A War Veteran's Tale - An Ugly American?

~Snooper~

This article published at Canada Free Press

Some time ago, I co-authored a piece with Sonlit Knight and I placed it up at a Citizen Journalist site that has morphed into the usual brain-dead Nobama trouser licker site. Freedom of Speech isn't allowed at that place because it injures the sensibilities of the over emotional children pretending that they are adults. Nevertheless, I have chosen to republish the piece here having been compelled to do so after I have thought about for a week now.

The compelling factor was the post at Wake Up Americans penned by auntybrat. That piece is entitled, America the Ugly. Naturally, the enemies of this nation refer to us in that regard but we are the first nation turned to in a time of need. I find that bizarro. So, having read that piece I now present the following.

A War Veteran's Tale - An Ugly American?

Through the heart, soul and eyes, this disabled American veteran, having survived 91101 in the hills of Tajikistan, describes the current events involving American Forces currently deployed and how the Vietnam Vets could not.

As the remnants and incorrigible hippies and their off-spring of the Vietnam War Era make a mockery of themselves and the United States Armed Forces in Berkeley, CA in these recent days unfolds, I am reminded of the ludicrous fallacy of the 'Ugly American'.

Of the many things I have been called by unhinged, hysterical leftwingers, few names cause me to chuckle more than "The Ugly American". The title (like everything else liberals believe) has no basis in any historical reality.

The name was gleaned from a 1958 novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The book was intended to show that America was losing the war against communism because of our loud, boorish arrogance and inability to understand other cultures. Like all the other dogmas of liberalism, it is based purely in fantasy- fantasy that history would expose.

That The Ugly American was a novel and that should end the discussion. An argument is exposed as inadequate if it must rely on fictitious events to support it. Much speculation has been made about who the characters in the book (and later, in the movie) represented, but it is so much nonsensical blather.

Let's look at the facts.

First, War is as old as civilization itself. Since Cain first slew Abel, mankind's barbarity has been a matter of sad fact. In fact, as time has gone by, the ability of man to torture, maim, brutalize and slay his fellow man has only been brought to more grotesque perfection while the world continues to fall into an ever more cold and callous slumber.

Second, America was not losing the war against communism. In fact, we won the war against communism. That is an objective historical fact, leftist revisionism notwithstanding.

Third, America was certainly not losing the war in Southeast Asia. At least, not by any standard by which war has ever been measured before. That America was losing the war in Vietnam is a work of pure liberal fiction.

America lost the Vietnam war, not to the communists, but to the American Government. That is a fact and it is indisputable. In an article published in Front Page Magazine, Bui Tin, a former North Vietnamese Col. admitted that the North Vietnamese were not achieving military victories, only political ones.

Question: How did Hanoi intend to defeat the Americans?

Answer: By fighting a long war which would break their will to help South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh said,"We don't need to win military victories, we only need to hit them until they give up and get out."

The American protester was essential to the enemy efforts.

It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

The Vietnamese army knew they could not defeat the Americans. Only the Americans could do that.

If Johnson had granted [Gen. William] Westmoreland's requests to enter Laos and block the Ho Chi Minh trail, Hanoi could not have won the war.

The enemies of America resurrect the ghost of Vietnam to protest American intervention at any time, in any place. The lesson of Vietnam, they insist, is that an occupier cannot win against a well entrenched insurgency. That lesson, also, is a work of fantasy. When liberals make idiotic claims like this, they only betray their own blind ignorance of history.

The fact is that insurgencies rarely succeed. A student of history would know this, a student of fantasy would not. America did not lose the Vietnam war because of the Ugly Americans over there, it lost because of the [sic] beautiful people here. Namby Pamby sissy types took the streets of America by storm and it was the American citizen, not the American soldier, that could not counter it.

Myths about invincible guerrillas and insurgents are a direct result of America's collective misunderstanding of its defeat in South Vietnam. This loss is generally credited to the brilliance and military virtues of the pajama-clad Vietcong. The Vietnamese may have been tough and persistent, but they were not brilliant. Rather, they were lucky - they faced an opponent with leaders unwilling to learn from their failures: the United States. When the Vietcong went toe-to-toe with U.S. forces in the 1968 Tet Offensive, they were decimated. When South Vietnam finally fell in 1975, it did so not to the Vietcong, but to regular units of the invading North Vietnamese Army. The Vietcong insurgency contributed greatly to the erosion of the American public's will to fight, but so did the way that President Lyndon Johnson and the American military waged the war. It was North Vietnam's will and American failure, not skillful use of an insurgency, that were the keys to Hanoi's victory.

America lost the Vietnam war because - and only because - she lost the will to fight it. Due to the efforts of traitors and liars like John Kerry and Jane Fonda, public opinion was turned against that effort. It was a death by a thousand cuts. Make no mistake, America surrendered in a war it was winning over there because it could not put down an insurgency back here.

Leftists have attempted to capitalize on America's humiliation in Vietnam by co-opting a Novel's fantasy of The Ugly American into a pseudo reality. Remember, The Ugly American was a Novel that takes place in a fictional place called Sarkhan. The foreign policy of the America haters works great in imaginary places. It is in the realm of reality on earth that it is somewhat wanting.

The fantasy of The Ugly American provides a convenient model for moral cowards that are jealous of America and willing to scapegoat her for their empty, meaningless lives. These hysterical cowards envision an America that has been a friend of despots and tyrants but history has been quite unkind to their pathological delusions. For, from Poland to Nicaragua, from Grenada to Iraq, more of the world's people are free and safe, fed, clothed, educated and receiving medical care, as a result of the American Soldier, than because of the combined efforts of all the other nations in the history of the world.

Now, it is no secret that I have had a great deal of fun over the years, poking my enemies with the proverbial stick. I have derived what is probably an unhealthy level of enjoyment by driving unhinged leftist baboons into volcanic fits of rage, by using their own rabid bigotry against them.

