Today begins the fifth day of Israeli air strikes into the Gaza Strip. Earlier this morning, Israel rejected a United Nations proposed 48-hour cease-fire and continued its punishing air campaign against the militant terrorist. While the UN wrings its hands over the civilian casualties and humanitarian problems the Israeli air campaign is causing, Israel is building up ground forces to send into Gaza and finish the job. Good.

For starters, it was ignorant of the UN to suggest a cease-fire in the first place. This current conflict started when the previous cease-fire ended and Hamas started lobbing rockets into Israeli cities. What would be accomplished by agreeing to another cease-fire other that giving Hamas the time to regroup and rearm? No, Israel should give no respite to these violent thugs who prey on innocent civilians. They should obliterate them form the face of the Earth and take the Gaza Strip back into Israeli protection.

Gaza is no longer a Palestinian protectorate. It has been reduced to nothing more than and armed camp stockpiled with Chinese and Iranian made weapons and supplied through underground tunnels used to smuggle those weapons to Hamas.

Time and time again, Israel has capitulated to the demands of Hamas and Hezbollah. They have given land for peace, showed incredible restraint while under constant assault and painstakingly tried to avoid civilian casualties when it did retaliate against the aggressors. What has it gotten them? Shells and rockets raining into their major cities, terrorist blowing themselves up in malls and pizza joints and the condemnation of the insufferable and corrupt United Nations Human Rights Council.

I am sick to death of hearing people chastise Israel for her actions against Hamas and fortunately I seem to not be the only one. In a surprising change of heart, Egypt has placed its military on high alert and canceled all personal leaves, brining its military to its highest state of readiness. They are apparently supporting Israel’s prosecution of Hamas and have stated that they will seal off the southern border of the Gaza Strip if Israel sends in ground forces thereby preventing the escape of Hamas terrorist fleeing Israeli troops. Jordan also appears supportive of Israel and oddly enough, Hezbollah, who historically has joined her Hamas brethren in its terrorist assaults against Israel, has remained remarkably quite and still. This could have something to do with the warning issued from the Israeli Air Force that if it even suspected Hezbollah troop movements, it would immediately begin hitting their forces in the north. It seems that some of these countries in the Middle East are finally tiring of the endless violence caused by these radical terrorist organizations.

What needs to happen this time is nothing short of the complete destruction of Hamas. Israel needs to completely obliterate them and destroy their ability to regroup and rearm and all those people crying about the inhumanity of Israel’s actions, ask yourselves where were you when innocent Israeli’s were being killed by these terrorist barbarians. Did you protest and demand that Hamas stop their actions against a sovereign nation? Yeah, I did not thinks so.

So I cheer Israel on. Screw Hamas, screw the corrupt UN and screw an idiotic cease-fire agreement that would benefit no one but the terrorists.

Israel must be allowed to defend herself and her citizens. Would you not expect that we would do the same?

Amongst strong international criticism Tuesday, Russia announced that a cease-fire had been reached in the Georgian conflict. Delivering a strong message to the Russian people, President Dmitry Medvedev claimed that the “aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses. Its military has been disorganized.” He went on to state that Russian “peacekeepers” would remain in Georgia to stabilize the Southern Ossetia region. He also claimed that Russia would continue to support efforts of rebels and separatists in the area and would recognize the right of Southern Ossetia to separate from Georgia.

When one Georgian official was asked about the message, he claimed that it was hard to hear the cease-fire announcement with all the bombs going off from continuing Russian air strikes. While on one hand Russia seemed to be acting to appease the international community by announcing a cease-fire, on the other in a move reminiscent of the rise of Hitler, she continued her offensive into Georgia pushing towards the Kodori Gorge and bombing the crossroads city of Gori as Georgian forces fled the onslaught. Georgian officials accused Medvedev of attempting to sever their country in half by controlling the central regions of the country and essentially cutting off movement between the east and west provinces.

