The second most odious aspect of the Democrats effort to usurp power from the Chief Executive on the battlefield in time of war is the fact that the legislation could not have passed without 20 billion in pork to sweeten the pot for signing on to this attempted coup. What troubles me about this is that not only do Democrats *believe* that our national security is for sale, which we've long suspected and alleged, but here we see it brazenly asserted by the Democratic leadership and, *FURTHERMORE*, cravenly accepted by those members whose votes were bought by this pork. Everyone who signed onto this legislation clearly believes that national security is simply a commodity to be bartered.

    Only in a country as immensely strong as ours could such an attitude prevail, even in jest.

    From here it's just a flick of the invective to claim that it's downright patriotic to sell out the country to the highest bidder.

    I pray that I will never want *ANYTHING* so badly as Democrats want to embarrass President Bush. I also pray that everyone clearly remembers this sad moment in our history and does not allow the Dems to forget it on election day.

    The small-minded appear to be unscathed in all this, protected as they are by the small-minded in the MSM who would never dare to challenge the Democrat leadership on this or any other significant issue (they surely would  Republican leaders).

    Elections have consequences, and now the small-minded are running the show on Capitol Hill. Their tyranny is absolute and unassailable. At least, so it appears.

    Someday, people will look back on this and shake their heads in amazement, just like I am doing now.

Some who oppose the war say that we should be called on to sacrifice more, EVEN as they decry the Adeath toll so far as too high. We have not yet *begun* to sacrifice in this war as we have in wars passed. At some point we must have a dialog regarding the continuation of this greatest nation in the history of mankind. Is it worth preserving? Or should we let the cowards run our foreign and domestic policies?

 

Our flag is still a beacon for the downtrodden and oppressed the world over. It is still the hope of all who suffer to either come here or be rescued by those who live here. The Stars and Stripes is still the one symbol that comforts the entire world, allowing the entire world the luxury of chastising us for our efforts on the behalf of others they deem less deserving of our largesse than they themselves are.

 

The fact is, the United States, the primarily CHRISTIAN United States, has enough generosity and compassion and charity and good will to carry the rest of the world on our backs. Anyone who does not appreciate the free ride is free to climb down off our backs at any time and move on without us.

 

Any takers?

 

It is time that we begin to calculate the cost of failure. How many lives do we risk by refusing to lay down our lives, as we always do, for what we believe in? Our willingness to die for our belief in a sane and just world has separated us from the rest of the world.

 

Recently (in my lifetime) many nations have begun to try to imitate the US in terms of offering humanitarian assistance to their neighbors, but even still the rest of the world combined pales in comparison to the US. This is not good or bad, right or wrong. It simply is. And we need not apologize for it.

 

We have never abandoned an ally before. Why should we begin now? In all likelihood we will never again be called upon to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives (almost 300,000 in WWII alone!) to stamp out evil in other parts of the world. Some would say, privately,  that Arab lives or Persian lives are not as worthy as Anglo lives. Democrat policy on Kosovo stands in marked contrast to Democrat policy in Iraq. I’m sure it isn’t racial, but it is certainly one of their many cowardly arguments.

 
Cowards will hide behind anything to avoid a tough choice. Just ask any Democrat representative (except smokin’ Joe Lieberman) what he/she will do when the genocide in Iraq begins after we withdraw.

We have a legacy of spreading freedom and opportunity throughout the world at great cost to ourselves. Because we were willing to invest in the world, we now have a wide world of trading partners and political allies where we once had blood feuds and intense hatred. We have liberated most of the free world. And now today we are called upon once more to do what only we can do. To stand with a people, shoulder to shoulder, as they battle the forces of evil and oppression.

 

Despite the animosity of many political leaders around the world, all must acknowledge that the world is a better place because of our influence and our willingness to come rushing to the aid of those in need. NO MATTER WHAT THE NEED.

 

England once ruled over us, but now England is our greatest ally and we are theirs. However, such great changes required a great cost and great sacrifice. Thank goodness our forefathers were up to the challenge.

 
Germany once threatened and invaded the lands of our friends in Europe. With our assistance, the German yoke was thrown off and Europe is now a free and open political and economic landscape. However, such great changes required a great cost and great sacrifice. Thank goodness our forefathers were up to the challenge.

Japan was once our sworn enemy. They once attacked us mercilessly and sent our entire nation into mourning, grief and outrage. Today we are the best of friends, political partners and allies. However, such great changes required a great cost and great sacrifice. Thank goodness our forefathers were up to the challenge.

Like (mass-murderer) Cho, those 10,000 killers don't care who they kill or maim or ruin, nor do they care when or where or how. They don't care if you're a nice person who never hurt anyone in your life - they just want you dead. They don't care if your daughter is on the honor roll and sings in the choir and volunteers at the old folks home after school - they just want her dead. They don't care if you take out a front page ad in the New York Times and unconditionally surrender to them - they just want you dead.

 
We cannot fight them here. Cho proves that. This is why it is so terribly urgent that we fight them where they are, and right now they are in Iraq. And we must win this war above all.

 The Democrats plan to bring the terrorists here and blame the Republicans for it. They assume that they will be spared the wrath of the terrorists because they are on the same side as the terrorists. They do not understand evil and will not try to educate themselves on evil and assume that they are special and protected and won't have to personally bear the brunt of the consequences of their craven stupidity.All this for a little bit of power.

We really need to protect these idiots from themselves as well as protect the American people.

When I was stationed in Germany I heard many people the world over complaining that the US had no business telling other nations how to deal with terrorists since the US policy was based on precious little direct experience. Well now we have direct experience and we are taking direct action and we are still reviled because we are, in large measure, succeeding where they have failed and failed miserably.

 

There are many in this great country that simply cannot stand the idea of the US victorious in a world riddled with mediocrity and failure, who believe that children should not have to compete because they might have their feelings hurt if they don’t win (as if a hurt feeling is the worst thing that can ever happen to a person). These people are losers and want the world constructed in such a way that their attitudes don’t make them feel like losers.

 

I know some of these people - do you? If so, will you talk to them? Tell them it’s OK not to be a loser. And for the sake of all that’s holy don’t entertain losers or loser attitudes in their elected officials.

To everyone who opposes our humanitarian mission in Iraq, I say you mock the dignity and the proud legacy of this country and have no clue as to the real dangers in this world. Once we leave Iraq, those 10,000 killers will come calling here as they are calling on every other civilized nation on this Earth. Only through the intense and sustained (at high, silent cost) of our intelligence services (which are despised and hated by many who remain alive today because of their efforts) have we escaped the fate of the rest of the world so far, though eventually we will almost certainly be “visited” again.

Let's say (mass-murderer) Cho was a suicide bomber. We couldn't stop him. No one could have stopped him, unless a student or teacher in attendance had been armed.

 

Now imagine if there were 10,000 Cho's, all of them intent on striking at other schools, at shopping malls, at libraries, at churches and synagogues, at sports stadiums, anyplace where large numbers of people gather. And we couldn't stop them. We would, then, be living in Iraq.

 

Now imagine that the primary military force that has protected all but a handful of cities, is now preparing to pull out and leave us entirely at the mercy of those 10,000 killers. Would we call it prudence or cowardice?

 

Just imagine how that would feel, to be abandoned by those we depend on the most at the exact moment when they are needed the most. I’m thinking the opposite of goodwill here.