It is true that I do not mind being hated by these wild-eyed, spoiled and petulant little cretins. In fact, I relish it. For, I have yet to find one who can articulate a doctrine of how the world is that goes any deeper than "It's America's fault". As shallow as that is, it is all they have...a feeling and ill-conceived belief.

You may call me an ugly American when I say that we can bomb whoever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want, then sit back gleefully and watch leftist cretins meltdown. Even though I say such things only to be incendiary, and entertain myself and, even though they certainly don't reflect my real views, you could make the case that it is an ugly thing to say. That's fair enough. I'll accept the charge.

Just don't expect an apology. I have my reasons. My brother was KIA in Quang Tri Province during the Tet Offensive of 1968. If there is one thing I have learned from the Police Action in Vietnam, it is this. I shall not sit idly by...as my parents and elders did...and let the unhinged do to our veterans now and our Armed Forces now, that which they did in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

For me, true ugliness is not manifested in words purely intended to incite wrath from those who are mentally unbalanced to begin with. To me, true ugliness is manifested in cold indifference to the suffering of innocent people.

You see, for me, people are real. Real pain, real suffering and real anguish are part of the human experience of oppressed people living under the iron fist of tyranny. People live under no more horrid tyranny and brutality than those burdened with the yoke of 7th century Islamic Sharia law.

For the christophobes and the America and Israel haters, all religions are equal and American and Israeli imperialism is the source of all the world's ills. Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, reality tells a very different story, for Sharia oppression and Islamic barbarism are as old as the religion of peace, itself. Once again, a student of history can quickly attest to the truth of what I claim, while a student of fantasy will merely kick and scream in protest.

Unlike the coalition of the callous, we do not have the luxury of living in a world where other people simply don't matter. When they look upon an oppressed people, the narcissists merely rationalize that their plight is-in some way- the result of some past American sin. This, inexplicably, renders the victim unworthy of relief or rescue.

In the world in which we live, it is simply unconscionable to view human beings as no more than pawns in a giant blame the imperialist Americans game. That is what I call ugly.

When I hear the blame America crowd calling the Iraq war immoral and demanding we pull out, I feel ill. When they compare the so-called Immoral war in Iraq with the so-called immoral war in Vietnam, I laugh.

Immoral war in Vietnam? More immoral than victims abandoned in Saigon? More immoral than the killing fields?

It is too easy for the pseudo-intellectuals to stand on the sideline, in a perpetual state of craven condemnation of American foreign policy abroad. They have that luxury because they never have to accept the consequences of their vapid stupidity. Fools such as these empty headed cretins cannot understand the difference between education and intelligence, and are fully lacking in the ability to see the world as it really is.

The one thing liberal elitists are good at is being wrong. They were wrong about Chamberlain and Carter's pacifism just as surely as they were wrong about Reagan's peace through strength and their opposition to the Vietnam war.

Never, ever, have they been as provably wrong as they have been in Iraq.

They predicted the fall of Iraq would not be accomplished without tens of thousands of American dead. They were wrong. They pithily argued that the handover of power wouldn't happen, they were wrong. They claimed the elections would be stopped- wrong again.

More elections, a parliament, a prime minister, a Constitution....

wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

Finally, when things were going poorly, came the surge. Yet again, the apostles of failure predicted sure defeat.

Humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat. Have they learned? Of course not. They drone on in ever more bitter, ever more caustic fits of neurotic rage and feigned condescension.

.....but we know the truth, don't we?

They, not us, are the ugly ones. Yes, we are arrogant and boorish to them. Yes, we do push them down and kick sand in their faces but we all know they deserve it, so few say anything about it.

After all, these cowards are willing to consign a person...a nation....an entire race to poverty, oppression and misery just to reinforce an arrogant, self-serving hatred towards a nation they are jealous of. Ugly Americans? There is no such thing. We overthrow ugliness and we suffer not the crap of the cowardly pigs who would stand in our way.

In conclusion, then, that which transpired in Vietnam over there and over here; that which transpired against the returning veterans, will not - I repeat - will not happen again...ever. Not on our watch.

This is all so evident because the Iraq War is not even a campaign issue any longer because the politicos were on the wrong side of the issue and they know it now as they knew it then. Why is it not an issue this year, if this were not so? All we hear now is "change".

"Change" to what and from what? They want to "change" from that which was wrought in 2006 and 2007? Didn't they run on that platform of "change". Did not that "change" fail? They want to "change" from last years' rhetoric? Does that mean they want to win, now? Or, do they merely use their all too familiar "change" ignorance to appeal to the emotionally unbalanced?

Speak up, Mr Reid, Madame Pelosi, Mr Murtha, Mr Kennedy. We cannot hear you.

Taking Our Country Back One Marxist Spider Hole At A Time

~Snooper~

This article is published on Canada Free Press

This article published at American Daily Review

Everyone that knows me personally having met me at one time or another, or have spoken with me on the phone, or have had contact via email or blogging know how I feel about Barack Hussein Obama. They also know how I feel about John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, John Jerk-Off Murtha, Spineless Reid, Nancy Liar Pelosi and a host of others that dwell in the Dishonorable Halls of Anti-Progress CONgress. They also know how I feel about President Bush, a fellow Texican. All one needs to do really is to scroll through the Tag Lines in the side-bar of this blog located near the bottom of this blog to get an inside glimpse of me and my inner thoughts - that I and I alone reveal at my pleasure. Some things are not nor will ever be revealed. These are reserved for personal contact after I read the body language of the people I meet.

With that said, I will at this time express myself as a Free American.

You can draw a 50-mile radius from where I live and within that 50-mile radius, I have in the last few months visited every institute of higher learning that I could and have spread the word about the impending dangers to this nation in the person of one Barack Hussein Obama and others like him. Fortunately, there are others in the blogosphere that have also been talking about these same issues and I can utilize their thoughts as well as my own. Unfortunately, these bloggers aren't really doing all that there is need to be done. Writing is fine but are they getting out on a one-on-one basis? For the most part I will have to say no because I don't see them out there. I may be wrong.

