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W's blunder for all time

 

Sunday; December 7, 1941 - 7:21 AM:

 

Private George Elliot, assigned to Pearl Harbor's new radar station, is casually going about his duty. Suddenly, the young soldier cannot believe his eyes!

 

On the circular sweep of the screen, a large swarm of airplanes - numbering in the hundreds - is approaching Oahu from the northwest. In panic, the befuddled private immediately phones his commanding officer and reports the alarming discovery.  

 

Lieutenant Kermit Tyler, roused from his slumber, hastily informs Elliot it is only a formation of six B-17 bombers, dispatched from the States, on their approach to the islands. 

 

Inexplicably, Private Elliot fails to mention that it was far too large an image to be just six Flying Fortresses, and nothing more is mentioned about it.

 

At 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor begins. The Japanese aircraft have achieved complete surprise.

 

Within the first ten minutes, all eight battleships moored adjacent to Ford Island have taken either bomb or torpedo hits.

 

8:10 AM: the giant battleship, USS Arizona, is struck by an armor-piercing bomb dropped from 8000 feet by a Japanese "Kate" high-altitude bomber. The fast-plunging projectile penetrates the ship's deck - striking the forward ammunition magazine.

 

The apocalyptic explosion is so thunderous it shakes the entire harbor - rendering many survivors of the attack deaf for life. 1700 sailors are immediately incinerated, or slowly drown after the mighty ship settles into the shallow water. 

 

8:27 AM; Suddenly, a second wave of 170 Japanese planes - launched 30 minutes after the first - appears over the harbor. They concentrate their attacks on the airfields at Hickam and Wheeler, and go about strafing Oahu until their fuel runs low.

 

9:53 AM: less than two hours after it began, Pearl Harbor lies in shambles: burning ships, oozing dark fuel oil. Screaming, horribly-burned survivors are everywhere, floating upon the water.

 

Final toll - 2,403 killed; 1,178 military and civilian wounded. The Americans have paid a bloody, fearful price.

 

Twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet are sunk or damaged. Aircraft losses are 188 destroyed and 159 damaged - the majority hit before even having had a chance to take flight.

 

In the shocking  aftermath, America is suddenly startled out of its neutrality slumber.

 

The entire nation is both dumfounded and profoundly angered; unbelieving that an enemy could be so dastardly as to pull off a Sunday morning sneak attack -slaughtering both civilian and military personnel alike.

 

Now, the no-longer-pacifist nation suddenly realizes the reality of war has finally hit home.

 

The next day, cries of revenge resound around the nation..."Remember Pearl Harbor!" is chanted amongst the long lines of the millions of young men who have flooded the nation's army, navy and marine recruiting offices.

 

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the "author" who had conceived the cowardly attack, would write in his dairy.."the sleeping giant had been awakened..." 

 

A furious Franklin Delano Roosevelt - in his declaration of war before Congress - describing the debacle as a "Day of Infamy," angrily declares..."America, in her righteous might, will win through to ultimate victory, SO HELP US GOD!"

 

In retrospect, one could aptly describe the Japanese as terrorists, who, without warning, struck a unsuspecting naval installation with a precisely-executed, well-planned sneak attack - hoping to cower a pacifist America into a conditional agreement; promising no resistance to Japanese territorial expansion in the Pacific.

 

But the aggressors had figured wrong - DEAD wrong:

 

America would go on to crush the determined Nipponese warriors; and after 3 1/2 bloody years - culminating in two atomic bomb attacks- it would be Japan who would unconditionally surrender.

 

Then, in remarkable co-incidence, near-exactly 70 years later, another determined foe would strike an even-deadlier surprise air attack, and collapse the two mighty Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the heart of New York- killing 3000 - sending shockwaves reverberating around the world

 

Once again, an unsuspecting America, in her righteous indignation, sought revenge:

 

But unlike Franklin Roosevelt, President George W. Bush fails to capture the nation's mood  - taking on the role of cheerleader, rather than the aggrieved angry commander.

 

Yes, it would be George W. Bush - bullhorn in hand - standing atop the smoking rubble (wearing a fireman's hat), reliving his college days when he was once a male cheerleader.

 

With his characteristic, mischievous smirk, Mr. Bush addresses the nation as if leading a Harvard cheer: "The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.'' (rah-rah)

 

But what if Bush had instead reprised the role of Roosevelt, and angrily declared all-out war on al-Qaida?

 

What if Bush had vowed to a seething American public that Osama bin Laden - the cowardly author of the attack- would be pursued to the ends of the earth..."SO HELP US GOD!"

 

Picture a fiercely-aroused nation, led by a President who's unrelenting goal is to avenge the three thousand victims of 9-11 - not to be deterred!

 

Once again, the recruiting stations are flooded with thousands of volunteers chanting..."Remember 9-11!"

 

Within weeks, Commander-in-Chief Bush has garnered an overwhelming army of 500,000, champing at the bit to go to Afghanistan, and destroy the Taliban-run, al-Qaida training centers -hell bent to hunt down Bin Laden no matter how long the mission takes!

 

With a force this large, and a determination so fierce, would not the Americans have eventually found bin Laden? And would not the Taliban have been routed to the point of never daring to oppose us again?

 

Indeed; had all this been done in the aftermath of 9-11, how would the geopolitical map of the world look today?

 

- Afghanistan would be a stable country, with its own security force, and a population ever-loyal to America for having cleansed the nation of the Islamic extremism, and horrid misogynist violence of the Taliban.

 

- the world would be in awe; the Islamic extremists would have finally gotten the memo that - like 70 years ago  - if you dare attack the United states, you will cease to be that which you were before.

 

- the Muslim extremist world realizes the futility of attacking America, and decides to "go back to the drawing board," turning their attention to Indonesia.

 

But President Bush - proving to be the fool that he is - did none of the above. He failed to capture the moment. He chose to treat the attack of 9-11 as worthy of retaliation, but not all-out war.

 

Then inexplicably - for reasons known only to him - "W" decides to turn the nation's attention away from bin-Laden - now declaring (lying) that "it's Saddam Hussein who's the menace - the evil one to be captured!"

 

On the night of January 29, 2002, George W. Bush chose to turn a State of the Union event into a mockery of the those who died on 9-11:

 

His bizarre "Axis of Evil" address would go down as perhaps the most calamitous speech that any President has ever made in American history: its permanent after-effects equal to losing a world war.

 

POINT: the United States becomes a splintered, weakened, bitterly-divided nation; arguing forever about having invaded Iraq for no other reason than "Halliburton"..."Cheney"..."Blackwater," and "getting Iraqi oil."

 

POINT: in the 2006 midterms, the division and partisanship results in a disastrous, democratic-majority Congress; and ultimately, the swearing-in of Nancy Pelosi, the most cold-blooded, Machiavellian Speaker of the House ever to wield the gavel.

 

POINT: after 5 years of a seemingly pointless, costly war, a disenchanted America- thoroughly wary of ALL Republicans - decides to "take a chance" and elects a president who is unknown, unvetted, indecisive, and with little experience.

 

POINT: Failing to capture bin-Laden now emboldens the entire Muslim extremist world: Afghanistan in pandemonium. Bin Laden planning his next 9-11; a resurgent Taliban in control of the Swat valley in northern Pakistan, threatening overthrow of the country, and capturing its cache of atomic weapons.

 

POINT: On the homeferont, Muslim extremists now carry the attack to military bases and recruiting centers. Two are shot (one dead) in Little Rock; thirteen murdered in Killian, Texas. A leftist-slanted, sycophantic media fails to call the attacks for what they are: part of a worldwide radical Islamist plot to make the families and personnel of the US military feel unsafe - discouraging volunteerism and re-enlistment.

 

Sure, Mr. Bush (and his upholders) can claim..."look at all we accomplished in Iraq!"

 

Yes, look at what has been accomplished:

 

Nancy Pelosi; Barack Obama; Harry Reid; Eric Holder; MSNBC; a resurgent al-Qaida and Taliban; an emboldened, radical leftist, out-of-control Congress; a national debt eventually to swamp the nation; and ultimately, the threat of full Socialism.

 

Have a wonderful life Mister George 'Dubya' Bush. America will suffer for a hundred years from your foolhardy blunder.
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The "Obama Doctrine"...defending America by cutting the military


Publius Flavius Vegetius was a noted military strategist from the late Roman empire.

Despite having a name sounding more like a star from the Food Channel, Mr. Flavius was also a renowned author, whose famous work, "Epitoma Rei Militari" (A Summary of Military Matters) served as a guidebook for military commanders for centuries, long after its "publishing" (circa 390 AD).

Nothing is known of his life or station beyond what Flavius tells us in his work, which carries his most famous and well-known quote ..."Si vis pacem para bellum"-- "IF YOU WANT PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR"!

It seems that ole Flavius had the right idea way back then, for it's as though nothing has changed in the world for 1700 years hence -- a nation not prepared for war nowadays will most surely not long experience peace.
 
