Anti-Sheehan Protest in Louisville

Thanks for your service, James. I admire each and every one of you serving our country. Tried to enlist but they won't take old ladies with poor eyesight! ;) You bet we'll give 'em hell for you, Chief! You should see how steamed they get when they see us. It's PRICELESS! Don't worry; we've both your back here, bro.

Stay safe, kick some terrorist a** and get home safely!
Dawn

Bring your ideas

Well, I can't attend, but my idea would be to print up flyers to hand out based on stuff like this:

WHY IRAQ?

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First of all, Iraqi's Saddam Hussein was a dictator who attempted to have a former President of the U.S. assassinated. Those facts alone are grounds enough to retaliate. Second of all, Iraqi intelligence operative Ramzi Yousef was eventually found to be involved in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, despite the extreme measures Iraq took to hide its involvement. Grounds enough again.

In October of 1998, during the Clinton administration, the U.S. Senate passed The Iraq Liberation Act, making it the official policy of the U.S. government to seek regime change in Iraq. The vote was unanimous, including every Democrat in the Senate, even Ted Kennedy.
On 9/11 it was logical to suspect, and even assume, that Iraq was involved in this second World Trade Center attack also. A lot of assuming had to be done since the CIA's Operations Directorate had largely been destroyed by Sen. Frank Church and the Carter administration in the 1970s, and our intelligence capabilities were even further crippled by the Clinton administration in the 1990s (Still, ignorant and politically-motivated people blame the Bush administration for the intelligence failures even though it had only been in office 8 months prior to 9/11). Besides, there were plenty of other threats from Iraq and from the region in general to counter and defuse anyway. In fact there are several pro-active strategic reasons for the U.S. to take up military positions in Iraq, only one of which is the extremely delicate task of stopping the flow of middle east oil money, even from Saudi Arabia, to international terrorists and terrorist recruiters and trainers (hopefully to be achieved more by intimidation than by actual additional military action) -- without massive disruptions to the American economy.

Even though the 9-11 Commission was badly compromised by the presence of "wall" builder Jamie Gorelick on it, its report did, at least, document some of the links and contacts Saddam had with terrorists, including Al Qaeda, as John Gibson summarizes here.

"The burden of proof was on Saddam, not the United States. George Bush did not have the burden of proving that Saddam had WMDs. Saddam Hussein had the burden of proving he didn’t have them. Saddam failed to meet the burden of proof .. and paid the price."-- Neal Boortz.
Remember the SIX MONTHS it took for the U.S. to get a UN go-ahead for Gulf War Part II? Do you really think Saddam didn't use them to hide WMD's? Wanna buy a bridge?

Saddam's WMD's are in Syria: See: "David Kay, the recently resigned head of an American WMD search team in Iraq, confirmed that part of Saddam's weapons was hidden in Syria, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported on Jan. 25, 2004. Kay said he had uncovered conclusive evidence shortly before last year's U.S. invasion." HERE

WMDs Smuggled to 3 Sites in Syria
David Kay says he has evidence of such

Iraqi Missile Parts Found in Holland
The Fedayeen - al Qaeda Connection
WMD materials removed from 109 sites

Czech records indicate Atta met with Iraqi official
Ex-Iraqi intelligence officer ties Saddam to al-Qaida ally
Saddam's stockpiles of WMD raw materialsHAVE been found

UNMOVIC inspectors: Saddam Shipped Out WMDs

New evidence: Saddam's WMD in Lebanon

Saddam had WMD on 'short notice'

The OTHER "Downing Street Memo" of July 2002 (which NEGATES the first one)
See excerpts from The Secret History of the Iraq War HERE
Jordanians say they stopped a major Al-Qaeda attack WITH WMDs mounted from Syria: See THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS and: THIS.
"So, after the fall of Afghanistan at the end of 2001, Zarqawi and other al Qaeda veterans made their way to Iraq, where, secure under the wing of Saddam Hussein, they plotted chemical weapons attacks on countries friendly to the U.S., as well as the murder (successfully carried out) of an American diplomat. And yet, to this day it remains an article of faith on the left that Saddam's Iraq was a kite-flyer's paradise with no connection to international terrorism, no relations with al Qaeda, and, of course, no chemical weapons. Maybe the current trial will reveal where the chemicals assembled for the attack on Jordan came from; maybe it won't. But we don't need any new information to understand that Saddam's regime protected and supported the deadliest of al Qaeda's terrorists." -- John Hinderaker, HERE
See: "IRAQ'S COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM" HERE
Czech records indicate Atta met with Iraqi official
9 Iraqi scientists murdered

