Unlike Previous Counterinsurgencies [HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT DEFEATED AMERICA]

The New York Sun ^ | November 21, 2006 | MICHAEL LEDEEN

[Mia T]

 

[T]he Baker/Hamilton club... would do well to study the classic works on counterinsurgency. The first comes from a French lieutenant colonel, David Galula, who was a commander in Algeria in the 1950s.... His classic work, "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice," has become required reading for the more thoughtful members of the military community.

.... Galula formulated five basic laws for fighting insurgencies:

(1) The population is the basic target.... Whichever side wins over the population will win the war...

(2) Support from the population can only be obtained through the efforts of the minority among the population that favors the counterinsurgent.

(3) This minority will emerge -- and eventually become the majority -- only if the counterinsurgent is seen as the ultimate victor. For us to win, the original minority will have to take risks, and it will only do that if we are known, respected, and seen to be winning....

(4) The superiority of the counterinsurgent will almost never be so overwhelming that he can simply dominate the whole territory. The counterinsurgent has to concentrate his efforts area by area, and demonstrate staying power and resolve....

(5) At a certain point, the war itself becomes the central issue. The population's attitude is dictated not by the intrinsic merits of the contending causes, but by their conviction about winners and losers. Whoever is judged the likely winner will gain popular support, and most likely win the war. Being seen as the eventual winner eventually determines the winner, short of creating a military dictatorship that simply executes anyone on the other side.

It's pure Vince Lombardi: Winning is the only thing.... [T]he people must think you're the winner.... If they don't, they'll either avoid you or support the enemy....

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[Mia T]

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Let down the curtain: the farce is done. (Rabelais)
[Zucker ad, analysis]


Comedy director David Zucker goes to GOP? You can't be serious!
[Nu, so what took you so long?]


THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


BEYOND NORTH KOREA
CLINTON DELUSIONS, DECEPTIONS + THE BOMB
(THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED)


ALERT! SECURITY MOMS
THE LEFT IS GONNA GET US KILLED PART 6





WHY BIN LADEN WANTS HOME DELIVERY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES


WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
(Please see post 65)


'MISBEGOTTEN' TIMES
(NARROWNESS, MR. SULZBERGER, NOT WIDTH)


IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT
(Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?)


PINCH SULZBERGER, PEARL HARBOR + TREASON
WHY WE MUST PROSECUTE THE NEW YORK TIMES


The Devil & the Gray Lady







CINDY SHEEHAN: ECHO OF THE LEFT
the democrats are gonna get us killed (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) series₅


DEBUNKING CINDY SHEEHAN
(HEAR ABE LINCOLN/JOHNNY CASH + PBS' NEIL CONAN)


CINDY SHEEHAN'S JUMP-THE-SHARK MOMENT?


"SONNY" CALLAHAN + BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS


BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS


THE ROOTS OF CINDY SHEEHAN


HILLARY CLINTON REPRISES FATAL CLINTON ERROR






A HILLARY 'LANDSLIDE'??? NOT SO FAST, MISSUS CLINTON....


FACTORING HILLARY: WHY WE MUST DUMP MISSUS CLINTON NOW


TOP 10 REASONS TO DUMP HILLARY CLINTON ON NOVEMBER 7
(And she thinks New Yorkers should return her to office why?)


HILLARY 'the smartest woman in the world' CLINTON USED GYP SHEETS IN DEBATE WITH SPENCER AND BOMBED ANYWAY


HILLARY'S PLANS: A DEBATE VIGNETTE


SEE RAHM DANCE
THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 2


'KILL BILL'
THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 1


KILL BILL: AN UNINTENDED APPRAISAL OF THE CLINTON YEARS?



