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Since the first Gulf War, peace activists have cried in the streets, “No war for oil, no war for oil!” until they were blue in the face. This is of course meant to insinuate that the US government under a Republican administration will sweep into an Arab nation and “steal that oil.” Yes, in the minds of many liberals throughout the world, the American military is commanded by Exxon/Mobile to solely seek out the oil fields of peaceful sovereign nations and steal their precious crude. In this rationale there’s never any other reason save for greed and imperialism. What I...

I would like to consider myself a fair person. I think my radio listening habits reveal just how open-minded I am to alternative points of view. When I lived in NY I listened to Morning Sedition on Air America in the morning, Rush Limbaugh at noon, Bill O'Reilly in the mid-afternoons, and depending on my mood and what time I got out of work, I switched off between Randi Rhodes (again Air America) and Mark Levin. If I was in the car late at night I switched back and forth between Laura Inghram, and the Majority Report with Jeneane Garofolo...

In the run-up to the Iraq War, singularly the United States faced many opponents such as France, Germany, China and Russia against a land invasion to oust former dictator Saddam Hussein. Collectively, it was the entire United Nations that objected to the war and Secretary General Kofi Annan stated that this particular pending act of aggression against Iraq was, “…not in conformity with the UN Charter from our point of view, and from the Charter point of view it was illegal." In this statement Annan seeks to admonish the United States from the moral high ground placing the UN as...

Those without sin…should run for political office, because everyone else is just crap! Steve Gardner was one of 12 boat crewmembers on Senator John Kerry's swift boat in Vietnam. He was the only one to speak out against Kerry as one of the members of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth PAC. Gardner made it his business to see that Kerry was not elected Commander in Chief. For this act of "free speech", his financial privacy was threatened and he was summarily fired from his job. Gardner claims he is broke now and can't afford to sue his former company....

John Rambo: Sir, do we get to win this time? That was a line uttered by Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Of course in this movie he's referring to Vietnam and our unfortunate "stalemate" in that war. More to the point, the dialogue illustrates that what the soldiers in the Vietnam War were feeling. Most scholars of that conflict would validate the soldiers by saying that the US Armed Forces were severely hamstrung against the North Vietnamese. From 1957 thru 1975 American soldiers racked up enemy bodies by the 100's but did not end the Communist aggression...

I am not a fan of George W. Bush. I voted for him, I donated money to the Republican Party in order to help him get re-elected and I frequently defended him against nearly everyone I came in contact with (I live in a Blue state, after all). But that doesn't mean I like everything he does, or even most things he does. One of my biggest issues with President Bush was his "Guest Worker" program that he unveiled last January. If the Democrats had ran someone against President Bush whom was a Foreign Policy hawk and would have at...

Probably the single biggest impediment to peace in the Middle East was the President of the Palestinian Authority and Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat. I do not make this claim lightly. In the years since the state of Israel was declared (May 14, 1948) many offers were made to the Palestinians to have a home of their own. As a matter of fact, when the United Nations opted to partition the land into Arab and Jewish territories, the Israeli’s accepted it, once in 1937 and again in 1948. However, the Arabs rejected the plan for a home...