I have been preaching and teaching that which I believe for decades but have only been writing in the blogs and forums since 1999. In internet time, that is almost an eternity. Most of my talking and preaching - others would call it opining - has been with the youth of this nation both internal and external of the United States Armed Forces up until 2004. In 2004, I hit the streets but it wasn't until July of 2008 that embarks on a journey of which I am currently undertaking.

If we are to Take Our Country Back, we must reeducate the youth of America. For decades and decades, our youth have been sold a bill of goods from people like Barack Hussein Obama that have a deep-rooted hatred for everything Traditional America. It stems from being suckered into the ideologies of "revolutionaries" such as Che Guevara, Saul Alinsky, Karl Marx and other social engineers. They have all been both Godless and godless. The void they feel because of it cannot be sated so they turn to violence, murder, madness and mayhem. Has Barack turned to this? Not yet but it is coming. Why else would he tell his "people" to "get in their faces"? Sounds confrontational to me.

The List of 45 that I have been passing around by the thousands will eventually take root in this nation and none too soon. I only wish that more would do what I do...make one-on-one contact with the youth because they are starving for something better than America Sucks that they hear from their teachers and professors. I know. I see it nearly every day. I have talked to thousands of students now and have had run-ins with Marxist teachers and professors that are quite upset that I dare inform their students that America doesn't suck. They are livid and several have threatened me with bodily injury much to the dismay of the students "in the audience", as it were. I merely smirk, look at the students and say something to the affect, "See?" They invariably shake their heads and ask to hear and see more.

I prove to those I speak with that Obama is buying the election or at least trying to. That much was obvious back in February. I also prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama, if he cannot buy the election, he will most assuredly try and steal it - it is the only way he can win it.

Many times I have proven that Obama's mystical tax cuts for 95% of Americans is a myth even without Mark Steyn's help but his recent article will help in the days to come. I have proven that the War In Iraq has been a smashing success with the primary proof being that the DNC no longer uses it as an election issue. That in itself is pretty much the only indicator one needs.

Among many issues, the issue about Barack's citizenship has become a talking point on several North Texas college campuses. If he is indeed a US Citizen - a belief that I once held emphatically but no more - why then hasn't he produced his birth certificate or COLB? Armed with a recent report from Chicago Ray, I will charge forward with the issue. The law suits to remove Barack Hussein Obama from the ballots across this nation are on the rise. Barack can stop it in its tracks by producing his PROOF that he is a natural-born citizen of the United States. What id he hiding and why?

[...] There's obviously no simple yes answer from the shady 'Bama campaign as they would've already provided it. They're already contemplating how to rewrite the constitution to accommodate the "Amazing Lyin' Obama" who is likely telling DNC officials that are likely freaking out this was all a simple oversight as he was never required to produce this proof before and therefore didn't realize he wasn't a legal U.S.Citizen. [...]

He is hiding this for several reasons. If he is elected and I doubt that he will be, he will create a constitution conundrum such as this nation has never seen if he is proven to be a non-citizen. It is one more attempt in a very long list of attempts to rewrite our history and our Constitution which, by the way, is the Law of The Land, much to the chagrin of SCOTUS in recent decades.

Obama is a Marxist. Of that there is no doubt. His reactions and the reactions of his most adamant supporters to Joe the Plumber hold that as proof positive. Why else would they scurry to "change the subject"?

When I explain to the students and then show them the record versus the rhetoric, the scales are lifted from their eyes. I even had a professor of Humanities shrieking to students not to listen to me. The students asked why and this idiot pretty much said because "he is screwing up everything I have been teaching for years". I smiled. I smirked and said, "See?"

Facts are facts folks and when they are presented in such a way as to create an atmosphere to allow the student to honestly ask a question without fear of getting bad or poor grades because of it, they do ask questions and they do learn Truth.

I have no idea where these seeds will go or how much they will grow or even take root. I just know that I am doing my part.

Are you?

National Anthem Scrubbed From Obama Rally

~Snooper~

Nothing new here but, MSNBC reports that the National Anthem was replaced so another speaker could speak. Any questions? Additional information at Wizbang and Whadyaknow.

UPDATES... PC, NQ,

From Iraq: Patriots Sing Our National Anthem

HT Humbled Infidel

Trackposted to Rosemary's Thoughts, Mark My Words, Faultline USA, The World According to Carl, DragonLady's World, Pirate's Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Cao's Blog, Democrat=Socialist, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

The McCain-Palin Tsunami and the DNC's Abyss of Obscurity

~Snooper~

Please vote this up at Digital Journal (slightly modified for their sensitivities)

Nothing does this DAV's wounded heart better than watching the utter and complete destruction, self-imposed, of the DNC. For decade upon decade, the enemies of Freedom, personal responsibility, honesty, integrity and morality have systematically tried to, and have widely succeeded, destroy this Nation which many have given the ultimate sacrifice to preserve.

Regardless of the howling, the wailing and gnashing of teeth to the contrary, this Nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Are we perfect? Hardly. However, the Founding Fathers knew that they were also not perfect but knew who was. They strove for perfection realizing the goal would never be met. We as humans can never reach that Utopian perch of perfection. Ever.

The proponents of Utopia are willfully ignorant of what that is and means. Sir Thomas Moore wrote the book "Utopia" in 1516. The foundation of Utopia stems from the Greek "ou topas" which literally translates into "not place" which is transliterated into No Place. It is fine and dandy to dream of such a place but when reality settles in and honesty is allowed to come forward, Utopia or the Utopian Ideology cannot exist because Utopia is No Place. I would rather be someplace in reality than pretending the perfect world of No Place exists. Such is where the DNC dwells...smack dab in the middle of nowhere.

What does the Founding Fathers and Utopia have to so with the McCain-Palin Tsunami have to do with anything? Everything. The DNC leadership has the propensity to ignore issues, pass blame elsewhere, will not accept responsibility, will not admit or acknowledge their own mistakes and shortcomings. They have a tendency to ignore things long enough in the hopes that whatever it is that has a possibility to derail them will merely vanish. They have the Utopian Reality Syndrome and it is a lethal case. They live in a realm of No Place where No One is at fault because Everything and Nothing co-exist in the middle of Nowhere. No Place has No Borders and Everything and Nothing means Something, subject to wind direction.

