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How to Effectively Win a War on Terror

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:11:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Winning is the most effective way to end bloodshed as is proven by this report. Taking the offensive in fighting against radical insurgent forces is making Iraq more peaceful not less like some would have us believe. Making the effort to resist the terror attacks is working. Keep up the good work guys and gals.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Overall, militant attacks in Iraq have dropped to levels not seen since spring 2004, U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll said this week. Attacks are down 70% since President Bush ordered a U.S. troop increase, or "surge," early last year.

Al-Sadr agreed to a truce earlier this month after two months of clashes with U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces. The fighting followed a decision by the Iraqi government to rein in al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and other Shiite militant groups. Iraqi forces have also intensified their offensive against Sunni militants, including al-Qaeda, in the northern city of Mosul.

Tags: iraq, terror, war, peace

Rantings of a Racist

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:35:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When pushing an agenda facts are not important, the only thing that matters is putting forth arguments to support ones own agenda. That can be said on both sides of any issue. In the case of the Wright Reverend Jeremiah it is easy to see from the bulletin from the church which issue is of utmost importance to him. Be sure to read the Pastor's page portion and you will see President Bush is to blame for all the ills of mankind, not sin. A preacher of righteousness would acknowledge that all men are sinners not just a particular race or color. In fact the wat in Iraq is blamed for homelessness in New Orleans. The last time I checked the major of New Orleans was a, let me see, black man.

It would appear from reading just this one bulletin that the Wright Reverend Jeremiah is not so right when it comes to putting forth truth. Unless of course facts do not matter.

Clip Source: campaignspot.nationalreview.com

I realize finding a controversial Jeremiah Wright comment these days is kind of like finding a three-leaf clover, but I hadn't seen this bit of his analysis of the U.S. military policy in Iraq:

The President who is “staying the course” and sending 21,500 more troops to their death has issued a veto threat against the measure and there is no public outcry and no media outrage. What’s goin’ on?

That's on page 9 of the church bulletin from January 21, 2007. I realize Wright opposes the war and the surge, but declaring the surge policy "sending 21,500 troops to their death is a ridiculous slander of U.S. policy.

In 2007, 901 U.S. troops died in Iraq. In 2008, 86 soldiers have died.

The President’s “New Plan” (more troops, more death and more war) promises an insane
escalation — in Iraq, Iran and beyond! With the torture of Abu Ghraib, the complete destructions of cities like Fallujah and over 600,000 deaths due to collateral damage,

Michael Yon, describing the city of Fallujah

Tags: jeremiah wright, obama, trinity ucc

Gore wants Bush to stop ignoring the threat in IRAQ!!

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:49:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Which is it AL? For or against? Attack or relent? You seem to have all these facts when it suited you in the past what happened did you get a sudden case of Amnesia as soon as you got to the White House?

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: al gore, iraq, terrorism, saddam, hussein, wmd

Gov Needs to Take 3 Trillion dollars from US this year!

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:29:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: HOLD ON TIGHTER to your wallets ladies and gentlemen the government has just told us HOW MUCH MONEY they are going to take from us. 3 trillion dollars. Now that is a lot of hamburgers. That is more than it would cost to buy a small country. HELL we could have bought IRAQ for that money. This is insane. If the government had to EARN that much money I wonder what the budget would look like then?

Clip Source: apnews.myway.com

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sent a $2.90 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit in five years.

Bush's spending plan would make his first-term tax cuts permanent, at a cost of $1.6 trillion over 10 years. He is seeking $78 billion in savings in the government's big health care programs - Medicare and Medicaid - over the next five years.

The president insisted that he had made the right choices to keep the nation secure from terrorist threats and the economy growing.

To help achieve what would be the government's first surplus since 2001, Bush is proposing $95.9 billion in savings in mandatory spending, the part of the budget that includes the big benefit programs of Social Security and health care.

Medicare, which provides health insurance for 43 million older and disabled Americans, would see the bulk of those savings - reductions of $66 billion over five years. That would come about primarily by slowing the growth of payments to health care providers.

Additional savings would be achieved by charging higher income Medicare beneficiaries bigger monthly premiums.

Bush's energy proposals would expand use of ethanol and other renewable fuels with a goal of cutting gasoline use by 20 percent over the next decade.

Tags: federal government, federal spending, budget, inflation, government, taxes

Fight now or fight forever: A new look at Iraq

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:15:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.townhall.com

"As I look at Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be-President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. 'When comes the end?' ... And as soon as he became president, he brought the Korean War to an end." This was part of freshman Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's much ballyhooed stentorian Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address.

One wonders if the untold millions of North Koreans who've starved, bled and died since then would similarly applaud Eisenhower's courage and wisdom. For more than half a century, North Korea has been a prison-camp society beyond the imagining of George Orwell, where public executions for stealing food are familiar events. The man-made famine of the 1990s alone claimed the lives of up to 1 million people (hard data from Stalinist regimes are difficult to come by).

One also wonders: When are our troops going to come home? Technically, the Korean War isn't really over. We're merely enjoying a cease-fire - much like the one we had with Iraq in the 1990s.

So, except for the fact that the Korean War didn't end, our troops are still there, and the outcome has been the source of humanitarian and national security nightmares, Webb's salute to Eisenhower's statesmanship really strikes home.

