Liberals aren't sure how to handle terrorism - - and they want to put a man (or woman) in the White House?

As I read the latest news on my homepage about how the United States says that Iran's proposal regarding the nuclear negotiations fell short of the the United Nations damands that it cease uranium enrichment, I bounced around and came across an Ann Coulter article titled: What Part of the War on Terrorism Do They Support?

The article brought up an interesting point. The Democrats say that they are for the war on terror. They believe that it was good to chase Osama bin Laden. Yet, they are adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq.

They fail to acknowledge that many terrorists have been killed in this war with Iraq, such as Zarqawi, a high ranking al-Qaida leader.

In fact, they believe that the war in Iraq is hampering the war on terrorism.

Ann Coulter uses an example stating: "This would be like complaining that Roosevelt's war in Germany was hampering our ability to fight the real global war on fascism."

I seem to remember after 9/11 that it was stated that the war on terrorism was to be waged against terrorists, and nations that support terrorism financially and by training terrorists on their soil. Did Saddam's Iraq not fall under that umbrella?

And the Libs say, "And how horrid that we profile Muslims at the airport during this fight...we should only zero in on potential terrorists."

Are the Dems kidding? Are they really that stupid?

I should know better than to ask those questions. You and I know the answer.

Now, for fear of sounding like a hater, understand that I do not dislike my Liberal friends. . .I just disagree with those things they say whenever their mouths open.

The ones that floor me the most are comments like Michael Moore's "Sure, there are terrorist attacks here and there, but terrorism is not a global problem like the Republicans make it out to be. . ." and another comment (can't remember who said it) "The statistic that over 500 terrorists have crossed the Mexican Border since 9/11 is in error, because if that many terrorists had crossed, we would have been attacked again by now."

And in tune with Ann Coulter, and along the line of something I have said before, the reality of the problem with these leftwing nutcakes is that in their minds, God is a bigger threat than terrorism. Sure, absolutely. Don't believe me? Ask those trying to save the cross on Mount Soledad, or any professor that has mentioned the name of God in our colleges, or the girl that thanked God in her Valedictorian address in Las Vegas (at which time the microphone was shut off), or the Navy Chaplain that ended a prayer in Jesus' name at a military funeral and then faced court martial for it, or anyone that attempts to say a nondenominational prayer before a high school football game.

As Ann Coulter says at the end of her article: Now that's a threat.

Paramount Pictures just earned my respect

Paramount Pictures has severed its long and profitable relationship with Tom Cruise and his Cruise/Wagner Productions company because his "recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

"As much as we like him personally," Redstone of Paramount Pictures is quoted as saying, "we thought it was wrong to renew his deal." He then cited Cruise's "recent conduct" as the reason.
In the past year or so, Cruise couch-hopped on Oprah Winfrey's talk show while proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes, criticized the use of antidepressants and claimed that postpartum depression doesn't exist. He also got into an angry exchange with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show while defending his opinions.

I see it coming: Cruise is going to form a partnership with Travolta and call it - Scientology Pictures

Their slogan?

"Movies that heal from within."

Don't get me wrong, I believe in the power of positive thinking, et cetera. However, I don't think that our ability to improve ourselves with strong, mental resolve replaces God.

Hmmm, I wonder if the water-gushing rubber flower had anything to do with this.

An uncentered, uneven rant

I received a comment from an anonymous reader on my Carried By Christ Blog yesterday that I found fascinating.

Many of you that know me, or have known me for a while, know that I am a Christian, and I am not shy about it. I am also a rightwing conservative. I am not a Republican because I am a Christian, and I am not a Christian because I am a Republican. Liberals and Centrists and New Agers and all of the others out there unable to come to grips with any level of political common sense seem to think that one causes the other. That is just not so, and I wanted to get that straightened out before we proceed.