Al Qaeda videos found in Iraq weapons raid
Al Qaeda-financed WMD factory used peculiar Iraqi bio-weapons formula
al-Tikriti memo details uranium shipment, Atta's Iraq training
Bad Samarratans - caught between Iraq and a hard place
Iraqi paper says Fedayeen supervised Al Qaeda training
The Al Qaeda - Saddam link is documented here
Kuwait foils smuggling of bio warheads from Iraq
Danes think they might have found chemical weapons
FOUND: a Saddam-Al Qaeda "Smoking Gun"
"The evidence [of Saddam's moving his WMD to Syria from August to December of 2002 and his collaboration with Al Qaeda] is overwhelming." -- Yossef Bodansky, Director, Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and author, The Secret History of the Iraq War
But the main reason for taking a position in Iraq is to start neutralizing Iran, Syria & especially, Saudi Arabia, IMCO.

Kay HAD Syrian WMD Maps|||||Russia Hid Iraq's WMDs

"Saddam ... maintained secretive weapons programs throughout the 1990s and indeed right up until the day of the invasion, and that he was only waiting for the international community to lose interest or stamina so that he could resume his programs unfettered. This is the well-documented, unrefuted -- and unnoticed -- conclusion of both [chief inspectors] David Kay and Charles Duelfer." -- Robert Kagan, Washington Post, June 19, 2005

"Duelfer also reported that Saddam asked subordinates how long it would take to develop chemical weapons once sanctions ended. One Iraqi chemical weapons expert said it would require only a few days to develop mustard gas." -- Michael Barone, HERE

Canadian Reporter Finds Saddam-bin Laden Link
Saddam Possessed WMDs, Had Many Terror Ties

Screw the UN

What G.W. should have said about why we attacked Iraq

I would have been much happier if G.W. had the intellectual clarity and moral courage to have told the American people after 9-11:

"I will ask Congress for either an overt declaration of war, or at least a tacit one through the approval of its funding, not only on the stateless terrorists who perpetrated this heinous act, but on all nations who harbor and/or help them, the worst among these including Syria, Iran, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. No country should be allowed to get away with any such thing ever again. We should not attack those countries right now for various strategic, tactical and economic reasons. But what we can do is scare the living crap out of them by showing we're not just going to lob a few cruise missiles somewhere and go home. What we can and must do is to pick an illegitmate government -- any rigidly totalitarian government other than Afghanistan's -- somewhere in their neighborhood and effect a complete and total demonstration of what will happen to THEM if they don't cooperate fully in tracking down and stopping these terrorists once and for all. Iraq not only fills that bill, but it just so happens to be one whose leader has attempted to assassinate an American ex-president, and one for which the Congress has already passed a law, The Iraq Libertation Act of 1998.
"Finally, if any government anywhere STILL sponsors, nurtures or harbors terrorists which endanger the United States, or combines weapons of mass destruction with any barbaric or insane ideology, we will stop at nothing to bring that government and that threat to a complete and permanent end."

As the Wall Street Journal editorialized, "The more we show we're serious about challenging states that harbor terrorists the more Pakistan and other nations are likely to cooperate with Washington in tracking down and turning over the terrorists." And indeed they have.

As bad as the U.S. has gotten over the years, becoming more and more twisted by a government of the politicians, by the politicians, and for the politicians, it is still blindingly obvious that it's a lot more humane and civilized than anything those Muslim fundamentalists or Baathist control freaks can even think about, let alone have to offer. If anyone's pacifism has its roots in, or amounts to, beliefs that "all cultures are equal," they hold their views as blind idealogues, not far-sighted defenders of liberty.

If anyone still doubts that I believe any legitimate country has the right to do any damn thing to any illegitimate country any damn time it needs to, I would refer him to this: "Just as an individual must act unapologetically to preserve his life, so must America. America must proudly proclaim its right and intention to protect its citizens, their liberty and their property. It must meet any threat with retaliation that pre-empts loss of American lives." HERE -- and to this: "Any doctrine of group activities that does not recognize individual rights is a doctrine of mob rule or legalized lynching... A nation that violates the rights of its own citizens cannot claim any rights whatsoever. In the issue of rights, as in all moral issues, there can be no double standard." -- Ayn Rand, here

THE BUSH DOCTRINE

"I never regarded WMD as the main reason to go to war. The real reason to go to war was (1) to establish a military and democratic presence in the Arab world (which we've done); (2) to make an example of Saddam to intimidate other Arab leaders (which we've done); and (3) to cut off Saddam as a source of support -- both existing and potential -- for terrorists, which we've also done. The WMD was a nontrivial issue, and required for playing the UN game (which I always regarded as a mistake) but not, to me, the most important issue."
-- Glenn Reynolds, HERE

"The objective is to scare the hell out of the world, generally, and Islam in particular. By means of a minimal effort at wreaking maximum havoc upon Iraq in a very short span of time, the United States will demonstrate to her enemies and allies alike that she is not only the pre-eminent world power, she is in fact an inconquerable power. The anticipated benefits in the Islamic world will be either an immediate rounding-up of terrorists, or swift regime-changes followed by an immediate rounding-up of terrorists." -- Greg Swann, HERE

In October of 1998, during the Clinton administration, the U.S. Senate passed The Iraq Liberation Act, making it the official policy of the U.S. government to seek regime change in Iraq. The vote was unanimous, including every Democrat in the Senate (even Ted Kennedy!).

