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Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time now depends on us. Our nation this generation will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail.
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Posted 1/31/2004 by Pierre Legrand Typically brilliant article by Victor Davis Hanson a Classics scholar and sixth-generation grape farmer from Selma, California. Victor Davis Hanson on War on National Review Online Perhaps both rogue states are beginning to grasp the new reality of the last two years: The United States no longer believes that every instance of the use of force is wrong, but in fact accepts that action is more than justified to end an autocratic regime with a history of frightening arsenals, subsidized terrorism, and a record of harming the interests of the United States. Remember that Musharraf's sudden investigation of Pakistani nuclear scientists, Libya's unexpected admission of nuclear proliferation, the removal of troops from Saudi Arabia, the growing Saudi dissident movements, and renewed Iranian unrest did not happen in a vacuum — and will cease the moment we return to the old way of appeasement and neglect. Finally, there is a rarely discussed moral question here. Take September 11 away and the United States would never — despite the conspiracists' theories of pre-9/11 mediation — have gone into either Afghanistan or Iraq. Both reactive military campaigns were waged humanely to minimize civilian casualties, often at risk to American military lives. The defeated were odious; their oppressed deserved to have been freed, and their nations returned from the graveyard to the family of nations. Friday
Posted 1/30/2004 by Pierre Legrand Btw the anti-war crowd was ALL about Oil, between the French and Russians the Iraqis people were being robbed of about 13,038,000,000 dollars at 30 dollars a barrel. Read about Saddams bribery of the highest officials of these two countries. ABCNEWS.com : Document: Saddam Supporters Got Oil Deals Also on the list are the names of prominent journalists, two Iraqi-Americans, and a French priest who organized a meeting between the pope and Tariq Aziz, Saddam's deputy prime minister. The following are the names of some of those who, according to the document, received Iraqi oil contracts (amounts are in millions of barrels of oil): Russia The Companies of the Russian Communist Party: 137 million The Companies of the Liberal Democratic Party: 79.8 million The Russian Committee for Solidarity with Iraq: 6.5 million and 12.5 million (2 separate contracts) Head of the Russian Presidential Cabinet: 90 million The Russian Orthodox Church: 5 million FranceCharles Pasqua, former minister of interior: 12 million Trafigura (Patrick Maugein), businessman: 25 million Ibex: 47.2 million Bernard Merimee, former French ambassador to the United Nations: 3 million Michel Grimard, founder of the French-Iraqi Export Club: 17.1 million Posted 1/30/2004 by Pierre Legrand Instapundit mentioned this article and so I decided to take a look. What strikes me is Bruce Schneier’s assertion that the Terrorist threat is minor. Wow glad to hear that. Wonder what he considers major if not the violent deaths of over 3,000 people in the worst terror strike the world has ever seen. Furthermore these same terrorists were not overwhelmed with satisfaction in killing 3,000 of us, no indeed they have a burning desire to kill even more, hundreds of thousands more even millions. We discount that threat at our own peril after all we are at war, whether it looks like it or not. Slouching toward Big Brother | CNET News.com Terrorism is no different. We need to weigh each security countermeasure. Is the additional security against the risks worth the costs? Are there smarter things we can be spending our money on? How does the risk of terrorism compare with the risks in other aspects of our lives: automobile accidents, domestic violence, industrial pollution, and so on? Are there costs that are just too expensive for us to bear? He goes on to act as if we are dealing with the sorts of threats that can be ignored by the majority of the population since only a few people will be affected by an attack. First off the underlying assumption is incorrect. We aren't facing small attacks that will be only be felt by a few people. The terrorists have shown, they can kill thousands and have declared that they want to kill hundreds of thousands. Weapons exist that allow them to accomplish this goal. Do we trust our security to the hope that they won’t ever acquire them? But let’s assume that they don't get those weapons. Instead we assume that they can only kill thousands of us at a time. They have shown the ability to accomplish this goal using every day appliances (bear with me). Does this mean we can ignore this since only a statistically insignificant portion of the population is affected? Is this the compact we have with our fellow citizens? That we will only be concerned about what may affect us? One of the reasons this war is such a difficult war to fight is the enemy isn’t constantly in front of us reminding us that we are indeed engaged. Our enemy wants to lull us into a feeling of safety. This allows him to slip under our radar and also cause much more panic because of the distance between a feeling of comfort and the shock of disaster is so much farther when we mistakenly believe we aren’t in a war. Thursday
