2 posts tagged “the surge”
Charles Krauthammer writes on the emerging victory occurring in Iraq and the Democratic Party leadership and Presidential candidates on continuing to insist that Iraq is a lost war.
Man this is an excellent article!
JRH 2/22/08 (Hat tip to FDD)
There is a Global War on Terror
America MUST Step Up to the Plate to Win
So the Lefties don’t think there is a Global War on Terror that is an illusion of G.W. Bush and Conservative War Hawks.
Let us examine some DOCUMENTED facts.
Now these facts are not all inclusive, there will probably be some that I have missed. Nonetheless the acts of Islamist Terrorism committed on Americans or American assets are well documented.
August 1982: Palestinian terrorist Mohammad Rashid is responsible for a bomb on a Pan Am flight from Honolulu, HI. One person died and several others are injured.
April 1983: Radical Shiite Muslim group takes credit for killing 63 on an attack on U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The mode of death is a homicidal suicide car bomb.
October 1983: 241 United States Marines murdered in their barracks by Hezbollah (Lebanonese Party of God) in Beirut, Lebanon by a bomb.
December 1983: Pro-Iranian terrorists kill six and injure others with a homicidal suicide truck bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
September 1984: Islamic Jihad kills 16 at an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
June 1985: Hezbollah hijacks TWA Flight 847 and takes it to Beirut and kills one American.
October 1985: Cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked off of Egyptian coast by Palestine Liberation Front. One 69 year old American in a wheel chair is murdered and thrown overboard.
November 1985: Egypt Air Flight 648 is hijacked by Abu Nidal's Arab Revolutionary Command and 60 are murdered. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Moamar Qaddafi is named in an international Law Suit.
April 1986: A Rome to Athens TWA flight was bombed by Mohammed Rashid, Palestinian terrorist, members of Iraqi backed May 15 organization. Four are murdered.
February 1988: Hezbollah kidnaps and EXECUTES a U.S. Marine in Southern Lebanon.
December 1988: Lockerbie, Scotland, Pan Am flight 103 is bombed by Libyan Intelligence agents murdering 270. Of the deaths 189 were Americans.
Feb 26 1993: The first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center occurs. Osama bin Laden is thought to have ordered the attack and the master mind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is convicted for the attack to 240 plus years in prison.
March 1995: Two diplomats from the Karachi, Pakistan U.S. Embassy are murdered in retaliation of the convictions surrounding the 1983 attack on the World Trade Center.
August 1998: Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, U.S. embassies are bombed simultaneously murdering 263 and injuring 5,000. Osama bin Laden is thought to be behind the attacks on American Embassies.
October 2000: The Destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden is attacked by Islamic terrorists killing 17. Guess who the evidence points to as behind the attack: One does not have to be a genius to connect the dots to al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden.
September 11, 2001: This is the Islamic terrorist attack that changed the lives of Americans. Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden ordered terror cells to hijack planes of which the two confirmed targets were the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The last target was suspected to be the White House but we will never know for the heroes of United Airlines Flight 93 rebelled enough that the jet crashed in Pennsylvania. Over 6,000 Americans were murdered and thousands more were injured. (Time Line Culled from simplytaty.com)
This Time Line roughly measures 19 years of attacks by murdering Islamist transnational terrorist organizations on America culminating with 9/11 when a President finally got fed up and decided to take the fight to the terrorists.
The problem being though is that President Bush could not get enough support to attack all the transnational terrorists in the Middle East because of Leftists in Europe and at home as well as big oil trading with China and Russia.
Dear God in Heaven the Leftists in this country are saying there is no Global War on Terrorism connection with Iraq.
Geez wake up! In the time line there is direct evidence of Saddam’s complicity with funding terrorist acts against American Assets. Let’s look at some more Hussein/Iraqi intent on America.
Notice the Mainstream Media has nearly written off the huge amount of secret documents form Saddam Hussein’s government. Why do you think that is?
Hello! It is because the documents demonstrate Hussein’s continued plans to support terrorism against America.
Now how was Bush able to finance an Armed invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?
Hello! Democrats of power in Congress viewed the very same Intelligence information that President Bush did concurring Saddam Hussein must be removed from a position that definitely harmed American National Interests.
Evidence shows that Bush did not deceive Congress as the Leftists are saying (for election purposes by the way) for the viewed the same Intelligence evidence. The only valid criticism of President Bush is that he wanted a pre-emptive strike on Iraq before psycho Saddam stockpiled enough chemical or nuclear WMD based on the projection of the Intelligence reports. It turns out the Intelligence Reports were way off on the Iraqi capability of serious WMD, especially the Nukes.
Although the Chemical WMD was not near as big as the Intelligence community projected, it was there. It can be shown that what was left of Saddam’s Chemical WMD was smuggled to Syria or Russia.
Some Lefties might say: Saddam is deposed, why waste American lives on Iraqis that are killing themselves?
One reason is of the little reported Iraqi Awakening. This is a movement in which Iraqis are growing weary of al Qaeda terrorism. Local Iraqi Sunnis that were with al Qaeda are leaving the transnational terrorist organization in droves forming local militias that aid the Iraq Military and the American Military hunt down al Qaeda. Places in Baghdad and Anbar Province (once havens for Terror cells) are informing on al Qaeda and have become places that people can walk down the streets in substantial relative peace. The Iraqi Awakening is even leading these militia members to join the Iraqi Military as recruits under American Military training.
Even the Shi’ites has joined the Iraqi Awakening. Many Shi’ites are leaving the pro-Iranian Mahdi Army operated by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to also find some local peace. And of course the Kurds of the Northern Iraq have always been pro-American. The so-called insidious Iraqi civil war appears to be evaporating at a steady pace due to the American Military Surge.
Does anyone see how absurd it would be to pull out of Iraq now? Now that tribal coalitions are forming against foreign terrorist insurgents it would be the height of stupidity to leave Iraq now.
Let’s look at an analogy. World War II ended in 1945, in case Left Wing school teachers failed to teach you that fact. My point: There has been a significant American Military presence still in Germany and Japan for a war that ended 63 years ago. The Communist Chinese came to the aid of a collapsing North Korea during the Korean War and battled America to a stalemate dividing Korea into North and South Korea. In 1953 hostilities ended between North and South Korea. There is still an American Military presence in South Korea. That is 55 years after hostilities ended between North and South Korea.
As a significant victory is in America’s and the new Iraqi government’s grasp, the Dems want to pull and say defeat when the American Military is nearing the edge of victory in Iraq.
Wake up cut-n-run Americans!
