Dems: You go to war with the Army you don't have
by JohnHuang2
What a week!
-- The most intensely covered tropical rainstorm with its monster 20 mile-per-hour breeze failed to level Florida, despite drawing enormous fuel from the warm waters generated by a constant stream of articles on global warming.
-- The media took a pounding for its handling of Ernesto, with critics saying the press invaded Florida without a plan.
-- Gas prices continued to fall, with the AAA auto club reporting that the average price for a gallon of regular is falling by a penny per day nationwide, which means it's all just a ploy to help Bush get re-elected.
-- Astronomers refused to reconsider their vote to demote Pluto to "dwarf planet" status, insisting the PINO (Planet In Name Only) should have been stripped of planetary status three years ago -- when it supported the invasion of Iraq. (Scientists can't count how many planets we have in our solar system, but these brainiacs know precisely what happened billions of years ago.)
-- A Pentagon report grimly notes that no civil war has been found in Iraq, despite an exhaustive search by media search crews scouring the Green Zone.
-- In Afghanistan, 200 of the Taliban's invincible fighters got a dirtnap at the hands of Bush's crusaders.
-- In Iraq, al-Qaeda in Iraq's No. 2 guy gets nabbed, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy's battle-hardened quagmire meme.
-- Fourteen more peaceful Muslim "insurgents" get nabbed in London. The darling little operatives insist their training camps were entirely peaceful, part of their student enrichment agenda. Nothing to lose your head over. Death to America.
-- In Washington, a new book reveals that Richard Armitage confessed to the prosecutor that he was the leaker, but that the leaking was an accident. After extraditing him from Bangkok, Thailand, the prosecutor decided that no charges would be filed against Armitage because his DNA did not match that found on the body of Novak's column, which started the furor, which got the prosecutor appointed to probe Karl Rove's possible role in Armitage's leak which wasn't a leak and wasn't a crime. With no leak and no crime, the prosecutor indicted Scooter Libby for failing to remember whether it was sushi or pasta he was eating the day he bumped into Tim Russert. Scooter says it was sushi. Russert insists it was pasta. With irrefutable proof like that, the shrinking Plame affair -- now demoted to 'dwarf' status -- is no longer the MSM's favorite pastatime. And the charges will likely be dropped. So sad. America would feel so much safer with Scooter off the streets.
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All in all, tough week for Democrats.
Yet, liberals keep telling anyone who'll listen (mostly each other) that 'Repugants' are doomed, that Bush is finished, that he's on the ropes, that he's all washed up, that he's abhorred and despised, that just the mere glimpse of that ol' swaggering cowboy chimperor causes sudden nausea, stomach pains, severe headaches, yellowing of skin and eyes and fever in half the country, while the other half suffers uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea. All treatable with a mixture of latte and heavy doses of Cindy Sheehan. And a 52-week subscription to the New York Times.
But if you step out of that libbie artificially sweetened fake-but-accurate fantasyland inside the Magic Kingdom ensconced within the sheltered media bubble and retreat to the real world, what you see doesn't jibe with any of that. As President Reagan would say, facts are stubborn things: George W. Bush is President, gonna remain so for 2 1/2 more years and Democrats still haven't a clue why they're losers, much less figured out how to root out the reasons they're losers in the first place.
That libbies have gone just about as bananas as you can go on the terror issue isn't debatable, but just for laughs, take their latest salvo in their war on the war on Islamic terror -- their newly released 'assessment.' The 'assessment' is an update of an earlier assessment, taking into account the changing nature and tactics of the enemy -- Bush and his evil doers. First, keep these in mind: No terrorist strike on U.S. soil since 9/11; America on offense overseas; a slew of terror plots foiled; a slew of domestic terror cells busted; 8 out of 10 al-Qaeda honchos nabbed or pushing up daisies; head-hacker leadership gummed up; massive cuts in al-Qaeda work force; AQ Khan's doomsday cartel kaput; Libya's doomsday weapons dismantled. If you're al-Qaeda these days, moving money and communicating are harder to do.
In direct response to all this, Democrats call on Rumsfeld to resign. Nothing new there. The DeMunichcrats have been calling on Rummy to resign for years now. The Taliban regime gets licked in three weeks, took too long -- Dems demand Rummy's resignation. Saddam's regime gets routed in three weeks, could've been done in two -- Dems demand Rummy's resignation. Smooth elections in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dems demand Rummy LEAVE NOW! Problem is, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda want Rummy fired, too. Losers are always quick to dispense helpful advice for the winning team. Touching. That the Dems, the Taliban and al-Qaeda want Rummy's head might suggest we should make the Alfa male/heartthrob/lady slayer America's Defense chief for life.
In their 'assessment,' Democrats assess that America is less safe today with Bush in office, which removes any doubt the Democrats are the GOP's best hope for keeping the House and Senate. The claim that in the post-Saddam, post-Taliban era America is less secure might impress the Maureen Dowd set, but all of it is piffle in flyover country. Especially coming from a party lacking street cred on the issue. It has gotten to the point that what the Democrats say on the subject hardly matters. If a Democrat 'assessment' falls in the forest, who cares? If you're Bush, it would only matter if you didn't have a political opponent gung-ho on junking all the tools you need to stay on offense, counterterrorismwise. If you play by the Dems' rule book, you can't "aggressively" interrogate terrorists, can't spy on terrorists, can't wiretap terrorists, can't snoop on their bank records, can't hold them up at Gitmo and, while you're at it, give 'em full Geneva rights.
If you peel away the surface stuff about tactics and process -- their beef with Gitmo, wiretapping, Patriot Act, SWIFT, etc. -- what you've got is the same ol' appeasement dance from the same ol' 'peace' set. You couldn't fail to notice the contrasting visions on display Tuesday. In his speech, the President asserts significant progress in the war on Islamic terrorists. In their 'assessment,' the Democrats assert significant progress by Islamic terrorists. With Bush, you've got moral clarity and a master tactician and strategist with the keen sense that you don't win by letting the enemy pick the place and time. To Bush, the bombing in Bali, the bombing in London, the bombing in Madrid, and the car bomb in Baghdad are all part of the same threat that brought two towers down in New York.
With the Pelosi crowd, you get a twisting, rambling, bewildering hodgepodge: Bush is using scare tactics, America is less secure, no port security, no al-Qaeda in Iraq, Bush lured al-Qaeda into Iraq, bring back the draft, need an exit strategy, need more troops, need specific timetable, don't need specific timetable, redeploy to Tora Bora, redeploy to Okinawa, Iraq invasion inflamed Muslims, Afghan invasion didn't inflame Muslims, BUSH KNEW!, IMPEACH!, BUSH DIDN'T KNOW!, IMPEACH!, etc. If setting up the worldwide Caliphate is your bag, it's easy to see why you'd root for the Democrats.
As for me, I'm betting on America winning.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents
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