Why did Saddam have to go - why did we have to stay?

Let’s Learn Today!

These questions have been asked for a good long time and while some may feel this is a dead issue, I think it is very much alive when I hear Obama and his ilk claiming the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war and a wrong war. Stepping around the facts that Obama has a tendency to suck up to our enemies and ignore our allies – we need to address WHY in fact Iraq was a ‘good war’ on par with Korea and WWII.

I mentioned how we saw the horrors of Saddam years before we actually invade, and we saw those struggling for Democracy crushed under his brutal heel, at the allowance of our own country – but that is beside the point. What is the point is that while in WWII we had only an inkling of an idea of the horrors, we did know what Saddam was doing.

We also know that he was buying off the terrorists who were blowing up Israel. I can understand the argument – well they didn’t seem to be blowing up American cities. My response – and Hitler didn’t get the chance to start killing American Jews – just the ones he could get his hands on then. Where do we stop evil? This is the real question.

Do we stop evil at the border, or do we go out and stamp it out where we find it. A brief lesson in history – President Washington cautioned us against getting entangled in foreign wars. Well, Washington was also a president of a country that had struggled to survive for the previous ten years, and would still face a century + of turmoil and tribulations.

The America of today is a vibrant, mature member of the world, and is in fact the leader of the world. We are threatened by various members of our world, and in fact the argument could be successfully made that other countries such as China and the former Soviet Union are more ‘clear and present’ dangers to our way of life. But they’re not up at bat yet. The bad guys we’re facing are the terrorists who wish to plant suitcase nukes in our cities and deadly spores in our malls.

Saddam supported these terrorists and therefore he had to go. Notice that when President Bush started to point out the terrorists regimes out there, how they became wobbly kneed and were started pumping out rhetoric because of their fear of an American Smartbomb. And so they should be afraid, because the only thing deadlier then an American Smartbomb is the AMERICAN SOLDIER!

As for why are we still in Iraq – we are still in Germany – we are still maintaining bases there. Are you really so naïve to think that we would be leaving Iraq in a couple of months? Yeah – let’s change the government and – then we’ll just leave them to their own devices. This is the Democrats argument – walk away and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.

Hope you learned something – if not – too bad. Leave the light on for the next person who wants to learn.

Why Germany and NOT Iraq?

Class in –session.
So, I’ve been struck by a couple of things that I have seen happening over the last several years and wondered what is going on. Yesterday I had the opportunity to see one of my big brothers and we were talking about – what else- politics. No big surprise there, my brothers conversation came on the heels of a conversation I had recently at work with a couple of co-workers.
One of my co-workers asked why we were in Iraq and had lost 4,000 of our young men, and how horrible that was to loose so many. So, honestly, I try to keep my mouth shut about politics at work. Don’t you know not to ‘you know what’ in your garden is the motto I try to live by. Well, I couldn’t let it sit, so I told her that we were helping the Iraqi soldiers train, building schools, hospitals and other institutions, helping the Iraqi’s patrol their border and protect their oil fields, and rebuild their infrastructure. As for their democratic institutions and do they want democracy – easy answer to that. Yes and the Middle East can have successful democracies. Just last week we saw the Turkish Supreme Court strike down a headscarf requirement of women who attended a university – citing the fact that it was a congressional law that came from – SHARIA Law – and therefore breaking the bounds of separation of church and state. Turkey is a mature democracy – because it has had Western aide for the last 50+ years.
As for the 4000 dead American soldiers – and while we’re at it let’s not forget the wounded who are NOT apart of that number – but are a higher percentage. No one wants to see our soldiers wounded or killed, but the hard cold facts are that on D-Day (June 6th 1944), the number of wounded and dead for the allies was nearly 8000 – and that was 1 day in WWII. Still ahead of us on that day was the discovery of the concentration camps, and the horrors of Mengala – there might have been whispers, but no true evidence. Still ahead of us were the horrors that would be uncovered of the forced labor camps for the factories, or the construction sites, the mass graves and the Nazi efficiency of death and destruction of those who were – slightly different. Still ahead of us were the horrors of reading books like NIGHT or The Diary of Anne Frank. Yet, it was okay for us to fight that war – our fellow Americans did not knock on the President, they didn’t call him a liar or a traitor. They didn’t use the weapon on criticism as a political tool (which is what is being used as now.) Republicans of the 40’s HATED and loathed FDR because of all his social policies – his successes and they vilified his failures. But the day after Pearl Harbor, there was not a word brought of decent against the President – not in the open – they still complained privately and they still whined about FDR and his party. But the news media didn’t sensationalize every misspoken word of the President, his crippled legs, his deteriorating health, nor did they swarm a politico whose mouth got away from him, they buried his words if they printed them at all.
It goes further; it took nearly ten years to ‘pacify’ Western Germany after WWII. Former Germany Nazi’s would string piano wire across a road at the same height of a G.I.’s neck when sitting in a jeep. The G.I. would be dead before he even knew about it – because many drove with the windshield down and didn’t know what hit them. But these did not dissuade America from putting together the largest financial aide package (if put in today’s dollars still the largest) in the history of the world – the Marshall Plan. There was complaining about putting former Nazi’s in charge of the government office (as is famous in the movie PATTON after the battles were won, but it hadn’t been used as a political tool against Truman, against Patton – yes, but not against Truman.

