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Posted 4/24/2004 by Pierre Legrand This is good news. Glad to hear that some in Saudi Arabia know which side to be on! This sounds like a good thing. Yahoo! News - Saudis Helped U.S. Extensively in Iraq Friday
Posted 4/23/2004 by Pierre Legrand Have you donated to Spirit of America yet? Why the hell not? Who are you to leave the Marines Begging, open up those pockets! Get over to Spirit of America right the heck now and donate. The Marines say it is needed who are you to argue? Pick a blog alliance to donate through and strengthen our political power! Spirit of America Posted 4/23/2004 by Pierre Legrand Handy Dandy Reasons for Being in Iraq....Teaching Syria manners. U.S. sees Syria 'facilitating' insurgents - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - April 21, 2004For nearly 25 years, the United States has labeled Syria a state sponsor of terrorism. Syria gives help to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a Shi'ite terror group set up and sustained by Iran, which also is accused of sending agents into southern Iraq to help radical cleric Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr. Officials said Syrian agents are aiding the Iraqi insurgency because it is not in Damascus' interest to have a pro-U.S. country on its border. Mr. Assad fears that a free Iraq could spur a wave of democracy in his country, jeopardizing his rigid socialist rule, officials say. Posted 4/23/2004 by Pierre Legrand moxie: we get email This is hilarious, I will be checking Moxie out a bunch to keep me grounded. She has the right attitude for dealing with Moonbats. moxie: we get email April 23, 2004 we get email It seems I’ve made a liberal friend. The man who emailed me earlier this month graced my inbox with a missive once again. Mox, Thanks for explaining conservatives to me. You right wing people are friggin' crazy and should be locked up. It was Earth Day yesterday. I’d like to know how you celebrated it. Cheers, B.L. As always, it makes me tingly to share. 9:58 AM: Wake up to the smell of gasoline. My lawn boys were outside with the leaf blowers and lawn mowers grooming the vast grounds of the Moxtopia compound. 10 AM: I crawl over the exhausted partygoers and yell at the lawn boys. Tell them to hurry because we will begin drilling for oil any minute. Pass out in the arms of Don Rumsfeld to sleep some more. Posted 4/23/2004 by Pierre Legrand ABCNEWS.com : Ex-NFL Player Killed in Afghanistan Where do we get young men like this? The Greatest Generation is staring back across the table from us, remember to thank each and every member of the armed services you meet. Their devotion to Honor, Duty and Country is what keeps us safe at night. Pray for his family. ABCNEWS.com : Ex-NFL Player Killed in Afghanistan Posted 4/23/2004 by Pierre Legrand PREVIEW: Prodigal Son Slow day today gonna relax and spend some time with the kids....bicycle riding with my two youngest trapped in an elite trailer behind. The procedure is to go twenty minutes to the Lakes wake the kids up and feed the ducks. Then I get to finish the ride with a dash around the lakes. Sounds like a normal American Day eh? Read this article and see how the thugs we fight spend their days. You wont like it. PREVIEW: Prodigal Son Thursday
Posted 4/22/2004 by Pierre Legrand Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers This is another must read by Victor Davis Hanson....all I have to say is where were history teachers like him when I went to school? Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers: "At a time when bin Laden assured the Middle East that Americans were weak and decadent, the US military tore apart the most fanatical and savage fighters of a savage Middle East?the only reprieve came from diplomats who fretted about the rhetoric of the hapless Arab Street. Far better than we at home, our soldiers grasped that fighting fascists for consensual government is a noble cause and should have been the source of great pride among the American people. No, despite all the chaos in Washington, these are not bad, but rather noble times, among the best I think in our history. So let us remember the famous words of Virgil indeed perhaps the most moving in all of Latin literature. