Deja Vu! It's like there is no respect for history or common sense left anymore. It's like living in 1938.
It can make you laugh, actually. But then some of us get downright angry. Normal reactions to insanity.
Hand wringing liberal anti-war nuts are whining. "We are the good guys, we don't attack without provocation!" What was 9/11, an invitation to a dance party? "The President has not made a strong enough case against Iraq!" What, 10 years of duplicity, deceit and the funding of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and any other terrorist bent on hurting Israel or the U.S. weren't enough? Scott Ritter says Saddam couldn't have done any new development in his NBC arsenal. What? After inspection teams left in December of 1998 when Saddam refused any further cooperation, Ritter was quoted as saying in six months Saddam would have reconstituted his NBC programs including nuclear weapons. This December it will have been four years! Even if Ritter was wrong by 300% then Saddam has had plenty of time. The Manhattan project only took a few years and that included the basic research that Saddam has already conducted. In four years Saddam has produced enough VX nerve gas to kill every American alive today. Or more likely every living being in Israel.
The sad thing is that we're not just talking about the local hippies here in Santa Cruz, but the earlier generations that are now part of the Democrat Senate
Clearly the hand wringing community wishes to "...wait until there is a more urgent need -- when the threat is mortal..." Oh B.S.!
Waiting for Al Qaeda to prove their ability to deliver mass deaths gave
us 9/11. We had 10 years warning and still didn't move against them.
Now the hand wringers want to wait some more. When will the time
be right for Iraq? When they are "nearly ready to deploy a weapon"
says one idiot. Right. Does anyone remember that both India
and Pakistan surprised the shit out of us when they set off their tests
years ahead of expectation? Surprise in that case was not such a big deal
-- in the case of Saddam it will be instantly apparent we screwed up.
Having no cha'ones for going after Al Qaeda after the first WTC bombing,
various embassy bombings and well, yes, after the U.S.S. Cole attack, are
all signs of a weakness -- a colossal U.S. government inability to make
hard decisions. Of course, now that George W. Bush is showing intestinal
fortitude that has been lacking for over a decade, he is being burned in
effigy by his own Congress.
Appeasement at Whatever the Cost!
And then there are the "remove the sanctions" bunch. That really takes the cake. The appeasement crowd says, "that's enough, it is so cruel!" As if WE are the ones who are selling oil for food and spending it on NBC weapons and facilities, posh dining, new decorations and new Palaces. Saddam and his upper cadre live a pretty posh life over there. Aid in the form of food and medicine aren't getting through his regime to the people. Why is that? That's an American problem we created and continue to foster? B.S. again.
Yes, feel sorry for the Iraqi people, the starving children, the sick and poor. But damnit, put the blame where it belongs. With the monster named Saddam, not America or any U.S. President. Saddam is collecting incredible amounts from the Oil for Food program (which by the way buys medicine too!) yet little finds its way to helping Iraq's people.
Anytime someone opens their mouth to speak the lie about Iraq, Americans should jump down their throat and pull their tonsils out. Let's start defending our good name instead of hanging our head and wringing our hands. We didn't create this monster. Oh yeah, we helped him for awhile, hoping to foster a strong leader in the region -- big mistake that we can admit to. And we continue to make that mistake with Saudi Arabia. More on that later.
But we certainly haven't continued to mistake him for anything but a monster since 1990. We could have simply walked away -- stopped the no fly zones, and let Saddam murder the dissenters in the North and South of Iraq.
Why do the appeasers flock to his defense? It is beyond belief.
As one emailer said to Fox News recently, "let's give Saddam a chance to
whack around the Middle East for awhile and then see if they come back
crying for us to help." The sentiment is good, but the fundamental problem
is inaction is abrogation of your duty.
Let's Wait
Waiting until "Surprise! Saddam has set off a nuclear test!" is far too late. That's what the hand wringers want us to do -- just wait. B.S. a third time!
As V.P. Dick Cheney so rightly has put it this week,
"This nation will not live at the mercy of terrorists or terrorist regimes...We will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter to some future administration to resolve..."Anyone who doesn't think that clearly spells out the threat is a sheer idiot. Adding in chemical and bio weapons -- well they might not be as nasty but listen they scare the hell out of us!Inaction "...could bring devastating consequences for many countries, including our own...Armed with an arsenal of these weapons of terror and seated atop 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies, directly threaten America's friends throughout the region and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail."
-- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, before an audience of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 8/26/2002
We've seen what "looking away -- hoping for the best -- and leaving the matter to some future administration to resolve..." gets you -- it gets you 9/11.
Well not again. Not this time. The almost funny statement heard
on cable news shows that are pounding the issue to death was "...Saddam
cannot deliver weapons of mass destruction on the U.S. -- he doesn't have
the capability!" Does Saddam not have a few container trucks?
What if he handed off the weapons to his great friend Moyamar Khaddafi
or worse, Osama Bin Laden's son? Or some guy in Hezbollah, Hamas,
or Islamic Jihad? The PFLP, Asqa Matryrs Brigade, or any other Palestinian
group.
The U.S., Israel and U.K. are targets.
Why? Because we stand up to Arab duplicity, at least for the most part, and we don't cave in when Palestinian supporters kill Israelis. That is our great arrogant crime. Recognizing Arab based terrorism for what it is and standing up to it is the worst crime. And the liberal community supports this outlook by wringing their hands and daily making sure you hear that "it is really America's own fault." This from the Europeans who stood by and watched as Jews were slaughtered by trainloads. Europeans whose European Union is perhaps the largest Socialist body since the fall of the Soviet Union.
We are friends to Israel and support them with the arrogance that says they are free to live their lives without threat of nearly daily terrorist attacks. Some criminals we are.