But apparently back in the mid 90's, Mr. slick-Willie Bill Clinton never got the memo, who's reckless actions with China then have now greased the skids for a possible future war.
 
In spring 1996, China had responded angrily to a foolhardy decision by President Clinton to allow Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit the U.S. So Beijing began "scheduling" missile launches in the Taiwan Strait as part of Chinese war games. These tests were clearly meant to intimidate the people of Taiwan.

But in it's own show of force, Washington dispatched two aircraft carriers to the strait of Taiwan --the Independence and the Nimitz-- to ensure peace and fulfill its role as Taiwan's security guarantor.

The display of U.S. might led Beijing to back down; but Clinton's gunboat diplomacy  nearly succeeded in blundering the US into a Sino-American War-- a fact which has since been smothered by the liberal press.

Clinton had failed to realize a most salient point: the Chinese have always taken Taiwan more seriously than the Clinton administration could have ever imagined; and of course, adding to the miscalculation, our intellIgence at the time was faulty.

After Mr. Clinton's dire provacation, China, instead of going to war, vowed revenge.
The Chinese had learned a lesson-- it was time to muscle up.

Beijing decided that it would go all out to develop a way to  wipe out the nearly invincible stature of the "umbrella defense" shrouding all American attack carriers. The result? The deadly DF-21 missile.

Recently, details have begun to emerge from "Jane's Fighting Ships" of this 'kill weapon' to target & destroy U.S. aircraft carriers-- an anti-ship ballastic missile with up to a range of 2000 km. The sheer size of the DF-21 enables it to carry a warhead big enough with the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one initial strike.
 
But what's most intimidating is the incredible speed at which it flies upward (making it highly invulnerable to interception). The DF-21 rises above the atmosphere at Mach-10, reaching its maximum range in less than 12 minutes. It then plunges rapidly with "smart bomb" guidance capability to strike a moving target at sea-- thereby rendering the US naval carrier umbrella almost useless.

Imagine all US carriers-- going the way of the World War II battleships-- becoming obsolete almost overnight... all through the courtesy of Mr William Jefferson Clinton.

And the Chinese are manufacturing thousands of the DF-21's, with long-on odds of getting through any possible US defenses by sheer overwhelming numbers.

But how could the Chinese have come so far so fast, when back in 1993 , China could barley boost a satellite into earth orbit? Well take a guess. Mr. Clinton sold critical missile technology to the Communist Chinese in return for campaign contributions.

Back in the early 90's, Chinese "boost vehicles" were grossly unreliable. On average, only one satellite launch in four could be expected to succeed.
 
American companies, especially those in the communication & satellite businesses, had been paying hundreds of millions of dollars to launch their products on U.S. boost vehicles.  Then Mr. Clinton came up with a clever deception: for "economic efficiency", he encouraged US companies to collaborate their space technology with Red China, the premise being the cost of using a Chinese booster was just $25 to $85 million per satellite launch, as opposed to four times that in the US.
 
Thus, in pursuit of this "efficiency goal," US space tech companies such as Motorola, Hughes, and Loral fatefully decided to share America's most sensitive missile technology secrets such as  "altitude-control systems", and how to test fire a "kick motor" for the booster's last stage.

The perfection of this kick motor gave China the same American technology to launch MIRVs (multiple, independently targeted re-entry vehicles), and "hydra-warheads" that vastly increase the firepower of nuclear missiles.

The intricate details involved in the transferring of such critical military technology have since been covered up and scrubbed from all official US documents. But the damage had been done; the 8 years of the Clinton presidency coincided with the most massive breach of military security in American history.

Mr. Clinton, in his best imitation of Pontius Pilate, has since dismissed the horrendous technology transfers as being... "beneficial to commercial satellite technology".
 
Good job slick Willie...hope you enjoy the memory should the US and China ever come embroiled in a World War III.

Now, in fierce catch-up mode, China is modernizing its military at an astonishing rate. And besides the "foreign aid" from Mr. Clinton, the Russians have paid dearly for trusting the Chinese in selling them airplanes, their Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker-D carrier-borne fighter.

But China-- though reverse-engineering-- has copied the hard-hitting Su-27 Flanker fighter and its engine parts, re-designating the plane as the Shenyang J-11, an advanced fourth-generation fighter now serving with the Chinese Air Force.

Now the Russians, furious about this security breach, have subsequently suspended all further sales, having also miscalculated the growing ambition of the Chinese toward their avowed goal of displacing America as the world's #1 military power.

And our charming and trustworthy Chinese friends have all but  come out and declared it:

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable: when using our forces, we must seem inactive: when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder and crush him.”
– Colonel Sun Tzu

On January 11, 2007, in a surprise event, the Chinese launched a missile from a mobile transporter-erector launcher (TEL) armed with a kinetic kill vehicle, and destroyed their own weather satellite from a low, polar orbit. This missile was launched with no advanced warning from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The Chinese are going all out to develop weapons to shoot down US satellites--something else that the liberal media has chosen to censor.

These weapons endanger not only intelligence and military satellites, but civilian networks as well-- precisely the reason they have been developing and testing these weapons, and as Chinese Colonel Tzu has stated-- “bring the opponent to its knees.”

And China has stated as much in a chilling excerpt from another military author:

In reading from Colonel Li Daguang’s "Space Warfare"... “Destroy or temporarily incapacitate all enemy satellites above our territory...counter US missile defense systems... maintain our good international image by covert deployment... utilize space strike weapons concealed and launched only in time of crisis.”

And now, can you just picture all the ever-confident Chinese generals gathered together in conference, watching a video spliced together of Barack Obama's "greatest hits"-- his testimony to unilaterally disarm America.

The Chinese cannot but help to draw one obvious conclusion: our new anti-president is another gullible liberal lily, following in the footsteps of Carter & Clinton, who also grossly had misjudged the intentions of our enemies.

Recall the words of "optimism" from then-candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail last fall... "As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people".

But unfortunately, defending America is the one campaign promise Obama has recklessly decided not to keep:

Promise # 1: "I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful defense spending.”

Translation: Trillions for unemployment, welfare, state government subsidies, for ACORN, the illegal aliens and everything else-- but CUTS for the military.

Promise # 2: “I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.”

This is right at the very time that the ballistic missile danger to the US is real and growing; i.e. Kim Jong IL and North Korea.

Promise # 3: “I will not weaponize space.”

Our banking, communications and navigation systems almost entirely depend on satellites. Space lines of communication are as essential for commerce today as sea lines of communication were two centuries ago. Does Obama mean he wouldn’t provide defensive systems for our satellites? Apparently so.
 
Promise # 4: “I will slow our development of future combat systems.”

Our combat systems are becoming ancient. Our air force is flying B-52 aircraft, which are based on 1950s technology. Our army is driving 1960s and 1970s vintage vehicles. And older equipment is expensive, time consuming to maintain, and potentially dangerous, not to mention obsolete.

And while Mr. Obama blithely decides about setting aside national security and grossly cutting our military-- what about the economy stupid?

Following the installations of the policies Obama puts forth, the defense & aerospace industry will have to shut down a large percentage of their factories & offices; and the employment of hundreds of thousands of defense workers will be affected across 50 states.

The budgets from these programs comes directly from the Congressional Appropriation Acts every year, so the money would have been there had Obama decided otherwise. But with this reckless stoppage, cutting such a large portion of our technical work force leaves a huge gap in the gross national product.
 
But according to the "Obama Doctrine", what is more important is bowing down to the Taliban, North Koreans, the Iranians, and our good  friends Putin and the Communist Chinese. And since they're all so straightforward and peace loving, why should we need to spend on defense?

"Si vis pacem para bellum".  But will Obama bring war by preparing for peace?

Mr. Obama’s views reflect that of a knee-jerk liberal academic, who not only exhibits a shocking lack of knowledge of history, but also thinks that the US is the primary threat to world peace.

His naivete and his statements suggest a shocking misunderstanding of national security issues. And like Clinton, he could blunder America to the verge of a war with China-- a war they've been preparing to fight for almost 15 years!

But Mr. Obama does exhibit one unique presidential strength...he's not afraid to speak with our enemies, who see him as a weak appeaser, who violates Flavius' law-- preparing for peace and inviting war.

Thus Obama feels the need to Increase government spending on "more important" things like green energy initiatives, failed public schools, national healthcare, higher taxes, bigger government (except the military) etc.

And with co-president Michelle by his side (who may be actually calling the shots) he will march us on towards one world government under the UN, and his dream of a socialist utopia.
 
And what is scarier? Korea launching ICBM's unchallenged, Iran working on nuclear weapons capability, or Obama proposing to weaken our national defense? If he gets elected again for a second term, we could be defending ourselves with bows and arrows.
 
Both Obama and Clinton, along with the majority of liberals in Congress, have made their position very clear-- surrender is an option.
 