Anyway, the commenter stated that they liked the posting on my Christian Blog regarding the real way to spirituality. She (I say she because I think I know who it is, and I appreciate her checking out my blogs after me giving her my card following her giving me a book--sorry if that's confusing to the rest of you) went on to say that my writing had a real sense of grace about it. To that I say, "Thank you," and "I appreciate your comment." After all, my primary reason for writing anything is for it to be read. I am not just a blogger, but I am an aspiring writer as well, and writing is what I do.

However, the post was not on the "real way to spirituality" as the reader suggested. This is where the reader was in error on the get-go. The post was about how the world is searching for spirituality through metaphysics and Eastern Religions and New Age Philosophies and Scientology and anything else the world can come up with other than what is Biblical. People are seeking spirituality, but no one is seeking God.

Then, the reader's comment stated that she visited my Political Pistachio blog, the one you are reading now, and she found it to be written in an another voice entirely - claiming my political writing is uncentered, unsure, and a bit of an uneven rant. She claimed it was far from my spiritual centre. She stated that political strife is just a big version of the strife within, and that dedicating my passion to being angry at the world outside is just a way of avoiding dealing with my inner life.

She sounds exactly like a New Age cousin of mine.

I am not angry at the world. I am angry, however, that there are those out there that wish to take the freedoms of Americans away from the United States through terror, and that there are people out there, such as this commenter, that believes defending our rights, and the freedoms of others, is a manifestation of our anger at ourselves.

Perhaps these people who are so "spiritually centered" never faced a bully in their lives, or think that the freedoms we enjoy were just handed to us without any struggle.

Worldwide situations such as this current war on terror, and the problem of worldwide terrorism, is like a festering sore. If not dealt with, it becomes a larger, more damaging injury, eventually growing to the point that it kills you. That is fact. My faith of Christianity does not allow me to turn a blind eye from the truth and imagine that if we all danced in a field of daisies and praised Tom Cruise, or Buddha, or whoever, that the problems of Radical Islamism and North Korea will just go away. Life does not work that way. Nobody wants peace more than myself, but peace cannot be achieved by just wishing for it, or talking to these bastards that have only one thing in their mind - death to all infidels.

Common sense indicates that no matter how horrible it may seem, the only way to achieve peace in this maddening world is through strength, and the only free nation with that kind of strength is the United States of America. PERIOD!

I have strife within. We all do. But my strife is quieted not by focusing on my own integrity or by developing a quiet strength within. My personal peace comes from my relationship with Christ. My politics are generated simply by using that large, boney thing on my shoulders. Some may refer to it as a "head". My faith, as with Bush I am sure, has some impact on what I think politically, but my main reason for thinking the way I do politically is simply common sense and love of my nation. I refuse to pretend that terrorism will go away if I find some hidden inner strength; and make no mistake about it, my politics will not be altered because some New Ager thinks that by supporting our troops in defending this nation I am projecting my angry innards.

Oh, and by the way, the commenter also asked me to take a leaf out of Jesus' book, and look at myself.

I did.

Israel is threatened, freedom is threatened, and the freedom to practice my faith could eventually be threatened.

The Old Testament records many wars, some of which God commanded or assisted. There is a 'time' for war (Eccl. 3:8); yet God's ultimate goal is for a world of peace (e.g. Isa. 2:2-4), and much bloodthirsty warfare is condemned (e.g. Isa. 33:1).

According to Jesus, war is just a part of how things are (Mk 13:7; Matt 24:6; Lk 14:31-32, 21:9). Paul, in his letter to the Romans says that God uses rulers to punish evil by use of 'the sword' (Rom. 13:1-4). Elsewhere, God commands rulers to rescue the weak and needy (Ps. 82:2-4). The care of a people is committed to those in authority, and their business is to watch over the common good of the people entrusted to them. In a sinful, fallen world, sometimes they must sadly use force to protect people.

A "just war" is fought when leaders who use war to enhance their glory or to extend their empire must be stopped and no other action will stop them.

This is a just war. The war on terror is a just cause. The terrorists goal is to make you think that they will leave you alone if we pull out of our war on terror.

Radical Islam desires your death, and my death. We owe it to our posterity, and each other, to protect America, Israel, and freedom wherever it may be blossoming.

