Distractions & Iraq Revisited
The liberal media would just as soon focus on the mosque/Koran-burning issues rather than the economy & November elections, because that's their only hope -- to change the subject.
Obama said it himself -- if the election's about the economy, Democrats won't do well. Less than 2 months from the election and the polls are certainly clear on that. "It's the economy, stupid!" And Democrat candidates are abandoning Obama's record as fast as they can.
Is it hoof-in-mouth disease?
But he just keeps on doing it . . . he can't seem to break that liberal spending addiction. And after having crashed the car, he doesn't think he can trust the keys with another driver?
And now Hillary is acknowledging that a staggering debt weakens us militarily, which is exactly what I was saying in my July 28 post. Has the 2012 campaign already begun?
Arguments for Iraq Revisited
Trying to create yet another distraction, now the Monday night quarterbacks are coming out of the woodwork saying what a mistake it was to invade Iraq. They dishonor not only the truth but the sacrifice of our brave soldiers after a successful surge, and just after the end of US combat operations. Lest they get away with re-writing history, Christopher Hitchens sets them straight (Full 2005 article at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/995phqjw.asp, p. 4):
(1) The overthrow of Talibanism and Baathism, and the exposure of many highly suggestive links between the two elements of this Hitler-Stalin pact. Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who moved from Afghanistan to Iraq before the coalition intervention, has even gone to the trouble of naming his organization al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
(2) The subsequent capitulation of Qaddafi's Libya in point of weapons of mass destruction--a capitulation that was offered not to Kofi Annan or the E.U. but to Blair and Bush.
(3) The consequent unmasking of the A.Q. Khan network for the illicit transfer of nuclear technology to Libya, Iran, and North Korea.
(4) The agreement by the United Nations that its own reform is necessary and overdue, and the unmasking of a quasi-criminal network within its elite.
(5) The craven admission by President Chirac and Chancellor Schröder, when confronted with irrefutable evidence of cheating and concealment, respecting solemn treaties, on the part of Iran, that not even this will alter their commitment to neutralism. (One had already suspected as much in the Iraqi case.)
(6) The ability to certify Iraq as actually disarmed, rather than accept the word of a psychopathic autocrat.
(7) The immense gains made by the largest stateless minority in the region--the Kurds--and the spread of this example to other states.
(8) The related encouragement of democratic and civil society movements in Egypt, Syria, and most notably Lebanon, which has regained a version of its autonomy.
(9) The violent and ignominious death of thousands of bin Ladenist infiltrators into Iraq and Afghanistan, and the real prospect of greatly enlarging this number.
(10) The training and hardening of many thousands of American servicemen and women in a battle against the forces of nihilism and absolutism, which training and hardening will surely be of great use in future combat.
And here is a video of him making similar points:
Obama said it himself -- if the election's about the economy, Democrats won't do well. Less than 2 months from the election and the polls are certainly clear on that. "It's the economy, stupid!" And Democrat candidates are abandoning Obama's record as fast as they can.
Is it hoof-in-mouth disease?
But he just keeps on doing it . . . he can't seem to break that liberal spending addiction. And after having crashed the car, he doesn't think he can trust the keys with another driver?
And now Hillary is acknowledging that a staggering debt weakens us militarily, which is exactly what I was saying in my July 28 post. Has the 2012 campaign already begun?
Arguments for Iraq Revisited
Trying to create yet another distraction, now the Monday night quarterbacks are coming out of the woodwork saying what a mistake it was to invade Iraq. They dishonor not only the truth but the sacrifice of our brave soldiers after a successful surge, and just after the end of US combat operations. Lest they get away with re-writing history, Christopher Hitchens sets them straight (Full 2005 article at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/995phqjw.asp, p. 4):
(1) The overthrow of Talibanism and Baathism, and the exposure of many highly suggestive links between the two elements of this Hitler-Stalin pact. Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who moved from Afghanistan to Iraq before the coalition intervention, has even gone to the trouble of naming his organization al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
(2) The subsequent capitulation of Qaddafi's Libya in point of weapons of mass destruction--a capitulation that was offered not to Kofi Annan or the E.U. but to Blair and Bush.
(3) The consequent unmasking of the A.Q. Khan network for the illicit transfer of nuclear technology to Libya, Iran, and North Korea.
(4) The agreement by the United Nations that its own reform is necessary and overdue, and the unmasking of a quasi-criminal network within its elite.
(5) The craven admission by President Chirac and Chancellor Schröder, when confronted with irrefutable evidence of cheating and concealment, respecting solemn treaties, on the part of Iran, that not even this will alter their commitment to neutralism. (One had already suspected as much in the Iraqi case.)
(6) The ability to certify Iraq as actually disarmed, rather than accept the word of a psychopathic autocrat.
(7) The immense gains made by the largest stateless minority in the region--the Kurds--and the spread of this example to other states.
(8) The related encouragement of democratic and civil society movements in Egypt, Syria, and most notably Lebanon, which has regained a version of its autonomy.
(9) The violent and ignominious death of thousands of bin Ladenist infiltrators into Iraq and Afghanistan, and the real prospect of greatly enlarging this number.
(10) The training and hardening of many thousands of American servicemen and women in a battle against the forces of nihilism and absolutism, which training and hardening will surely be of great use in future combat.
And here is a video of him making similar points:
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