For instance, Patriotism has now been redefined as paying taxes (video here). Joe Biden has pretty much set up the image that if you don't pay all the taxes he thinks you should pay, your Patriotism is waning and lacks what it takes to be a Patriot.

Once again, the DNC has turned their backs on the man of whom they say they greatly admire and that wold be President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Among other things so stated in his inaugural address, he said this: (video here) (HT Jon Sanders)

In a famous moment of American oratory, President John F. Kennedy during his inaugural address urged "my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Such a "country first" message resounded then, during the height of the Cold War, and it still echoes in civics classrooms across the nation. Meanwhile, the candidate looking to become the next revered Democratic president has been traveling the country sneering at the technological shortfalls of McCain (who answered what he could do for his country) and entreating his fellow Americans to ask, beg, organize and demand what their country under him could do for their groups. [...]

As Gateway asks, "Can we call them socialists yet?"

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans.

The Republican campaign for president calls the tax increases their Democratic opponents propose "painful" instead of patriotic.

Under the economic plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: "It's time to be patriotic... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."

Seeing that it has been the federal government that had dug this whole do to taxes, taxes and taxes, how in the hell can they expect us to pay even more to further their socialist crap? Another President in another time once said that government was the problem and it still is.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama are sycophants of the socialist ignorance running amok in this country. Utopia does not exist and there are no roads that lead to No Place.

The Greatness of America...

~Snooper~

This article will be published at The New Media Journal on 28 AUG '08

...and what America's Greatness Means To The World

Once a year America celebrates America's greatness. That day is the 4th of July, our celebrated Day of Independence. That solemn day is now a commercialized event, which in my opinion reduces that solemn day into just another day in the lives of Americans. However, there remains a core value or principle within the souls of most Americans that True American Patriotism will always rise to the top. September 11th, 2001 proved this true.

Neighbor helped neighbor. The political winds ceased to blow but for a short time and the Nation under attack came together. That is all recent history yet it emphasizes the greatness of America and her citizens. Where I live in the hustle and bustle of early morning and afternoon rush hours, drivers were driving their vehicles differently than usual. American Flags could be seen in and on every vehicle. The world was watching us.

America still remains to this day the Beacon of Hope and a representation of what Freedom truly is and what Freedom can be. Millions of people from all walks of life flock to this nation every year. Legions of people are on waiting lists trying to come to America to start anew in the hopes of a better life than the one they are currently living. There are not millions of people on waiting lists to leave because America, even with her faults -- and there are many -- is the best nation on the face of this orb we named Earth. The world is indeed watching us.

There is no other nation on God's green Earth where the citizens are free to roam from place to place at their leisure. There is no other nation where open criticism of the government is allowed to the degree that it is. We as a people are free to opine and complain or praise and extol as we so desire without being behind bars in a prison cell or in fear that we may wind up there because of what we say.

Having said this, our Constitutional and God-given Freedoms come with a price as well as consequences. Freedom of Speech does have its limitations. We are a Nation of Law and Order. Again, the world watches us.

The greatness of any nation is her people. When the people are herded about as cattle; when the government determines how many children one can be allowed to bring into this world and thus dictate as to the acceptable gender; when a government determines which faith you may or may not possess; when movement within a nation's borders are restrictive; the nation's greatness is lost within despair and unhappiness within its people and they become automatons of that nation. When a nation does not and will not provide its people with the vehicle to obtain and pursue happiness, that nation spawns seeds of hate and discontent.

Our nation, the United States of America, guarantees the right of passage for each and every citizen the pursuit of happiness. What we as a people do with that guarantee is in our own self-made destiny and controlled by our own choices in life. Our nation's constitution does not guarantee anyone that they will achieve any particular level of happiness no matter the contrarian views we hear each and every day. Some seem to believe that happiness is given to each and every citizen. Happiness cannot be given or granted. It must be achieved by our own doing.

Her enemies also determine America's greatness. The very nature of her enemies gives credence and validity to her greatness. The enemies of Freedom will always be at odds with the very construct of the American way of life. Throughout history, America's enemies have reacted to our fast-paced growth and richness and the freedom of her citizens. Jealousy and envy are the seeds of hatred and chronic malcontents and are the very root cause of the evils thrust upon this nation both from within and without. Some called it America's Manifest Destiny that propelled this nation into greatness. I believe this to be true.

Our nation is a nation of opportunity and many people die in the process in getting to this nation as they flee the oppressiveness of other nations. Consider the Vietnamese, Cuban and Haitian boat people as a stark reminder of how desperate citizens of other nations are and what they are willing to sacrifice in getting to America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. I have never heard of boat people that have died on the open seas trying to flee America.

As the world watches America, Europe has begun returning to a non-socialist means of governance although that process will be a slow one. Nonetheless, it is taking place in historic proportions. They are turning away from that form of governance because it has failed and although our faults are many, this nation's greatness remains the Beacon of Hope. The world watches and deep down they know that America is great. We are the preeminent role model of Freedom this world has ever known. As a testament to this I present the following.

In Afghanistan on July 4th, 2008, a Polish Detachment celebrated America's Independence Day with American Forces serving there. At the end of the ceremony, the Commander of the Polish Forces presented to American Command the following:

Dear Friends, Two hundred and thirty two years ago, when your forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, they changed the history of the world. Thanks to their sacrifices the world realized the true meaning of freedom. Independence and freedom are powerful words in your country as they are in Poland. When the United States gained independence, Poland was in the process of slowly loosing portions of its borders to its neighbors. We appreciate your efforts towards a unified and independent United States of America because we know how difficult it is to regain freedom and independence. Today we can be very happy with living in independent countries. Today we fight together for freedom for people in other countries, like here in Afghanistan.