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit The day will come when even this ordeal will be a sweet thing to remember. And so it shall be when it is all said and done." Posted 4/22/2004 by Pierre Legrand The Pink Flamingo Bar and Grill Holy smokes passed 6,000 visits.....THANKS!!!! Seems like just a second ago I was celebrating 5,000. The Pink Flamingo Bar and Grill Posted 4/22/2004 by Pierre Legrand Baton Rouge Marine a Hero to his mom and my family. I posted a story about a Baton Rouge Marine serving in Iraq when I came across the link at the Belmont Club, this morning I woke up to find that the Mother of the Marine in the story had read my short link. I am deeply honored to present her comments because we all should know and appreciate the sacrifice and bravery that allows our families to sleep safely at night. It is mothers like this that raise Marines like Lance Corporal Dustin Myshrall. When someone says of some generation that they were the greatest generation, we can point to the young men and women defending us with some considerable pride and say that while that may be true these young folks can hold their heads up high in the company of that earlier generation. Indeed I know first hand from a Marine officer who fought on Guadalcanal whose eye's will shine with pride when he talks of those who represent the Marines these days how proud those earlier hero's are of our current defenders. My deepest most heartfelt thanks to those men and women who fight to keep us safe. Lance Corporal Dustin Myshrall is in LIMA Co. He lost four very close friends that terrible day in Husaybah. All four friends KIA were in Myshralls Platoon. They were like brothers to each other. The 5th Marine killed that day was LIMA Co. Commanding Officer, Captain Richard Gannon who was highly respected by Myshrall and his entire company. When the 14 hour battle was over, Myshrall drove the truck with his dead fallen comrades back to base. There he stood guard over those fallen hero's killed in action. Lance Corporal Myshrall would have given his life to spare the life of his Captain or any one of his friends. That's just the way he is. In his eyes, he did his duty as a Marine, and would never consider his actions to be out of the ordinary. But, I don't always agree with what Myshrall thinks. In my eyes, he's a hero. I can say that. I'm his mother. Thanks for mentioning him. I appreciate it very much! If anyone is interested STLtoday.com posted another article on April 20th that mentions Dustin P Loveland Here is that link and an excerpt. HUSAYBAH, Iraq - Lance Cpl. Dustin Myshrall peered into the darkness through his night vision goggles, trying to keep up with the truck in front of him as the Marine convoy made its way down the treacherous stretch of road without headlights for security purposes. In the rear of his truck were the bodies of four dead friends: Lance Cpl. Michael J. Smith, Lance Cpl. Ruben Valdez, Lance Cpl. Gary VanLeuven and Cpl. Christopher Gibson; and the body of the company commander, whom he so much respected, Capt. Richard J. Gannon. Update: I had emailed this story to the Baton Rouge Advocate I wonder if they ever said anything about this soldier. Update #2 And here is some backround on the stakes of the battles this Marine is involved in. Syria is aiding and abetting the people attacking us in Iraq. As terrible as another front may seem either we are in there to win or we need to get out. Winning means killing the will to fight....Syria is sending in troops because Syria believes there is no penalty. Syria not only has the will to fight but believes that we dont have the will to win. The question is are they correct? Wednesday
Posted 4/21/2004 by Pierre Legrand No Ties to Al Queda, noooo sireee....Saddam had zero ties to Al Queda....yup yup. An article of faith for the Dems and National Press is that Saddam was not linked in a meaningful way to Al Queda...well at first they said linked at all. But now they are backpedaling and claiming there were links but nothing substantial...well looks like that rug is getting pulled out from under them as well. Read this article and see why having the UN help do anything in Iraq might be a bad idea. FORWARD : News Update: And lets not forget Edward Jay Epstein who is following the leads on the Al Ani Atta meeting in Prague. Yea I know Newsweek says it never happened....I just have this to say about Newsweek. OLD MEDIA, CORRUPT, AXE TO GRIND....and they kill trees to publish. (hehe...trying to get those greenies on my side) Here is a taste of a mighty fine effort by Edward. 1) Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani served as consul at Iraq's embassy in Prague between March 1999 and April 21, 2001 and he was activity involved in agent-handling during this period. 2) Mohammed Atta applied for a visa to visit the Czech Republic on May 26, 2000 in Bonn, Germany According to Czech visa records, Atta identified himself as being a "Hamburg student." Since a visa was not necessary to catch a Czech plane to the US, Czech intelligence concluded he had business in the Czech Republic. 