ANOTHER CLINTON HOSING OF AMERICA IN 2006? IN 2008?
FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME

How To Get Rich Quick In Shady Land Deals Like Harry Reid and hillary clinton


DENNIS MILLER EVISCERATES NANCY PELOSI


THE RUBES' GOLDBERG MACHINE
A STATE OF PERPETUAL CLINTON BEGGARY


INADVERTENT vs. WILLFUL NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
TIMES BLINDED BY SELECTIVE HORROR, FAILS TO SEE STORY'S INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS


JIM TOWEY DEBUNKS KUO BOOK
BOOK ANOTHER CLINTON-SIMON SCHUSTER MACHINE EFFORT
TO MARGINALIZE EVANGELICALS, SUPPRESS TURNOUT


ALERT! N.Y. VOTERS!! HILLARY CLINTON AGAINST NOTIFYING PARENTS WHEN UNDERAGE DAUGHTER SEEKS ABORTION (THIS IS NOT ABOUT ABORTION RIGHTS. IT IS ABOUT PARENTS' RIGHTS.)



ALERT! CLINTON-SIMON & SCHUSTER MACHINE TARGETS RELIGIOUS RIGHT
ANOTHER INSIDIOUS EFFORT TO DENY THE FRANCHISE TO EVANGELICALS


VIRTUAL KILL
THE CHRIS WALLACE-BILL CLINTON INTERVIEW DECONSTRUCTED


HILLARY'S FECKLESS 'DEFENSE' OF BILL WILL DAMAGE BOTH CLINTONS
THE CHRIS WALLACE INTERVIEW BLOWBACK


'BIN LADEN ALIVE TODAY BECAUSE CLINTON, BERGER + CLARKE REFUSED TO KILL HIM'
CLINTON 'MISLED AMERICAN PEOPLE' IN CHRIS WALLACE INTERVIEW
:HEAR Osama-Division CIA Chief


THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN HILLARY CLINTON'S DISCLOSED ASSETS: An Alternative Theory



WHEN CATTLE FUTURES ARE THE FUTURE:
HILLARY CLINTON'S COW TRADES AS PROGNOSTIC


SOMALIA + RWANDA UNDERSCORE WHY WE MUST DEFEAT THE CLINTONS NOW (ATTENTION NEW YORKERS)


THE DECLINE OF HILLARY CLINTON: THE DYNAMICS
(SHE HAS ONLY ONE WAY TO GO. AND IT ISN'T UP.)

THE POLITICS OF DUMPING HILLARY


'HILLARY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM... SHE'S OLD NEWS'



CARVILLE AGITPROP + THE CLINTON JACKBOOT
'THE POWER OF HILLARY': THE TITLE


CARVILLE'S 'Clinton is electable! Clear the way!' BATTLE CRY SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HILLARY


I'LL SEE ANN COULTER'S 'BILL CLINTON RAPE CHARGE' AND RAISE HER 'ONE HILLARY CLINTON'


SUSAN ESTRICH ON "DREDGING UP" THE RAPE OF JUANITA BROADDRICK + "ALL THAT OLD CLINTON STUFF"


THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON
(FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.)


ON PEGGY NOONAN ON HILLARY CLINTON SENDING MEN TO WAR
(IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY)


HILLARY GOES NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON




QUID PRO COAL2:
CLINTON CORRUPTION + THE SEQUESTRATION OF GASEOUS FOSSILS
(HILLARY DOES COAL AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB)


TIRE INFLATION, GAS STATIONS + THE NEED TO SEQUESTER HILLARY


Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary


HILLARY REMEMBERS


HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID.


'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME


Sen. 'KnowNothing Victim' Clinton Holds News Conference
EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5th BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE


HILLARY CLINTON VOTES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BEFORE SHE VOTES AGAINST THEM
HEAR HER NOW


"HAIR" THEY GO AGAIN: CYNTHIA McKINNEY PLAYS THE RACE CARD


BILLY + CYNTHIA McKINNEY vs. BILL + HILLARY CLINTON
a distinction without a difference


HILLARY DOES JESUS
"FURTHER EVIDENCE WHY SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST DESPICABLE POLITICIANS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW"


HILLARY VOTE FRAUD
missus clinton uses Jesus




SEX, LIES AND SOCK PUPPETS:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₄


THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₃


REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor₂


SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor




WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST HILLARY:
CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS


AFTERWORD: A Note to the Religious Right


What's black and white and read all over and is more self-destructive than pre-9/11 thinking?
Pre-clinton thinking, that's what....
Putting doctrinal purity ahead of making sure a defective and dangerous clinton never again controls this country is pre-clinton thinking.
We no longer have the luxury of time or circumstance to massage our sensibilities, to indulge our indignations.
We will not survive another clinton. (We may yet not survive the first one.)


