RWR sent me this link to an excellant op-ed piece by Mark Alexander on the Town Hall site.

Mr. Alexander layed it all out, no need for me to comment on it, other than to say, more and more of the triggers are being pulled, how long before blood is the only way to get back on the course layed out by our Progenitors?

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The Left side was quite outraged that President Bush cited 9/11 five times in his speech on why we need to stay the course in Iraq.

Maybe Senator Rockefeller should take note of his OWN words before he complains too loudly?

Yes, Chosa, there I go, throwing stones again, just can't help it when the Left makes it so damned easy!

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1 Actually no, I wouldn't have said that, because what you're criticising him for is directly relevent to the issue you're talking about. I agree that he makes himself look ridiculous in slamming Dubbya for something he himself has done. Just realise that this doesn't remove the fact that Pres Bush DOES keep linking two unrelated events (9/11 and the Iraqi War) in order to keep Americans supporting the war. Americans have a low tolerance for any war that drags on and where their soldiers die (the Gulf war was perfect - quick, instant success, very few US casualties...a politician's dream war). But 9/11 was on US soil, a terrifying reminder that America is not immune from vulnerability. So connecting the two serves two purposes for Bush. 1. It makes people feel emotional and scared and this leads them to give support to the war in Iraq, because they see it as necessary for their security, which it isn't (can't attack the US with non-existant WMD, can they?) 2. It's a misdirection technique. Labelling Iraq as 'part of the war on terror' gives people the impression that the government is DOING SOMETHING about terrorists, when in fact NOTHING has been achieved in finding Bin Laden or bringing the perpetrators of 9/11 to justice. Even if you think that Bush is a great president, that's no reason to be fooled by political rhetoric and clever manipulation in speech-writing. This kind of control is used by politicians good and bad, sadly, to avoid having to face their voters with stark truths. The only link between 9/11 and Iraq is the one he (and apparently Rockefeller ) has created in the minds of Americans. And that's neither fair on Americans, or Iraqis.

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Jay Tea over at Whizbang has a great post up demolishing the "chickenhawk" strawman that the Moonbat Minions of the Left love to use as an "argument" as to why any of us who support the war effort in Iraq should be discounted in our opinions as cowards not willing to back up our rhetoric.

Jay Tea is right on the mark when he says:

"I've always believed that one should limit one's arguments to the issues, not the individuals. I always try to refrain from gratuitous personal attacks when discussing matters of grave import... [snip]

"That belief stands in stark contrast with the "chickenhawk" argument, which tries to shift the discussion from the message to the messenger. It tries to move the topic from "is this a good idea?" to "who the hell are you to say anything?" It is an attempt to silence the opposition by assailing them personally, by punishing them for daring to have a dissenting opinion."

And one of the commenters in the thread had the perfect comeback by fighting fire with fire:

"But as far as the chicken hawk thing goes, I like to respond by offering a similar question in return. For example, I might ask:"

“Do you support universal access to healthcare for all?”

"If so, then I follow up with:"

“Have you volunteered to be a no-cost medical doctor, or nurse, or nurse’s assistant? Or maybe a crisis counselor, or dental assistant, or vision tester, etc. Surely, there is somewhere in the health care environment where you can contribute. Maybe you’re better with computers. Have you offered your time to help set up a data base at the free clinic? Maybe you don’t have the time or special skills to contribute. Are you at least providing monetary support?”

As Jay Tea first stated, the whole chickenhawk argument is just a vacuous attempt to take the argument from dicussing the issue to attacking the individual.

Update: Oleg Dulin made some comments in Whizbangs thread, and put up his own post where he asks: "What made Iraq unique enough to be attacked"?. I tried to respond in his comments and only got a "I know what your doing, your trying to spam my comments" message. In fairness, it is stated that there would be a confirmation message sent to my e-mail to post a reply, but that has not been forthcoming as of yet. I can see wanting to do anything to keep spam away, but making it so difficult to get through to opine makes it seem to me that Oleg really doesn't want to hear any opposing opinions...maybe he'll come here and try to engage?

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I just wanted to share a moment of self-satisfaction. I passed the 20,000 visitor mark yesterday, and I attained the level of Large Mammal in the TTLB (if only for a day, as is likely, but I still was there!

I may just have a blog going...and it's all due to YOU, the readers of my inane scribblings.

I can't say it enough:

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Whenever you read through any web site on the Left side of the aisle, one of the constant complaints is "how bad the economy is" and lament the High Times of the Clinton administration. They forget that by the second year of the second Clinton administration, there was growing evidence of a quickly looming recession.