3) Just prior to leaving for the U.S., Atta made 2 trips to the Czech Republic in 2000. The first was on May 30, where he went without a visa to the transit lounge of Prague International Airport; the second was by bus to Prague on June 2 with visa BONN200005260024. Yup no linkage here....sheesh I feel like the OLD MEDIA is trying Jedia Mind Control tricks on me by repeating the tired mantra of there being no links between Saddam and 9/11...I thought being part of the EVIL NEO CON CONSPIRACY meant that I was the only one who could do that??? Update #2Oil-for-Terror? There appears to be much worse news to uncover in the Oil-for-Food scandal. By Claudia Rosett More bad news for the group of people who refuse to believe that Saddam was linked to terror. Posted 4/21/2004 by Pierre Legrand FOXNews.com - Massive Barrage Launched on Marines in Fallujah.....and we are still talking to them Why? Will someone go and step on these roaches already? Smash them and if residents of Fallujah get caught in the middle it also becomes an object lesson on why its a bad idea to allow these terrorist thugs to take up residence in your city. There must be penalties for everyone invloved in these attacks. The residents are not blameless and our constant pulling back is percieved as weakness... FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Massive Barrage Launched on Marines in Fallujah Tuesday
Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand John O'Neill in an interview with CNN talks about why Kerry is unfit to be Commander In Chief of the US. RED HOT Red hot....CNN.com - Transcripts: " BLITZER: Today, John O'Neill is an attorney. He's turned down Republican overtures to speak out during John Kerry's previous campaigns. This year, he has not given any interviews until now. John O'Neill is joining us now live from Houston. Mr. O'Neill, thanks very much for joining us. Why have you decided you want to speak out against John Kerry right now? O'NEILL: I have no choice, Wolf. I would far rather be home or on the other side of a TV camera than being on television. I haven't been on television in many, many years, had very little involvement in politics. But I was in Coastal Division 11 with John Kerry. I arrived about two months after he left and I had the same small boat he did. His allegations that people committed war crimes in that unit and throughout Vietnam were lies. He knew they were lies when he said them. And they were very damaging lies. That speech you played for example in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was broadcast for POWs when they were actually being held in Hanoi. The admiral, Admiral Zumwalt, whose son was my closest friend who gave him that medal in the picture you showed, that was one of the people that John Kerry was claiming was a war criminal. Admiral Zumwalt was one of the greatest heroes in the Navy. He was a man that introduced women to the Naval Academy, who stood and saved ships in World War II by himself. And, finally, I had no choice but to come forward. Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand WONDER LAND This was a pivotal article for me, as I had not realized the truth of its premise until I had read this article. President Bush is carrying a heavy load exactly because of the tactics of the Thugs with whom we are at war. If the enemy were at the gates with forces arrayed as far as the eye could see the public's mind would be concentrated marvelously well. However, here we are facing a threat infinitely more dangerous than any armies previously arrayed at our gates and the public is relaxing. This is exactly the perfect strategy for terror tactics. For a quick analogy consider how hard it is to scare you directly after someone has grabbed you when you didn't expect it, yet if he waits 5 days your guard is down and you jump again. The President's job is to constantly keep our guard up and to continue to warn us that we are at war. After awhile though various forces work against him and they are very powerful. First, we have the Press that is inclined to be skeptical of a Republican President and unwilling to understand the threat for fear of strengthening him. Add a dash of outright physical fear, which drives them to want to appease our enemies in the hope that they can be eaten last. Then some PC worries about offending our enemies and we have the press effectively taken out of the equation in the fight for our nation. Second, the opposition party, which believes it, more important to appease the constituency within the party that cannot stand to defend anything about a country they hate. Lastly, add in that it is the natural inclination to try to resume life as it was before 9/11. Its not unusual that many in the nation would not want to admit that there are people out there who conspire to murder millions of us and that furthermore as soon as they find a way they will try. The result is you