[Alberta's Child]

The thugs who shot Berg wanted Edward Kennedy, John F. Kerry and every member of the appeasement establishment to see what they were capable of and take another shot of cowardice. They need to make sure Rep Murtha loadly decries the unwinnability of Iraq from the top of the towers (the one's still standing at least). This is their way of running a campaign add on behalf of Mr. Kerry.

This is where I think your analysis is incorrect, or at least where these Islamic mutants are dead wrong -- in two ways:

1. The United States is not the same as Spain or France. We are one of the few Western countries in which this kind of atrocity will be met with stronger public support -- not less -- for a violent, disproportionate response by the U.S. military.

2. If they are looking out for their own interests, they are doing this all backwards. A Republican in the White House is the best thing that could possibly happen to someone like al-Zarqawi, because a GOP president is hampered by hostile media exposure in ways that a Democratic president never would be. Whereas the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by the U.S. military is met by calls for the defense secretary's resignation in this administration, a Democratic president who ordered a nuclear strike in Fallujah would be praised in the media for his "strong leadership." Whenever the U.S. feels a need to do things like round up Japanese citizens in prison camps, drop atomic bombs on cities in Japan, send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to wage an idiotic, pointless war in Vietnam, etc. -- we're usually smart enough to use a Democrat to protect ourselves from leftist opposition.

[P8riot]

2. If they are looking out for their own interests, they are doing this all backwards. A Republican in the White House is the best thing that could possibly happen to someone like al-Zarqawi, because a GOP president is hampered by hostile media exposure in ways that a Democratic president never would be....

Not that a Dem president would ever actually DO anything.

[skip_intro]

I couldn't agree more with your point 2. It's right on the money.

I'm not so sure about point one, though. Because of media censorship of any unpleasant actions taken by the terrorists, whoops, sorry, I mean "militants", most Americans remain blissfully ignorant. The only atrocity I keep hearing of happened at a prison in Iraq under our control.

[skepsel]

Huh? It was the Left in his own party that drove Johnson from office and scuppered Humphrey in '68. What was idiotic and pointless about the Vietnam War was the way we waged it, not the underlying strategic analysis of the situation or the goals for which we fought.

skepsel

[JCG]

Whenever the U.S. feels a need to do things like round up Japanese citizens in prison camps, drop atomic bombs on cities in Japan, send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to wage an idiotic, pointless war in Vietnam, etc. -- we're usually smart enough to use a Democrat to protect ourselves from leftist opposition.

Get real. Those events were simply accidents of timing. All three of these Democrat presidents were elected (Truman as part of the ticket) because Mr. & Mrs. America thought they would get more in their wallets, not because of any desire for war things or to protect ourselves from leftists.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://12thman.us/media/jihad.rm (Requires RealPlayer)

Who is Steve Emerson?

[arthurus]

I think you got it.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Shhhh! They don't know this. They view us through their own window on insanity!