"For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be be costly; they must devastating" -- George W. Bush, Dec. 11, 2001

Despite the insistence of various Democrats, butt-covering diplomats and other vacillators that it had to be due to years of international cooperation in (fruitless) sanctions and diplomacy, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi made it clear that he decided to disarm due to our terminating the regime in Iraq, NOT Afghanistan: "I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid," Gaddafi told Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi here & HERE. Gaddafi urges rogue states: 'Follow my lead!' HERE.

"Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property -- by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort." -- Ayn Rand

"In other words, letting the Saudis take over our oil companies' oil fields in the '40s and '50s and the Arabs and Persians everywhere else every other time were ENORMOUS mistakes of epic proportions. They should serve as the greatest demonstration of how mysticism, altruism, cultural agnosticism and moral relativism, which supplied the feeble rationalizations for doing so, are TOTALLY inimical to Western Civilization and its very existence, and why they must be rejected once and for all. Enabling the paying of billions of dollars in unearned royalties to those who finance, if not actually believe in, primitive barbarism and manifest mysticism is unspeakably evil, nauseating and tantamount to treason taken to the most extreme degree imaginable." -- B.R.

-- all from http://freedomkeys.com/whyiraq.htm

Thanks ....that's a keeper !

Stay safe !

I'll try to make it, Sunday...I need to go, to a good freep. :)

pwkentucky -

Did the FReep go off? We were caught in a rain storm on the BG Parkway just outside of Bardstown for almost an hour so I did not leave Cincinnati until 7:30 this evening and just walked in the door. I heard that L'ville had lots of rain. Did it keep the Cindy lovers in?

Did it keep the Cindy lovers in?

..Nope, They were there, spouting the same lame arguments as always. We (Myself, Burrian & PWs) really (about 10:1) missed you guys. :D

..*hint* maybe next time? *hint* :)

Thanks for coming down again, skink. We always can use an extra hand, especially when we face them on their turf.

The Highlands neighborhood where we squared off is the most liberal enclave in Louisville. It is where Hunter Thompson grew up and is infested with aging hippies. Consequently, we got very few honks, but we held our own.

I cracked myself up when I told the lady with the sign that said "Bush supporters have blood on their hands," that it was a good thing it was raining because it was washing the blood off my hands.

I'm glad we show up and counter them, because if nothing else, it genuinely bugs some of them. I love the look of horror on their faces when they figure out we support Bush. Skink was telling one of them that we love dirty air and dirty water and I was saying that we relish senseless killing, and she walked off in amazement, saying that we were scummy and proud of it. Hello, a little sarcasm, you humorless wretch!!!

Oh well, we conservatives have fun with it. We're happy people who enjoy life instead of waddling around with a corncob in it, all clench-jawed and freaked out. Heheh.

She really was Shocked (and Dismayed.), Too. ...and you can bet, she believes everything, the LMSM/Liberals tell her.
..the sun, appears in the west, each morning.
..the Easter Bunnie/Tooth Fairie is real.
..Bubba Klintoon never, ever told a lie, He a "Real Boy Scout", very honest.
..and Hillary Klintoon is the Most Intelligent/Smartest Womyn in the world, too. :D

Sorry to have missed you guys. We were almost 45 minutes late leaving for Cincinnati and then decided to go the BG Pkwy to US 127, over to I-64 to I-75 so my daughter could drive, she hates to drive I-65 from here to the Gene Snyder. From just outside of E'town on the BG to US 127 we must have averaged 25 mph due to the rain, and we were passing most everyone else.

N/P :D

..the Easter Bunnies/Tooth Fairies is are real...GRRR! :P

Anti-Sheehan Protest in Louisville

Yo, didn't you get the memo? Sheehan is irrelevant.

If anyone is driving through Indiana on the way to the DC Rally on the 24th you might want to pick up what we like to call the SOMOAB (spawn of the mother of all banners). My spouse and I may not be able to attend if I can't get off work that weekend....FReepmail me.

A little hello to the Sheehadis on the steps of the Indiana War museum

After Action Photo Essay of the Indianapolis Pro-US Rally . (more photos of our FReep here)