are left with a President who must carry the burden of defending this great nation without the very institutions that would give credibility to his warnings and gravity to his worries. We are all responsible for the safety of our nation; we will also all be responsible for its failure should our attention be lax and our interest wane. OpinionJournal - WONDER LAND In some ways, the task now is harder. The physical threat then was identifiable as ICBMs and Soviet tanks, and by the 1980s communism's nature was well understood. The details of weapons proliferation and the origins and shape of Islamic extremism are less broadly understood. As then, this is a war in which ideas fight alongside men in arms. But look at the debate now; we've let the opposition get away with making the terms of argument personal, fought over in just four words: "George Bush" and "Donald Rumsfeld." And we've left these men to carry the burden of both fighting the war on the ground and the war of words. Mr. Bush fought magnificently in London this week. This war, however, is about more than George Bush, and will need more than his words to win. America's first war had the Committees of Correspondence. The last big one had the Committee for a Free World. This war is going to need one, too. Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand Have you had your Terror today? Jihad Watch and others are sounding the alarm...is anyone listening? Is it 9/10 again? The war we fight seems so very strange to anyone well read in military history. We see no attacks, suffer almost no consequences and yet whether we admit it or not we live under the threat of murder made by a group of people who have shown the ability to carry out their threats. They have no desire to kill a few of us, they won't even be satisfied by hundreds or even thousands, millions is what they laugh about when they make their threats. Considering that they, alone of all the thugs we have faced in history, have been able to carry out the murder of thousands it would seem prudent to understand that we are at war and that our enemies have the means and will to carry out their threats. Look around and notice the beauty and calmness that surrounds you, in 20 years you may not be able to remember these days. Sadly for the left and libertarians it won't be the Bush administration that takes our freedoms away but the fear created by massive attacks that we didn't believe would happen. If we don't arise from our slumber as citizens we will not win this war. It is not the Bush administrations responsibility to carry our burden for winning this war on its shoulders. This country and its freedoms and beauty benefits us all. We ALL must be engaged in the war on terror. But to even start we must acknowledge we are at war. Jihad Watch: Webb: prepare for the worst: It is time to shut down the political carnival that is the 9/11 commission and return to focusing on the next big strikes aimed at the United States. Al-Qaida communiqués and warnings from intelligence heads around the world that you don’t need a top-secret security clearance to understand have been in the public domain for nearly two years now. As before 9/11, the “chatter” is starting up again—and the noise is not a pleasant one. This is the chosen year. From bus and train bombings, to setting wildfires, to a mass casualty situation that an al-Qaida spokesman predicted would kill at least 100,000—the global jihad continues while the 9/11 political carnival attempts to place blame for the past. Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand A mini-Tet offensive or Iraq doesn't look like Vietnam yet except that the press still want to lose. A very strong article by someone who did some fantastic reporting in Vietnam from 1951 during the French debacle to 1972 and the end of US involvement. Arnaud makes excellent points and this is a must read article for those of us trying to understand why the enemy would consider us to be weak. This article was overlooked and I just don't understand why its very insightful. A mini-Tet offensive ? The Washington Times: "A mini-Tet offensive ?"By Arnaud de Borchgrave Any seasoned reporter covering the Tet offensive in Vietnam 36 years ago is well over 60 and presumably retired or teaching journalism at one of America's 4,200 colleges and universities. Before plunging into an orgy of erroneous and invidious historical parallels between Iraq and Vietnam, a reminder about what led to the U.S. defeat in Southeast Asia is timely. Iraq will only be another Vietnam if the home front collapses, as it did following the Tet offensive that began on the eve of the Chinese New Year, Jan. 31, 1968. The surprise attack was designed to overwhelm some 70 cities and towns, and 30 other strategic