4th of July and Independence Day are identified in our country with aspiring to freedom and that is why we are so happy that we can celebrate this day with American soldiers signifying our common goals for peace and freedom. Today we wish you and your nation a peaceful and happy day.

Polish Soldiers
Polish Military Contingent Afghanistan

My friends, the American Dream is not broken as some would express. It is the process utilized in the chase of the American Dream that is broken. No government supplied Entitlement Program or process can guarantee any level of happiness one so desires to achieve. Only individual achievement on their own volition and inspiration can propel an individual to the levels of happiness one can dream of attaining. Hard work, dedication and the mental capacity to reach for the stars can and will pave the way for whatever goal an individual wishes to achieve. And therein, through the process of self-motivation, the pursuit of happiness begins and the struggles of life will be rewarded.

It is the greatness of the American People, which makes our nation great. It is the unending spirit of giving, which makes this nation great. In this nation, in time of emergency, no matter one's political or religious leanings or trappings, Americans help Americans in time of need. In local emergencies and using a fire as an example, Americans run into burning buildings and not out to save those that are trapped and some die in that process. In national emergencies, as in September 11th, 2001, Americans helped Americans across this land and across the oceans. In international emergencies, the world turns to Americans to rescue them and to lend aid and comfort in unsettling times and tragedy. As in all emergencies across this Orb Earth, Americans are the first responders the world over and here at home.

When people are in harms way of tyranny and slavery to brutal dictators, it is Americans that respond and no one else unless shamed into doing so. And, we are hated for it. That is what makes the greatness of America. When we hear that the world hates us, we know that we are doing the jobs others are incapable of doing or are unwilling to do. The measure and the very nature of the naysayers of this nation is what makes America great and great she will always remain.

We seem to save ourselves from internal destruction seemingly in the nick of time. We are a self-correcting nation and other nations envy us and others hate us for it. Nevertheless, we press forward as the Beacon of Hope and still, with all of the hype we hear from the enemies of Freedom and the enemies of Law and Order to the contrary of our greatness, we still render aid when called upon and when not called upon, we still make the offer.

The world does watch us and, the nations that are not as free as we, are envious of us and what we are capable of doing.

Remember these words and may they never falter nor let their meaning escape your remembrance: from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, God bless America, my home sweet home.

May God continue to bless and keep us from ourselves.

Anti-Americanists Under Attack By Patriots

~Snooper~

AMERICA RISING!!

Here we go folks! I keep saying this over and over that the Silent Majority is rising...America is Rising...and the libtards have had their day in the fun-filled sunny days. Their days are numbered.

Another anti-Americanist has met a challenger and it looks like the challenger has a real good shot!!

HT to Gateway Pundit...

1st Lt. Travis L. Manion was killed in action on April 27, 2007 in Iraq's Anbar Province.

Yesterday, his father Thomas Manion, a Republican who recently retired as a colonel in the Marine Reserves, entered the race against antiwar liberal Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.).

Thomas says his son's death was a wake-up call to step forward and serve.
Jules Crittenden has more on the Manion's.

Everyone in this district of Pennsylvania need to get on board here and make this happen!!

BREAKING: Cuban Communist Supporters Routed From Miami

~Snooper~

BREAKING NEWS! Dateline; 12 JAN 08...DADIT DADIT DADIT DADIT...PLEASE STAND BY FOR AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT...MIAMI CUBAN COMMUNISTS WERE TURNED AWAY AFTER AN ANGRY MOB OF SOME 300 ANTI-CUBAN COMMUNIST CUBAN-AMERICANS ACCOSTED MEMBERS OF CODE PINK DEMANDING THAT THE UNITED STATES EMBRACE CUBAN COMMUNISM AND DEMANDED THE FBI TO ARREST THAT NASTY ANTI-CUBAN COMMUNIST CREEP LUIS POSADA CARRILES FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT HE DIDN'T DO AND IS ALLEGED TO HAVE DONE IN VENEZUELA.

Just curious....what in the hell is wrong with these people and why in the hell do we tolerate such treasonous idiocy? Any viable answers here? WTFO?? They don't care about the rule of law! They don't care about our troops! They funnel monies to our enemies that kill, wound and stalk our troops. She is a fraud and her kind like Ron Paul's supporters and vice versa...I see them ALL the time marching together in their anti-American "parades".

HT to Gateway Pundit: their headline reads as follows (more colorful than mine but i didn't want to steal their thunder so I made up my own) -

Code Pink Gang-Rushed in Little Havana! -- Pink Fringe Ripped From Truck! ...Forced to Flee!

Is that precious or what? Reports can be found here and here and here.

[...] A political protest in the streets of Miami boiled over on Saturday when several hundred people from the Cuban community clashed with a group of activists.

Members of CodePink antiwar group had planned to protest peacefully at Versailles restaurant in Little Havana. Little did they know they would be greeted by some 300 angry Cuban protesters. [...]

Medea Benjamin is a MAJOR anti-American communist pig. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

[...] Female peace activists in pink dresses and tiaras demanded the arrest of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles Saturday, but aborted plans for a demonstration in Little Havana after his supporters rushed their vehicle.

The activists, from the Codepink anti-war group, had planned to speak to reporters outside the landmark Versailles restaurant to publicize their campaign against Posada Carriles - a former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.

However the five women, who were accompanied by at least one man, were met by some 200 irate Cuban-Americans who consider Posada Carriles a champion of freedom. Several charged at the activists' truck as they arrived, tearing at its pink fringe, while others jeered and shouted insults. The truck then drove on. [...]

Awww! Those poor misunderstood treasonous skanks.

[...] "We are not in Cuba. We're supposed to have free speech," said Medea Benjamin, one of Codepink's founders. Supporters of Posada Carriles ran through the streets of Little Havana looking for the Codepink truck while bystanders shouted "prostitutes" at the small group. The activists eventually decided to meet with journalists in the parking lot of a downtown police station three miles away. [...]

Shut up you whiny-ass Medea whore! Folks were calling them prostitutes! ROFLMAO!!

