What drives the Democrats

LEGISLATION passed by congressional Democrats last week would force US troops to abandon Iraq beginning Oct. 1. Though a veto was foreordained, the vote was great news for the jihadis in Iraq, their second such morale boost in a week. On April 19, Senate majority leader Harry Reid had run up a white flag, declaring that "this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything" -- music to the ears of Al Qaeda and its allies .

Why is the Democratic Party so wedded to defeat in Iraq? What drives its determination to see this war end in American failure?

The most generous explanation is that Democrats genuinely believe that Iraq will be better off with the Americans gone -- that removing US troops will eliminate the catalyst of Al Qaeda 's butchery.

But as Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman pointed out on Thursday, this is sheer fantasy. US troops have retreated from Iraqi cities and regions a number of times, yet "in each of these places where US forces pulled back, Al Qaeda rushed in. Rather than becoming islands of peace, they became . . . islands of fear and violence."

Lieberman quoted the grim forecast of Sheik Abdul Sattar, a Sunni tribal leader in Anbar province: "If the American forces leave right now, there will be civil war and the area will fall into total chaos." The most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq agrees. An American withdrawal in the near future "almost certainly would lead to a significant increase in the scale and scope of sectarian conflict in Iraq," it concludes. "Massive civilian casualties and forced population displacement would be probable."

Some Democrats are clearly motivated by ideological conviction. There may be some on the party's leftmost fringe who would welcome a US defeat on the grounds that the only good superpower is a humbled superpower. There are certainly Democrats in Congress, such as Ted Kennedy and Dennis Kucinich, who almost always oppose any use of military force on principle.

And then there are those who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the magnitude of the stakes in Iraq or in the larger conflict against radical jihadism. The reality of this struggle -- that we are in an existential war with a totalitarian enemy that celebrates death and cannot be appeased -- is too bleak and hopeless. They would rather escape into an alternate reality, one in which Americans can choose to end the war by quitting the battlefield.

But in the end there is no escaping that for many Democrats, this is all about politics. Both President Bush and the war in Iraq are unpopular, and the Democratic leadership hopes to capitalize by opposing both of them.

"We are going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," Reid said candidly at an April 12 press conference. "Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding." To which Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, added: "The war in Iraq is a lead weight attached to their ankle. . . . They are looking extinction in the eye." He spoke those words, Congressional Quarterly observed, "making no attempt to hide his glee."

That glee is very telling. It would be one thing for lawmakers to conclude regretfully that America's campaign in Iraq has failed and that bringing the troops home is the least bad option left. Were that the case, voting to pull the plug would be a sad and painful duty, one no member of Congress would carry out with "glee."

Yet when the House of Representatives voted last month to force a withdrawal from Iraq, Democrats were jubilant.

"Many House Democrats stayed on the floor, reveling in their victory," reported The Hill on March 23. "House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha hugged each other while a smiling [majority leader Steny] Hoyer shook every hand he could find. . . . [majority whip James] Clyburn joked with members as [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi kissed and hugged her colleagues."

The New York Times noted that in conversations with "dozens" of Democrats, Pelosi's argument for the bill was overtly political: "Did they want a headline saying, 'Congress is standing up to President Bush,' or 'Congress gives President Bush free rein?' "

Senator John McCain, adamantly supporting the current "surge" in Iraq says he would rather lose a presidential campaign than a war. Democrats, all smiles, prefer to lose the war and win the campaign. They're not alone. In Iraq, Al Qaeda is smiling, too.

Kucinich’s Constitution, Minus Second Amendment

I will never understand some people's thinking. They of course get to live in walled estates and when they call the police things go to happening. They are prepared to leave us defenceless, both from criminals and tyrants. I'm not sure all are "thinking down the road" to a time when we would be easier to control being unarmed, but it is to be sure some are. this is the latest........



Kucinich’s Constitution, Minus Second Amendment

It was an eminently forgettable event at South Carolina State University. “No runs, no hits, no errors,” joked Democratic consultant Erik Smith about the “debate” between Democrat presidential hopefuls. “Nobody made any significant mistake, but nobody distinguished themselves.”

Dennis Kucinich “distinguished” himself, however, when he pulled out a pocket Constitution and called for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Of course, this was a less than meaningless gesture, as Kucinich picks and chooses what sections of the document he favors. Kucinich is “drafting legislation to ban civilian ownership of handguns,” according to Sabrina Eaton, a direct affront to the Constitution. Naturally, the commoners shall not be allowed to defend themselves, even though Dennis “kept a pistol in his house after police learned of a Mafia plot to kill him during his tumultous stint as Cleveland’s mayor during the 1970s.”

“I have friends who both hunt and shoot. These are good people, they are not criminals, and they lock up their guns when not using them. I support their right to their hobbies, and I support the right to bear arms,” declares the politico from Cleveland on his web page. “By helping to develop a society which does not look to violence as a method of solving problems, my proposed Department of Peace will play a key role in this. Conflict resolution and alternatives to violence will constitute major areas of responsibility within this new Department, so that we can begin to lead by examples as well as by words.”