Obama isn't exactly going to go down in history as the next Teddy Roosevelt. Instead of carrying a big stick, he has chosen the path of your typical liberal lily, who will defend gays, the poor, the unemployed, the rights of women, criminals, illegal aliens, the prisoners of Gitmo, Hamas, Hezbollah, Castro, and everyone else -- but not the United States.


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Obama (ala' Carter) turns the other cheek


1976-1980: The Carter years. It was when the Alaska pipeline opened; it marked the brief 4-year reign of the disco era. And it also marked a not so amazing run of some of the most ill-conceived and embarrassing presidential decisions in U.S. history. 

It was in 1980 that the Haitians increased their desperate attempts in rowboats to make it to south Florida-- then disappear into the immigrant underground-- thus setting the precedent for the uncontrolled immigration that plagues our southern borders today.

1980 was also the year of the infamous Miami "Liberty City" riot, stoked by the exoneration of four white policemen who had killed a black insurance man riding a motorcycle. When President Carter visited the riot-torn area a few weeks later, the residents angrily booed him and threw rocks and bottles at his motorcade.

But mainly, 1980 was the year of Fidel Castro's great revenge on America:

After a bus carrying Cuban citizens intentionally crashed into the gates of the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, the passengers claimed asylum. Within days, 11,000 Cubans sought refuge at the Peruvian Embassy. President Carter announced that the U.S. would accept 3,500 refugees if they were first processed in Costa Rica.

Not to be outdone, Castro announced that any Cuban who wanted to leave could do so by boat through Mariel harbor.

Carter, feeling empowered, foolishly proclaimed: "We welcome the Cubans with an open heart and open arms!" The result? It was the 'Mariel Boatlift,' that eventually brought 150,000 "happy-go-lucky" Cubans to Florida, most of them the dregs of society.

Unbeknownst to the naive Carter, his open arms-open borders policy proved disastrous (and to this day its effects are being felt).

It provided the Cubans a welcome relief valve for all their prisons, insane asylums and the wandering homeless, as Castro opened the doors to his most desperate criminals and lethal felons, bidding them..."adios" -"see ya"--"don't forget to write!"

Then the "law of inintended consequences" (the result of Carter's naive liberalism) took hold.

By the reckoning of Lieutenant Mike Gonzalez, who back then was the head of  Miami Police's homicide bureau, ''In that one year (1980), we got 50,000 additional killers and thieves.''

The effect of the so called "Mariel invasion" can be told in the statistics. In the first half of 1980, Miami had 75 murders. Then in the last seven months, there were 269 murders. In 1980-81, Miami had the highest murder rate of any city in the world! So many bodies piled up in the morgue that the Dade county coroner had to rent a refrigerator van to handle the overflow.

The Marielitos had indeed made quite a splash.

Of course back then, Carter "doggedly" chose to stick to his liberal dogma of equality and human rights, which had already led to the overthrow of the Shah, and cascaded into 444 humiliating days of America's bowing to Iran during the hostage crisis.

But liberals never learn; they always put idealism ahead of patriotism... and sanity itself.

And Carter's record was unblemished...he batted "1,000". Throughout his presidency, he was liberal putty in the hands of Torrios from Panama, Khomeni from Iran, Breshnev from Russia, and finally Castro--always giving our enemies the benefit of the doubt-- and receiving a foreign policy black eye in return for the favor.

And the icing on the cake was unleashing the Marielitos upon an unsuspecting America, who wreaked their murderous havoc upon every city where their nationwide migratory path descended.

And who was it that said history repeats? Now 3 decades later, the parallels are eerie, almost uncanny in resemblance. And once again the problem concerns Cuba.

Barack Obama now faces many of the same sort of radical Islamist problems that Carter did, but has thus far demonstrated no concrete capacity to govern within the best interests of the nation, because it's that same liberal compulsion-- to be fair-- that's paramount in his mind.

And like Carter, will he unleash another callous group of unscrupulous killers upon us--who's sworn objective is their jihadistic exhortation: "Death to Satan America?" 

But according to a spokesmen in the Obama administration: "Promptly determining the appropriate disposition of those detained at Guantanamo Bay is a high priority for the president." 

Attorney General Eric Holder has submitted a legal declaration outlining President Barack Obama's efforts to close Guantanamo Bay within a year, and "determine" where to place the 240 people held there.

Translation: "We think releasing these "freedom fighters" will look good before the eyes of the world".

In his brief, Holder maintains... "It is still unlawful to hold people indefinitely without charge. The men who have been held for more than seven years by our government must be charged or released."

Translation: We're gonna let these terrorists slide, because to hold them "without charge" would be a violation of their human rights.

Obama (in his best Carter imitation ) seems to be saying, "So we welcome to America all you terrorists with open arms; what can we do to make you more comfortable?"

And as Carter disastrously once beckoned the Marielitos, Obama, in closing a facility harboring some of the most murderous psychopaths on the planet--without first knowing what he's going to do with them-- seems to be courting déjà vu.

Is Obama inviting another Marielito-style debacle? In an obvious bowing to the left, it was his decision to close Guantanamo in the first place.

And while we're at, let’s do it "right", and go way-way far left! Why not invite the head honcho--Osama bin Ladin himself --to the White House in an "outreach to the enemy" gesture? Put down new prayer rugs in the East Room. Invite him to stay overnight in the Lincoln bedroom.

And in a "further outreach", why not also invite all the soon-to-be freed Gitmo "ex combatants" to the White House, like a victorious world champion sports team? After all, according to anti-President Obama, these were the people who were captured and victimized by our racist, imperialist, and oppressive invading American soldiers, and who were unjustly captured and held against their will, and had to suffer everyday in Gitmo with three square meals, library, exercise courts, and endure the warm, breezy, subtropical climate-- and were provided the freedom to practice their Muslim religion--and secretly plot the demise of the USA (in their cold-blooded minds) upon release. 

So Obama is giving them their wish and will have his attorney general grant them all hearings. And the ACLU will defend them in court.

Yes we can! We will turn the other cheek.

And what this all (in effect) amounts to is a tacit "declaration of abandonment" of our own soldiers, who's buddies were those attacked and killed by these same people, and who heroically risked their lives to capture and imprison these Islamist desperados in the first place.

So it's high time we apologized and "made up for it", and hope the rest of the world gets the "Everybody is supposed to love us now" memo.

And ironically, bolstered by a supremely stupid decision by our leftist-leaning Supreme Court, this whole filthy mess could have been avoided were it not for a 5-4 decision by the treasonous judicists who voted for the legal rights of these radicals. Maybe now they'll help them to get jobs in the Obama administration.

 Yes-- it's all in the name of "detente" with the Muslim world, as we eliminate the term, "war on terror", and replace it with a Carter-esque policy of appeasement.

Like they say: "Carter' was so devoted to peace, that he risked a big war." And Obama seems to be following the script.

And by inviting bin Ladin into the Whitehouse, maybe Obama could bypass the war with the Taliban, withdraw from Afghanistan, and resolve the nuke problem with Iran. And who knows? Maybe Hamas might switch to launching peace feelers instead of rockets at the Israelis!

Who are our major enemies in the Middle East? Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. What are we doing about it? Be nice!  And by making nice to our enemies now as Carter once attempted to do, surely all the nice Muslims will return the favor.

And now let us all "outreach" to the enemy and close with the Obama creed:


I am Obama, champion of the meek;
Attack America, and I will turn the other cheek.
We will appease rather than take a stand;
while I transform America into a socialist land.
Long live Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes;
as I uproot the Constitution, and reinterpret what it means.
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The "Judas syndrome"...why liberals love to betray America


Ah the paradox that is Barack Obama:

He has stubbornly refused to acknowledge the triumph of the 2007 surge in Iraq, but is now calling for an "instant replay' of that wildly successful strategy in Afghanistan... (quote) “There may be some comparable opportunities in the region," Mr. Obama said.

So he has decided to employ his "outreach" strategy and write a love letter to the 'moderates' in Taliban-land. Too bad it wasn’t a month earlier. Mr. Obama would have been able to include a valentine card.

Now all of a sudden, we’re to kiss and make up-- forget that the Taliban has been providing Osama bin Ladin with safe harbor, and that the Taliban professes to be perhaps the hardest of the hard core factions of any Muslim extremist group that exists. So no moderates need apply.

Of course liberals are always doing paradoxical things to surrender to the enemy. They would rather appease than take a stand. And appeasement is provocative--it invites attack. And time and time again, history has proved it.

Remember that long forgotten organization, "America First"? America First-ers were the group that ran Wendell Wilkie as their anti-war candidate vs. Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 election.

This once-influential leftist group, headed by Charles Lindberg as its unofficial spokesman, sought to appease and surrender to a sworn enemy of America ---the Nazis! They were hard-core isolationists-- vehemently opposed to any involvement with the goings-on in Europe in the late 1930's.