From Babalu Blog: (source Miami Herald)

[...] She's right. In Cuba she would have never been able to travel across the country to protest anything. And in Cuba the mob would have beaten her to pulp. And that mob would have been organized by the government. Here in the U.S. people are going to react when you slap them in the face. [...]

Roger. Copy.

Code Pink Bitch Slapped

More Moonbat Trouncing with Skye is here:

What the hell...here is some War Porn: (Courtesy Weasel Zippers) And, while we are at it, how about a look-see The Why we are in this war...The $250 Million East Bathtub at Ground Zero-NYT

Where Do We Get Such Men As These?

~Snooper~

I am a Warrior and I am a proud member of the Warrior Class. There does not exist many of us yet we do not consider ourselves members of The Elite. We do not pander. We do not grovel. We volunteered and answered the Patriot's Call.

We are not any better than anyone else yet others think themselves to be better than us. We understand the sentiment and we know deep within our hearts that when the chips are down, the people "better" than us will look to us to protect them in their time of need.

This may sound maudlin; it may sound morbid...I care not. I lost a friend and America lost a National Treasure. Death and dying is nothing new to me but I try, to no avail, to eject the memories, the heartache, the screams from my mind.

On 3 JAN 08, Major Andrew Olmsted traveled to the Warriors Domain. He had the foresight to write a final post before his death and it was to be published upon his death. This is an excerpt of that post:

[...] What I don't want this to be is a chance for me, or anyone else, to be maudlin. I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.) I had a pretty good life, as I noted above. Sure, all things being equal I would have preferred to have more time, but I have no business complaining with all the good fortune I've enjoyed in my life. So if you're up for that, put on a little 80s music (preferably vintage 1980-1984), grab a Coke and have a drink with me. If you have it, throw 'Freedom Isn't Free' from the Team America soundtrack in; if you can't laugh at that song, I think you need to lighten up a little. I'm dead, but if you're reading this, you're not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact. [...]

That is what Andrew was like. Many men share that same thought. Don't boo-hoo for me...I have chosen to be what and where I am.

His personal blog is here, he had his own web site at one time here and he wrote for Obsidian Wings more often than not where his final message to all of us can be read.

As we hear the caterwauling from the anti-Americanists across the globe; as we witness "peace activists" burning men in uniform in effigy; as we witness the anti-war crowds spitting on military members; I often wonder why. Why would these alleged peace activists treat the very people that has made it possible for them to be as they are without fear of reprisal this way? Don't they know what we are capable of? Is it all that wise to enrage us/

The answer is, naturally, we are better than that and we have seen and witnessed much worse. They are but a parasite and are short-lived as well as being insignificant in the grand scheme.

Our nation is at war.

We could...and do...get angry with the defeatists, the leftists, the media; and feel complete contempt at all those who would belittle and demean such as Major Andrew Olmsted and many others like him. These men and women who have chosen to serve, who are willing and have given of themselves in ways the politicians and the media, the Code Pinkos, the ANSWER crowd, the traitors never will are but 1% of our population. These anti-Americanists are incapable of such commitment.

We could...and do......get angry at the politicians as they pander and cater to the insignificant for a vote...especially during voting seasons...which openly enable the enemy by uttering utter nonsense such as "getting them out of Iraq"...

--as if men and women of this caliber want to be turned into surrenderists to serve some pandering politicians' agenda.

We laugh about such absurdity. Not because we don't agree but because we will be back if the job isn't done...now.

But, it wouldn't change the way they are any more than what they think of us will change the way we are. The whole thing is sadly laughable.

As I viewed with keen interest both "debates" yesterday, I saw first hand a group of people that are unworthy to be in the presence of men such as Major Andrew Olmsted...save two. And those two are Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. None of the others are remotely worthy...not in this lifetime.

Rest In Peace, my friend. We have your back.

For those that have never fought for it, Freedom has a taste the protected will never know.

Forever and always, an American Fighting Man.

Footnote: Obituary

THE DEATH OF ANDREW OLMSTED

Major Andrew Olmsted, who posted a blog since May 2007, was killed in Iraq on Thursday, Jan. 3. Major Olmsted, who had been based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, began blogging after his unit was sent to Iraq with the mission of helping to train the Iraqi Army. No official details have been released on his death, but reports say that he and a second member of his unit were killed during an enemy ambush in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. Olmsted was determined to make a difference in Iraq. "The sooner the Iraqi government doesn't need U.S. support to provide security for its people, the sooner we will probably be asked to leave."

A History Lesson In American Patriotism

~Snooper~

Hat Tip to Hot Air...in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War", it is said that there are many witty slogans and slinky quotables. This is one of them in regards to defeating the USSR in Afghanistan.

"We won because there was no partisanship or damaging leaks."

This is due primarily to the American "Can-Do" spirit which is all but eviscerated from our political idiots in this country. It is also due to the unwavering Patriotism that was still very much alive but has been nearly buried in recent decades. Thank God there is a resurgence of American Patriotism that is now permeating our society and squashing the anti-Americanist groups such as the leadership of the DNC and their moppets such as Code Pink and similar dweebish moonbats.

I read the piece at the Opinion Journal and whereas the above quote is indeed indicative of the times, then, I found another that is all too near and dear to me.

[...] Mr. Avrakotos picked a team of agency outcasts to funnel weapons to the Afghans while Mr. Wilson made sure they had the means to do so. [...]

You can read "team of agency outcasts" as "PQC". Add "LW" to the "PQC" and you have LWPQC. The gradual force was later on renamed and, for those in the know, would be recognized as p20g.

In memory of my friend Bronco, I will miss you, my friend. Sail on. Sleep well.

Another Day Which Will Live In Infamy

~Snooper~

As Blackfive (Uncle Jimbo) said of his Great Uncle, my Father speaks not much of 12/6/41 or 12/7/41 either.

The full and authentic text of FDR's speech to the America people can be viewed and heard here. Never seen before pictures can be viewed here.