Posted 1/29/2004 by Pierre Legrand Could Kay have missed a few things....well even he said it was possible. Iraq Minister Says Saddam's WMD Carefully Hidden Reuters News Article Wednesday
Posted 1/28/2004 by Pierre Legrand This is sheer arrogance on Bush's part. He actually believes he can crap on his base and we will lap it up. Nuts. He blows making the connections between Saddam and Al Queda to appease State, he blows the immigration plan to pander to the Hispanic voter, he blows the Medicar Prescription drug plan pandering to Senior Citizens and he is doing it all with my money and safety. Is it too late for a Republican Primary? Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts Posted 1/28/2004 by Pierre Legrand I see it now, we didnt offer Chirac enough money to back us in the Iraqis war. Saddam outbid us. And President Wannabe Kerry thinks we should have asked them for their blessings before going. Ooooooh. Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac - (United Press International) Posted 1/28/2004 by Pierre Legrand The most unsettling item of all is the lack of a desire by Bush administration to entertain the fact that Saddam enabled 9/11. Classical Values: January 2004 Archives Tuesday
Posted 1/27/2004 by Pierre Legrand This insulting article was recently posted on Opinion Journals site and I must say that were it not for the War on Terror I would gladly vote for just about anyone willing to kill this sort of foolishness. I sent them a letter which I have included at the bottom of the post. OpinionJournal - Featured Article Name calling now? Is this what the Wall Street Journal has descended into in order to defend the indefensible? This article is full of that sticky smelly brown stuff and it smells from across the street, even a "Nativist" like me can notice it. "The plain truth is that the U.S. depends on these workers more than the nativist wing of the GOP likes to admit. As Mr. Bush said recently, the reality is that our economy continues to create opportunities for low-skilled workers while the pool of Americans willing to fill these jobs continues to shrink." Are you people serious? Does the President think his base is full of village idiots who don’t know economics? If you cannot attract anyone to your company, you have two choices in the LEGAL world we operate in, or should I say the REST of us operate in. You offer more money or you change the way you do business. This is easy stuff and you insult your readers by publishing the tripe of there being jobs no one wants in a serious Opinion Column, this isn’t a Democratic forum where any knuckleheaded theory is believed. At this point in our war on terror the government has ONE overriding purpose, protection of those people here lawfully. If this Government cannot do that then it’s obvious that we need to change governments by throwing the buggers out and replacing them with better buggers, and if THEY cannot fix the problem we throw them out. To say that because we have failed in enforcing this law we should do away with it, is stupidity of such high order that I’m shocked to see it in the Opinion Journal. Obviously the laws we have against terror have failed miserably given the 3,000 dead, have you forgotten, shall we do away with those as well? Im getting really sick of being called names by the people I have supported through these terrible times. Nativists indeed, I am a free marketer who believes that the overriding role of government is the protection of its people and the enforcement of its laws. If you cannot do it then get out of the way and let someone in that can! But don’t give me high sounding reasons to pander for the Hispanic vote. It insults me and worse insults you. Posted 1/27/2004 by Pierre Legrand These are the sorts of men that are teaching the Al Queda what happens to you if you underestimate the United States. Special Forces finish the fights murderers start. FOXNews.com - FOX Fan - Reporter's Notebook: "Master Sergeant Tony Prior experienced something that none of us will ever have to ? he went one-on-one with Al Qaeda terrorists. His team and one other conducted a raid on a house filled with Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan. Tony and the other soldiers came under intense automatic weapons fire. Soon the teams were forced to fight the