STOPPING HILLARY
[JOHN PODHORETZ'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT MESSAGE (and it's not his 'HILLARY IS A BITCH' THEORY OF ELECTABILITY)]


THE ABSURDITY OF THE 'HILLARY IS A BITCH' THEORY OF ELECTABILITY
AND OTHER PODHORETZ NONSENSE
NOTE: Podhoretz is absolutely right about one thing--
even hillary clinton can win if the Right FRACTURES over its pet issues.
We must not, in this Age of Terror, allow another Perot or Perot-surrogate issue
elect a defective and dangerous clinton by a plurality. (Nor must we allow either to defeat us in '06.)


THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:
HOW DECADES OF CLINTON DOUBLE-DEALING COMPROMISED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY


DUBAI-ITIES:
HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON STRIKES AGAIN


DICK MORRIS:
CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI


REVERSE MORPH FOR HILLARY


THE VOUCHER RANT OF MISS HILLARY:
WHY THE WHIFF OF RACISM EXCEEDS THE WORDS


HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE
WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY?


WHY HILLARY IN THE OVAL OFFICE IS A NATIONAL-SECURITY NO-NO^{PART ONE}



KARL ROVE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: MOI
HEAR HILLARY, CHRIS MATTHEWS ET AL.


"I DON'T RECALL"
(THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY)


BILL MAHER WARNS DEMOCRATS:
HILLARY WILL TAKE YOU OVER A CLIFF IN '08


PARTY OF LINCOLN AND THE WAR ON TERROR


'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'
... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME



WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN"
(DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?)


'MAKE IT A RULE' -- PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO.
(HEAR HILLARY + BILL MAKE THEIR PITCH)


ON THE FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR (HEAR HILLARY IN SF)^{~PART TWO~}
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO


THE (oops!) INADVERTENT (TERRORISM) ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) ^{~PART ONE~}


ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL


'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?


HILLARY'S EXPOSED LEFT FLANK 'SCARES THE HORSES' (VIDEO)
(MISSUS CLINTON SUPPORTS ALITO FILIBUSTER)



CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'


~SEE VIDEO~
IRAQI GENERAL: SADDAM MOVED WMD TO SYRIA BEFORE INVASION
(ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE, CINDY SHEEHAN)


IS REUTERS SENDING A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY?


ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT


GONE WITH THE WIND
(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)


SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)


THE 'BORED,' BEFUDDLED POLITICS OF JOHN KERRY RETURNS
CALLS FOR ALITO FILIBUSTER FROM 'SKI SLOPES'


REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT


HILLARY CLINTON KNEW ABOUT THE RAPE: HEAR JUANITA BROADDRICK


ROCKEFELLER SEDITION: WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS?


THE ABSURDITY OF A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY


HILLARY'S ARMOR: A decades-old story...


My New York Times Review of Munich
CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE WORST KIND
(please FReep)


WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
(Please see post 65)




Alien Abductions, Flying Saucers + Other Weird Phenomena, c.1992-2000


ON WARRANTLESS SEARCHES AND WIRETAPS:
THE ABYSMAL CONSTITUTIONAL RECORD OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON


CHRIS MATTHEWS: 'BUSH BELONGS ON MOUNT RUSHMORE'
IF HE WINS 'GREATEST GAMBLE SINCE ROOSEVELT BACKED BRITAIN BEFORE WWII'


THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY
(DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) -- part1: clinton's "Brinkley" Lie


AFTERWORD: ON CLINTON SMALLNESS
(BRINKLEY MISSES THE POINT)


WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?




IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY


BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


'The Path to 9/11' Annotated:
CLIPS, SYNOPSIS, THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS, THE CLINTON JACKBOOT


'The Path to 9/11': CLINTON FAILURE TO ORDER 'PURE KILL' CUT CHANCES OF GETTING BIN LADEN IN HALF


HEAR 'THE PATH TO 9/11' SCREENWRITER:
CLINTON WILLFULLY FAILED TO NAIL BIN LADEN AS MANY AS A DOZEN TIMES: CIA


PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA


Republican-voting, Hollywood-dwelling, Bill-Maher-writing Master of Tongue-in-Cheek, Paladin of Truth, Reviews 'United 93' AND Bill Clinton


'UNITED 93' vs. 'MUNICH'
Paul Greengrass--thank the stars--is no Steven Spielberg


UNITED 93:THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS
"We have to do it now. We know what happens if we just sit here and do nothing...."


ALBRIGHT INDICTS CLINTON FOR TERRORISM FAILURE
(and doesn't even know it)


HEY CLINTON!
SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.


MISSING CLINTON AUDIO! 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?'
(+Albright-Fulbright-Nobel TERRORISM revelations)


Carpe Mañana: The (bill + hillary) clinton Terrorism Policy
('Can we kill 'em tomorrow?')


I M P E A C H M E N T
h e a r --c l i n t o n --l o s e --i t


CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:
Justice Undone in the clinton White House


WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN.
(ICKES + ESTRICH PROVIDE ROADMAP--oops!--FOR HILLARY DEFEAT)


IMPERIOUS HILLARY
(THE REPORTS OF HER DEATH ARE GREATLY UNDERSTATED)


AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
December 7, 1941+64


IS DICK MORRIS AN IDIOT? OR IS HE STILL ON THE CLINTON PAYROLL?


clintonCORRUPTION: the more things change. . . .


Yitzhak Shamir Validated: THE CLINTONS ARE "A GREAT DANGER TO JEWS"


for the birds
(THE INCOMPETENCE OF HILLARY CLINTON)





CHENEY: CALL THEM REPREHENSIBLE
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES₅


A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA


NEWT: CLINTON COMMITTED ONE OF WORST CRIMES, ENDANGERED COUNTRY, IF HIT ABDULLAH UP FOR CASH


Listen to this and ask yourself if America Ever Had the Remotest Chance Under a clinton to Avoid 9/11
(To paraphrase Einstein: "The unleashed power of terrorism has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.")


Is the 9/11 commission calling bill clinton's statement '"unreliable," or did it choose willful ignorance this time, too?


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans




NANO-PRESIDENT, MEGA-DISASTER
history will not be kind to bill + hillary clinton


NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton


HIROSHIMA'S NUCLEAR LESSON
bill clinton is no Harry Truman


CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)


JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux


1st Feminist Prez Impeached
(clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)


THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?
clinton legacy of lynching update


For the children?
the clintons ARE pornography downloads


pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA


The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)


Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK


HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAY
the clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall


HILLARY'S MIDDLE-FINGER MINDSET (MAD COVER 2)
Do you really want THAT finger on the button?


"What, me worry?"


ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY

THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


How did the flower children fall for the clintons, 2 such self-evident thugs and opportunists?
(FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!)


Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary


HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS ^{part 1}
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.


hillary's burqa


HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)


HILLARY IN AVIARY


CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")



KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT IN BROADDRICK RAPE


the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich


HEAR CHRIS MATTHEWS + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY


THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)


ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS,
EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN
my amazon.com review


STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY


HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[Mia T]

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[Brian Allen]

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[Mia T]

thanks for the heads up ping

[chessplayer]

(5) "At a certain point, the war itself becomes the central issue. The population's attitude is dictated not by the intrinsic merits of the contending causes, but by their conviction about winners and losers. Whoever is judged the likely winner will gain popular support, and most likely win the war. Being seen as the eventual winner eventually determines the winner, short of creating a military dictatorship that simply executes anyone on the other side."