My Dad is a WWII Veteran and Hero, still alive but not so well these days. When we are together and we are discussing the current war, he cries - not because he is sad, per se - but for what our politicians are doing and how they are acting. "Back in my day, these fools would be in jail or hung for what they are doing." I agree and wish we had men of courage that would respond in the same manner.

My Dad calls the current crop of "defeatist fools", as he so labels them, "wanna-be" Nips and "wanna-be fascists". My Dad will not view, listen to or watch the fool Reid and, my Dad being a devout Christian such as he is, I am shocked when he calls the Troll Reid, "A GD as****e". I remind my Dad that an as****e has a purpose and he cheers up and chuckles and says, "Yes, son. An as****e does have a purpose. I stand corrected."

What little I know of my Dad's function in the Great War, I sense that his service was one of sincere Patriotism. He has told me many times that when he and my Mother have passed away, I will have access to the contents of his safe deposit boxes and the contents of his vault in the basement. He has made me vow that I will never make public the contents therein and I take that vow seriously. I do know that he was shot down over France hours before D-Day and he spent 4 days behind enemy lines. He avoided capture and eventually made it back to England to go at it again.

His service in the Great War gets oddly mysterious after that since he shipped out to the PTO shortly after he had made it back to England. He speaks nothing of the PTO. Silence and demeanor is unmistakably evident and one does not press my Dad, or my Mother for that matter, for the stories needing to be told. They both told me that they will take those memories to their graves.

My Dad is proud of my brother's service, my service and the service of his first grandson now serving. I am as well. I heard the call, my brother heard the call and so did my son.

I find it difficult to speak of my brother's service because he was oddly silent as well. My brother was KIA in Quan Tri Province in February of 1968.

As we reflect upon this day of our history as a nation, let us compare the Patriotism then to the Patriotism we see today. Kind of sad, actually. It will please me to no end to witness the generation of the hippies die off.

Remember the heroes of the days of yore

It is your Patriotic Duty

Hillary: The Sickness of The Beguiled

~Snooper~

The Budding Leninist, Czarina, the Modern American Progressive, is a Clear and Present Danger to the very survival of Traditional America. Traditional America is under attack by these budding Leninists, calling themselves "Progressives". If one carefully examines the mantra of said same, one will see that which they prattle and yammer upon is Socialism with a smattering of Communism, disguised as "progressive".

What are these "progressives" progressing towards? No one on "their" side of the aisle, whichever that side might be, has explained their talking dulls satisfactorily, have they? Does anyone even know? I have performed a scientific study and I do believe that our team has discovered the ailment causing the sickness that "progressivism" is. It is kind of scary and without further ado, we provide a CT Scan of a "progressive' we found wondering aimlessly around SE Texas, incoherent, inaudible and in dire need of a rubber room.


And there you have it. We call it Hillaroncasinseptocacka. Like the Sci Fi Borg technology, the human brain was injected with this nanoprobes and this victim of this tragic attack fought the assimilation to their ultimate peril. It deteriorated the thought process to the point that the victim actually drowned in its own drivel. The recorded dying words were, "Bush did it".

The nanoprobes disintegrated immediately following death.

In other news, we find that the Hillaryscare Campaign is in a tizzy over their stature in Iowa. It seems as though that damn Obama character is actually pulling ahead.

Naturally, her apparent falling from grace could be a direct result of the criminal activity she has conveniently side-stepped and her money-bag and emotional standard bearers are charlatans.

Some are saying that her woes are catching up with her now that Czarina is making a play to The Big House...woops...The White House.

As the Czarina expresses her feigned caring drivel towards our troops, we are reminded how our troops think of her. As for her sexual inclinations, I really don't care but the rumor is still out there and I am with Don...it is just a rumor at this point and it really should be left well enough alone.

With her woes in Iowa making the road ahead indeed troublesome, her paperwork is being held hostage someplace and is due to be released but the delay-game is "Rather" irksome. I would rather see these documents that are sure to pin-point her qualifications to be CIC...without them, what is her justification?

The Dema Sutra positions of the Budding Leninist, as intriguing and hard to track and keep up with are "Rather" typical of a liar, charlatan and someone with something to hide, I find her inability to maintain eye contact all too revealing.

Her ever "evolving" and "progressive" (whatever that means) pseudonyms for whatever position she takes with whatever the prevailing winds are at the time, is always so evasive and unclear to the minds of the intellectually sound. With the continuing scandals surfacing, I find it interesting that she even shows herself in the public eye. The Clinton machine pathway is littered with the bodies of those that know the Real Deal.

What should serve as an adequate wake-up call to the American People is being shunted to ground and her supporters include terrorists and their moppets.

Carl Rove says she can be beat but the road to defeat for the Czarina would be an easier path if her drones would wake-up to smell the coffee and to call into question her patriotism or better yet, ask the question as to what she is actually patriotic towards.

Re-educating Dhimmitude...One At A Time

I have decided to post this article from WSJ

The Education of Rochelle Reed

Rochelle Reed, an editor at the Tribune of San Luis Obispo, Calif., published an essay recently about her son's decision to join the Army. "This was definitely not the way things were supposed to turn out," Mrs. Reed writes:

Never in a million years did I imagine my son would join the Army. Nor did Evan. In high school, he'd hang up on recruiters who called the house. He'd blurt, "Get away from me!" to the ones who trawled the local hangouts. Our home was liberal Democrat and anti-war and now, at 21, he was a Michael Moore fan. The night before he left, he spent his time reading "Stupid White Men." . . .

When I tell people that Evan has joined the Army, their reactions are almost always the same: their faces freeze, they pause way too long, and then they say, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for you." I hang my head and look mournful, accepting their sympathy for the worry that lives in me. But as it dawns on them that Evan wasn't drafted, as Vietnam still clings to my generation, their expressions become quizzical, then disbelieving. I know what they're thinking: Why in the world would any kid in his right mind choose to enlist when we're in the middle of a war? I begin telling them the story, desperate to assure them it wasn't arrogant patriotism or murderous blood lust that convinced him to join. What finally hooked him was a recruiter's comment that if he thought the country's role in Iraq was so screwed up, he should try to fix it.

