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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?

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

Lions Tigers and Bears OH MY!

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:27:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This eagle would rather fight then flight. Eagles by nature are hunters and perhaps its time for the AMERICAN EAGLE to get its head out of its butt and start to pay attention to what is going on around the world. Of course it is difficult to soar like an eagle when surrounded by turkeys and ostriches who would much rather run and hide then stand and fight.

Perhaps Franklin had it right when he wanted to name the TURKEY as the national symbol as opposed to the EAGLE?

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

WASHINGTON -- "The lion and the bear are hunting the eagle." That's how a refugee from Tehran put it when he called me this week about recent developments in his homeland. The lion to which my friend referred was on the coat of arms of nearly every Persian king for more than a thousand years. The bear, of course, is imperial Russia. We're the bird.

It's an apt metaphor. Vladimir Putin, Moscow's current czar, is behaving like a bear awakened from hibernation -- hungry and territorial. His recent words condemning U.S. foreign policy are mirrored by actions, both overt and covert, aimed at undermining U.S. security. While eschewing animal symbols on their flag, the Islamic radicals running Iran's theocracy act like lions on the prowl -- dangerous to any prey. And while the simile is unlikely in nature -- the lions and bears in my friend's parable have certainly teamed up to hunt the eagle. The only trouble with the allegory is that the United States is acting more like an ostrich than an eagle. A few examples:

But Moscow and Tehran aren't just cooperating on weapons of mass destruction. Last week, U.S. and allied officials in Baghdad presented irrefutable evidence that Iran has been supplying advanced weaponry to anti-coalition forces and killing Americans -- charges Ahmadinejad describes as "excuses to prolong the stay" of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Meanwhile, there is no "Eagle-Eye" on this burgeoning Moscow-Tehran nexus of evil. Our mainstream media remains fixated on the never-ending Anna Nicole Smith soap opera. The State Department is furiously cranking out press releases on how Condi is going to convene yet another "Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process." And the navel-gazers in Congress busy themselves by doing all things possible to damage the commander-in-chief, regardless of the consequences to our troops.

Tags: iran. russia. terrorism, eagle

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

Too Hot to Handle: New Weapon Ready for 2010

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:22:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Heat-beaming weapon ready by 2010

THE US Defence Department today unveiled what it called a revolutionary heat-beaming weapon that could be used to control mobs or repel foes in conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan.

The so-called Active Denial System creates an intense burning sensation causing people to run for cover, but no lasting harm, officials said.

"We expect the services to add it to their tool kit. And that could happen as early as 2010."

"This is a breakthrough technology that's going to give our forces a capability they don't now have," Theodore Barna, an assistant deputy undersecretary of defence for advanced systems and concepts, said.

The weapon, mounted on a Humvee vehicle, uses a large rectangular dish antenna to direct an invisible beam toward a target.

It includes a high-voltage power unit and beam-generating equipment and is effective at more than 500 metres.

Existing counter-personnel systems designed not to kill - including bean bag munitions and rubber bullets - work at little more than "rock-throwing distances," said Marine Colonel Kirk Hymes, director of the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.

Raytheon Co, which has worked to develop the technology, has built a prototype called Silent Guardian, that it hopes to sell in the United States and abroad in what could become a multibillion market.

At a distance of several football fields, the sensation from the exposure was like a blast from a very hot oven, too painful to bear without scrambling for cover.

Tags: warfare, weapons, military, terrorism

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

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.

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