Well, the dims, the msm, and some Republicans have declared we have been defeated and the insurgents have won. So that takes care of # 5.

[Mia T]

synchronicity :)

[FlingWingFlyer]

The more people I talk to, the more I'm hearing from idiots who didn't believe that the 'RATS would be able to win the House AND the Senate. There are a lot of morons out there right now with election hangovers who are asking themselves what they did at the big election party on November 7th. They think the headaches are bad now, wait until comrade Pelosi picks up the gavel in January.

[Mia T]

Recall how early The Left surrendered....

[Mia T]

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[chessplayer]

"Recall how early The Left surrendered...."


Yup. The left was declaring our defeat the minute the first tank crossed into Iraq.

[Maelstrom]

I call it Propaganda War.

It's a shame really. If the Left hated the insurgents as much as they hate America, the terrorists would be dead or in hiding.

[Doe Eyes]

(1) The population is the basic target.... Whichever side wins over the population will win the war...

Democracy Sux.

[dsc]

"Democracy Sux."

Which is why the Founding Fathers gave us a representative republic instead.

Every subsequent expansion of the franchise -- aka step towards mobocracy -- has hurt us.

[MNJohnnie]

These apply to the Iraqis not to us and the terrorists have failed to achieve any of this. The terrorists only hope of victory now rest in the hands of the Democrats in the US House of Represenatives. But take heart Freepers. 58 of those Democrats have to go back to Districts that voted 52% or more for GW Bush in 2004.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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After we ABANDONED Freedom for Vietnam came...


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts



Quo Vadis, Freedom for Iraq..?

Quo Vadis, Freedom for America..?


('Quo Vadis' = 'Where go you..?' in ancient Latin)

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[MNJohnnie]

Democracy Sux.


Perhaps but so does every other form of Govt currently know to humanity. Democracy may sux it just does it a whole lot less then every other choice.

[Mia T]

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[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

It's pure Vince Lombardi: Winning is the only thing.... [T]he people must think you're the winner.... If they don't, they'll either avoid you or support the enemy....

."...when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.".translated from Arabic Dec 2001

weakness is provacative !

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I'm very concerned about all of the political damage that the Democratic majorities will successfully inflict upon all of us! I also hope that President Bush will finally be using his veto pen whenever it's truly necessary to use it! As long as the Democrats succeed in keeping their political majorities at every political level, this country may be heading in a much worse direction for everyone very soon. Amnesty for illegal immigrants, the creation of the very socialistic North American Union, tax increases, bigger government, more government regulations/red tape, and national security are my major concerns with the next Congress.

[Alas Babylon!]

Johnnie, I'm just about ready to give up trying to convince some people. I saw you fighting them on Kristin's thread about Cut and Run FReepers... As was I.

Many here think the best thing to do is give up. Or leave. Or deploy elsewhere. Whatever they call it, if we don't start massive carpet bombing, they want the troops out. So do you really believe the terrorists haven't achieved any of this? I think the Drive By Media, working for the terrorists, have certainly achieved their goal of getting a majority of folks to want to walk away.

[bmwcyle]

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[Gail Wynand]

In the war in Algeria, the islamic fascists, used tactics identical to those employed now in Iraq to drive civilised forces from North Africa, where millions of french citizens had lived for generations in relative peace and prosperity with an arab/muslim majority.

Decrying the evils of "colonialism" the small band(s) of islamic fascists made quick work of traffic cops, delicetessen counters, and bank offices conducting as much uncontrolled mayhem, murder, and carnage as they could in the name of "islamic independence".

The only groups punished more severely by the terrorists than the french nationals who were seen as part of the colonial system, were arabs/muslims who dared to question the wisdom of trying to move beyond colonialism by means of indiscriminant violence directed at those least associated with maintaining colonial domination. Thus, a small group of fanatics was taken to represent a leadership of the arab/mulim majority because desent was suppressed through ruthless violence.

