Finally! A Democrat that I can have some respect for. Sen. Joe Lieberman has come out in public support for President Bush insofar as not trying to set an artificial time table for withdrawal of troops in Iraq.

I'm sure that Mr. Lieberman was fully cognizent of how his statements would be viewed by the majority of members of his party, yet he had the courage of his principles to put those principles ahead of partisan posturing.

There are many issues where I oppose Mr. Lieberman, but I must acknowledge and applaud his courage in his actions in this case. I would almost go far as to support him should he choose to run for his party's nomination, as it seems that the majority of Republicans are too spineless to do what is right, instead of what is politically expedient.

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Soms wanhoop ik van mijn medeAmerikanen, schijnen zij in slaap te zijn bij het wiel als politieke juistheid en de partisian gebaseerde haat duwt ons steeds dichter aan een totale analyse van de basislijm die de maatschappij samen houdt.

Ik weet niet of is er nog tijd om dit langzaam maar bepaalde afdaling in sectarische anarchy en facism/socialism te stoppen; maar ik weet dat als niets wordt gedaan, dat is waar wij worden geleid.

De enige cursus ik kan zien proberen om het proces minstens te vertragen is voor iedereen aan staprug en reasses waar wij en zijn proberen om te bepalen enkel waarom whe wat geloven wij en om brutaal eerlijk te zijn over het in het proces blieve.

Thank you for your indulgence, and in case I should happen to have any Dutch readers, I apologize for my grammer, I'm seriously out of practice.

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Here's the WSJ's "best of the web". Notice that they lead with a three tour veteran of Iraq; decrying the stupidity of a Moveon.org antiwar advertisment.

Seems that Moveon can't tell the difference between American and British soldiers...of course to admit to British soldiers being present WOULD put their charge of Iraq being a "unilateral action" in the dustbin with their other lies and distortions, wouldn't it? But to depict Brits in an ad bemoaning the fact that Servicemembers and their families couldn't spend Thanksgiving together does seem to be over the top, even for them...(for you Progresives out there, the fact that this is idiotic stems from the fact that Britain doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving; I know you couldn't comprehend the Capt.'s. disgust otherwise)

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One of the smartest men I know, Sir George of The Bastard Sword, decided to compare the "quagmires" of Viet Nam and Iraq to try to put a little perpestive on the whole argument....as you can see by the graph below, the comparison isn't really sustainable.

EVERY death of a soldier while doing his duty is a tragedy, but when you coldly and logically consider the raw numbers, Iraq is by no means the quagmire of Viet Nam.

Many on the Left are trying to say that this war is a war for oil, or as a war of revenge by Pres. Bush against Saddam for what transpired with his father.

It is neither.

This is a war to try to bring about a change in a portion of the world that has spawned a deadly threat to the security of our nation. Many say "what about Iran....Saudi Arabia...Pakistan?, don't they constitute a portion of the same threat?" The short answer to that question is YES. What these people don't understand is that Iraq is just one part of a stradegy. Iraq is the center point of problem; if we effect change there, we effect change over the entire region, and WITHOUT having to take on the entire region militarily.

It is a plan not without it's risks and shortcomings, but if successful, it will be the cheapest way to accomplish the end goal in terms of causelties and money. The plan has the added bonus of freeing a nation from an utterly barbaric regime. I still believe that the goal is a worthy one, and given the state of conditions present at the time the war began, I applaud President Bush for having the courage to pursue this course of action, it would have been much easier politically on him not to do so, but he had the couraqe to do, not the easy thing, but the right thing.

Now if he would only do the right thing in securing our borders, both North and South.

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When you try to wade through all the DNC/Moveon.org claims about administration "lies" and "evidence manipulation", it might be germain to to look at the past statements of the claiments and then ask yourself, just WHO ARE the liars?:

(go below the fold if your blind like I am and need a larger version)

Image stolen borrowed from a fellow hoosier, Thanks Hoosierboy! more...

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With all the recent Democratic posturing on how Pres. Bush "manipulated" intelligence data to get them to vote for the resolution to go to war in Iraq, I thought it might be aprapo to exmine the issue, only to find that Odysseus had already done a far better job of it than I ever could. Oddysseus is an O-4 recently returned from the T.o.O. in Iraq, and he never seems to fail in clarifying "complex" situations to their core facts. He posts on Journalspace, so it's nigh impossible to link directly to any one post, so I copied/pasted this one in it's entirety. You should go and read all of his other posts too, every one of them is a real gem of clearheaded and logical thinking.