Well, despite all their doom and gloom, the economy is actually doing quite well, thank you. The 1st Q report is in, and the growth rate of the GDP came in at 3.8%... .1% better than projections, and the third quarter in a row where growth was 3.8% or HIGHER. It's true that the deficits we're running are a matter of concern too, but if you look into it, you'll note that base revenues coming IN to the government are higher than ever. The Left tries to put the blame on these deficits on the WoT in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there again, gross costs are deceiving; the total costs of military expenditures in the last two years represent only 6 DAYS worth of the total tax revenue coming in to government in the same time period.

And for those that say "thats all well and good, but what about the lack of employment for the "little guy"?" Well cast your eyes on the chart below and tell me that growrh in the GDP doesn't translate into a better situation as far as employment goes. Read this as well to get a little better perspective.

As it ever has been, the problem is NOT that we're not paying enough taxes, it's that the government continues to raise their spending far above any increases in revenue. The Republicans are as guilty of this profligate spending as the Democrats are, although the largest expenditure requests are coming from the Left side of the aisle, no matter, in the end, ten small projects cost as much as one large one. in terms of the total outlays, so the blame is more than enough to paint both sides of the aisle.

WE THE PEOPLE need to start becoming more informed as to just what the govt. is spending revenues on, and start holding our representatives accountable for it.

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Well we now have a deeper insight into the Muslim mind...seems that Condi Rice is being so tough with Iran because of having a had an affair gone wrong with an Irani in college. Doesn't seem to occur to these guys that our relations haven't been...well, EXISTANT, since the takeover of our Embassy in Teheran 25 years ago...

Seems that Muslims have a problem with sex in all facets of their thought. They can't have a woman go by them lest they forget the task at hand. In fact, I saw one site where a Muslim cleric described women as being nothing but "temptation and pudenda". Yeah, I want THAT guy trying to tell me what a healthy relationship is!

This isn't the first time that Irani officials have accused romance of interfering with geopolitics...It was rumoured last year that German foreign minister Joschka Fischer hardened his tone towards Iran after acquiring a girlfriend who supports the exiled opposition. Couldn't have been because Iran wanted to get a better deal on nuclear "power plant" equipment and the Germans wanted top price, it HAD to be because the Foreign Minister was getting some non-radical Muslim nooky...

F.E.A.T.E. Let's just solve the problem for good; turn the sands of the ME into a glass paved parking lot for the vehicles of the Haz-Mat suited roughnecks we send in to recover the oil.

Or better yet, lets take my fathers advice and arrange a world wide boycott of oil for a month. Let them drink their oil and see how long it takes for them to change regimes.

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President Bush reiterated that "we will stay the course" in Iraq in his speech last night. I'm glad that he shows stern resolve in the face of repeated calls for "timelines,goal markers, and exit stragedies".

The Left is constantly trying to compare Iraq to Viet Nam as a "quagmire" without having learned the OTHER lessons of Viet Nam, namely, that you don't tell your enemy your limits; and that a military conflict can be won in the press if you can't beat your opponent by force of arms.

We can not tell the insurgents that if only they can hold on until _put date here_, they will have succeeeded in defeating the best army in the world. That is exactly what a timetable for withdrawal does. The one-sided reporting occurring at the moment in terms of only showing body counts of Coallition troops and Iraqi civilians without showing the real progress that has been made in terms of reconstruction and implementation of a new independant government is exactly what turned the people against the troops in Viet Nam and cost us the war after we had decimated the NVA to the point of almost non-existance.

Another thing that the doom and gloomers always attempt to say is that "Irag has nothing to do with the WoT". Well, if not, who are these "insurgents" that we're fighting in Iraq? MOST of the leadership of the "rebels" are NOT Iraqi, and if the reports are accurate, more and more of the fighters aren't either.

So WHERE would you rather fight them, in Iraq or here? And make no mistake, we will be fighting these people for longer than just in Iraq, but the fact is that they are fighting us in OUR choice of location, and they are obliging by coming to us to fight, and not staging more attacks on our own soil. This is a somewhat "cruel and heartless" way of looking at the situation, at least for the Iraqi nation; but then again, I am an AMERICAN , not an Iraqi, and prefer not to fight on my home soil. The Islamofacists declared this war over 20 years ago; for the most part, we weren't even aware that this war was declared untill 9/11. I thank god that we had a president that had the resolve to engage the enemy with real force rather than just trying to engage warriors with diplomats and cash bribes in the form of "aid".
It's a shame that the Iraqi people have to suffer the ravages of war, but the Islamofacists have to be fought somewhere, and it's the bad luck of the draw for the Iraqi's that the battlefield is centered there for the moment.

update: Sir George explains the folly of trying to fight a long term war on a timetable basis better than I could. As he said there is only one term for the side that tries to do so....The LOSER.

