificed to directly protect the United States of America and its people. There is a direct link between Iraq and terrorism against America.
The link: As long as we tie the savages up in Iraq, they won’t be coming after our families back home.
Score that a win.
And anybody who says different doesn’t know his head from a hole in the ground.
More like two years (at most) I think, and the intensity of the resistance started to die off pretty quickly after Germany's surrender. Still, in general you are correct. I posted a thread about it:
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| Posted by Stultis On 07/04/2003 3:47 AM CDT with 26 comments History Today (via FindArticles.com) ^ | October 2000 | Perry Biddiscombe History TodayOct, 2000Minutemen of the Third Reich.(history of the Nazi Werewolf guerilla movement) Author/s: Perry Biddiscombe AS WORRIES INCREASE about neo-Nazi and skinhead violence in Germany, it is worth remembering that this type of terrorism is a nasty constant in the history of the German radical-right. A case in point is the Nazi Werewolf guerrilla movement founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1044, which fought the occupying forces of Britain, America and Russia until at least 1047.The Werewolves were originally organised by the SS and the Hitler Youth as a diversionary operation on the fringes of the Third Reich, which... |
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Thank God there is still some analysis in media beyond the normal sensationalism, democratic party socialism and sexz.
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
I draw your attention to the fourth verse, of which most have never heard. That "war's desolation" can be awfully damned desolate, as any who've seen it can attest. Two years ago, a rat-pack of islamic murderers brought a small sample of that desolation to New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Most Americans didn't much care for the experience. Since then our military establishment and intelligence community have, properly, been tasked with tracking down and destroying the supporters and brethren-in-crime of that rat-pack. It is appropriate that "war's desolation" be brought back to those who visited it upon us. It is good that islamic murderers be forced to deal with American Soldiers in their own lands rather than being free to attack Americans in America. And it is the vocation of the soldier to "stand Between [his]lov'd home and the war's desolation". He is the first line of defense; the armed civilian is the last.
Some people just don't seem to get it...
In large part, thanks to the media. Back then we had ABC, CBS and NBC to "tell us what was happening" - no FoxNews - no Internet, etc.
"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
Thank you, Mr. Twain!
Which will do next to nothing to protect against most terrorist attacks. You're sitting there in the restaurant, packing two or three handguns, a stun gun, and a shotgun with extra shells. Then a taxi loaded with C4 plows through the front window and detonates. That's some very dead well armed citizenry.
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