In the inevitable cycle of escalating action and re-action that followed, horrible attrocities were launched by both sides, until de gaule seeing the matter as not worth the cost of victory abandoned french colonials and algeria to domination by the radicals.

It was never true in Algeria that the fascists had popular support. It was true that as long as the possibility existed that the terrorists might win, no arabs/muslims could dare to speak out against them safely, thus creating the illusion of popular support.

The kind of war necessitated by terrorist tactics is gruesome and not likely to win support from meddling liberals in third countries with nothing at stake.

Those not prepared to pay the price, as the French were not in Algeria, must be prepared to lose.

[Wolverine]

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[Twinkie]

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[Traditional Vet]

 

 DEMOC SCOUNTRIES, GROUPS, AND ORGANIZATIONS, THEY TRUST, ADMIRE AND RESPECT

 

 

THEIR HEROES

THEIR EMBLEM, MOTTO AND PATRIOTIC SYMBOL

 

[Mia T]

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The American Left today is no less ruthless nor deadly than the islamofascist terrorist.

Propaganda is the Left's weapon of choice. It can be disseminated globally, with ease, and in real time.

“The presidency had been transformed from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to a stage the size of the world” (Hugh Sidey)

Our fatal error was to surrender that world stage to the Left (and to the terrorists).

If a president can't communicate--and this one can't--you get a proxy. What could the Bush administration have been thinking all these years?

[papasmurf]

Mia T.:

As always, pure GOLD!

Thank you!!!

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[Mia T]

thank you, papasmurf :)

[Mia T]

thanks, Twinkie. :)

[tcrlaf]

"[T]he people must think you're the winner.... If they don't, they'll either avoid you or support the enemy...."

ie: The Rockefeller memo
(Or... How America must be defeated for Democrats to win.)

[Mia T]

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[MNJohnnie]

Doesn't matter what the public opinions polls claim people think. It matters what GW Bush thinks. And no matter how much they hate it, GW Bush will be CIC until Jan 2009. That is what matters. No matter what their public face is, the people who actually run the Democrat party KNOW what message to draw from the voters bitch slapping the Surrender Now Crowd's hero Lamont took in solid Blue Vermont.

People got to understand Democrats have ONLY one principal, the pursuit of political power. They will gleefully throw their moonbats under the bus rather then lose what our Always Angry types handed them on Nov 7th.

58 of those Democrats, way more then 2xs their margin of majority have to go to solidly red districts and run for reelection in 2008. We may dismiss that fact, you can bet the people who run the Democrat Election machine, like Emanuel, have not.

[okie01]

I think the Drive By Media, working for the terrorists, have certainly achieved their goal of getting a majority of folks to want to walk away.

It has been their objective all along.

It's not necessary that they be cheerleaders. But they could at least tell the truth.

They seem incapable of even that...

[Gail Wynand]

"What could Bush have been thinking...?"

Foggy Bottom Ascendant.

Colin Powell. Condi Rice, each in turn ensnared by the organization Nixon knew to hate because it sold out the US victory in WWII and has been selling out the US with its "world opinion - world consensus - our enemies can veto our policies" thinking/agenda for 60 years.

Indeed Nixon simply appointed a stooge as secretary of state and ran foreign policy through the NSA and Kissinger until he pulled off the greatest foreign policy achievement (until then) of the twentieth century.

Bush, believing that only meaningful objectives mattered was not distracted by pointless 1920's style Chicago gangland violence (St Patricks Day massacre has all features of Iraq violence including police uniforms) that could not affect the outcome of war except via influencing public opinion through over exaggeration of its importance by a duplicitous seditious media a la vietnam.

Bush was distracted, delayed and constrained by Powell/Rice and the Foggy Bottom types until he pissed away his political power without acheiving a victory that the American public could feel.