Many people find Russia’s stance on the conflict wholly unbelievable. The Russia government is claiming to have reacted to Gerogian forces entering Southern Ossetia early on Thursday, August 7th, in an attempt to secure the region. An action recognized as fully within Georgia’s rights by most of the international community since Southern Ossetia is completely within Georgia’s national borders. Furthermore, many in the international community along with the United States have accused Russia of premeditating this strike into the sovereign territory of Georgia due to the fact that it would have been impossible to mobilize a force the size that Russia used to enter Georgia in such a short timeframe. Condoleezza Rice has even condemned Russia’s actions accusing them of using the distractions of the Olympic Games to pull a fast one on the rest of the world. The U.S. State Department is under the belief that the Russians intended this action all along and had moved sufficient forces into place over the Ural Mountains months in advance. All it took was the right excuse. Russia claimed to have gotten that on Tuesday when Georgia moved troops in to quell one of its own rebellious territories. When this opportunity presented itself, Russia struck and struck hard.

President Bush has condemned the actions of Russia and warned of damaging the progress of acceptance that the country has gained over the past few years. Rice warned Russia that this was no longer 1968 and they could not invade a neighbouring country and get away with it. Or can they?

While the international response has been terse, there have really been no repercussions for the action Russia has taken. Harsh words mean little to an entity like Russia and it seems that the only nations willing to stick their necks out with anything more than words are the former satellite states of the Soviet Union. Yesterday, the Ukraine announced that it was restricting movement of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet that is currently based partially out of Ukrainian ports under the Partition Treaty of 1997. Russia responded negatively to this development and in a stroke of supreme hypocrisy warned the Ukraine of interfering with Russian military operations. The Ukraine, obviously feeling as if they could easily be next on Russia’s list, answered the challenge by stating that they would do what even necessary to ensure their national security. Further challenges to Russian actions came today from the former Soviet state of Estonia who urged the international community to immediately and without any hesitation ratify the applications of Georgia and the Ukraine for acceptance into NATO. Estonia’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves told the Reuters news service that the West should embrace the threatened countries to prevent further Russian aggression. During the phone interview he was noted as saying, “They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia.”

In a related move today, Poland agreed to station parts of the defensive missile system in its country that the United States is attempting to put in place to protect Europe from ballistic missiles. You may recall that Russia recently threatened the Czech Republic with military action if they allowed the basing of American radar control systems in their country for such a system without allowing a permanent Russian presence on the bases. It should now be readily apparent why the Czechs are unwilling to allow a permanent Russian presence in their country, although it appears that other nations in the region will not be given a choice in the matter.

The developments of the next few days will be key to the future security of Europe. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has apparently brokered a peace settlement with Russia and is urging the Georgian government to sign it. If Russia agrees to withdraw immediately their may be a peaceful end to their unlawful invasion of a neighboring state. However, this could easily be a repeat of Chamberlain returning falsely triumphant to England and declaring that there shall be peace in our time while the smaller nations of Europe disappeared under the jack boots of the Third Reich. We will see.

Yes, you heard me correctly. I said, France threatens war against Iran if it continues to resist the mandates of the international community to halt its nuclear weapons program.

In a statement made on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that European leaders should prepare for war with Iran if it did not comply with international demands to halt its uranium enrichment program. While stressing the need for continued diplomatic approaches, he cautioned the European nations:

“We will not accept that such a bomb is made. We must prepare ourselves for the worst,” he said, specifying that could mean a war. He did not elaborate on what kind of preparations that would entail. – CNN, Monday, September 12th, 2007.

He also warned that European nations would be seeking their own sanctions against Iran, independent of the United Nations. Apparently led by Germany in this effort, this a clear sign that Europe is loosing faith in the United Nations ability to function as a cohesive force internationally. With the ineptitude the U.N. showed in dealing with Iraq, corruption scandals proliferating all levels of the organization and horrendous failures at humanitarian actions world wide, the U.N. is beginning to be seen as the body that it truly is, even by the Europeans.

What a wonderful change in political landscape this is for the United States. If the European nations would earnestly pick up the charge against Iran and begin to mount significant pressure backed by military threat, the United States would be free to offer open support of such actions without appearing as the aggressor state. (Mind you I favor us not only appearing but actually being aggressive with Iran, but others see this as a mistake.) We would be afforded the opportunity of throwing our full political and military might behind whatever actions France decided to take against Iran in a mission of support for our European allies (even though few would probably do the same for us.)