Before you get all whiny on me – I will answer why Iraq IS connected to the terrorists – but the short answer is a terrorist by any other name is STILL a terrorist!
Class dismissed.

How to Win in November!

I do not believe that we will win this election season by calling Obama on the carpet for his connections to shady, morally challenged and down right anti-american’s – even if they are related to him. No, these are not the techniques that are needed. They will be viewed by the left as personal attacks and a desperate method of keeping a man of color from the white house. It will not matter the truth of them, or the voracity in which we point it out. No, what, if anything, will win us the day is a two fold strategy of attack. Nor will we win by trying to take his key phrase ‘change’ from him. I watched this morning as Governor Tim Pawlenty tried to subvert the message of Obama. This is a guaranteed bad move. It shows that McCain has no new ideas. But I am not here to discuss just Sen. McCain and his bad strategies. And the good Lord knows that I am no great fan of the Senator from Arizona. So here is the strategy I am thinking of. There is no certainty that someone else has said it, but it’s what I have been thinking.

1) We must strike at what his core message of Obama. While we do not want to steal his message we want to show him for what he is – a Marxist dressed up as a Democrat. And we don’t have to get nasty – all we have to do is show his voting record and his comments. I am sure that there are plenty of sites already working on this – and I will link to them as I find them. You can link here for the stop Obama Express. And although this website does not yet have the positions Obama has taken – one of the things I find remarkable is how he is NOT a historian. From my understanding Obama has called for the reinstitution FDR’s new deal policies and has called the individual social security accounts suggested by the Republicans social Darwinism. Well, Barack either doesn’t know his history or he doesn’t know what Darwinism is suppose to be (probably both considering he doesn’t believe in Intelligent Design.) Many of FDR’s social plans were declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the Supreme Court, and the idea of individual social security accounts was an FDR idea – but never made it past the congress at the time. So we need to strike at him for his ineptitude and his ignorance.
2) We must ramp up our support of the local Republicans who are running for Congress. This year we must bring a republican congress back to Washington. We can give up on the Presidential Campaign (which I do not recommend), but we must drive the Democrats out of Congress for the good of the country. I know t hat this sound hard – but if we can’t do it this year, we need to lay the ground work to do it in 2010. In 2010 we must have at the very least a House that is Republican. Strong words – but the method is sound. I am going to reach out to the Republicans who are running in the neighboring districts – in NJ, PA, and NY to find out ways that I can help them. I will attempt to do interviews with them and record their speeches to put up on this website. We need to all reach out. I cannot donate so much as reach out.

Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks for reading.

Obama and the 'Message'!

Where do we sit nationally? It’s beyond the point of wondering how did we get here, two socialists/Marxist vying for control of the Democratic Party and a so so Conservative – who wants to be like by everyone, in control of the Republican Party. So what do we do and why?
At first I must admit that I wasn’t sure I wanted to even vote this November. But then I recently heard Col. North (ret.) talking about a group of Iraqi and American soldiers who had been working along the Iranian border. He was talking to the Iraqi leader and he found out that the young man had joined up in early 2007 at the time that the SURGE had started to kick in. And it struck me something very simple – that this young Iraqi had invested himself in success – as it appears much of Iraq has.
This all leads to the simple fact, a vote for the Obama or not voting for McCain does in deed give the enemy the chance to take the lead. Before you claim that I am fear mongering – look at the facts. Since 9/11/01 how many attacks have we had on American Soil. – Exactly.
Now Obama’s message is certainly enticing – isn’t it. Wanting a change in a country that hasn’t had an attack in nearly 7 years. How about those countries that have moved from the ‘hard line – and undiplomatic’ non-coddling of Hamas or the embrace of terrorists states such as Iran, Syria or the new up and comer- Venezuela? Looking at the countries that Senator Obama would like to emulate - the countries of Europe, which are currently struggling to find their own identity because of the massive riots and troubles with the growing Muslim population.
Freedom expression has been declared in the name of ‘hate’ mongering. Individuals are thrown in jail for giving their opinion, youths are allowed to run rampant through the cities, political cartoonist and the papers that publish them are threatened (and the government does nothing to support these threatened papers because of fear).
I submit the fear mongering is not coming from the Republican Party – the nominee or the rank and file. The fear mongering is coming from the Democratic Party and it’s presumptive nominee. “We don’t want a third term of George Bush!” He proclaims – I guess he is saying he doesn’t want the safety – or is he trying to say something else. What is the hidden message?
The hidden message is: “Voting for McCain is going to be a vote for the world to HATE US!” Please, if you disagree, then what is “more of the same” suppose to mean? Is the ‘good’ Senator promoting President Bush’s legacy or successes? I doubt it, I’m sure you doubt it. It’s a principle of rhetoric – the Mark Anthony way of saying something without actually saying something – getting the point across without coming out with and dirtying himself.
So be it. That’s why were here – so I am glad to give the Senator a hearty – GOOD SHOW! After all, it gives those of us here at the Patriot the chance to work.