Ummm.
OK, in private EMail, you told me that you were concerned about "the world being set on fire" and you blamed Bush, at least in part.
Hmmm.
OK, let's go back to basics here. What caused 9/11?
It wasn't Bush. It was in the planning stages before he took office. Osama Yo Mama and company had been leading up to it for years, with the African embassy bombings, the USS Cole attack and other incidents
that were not adequately responded to by Clinton.
I think ol' Bill deserves a lot of blame.
It's also disturbing to me that a lot of people don't understand the really, really EVIL roots of what's going on among these various middle eastern opponents. Know why Iran is called "Iran"? Because that's what the term "Aryan" translated to in Persian, when the leadership of "Iran" decided to rename the place in an attempt to get friendlier with ol' Adolph.
In similar fashion, the "Ba'ath party" that started in Syria and spread to Iraq had definate Nazi origins. The Nazis also got in heavy with the Arabs of Jerusalem and surrounding areas, training them as behind-the-lines insurgents against the British and relying on their mutual hatred of Jews to cement the alliance. Yasser Arafat is literally a product of that old alliance; his former mentor, the Mufti of Jerusalem was a Nazi agent flown into Berlin for personal meetings with Hitler.
So these are NOT NICE PEOPLE we're dealing with here.
Not nice at all.
Now, when 9/11 was planned and in the period just after, Osama and company were definately holed up in Afghanistan. No question. They were using it as their global base of terrorism.
That had to be dealt with. Dubya was right on that one.
But then there's Iraq.
Saddam was literally a political descendent of Adolph Hitler, and idolized both him and Stalin. He killed at LEAST 800,000 of his own people via outright murder, and probably a lot more. He *acted* like he had nasty crap, when in fact it turns out his economy was so far in the toilet that underlings just took the money and created false reports of new evil super-weapons that (mostly) didn't exist. (A lot made it into Syria and now we know Sudan of all places...)
Saddam had shown a willingness to invade other countries. We also knew that if he scored anything really nasty, he had a ready-at-hand delivery method available via Osama.
Now we're in a situation where we've got a couple hundred thou troops in Iraq, and every freak in a checkered bedsheet screaming "Allah Akbar" in the region is heading over there and getting stomped like flies in a bugzapper.
Excuse me but, considering the alternatives, this is a bad thing? Come again?
You want these freaks heading HERE instead of "defending Holy Iraqi Arab land to the last breath"?
Dunno man...the choices really truly suck. But once you understand just how godawful nasty the opposition is...well, we're going to end up fighting 'em, OK? We can do it there, or we can do it in downtown Denver or similar.
My take?
God bless the troops.
Which brings us to Kerry. The entire military despises him. You wanna see moral go completely into the toilet? Put Kerry in there.
So he does a pullback. Troops come out of Trashcanistan and Iraq. Great. Both descend into chaos. The lesson to the world: we don't finish what we started.
Then you watch the terrorism start up here in the US, spread out but worse than 9/11 for all that.
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Ba'ath/Nazi links:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/837uvzrs.asp
...and a LOT of others. Use google.
Arafat/"Palestinian"/Nazi connection:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Blumenfeld/Samuel17.htm
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/recruited.html
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
...and MANY more.
Comment here: my father was an eyewitness to this. He was a British army engineer involved in the Suez mess of 1956 (
http://novaonline.nvcc.vccs.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Suez56.htm) and personally saw Egyptian dictator Nasser's pro-Hitler propaganda.
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Upshot: Bog, we are *literally* fighting the last Nazis. OK? This is just as serious as the last time we did so. Some people are evil and need killin', it's just that simple.
(The amount of research and googling I knew I'd need for this post is why I didn't want to deal with it in private mail.)