Let us dissect this nonsense. First and foremost, the Second Amendment was not drafted to protect the rights of duck hunters or tin can plinkers. It was included because the framers understood well enough that an unarmed and defenseless populace are chumps for tyranny. “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in draft of the Virginia Constitution in 1776. The Constitution, James Madison noted in the Federalist Papers, provides “the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation,” other nations where “governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” As Kucinich understands, the protection afforded by firearms not only makes tyrannical government think twice, it also makes Mafia hit men reconsider as well. Dennis was not thinking about target practice or hunting when he packed a piece back in the 70s.

Is it possible Dennis’ “Department of Peace” will be on hand when a thug attempts a home invasion or, more pertinently, the next time an armed mental case enters a classroom? Unfortunately, violence, or rather self-defense, is the only way to solve problems in certain situations. Dennis may naively believe his Peace Department will “lead by examples as well as by words,” never mind the criminals and predators among us, ready and able to take advantage of a disarmed public. Criminals love this sort of touchy-feely nonsense, as they prefer unarmed and defenseless fawns waving peace signs to men and women versed in the use firearms and willing to do so should the situation arise.

Regardless of all the idle chatter on impeachment and his apparent willingness to consider a re-investigation of the events surrounding September 11, 2001, Dennis Kucinich should not be trusted, as he is obviously just another neolib angling for the White House, albeit with a unique game plan to set him apart from the field crowded with other despicable one-worlders, such as Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson, and Gravel (who?).

Turn them upside down, they’re all gun-grabbers.

How Lame You Really Are

On his 1968 album's liner notes Frank Zappa wrote "If your children ever find out
how lame you really are, they'll probably murder you in your sleep".
Unfortunately we have seen some of that in our society since the '60's, but today
we got to witness just how lame we have become. The political posturings of the Democratic Party was on full display at passing the bills to withdraw from the Iraqi conflict.
I say conflict because this has long since passed the practical idea of war. We are policing
streets of Iraq until the citizens of that country can perform that task for themselves.
Are American solders dying there still, yes, do policemen and firemen die here in the US
in the performance of their duties, yes.
We went into Iraq for a number of reasons, some correct, some incorrect. We are there
now, we have removed their security and government, rightly or wrongly and we owe those people to put back to right that which we have changed. We now owe them the time to gain their footing and an understanding of how to function as a free people.
For thirty years someone else has told them how they will behave and how they will be treated
and how to vote, what to say and not say, and they have had no say in any of the functions of government.
The Democrat's would turn their back on these people and allow them to return to a
life they themselves would not accept or tolerate, but as we have seen the Democrats always look past those in real need, unless helping them will garner votes.
All this overlooks the whole, Muslim/Great Satan conflict, course the lameness of these people
would give you nothing else, there are no votes here, move on..........
Tonight I will pray that the President will in fact do what need to be done, veto these bills.
And if necessary may God grant him the ability to find one of Ronald Regan's pens, that perhaps by holding it he will find the balls to stand up to these people for once.........


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Animalization of Americans

Linda Kimball is one of my favorite writers. She shares vast insight into the thinking of the liberal mind and lays bare their maneuverings and agendas. This piece outlines how not only are there factions who just hate America but they also hate the human race.

snippets......

The murderous secular humanist religions of Communism and Nazism were spawned by the anti-God/utopian tradition of Revolutionary France. The Black Book of Communism, an 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, graphically details the terror, torture, man-made famine, mass deportations, starvation, and massacres undertaken on behalf of revolutionary utopian ideals. The reality of Communism, which claimed to be an emissary of the Enlightenment, of universal brotherhood, and of happiness for all as envisioned by Gracchus Babeuf, turned out to be not only a sadistic engine for unimaginable evil but also the creator of hells on earth.

“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.”

(Earth First! Journal editor, John Daily)

“To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.”

(Yale professor Lamont Cole)

Biocentrism and its morally-warped system of philosophy and morality thrive right here in America. Communism (multiculturalism/Cultural Marxism) and its diabolical mother, Secular Humanism, plus its twisted sisters, Postmodernism and Cosmic Humanism (New Age global warming crowd) are now the predominant way of thinking in most of America’s power centers. At the heart of each of these systems beats the black heart of Darwinian biocentrism.

more........................

www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_16572.shtml

Iraq

“If the war in Iraq is such an unnecessary and futile expenditure of blood and treasure as Pelosi et al. have been saying, why not put an end to it? But to do that would mean taking responsibility for the consequences—and those consequences would be disastrous and lasting. They would probably still be lasting when the 2008 elections come around. The Democrats cannot risk that.” —Thomas Sowell

Insight like this is what the President needs to be able to dig in his heels, cross his arms, look them in the eyes and just say .............NO!
Bush has not been exactly what I had hoped after the '04 mandate, but on this issue he is correct and this is the course of action he must take, because if people think that this was brought on by radical Muslims alone..........they need to take a closer look at Middle East conflicts since Israel became a country...................there's a big brown Bear in the shadows somewhere.............


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Pacifism

“The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.” —Burt Prelutsky

Rosie Canned from ABC

Is nothing sacred?? Can't an overweight, gay, angry white woman get paid????????? Not if Baba Wawa says no.............. Rosie would have you believe that ABC didn't offer her enough......(the rating went up considerably when she opened her mouth) don't believe it. ABC will pay for what ever they want to pay for.................or should we say whatever Baba wants them to pay for. Walters was probably tired of having to clean up the messes The Mouth left laying around (probably like the other bitch in Rosie's life). Anyway as Curly Bill said in Tombstone........"bye".

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