enemy hand to hand. One enemy fighter was so close to Tony that he could smell the man?s breath. Tony single handedly eliminated four men despite being hampered by an injury to his arm. The two teams eliminated two-dozen enemy fighters, and Tony and his men made it out without a single casualty. In true Green Beret form, Tony brushes off the notion that he performed valiantly saying, ?It wasn?t a heroic act, it was second nature. I won and I moved forward.? Tony was awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for gallantry, the military's third highest award. Months later, Tony and the other teams were back home leading a very different life." Posted 1/27/2004 by Pierre Legrand Freedom of speech in action??? Is this how a Presidential candidate handles demonstrations? Body Slamming them??? Boy can't wait to hear the civil libertarians yelling about this gross injustice! Al Franken is the new face of the Democrats, body slamming opponents, read all about it. New York Post Online Edition: news Posted 1/27/2004 by Pierre Legrand The questions that Edward Epstein would pose to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are crucial to the case of Iraq's involvement in 9/11. Why hasn't the commission studying the attack been allowed to have access? Why is the administration NOT publically pursuing this line of questions? KSM Questions Monday
Posted 1/26/2004 by Pierre Legrand The western hero making a comeback? Lets hope so since the trash they have masquerading as art these days is enough to make me want to throw my TV away. Not only the westerns but I believe alot of what makes the Lord of the Rings trilogy so popular is the sheer morality of the characters. Who cannot be moved by the years that come off of the Rohan King when he throws off the consuls of defeat from Wormtongue? Or not moved by the speech of Aragon in front of the Gates of Mordor? Bin Laden made a fatal error in allowing us to see our heros again. We liked what we saw and we want more. Front Page magazine by David Horowitz spends alot of time talking about what makes us great and its a good thing to refresh yourself with. This article talks about Open Range and the basic morality it displays and how refreshing it is. FrontPage magazine.com Posted 1/26/2004 by Pierre Legrand Why did David Kay leave? Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage Q: Is it true that one of the reasons you wanted to step down was because you don't believe that anything will be found, is that true? A: "No. No, that wasn't the reason. In fact, the reason I thought it important to complete everything is that ... by the time we get to June ... we're not going to find much after June. Once the Iraqis take complete control of the government it is just almost impossible to operate in the way that we operate. In fact it was already becoming tough. We had an important ministry that would not allow its people to be interviewed unless they had someone present. It was like the old regime. Posted 1/26/2004 by Pierre Legrand These are the sorts of men we send to war. Thank god for their service. OpinionJournal - A Marine's Journal Posted 1/26/2004 by Pierre Legrand hehe...We were all hoping for Dean to be the nominee, but Clark would have been even more fun. Oh well it looks like the Haughty French Looking War Hero is gonna be the one... The Corner on National Review Online Sunday
Posted 1/25/2004 by Pierre Legrand Aside from asking some very pointed questions regarding European duplicity in Libya's very advanced Nuclear weapons program Musharraf says something else that to me is a bit scary. Nobody knows where all the Nuclear Assets in his country are and by that he means they are safe. Sheesh lets hope so. Yahoo! News - Pakistani Leader Says Nukes Will Be Safe: "He told reporters Friday there were multiple layers of security and not even he had free access to all the equipment and information about the program. 'I don't think anyone knows where those weapons are. Nobody knows. Even the United States doesn't know where they are. There is no attack possible on our nuclear assets.' Musharraf blamed al-Qaida for the attacks on his life. He said al-Qaida was still able to carry out bombings and limited attacks but as a whole was 'on the run and in hiding' with its leaders unable to communicate with each other. " Posted 1/25/2004 by Pierre Legrand This guy needs to learn to keep his mouth shut until he can be assured that the entire interview will be aired. So far what has been aired is exactly only that which might embarrass both President Busha and Prime Minister Blair. The first stories were all about there not being any large stockpiles of WMD's in Iraq end of story. Now we find out that some parts of the program may have been moved to Syria. Telegraph | News | Saddam's WMD hidden in Syria, says Iraq survey chief
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