Bush never recovered from the loss of momentum after the WMD failed to be located. He had two choices. He could either meet the media onslaught with a counter attack, (no chance this president) or he could crush the enemy so solidly that Even Eisenhower who knowingly authorized up to 70% casualties among air assault troops, would forever be thought of as the combat soldiers general because when you win the war, casualties are forgiven, no matter how enormous. Bush chose neither.

He could still win the war quickly with the addition of only 10,000 german shepards, a curfew and about 5000 day and night surviellience cameras along with a newly robust rules of engagement.... but thats for another time.

[gonzo]

Thanks, Mia................FRegards

[Mia T]

ROCKEFELLER SEDITION:
WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS?

Mia T, 01.14.06 

 

MEMOgate: democrat party treason
Secret Democrat manifesto detailing the undermining of President Bush in wartime
by the seditious misuse of classified intelligence data from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

 

 

Saturday, November 08, 2003

If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible - be they staff or elected or both - should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused.

 

Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga.

Raw Data: Dem Memo on Politicizing Intelligence
Fox News | 11-5-03

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Following is the text of a memo written by a Democrat on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that suggests how to make the greatest gain off of intelligence data leading to the war against Iraq. The memo was obtained by Fox News.

Transcript of a memo written by a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff suggesting how to make the greatest gain off of intelligence data leading to the war against Iraq.

We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard. For example, in addition to the president's State of the Union speech, the chairman has agreed to look at the activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department. The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and co-signs our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. (Note: we can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.)

2) Assiduously prepare Democratic "additional views" to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it. In that regard, we have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims and contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry. The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an independent commission (i.e. the Corzine amendment).

3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation at any time-- but we can only do so once. The best time to do so will probably be next year either:

A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report -- thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public: 1) additional views on the interim report; 2) announcement of our independent investigation; and 3) additional views on the final investigation; or

B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue. We could attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the "use" of intelligence.

In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter foot-dragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman; we have independently submitted written questions to DoD; and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

Summary

Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet, we have an important role to play in the revealing the misleading -- if not flagrantly dishonest methods and motives -- of the senior administration officials who made the case for a unilateral, preemptive war. The approach outline above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods.

A former member of the Clinton administration is being linked to a bombshell Senate Intelligence Committee memo outlining a strategy to use information gathered by the committee to help drive President Bush from office in 2004.

In an editorial Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports:

"[Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-WV] refuses to denounce the memo, which he says was unauthorized and written by staffers. If that's the case, at the very least, some heads ought to roll. A good place to start would be minority staffer Christopher Mellon, who serves as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton administration."

One of Mellon's former bosses, former first lady Hillary Clinton, has been sharply critical of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq. Last week she accused the White House of trying cover-up battlefield casualties and said Bush's decision to invade Iraq was "the antithesis of the rule of law."

The Journal recommended that, until those responsible for Democrats' decision to politicize intelligence are fired, the Intelligence Committee should be "shut down, cleaned out and reconstituted later, preferably after the next election."

Clinton Appointee Linked to Bombshell Anti-Bush Intel Memo
NewsMax.com ^ | 11/07/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

 

ROCKEFELLER LIKELY NOT MEMOGATE PRIME MOVER
Put Jay Rockefeller & minority staffer and clintonite, Christopher Mellon, under oath
MEMOgate reeks of the clintons

 

by Mia T, 11-10-03

 

"Rockefeller under intense pressure by others...."

(Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
commenting on MEMOgate)

e have been arguing on this site that MEMOgate reeks of the clintons, that MEMOgate's prime mover could not have been Jay Rockefeller.

U.S. Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) confirmed as much this week on the floor of the Senate when he disclosed that Sen. Rockefeller had been "under intense pressure -- intense pressure -- by some others to pursue a much more partisan line of inquiry, to be much more confrontational."

It is critical that Sen. Rockefeller and minority staffer Christopher Mellon, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the clinton administration, be put under oath. They must be asked to identify MEMOgate's prime mover(s).