What would we do if illegal aliens from Mexico started killing people in Texas? Give them Houston? Anyone trying to build the case for Palestinian violence can never answer that basic question --"What would you do?". And given that Israel DID cave in and DID offer a homeland for the Palestinians AND they refused, isn't it obvious that the killing of Jews is still the number one priority? Get a clue! The hand wringers make a complex case for oppressed and poor Palestinians, trod on by the Israeli monsters. Yeah Right. And the IRA never hurt an innocent because all people of the U.K. and Ireland are targets. We've heard that B.S. too. And we don't buy it over there either. The tactic is as old as the conflict between Christain/Jews and the Arab. Surprise!
And when Israel, fresh out of good ideas, decides to take a page from
the Arab book and starts a little collective punishment, everyone screams!
But we've got to tell you -- if at least one gung ho terrorist thinks twice
about blowing himself to hell and gone because his families house will
be razed -- well then good job! We've counted the number
of times Israel has pulled out, re-barracks the tanks and APCs, waited
at the negotiating table. Then we've counted the number of provocations
while they waited. Then we've watched them grit their teeth while
outside negotiators make pronouncements about "staying the course" and
"showing maturity" or any of a dozen stupid statements along those lines.
Then, after the dead and injured Israelis pile up again, finally Israel
goes back in to deal out some collective punishment. Vicious cycle,
easily stopped. So why doesn't it? It's the Americans of course.
More Insanity
Then there's our friends, the United Nations. Despite U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.S. is left to enforce with a huge annual outlay and then we get called murderers because Saddam defies the world which requires him to submit! Again we are the bad guys? The U.N., as gutless as ever, has sat back and watched as Saddam has thwarted their resolutions. What do they do? Consider dropping sanctions and discuss new inspection regimes. Watch out Saddam, the U.N. might throw another deadly resolution at you.
"Civilians killed by U.S. and British Attacks" scream Middle East headlines. What are Iraqi civilians doing at Air Defense Sites? If I was an Iraqi civilian, the last place I would be was an Iraqi SAM or radar site! Could Saddam be possibly using the old civilian shield game from the 3rd century? What? An Arab using 3rd century methods? That could never happen! Not our nice little Iraqi government. Pisshaw!
And then that great paragon of world leadership -- our friends in the
U.N. appoint Moyamar Khaddafi as the leader of the human rights council?
One of the harshest dictators in North Africa is now the leader of the
human rights council? Oh give me a break! Somebody go check
for drugs over at the U.N. building. We think 9/11 rattled their
brains. Yeah Moyamar has cleaned up HIS act all right -- he doesn't
disappear people anymore -- they just go on long vacations. Who is the
only Arab leader to visit Saddam to support him during the Gulf War?
Khaddafi! Appointing him the leader of the human rights council is
like sending Jane Fonda to the funeral of U.S. soldier. About as
welcome as Westerfield in a Child Care Center. Bad taste? Well
sorry, but the U.N. out did us by a long shot.
Damn the Fact, Make No War
As for the anti-war crowd, the shrill voices are back to remind us that
they are pacifists and that we should be too. Wrong! The International
Institute of Strategic Studies, one of the most well respected world security
research firms recently published their analysis based on unclassified
information. There bottom line, Saddam does not have nuclear weapons
because he has no fissile material. The anti-war crowd screams "See!!"
But read the report pacifist. The ICSS report clearly states that
it would only take months for Saddam to assemble his weapon. The report
clearly states that the last remaining component is that fissile material.
But even if you are stupid enough to ignore the nuclear threat, the report
also clearly states that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons and remains
ready to buy fissile material from anyone who will sell.
The Rationalization Problem
You see, the problem is rationalization. If things don't go the way the liberals want them to, they rationalize their way into creating newer problems that take our minds off the old ones. Let's put a despot in the role of leading the world to better human rights. Maybe he'll learn something in the process. Never mind his fundamentally twisted mind. Let's leave another despot to build NBC weapons and hand them off to terrorists all at his leisure -- in fact, let's forget there ever was a Gulf War and oh by the way, those U.N. sanctions -- just kidding! Never happened.
It is sometimes like Austin Powers is in charge of the U.N. World opinion, as promulgated by world press looks like a fairy tale. Saddam is not evil, just a little misguided. Suicide bombers are really alleged homicide bombers with a valiant cause, baby. The Israelis created the problem because they haven't been able to provide Cadillacs to 500,000 Palestinians who are functionally unemployable -- Palestinians who never receive the millions their so called Arab friends send to them in aid. Palestinians who can't find anywhere else to go, their Arab neighbors who don't want them either. Why would a Palestinian want to live within the borders of Israel, when there are huge areas surrounding Israel that have plenty of muslims and one would think would be welcoming their muslim brothers.
You see, there are no terrorists, Osama bin Laden is a philanthropist, and Mohammed Atta was really on vacation in Tangiers and there was no meeting between his friends there, it really was a religious retreat.
And as the NEA would have our children be taught, 9/11 was a natural disaster and no group was responsible, especially not someone of foreign persuasion and of course not from the Middle East, and we shouldn't tell our children who Al Qaeda is -- and so on and so on. 1938 all over again!
There are no sleeper cells in the U.S., the guy with the funny shoes was really an ad guy for the new Nike performance sandal, and this guy Paduh was a vacationing tourist with no connections to terrorism, terrorists, not to mention had no interest in dirty bombs. We don't like those things, so really, they didn't happen. We aren't living in a brave new world and animal farm was never a chilling novel about political correctness and mind control. FBI and CIA middle managers have never been worried more about their careers than pursuing terrorists and the huge Washington bureaucracies like those fine outfits are needed to be so large because no one should be rewarded for excelling. We are all the same, some people just don't perform as well and anyone who complains is a trouble maker, and identifying what is really wrong is counter productive and bad for moral.
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