Again another gem of a find from Gayle over at My Republican Blog. The following video is an address by a representative of United Nations Watch before the United Nation Commission on Human Rights.

This is proof of how inept and anti-Semitic the United Nations has become. They are a usless body incapable of carrying out their charter and unwilling to address the real evils in this world. This clip shows that they are more outraged at someone calling them on the carpet for their ignorance of real human rights violations and their bias toward despotic regimes, than they are about the actual inhumane treatment of those they are charge to protect.

Watch…

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Once again the United Nations has shown that it is a worthless and wholly inept entity, incapable of meaningful action against threats to global security.

With a deafening whimper, the UN leveled sanctions against North Korea in protest to the nuclear test conducted on October 9, 2006; with the promise of swift and precise… uhm… hmmmmm… let me see here… Review? Monitoring? More sanctions?

Wait a minute! There is no promise of anything other than a possibility of more sanctions and that the UN will keep watching what North Korea is doing. Well guys, I hope you were watching closely because North Korea just gave the UN Security Council the international one finger salute.

Two days after the UN introduced this resolution which is laced with good intentions, but reinforced by no treat of military action; North Korea’s response was to call the sanctions and act of war. In comments from Pyongyang we can see the true intent of North Korea to provoke an international incident:

“The resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war” against the North, also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The North warned it “wants peace but is not afraid of war” and that it would “deal merciless blows” against anyone who violates its sovereignty.

The communist nation “had remained unfazed in any storm and stress in the past when it had no nuclear weapons,” the statement said. “It is quite nonsensical to expect the DPRK to yield to the pressure and threat of someone at this time when it has become a nuclear weapons state.” – N. Korea Says U.N. Sanctions Are ‘Declaration of War’, By Jae-Soon Chang, Associated Press, Tuesday, October 17, 2006; 8:30 AM

Ok. So what now? They are obviously going to ignore the resolution and continue their development and testing of nuclear weapons. So what is the UN prepared to do about it? NOTHING.

How many times does it take for the UN to realize that passing nonsensical resolutions such as this without any teeth to back them up, will not work.

I however have a solution that will. China, the DPRK’s most staunch ally, does not want certain things to come to pass within its sphere of influence in Asia. Some of those things include the arming of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with massive amounts of offensive weapons. Therefore I say we go to China and tell them that if they cannot control their little progeny then we will immediately begin supplying arms to those countries. All three are current United States allies whom we have sworn to defend against aggression and all have robust free economies which are more than capable of paying for the weapons. We should begin immediate deployment of AEGIS class and MIM-104 Patriot PCA-3 ballistic missile defense systems. After fully supplementing their existing defensive capabilities, we should immediately begin rapid deployment of offensive weapons to our established military bases in these countries and immediate sales of offensive weapons to these nations.

This method has been proven effective and has worked before to stave off aggression and even to collapse totalitarian regimes. President Ronald Reagan used this method throughout Europe to strangle the Soviet Union. We spent them into the ground with military armament of Western Europe and modernization of our military.

Remember: Peace through Strength.

There is cause for great concern in the world today. Like the slow swell of a dormant volcano, it is hard to judge exactly just how dangerous the world is. Then we have weeks like this one where the seismic tremors signal the sleeping giant’s warning of what is to come.

This week has provided some shocking realisms that I am afraid many in this country are still ignoring. Last week we commemorated the fifth anniversary of a chilling wake up call, yet some still sleep while the threat looms before our nation. In the past few days we have seen the violent face of our enemy surface for nothing more that a speech made by a world leader. We have seen a nun, shot in the back by cowards while she prayed. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church is now under triple guard because the world of Islam is calling for his assassinnation. Christian churches are burning, lit by the followers of the peaceful religion of Islam. All this is occurring because someone dared to suggest that Islam is a violent religion. I guess they proved them wrong?