Would they do "a Hubbell," ( "roll over one more time for Hillary")?

I don't think so. Not with the potential downside here.

The American Thinker
Sen. Jay Rockefeller a Target?

 

Macsmind is reporting that Sen. Rockefeller may be the target of investigators examining the leak of classified information on the NSA surveillance program.

I'm trying to confirm this information, but several sources are telling me today that some investigators working on the NSA leak probe believe that Senator Jay Rockefeller may have been a little more than “concerned” about NSA. In fact, he may just be the leaker of the program to the NY Times, and is now being considered a “significant person of interest” in the probe.

What I’m told that investigatiors have locked into is this fact that other pundits have identified, that Senator Rockefeller had stated that he went to to great lengths to lock away his memo of concern (in a safe) so that not even other close members of the Senate knew about it. Yet the NY Times, James Risen in fact revealed the letter’s existance in his initial NSA “book excerpt”. The question being asked is if not even Senator Rockefeller’s closest confidants, staffers, etc, knew of the letter’s existance, how therefore did James Risen of the NY Times know about it?

If this incoming information is correct, it would not be the first time Senator Rockefeller – Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee had been investigated for leaking classified information. In early 2005, the CIA asked the Justice Department to look into whether Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden leaked details about a secret “black ops” CIA satellite program in December of 2004. That investigation is still on going, but I hear it may be wrapping up in the affirmative.

Moreover, it may be noted that Senator Rockefeller admitted back in November 2005, that he also made a trip to Syria in 2002 to discuss “The President’s intentions” reference to the upcoming invasion of Iraq. A move which I understand didn’t sit well with administration officials.

Of course Senator Rockefeller is the architect of the current Demorcatic game plan on Iraq as the infamous “Rockefeller Memo” showed.

If this information is acurate, it will also confirm the suspicions voiced here, and here after the NSA story broke that in fact Senator Rockefeller, along with recently ‘resigned” FISA Judge James Robertson – an outspoken critic of the President and the NSA program.

Stay tuned.

Clarice  Feldman   1 09 06

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[Mia T]

thanx, gonzo :)

[TAdams8591]

"a president can't communicate--and this one can't--you get a proxy."

No, actually he can. He failed to follow Reagan's lead (and instead followed his father's) and make use of that ability.

[Mia T]

thanx :)

[TAdams8591]

"Yup. The left was declaring our defeat the minute the first tank crossed into Iraq."

So true. How often I have thought about that, particularly the past year. The left adeptly creates failure, not success and moreover turns success into failure. Self-fulfilling prophets of our own demise. I really do loathe them.

[Mia T]

He failed to follow Reagan's lead

We mustn't confuse simplicity with simplistic.

[TAdams8591]

Mia, if the president had made the kind of speeches to the American people, that he made to the troops, it might be an entirely different ballgame.

[Mia T]

It's not the speeches.It's his inability to communicate ideas when left to his own devices. (Bush speechwriter, Michael Gershon has written some of the most beautiful speeches, powerful enough to overcome Bush's generally uninspired delivery.)

Oddly, missus clinton suffers from a similar affliction. So she, too, is kept hidden. But her people fill the vacuum with proxies, ranging from paid operatives to unpaid operatives, i.e., the media, to the virtual ubiquity of PR (press releases, ads, cover stories... and tv shows like 'Commander-in Chief')

[TAdams8591]

You mean it's not the speeches to which you were referring when you stated the president had an inability to communicate. I say he didn't even try. Listening to some good speeches from him as we used to listen to President Reagan's would have gone a long way.

And as for Hillary, glad to know she has the same affliction, though additionally she doesn't even give good speeches.

[Mia T]

And as for Hillary, glad to know she has the same affliction, though additionally she doesn't even give good speeches.

Very true. Neither clinton gives a good speech, which says something about relative taste and intelligence of Bush vs. the clintons.

[ViLaLuz]

I really like your graphics. My favorite is "Factoring Hillary."

[nopardons]

bttt