objectives simultaneously. By breaking a previously agreed truce for Tet festivities, master strategist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi calculated South Vietnamese troops would be caught with defenses down. After the first few hours of panic, the South Vietnamese troops reacted fiercely. They did the bulk of the fighting and took some 6,000 casualties. Viet Cong units not only did not reach a single one of their objectives -- except when they arrived by taxi at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, blew their way through the wall into the compound and guns blazing made it into the lobby before they were wiped out by U.S. Marines. But they lost some 50,000 killed and at least as many wounded Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand GeorgeWBush.com Official Blog The President gets a blog and it not boring....fun fun fun. GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog Posted 4/20/2004 by Pierre Legrand The New Arab Way of War, by Captain Peter Layton, Royal Australian Air Force Seen earlier from a link that I apologize for not remembering, naturally the Belmont Club linked to it and reminded me how good this article is. While it gives one great cause for worry about where this war will end up, for instance it is assumed that we probably will see an attack of massive proportions on a city in the west, it proceeds from there to what we do about it. The worry is tempered by the fact that the author outlines an interesting way out of the conflict, we seem to be following this very strategy and its hard to know whether he was completely original or whether he is just noting with a keen eye the wests current strategy. I believe that several of his paragraphs deserve to be considered over and above the rest of this seriously fine article by both the west and its enemies. Naval Institute Proceedings: The New Arab Way of War, by Captain Peter Layton, Royal Australian Air Force: "The New Arab Way of War" Intentionally, there is no obvious state involvement. In his attack, the assassin dies or melts into the crowd, providing no proof of who is responsible. This tactic is meant to confuse and frustrate a legally justifiable response, as the Western paradigm based on the 1648 Peace of Westphalia assumes a state-versus-state conflict. Avoiding giving the West a defined, obvious state opponent is a rational strategy peculiar to the Arab way of war. For those who insist that we need to find courtroom quality evidence of Al Queda and Saddams perfidy for us to say that they were allied. The entire point of using Al Queda is to avoid the blame for its actions. Therefor to allow evidence to be left laying around would be a serious breach of the strategy. We must remember they are unable to match our weapons systems but that doesnt mean they are stupid. A major innovation of the Arab way of war is the deliberate targeting of civilians. The assassins' rhetoric makes no distinction between civilian and military targets. Attacking civilians guarantees global attention as the media, reflecting global values, has a horror of the infliction of cruelty on noncombatants. Attacking civilians is perceived by the assassins as the most direct route to influence global opinion and to affect the national will of the nations struck. Attacks usually are conducted with considerable skill, timing, expertise, and precision but are designed to kill absolutely indiscriminately. Given this, the strategic aim of attacks is hard to discern.4 Violence customarily is conceived as a means to an end, but the essence in this style of war seems to be inflicting terror. Pakistani Brigadier S. K. Malik notes: "Terror is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose on him."5 I doubt that terror is used solely for the amusement of the terrorists. Instead it is used to affect the moral of the civilian populations of the west. Trying to break their will and cause them to withdraw from involvement in the Middle East allowing whichever State actors are the most powerful and favored to gain control. It is a very dangerous game since the terrorists have two points close together, one that spells victory and the other that spells the west losing its control and destroying significant portions of the population of the Middle East. From the footnotes the author makes this very point. Great article and you should read all of it. But there have been many instances in Western history where patience has been exhausted suddenly and merciless, ruthless responses undertaken. The Arab way of war could yet reap this whirlwind for the Middle East if attacks by assassins go too far. History suggests this line will not be known, or even articulated, until after it is crossed. This is one of the difficulties with dealing with democracies that opposing political systems have problems comprehending. back to article Monday