The 11th Commandment for liberals seems to be, "Thou shalt not intervene out of self-interest." Intervening in civil wars for humanitarian reasons is OK, but meddling for national security reasons is not. This would explain why liberals supported interventions in civil wars in Yugoslavia and Somalia but think being in one in Iraq is the height of folly. If only Truman had called the Korean civil war a humanitarian crisis, Ike might not have called the whole thing off.

Tags: national security, iraq, military, politics, terrorism, war on terror. north korea

Between Iraq and a Soft Place

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:07:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

There is an immutable truth of human nature: When soft people clash with hard people, the soft are vanquished. That is, unless they become hard.

Soft people and hard people, two sides of the same world. Of course, we were harder too, a long, long, long time ago. But it would be nice to find that happy medium, something that seems ever elusive. A bane of man is that he jumps from blind prejudice to blind tolerance and back again, without ever making a stopover at the ethereal land known as enlightened distinction.

They think we're weak and stupid.

All this is not surprising. After all, luxury and living high soften the sinews and, regrettably, sometimes also the head. The hand that spends its entire existence inside a velvet glove will remain soft and delicate. The one wielding workmen's tools dawn till dusk becomes calloused and hard, more able to inflict injury and more resistant to it.

Regardless of the origin and rapidity of our transition from he-men to she-men, one thing is for certain: We have become a very soft people.

The Muslim world is one extreme, we are the other, the humanitarians who have no truth. Why can't we control seven-year-olds, prosecute a war efficiently or strike fear into the hearts of criminals? It's all for the same reason. We're soft-headed pseudo-humanitarians to whom the kind of action or punishment necessary to deter evil behavior seems medieval. This is why we had a national conniption when teenage vandal Michael Faye was to receive a typical Singaporean punishment, caning, for his misdeeds. We should bear in mind that you can walk Singapore's streets safely in the dark of night. The same cannot be said of ours.

Tags: iraq, terrorism, war on terror

Iraq another Vietnam?

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:53:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks like some politicals just never learn. Repeating the same mistakes of the Vietnam era will once again result in less than a regal outcome in Iraq. Taking the political handcuffs off our military men and women and let them do what they do best will result in a WIN. Once the enemy is defeated and law and order is restored then we can talk about who is in charge until then. CHARGE!!

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

We have learned the hard way, notably in the Vietnam war, that military victories are not enough. American troops scored a big victory on the battlefield in 1968 that was presented in the American media as a big defeat -- and that began the political unravelling of the Vietnam war.

Many in the media seem to think that they did something noble, to get us out of an "unwinnable" war. But the war was unwinnable only because they made it so politically. Even after American troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, South Vietnam was able to hold off the invaders from North Vietnam.

Only after Congress cut off financial support for South Vietnam, while the North Vietnamese continued to get support from the Communist bloc, did South Vietnam fall.

Since then, even the Communist conquerors have admitted that they did not win on the battlefield, but in the American media and in the American political arena, surrounded by an atmosphere created by a defeatist media.

Make no mistake about it, we can still lose this war, but it will have to be lost politically. Most of the tragic chaos in Iraq today has its origins in politics.

Tags: vietnam, iraq, politics, politicians, rules of engagement

The Real Reason the US is in Iraq: Corrected Link

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:26:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.townhall.com

Who Are We Really At War With?
By Lt. Col. Scott Rutter
Friday, January 12, 2007

The most fundamental element in raising an Army is money. By extension, the United States has the most powerful Armed Forces in the world. We can claim that we are the smartest and the most organized. We can claim that our democracy fosters the decisions that portend strength in the Armed Forces. But, at the very foundation, our nation’s military strength is based on our capitalist society grounded in the continued pursuit of monetary wealth. Period.

It is interesting to speculate on the reasons that we really went to War with Saddam Hussein. Some would argue it was because of WMD’s, in retribution for 9/11, to quash the terrorists, or to kill a brutal dictator. All of these are valid reasons, and all were part of the mix when the U.S. made that decision in 2003. But, in selecting Iraq, the President made an interesting choice. This decision will prove to be pivotal and vital in the history of mankind.

Therefore, while pundits can argue that we are there for the Iraqi oil, to find abhorrent the despot Saddam Hussein, or because we thought that WMD’s may be harbored within Iraq, the truth is that we went to war with Iraq to get close to our real nemesis—Iran. While that might sound outlandish, think of where we would be if these “insurgents” hadn’t propagated and threw a loop into this plan.

The connection between money and Iraq is clear. If we go back to 9/11, the intricate details necessary to carry out such a plot required patience and money. The “insurgents” in Iraq require money. The attack in 1996 on the US military barracks at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 1998 attacks on U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Saalam, Tanzania all required money. Lots of money.

Tags: current events, iran, iraq, terrorism, terrorists, terror, news

The Count Down to Armagedon begins

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:19:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Time does not permit me to elaborate on this so I am only posting this to put on notice that the count down to Armagedon has begun.

Clip Source: www.topix.net

Iran Urges Summit With Iraq And Syria

Diplomatic relations between Syria and Iraq -- severed nearly a quarter-century ago -- will be restored this week during the visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, the government spokesman said Monday.

"Diplomatic relations will be restored between the two countries during the visit," Ali al-Dabbagh told The Associated Press.

Tags: current events, bible, end times, prophesy