God Bless America. God Bless our troops. And God Bless you.

Makes you think.

Too bad the liberals, media, and U.N. can't get the hint. . .

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Are you kidding me? I'm offended, in a politically correct, non-violent, enlightened way.

I was listening to Mark Larson on KOGO radio AM 600 out of San Diego as I was driving my big rig in from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and he said something that blew me away. I don't have the details yet, so this is from memory, but from what I have gathered, this is a lot of Bull.

The California State Assembly in Sacramento had a Gay, Lesbian, and trans-gender day on the floor to show their appreciation for the bravery of these individuals in these less than tolerant times. Now, get this, this is the same assembly that voted down having an Independence Day celebration on the floor last month because in light of the war and current opinions it would be offensive to have such a celebration on the State Assembly Floor. Perhaps patriotism is just too offensive for them. Besides, those forefathers believed in God, and they couldn't possibly allow that on the Senate Floor.

In the meantime, the plot of land with a cross on it on Mount Soledad down in San Diego, which has been a subject of controversy since an atheist, Paul Paulson, sued the city requesting its removal in 1989, was bought by the federal government, mainly because of Bush, to save it. This follows a May court decision in which a judge had ordered it be taken down because it is on public land, hence the separation of church and state thing, and since it is the preeminent symbol of Christianity it is offensive to all non-Christians.

Well, since we are wanting to take down crosses because they are offensive to non-Christians, why stop there? (keep in mind in most cases we are the ones that get screwed in this possible, politically correct scenario):

-Anybody disagreeing with gay rights is offensive to the gays, so those "narrow-minded, intolerant" people must be moved to Antarctica, the North Pole, Northern Greenland, a Republican Convention, or any other location on the planet in which no gays reside.
-Any form of fighting or violence is offensive to peace activists, so boxing and any other sport related to any kind of violence is out, and this must include, but is not limited to: football, wrestling, thumb-wrestling, playing "slug-bug", slap-fighting, hockey, soccer (unless tackling is eliminated), and a number of others. Baseball can stay as long as they promise not to have any more bench-clearing brawls, or confrontations at home plate between the runner and catcher, oh, and if they promise to communicate better so that their are no more collisions between players all going for the same fly ball.
-Losing is offensive to the touchy-feely psychologist types (losing, you know, causes low self-esteem) so any other sporting event is out, unless it can be held without a winner or a loser resulting from the match or game. Hmmm, tic-tac-toe tournaments would be perfect, since everybody knows that a cat's game is always the result unless one of the competitors is stupid. Soccer can stay if they eliminate the goal. Baseball is still fine, but home plate would now need to be eliminated as a goal.
-Stupidity, or intelligence, one or the other, would have to be eliminated since stupid people (also known as liberals) and intelligent people (also known as conservatives) tend to find each other offensive. Oh, and anybody that cries out Centrist, should be shot. Oh, wait, we can't have any violence. Anybody that cries out Centrist should be told sternly, but without anger, that they are not completely accurate, in a nice way. Centrist is just another word for liberal. I hate it when the left tries to feign moderation.
-Any establishment that serves meat is offensive to vegetarians so they need to be eliminated.
-Any restaurant in which the waitress isn't wearing slacks and a button down shirt, and any restaurant in which the waitresses breasts can be noticed as bumps or larger, is offensive to NOW, so they must be put out of business.
-The English Language is offensive to illegals, so it must be eliminated.
-Anything white is offensive to the ACLU so all Caucasians, and anything that reminds anybody that white people ever existed must be found, piled up, and burned.
-Anything that makes sense politically is offensive to the New York Times, so eliminate those things.
-The New York Times is offensive to anyone with a brain, so that newspaper must be eliminated.
-Automobiles are offensive to the Amish, so get rid of them.
-Men are offensive to feminists, so any member of the male gender (except for the homosexuals - feminists tend to love them for whatever reason) needs to be sent off somewhere. Perhaps to Antarctica with all of the anti-gay people. Then again, any non-gay male would probably have already been sent, except for the real nutcakes like Michael Moore and Jerry Springer and Al Gore and . . .
-Allowing innocence to live is offensive to pro-abortionists, so our children must be dealt with.
-Life is offensive to those that hate life, so we might as well all blow ourselves away, but in a non-violent, non-offensive, enlightened way.