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Gary Moody must be one desperate guy.....Arrested after a teenaged girl found him peering up at her from an outhouse seat...WHEW! Talk about a stinking pervert!

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I stole borrowed this cartoon from Neal's Nuze. Sure does seem to hit the nail pretty much on the head.

Go to any "Progressive" site...TRY to find any solid, step by step, proposals, backed with logical reasoning, on how to change policies for the better, and whats more, try to make such a proposal in the comments, and note the reaction you get.

95% of the time, the only proposal that a Progressive can come up with is that:

A. We need to raise taxes on "the Rich".

B. We need to have a government study/ further legislation to control the problem.

C. We need to do this "For the Children".

And the reaction you'll receive on a proposal?

A. "Your an uncaring slave of corporate America".

B. "Why are you so greedy"? "You should be happy to pay your taxes, so that you can enjoy the benefits of X, Y, or Z."

C. "Your a Republican, ergo you are a Nazi/Facist/Religious Right Wing Wacko".
And don't forget the classic "vicious gun lover that: wants to turn us back to the Wild West days/ let the blood run freely in the streets".

I will admit that Conservative sites aren't innocent in speading the lables "Communist" and "Socialist" around a little too freely too...there is one slight difference though, they usually back that tagging up with factual data.

But as the cartoon exemplifies; show me an instance where the Democratic party has made any proposals of their own, it seems that all they have done in the last three years is to do their best to block anything the Republicans come up with....whats even worse, it seems that some Rhinos are starting to do the same, in an effort to seemingly become more "bipartisan" before the next election. The art of politics is all about compremise, THAT is bipartisonship..negotiating a bill that, while it doesn't give either party everything they would desire, does become acceptable for the moment to both points of view. Just saying NO is far from that concept.

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Must be tough to be Senator Durbin or Pelosi right now...especially when people from your own party are refuting your contentions that "Gitmo is a Gulag".

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Justice Souter may soon learn a valuable lesson in the law of unintended consequences. Don't you just LOVE the smell of irony in the morning?

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It's too bad that the Constitution prohibits Naturalized citizens from running for President. I wonder if we could make a one time exemption and draft Kim du Toit?
After reading his essay on compremise, part 1, it's clear to me that he is a person that could bring sanity back to the political discourse of the country.

Kim is a natural teacher of plain common sense pertaining to the human condition. Here's just a taste:

"Politics, as the old saying goes, is the art of the compromise, and itÂ’s absolutely true, even though that compromise sometimes sticks in the craw.

Socialistic statism is horrible; so is unfettered capitalism. The first political system suppresses human nature; the second exacerbates it.

Somewhere between the two lies peace and prosperity."

As most of my readers know, I'm of the far right side of the abortion issue, I guess you could have termed me an "absolutist", in Kim's terms, yet I still have grave reservations about what the struggle over abortion is doing to our society.

Kim has proposed a compremise in principle on both sides of the issue that could end a great deal of the struggle. It's one that, as an absolutist, does stick in my craw, yet the acknowledgement of the realities involved make it a fair compremise for both sides.

Go read it all. I can hardly wait for Part 2.

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Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the blessed union between Mamamontezz and I....so how did I spend it? Why I went to the range with Alex; our friend from the People's Monarchy of Britain, OF COURSE!
And before all you readers of the feminine persuasion excoriate me, Mama had to work anyway, and I went with her full blessing....well, went to see Alex, anyway, the range time is another story

Here's Alex holding some much-desired toys....as he said, WHAT a COUNTRY!

And here he is right before killing the green invader from IhateUstan.....

And I think he did a pretty thourough job of it too! LOL That one head shot was my turn at the AR-15 varient he tried out.....The shop owner and I TOLD him not to rent it...sure enough, his little fling with it lit a fervent desire to own one of his very own....impossible for a poor college student....especially one here only on a limited student visa.
But at least it gave him yet another reason to want to emigrate! LOL

I was happy trying out a brand I've never seen before, a Para Ordance LDA, in my favorite .45ACP caliber.

And I found it to be a true pleasure to shoot. note the head shots...quick fire at roughly 20 feet. Not too bad, considering my lack of range time in the last two months and with an unfamiliar weapon.

Got some vid of our playtime too, but since I don't have a host that will let me download it, I guess it will have to remain locked in my files as a private pleasure.....