Now we come to the crux of the matter. Within the last few days, we have heard both the sociopathic drivel of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the opportunistic rants of Hugo Chavez in their speeches before the United Nations, which landed both dictators standing ovations. These pretentious hypocrites talk of peace and democracy, challenging the Unites States with charges of expansionism and quests for world domination. Ahmadinejad’s tirade was laced with religious rhetoric culminating in predications about the 12th Iman returning to unite all humanity under one rule. What would the world have done if President Bush had addressed the assembly by praying for God to deliver us from the violence of Islamic fundamentalist and hasten the return of Christ and the end of time? If he escaped the building intact, we would have been ridiculed and called extremists. However, allow Chavez to refer to our President as Satan and claim that the podium still smells of sulfur and he is cheered. Let, Ahmadinejad blame all the world’s problems on the evil empire of America and call for God to hasten the coming and he is cheered. We see before us a looming desire for the downfall of our country. Vicious dictators and terrorist supporters, call our country the aggressors, deny the holocaust ever happened and pin all their failings squarely on our shoulders, and the UN cheers them on.

This is not because of our policies in the Middle East. This is not due to any one administration’s failings or successes in that part of the world. This is not due to any war or military conflict that has occurred within the last century. The reasons for this are much more basic and less complicated. They were stated quite plainly by multiple Muslim extremist in response to the comments of Pope Benedict XVI. They will not stop until all the earth submits to Islam. Chavez’s rants are a simple matter of opportunity and desire to weaken our position as a Super Power.

You will note that they cite many of our actions and call them evil and oppressive, yet avoid brutal actions of other Super Powers. No mention was made of Russian injustices in Chechnya or of China’s totalitarian oppression of opposition. There was also no mention made of Iran violently suppressing students at the University or Tehran or of the 400,000 who recently marched in Oaxaca, Mexico over the slaughter of teachers and children by state police forces. No, the truly oppressive governments who kill and slaughter their own citizens were avoided. The effort of the United States to free millions from that very oppression was cited as the ultimate evil.

They failed to mention that when called upon by the world, not once, but twice this century, this nation has sacrificed the blood of her sons on foreign soil to free millions and end tyrannical occupation and subjugation. When called upon by individual nations, we have answered the call in defense of the right of millions to self govern. While we are the only nation to ever directly employ weapons of mass destruction, we have done so only as a last resort and never on our own citizens or to suppress opposition of political rivals. Once we have defeated our enemies, we then offer our hand, our sweat and our resources to re-establish their governments and build them up from the costs of war. We have pulled them from the ashes of defeat and befriended even our most mortal of enemies. We have never sought to conquer or rule those we have defeated or subjugate them to our beliefs. We have never told the world our war against you will not end until the entire planet believes as we command they do. This nation stands as a light and a beacon to all people who desire freedom. We desire it for you as well.

As the political left churns and lauds the statements against our nation by some of the most vicious leaders in our modern day, we stand before the abyss. As some in this country attempt to cripple our efforts to protect ourselves, we await the looming clash. As the Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton put it in a statement earlier today, “the clash of civilizations endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.” We are facing a war of ideology from which there can arise no diplomatic solutions. In the same manner that we were unable to negotiate with Hitler and turn him from his vision of an Arian dominated world, we will be unable to curb the fanatical belief that Islam must dominate the planet. We are left with no choice. We must fight to defend ourselves and our way of life.

I hope we will find allies as the Islamic Fascists square off against other Christian nations. Some are already turning out such as the 35,000 who protested outside the UN today in support of Israel. Once Europe finally learns that it is not safe from the domination of this disease, we may find support. Or we may see a repeat of earlier years where countries like France surrender and we are left with a handful of allies to reclaim the world. However the chips may fall, we must be prepared and have the will to fight, or we might as well start teaching our children which direction Mecca is from their school.

I for one will never submit to such a future. This threat must be stopped.

This evening showed evidence of how you cannot negotiate with terrorist. With the ink barely dry on the so called cease-fire agreement, Katusha rockets rained down on Israeli positions in southern Lebanon, just twenty hours after the cease-fire began.