When the war clouds were gathering back then, it was Lindberg who unilaterally took it upon himself to send out "peace feelers" to Germany. He had arranged an audience with Herman Goering, the ever-pompous and arrogant chief of the Nazi Luftwaffe (air force).

Goering decide to make a pigeon of the naive Lindberg, and "revealed" to him fake plans of "experimental" German planes, such as a six-engined massive German bomber, with a 6000 mile range, supposedly capable of bombing America's Eastern coast, and then return safely to the Fatherland.

Lindberg meekly returned home with grave reports of Nazi military superiority --that the U.S. could never catch up-- and that America must at all costs avoid the coming war in Europe, should it occur.

Yes, like a liberal deer in the headlights, Charles Lindberg was blinded by fears of Hitler's supposed invincibility. And like Neville Chamberlain, he had in as much declared "peace through weakness". And reports of America First's near-treasonous activities in the United States that had filtered back to Germany, proved to be instrumental in Hitler's surprise declaration of war on America three days after Pearl Harbor

Which brings us to England's capitulation to Hitler in1938.

Neville Chamberlain was your classic liberal appeaser. He had served as British Minister of Health from 1924 to 1929. After he become Prime Minister in1937, he too surmised Hitler as invincible, and called for an appeasement foreign policy, culminating in the signing of the infamous Munich Pact in 1938, selling out Czechoslovakia to Germany, and along with that --the Skoda Works.

The Munich pact enabled Hitler to realize his most coveted European objective-- Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda Works. It was the worlds largest armaments factory; it produced heavy guns for the Nazi navy; heavy mortars and the fearsome M-42 machine guns for the Wermacht (German army), as well as locomotives, aircraft, ships, machine tools, steam turbines, and equipment for Germany's power utilities.

The Skoda Works gave Hitler and the Nazis their amazing armament capability to literally take on the entire world, and hold them at bay for the first four years of the war.

Nice job, Nev.

And the world will never forget (or forgive) Chamberlain for his calamitous "containment" policy of Germany, that in 1939, culminated in the official declaration of the Second World War.

Even after WW2, the liberals were at it again, working their devilish best to capitulate to America’s enemies. This time it was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—America’s favorite historical couple. 

The Rosenbergs--who were the duo complicit in passing our original atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets between 45-47-- arguably could be stated as the cause that emboldened Stalin to close off 1948 Berlin, because he now held an equal hand in weaponry. Thus Stalin attempted to squeeze the Allies out of East Germany, thanks to the dastardly liberal deeds of Julie and Ethel Rosenberg. But Truman's famed Berlin airlift foiled everything.

Next on the liberal “most-wanted” list was Alger Hiss, who viewed spying against his home country as little more than ‘youthful  idealism', and who would be convicted of a only a minor charge (lying under oath)  for the small infraction of surrendering America's hydrogen bomb secrets to Russia, and prolonging and escalating the cold war for another 35 years!

Arguably, the damage from Hiss changed the course of world events (for the worse) more than any other individual in American history.

And were it not for the ultra rightist, Senator Joe McCarthy, who knows how many more communist sympathizers could have been organized into a faction and possibly seized control of the democratic party, just as the liberal leftists in congress have done today.

If it hadn’t been for McCarthy, there may have been no John F. Kennedy as president, but instead a radical democratic socialist candidate (ala’ Obama) opposing Richard Nixon in1960. And after the leftist attitudes from the Vietnam era in late 60's had taken hold, this ultimately led up to the election of another liberal apologist-- Jimmy peanut-farmer Carter.

For many years after World War II, the U.S. intelligence forces had done their job well. The CIA had succeeded in stalemating the KGB during the early Cold War years .But then came the election of Jimmie Carter in 1976, and the rise of Senator Frank Church.

Carter, like all liberals, believed in being "fair". On September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a Treaty with Panama 's strong man, Omar Torrijos, to transfer the Panama Canal to Panama, and it became one of the most heated treaties ever debated in the Senate. With a two vote margin, the transfer agreement was passed in 1978, thanks to the Senate lobbying of Frank Church.

And presently, our good friends the Chinese are seeking to aggressively expand in the isthmus country, and already own a major interest in port operations on the east and west sides of the canal. So in the event of war, the U.S. navy might be cut off from reaching our east and west coasts.

But Panama was but the least of Carter’s disastrous liberal legacy.

1977 also can be noted as when Carter made one of the most ill-conceived presidential decisions of all time: He issued an executive order that placed all nine U.S. intelligence agencies under one man: CIA Director Stansfield Turner; and If anyone wishes to seek the origin of the 9-11 attack, a good place to start would be right here.

In October of 1977, Turner decided to curb many of the clandestine practices that had brought the CIA much of its criticism from the liberal members in Congress, which were led by Idaho Senator Frank Church. In the" Halloween Massacre" of '77, Turner circulated an Oct 31st photocopied memo informing 800 CIA staffers (mostly Republicans) of their dismissal. To the joy and disbelief of our enemies, word spread quickly around the spy community that the U.S. had decided to delegate its intelligence priorities to non-human means, such as satellite observations and listening posts.

It has been noted by many historians that..."Stansfield Turner has been the single worst senior appointment in US history... and..."In eliminating virtually all human intelligence on the ground, he put the  U.S. at a strong disadvantage, especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan."

Now 32 years later, can any one dispute this most-scathing of historical criticisms?

Whatever his intentions, what Carter (and Turner) accomplished amounted to aiding and abetting the enemy, which resulted in our humiliation in Iran in the 1979 hostage crisis, the Russian war in Afghanistan in1980, and the bombing of our marines’ barracks in Lebanon in1982

And thanks to the liberal insanity of Jimmy Carter's dismantling of the CIA, we’ve lost control of our destiny in the Middle East-- giving impetus to the revival of Islamic fundamentalism-- which ultimately gave rise upon the world's stage to all of Islam's most infamous stars...Khomieni, Arafat, bin-Laden, Akmadinejad, and untold others -- including the 20 airliner hijackers who were responsible for 9-11.

Yes; the liberals--upholding the biblical inspiration of Judas--have always been seeking ways to betray the one who’s been good to them…their homeland—the United states of America!

And next in line to wear the mantle of  betrayal was another leftist America-hater, the convicted spy, John Walker, who  sold top-secret classified Pentagon information to the Soviets for 18 years. Among the secrets were keycodes being used by American ground troops fighting in Vietnam , and details about the Navy's most sophisticated nuclear submarines.

Since 1969, Walker had worked as a radio operator on a Navy supply ship (a job that gave him easy access to Pentagon keylists). And had the Cold War ever escalated to the real thing, the Soviets, knowing the locations of all American nuke subs, would have been able to destroy them all within days.

But what if there had not been any bleeding heart liberals around during the20th century? Had Lindberg and Chamberlain not been the men of their time, there may have been a European war… but a World War II?  And had it not been for the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss, would there have been the 40-year Cold War? And were it not for John Walker, the latter half of the Vietnam war could have taken an entirely different course-- the United states may have actually triumphed by the early 70s.

And of course without Carter in the Whitehouse in 76-80, who knows?  The entire mess in the Middle East, culminating in 9-11 may never have taken place.

But through out our history, whenever liberals have had their chance to deliver a black eye to their homeland, they're of the mindset..."There! That's what you deserve...you racist, bullying, militaristic, imperialist, expansionist, United States of America!”

The point is, liberals ALWAYS want to give our enemies the benefit of the doubt, figuring that even if they ARE liars, America (in the parlance of Michelle Obama) is a downright mean, racist country, and deserves not her status as a free prosperous nation, because it was built upon the backs of "oppressed” people, and foreign, "jingoistic" imperialism.

And to make a counterpoint: In modern American history, has a conservative ever been known to be a traitor to America 's best interests, either at home or abroad? Is liberalism some kind of insidious cultural disease? Or are certain individuals born with it-- an organic physiological affliction-- a sort of “left” brain vs. ”right” brain type of thinking?

Only God knows for sure.

But with the situation America faces on the foreign front, and with a Marxist-socailist anti-president running things on the homefront, America will need God's help more than ever to get us out of this one.

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Saving America from ACORN-- An open letter to all conservatives


Here's a suggestion for the Republican party: Instead of trying to re-organize nationally, why not just surrender unconditionally to the democrats now, and admit they're
too wily to be defeated?

Just kidding.

But will they ever learn? How many times will the Republicans continue to be "outfoxed"? Are they about to evolve into a modern day revival of the19th century "Know Nothing" party?

EXAMPLE: The midterm elections are only in 18 short months; and instead of capitalizing on the political vulnerabilities of the spend-till-the-end democrats, the Republicans have again taken the bait, and allowed themselves to become embroiled in an insipid, media-manufactured, divisive argument over Rush Limbaugh vs. Michael Steele-- political stupidity on steroids!