Mamamontezz was a little disconcerted about the amount of money I spent.....disconcerted, HELL, she was PISSED! I guess I'll have to find a way to appease her rage...any suggestions ladies? I would take HER to the range ASAP, a little shooting always calms her down.... but that would only add to the money woes....

At least if I suddenly disappear, you'll know the reason why.....

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1 I'm his favorite toy though...LOL. ;-)

Posted by: Gina at June 27, 2005 03:01 AM (pO1tP)

2 No, you're more than a toy Gina. But you will have to compete with the range if you stay with that big lug. Just join him in the game, and it won't be a problem in any case...except when you outshoot his skinny butt LOL

Posted by: delftsman3 at June 27, 2005 03:10 AM (vooSr)

3 Gina, let's have some pics of him fondling and playing with his favorite toy then!!!

Posted by: B.C., Imperial Torturerâ„¢ at June 27, 2005 03:12 AM (wPQJl)

4 I have first dibs on that BC. Bikini pics especially!

Posted by: delftsman3 at June 27, 2005 03:18 AM (vooSr)

5 Hmm...well maybe y'all might just have to place an AR-15 in the chapel...then I'd be sprinting up that aisle rather than away from it! BTW B.C, your subscription to RightWingPorn Inc has expired - please make payment before attempting to access pictures.

Posted by: Brit_Student at June 27, 2005 03:21 AM (xR9rw)

6 Subscription??? One doesn't need a fargin' subscription when one has the Imperial DVD's o' Doom™ collection as a bargaining chip! BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BTW, Alex, I've still got those pics of Gina you sent me. Did you say you wanted them erased or forwarded? I forget.

Posted by: B.C., Imperial Torturerâ„¢ at June 27, 2005 03:31 AM (wPQJl)

7 I get a chat with Alex every now and then ... he's a riot man! RWR

Posted by: RightWingRocker at June 27, 2005 09:09 AM (cJi4J)

8 My favourite is the glock. Smooth.

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Here's an update and expansion on my post about a Palistinian Misplaced Arab trying to martyr herself in an Israeli hospital, from a story at
Arutz Sheva Here's the story. I link, YOU decide.

BAUER: MAJOR TV NETWORKS BOYCOTTED 'HOSPITAL BOMBER' STORY

Despite the distribution of a video of the Arab suicide bomber who
intended to blow up a hospital by the IDF, nearly all foreign news agencies
chose to boycott the story altogether.
An outraged former undersecretary to US President Ronald Reagan and
candidate for Republican Presidential nominee, Gary Bauer wrote a scathing
critique of the world mediaÂ’s decision to avoid the story.

Excerpts from BauerÂ’s letter:

”If you don't get the Fox News Channel then you didn't see any of the
dramatic footage of the Israeli army's arrest yesterday of a 21-year old, female Palestinian homicide-bomber, strapped with 25 pounds of high-explosives, just moments before she was to commit mass-murder by detonating herself inside an Israeli hospital. No other television network featured the story.

”Utterly ignoring the extraordinary video of the homicide-bomber's
arrest, both the BBC and CNN focused extensively on how much ‘damage’
Israel's early morning arrest - for which there was no video - of 55 Fatah
and Islamic Jihad terrorists, described by CNN as ‘Palestinian
activists,’ would cause to today's scheduled ‘summit meeting’ between Israeli
Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

That only one network would air incredible footage of the seizure of a
ticking human-bomb, just moments before she tried to murder hospital
patients, means this story was not simply ignored by the mainstream media
- it was boycotted by the mainstream media. Since nearly every aspect
of this remarkable story contradicts everything the mainstream media has
been trying to tell us about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they
just opted for the easiest way to handle it - denying it ever happened.

[Â…]

Ignoring the story meant the networks didn't need to tell viewers that
yesterday's homicide-bomber was not dispatched by terrorists of Islamic
Jihad or Hamas, groups opposed to President Abbas, but was in fact
working for the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, which is controlled by the
political party Fatah, whose chairman is none other than President Abbas
himself!

Ignoring the story meant not having to reveal that the
would-be-murderer had been traveling regularly to Israel for years on a valid medical pass, which granted the woman free treatment for burns she received in a home cooking accident, and was thus ruthlessly exploited by depraved
terrorists whose shameless capacity to cynically manipulate goodness,
in their pursuit of murder and death, knows no bounds.