Posted 4/19/2004 by Pierre Legrand Nope no accomplices in the OKC bombing...no one except those seen in the Secret Secret Service Tape withheld for 9 years....ooopsie. Gee I wonder who suppressed this evidence, was it the same people who refused to go after all of the people who bombed the WTC in 93? The same people who had the audacity to claim that their miserable missile attack on Iraqis Secret Service building in the middle of the night killing several cleaning ladies was effective in suppressing Saddams terrorist ways? Nah....hehe. Yahoo! News - Document: Oklahoma City Bombing Was Taped UPDATE: Here is the link to the evidence. Posted 4/19/2004 by Pierre Legrand Syria losing its fear of our forces...Marines re-establishing control of Iraq border. With small clashes between the Marines and Syrian border guards, Syria allowing Al Queda to dance between the two countries and reports that Syria was the source of the Chemical Bomb meant to murder 20,000 in Jordon things are heating up. Don't recall Syria being on the Axis of Evil list but they seem to be aching for a breaking. Maybe we take on Syria next? Well now push comes to shove and we find out whether all of Rumsfeld's critics are right or wrong in constantly chastising his unwillingness to increase the number of men under arms in the United States military. Reports that our military is stretched very thin have been coming in ever since the war on terror started. On the face of it I would have to agree that fighting a war on multi fronts with basically the same army that Clinton gave us seems to be very dangerous. Clinton wasn't preparing to fight multi-front wars, he was cashing in on the so-called Peace Dividend. Not sure if anyone has gotten the memo but we are engaged in the fight of our lives...any so called Peace Dividend has vanished, into the dust of the WTC. Seems a bit un-natural to fight the worst enemy we have ever faced with the same army that was intended to fight no one. World Tribune.com--Front Page Posted 4/19/2004 by Pierre Legrand The many failings of Sec of State Powell What is clear from reading the articles having to do with the Woodward book is Sec of State Powell was responsible for the greatest failing of the War in Iraq. He is personally responsible for delaying the war long enough that Saddam was able to hide and disperse his weapons. Now we have the very real problem of him having given them to Terrorists which is what the war was supposed to stop. This is a major failing and the blame resides with President Bush for having listened to Powell. He may have been forced due to Sec Powell's personal popularity but it doesn't make it any better. We have failed to find the weapons we KNEW were there. This is the essential point. Now we have events such as the broken up attack in Jordon where Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi planned on blowing up a chemical bomb murdering up to 20,000 people. Cheery news that points up to the gravity of the Bush Failure to actually succeed in getting the WMD's. This is a grave mistake and he is lucky the Democrats cant make a big deal about since they are on record as not believing the WMD's existed...course they have flip flopped before. The New York Times > Washington > Airing of Powell's Misgivings Tests Ties in the Cabinet UPDATEHeard Sec of State Powell today on Hannity and he makes it sound as if Woodward is mis-characterizing his stance on the Iraqis war. Not the first time this has happened but it still doesn't let him off the hook in regards to the Bush administrations failure to find the weapons. This is a serious deal and its almost funny that the Democrats have painted themselves into such a corner by stating that there was NEVER any WMD's. If we had an honest opposition party in the Democrats they would have been able to hold the Republicans feet to the fire regarding this massive failure. Posted 4/19/2004 by Pierre Legrand The View from Baghdad Another view from Iraq... The View from Baghdad Posted 4/19/2004 by Pierre Legrand Marines including a man from Baton Rouge repulsed an attack and then took the battle to the bad guys... Baton Rouge Lance Corp. Dustin Myshrall figured large in the battle near the Iraq Syrian border where the bad guys are trying to infiltrate into Iraq from Syria. Got caught and smashed against the steel will of the Marines. Courtesy of the Belmont Club...thanks for the heads up. STLtoday.com Insurgent Iraqis kill five Marines Sunday