While the Israeli forces ceased their advance and began withdrawing troops from areas in South Lebanon today, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist organization known as Hezbollah, claimed an unexaggerated victory over the Israelis. “We came out victorious in a war in which big Arab armies were defeated,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech Monday. “We are today before a strategic, historic victory, without exaggeration.”

However this “victory” comes at a serious price which today Hezbollah refused to even discuss with Lebanese officials. United Nations Resolution 1708 calls for the immediate disarmament of Hezbollah and the return of control of the entire territory of Lebanon to the legitimate Lebanese government, odd conditions for the victor of any conflict to be in. About the only victory that can legitimately be claimed by Hezbollah is that any of them survived to immediately violate the conditions of the cease-fire agreement and launch Katusha rockets on Israeli soldiers.

At this moment, Israel is again responding to unbridled aggression and will undoubtedly be blamed for violating the agreement. This cease-fire agreement was a defeat in a sense for Israel and her allies. As long as Hezbollah and groups like them are allowed to exist then there will never be a true peace. Hezbollah waited until thousands of civilian refugees began flowing back into southern Lebanon to launch the Katusha rockets, knowing the Israelis would respond. I expect tomorrow we will see propaganda showing dead civilians and Hezbollah blaming Israel for attacking the refugees as they attempted to return home.

When will the world learn that you cannot negotiate with these people? You must destroy them

One of the things I find most irritating about the political left is how they tend to spin their failures squarely on to the shoulders of their opponents, chiefly President Bush. If you were not aware, it is clearly President Bush’s fault that the two terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah committed terrorist acts against Israel.

According to Howard Dean, if the Democrats were in power, the world would not be holding its breath and praying that the Middle East does not implode on itself due to acts of terrorism. Apparently, Bush is to blame that the Hamas and Hezbollah hate Israel. Dean claims that the Bush administration has been disconnected and uninvolved in the Middle East, which I find hilarious since we are conducting military operations in two of its countries. A brief history of the conflict will show the foolishness of this sentiment.

Israel and Lebanon have been in a de facto state of war since 1948. Stilled at times by armistices, agreements and U.N. resolutions, the violence between the countries has never fully ceased. Israel withdrew its troops from Lebanon in 2000 and under U.N. Resolution 1559, Lebanon was supposed to disband and disarm Hezbollah. Instead of using its military to provide a buffer zone on Israel’s northern border and disband Hezbollah, Lebanon elected more Hezbollah members to its parliament. Oddly enough, the number of resolutions passed against Israel is staggering, while the number passed against Hezbollah and Lebanon for allowing their continued existence are practically non-existent. Also suspiciously absent are resolutions preventing Syria and Iran from supporting these terrorist organizations or using them to harm Israel. There are a few, but we can now see how effective they have been.

Since 2000, violence has been sporadic but not elevated to the level of armed conflict. Suicide bombers will hit an Israeli bus, Israel will respond with an air strike on a terrorist training camp. A rocket will be launched into Israel, Israeli artillery will respond against the rocket site. This back and forth exchange of hostilities has continued even though Israel completely withdrew its forces from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, allowing the Palestinians to completely settle the territories. This withdrawal was at the urging of President Bush and his Roadmap for Peace in the Middle East as he outlined on March 14th, 2003 during an address to reporters from The Rose Garden. This administration has worked with Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to foster a sense of security throughout the Middle East. We have conducted military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to remove destabilizing influences and applied political pressure on Syria and Iran to curb their support of terrorism. Obviously, not everything has worked since it is impossible to reason with religious zealots.

Here is Dean’s reasoning: “You know, people say the Republicans are tough on defense. How can you be tough on defense if five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large, the Iranians are about to get nuclear weapons, North Korea’s quadrupled their nuclear weapons stash. . . . Explain to me how it is that this president is tough on defense? I think this president is weak on defense and he’s hurt America because he hasn’t done the right thing.”

