This astounds me. This is something that most Americans have yet to grasp. The Authorization to use force was given to remove the Bathhist Regime. Period. That was completed in 2003, if you recall, Bush announced it on the deck of that aircraft carrier.
It does NOT extend to the "war on terror" PR war, which like the "war on drugs" is distinctly different from a real war.
We are in the Reconstruction phase of the campaign, like where we were with Germany and Japan in the 50s.
People need to stop acting as if we are at war with Iraq, because we are not. We are only there to try and help them construct a new government and survive the process.
That’s why we have so many National Guardsmen there, because civil reconstruction is something they specialize in.
The regular Army specializes in civil Deconstruction.
The progress against the insurgency over in Iraq by the Iraqi POLICE force has only confirmed what I have always said, that terrorism is a POLICE issue. It can be defeated only through investigation and infiltration, which are POLICE specialties.
"The guys who did this (9-11) cannot be taken out by the 103rd Armored Division. They have to be taken out by a busboy with a silencer." - Aaron Sorkin
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Pennsylvania State House, August 1, 1776
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Remembering 9-11
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - T. Jefferson
-In my opinion it is self sacrificing Patriots like Nathaniel Heatwole who pull the veil back from our eyes and show us the reality that we glimpsed on that beautiful but horrible September morning in 2001. They show us that the Emperor has no clothes and that we are not untouchable. We are not safe from the repercussions of our Imperialist actions in numerous parts of the world. People will not tolerate a Hegemony much better than they will an Empire.
-In my opinion it is self sacrificing Patriots like Nathaniel Heatwole who pull the veil back from our eyes and show us the reality that we glimpsed on that beautiful but horrible September morning in 2001. They show us that the Emperor has no clothes and that we are not untouchable. We are not safe from the repercussions of our Imperialist actions in numerous parts of the world. People will not tolerate a Hegemony much better than they will an Empire.
Monday, September 05, 2005
Someone Explain Difference Between "Finding" and "Looting"
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