Exposing the Enemies Within

Chron Watch ^ | 10 May 2004 | Jack L. Patterson

[Lando Lincoln]

Nowadays the hate-America theme is rising to a crescendo on the isolated but abhorrent actions of a few renegade soldiers at an Iraqi POW camp. America's enemies both here and abroad desire that we fall on our knees in abject humility and shame over these isolated actions of abuse. No amount of penance will suffice.

Of course, the sanctimonious accusations of shame by our enemies (and the Muslim world) readily come from those whose hands drip with blood and slaughter of countless innocents. It is a ludicrous scene to witness American politicians jumping on the blame-America bandwagon aside our enemies. They eagerly parrot the same insults and bashings of our country as those made by Al Quaeda.

Demands for the firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld echo through the halls of Congress. ''Impeach President Bush!'' has also been heard on numerous occasions. Cinnamon Stillwell, in her recent ChronWatch article ''Seeing Past the Media Facade'' wrote: ''As U.S. and Coalition soldiers die in Iraq, traitors try and undermine the very cause they fight for. And the steady drumbeat of self-destruction just goes on.'' We are seeing the unvarnished truth exposing America's Fifth Column within.

The principal players in this unfolding drama of the blame/hate/defeat America plot consists not only of America's mainstream media and radical extremist groups, but of many prominent elected officials and leaders as well. These same national leaders who previously swore solemn oaths to uphold and defend the constitution of our country, have defiled their oaths by waging vicious public attacks against President Bush and the war effort in Iraq. Talk about unmitigated gall and hypocrisy, how soon they have forgotten the deaths of over 3,000 innocents on 9/11. And, how quickly they have forgotten their pledges and votes in congress to back our president in an all out war against terrorism and Saddam's Iraq.

Apparently, the Democratic Party as a whole (with a few exceptions) clearly opposes the war effort in Iraq. Democrats have made that known by speeches and talks both on and off the congressional record. Watch closely and you will see that party members occasionally dish up lip-service in favor of the war, but usually at a time that benefits their immediate needs. Any brief pro-war remarks soon become meaningless and only fleeting words as party politics raises the bar of attacks against Bush even higher.

Wake up American citizens! At a time when we should be united as a nation against a murderous enemy dedicated to our destruction, we have leading figures in the Democratic Party such as John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Mark Pryor, Richard Durbin, Christopher Dodd, and Robert Byrd screaming and yelling with fist pounding over the impropriety of the war against Iraq. What impropriety in Iraq? The liberation of 25-million people? The closing of Saddam's death camps? The destruction of a government that financed suicide bombers and used WMD's against the Kurds? The removal of a government that provided refuge for terrorists? There is no impropriety. Didn't these same politicians vote to give President Bush authorization to wage the war to begin with?

We also hear the constant bellowing for more United Nations involvement in Iraq. Why? The U.N. was on Saddam Hussein's payroll; the extent of corruption involved with Iraq's ''Oil for Food'' program is enormous. It is now known that leading politicians in France, Germany, and Russia were on the take from Saddam, yet still we hear these foolish demands from Democrats who imply that we are in desperate need of U.N. assistance. We have a coalition of willing partners from the U.N. who bravely stepped forth to assist us. Why would anyone want to insult these noble allies?

The unremitting political sabotage of the war effort by Democrats and mainstream media is nothing short of pure, unadulterated treason. President Bush is endlessly hammered over his so-called ''unnecessary and unwinnable'' war. Senator Ted Kennedy calls the war in Iraq ''Bush's Viet Nam'' and a ''war cooked up in the backrooms of Texas.'' Not one word of rebuttal arises from members of the Democratic Party against Kennedy's preposterous allegations. Senator John Kerry publicly expresses regrets that he ever voted in favor of funding our military operations in Iraq while at the same time our troops are being wounded and killed in combat---and this same Kerry seeks to become the commander-in-chief of our armed forces? Isn't that a perverse oxymoron?

Politicians and the mainstream media seem to care less knowing that the enemy is listening to their divisive anti-war rhetoric. They have no reluctance whatsoever in serving our enemies a banquet of comfort and courage with their defeatist attitudes.

Surely you have heard the oft-quoted statement, ''I support the soldiers in the field but not the president and his policies.'' What inane double talking that is. I am sure that the soldiers in the field are not overly impressed to hear that they are supported, but their commander-in-chief and the very moral authority to wage war against the enemy have been rejected. Under this premise, our soldiers are essentially putting their lives in jeopardy for an illegal war. America's enemies are listening and gleefully enjoying the ongoing barrage against the Bush Administration.

We have full-fledged American traitors operating in our midst and no one will openly acknowledge it. This is a tragedy that is leading to very serious consequences. We have shades of the Vietnam War arising: American troops fighting and dying in the cause of freedom while traitors at home seek to break the resolve of the American people. They desecrate the sacrifices and cause for freedom. They are despicable.

The security and destiny of the United States will be imperiled should the current far left liberal Democratic Party again assume power in Washington, D.C. We are senior citizens and have watched politics from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the current day. Never have we seen such an immoral and corrupt group of politicians as those comprising the far left liberal segment of the Democratic Party today. The party's chief supporters are trial lawyers; pro-abortionists; homosexual lobbyists; select minorities seeking special privileges; union bosses, and hardcore feminist groups. The Democratic Party has separated itself from Bible belt and grassroots citizens of America and derisively refers to them as ''the vast right-wing conspiracy.''

