Friday Frolic
Well this frolic lead me to a Smoking Gun report on an Al Qaeda torture room and torture manual (hattip: Dean Barnett) showing using drills, vises, electrocution and other just as gruesome techniques that was found this week. These are the folks the surrendercrats want to abandon the Iraqi people to by running away like a yellow dog. Do you think those Iraqis we rescued when we found this torture chamber were grateful? I could hazard a positive guess. The people beg our soldiers not to leave them in the hands of those brutal thugs once they aren't coerced by force and their brainwashing. Our soldiers are actually becoming the best propaganda force in Iraq with their exemplary and honorable demeanor and kindness towards the Iraqi people, they demonstrate all the traits admired in Arab culture and it is slowly winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the street. All of the street cred we have worked so hard to build will be lost in an instant the second we abandon the people we freed and promised to protect till they could protect themselves from the terrorists. James Taranto reports that the MSM is ominously silent on this as are other critics of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
Update: Frederick Kagen has a great piece at The Weekly Standard in this same vein, an absolute must read, a couple key 'graphs:
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Read The Whole Thing!
He is a much better wordsmith than I and just returned from a tour of Iraq. There is lots of good news between the bombs and the blood that feeds our MSM consumed by BDS and determined to bring down an administration they loath. ABC recently ran an article about secret covert operations in Iran and Pres. Bush signing off on them. Everybody with a brain knows we are doing that so its a non-story to begin with and I would bet most Americans would support such measures. I read it and Brian Ross doesn't have a clue, weak reporting so he had to tag "secret" into it and give some vague sources to make it interesting enough to look at. Heck I know more about what we are doing than that piece of "news" let out. I know there are huge cracks in the mad Mullahs' foundation and millions of tiny hammers are chipping away, so what if we supply those hammers.
Dang, Pres. Bush is having to clean up problems left by three proceeding administrations in the Middle-East, that seemed to come to a head all at once then throw a couple hurricanes into the mix. I would say he has done an admirable job in the face of a highly negative press and truly vicious opposition. He is dealing with the results of Reagan's amnesty, His father's Iraq and Clinton's Afghanistan, not to mention the entitlement dilemma and taxation. The economy is booming, records in home ownwership, very low unemployment, if we would just tap our own oil and gas reserves, we have far more than the loonbats want us to believe, this country is doing well.
I take the much cited poll question "Is America headed in the right direction?" with a grain of salt as A conservative could cite the breakdown of the family, runaway spending and the assault on the Constitution and God, and loonbats could cite that we are not becoming gender-bender, limp-wristed socialists, devoid of God fast enough. I always ask the polster to what category they are referring to as there are many to consider. I say stagnate compared to what we could be once we get the government reduced and kick the Euro-socialists out once and for all.
Update: Frederick Kagen has a great piece at The Weekly Standard in this same vein, an absolute must read, a couple key 'graphs:
From time to time, nations face fundamental tests of character. Forced to choose between painful but wise options, and irresponsible ones that offer only temporary relief from pain, a people must decide what price they are willing to pay to safeguard themselves and their children and to do the right thing. America has faced such tests before. Guided by Abraham Lincoln, we met our greatest challenge during the Civil War and overcame it, despite agonizing doubts about the possibility of success even into 1864. The Greatest Generation recovered from the shock of Pearl Harbor and refused to stop fighting until both Germany and Japan had surrendered unconditionally. A similar moment is upon us in Iraq. What will we do?
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What will happen if we abandon these children? Death will stalk them and their families. Al Qaeda will attempt to subjugate them. Shia militias will drive them from their homes or kill them. And they and their neighbors, and everyone in the Middle East, will know we left them to their fate. Everyone will know, "Never trust the Americans." Everyone will warn their children, "The Americans will only betray you." We will cement our reputation as untrustworthy. We will lose this generation not only in Iraq, but throughout the Middle East. And we will have lost more than our reputation and our ability to protect our interests. We will have lost part of our soul.
Read The Whole Thing!
He is a much better wordsmith than I and just returned from a tour of Iraq. There is lots of good news between the bombs and the blood that feeds our MSM consumed by BDS and determined to bring down an administration they loath. ABC recently ran an article about secret covert operations in Iran and Pres. Bush signing off on them. Everybody with a brain knows we are doing that so its a non-story to begin with and I would bet most Americans would support such measures. I read it and Brian Ross doesn't have a clue, weak reporting so he had to tag "secret" into it and give some vague sources to make it interesting enough to look at. Heck I know more about what we are doing than that piece of "news" let out. I know there are huge cracks in the mad Mullahs' foundation and millions of tiny hammers are chipping away, so what if we supply those hammers.
Dang, Pres. Bush is having to clean up problems left by three proceeding administrations in the Middle-East, that seemed to come to a head all at once then throw a couple hurricanes into the mix. I would say he has done an admirable job in the face of a highly negative press and truly vicious opposition. He is dealing with the results of Reagan's amnesty, His father's Iraq and Clinton's Afghanistan, not to mention the entitlement dilemma and taxation. The economy is booming, records in home ownwership, very low unemployment, if we would just tap our own oil and gas reserves, we have far more than the loonbats want us to believe, this country is doing well.
I take the much cited poll question "Is America headed in the right direction?" with a grain of salt as A conservative could cite the breakdown of the family, runaway spending and the assault on the Constitution and God, and loonbats could cite that we are not becoming gender-bender, limp-wristed socialists, devoid of God fast enough. I always ask the polster to what category they are referring to as there are many to consider. I say stagnate compared to what we could be once we get the government reduced and kick the Euro-socialists out once and for all.
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