The stock market is in a slow crash; millions of Americans are losing their livelihood; Obama is talking about huge taxes on everything and everybody; the foreclosure crisis; the major banks are in need of bigger bailouts; GM is about to go out of existence;  threats from al Quida; the Taliban; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Iran; the worldwide economic crisis...etc.

But the top news story? The statement that "Rush Limbaugh hopes Obama fails!"

Why do the Republicans continue to be so muted? Blessed are the meek? Turn thine other cheek? That may be a ticket to heaven, but Jesus (fortunately) never had to face a Rahm Emanuel in the temple --or the cunning of a David Axelrod amongst the Pharisees, or a defiant type like a James Carville during His sermon on the mount.

Or a thuggish group like ACORN.

If the Republicans don't soon get on the same page, they might as well wave the white flag because very soon, our good friends from ACORN will be receiving at least 4 billion  in "neighborhood outreach" funds --and they will again be registering hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voters nationwide. And if left unchecked, ACORN will further cement the democratic majorities in both houses of Congress after the midterm elections of 2010.

The Republicans have been accused of not having an economic recovery plan of their own (yet another, very clever political feint from the democrats). Well here's a REAL plan--a critical step that the Republicans must utilize against ACORN before it's too late.

It's called "write your Senator"-- an old fashioned, last-ditch attempt to alert the nation about these subversive, marxist thugs, who were indispensable in getting Barack Obama elected to the presidency in 2008.

Immediate action is necessary! Nothing else is more important to the survival of the Republican party than counter-acting ACORN!

If the American people continue to remain ignorant about this ACORN threat, we could be experiencing the tyranny of one party rule for possibly the next fifty years--or more.

So here's the first step: writing  a letter to your Republican senator. If you do not have one in your state, pick one whom you feel is a patriotic upholder of our democracy, and not just some hollow politician seeking a lifetime government job.

Suggestions include Jim Bunning of Kentucky; or James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Here are some others:
-Tom Coburn (Oklahoma)
-Bob Corker (Tennessee)
-Jim De Mint (South Carolina)
-Richard Shelby (Alabama)
-John Cornyn (Texas)

But  pick one whom you feel will be concerned enough and address a letter to him.

See instructions below for further details:

1) get out your typewriter, computer, word-processor, pen-paper; whatever
2) look up the address of your nearest Republican (or favorite) senator: try "Ask.com"
3) copy the text of the letter below; edit freely to your own vocalization
4) purchase and affix first class stamp
5) address the letter as "confidential"--and mail to Washington, DC
6) hope for a sincere response to your request
7) don't forget: words "move" people --especially in the form of a personal letter
8) pray that it's already not too late to stop ACORN's money-fortified challenge in 2010

The text of the letter is as follows:

(date)
Office of  Senator (name) 
Washington, D.C.                                                                                                     

Dear Senator (name)
 
I am writing this unexpected and urgent letter to you from the standpoint of an extremely concerned American citizen.
 
Every since I was in elementary school, I was fascinated to read about our American history. I was fascinated by the Colonial Revolutionaries in Boston; the brave Minutemen; the bravery of the soldiers who spent the winter at Valley Forge; the bravery and ingenuity of George Washington at Trenton; and the resolute bravery of the Continental
"rag-tag" Army over the Red Coats at the key battles of Monmouth and Cowpens.
 
As a youth, I was always so proud of my American heritage.
 
Throughout our entire history, we are a nation who have survived through the most desperate of times and circumstances, because of our tradition of American bravado. Whether it was the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, or the two World Wars, the bravado of the Americans always seemed to win the day.
 
Yes; the thing that always shone throughout American history was our confidence.
 
Even in Vietnam, the pride and bravado of our soldiers won every battle. And twenty years later, we won the 4-day lightning war against Saddam Hussein, due to the bravado and swagger of America's traditional ability to sweep any challenge aside, because: "We're Americans... we are a nation of winners...we are the home the brave".
 
But now, a virulent cancer has suddenly seeped into our consciousness. We're no longer a confident nation. Something's happening --we are losing our bravado. We no longer speak our minds in public. Many now only feel confident enough to whisper meekly--a fear borne of some tasteless, odorless, but decidedly deadly repression-- which, as you surely must perceive for yourself, is destroying the very fabric of our nation.
 
Yes Senator,  it's repression that has seeped into the consciousness of our nation. We're no longer the UNITED states of America- repression is transforming us into a divided, bitterly partisan nation-- swamped by wave after wave of political correctness.  We are afraid to speak out. Our media will not report the truth.
 
We are the red vs. the blue-- a nascent, undeclared, non-violent civil war, where the people in power now are throwing our traditions, our Constitution, and our American heritage right out the window in favor of repression. 
 
This so-called stimulus bill was the last resort. It prompted me to write this letter to you. I feel you are one of the few persons left in the Senate that I know of who would actually act on my request.

Senator (name), you must somehow stop, or find a way to nullify the money ACORN will receive from this Recovery and Reinvestment act. YOU must somehow alert the public; you must somehow chair a committee to investigate these monsters, then find a reporter (or national outlet) who's brave enough to rise above the repression, and expose this grave danger to our freedom as a nation.
 
In all my years, I cannot believe-- nor have I ever perceived -- that a radical leftist group like ACORN could do so much structural damage to our country in such a short time.
 
In the democratic presidential primaries of '08, it was ACORN who turned the tide and was the key to rigging the Democratic presidential primary election. Yes- I used the word "rigged."
 
Recall the improbability of Barack Obama's upset in the Iowa primary: Hillary Clinton was far ahead in every poll. But the day of the Iowa caucus, there were reports statewide of boisterous groups arriving from nearby Illinois, who had descended upon the caucus locations at noon, got out of their buses, and went into their well-rehearsed brownshirt exercises.
 
ACORN partisans locked doors, refusing to allow anyone in, unless they were going to vote their allegiance to Obama. Phone lines rang continuously from early afternoon until well after the caucuses concluded, with reports from people from all over Iowa who swore that they were victimized and who observed irregularities:
 
There were caucus chairpersons in place at many locations who were obviously biased for Obama. They refused to accept preference cards from Clinton supporters who were at the caucus sites (on the grounds that the cards were not filled out fast enough). And these same chairpersons (ACORN operatives) brazenly intimidated many Clinton supporters into leaving early prior to electing delegates.
 
There were ACORN (Obama) people waving signs wildly, shouting down Hillary supporters, pushing people into corners, and even bullying people in wheel chairs-- intimidating them all into caucusing for Obama. Hillary voters were badgered in the parking lots, and at caucus hall entrances. It was get-in-your-face politics at its most horrific level.
 
The actual details of the thuggery were not brought to light in many of the local papers or TV stations around Iowa. And certainly no national media outlet dared pick up the story. It was beyond shameful. It was media censorship-- political correctness running wildly out of control--reminiscent of tactics that Robert Mugabe might employ in Zimbabwe.
 
Eventually, the Clinton campaign became befuddled. They were getting creamed in EVERY primary state that had held a caucus; yet they were competitive in the states using traditional balloting.

Naturally, the press covered by saying..."Obama had the superior ground organization in the caucus states". Of course he did! The Acorn thugs had perfected their Iowa technique, and just executed this election-day thuggery in all the other caucus states.

And once again, it was the deafening silence of the media who allowed it all to take place.
 
But ACORN remains a "whisper topic," because it brings shudders to any patriotic American, who do not realize the ongoing threat they pose to our democracy-- fraudulent voter registrations-- one man; many votes!
 
Examine the so -called "deadlocked" Norm Coleman--Al Franken senatorial recount in Minnesota. ACORN has had its shadow over the entire, corrupted process.
 
Mr. Coleman won statewide in the general election by a statistical margin of only 0.0002%. Out of three million votes cast, Coleman prevailed by 725 votes. "Close" doesn't even come near describing this election.
 
But 'magically', in the recount, Mr. Franken won almost all challenges presented to the Minnesota State Canvassing Board, and prevailed in some counties by margins as much as 3 to 1, 4 to1, or even higher. But how do you go from Coleman's .0002% mathematical statewide victory, to Franken's statistically impossible 70% (or better) per-county margin of victory in the recount?  Just call ACORN-- the Votebusters.
 
What made the recount ridiculous is that in EACH of the counties that produced challenged ballots, it always inured to Franken's advantage, and eroded Coleman's election night lead. The reason? Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State (a staunch ACORN operative) was in charge of the recount.
 
Highly implausible, post-election "corrections" in just three precincts -- Two Harbors, Mountain Iron, and Partridge Township -- cost Coleman 446 votes, and netted Franken 504 new votes. The Minneapolis Star Tribune attributed the 446-vote "correction" in Franken's favor to "exhausted county officials."
 
Senator (name), I'm sure you'll agree, that it's manifestly absurd that the 504 total new votes for Franken from just 3 precincts, somehow turned out to be greater than adding together all the vote changes in the ENTIRE state for the ALL THE OTHER Minnesota presidential, congressional, and statehouse races combined- which were a net sum of only 482 votes.
 