Let us hope that Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia is right: It is "A National Party No More."

Here are some recent wise words from former Senator Jeremiah Denton, who is a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy:

". . . after the Democratic Party changed during the mid-1960s, the party was on the wrong side of every strategic debate on policy regarding Vietnam and the USSR, and is now generally on the wrong side in the war on terrorism. The truth is that the Cold War was barely won by a narrow margin -- a victory and a margin determined by the political choices made by our government regarding suitable steps to deter Soviet attack and finally win the Cold War. If the U. S. had followed the Democratic Party line, the Cold War would have concluded with the U.S. having to surrender without a fight, or the U. S. would have been defeated in a nuclear war with acceptable losses to the USSR. It was not Johnson and Carter and the Democrats; it was Nixon, Reagan, George Bush, and the Republicans who led us to victory in the Cold War. And George W. Bush and the Republican majority -- not John Kerry and the Democrats -- can lead us to victory in the war on terrorism. . ."

Jack L. Patterson is a senior citizen and U. S. Air Force veteran who resides now in Lakeview, Arkansas. He receives e-mail at: jackandchris@cox-internet.com

[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[CWOJackson]

Absolutely fantastic read.

[Eastbound]

Bump for Senior Citizens enlightenment.

[Gator113]

THAT is the absolute best post I have yet to read on this subject!!!!!!

[An.American.Expatriate]

I've asked this before, but does anyone know where to get the names on the list of persons on Saddam's UN Kickback Scheme?

[Eastbound]

There may be info here.

[Grampa Dave]

[monkeywrench]

Maybe because he's from ark., but, I noticed he didn't mention the clintons. Their role in our current dilemma, is hard to ignore, I'd think.

[Right_in_Virginia]

We have shades of the Vietnam War arising: American troops fighting and dying in the cause of freedom while traitors at home seek to break the resolve of the American people.

NEVER AGAIN will the traitors in the media and the Congress win!

[thoughtomator]

Deserves to be repeated:

"The unremitting political sabotage of the war effort by Democrats and mainstream media is nothing short of pure, unadulterated treason."

Amen to that. No matter how staunchly Democrats oppose the war, deliberate sabotage of US war policy is treason. And there is no doubt there has been deliberate sabotage. So let's start frying some traitors!

[bornintexas]

They've (the mainstream media/dnc) so much as admitted, that by force-feeding the American public a slow drip, drip, drip of the prison scandal, the public's resolve will somehow waver for the soldiers' fighting this wot.

I say NO WAY. I pray to Heavenly Father daily for their protection and the American people's backbone in this war. If my prayers are answered, this will backfire on the left.

Kennedy should be strung up and hung for his remarks on the Senate floor today.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Bill Clinton, of course, as the Wolf Man.

[Rockitz]

Saw this posted on FR a while back and loved it. It's certainly appropriate for this thread.

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

[driftless]

With a few notable exceptions the current group of Democrats are the worst collection of elected scoundrels in our nation's history. I don't know how they could get much more traitorous. Kennedy's the worst, but he has some excellent competition. Some, like James McDermott, should be put on trial.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629


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[ljmiii]

>Nowadays the hate-America theme is rising to a crescendo on the isolated but abhorrent actions of a few renegade soldiers at an Iraqi POW camp...

I would like this to be a funny joke. Even better I would like to be able to laugh about it.

But the investigative reports by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba and the Red Cross are now available as is the gist of Army Provost Marshal Donald Ryder's Nov. 5 2003 report (Ryder is the army's chief law-enforcement officer).

http://online.wsj.com/documents/wsj-ICRC_report050904.pdf
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/006032.html or http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001

I know they are long, but I encourage people to at least skim through them. The story they tell is all too real and is nothing short of horrifying.

Abuse of Iraqi prisoners was systemic, occurred at many if not most of the coaltion prisons, and started shortly after the war began. Far from being a 'few bad apples' at Abu Ghraib, prisoner abuse was reported up the chain of command even before we rebuilt Saddam's torture prison.

In Abu Ghraib itself, MG Ryder found a prison being run counter to sound military practice, where military police were actively involved in setting 'favorable conditions' for interrogation. His report made a number of recommendations to fix the problems he found at Abu Ghraib. But they were not followed and as MG Taguba noted three months later:

Unfortunately, many of the systemic problems that surfaced during MG Ryder’s Team’s assessment are the very same issues that are the subject of this investigation. In fact, many of the abuses suffered by detainees occurred during, or near to, the time of that assessment

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The reports are painfully explicit on the 'what', 'where', and 'when'. But they don't address the 'Why?'

I can only guess that having convinced ourselves that our enemies are terrorists and that the Iraqis are our enemy, some of our soldiers considered anyone that had been detained to be a terrorist. In at least one prison any question about the treatment of detainies was clarified by the simple expedient of attaching bands marked 'Terrorist' to the prisoner's wrists.

Sec. Rumsfeld set this precident in the Afghan war when he decided that any enemy soldier could be considered an 'unlawful combatant' at the sole discretion of the Pentagon. He (or at least his staff) had been notifed by the Red Cross of abuses at Abu Ghraib since October 2003 and in November 2003 was warned of the potential for disaster by our own Army Provost Marshal.

Now, like Casablanca's Captain Renault, Sec. Rumsfeld is shocked, shocked to find that prisoner abuse was going on in there.

[lainde]

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