Well, I can explain it this way. Osama bin Laden is a coward. He hides in the cavernous mountains somewhere in or near Afghanistan and issues orders and decrees from the safety of hidden camps. He has also lost his ability to conduct major operations against the United States, because he is always on the run. He has to settle for allowing the insurgency in Iraq to be his main focus which is preferable to it being New York. We have only been actively pursuing him for about three years. He evaded Russia for over ten years in the same area we are hunting for him. Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons and has been doing so for about fifteen years according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). When we discovered their intentions and how close they were, Bush immediately began putting pressure on them and forming an international census that Iran could never be allowed nuclear weapons. What would the Democrats have done? Talked with Iran and promised we would give them nuclear reactors and fund their development of an energy infrastructure, only if they promised to be nice and not to use the reactors to make weapons? Oh, yeah that didn’t work with North Korea, which brings me to Dean’s next point. North Korea quadrupled their nuclear weapons cache, because former disappointment William Jefferson Clinton gave them the means to. Yes, if only Democrats had their way, all the totalitarian regimes that are hostile to the United States would have nuclear weapons. Is that the conclusion we are to draw? North Korea did not suddenly make all its nuclear weapons immediately after Bush’s inauguration speech in January of 2000. They have been secretly making them since the Clinton/Albright concessions in the 90’s. When President Bush found out about this he withdrew our aid and support and claimed that North Korea was in violation of our agreements. He again began and international campaign to bring world pressure on North Korea to cease its nuclear weapons program.

Dean went on to blabber about how we have lost our moral credibility in the Middle East, as if the Islamic fundamentalist thought we had mountains of moral credibility under Clinton. He further stated that, “This country is in the worst shape since Richard Nixon, and probably before that. We’ve lost the high moral high ground everywhere in the world. We want to be respected around the world again. We want our moral authority to be restored, because part of defending America is not just well-armed troops; it’s having the high moral ground.”

Hmmm, I wonder what started Nixon down the path to loosing our high moral ground. Could it have been the Democratic disaster he was handed known as Vietnam? I won’t defend Tricky Dicky, but Democrats always seem to forget that they got us into Vietnam. They kept us and tied our hands in Vietnam. Republicans got us out of Vietnam. We may well have gone to Vietnam for the right reasons, stopping the spread of Communism is a worthy goal, but we stayed there for all the wrong reasons. America should go to war only with the intention of winning the war. I guess that is the part of the Bush doctrine that Democrats fail to understand. We are not in this war to make friends; we are here to annihilate those who mean us harm.

We have the moral authority to protect ourselves, enforce the cease-fire agreements that we have entered into, eliminate the spread of terrorism and the propagation of weapons of mass destruction and to remove brutal governments from enslaving, murdering or oppressing millions. We do not need hugs from the United Nation to make us feel all warm and fuzzy about what we are doing. We do not need France’s glowing approval; we have seen how they defend themselves. We do not need Germany, Russia or China condemning our actions abroad; we have seen their style of oppressive foreign policy in the past. We need more politicians who state it the way it is. We need a President who tells our allies, “What they need to do it to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit.” We need cowboy diplomacy. You know the one thing that was clear about the Old West? Cowboy diplomacy got the issue solved. One was left standing. The other was in the ground. You know another great President was made fun of by being called a cowboy. He brought us an
end to communism in the Soviet Union, a free Europe, strategic defense programs and major advances in military technology. He also saw peace and freedom spread through millions of those formerly oppressed.

We need strong leadership with the commitment to win. We do not need Howard Dean, “the chief spokesman of a party that has highlighted obstruction and hasn’t provided real answers that matter to the American people.” – Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.

Is this where the stand is to be made? So be it! Israel is now at open war with Hezbollah and Hamas fighting on both its northern and southern borders. In the past few hours Israel has stepped up the campaign in Lebanon, striking at suspected Hezbollah holdings and civilian infrastructure believed to support Hezbollah efforts. The Lebanese government is begging the Israeli’s to cease-fire since it has no means to adequately defend itself against the might of its neighbor’s military. Israel has stated that unless its soldiers are immediately returned and the Hezbollah forced out of positions of power in the Lebanese government Israel will not relent. They demand that Lebanon force the Hezbollah to immediately stop firing missiles on civilian targets in Israel and surrender the hostages that have been taken. They also are warning Syria and Iran to stay clear of the conflict and not to support either Hamas or Hezbollah, even though Israel states that they suspect that is already occurring.