And the biggest travesty of all was that many absentee ballots, possibly as many as 3000, mostly from troops serving overseas, were not counted-- thanks to Mr.Ritchie-- and ACORN. And these are the votes that tend to go Republican by the greatest percentage.
 
By whatever means, subverting the electoral process illustrates that any close election in the country now constitutes an open invitation for ACORN to try to steal the victory.
 
But that's ACORN's specialty. They are the agents of change-- they change elections, they force people to "change" their minds, they even changed the way banks made loans in the 1990's to precipitate the foreclosure crisis.
 
And so far ACORN has already changed the course of presidential political history, resulting in the repressive threat we have now from this well-funded "volunteer" organization.
 
Our future elections are in jeopardy. ACORN could keep the balance of power in the hands of those who would use their offices against the best interests of America. These are the people who would not uphold or serve to protect the Constitution; people who would grab power "by any means necessary"; and once obtaining it, would not surrender it easily (or fairly).
 
Senator (name)--you must now be the canary in the coal mine. If the public funding of ACORN is not challenged, the dominoes of our democracy will fall, one-by-one. You must warn America what is happening now and what we are about to lose--our Constitution-- because of corruption within our sacred electoral process.
 
There is no quicker way to destroy a democracy than disenfranchisement. If people can't vote, or feel that their vote didn't count, or sense that their candidate lost because of fraud, then what? Groups could be demonstrating. Order could break down. Civil disobedience could follow.
 
Our media has failed us. Most Americans are too busy earning a living, and can no longer depend on their news for accuracy, or have the time for a newspaper-- something Thomas Jefferson often warned about: "WHERE THE PRESS IS FREE, AND EVERY MAN IS ABLE TO READ, ALL IS SAFE".
 
Senator (name), I"m imploring you to use your office to call attention to this grave threat...this so-called volunteer organization of ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now).

You must warn. You must be our modern day Jefferson. Call a committee hearing; remind America, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance". Or call a press conference. Insist all the networks be there. Persist that it's a matter of grave national importance.
 
If left unchecked, there will be no one to stand for protecting the voter's rights.

Now that all of our elections can be stolen without challenge, future world history might read: "The organization ACORN were the Founding Fathers of a new socialist revolution that eventually engulfed a once-proud and strong American nation."

 

Most sincerely;
(your name)
 

Final post script to all conservative Americans:

If you care at all about your country--if you care at all about your individual freedom-- then do not procrastinate. Do not take this matter lightly.

ACORN plays for keeps. They are upholders of those who are deadly serious about destroying our democracy; a political activist group comprised of something most Americans could never imagine in their worst nightmare--a violent, communist, subversive group, operating with public funds-- right within the midst of every population center in the United States.

And they are here and now.

So go to your computer, your library, or your desk immediately, and write this letter promptly, to save our America.


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Great Satan or Great Savior? Barack Obama might be the answer for America in Iran



The date: Sept 12, 2001: George Bush, standing atop the rubble of the World Trade Center; his approval rating -- 90%.
 
Can anyone ever surmise what got into Mr. Bush after that?

The scene: State of the Union speech; January 29, 2002. George W Bush announces his axis of evil--  comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, calling them "rogue countries" that are facing "serious consequences".  Ouch.

And so began the Bush-push in the Middle East, which to this day remains a mystery:

Why did we ever make an about-face in Afghanistan; especially after our great early success in routing the Taliban  after 9-11?

Only George Dubya knows for sure--or even why, he gave "The Evil Speech"

And can any one blame Iran for getting defensive? If a country declared you as evil, and on the side of terror, you just might tend to get a little paranoid, and maybe speed up your development of multi-staged missile boosters-- and more ominously-- nuclear weapons.
 
Of course this is exactly what happened.

Iran, out of the clear blue sky, suddenly rises to the top of George Bush's "hit list"--a diplomatic sucker punch that turned the course of history-- and could eventually (although not probably) touch off a nuclear Mideast war

And the rest is history.

March '03-- America invades Iraq. May '03...mission accomplished. Then with June '03, comes the blunder of blunders-- the U.S. firing of the Iraqi army, and touching off a wave of massive, nationwide unemployment--and the tragic Sunni-al-Queda 5-year insurgency.

Even if Bush had deliberately tried, the post-invasion scenario in Iraq could not have gone worse. After unilaterally invading Iraq and bungling the occupation, Bush severely undermined America's global standing and our credibility with our closest allies.

Here is the essence of the Bush-push: rather than negotiating with the Iranian mullahs-- who themselves had fought a 8-year war with Saddam in the 80's-- Bush announced, "You're either for us or against us!"

Was Dubya injecting some type of political steroid...or what? Was it Cheney who advised him to say that? It was about as anti-diplomatic as it gets.

And it was provocative.

Immediately Iran began, through 3rd world channels, to buy up contraband American technology on the black market, and used it for it's own weapons development. And tragically, the Iranians began the importation of the horrid I-E-D explosive, remote-controlled detonator devices into Iraq, which maimed and killed the bulk of all U.S. military casualties.

Plus, Bush's bluster only served to push Iran to step on the accelerator, and gas up its nuclear program. Iran immediately increased its purchase of centrifuges, and the manufacturing of u-238 (heavy uranium) for its nuclear fuel production.

And can we blame them? If the U.S. were threatened out of the blue by someone who suddenly pronounced hostilities, would we not immediately go on a wartime alert? Thus, in the overall geopolitical picture, Iran derived enormous benefits from the Bush foul-up.

Designating its leaders as "evil"  unleashed a huge sympathy reaction toward Iran from the other Moslem countries, and a wave of anti-Americanism ensued throughout the Islamic world.
 
Great job Mr Bush! Had it not been for "the EVIL speech", things could have gone so much better for America back then.

Despite all the animosity from the 1979 revolution, Iran had been slowly drifting back towards a detente with America.

In the late 1990's, the Taliban (a Sunni moslem sect) started a vicious religious cleansing persecution against Iranian Shiites in eastern Afghanistan. So after 9-11, Iran and the U.S. had a common enemy-- and Iran was openly talking with America about its own war on terror vs. the Taliban
 
Then came Mr. Bush's fateful axis of evil speech, which no doubt will go down as one Americas biggest foreign policy blunders in history--with harsh domestic consequences:
 
1) the speech declared war on Iraq- the first time that America was to attack, unprovoked, a sovereign country
2) the speech  obfuscated what had been America's chief post 9-11 objective--going after bin Laden in Afghanistan
3) the speech caused the American people to immediately polarize--you were either for the president or against him--a polarization that exists to this very day
4) the speech seemingly destroyed what was a budding alliance with Iran, as far as both countries having common reasons to oppose the Taliban.

After the U.S. ousted most of the Taliban in late 2001, Tehran had actually been playing a constructive role with America in the Afghan war to find bin Laden. Then came the "THE EVIL SPEECH"--and the Iranian collaboration quickly disintegrated-- opening up the can of worms we face today with the Iranians.

Previous to the evil speech, Iran had been working with American operatives in nation building--helping the Bush administration establish a new Afghani government vs. their Talib enemies. And Saad bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s oldest son, was believed to have been captured in Iran while escaping Afghanistan after American troops invaded the country in 2001.

In addition to Saad bin Laden, the Iranians had also been holding Saif al-Adel, an al-Qaida operations chief, under house arrest.

Al Qaeda’s relationship with Iran always had always been rocky. In 2001, its second-ranking official, Ayman al-Zawahri,  accused Iran of collaborating with the United States in Afghanistan.

Iran had viewed the two al-Qaeda operatives in their custody as bargaining chips. The Bush administration at various times was trying to persuade the Iranian government to turn over them over, but of  course, the overtures were rebuffed after "THE EVIL SPEECH", which is all the more puzzling...why would Mr. Bush ruin a good thing?

Bush was being helped by Iran in Afghanistan. Iran was ready to turnover two major al-Queda operatives in early 2002. And then Bush delivers his evil speech...duh.

 And again, it begs the question-- why?

In a recent New York visit to the U.N., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad himself seemed regretful about what might have been accomplished.


Ahmadinejad re-iterated:

"Back then, Iran had its own problems with the former Taliban government
, which was especially abusive toward the Shiite minority in Afghanistan"..."And Iran cooperated with the United States in speeding the Taliban's overthrow"..."But that cooperation basically stopped in January 2002, when President Bush named Iran as one of three nations in an “axis of evil,” along with Iraq and North Korea".

Mr. Ahmadinejad said Iran would be much more guarded about similar help in the future:

“We helped in Afghanistan; but the result of that assistance was Mr. Bush directly threatening us with a military attack,” the Iranian president said. “For six years he engaged in similar talk against us. Next time around, we need to take more measured steps, more firm steps.”

Now it's the next time around--and enter Barack Obama, saying... “If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.”

Finally, some long lost diplomacy, coming from the mouth of an American president!

