Letters to the Editor
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STOP THE MADNESS
"Claim: It is still possible to turn Iraq into a shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East."
Golly gee, Mommie, let's dig up Ronnie and rebury him in the heart of Bagdad! Like ANYTHING in the Middle East could be a shining beacon of ANYTHING other than violence, and more violence!
When is the United States going to be a "shining beacon of democracy" again?
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Attacking our troops - yet again
Why do effeminate liberals, such as Mark Benjamin, who never spent a day in uniform, feel they can attack our troops with impunity?
www.sinsofthehusband.com
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Worst case scenario
Mr. Benjamin should preface his article by saying: I am about to give the worst case scenario without acknowledging that the worst has already happened. " If" piles upon" if" in a manner that reminds me of the usual argumentation in favor of the normative judicial interpretation of the commerce clause. Let's face it: this is simply an argument presented to favor the extreme position of the Democratic Party. Back in 2006, General Abizaid protested to an hysterical Congress that "Panic is not a policy." Well, it has been since the spring of 2006. The panic has not been limited to Democrats, but you all have embraced it totally What we have seen is another Tet phenomenon, where the elite have embraced the idea of defeat, and have decided to pull their money out of the market. The very opposite of the jingoism that prevailed immediately after 9/11. In other words, refusing to face a hard reality and pretending that fantasy is fact. I have read counterarguments and I must say that that Mr. Benjamin's claim to represent God's view is just too much to take.
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On Olbermann last night, I watched Ret. General Odom's extraordinarily bleak assessment
Olbermann and Odom? You would be better off getting your "news" and "analysis" from the airheads on "The View."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9lvNongXA
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A conservative opinion...
This "war" is not a war at all, but some sort of police activity with no goal, no victory, no end. Whether we leave today or 10 years from today, there will be immediate civil war, refugees, dead children, and chaos until the most brutal guy in town whips the others. This is a barbarian culture that even the mighty US of A can`t reform.
Call it Bush`s war if it makes you feel good, but it is really a product of both parties and both the President and Congress initiated it and continue to fund it. If Obama and Hill had any gones (figuratively speaking) they and their Senatorial buddies could end it today. If they don`t have the courage to do it now, what makes anyone think they will do it in the White House?
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the rest of the story
In Iraq, just as in Vietnam before it, the devil will get his due and anyone that understands the situation in Iraq knows it. The real question is: is the current strategy of paying off the various factions enough to keep the lid on long enough that McCain and the Republicans don't suffer a complete diseaster in November?
If, God forbid, McCain gets elected in November I predict he will become to Iraq what Richard Nixon was to Vietnam- caretaker to an intractable and needlessly prolonged madness.
It is time to get back to the Iraq Study Groups recommendations, update them and follow through.
286 days to go.
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The Real Reason For Occupying Iraq is as Plain as Day!
The World, particularly the 'Western World', most voraciously, the United States of America, desperately needs assured access to oil to sustain its peoples' lifestyles. These lifestyles are firmly grounded in the mantra of endless gowth: gorwth of the number of people (USA had ~200M people in 1970, 300M in 2007, and upwards from 400M projected ~2047)and growth of per-person resource consumption: Median house square footage has doubled since 1970 in USA...not only one car per family (the Ward Cleaver/Brady Bunch standard), not only two cars, but 3, 4, and more cars per family. Not small fuel-thrifty cars, but oversized pick-up trucks and SUVs to bestow the illusion of power nd the image of being a rancher, outdoorsman, or GI Joe *Hummer, anyone?). 60-inch flat-screen TVs in every room...five computers per household. With China, India, Brazil, and other parts of the World emulating our consumption patterns, and the fact that new oil field discoveries (in total barrels) peaked in the late 1960s (most of the supergiant [>100B Bls] fields were actally discovered in the late 1930s), it is obvious that the US in embedded firmly in Iraq to control the Middle East for as long as oil can be pumped from there...OIL is also the reason the US stood up the new AFRICOM (Africa Command)...so we can maintain access the Western African oil fields and one-up the Chinese. All the terrorism and freedom and liberation talk is simply pap and the fact that so many people eat it up speaks very poorly for the intellect of such people. Watch the flick 'Three Days of the Condor', and pay close attention to the last lines: "When people's lights go out, when they can't drive anymore, when people who never have known hunger start to go hungry, they won't care anymore how we get it for them...they will just demand that we get it." And we will...just wait till the 'big and easy' oil fields are drawn down...we will have wished we listened to Jimmy Carter in 1979 and implemented a robust energy conservation and alternative energy plan.
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So, Who Ever Denied "Surge" Would Work?
Seriously, who ever said that it will make no difference if you put a lot more troops into a given area? Nobody that I know of. But this doesn't matter. The Iraq war is: Un-Godly (God sanctions only wars of true self-defense; Iraq did not attack us); un-Constitutional; and unnecessary. Read, please, the bill of indictment of Charles I who lost his head because, among other things, he was a murderer because he sent his fellow countrymen into unGodly wars.
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
PS -- Listen, please, to my radio show on this subject: "Is President Bush A Tyrant?" Show 92 that discusses a very important book titled “The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of The Man Who Sent Charles I To The Scaffold” (Pantheon, 2005). This man was a courageous Bible-believing Puritan lawyer named John Cooke. Also discussed are the definitions of “tyranny” and what makes a ruler a “tyrant.” Are there similarities between Charles I and President George Bush? Listen, please, and tell us what you think.
http://www.theamericanview.com/dictator/media/729/TheAmericanViewProg92.mp3