[Â…]

Ignoring the story meant not having to cover comments the
female-terrorist made in a rare army supervised press conference in which she
revealed what her mission was and who sent her. "I believe in death," she
said on Israeli TV. "All my life I have been preparing to be a martyr.
Mother, please forgive me for failing in [my] mission." Sentiments not
exactly consistent with the line long peddled by the liberal media, and
more recently even by the Bush administration, that Israel is the
obstacle to "peace."

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Michelle Malkin delivers a much deserved smackdown on those that keep asking for Trials/Hearings for Gitmo detainees. They HAVE had a hearing...
EVERY

SINGLE
ONE
OF
THEM.

Due to the supposed "non-existant" hearings, over 200 detainees have been released...and 12 of those released were picked up BACK ON THE BATTLEFIELD. How many are back, but not recaptured?!?

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With all the contoversy over Guantanamo lately, I found This Poll interesting. AND also this post over at PowerLine. I would agree with John that if all the Democrats can come up with is a 37% support rate, when they have made an all-out push on this issue, they are indeed in trouble.

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In the "You won't see this in the MSM" section, Douglas Wood, the Australian engineer that was rescued last week in a combined US/Iraqi "cordon sweep" apololgized to both President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard for his "statements made under duress". Mr. Wood had been held hostage for nearly seven weeks by members of the Iraqi Insurgency Islamofacist movement. During the course of that captivity, Mr. Wood had made a televised plea for coallition troops to withdraw from Iraq.

"I actually believe that I am proof positive that the current policy of training the Iraqi army ... works because it was Iraqis that got me out," he said."
"

I would tell Mr. Woods that we understood that he was under duress, and hold no fault with him for saying what he had to, to survive. The fact that his first act on arriving home was to make a public apology shows that he is a class act.

Too bad some of our own people in leadership positions don't have the same class.

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One of my reasons to be such a vehement supporter of the 2nd Amendment is that it puts the means of self protection into our hands. The GFW's say that "that is what we have police for", disregarding the fact that that personal protection really isn't in their jub description. In fact, they can't even protect themselves from the ragages of crime. When the head of the police department in our nations capitol can't be assurred that his official vehicle can remain untouched, just what hope do us lowly peons have?

Yeah....I want to depend on THESE guys when it's life or death in the next two minutes!

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We are swamped in the MSM with stories of how the war in Iraq has inflamed the Arab Street, and that our standing in the world has sunk to an all time low.

So how come when there is evedince that President Bush's policy of Democratization DO show signs of bearing fruit, there is a deafening silence from the MSM and those pundits declaring that our detention center at Gitmo "a Gulag"?

This protest march, which I found out about from the Florida Cracker, should be a sign that President Bush just may not be the war-mongering idiot the Left portrays him:

BAKU, Azerbaijan - Thousands of demonstrators chanting "Freedom" and carrying portraits of President Bush marched across Azerbaijan's capital Saturday, demanding the resignation of the government and free parliamentary elections — in the biggest protest in years.

Note the man whose picture appears in the cry for freedom...sure isn't Dick "the Turbin" Durbin, is it? Maybe the "Arab Street" really does know just WHO has the best hopes and wishes for them in his heart?

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I once got engaged in a dicussion with some members of the other side of the aisle on the topic of health care, and inevitably, they came up with the old argument: "they have it("universal" healthcare) in Canada, we need to do it here too". All my statistics and facts could not dissuade them from their contention that Canada's system was far superior to ours.

Too bad that the Canadian Supreme Court disagrees with them. I'm sure that will still not dissuade the lemmings of the Left from trying to convert our health care system to the Socialist model, but just maybe it will wake up the "Great Undecideds" to the situation, and help to get them to support REAL health care reform instead of sound/feel good socialist pap.

The NHS in Britain is in the same boat, but at least they DO allow "private pay" to decrease waiting times. But think about it, for the women in the story, there was STILL a two week wait for an MRI; IF she payed for it herself...In any American hospital, she would have received one as a matter of normal emergency room trauma treatment. She may have been deep in debt afterwards it's true, but she would have received treatment that may have precluded two years of suffering. I find it enlighteniong that the hospital where my wife works hase more MRI units that there are in ALL of Canada, and it's only one of seven hospitals in the metropolitan area that have such units.

Getting government out of health care would be a first good step. All too often medical personell spend more time on mandated paperwork than real patient care.
Secondly,setting reasonable caps on malpractice awards would help lower costs in far higher ratios than the awards themselves, just by lessening the incidents of doctors ordering non essential cya tests just to protect themselves from law suits.

And I know I've harped on this subject, but implementing the Fair Tax would increase the amount of money availible for the poorer members of our society to afford at least basic health care coverage.

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