The surprised Iranians are now describing Obama as demonstrating "refreshing humility" after the Bush administration’s arrogance. And Mr. Obama has responded in kind...“Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes".

Interestingly, this poses a moment of truth for Ahkmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs.

For the last eight years, it was possible for Iran to paint the United States as the aggressor. But now with Mr. Obama, it will be much more difficult than previously, when Iran’s leaders always scored a hit by reviling America as "the Great Satan", which provided a distraction from their deteriorating economy.

In the past Iranian leaders always recognized it was not to their benefit to open up to the United States. But now, the signals coming out of Tehran indicate Obama has the Iranians confused, and has them wondering-- are these peace overtures really real?

Right after Obama’s election, President Ahmadinejad sent the president-elect a congratulatory letter — the first such letter sent since Iran’s revolution 30 years ago

Obama has stated his intention is to engage in "aggressive personal diplomacy" with Iran's leaders, and to seek Iran's cooperation on issues including Iraq, terrorism and Iran's nuclear ambitions. And Obama may just prove he's the real-deal statesmen America has sorely lacked for the lost detente with Iran over the last 3 decades.

Recent 30-year history has shown that Iranian "policies" concocted by the different Washington administrations never matched reality-- keeping any possible solution "inaccessible". That's why they were spectacular failures.

If president Jimmy Carter had only offered an apology to Iran for the fact that every U.S. president since Truman had supported the Shah of Iran's tyranny; if Carter had only promised not to subvert the Iranian revolution; and if he had committed to give back to the country its $60 billion stolen by the Shah, the infamous Iranian hostage crisis would have been solved swiftly.

And apologies may be in order. The airbus Iranian Air flight 655-- destroyed by two anti-projectile ER2 missiles shot from the USS Vincennes under the orders of Captain Will Rogers-- killed almost 300 civilians in 1988; an incident that the U.S.has always tried to justify as a defensive move.
 
The good news is that from Obama's point of view, the "inaccessible," can become more than accessible, with just a simple "we're sorry".


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Barack's Afghan strategy...will he be dubbed the NEXT Jimmie Carter?


Back then it was called, "The War of the Worlds." On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of casual listeners were shocked when radio news alerts announced the arrival of Martians landing in New Jersey.
 
People listened in sheer terror, panicked by what they were hearing-- Martian invaders, ferocious and seemingly unstoppable-- in a surprise attack on Earth. Many ran out of their homes screaming, while others packed up their cars and fled to the countryside.
 
Listeners believed what they heard on the radio was real; but it was only a false alarm...an astounding publicity stunt, thought up by the pre-celebrity young radio performer, Orson Wells.

Before the era of T.V., people sat in front of their radios and listened to music, news reports, plays, and various other programs.
 
Now flash forward to present day life in Afghanistan-- the terror-filled parallels to "the War of the Worlds" are remarkably similar, especially when you consider that the impoverished Afghani people cannot afford satellite-dish TV, and must rely on radio for their entertainment and news reports.
 
Every night around 8 o’clock, the village residents, in the territory encompassing eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, crowd around their radios. But this time it's not Martian invaders they fear- but the Taliban.

Using portable radio transmitters, local Taliban leaders outline newly proscribed “un-Islamic” activities, like selling DVDs, watching cable television, collaboration with "infidels", criticizing the Taliban, shaving beards, or allowing girls to attend school.
And the villagers all know too well that failure to listen (and learn) might lead to a lashing —or a beheading.

And more frighteningly, also revealed are names of people that the Taliban have recently killed for violations— and those they plan to kill. Local police have become so afraid that many officers have put advertisements in newspapers renouncing their jobs so the Taliban will not kill them.
 
Nor have Afghani troops been able to destroy the mobile radio transmitters mounted on motorcycles (or pickup trucks) that the leaders of the Taliban have expertly used to terrify residents. And this newly implemented radio-psycho war is proliferating.

Taliban militants, who dominate regions along the Afghan frontier, roam the valleys with sniper rifles, Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortar tubes, night-vision goggles, and flak vests.

The Taliban have already destroyed so many girls’ schools, that government officials expect most private schools to stay closed rather than risk retaliation. The local population is totally fed up, but the Taliban reprisals are such that no one will dare to oppose them.

When psychological warfare is used this effectively, it portends futility for our American forces fighting in Afghanistan. All the chips seem to be stacked against them:
 
Chip #1- how can you stop a shadowy, insurgent force that has the local populace in its grip of abject terror and abeyance?
 
Chip #2-how can you stop drive-by motorcycle assassinations, acid attacks against girls on their way to school, and mobile suicide bombers on two wheels?
 
Chip #3-how can U.S. forces fight on hostile ground with the population cowed in terror, and not willing to cooperate for fear of the dreaded radio-announced nighttime reprisals?
 
Chip #4-how do you win? The U.S. can't possibly ever hope to secure a country the size of Texas, with thousands of local warlords in control of each individual village and mountain valley

Chip #5- the fleeting past successes of the original US-Afghani efforts have now taken on the futility of herding cats-- there is little chance of any political settlement.
 
Afghanistan...is it the next Vietnam? The next military qaugmire?

Here is where Barack Obama's lack of military experience and naivete' will make him look like the next Jimmie Carter, who bungled foreign policy so badly in the Middle East (and Afghanistan), that he's widely regarded as the worst president of the 20th century. Obama may be next in line.

Our new President, playing tough general, wants to send 30,000 more troops while lacking any sort of coherent plan, whether it be strategic or tactical. But there is no easy solution-- no way in or out of the Afghan problem of what to actually do. Do you go after Bin Laden? Outkill the Taliban? Destroy al Quida training centers ? What is the goal? How do you even know if you're winning?

It's eerily similar to the Vietnam era of protest songs... (play music), "1-2-3-4, what the heck are we fightin' for?"
 
A main source of the dilemma is that theTaliban view themselves as the good guys, who (like any good home team) have the goal of repelling the American infidels, and enforcing the religious extremes of the Talmud upon the local population. The Americans are up against suicide bombers, fanatical religious jihad opposition, and of course, the usual 72 virgins in Moslem heaven as a reward for any one who martyrs themselves in battle.

And how about the sheer vulnerability of an attack from an unsuspected female suicide bomber? What could be more destabilizing or discouraging?
 
Recall the scene from "Godfather 2" when Micheal Corleone witnessed a Castro street rebel who blew himself up in the presence of a Cuban army captain. It was an epiphany to him that the rebels could win, driven by such idealistic fanaticism.
 
And the U.S. and NATO forces are up against the same type of fanaticism: an insurgency where each Talib soldier is literally willing to fight to the death...a spooky, eerie type of opposition not experienced in Iraq. One would have to go back to the kamikaze era of World War II to find a parallel.
 
So how do we expect U.S. soldiers to reverse all this? Once again, what is the definition of a win in Afghanistan?
 
Even if Bin Laden was captured (or killed), the vacuum created would leave the door open for the number 2 head honcho of al Queda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. But this could be like going from the proverbial frying pan into the fire. Mr.Ayman al-Zawahiri was our good friend who conceived the original strategy of radical Islamic terror war-- killing all who were deemed infidels-- beginning with the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

Yes it was the Egyptian desprerado, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was behind the brazen Sadat murder in 1981. And since then, its been al-Zawahiri all around the world , hatching one terror plot after another, against any and all infidels who defy his personal interpretation of the Koran.
 
Thus, we actually might be better off with Bin Ladin as the number1 guy, rather than have the hyper dangerous Ayman al-Zawahiri wrest control of al Queda, and possibly conjure up an even more deadly attack against America than 9-11.
 
And how do we fight an enemy (Taliban) that has such a dominate home field advantage? Look at the strategy being used against us:
 
The Taliban ambush from above, and withdraw immediately into their mountain caves. TheTaliban employ I-E-D bombs hidden along the narrow mountain passes, that make our soldiers sitting ducks from both sniper fire above, and the dreaded I-E-D’s lying along the mountain trails, which explode by remote control.
 
And most local villagers want no part of Americans. They do not like U.S. forces bombing their villages, and killing their civilians --or preventing them from reaching local agreements with the Taliban to prevent the dreaded nighttime radio retribution.

And with the Taliban frequently hiding amongst the villagers, the U.S. has no way to avoid killing innocents, which triggers ever more civilian hostility. It's no win everywhere you go in Afghanistan.
 
The only possible strategy would be constant predator/drone airstrikes by day, and a night vision war on the ground...or a CIA infiltration of agents who would seek to stop al Queda from training there.

Picture yourself as an average, everyday Afghan caught between all this .You live a hardscrabble life, cultivating poppy seeds on less than 2 dollars a day. Then you must worry about the Americans coming through by day, and the Taliban terror over the radio by night. Then you must worry about sudden predator attacks from the air, and taking "collateral" casualties --which could be you or your family.

Now picture your self as an America soldier.