Without furthur blather on my part, Heeeer's Odysseus!:

Okay, let me see if I get this... Democrats argue that George W. Bush is, on the one hand, the dumbest president that we've ever had, but on the other hand, that he lied about the intelligence that got us into Iraq, deceiving all of the members of their party who voted for the war, including everyone from the much brighter John Kerry and Hillary Clinton to the much drunker Teddy Kennedy and Christopher Dodd. In other words, the Democrats' defense of their pro-war votes is that they were bamboozled by someone that they consider a moron. Just how did this happen? I mean, it's not like they were won over by his personality. They hated Bush for winning the 2000 election and he entered the White House to the most rancorous reception since Lincoln's election triggered secession in eleven states. His tax cuts enfuriated Democrats, even as they worked (the economy's been humming for the last five years, despite 9/11, two hurricanes and Paul Krugman's predictions). So, how exactly were these guys, who hated and despised the president, suddenly willing to follow his lead on the Iraq war? There are two explanations, neither of them complimentary.

The first, is that they saw the poll numbers, which showed that a massive majority of Americans wanted Saddam's bottom kicked up and down the Tigris and decided that popularity was the better part of valor. Besides, not knowing anything about combat operations, they figured that since the first war lasted roughly two weeks, the second one should be no tougher, and they'd have cast a vote that showed that they were tough on terrorism, too. Of course, they were the only ones who thought that it was going to be easy. "Why, this was supposed to be a cake-walk," they harumphed. Meanwhile, the president was telling anyone who'd listen that it was going to be a long, hard war. This allowed them to have their cake an eat it, too. They'd voted for the war, then they did everything that they could to make sure that it wasn't fought effectively and carped at every minor error. If a troopie missed qualifying with his weapon and had to re-shoot, it was evidence of a quagmire. Abu Ghraib was brought up every thirty seconds, with Teddy Kennedy and Dick Durbin comparing us to Saddam's henchmen and Hilter's, respectively. There was even a phony Judiciary Committee hearing designed to impeach President Bush, conducted by John Conyers (D-MI), with several prominent house Democrats in attendance and no comment at all from the party leadership. After several years of constant nay-saying, repeated by a credulous and sympathetic media, the Democratic Party had managed to erode public support for the war. But, having done that, they now have to explain why they supported it in the first place, which means that either they, too, believed that Saddam was a threat, or they were hapless dupes. Of course, the one problem with this is that they are claiming to be hapless dupes of someone that they never listened to in the first place, and who they consider their mental inferior in all ways. It's bad enough to claim that you were fooled into giving up your lunch money, but to be fooled by one of the kids on the "special" school bus? Not exactly something to be proud of.

The other choice, and it's a fairly obvious one, is that they're, well... idiots.

I think that this is not only more likely, but far easier to defend. Why? Well, first of all, there's precedent. Remember when they tried to argue that their voters in Florida were too dumb to figure out the ballot? This was a tacit admission of the stupidity of their electorate. How far is that from a tacit admission of the stupidity of their leadership? And it's not like there aren't other examples. John Kerry was touted as one of the brainier members of the party, until his grades were made public and he was shown to have had the same "C" average that he derided in Bush (and lower ACT scores), and that was after he couldn't figure out if he'd voted for the war or against it and decided that he'd done both. How about Al Gore's flunking out of divinity school? Bill Clinton's dalliance with an intern after his policies had cost his party the house and senate, when he knew that he his leadership was going to be under intense scrutiny? Not just dumb, but dumb.

I could go on, of course. Letting Michael Moore have a prominent seat next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention, or even letting Jimmy Carter have a seat at the Democratic National Convention (if there's anyone's Middle East policies that the Democrats had better hope that we forget about, it's Carter's)... Dumb!

Face it. Either the leadership knew what they were voting for when they authorized the use of force in Iraq, or they didn't. If they did, then they're doing everything that they can to spin it so that they don't have to take responsibility for a war that they never believed in and have done everything in their power to undermine, but were too politically savvy to vote against. This makes them craven opportunists. If they didn't know what they were voting for, then they're idiots.

I can't wait to see which one they cop to.

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Finally, some good news. Mamamontezz informs me that we should be set up with a new DSL connection via Earthlink sometime next week, so maybe I can resume regular and at least somewhat interesting and informative posting then.

I really want to thank all of you that have stuck through this recent dry spell, you're the reason I wanted to start blogging in the first place, and it's really gratifying to know that my blatherings sometimes are of interest to others.

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1 Good news, I called you last night, no answer, it was 1:30 in the am, Cat

Posted by: Catfish at November 23, 2005 12:20 PM (oGdVp)

2 Happy Thanksgiving, I look forward to regular posts again!

Posted by: hoosierboy at November 23, 2005 01:14 PM (tt4DJ)

3 Have a great thanksgiving!!! Can't wait to see you posting again.

Posted by: Alli at November 23, 2005 04:32 PM (9BW95)

4 Where in the heck IS Mamamontezz these days? She hasn't posted in FOREVER.

Posted by: Omnibus Driver at November 28, 2005 03:45 PM (6VG2d)

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I am SO jealous!

Jay over at Stop the ACLU has gotten the first ever interview with our beloved Emperor Misha 1.