In a disgraceful action yesterday, the United Nations attempted to pass a resolution condemning Israel’s actions in defense of their country. Fortunately, the United States stood up and said that they would not allow such a resolution and supported Israel in their right to defend themselves against terrorist aggression. While the U.N. has refused to take any kind of substantive action against Iran or North Korea for holding the world hostage with threats of nuclear weapons and has failed to ever pass a resolution condemning Hamas or Hezbollah for their terrorism, they quickly turn on Israel and try to censure them for defending their country. The idea that it is acceptable for terrorist to kill innocent Israeli citizens and Israel has no business responding is ludicrous. How many Israelis have died at the hands of the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc? For France, Germany, Russia and China to condemn the actions of Israel retaliating to missile attacks on their population center is despicable. What would China do if Taiwan launched over 100 missiles in to Chinese cities on their coastline? Could you imaging the response? Chine would mobilize everything that could fire a round and drive an assault clean through Taiwan. If anyone dare to tell China to use restrain of condemn them China would be outraged and claim its right to defend itself. In that scenario, Taiwan would be fortunate to have a single building remaining upright on any land still above water when China was through with them.

With Syria supporting Hamas and Hezbollah right on their border, I expect that they will be Israel’s next target. Iran has already claimed that if Israel strikes Syria, they will consider it an attack on all Muslim nations and respond in kind. I wonder if Iran has considered that to get to Israel they will have to cross Iraq and I can guarantee you the United States will not allow that to happen. What then? Do we stop Iran from intervening by the use of force? As the larger nations continue to posture, Israel continues to strike. Like a child pulling the tail of a rabid dog, Hamas and Hezbollah may have started something that they cannot handle and may not be able to back away from. They may also have caused the bigger dogs in the pound to get involved, which will engulf the entire Middle East very quickly.

Israel is completely justified in crushing the terrorist assaulting its country. All nations should respond to terrorism in kind. Not cowering behind your vineyards or racks of lederhosen. Nor should you be hiding in your rice fields looking through bottles of vodka and saying that the western nations have no business defending themselves.

If this is to be where the stand against fascist Islam will be fought, so be it. We are ready for the fight.

I offer this:

To the Soldiers:

I have had several conversations with some rather liberal friends lately. I have become to realize something that I suspected before, but never had direct experience with. Apparently, once you start down the path of the left side, forever will it dominate your destiny. One of my recent conversations dealt with the war in Iraq and how it was illegal, unjust and immoral, even with all the recent revelations of biological weapons, connections to Al Qaeda and the formation of an elected government. I want to examine this in detail.

There were three main reasons we entered Iraq:

1. Iraq was in violation of multiple UN resolutions regarding weapons inspectors and access to weapons sites.
2. Iraq still possessed weapons of mass destruction in violation of multiple UN resolutions and the ceasefire agreement with coalition forces.
3. Iraq had connections with Al Qaeda and supported terrorist, specifically some who were on our wanted list.

There were others to be sure, but those where the main ones. I will allow that one of the unstated goals was regime change, since the operation immediately became know as Iraqi Freedom, a noble endeavor none the less.

Ok, as to the first stated reason, no one has really ever argued that, since the evidence for Saddam kicking the weapons inspectors out of Iraq was headline news throughout the twelve year ceasefire.

