This is a great piece, LS.
Pinging a few friends.
Very good...
BULL'S EYE!!!!!!!!!!, Mr. LS.
Chaffee was more like the officer who has been spying for the enemy his entire life.
This is a must read ((((PING))))! This commentary from our resident historian. Hopefully, you will find it interesting.
It's not just the Democrats. To be fair, they don't exist in a vacuum. There is a very strong undercurrent in America that feels Iraq is no longer worth our time. Some never thought it was, for a variety of reasons. Others have changed their minds, or are disillusioned with our incompetent leadership, and now want to leave. Either way, discontent runs very deep.
What you call a demonstration is actually a bit more. It's reconnaissance by fire. The Democrats are actively attacking the base of the war efforts support: money. The utter lack of outcry by the average America should be a blaring klaxon to everyone hoping for victory in Iraq. America, slowly but surely, is accepting the notion that Iraq is lost, and that the Democrats are basically doing what needs to be done to force President Bush to realize it.
We can blame the Democrats all we like, but we'd never be in this state if a large segment of America didn't have their backs.
The pubbies, especially the ones supposedly in the world’s greatest debating society, asked for it. Remember Voinovich crying about Bolton. If it weren't for losing control of the Senate, there's nothing to cry about the defeat of DeWine or Chafee.
It's a sad fact that the MSM, particularly television, still hold sway over the minds of the average unconcerned sheep. they don't get it and never will IMO.
We have to continue to work to acquire power in other ways and husband it for the day when the sheep bleat in fear and start looking around for the sheepdogs.
outstanding.
A separate chapter in your next book
Yet now it has become a race between the terrorists, who have an incentive to inflict as much damage as possible to make victory appear impossible,
Violence tears across Iraq
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/31/iraq.main/
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Car bombs and gunfire killed more than two dozen civilians and wounded more than 60 in attacks throughout Iraq on Saturday, officials said.
Five civilians were killed and 22 wounded in a car-bomb explosion near Sadrayn Hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood at 10 a.m., a Baghdad police official said.
South of Baghdad in Hilla, four people were killed and 20 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near people lining up at a gas station, Babil police said.
A car bomb killed two day laborers and wounded 11 others who were gathered north of the capital in the Salaheddin province city of Tuz Khurmatu on Saturday morning, a Tikrit police official said.
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Death toll rises to 152 in northern Iraq truck bombing attacks: official
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/01/eng20070401_362817.html
The total death toll rose to 152 and up to 347 others wounded when double truck bomb attacks at a market in a Shiite district in the town of Tal Afar on Tuesday, an official told reporters on Saturday.
The death toll rose to 152 and up to 347 people wounded, Brigadier Abdul Kareem Khalaf, the spokesman of the Interior Ministry said.
Khalaf also said that 100 homes were blown up by the blasts which were caused by 2 tonnes of explosives that left a 23-metre- ditch in the ground.
Earlier, Duraid Kashmula, Nineveh's governor put the toll at 140 people were killed and some 200 others wounded in the twin blasts.
As a reprisal for Tuesday's truck bombing, unknown gunmen stormed a Sunni district in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar overnight and killed up to 70 people.
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It goes without saying we are doomed DOOMED I say!
These range from simple confusion to disrupting ongoing operations. Common effects of hostile propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation, include—
• Prompting neutral parties to resist or not support military operations.
• Increasing adversary will to resist [emboldening them] by fanning hatreds, biases, and predispositions.
• Leading multinational partners [Spain, Germany, Italy] to question their roles in a coalition.
• Inciting riots. [17 people died in Jalalabad rioting over a Koran that never got flushed down the toilet. Newsweek killed those people.]
• Causing refugees to block lines of communication.
Fostering distrust of US or US-led forces causing host nations [Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan] or other non-belligerant parties to not cooperate with friendly forces
Causing essential communicators [Katie Couric, Brian Williams, et. al] to resist or deny cooperation
Causing diversion of military assets to address problems that, while seemingly insignificant, require significant resources [making mountains out of mole hills and raising a big stink that generals have to stop fighting the war to go deal with]
Leading friendly governments to question their own policies and support for military operations [whittling down the Coalition of the Willing]