MUST reading for every LC; and for everyone new to the net and wanting to know what one of the best true Conservative bloggers really thinks.

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The Gun Guy at NoR has a post up about some Muslims in Australia..he's said it all, I can't say it any better.

I would just like to reiterate that haveing freedom of speech DOESN'T mean freedom of consequences from engaging in speech that is inimicle to the society you live in. There is a fine line that just shouldn't be crossed if you don't want to suffer those consequences.

The level of those consequences are what make the difference between a free society and a Facist/Communist/Dictatorship state, and I'm glad that, so far, we've managed to not cross that line, but it seems that those most vehement about being allowed to express their opinions are the also the most inclined to
blocking the opposite side from doing the same. Just my OHO, other's views may vary.

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Dick Cheney is mad as hell and he won't take it anymore. Kudos to him, I just wish it hadn't taken so long to take the gloves off and start fighting back.

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“I wonder how well you have been sleeping these last nights? Mothers and fathers all over our beloved land are spending sleepless nights worrying again over their boys being sent to fight wars on foreign soil—wars that are no concern of ours.” —Letter to the President from the parent of a U.S. soldier

Talk about discouraging. All year long the negative numbers about the war rolled in like the tide. The PresidentÂ’s approval rating in the Gallup poll bottomed out at 23 percent. Another poll showed that 43 percent of Americans thought it was a mistake to have entered the war.

Sounds like President Bush has truly hit rock bottom hasn't it?

One problem though, the letter and the poll numbers refer to President Harry Truman; The letter quoted above was typical of the mail Truman received, as his letters ran 20-1 against the war in Korea.

Subsequent history has shown that resisting Communism in Korea was the right thing to do...Imagine all of Asia working unfettered under the sphere of Communism. I believe that it is the reason we were right in fighting in Korea are the same that we were right to be in Viet Nam; even though we were "defeated" in that action due to the actions of a loud socialist minority and the micromanaging of military actions by an inept political leadership. By delaying the advance of Communism in Asia, we won the Cold War, and maintained our own national security. We payed an all too heavy price for that security. Freedom and security never comes cheap, but the cost was raised by the populace warring among themselves, instead of focusing on the enemy.

If we want to bring true peace to the Middle East, we need to stand firm in our resolve against the Radical Islamofacists. We need to hold the MSM to account to tell us ALL that is going on in Iraq, NOT just the body bag count of American and British soldiers.

We need to hold political leaders to account for their past stances. For John Kerry et all to state that they were "mislead on intelligence" is to demonstrate one of two things; either they:

A. Are lying, as all these same leaders made statements similar, or even more vehement than the President's in the days leading up to the authorization vote for war, based on the same RAW intelligence that the President had.

OR

B. They are so inept in their abilities to discern the facts of a situation that they don't deserve to hold their office.

We are one month away from the first truely democratically elected government in an Arab country, in a country that has already agreed on a (natively constructed)Constitutional framework for that government to operate under. For this to happen less than three years after the overthrow of a dictator who had ruled with an iron fist for over thirty years is nothing short of miraculous, yet the MSM seems to be actively trying to obscure the real accomplishments and gains in Iraq, preferring to try to whip up antiwar sentiment by focusing on body counts and anything else that we might wish not be occuring. Half of our government is acting against the interests of our goals in Iraq;and against the morale and safety of our soldiers there, in a bald faced partisan attempt to bring emberassment against a President that they despise so much that they would risk the security of our country to bring that President down.

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Sorry everyone, I'm still stuck with a super lousy connection and can't seem to stay on long enough to get anything worthy up.

I lost my Yahoo acounts, including my address book ansd my Yahoo e-mail account. for the time being, you can reach me at delftsman3@gmail.com, when I get the old account back, or a new one established, I hope I can recover my address book....

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Contrary to some thoughts(wishful thinking?), I'm still alive...I have been fighting a longlived Flu bug and I still don't have a good enough connection for real posting; it just takes too long to load the pages and get the links.

I hope to get a better connection soon, and really look forward to bringing you some good things to jolt the brain cells. In the meantime, give some hits to the other fine blogs on my roll, especially the blog-father, Misha, and that crusty old coot, GuyK, and all the gals keeping Acidmans place going while he tries to recover from some serious shit. Not to mention my favorite student in the Hoosier Blog Alliance, the Foxfrom Vincennes

If your feeling like arguing against a true Progressive, visit Wanda, if you come from my side of the spectrum, you'll find something there that will get your blood flowing strong, but please, be nice when you comment, she's honestly seeking the best for all, according to her own lights; we may not agree with her reasoning, but at least respect her for her honesty and willingness to hear from all sides.

And please,let them know where you came from if they aren't part of your regular blog rounds. I can't seem to stay on long enough to comment on their blogs, and I hope they miss me as much as I do them.

Thank a Veteran today, remember that his/her sacrifices have kept you free.

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