Posted 4/18/2004 by Pierre Legrand BBC NEWS Jordan 'was chemical bomb target wonder why this isn't getting coverage by our National Press... This is strange but not even Fox News is covering this story and its huge! The speculation that Saddam might have hidden his weapons in Syria has been made since before the war started. The belief that Saddam's weapons might have fallen into Terrorists hands has also been speculated on since before the war started. This is a major failure for the Bush Administration for diddling around with the UN for such a long time....it is a valid point to say that if one of the intentions before the war was to stop Saddam from giving his weapons to terrorists that if he did indeed manage to do so then our strategy failed. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jordan 'was chemical bomb target'An official involved in the inquiry in Jordan told AFP news agency: "We found primary materials to make a chemical bomb which, if it had exploded, would have made nearly 20,000 deaths ... in an area of one square kilometre. "The target of this bomb was the headquarters of the Intelligence Services," situated on a hill in the western suburb of Amman, he added. The official said another operation planned by the network was to use "deadly gas against the US embassy and the prime minister's office in Amman ... and other public buildings in Jordan". Posted 4/18/2004 by Pierre Legrand Spain cries for Mom, demands lolipop, retreats to bedroom, buries head says they arent coming out till we check the closet for the bad men. The Spanish Army proud to the end are let down by the children back home hiding in adult bodies. Dont worry Spaniards we will keep the bad men away from you.... FOXNews.com: "Spanish PM: Troops Out of Iraq ASAP" Posted 4/18/2004 by Pierre Legrand The Left will stop at nothing to win this war....we must stop at nothing to destroy their seething nonsense. The Moonbats have a plan, attack attack attack till they overwhelm the opposition. They are terrified of actually NOT surrendering to our enemies....fear drives them. I refuse to surrender, anger drives me. Which is stronger...? The New York Times > International > Middle East > Rice Refutes New Book on Date That Bush Decided to Go to War Posted 4/18/2004 by Pierre Legrand Islam the religion of Peace or How I learned to keep a sword handy for those who wouldn't pay Jihza to honest muslims... For those of you struggling to find justification for the belief that Islam is the religion of peace here is some ammo for your side of the argument. Islam is the religion of Peace as long as you are peacefully paying your poll tax, or peacefully converting to Islam, or peacefully dying... This war won't go away and attempting to redefine it will fail. You cannot redefine a religion that has defied all attempts to reform it, and certainly attempting to redefine the war it is engaged in with the west is folly indeed. This is President Bush's greatest failing his attempt to sell us on the fact that there are large swaths of Islamic Imams and Scholars who believe that making war on the west is wrong. They are at war with us and the sooner that we understand this and react the sooner we will have a realistic view of our predicament. MEMRI: Islamist Talk of 'Love and Peace in Islam' is Just a Cover for Violence Posted 4/18/2004 by Pierre Legrand Command Post's Presidential Polls, they leave me wondering. Interesting polls from around the country showing generally bad news for John Kerry. But it leaves me wondering if President Bush isn't sandbagging it a bit. I know how outrageous that sounds but consider that there is still time for the Demos to change candidates. While the Haughty French Looking Senator from Mass did in fact win all the primaries what if he is getting trounced by Bush in all the polls come the Demo Love Fest/Convention in Boston? Will the Demos not be hoping for a salvation from one Hillary Clinton? Why spend all your money running down a candidate, John Kerry, who wont be running against you in November. Or from the Demos standpoint, play rope a dope with Bush using Kerry then when the convention comes to town have Kerry bow out to be replaced by Hillary, Kerry as VP. Look at the advantages from the Demos point of view. They look statesmanlike by responding to the public, Hillary doesn't have all that juicy baggage from Vietnam that Kerry has, Hillary has been very Hawk-like, and the Bush team has just a bit of time to refocus on dear old Hillary. All very outrageous but then again much of what the Demos have done this election cycle has been outrageous. They are very religious about winning...and will do almost anything to win. I believe that perhaps the Bush administration is also sitting it out a bit reserving the sharpest attacks till the actual nominee is announced. The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - Poll-a-palooza
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