Posted on 08/25/2006 5:03:27 AM PDT by Tolik
This frustration by the American public about our situation in Iraq was conceived and fueled by the leftist media. In the Vietnam war, the likes of Cronkite and Rather spewed their drivel to the folks back home that gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
In this war, the lies and treason by our own seditious press will be fought here.
You think Bush is just "winging it?"
What is necessary is an immediate call for an analysis of Muhammad and Islam. Is there any difference between Islam and other cults other than the sheer number of Muslims? In an attempt to deconstruct or decentralize the influence of a cult, do we care if we offend the leaders or members? This discussion must begin in earnest and in a way big enough to make Muslims sit up and take notice. We can no longer spend our lives living in a state of fear and it is time to turn the tables NOW.
I just don't think he believes what he says. Not that he is "winging it," it looks as though he is just going through the motions.
Seriously, there are a good number of people on FR who can better articulate our policy in Iraq and our reasons for being there, better than Bush does.
How do you win the propaganda war with a free and hostile press which regularly and happily trades accuracy of the enemy's acts for access and personal security?
Look at the unique case of FOX's Steve Centanni.
Why is everyone so terminally dumb about all this? It is like asking how you are supposed to win WW II against Panzer divisions without only rifles. Duh, you make your own armor divisions.
Nobody is even trying. They instead sit around and hope that the left "gets it" and "sees" that we are all "really" on the same side. We aren't on the same side. The left wants to rule the world and will destroy western civilization to do so. When a million Algerians died they said "Bien, vous sufferiez". When a million Cambodians died they said it was Nixon's fault, when he was the only one who tried to save them. When thousands of Iraqis are killed, they blame those trying to stop it. They are not on our side, stop waiting around expecting them to get it, realize they are implacable and murderous cynical enemies every bit as much as Al Qaeda, and get on the bloody field already.
Your post makes a very good point.
There is an old Doonsbury cartoon where Duke asks somebody in the NRA whether they are very busy over some proposed bill or other. The guy says, "Not really. It's pretty much a given that the NRA is unbeatable so nobody really tries anymore." Duke says, "At last, the perfect lobby!"
I think it's sort of that way with the Pubbies and the media. They don't even bother trying to get their message out anymore because the MSM will just twist it.
Maybe if more people like us wrote more letters to the editer, and the papers published them...
On the other hand, I've done a fair job of slamming my imaginary opponents in an imaginary debate during an imaginary run for office using techniques such as...
Oh, and I suppose your great idea for stopping terrorism would have been to apologize to Al Quaeda and drop the embargo against Iraq so Saddam Hussein could have even more money to build torture chambers with. You're supposed to be the party of the oppressed. What do you say to the formerly oppressed people in Iraq, the ones who used to see their wives and daughters taken away to rape rooms, the ones who used to see their loved ones fed feet-first into meat shredders, the ones who can't even visit the graves of their loved ones because their whole town was gassed and the bodies dumped into mass graves? What do you say besides, "I'm sorry we invaded your country and deposed the monster who made your daily life a horror?"
<Add a little righteous indignation here.> When I was young I was taught right from wrong. Maybe we can debate about abortion, maybe we can debate about homosexual marriage, but I sure hope you would not debate with me that using wholesale rape and torture to subjugate the innocent Iraqi people was an evil that had to be stopped. And if you would, I hope the people watching this debate right now would know better than to ever let you hold public office. Shalom.
If he were more clear (and especially) succinct...it would be....
He's way to wordy to be effective.
OHFORPETESSAKE!!!!! GOLDANGIT!!!
"TOO"
The Iraqi liberation was absolutely the correct, and most courageous decision "W" has made.
If Saddam Hussein was still in power, Iraq no doubt would be filled with "harbored" terrorists, not to mention that we likely would have seen regional all out war due to Hussein's prediliction to send SCUDS into Israel. (Israel would have retaliated, as they should)
Lastly, the violence has begun to subside in the past few months as Iraqi and US soldiers increasingly put the squeeze on the Baghdad area.
85-percent of the Iraqi territory is relatively peaceful (the Kurds and the Bassra area) and is already prospering under their new found semi-democracy capitalism.
This man is brilliant.
As for your example, two problems. One, relentlessly negative scary does not work, people tune it out. You can't say we are doing everything because the enemy is so incredibly evil etc. You can refer to it, you can't harp on it. Two, American republican hawks are not the spokesmen for this stuff. Don't pretend to speak for Iraqis, put actual living breathing unhypothetical Iraqis in front of microphones.
It is easy as pie for a commie-lib to slander a republican hawk. It is another thing entirely to slander an Iraqi politician working for his country's freedom who explains how his sister was murdered by their friends last week because she tried to buy bread in the market one fine summer morning. Followed up with graditude to protectors and indignation at defeatists who want to turn him over to the murderers. Point blank, in their face, 24/7, "you want to kill me, you haven't the right to say these things" etc.
It's his historical perspective that makes reading him so important. History isn't a sound bite as I'm sure you know. I guess I like a history lesson with my analysis.
However, I like writers who make their points quickly. This guy is WAAAY verbose.
I think our side loses sometimes because of the verbosity.
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