You risk constant sniping from fighters who know the territory, and always hold the high ground . You risk attack while trying to ascend a narrow, rocky v-shaped mountain pathway. You always feel like a sitting duck trying to fight an enemy who never shows his face.

And unlike Iraq, there is no hold-till-relieved strategy...nothing to capture or secure. No city to seize and hold; just mountains. Just some desolate villages.

The only way to travel is by helicopter. Heavy weapons are useless. It's strictly search, and trying to destroy an enemy that opens fire, and quickly retreats across the border, hiding amongst a network of thousands of caves, immune from the predator strikes from above.

The only possible win in Afghanistan is by using intelligence to direct special-op ground forces, working in conjunction with air power; and fighting the only way that can be fought-- identifying and destroying small, widely-dispersed targets.

This would require far fewer U.S. forces than the number already deployed, and reduce the necessity for keeping the troop's vital supply lines in the Khyber pass open; a common target for disruptive Taliban sabotage attacks.

Presently, the incoming Obama administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan-- including possible talks with Iran-- and looks favorably on dialogue between the Afghan government and "reconcilable" elements of the Taliban, according to Obama's national security advisers.
 
But what kind of so-called "new strategy" could possibly succeed, given the cost of the conflict ($7 billion/month), and the actual realities on the ground in such an inhospitable theater of war?

Taliban aggression and U.S. casualties this year are the highest since the war began in 2001.

And considering all the motorcycle attacks, psychological warfare radio broadcasts, the Taliban's home terrain advantage, the hostility and fear of the local populace, the religious fanaticism, the suicide bombers, the size of the huge country, and all the corruption and graft of a Mafioso style narco-state…Barak  Obama must ask himself--is it worth it?


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The Afghan theater may prove to be a horror movie for Obama

 

Here we go again; more interventionist death-dealing, this time brought to you by that die-hard opponent of unnecessary wars, Barack Obama. The war in Afghanistan is all but lost, and will be no less lost with the processing of more American lives though this Muslim extremist meatgrinder. 

 

But our new president, perhaps in fulfillment of his campaign promise (or for God only knows whatever reason), has decided to play a dangerous game of switcheroo with the lives of our Americans soldiers.

 

Mr.Obama is ready to add up to 30,000 troops into Afghanistan over the next two years, a near doubling of the current American force there of about 31,000.

 

The outlines of the military plan for Iraq, presented to Mr. Obama in December, envisioned withdrawing of only two brigades, or some 7,000 to 8,000 troops over the next six months. But now military commanders are drawing up renewed plans for a faster withdrawal of American troops, in anticipation that President Obama will reject current proposals as 'too slow'.

 

But why, all of a sudden has Mr. Obama decided to get antsy about Afghanistan?. What is pertinent here, (and may be already becoming apparent) is Mr. Obama's complete lack of military knowledge, and the frightening thought of him playing general without any battlefield experience. And now is not the time to play political maestro in such a dangerous theater of war.

War in Afghanistan is a pointless war. If Russia were there for almost 10 years with no victory strategy, then what makes Obama think we can do any better?. Osama Bin Laden may be there, but who really knows for sure where he is? And with all our great intelligence, why haven't we caught him by now? 

 

And what is there to gain there? Does it actually affect us one way or the other whether the warlords or the Taliban run that godforsaken country? Unlike Iraq, There are no geopolitical gains to be made there, unless the U.S. wants to wrest control of the poppy seed industry.

 

This Afghan war expansion is remarkably parallel to the beginning of the JFK administration. A newly-elected Mr. Kennedy, anxious to prove his toughness, was suckered by the Pentagon into entering an endless guerrilla war in Vietnam on a terrain that was not favorable to a conventional military power.  And is this expansion not a chilling deja' vu similarity?

 

But not surprisingly, Mr. Obama has yet to make clear his overall goals beyond calling for more forces, money and diplomacy in an increasingly violent, ungovernable country. Obama inherits the biggest financial crisis since the 30's, so can anyone give a rational explanation as to why he would want to drain the treasury further with billions for an escalated war in Afghanistan?

 

Is Obama playing war games just for the sake of pleasing his left? Why fire up Afghanistan before the job in Iraq is finished? Does Obama play chess with our troops just to appear as though "he's the military man" in deference to his critics on the right? This is a troublesome thought indeed.

 

Senior military officers have expressed uneasiness about a quick withdrawal from Iraq ,and are unclear at this point about Mr. Obama’s overall strategy. This begs the question ...Mr Obama, what's goin' on? Do you yourself even have any idea?

 

If he isn't careful (or prudent), escalating the Afghan theater may prove to be a horror movie for Obama far worse than the Iraq war was for Bush. And one cannot ignore the obvious camparisons of the two presidents, neither of which ever experienced the fright of combat, acting like it's some sort of adventure; when in reality, any veteran will always tell you; war is hell! 

 

And Afghanistan is an unwinnable hell hole that will make Vietnam look tame in comparison.

 

Perhaps it's time for President Obama to have our soldiers on his mind instead of playing war games. Our American soldiers could be guarding OUR southwestern borders, patrolling our coasts, and actually defending us from terrorist attacks-- instead of dying halfway around the world while trying to impose American-style democracy on some lawless Muslim country.

 

Violence has reached record levels this year, and Afghanistan is now considered a deadlier battlefield than Iraq, where the Taliban have the "home field" advantage.

 

And what of the numbers? Obama's surge of 30,000 troops--into a country the size of Texas, with hostile tribes and warlords lurking in every province-- is a mere military spit in the ocean. Even 130, 0000 would be inviting only a longer war of attrition, similar to the Vietnam fiasco.

 

As of now, it cannot be ignored-- the parallels between 'Nam and Afghanistan are starkly evident. More buildup is like pouring money down a rat hole, with no apparent strategy of how to win. It is much more than a question of how fast you can add troops; it includes calculating how much risk you are willing to take, with no apparent goal other than, what---killing the enemy?

 

 This Afghan war he wants to escalate is both culturally, politically, and militarily unwinnable.

 

But Obama chooses to play professor backwards. He's abandoning completion of the already-won war in Iraq for political reasons, and chooses to fight the unwinnable one in Afghanistan for the vague possibility of hunting down Bin Laden. 

 

But finding Bin-Ladin will be like finding the cure for cancer: we know he's out there, but where should we look? Osama fought the Russians for a decade in Afghanistan as a Mujahadi freedom fighter, and knows of thousands of secret hiding places. And the man seems immune from betrayal.

Unlike Iraq, the Afghan terrain is like fighting on the moon--forbidding, and it nullifies all possible U.S. advantages such as armor, or the fast mobility of the humvees.
The U.S. soldiers, exposed down below on narrow mountain passages, have no place to hide , while the enemy above remains invisible. Classic military flanking maneuvers have little chance of success.

 

If Obama had the analytical experience of a war veteran commander in chief, he'd realize that the best way to escalate would be not more ground forces, but adding more air forces-- the drones, always hovering menacingly  from above. These are the only way to countermand the height advantage of the enemy Taliban fighters, who know every square inch of the battle terrain.

 

But with vast new numbers of airborne spy drones patrolling, the Taliban would be forced to stay in perpetual cover, and give a huge strategic advantage over to our guys on the ground. "Death from above" would be a constant threat to the enemy and would save American troops the risk of-search and destroy missions through unfamiliar terrain.

 

And while were talking strategy, how’s this for a tactic--night vision goggles! Why not use the one technological advantage that could really checkmate the enemy? If the U.S. was the only side who wore them and only moved at night--- then why not do it? The Taliban would be faced with hiding by day from the drones, and forced to keep a defensive posture at night from Americans who can see them, but remain nearly invisible by night themselves.

The Afghan theatre is the total opposite of the Iraqi urban conflict.  Political settlement in Afghanistan is the only possible victory, because once troops are withdrawn, the same problem emerges: the Taliban snakes will slither again out from under their rocks, and resume their bullying posture of religious extremism.

Obama should understand that the history of Afghanistan is unique;  the expansive countryside is so geographically isolated by mountains, it is a land of a thousand territories. There can be no lasting military victory

 

President Obama is going to inherit the problem the Russians had roughly 25 years ago during the Soviet jihad. You cannot tame the people in this craggy, hostile country where the only rule of law is the bribe given to each of the thousand of local warlords that change sides accordingly.

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But Obama must make good his political promises. And so, next January 21, he will huff and puff mightily away in his inaugural speech..."We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority,"

 

Yes, and in so doing, thousands of additional American troops are likely to perish, far more  than the 4,000 American casualties suffered in Iraq. But at least we're about to become victorious there, while Afghanistan, by all accounts of history, is unwinnable.

 

No nation has ever brought the Afghanis to their knees.

 

From Alexander the Great in 338 B.C. to the USSR in 1980, Afghanistan is always the 'invaders' graveyard.

 

And Obama is only fooling himself  to think the U.S. is an exception.

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