Mrs. Reed's piece is sincere and candid, and our purpose in noting it is not to pick on her. But it is quite a window she provides into the "liberal Democrat and antiwar" subculture of which she is a part. Because of her family's politics, "never in a million years" did she think her son would join the military. The people she knows see his decision as a cause for sorrow, not pride. Mrs. Reed has to talk them out of the assumption that only "arrogant patriotism" (the adjective itself is telling) or "murderous bloodlust" would motivate someone to serve his country, that no "kid in his right mind" would do so.

Judging by Mrs. Reed's account, American liberals harbor a deep and invidious prejudice against the military--a prejudice Mrs. Reed herself is now overcoming, thanks to the bravery of her son.

A year ago, a famous liberal Democrat remarked, "You know, education--if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Perhaps he didn't know any better. Rochelle Reed now does.

This fits the Pathology of a Leftinistra to a T.

[...]

I begin telling them the story, desperate to assure them it wasn't arrogant patriotism or murderous blood lust that convinced him to join

[...]

And there you have it, right there. Arrogant patriotism? Murderous blood lust? What would non-arrogant patriotism be? For that matter, what exactly is arrogant patriotism? I love how these silly imps and shallow people come up with these terms and terminologies that have no rhyme nor reason to be called upon to describe a "calling".

The vast majority VOLUNTEER to join the various branches of the United States Military. They "hear" the call. It is heart-felt. It is an answer to the call of duty. The people that answer that call are a special breed than sense it a duty and an honor to serve to maintain our way of life. It it wasn't for the American Armed Services, the United States would have ceased to exist years ago.

The vast majority understand the risks involved in serving in an armed force. Some join for the "goodies" that come in the form of the many benefits up to and including being a man or woman in uniform and getting the accolades of wearing that uniform with no intention of actually "going to war". I have heard many that said that they didn't join to go to war...they joined for the free-stuff. We call them moochers, among other things. I have met some.

When an individual swears the Oath of Service, (many times before they actually swear that Oath, they have been told this), they are not only swearing the Oath of Service, they are giving themselves to the United States Government. They become the Property of the United States Government. They have ample opportunities during the initial phases of training to opt out of service.

Once the training is over and they have not been "sent home" for any number of reasons, their options are limited...it is a done deal. There are no more choices to be made except to follow orders. The UCMJ is thoroughly thorough there.

It says quite a bit for the few to enlist during a time of war. Perhaps they do so after hearing idiots like this Reed woman. The pathetic diatribe is all too telling in that our educators decry this very said same ignorance, knowing bloody well it is those that have served and given their all to maintain the very freedoms these idiots enjoy.

Wishing that the peoples of the Earth can just get along with each other is as ignorant a tenet of stupidity that I even fathom. When a theoretical religion espouses and dictates the killing of those that do not believe as they do is a cult and needs to be dealt with as a cancer.

Pride of country is foreign to this genre of fool and thank God above they are far and few between. They may make the loudest noises and, that is soon beginning to ebb, but they certainly do NOT represent the vast majority in any shape, form or fashion.

As my friend Hawk says, "Forever and always, an American Fighting Man."

The Exposed Anti-Americanists At Hillary's Media Matters Opines...

So where is Sean Hannity's flag lapel pin?

What a bunch of idiots. They missed the entire point.

Hey! Hillary Sniffers! You missed a spot!

It isn't the wearing of the pin that is the issue. It is the reasoning thereof.

Get a grip and get a life. Tell Hillary her ship is sinking.

Catch the wave...

Also see

Track back: StormWarning's Counterterrorism

We Had A Patriotic Nation Once

This article also published at American Daily Review

How the mighty have fallen:

'The War' — Then And Now
By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY
Defending Liberty: Ken Burns' PBS series is enthralling millions by illustrating America's sacrifices during World War II. Too few today realize that just as much is at stake as we fight terrorists in the Middle East and globally. READ MORE

Once upon a time, our national leaders knew how to rally the population towards a patriotic goal...victory. Yes, there were the malcontents with socialistic leanings but they were widely ignored and placed in their proper place...obscurity.

Then, politics entered into the equation because they thought they knew better because after all, they were edjumakatid. I suppose had we lost WWI and WWII, the politicos would not have to be too big for their britches.

In WWI and WWII, our nation was able to determine the wickedness of the ways of the enemy. Apparently, not any longer. The nation would "Rather" play with their TIVOs and Nintendos and all manner of instant gratification. The threats we face as a nation both from without and within are masked by the inherent desire to be uninterrupted from our everyday and selfish lives as seen through a glass darkly.

At one time, if one of our citizens was kidnapped by a maniacal dictator, and their head was severed to make a point, the people saddled up and prepared to do battle. Not any more. This kind of patriotism died during the Carter administration and was slighty revived during the Reagan administration. It was completely buried by the likes of the Clintonistra and GWB, God bless him, doesn't have what it takes to rally the nation.

It is up to us in The New Media.

Some of us old salts know the deal and we know the drill.

Time to ruck up and saddle up. We have work to do.

OUR PRESIDENT'S MISTAKE

I received the following in my email from fellow Veterans and Patriots. I have not been able to verify a link but that is neither here nor there...the sentiment is what matters. I only wish I had penned the piece.

If anyone knows where the link is, please send it to me and I will properly annotate and give credit where it so richly deserves.

It is said to have been penned by a retired USCG Captain.

Hat Tip to Liberty Card...

Bush's Mistake

President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not. Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression.

But they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to back those leaders. Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not. And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just a as great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war. Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort. [I didn't cash mine until after I had children]

Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.

You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a bunch even enlisted. And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a pledge of allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops!

Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies. (Exactly!) A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning.

There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crackheads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.

No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve. It is not the same country.

It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We even have the wicked witch of the west as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. We did unite for a short while after 9 /11, but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.

NOW HEAR THIS! We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatical Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists' cause. Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.

We either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.

Any questions?