Number two was the big one. We entered Iraq to secure and remove the stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that Saddam still possessed. For the last three years we have been allowed to think that these weapons were not there. The liberal left and the Democratic Party specifically, has touted our inability to locate these weapons as proof that this administration lied to the American people and led us to war on intelligence that was known to be false. Recently, it has been reveal that since 2003 we have collected over five hundred (500) chemical and biological weapons including: sarin, VX and mustard gases. We have only been able to inspect a fraction of the nearly ten-thousand (10,000) suspected weapons caches and we suspect that we will continue to find these weapons scattered all over Iraq. This is not enough to assuage the left. They still claim that Bush lied, that he did not know the weapons were there, that he falsified this apparently accurate intelligence. When the obvious flaw in that logic is pointed out they will turn to the fact that Saddam Hussein was not a direct threat to the United States and posed no real danger. It doesn’t seem to matter to the left that Al Qaeda was plotting to release gas in the New York subway system and that Hussein’s government had confirmed relations with the terrorist group, including giving refuge to those fleeing Afghanistan (Al-Zarqawi). Wonder who Al-Qaeda could have acquired the chemical weapons they were going to use in New York form? Hmmm, I wonder. Failing in that course of argument they will quickly turn to the ridiculous statement that these were not the weapons we were looking for. They apparently completely ignore the fact that Iraq was supposed to be completely disarmed of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and weapons programs. All such weapons were to have been destroyed. So if we have found 500 and suspect thousands more, seems he was in clear violation of UN sanctions and the ceasefire agreement. These were exactly what we were looking for. That is like having a warrant to search for cocaine and finding a meth lab. You do not ignore that the meth lab exists simply because you thought you would find cocaine. Oh, and technically, since we were under a conditional ceasefire agreement with Iraq, which it clearly violated, under international law we were well within our rights to resume military action due to such violation.

This brings us to the third point. There were established relations with Iraq, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. What we know is that Iraq was used as a safe haven for those fleeing Afghanistan and rendered aid to those escaping arrest or capture by US Forces. Captured documents now show that Iraq did have ties with Al-Qaeda and had been aiding and abetting them for some time. It is also thought that Iraq might have been supplying Al Qaeda with materials, finances and arms, even though the government has yet to release the proof of these actions.

For the fourth, yet originally unstated goal of toppling the Iraqi regime, what nobler goal is there than to free 50 million people from the tyrannical rule of an oppressive dictator and allow them the chance at freedom. I was asked by one of my liberal friends the other day if I would feel different if it were my son over there. I have thought about this before. I love my children with all my heart and soul. They are the most precious things in the world to me. If my sons grew up and decided that it was their destiny to go to a country and free millions of people in an attempt to give them a chance at the kind of live we have, how could I deny such a choice. If harm every came to them I would be devastated, but I would not hate their choice, the military or their government. I would not diminish the sacrifice they felt was worth making just to make myself feel better. I would not cheapen their dedication to freedom and their commitment to duty, honor and country just to make a political point. No, I would grieve deeply, I would be lost, but I would not change my mind.

This same person commented that they could not believe that this administration had us fighting for the Iraqis and defending them and why I didn’t find something wrong with that. I find this astonishing. Does it matter who a people are? We have fought for the French, English, Belgians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Dutch, etc… Does who a people are make them any less deserving of freedom? The next argument was that there are plenty of places in this world were people are oppressed and that have Al Qaeda connections, so why then Iraq? Why not? We had ample reasons, legal reasons, to invade that country and remove Saddam Hussein. We chose to eliminate a brutal, genocidal dictator, a past and possible future threat to the security of that region and a country that was in clear violation of the UN and our ceasefire. Why not Iraq?

The rhetoric of the left today is to still claim this war is illegal despite all the evidence to the contrary. The still claim our President lied and misled us to war even when presented with all the proof that he did not. They still spout the cry that there were no weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the ones we have confiscated. Their unreasonable hatred of this President blinds them to the truth even when it stares them in the face. They hail leftwing nut jobs like Cindy Sheehan as patriotic heroes when they are actually rabid crazed moonbats who think Hugo Chavez would be better to live under than President Bush. Hey Cindy, hit the road if you want to live under Chavez. Go protest his regime in the same way you protest our government and see how long you last. This insanity is almost unbearable. It is almost laughable. To watch these people rant and hear the lies that pour forth from the left as if it was the gospel truth is amazing. What is scary is that so many gullible people are falling for this socialist, leftist propaganda. If you have any friends on the far left, engage them in debate sometimes. Even if you can prove them wrong or incorrect, it doesn’t matter. If you show them facts, they ignore them. If you debunk their lies, they avoid it. I guess that is effective politics

. No matter what the truth, hold to your current position and pretend that you are right. You can always change your mind when the political wind changes and your current position is no longer politically profitable. In other words, you can vote fore it before you vote against it.