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IT'S ELECTRIC (U.S. troops describe a festive astmosphere across Iraq)
National Review ^ | 12-15-05 | W.Thomas Smith Jr.

Posted on 12/15/2005 12:27:58 PM PST by smoothsailing

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To: smoothsailing

Tell them to stop. The Democratic Party cannot have this. Bush has to be Impeached. Democracy cannot spread to the Middle East. It will impead Hilliaries and my vision for American Socialism.

/sarcasm off

21 posted on 12/15/2005 12:40:22 PM PST by sr4402
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To: Moose4

So true.

Democracy and freedom here in the US are messy at times, too.


22 posted on 12/15/2005 12:40:39 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: smoothsailing

Zman may be belting down shots of rye at this point in some dingy stinking cellar.


23 posted on 12/15/2005 12:40:54 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

< chuckle>


24 posted on 12/15/2005 12:41:36 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: smoothsailing

This is great reading--BZ to the Iraqis who voted, and to our heroic troops who made it possible!


25 posted on 12/15/2005 12:42:05 PM PST by American Quilter
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To: Polyxene

Dean and Murtha and the rest of the 'rats wants the troops to know that they can't win, they're borken, and they should come home now.


26 posted on 12/15/2005 12:42:25 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: dead

Like Rush said, the Rats lost another big elecxtion today.


27 posted on 12/15/2005 12:42:40 PM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Franks in '08)
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To: Moose4
We're watching a country being born here, before our eyes. Like all births, it's painful, loud, and messy. And what comes out is fragile and might not be all that attractive. But the bottom line is that it's still something magical, watching the people of Iraq bear a new society, something better than they had.

Well said.

28 posted on 12/15/2005 12:42:56 PM PST by American Quilter
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To: All; Gucho









29 posted on 12/15/2005 12:43:12 PM PST by anonymoussierra (Gloria, Gloria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Amen!!!)
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To: smoothsailing

This election should be an inspiration to our own democracy.


30 posted on 12/15/2005 12:43:39 PM PST by oldbrowser (Release the Barrett Report)
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To: smoothsailing

My appologies to moderators for posting this again, but it fits:

President George W Bush is the Freedom President. Once again the Republican Party drags the Liberals kicking and screaming like spoiled brats, blindly into the 21st century. George Bush is a visionary that sees the World as it can be, not as it is. He is the eternal optimist as well an eternal soldier. Never before have we had a leader who can visualize the power of people’s hunger for Freedom in the oppressed spirit, smoldering like a glowing ember in a wheatfield. Whether it is in a village in Afghanistan, a town in Iraq or facing a tank in Tiananmen Square the human spirit longs to feel the warm embrace of Lady Liberty.

W has blown the cool breath of Freedom onto the embers of Democracy on the Iraqi People who are in their infancy of self rule. Just as a toddler begins crawling and then reaching up to learn to walk before becoming an adult, we are witnessing that child nation take his first step. As our infant begins to walk in a room full of dangers, we can take pride in every step of that journey. There has been falls, cuts, bumps and bruises to get to the first step and there will be pitfalls along the way, but we and especially our Troops, should take great relief in the Freedom and hope for Iraq.

The fire is beginning to spread as the hope and hunger of the human spirit is being ignited. The oppression of the Middle East was not as severe or overt as was seen in Communist Russia or China with the physical presence of The Wall, since Saddamn’s wall was mental. They could come and go as they pleased if they had enough money or were connected, but their oppressors could snatch them off the street to be raped or tortured at any given moment. Now they are free to speak or write as they please and vote for their leaders. These flames are warming hearts and minds while pushing back the deep black darkness.

Over the next couple of years we will see a Government formed and a Leader chosen to lead the Iraqi people out of their darkness. We will see them taking ownership of their Country and their own personal Freedom. As they begin to understand that the oppression is behind them they will be taking their torches to the darkest corners of their Country. These flames will expose the terrorists from their hiding places and bring them to justice. The Wildfire will engulf the terrorist hidden in the brush to expose him as a hindrance to Freedom Worldwide. The average Iraqi as we saw on January 30th does not want to see his child blown up, rather has a heart that hopes for a new sunrise.

We are seeing sparks spreading across the tinderbox of Persia. Of all people, the PLO and Hezbola have seen the light as well as the peoples of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon. While these fires begin to burn bright in Bagdad we will see the sparks ignite into flames in these Countries as well as Iran and move around the World to the slave fields of China, Cuba and Korea. Once people understand that Freedom can happen in Countries like Russia, Afghanistan and Iraq, they will realize that Dictators are actually Sand Castles standing against an Ocean. They cannot quench the thirst for Freedom with threats or terror any longer.

President Bush has become one of the Great Visionaries of history. Just as the invisible hand of Capitalism is the most efficient form of economics, so too is the invisible hand of Freedom and Democracy. This hand will expose and capture the Terrorists around the World great and small. People will throw off their shackles of fear and follow the model of Afghanistan and Iraq to fan the white hot flames of Liberty. As America and her friends fuel these flames, millions will be freed from their oppression and take back ownership of their lands. As this Wildfire spreads throughout the World, despots cower in fear as they wait for their ultimate demise at the hands of God’s servant leader, the Freedom President George W Bush.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops


31 posted on 12/15/2005 12:44:19 PM PST by bray (Merry Christ-x)
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To: Moose4

I could not have said it better myself.

Great post.


32 posted on 12/15/2005 12:45:30 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty ("My job as the president is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." - W)
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To: smoothsailing

Enough of the good news, we want to hear about the bombs, the quagmire, the torture, the atrocities our soldiers are committing on innocent civilians, the CIA flights, and faulty intelligence. /s


33 posted on 12/15/2005 12:45:31 PM PST by loreldan (Lincoln, Reagan, & G. W. Bush - the cure for Democrat lunacy.)
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To: smoothsailing
"With the exception of a child, freedom is the greatest gift one human being can give another," he says.

It just takes your breath away.

34 posted on 12/15/2005 12:45:52 PM PST by McGavin999 (Reporters write the truth, Journalists write stories.)
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To: bert
Like Rush said, the Rats lost another big elecxtion today.

Erection? Are we talking about Slick Willie here? :)

35 posted on 12/15/2005 12:46:41 PM PST by RetiredArmy (I have no faith in any politician or political party any more. They all lie for their agendas.)
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To: smoothsailing

For the article alone, this writer will never get a job in the MSM.


36 posted on 12/15/2005 12:47:12 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: sr4402

There's only one word to describe that pic of F'n: "oily".


37 posted on 12/15/2005 12:47:17 PM PST by r9etb
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To: smoothsailing

You should be proud of your troops, your President, and yourselves for voting him in again.

The US has done wonders in Iraq. Now it is really up to the Iraqis themselves - and according to this article it seems that they are starting to understand that.

Great news!


38 posted on 12/15/2005 12:47:29 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: smoothsailing

Awful, just awful news for the dems.


39 posted on 12/15/2005 12:48:03 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ScaniaBoy

The above post was meant for You all!


40 posted on 12/15/2005 12:48:05 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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