I have a question. Who do the non-Christians so offended by crosses and the very existence of Christianity cry out to when facing death? Okay, okay, Tom Cruise probably cries out to his inner-self, but the rest of them, I bet, scream, "My God, help me!"

Just a thought.

The UN Ceasefire that will not hold - and if it did, it would simply be a chance for Hezbollah to re-arm

The United Nations is unreal. Do they really think that Islamic terrorists (which, by the way, according to the cable news channels, it is not politically correct to use Islam and terrorism in the same sentence) will adhere to a cease fire? And if they did, all they would do is re-arm. By the way, yesterday 247 Katyusha rockets made their way into Israel. The fighting has intensified as the so-called cease-fire approaches.

And this news comes on the heals of information that the London Terrorists recently stopped by the British were going to use their little children to carry out the plot.

And Hezbollah has said they will not voluntarily disarm (really? What a shock!)

The United Nations hold to an agenda that is doomed to fail.

This truce will not take hold. The self-righteousness of the UN sickens me.

I'm so flabbergasted by this, I don't even know what to say. It reeks of madness, and of danger to Israel and freedom worldwide.

By the way, notice that the New York Times didn't jump into the debates over the foiled terrorist plots in Britain - - because the NYT and the liberal left opposes the information gathering techniques used to stop the terrorists. You know, things like spontaneous phone surveillance by the NSA of suspected overseas calls, and coerced interrogation of captured terror suspects.

Good thing the ACLU and NYT has no influence on the Scotland Yard, otherwise, the plot might have succeeded.

If by some strange chance this cease-fire succeeds, people forget, Hezbollah and the Islamic Radicals began this war with Israel, rather than simply return two soldiers. This will not be a cease fire if the fighting stops. It will be a chance for Hezbollah to re-arm.

In the meantime, Kim Jong Il has re-emerged, and our judges here believe that the American Voter's wishes should be overturned when concerned with abortion, sex predators. . . and the liberal left has decided that God is a larger threat than terrorism.

Okay, sorry for bouncing around, but this is getting ridiculous. How stupid can the left be? How low can they stoop?

I have a feeling that the answer is worse than we can possibly imagine.

A cease-fire would be great if it could succeed because of course nobody wants war, but the bad-guys must be put away, not left in place. This cease-fire by the UN is weak and allowing the bad guys to get away to fight another day, with a larger armament.

The left and enlightened people of the world miss that, somehow. They miss it all. They just don't get it, and that is a shame, because all of us will pay in the long run for their short-sightedness.

Oh, by the way, why isn't the U.N. passing a resolution pushing sanctions against Syria and Iran for their part in this war, and their support of worldwide terrorism?

Terrorists using human shields from the vantage point of an Israeli

Recently on a forum I am a member of called Absolute Write a gentleman that goes by the name of TeddyG from Jerusalem, Israel responded to an attitude that doubted that the terrorists actually use human shields and fight from among the civilians. This is very well written, and I asked him if I could post it to Political Pistachio, and his words were: "Post Away."

So, here it is, and understand, this is a man that lives in Israel, surrounded by terrorism, living with war around him at all times. Of course, he says it best.

---I have been an Israeli Battlefield Medic in the reserves for over 25 years. I have been In Lebanon during the first war, gone through two intifadas, and was in Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield 4 years ago. I have lived through war upon war. And I take no pride in that fact.I have no clue how to prove this to the non-believers out there. I can only say this. I have, with my own eyes, in the many places I have been, seen and experienced with utter horror the way civilians and children are used as human shields. I once watched 3 terrorists walk out of a house in Jenin, holding at arms length, their OWN children as human shields. I watched during the intifada (the first one) in Tul-Karem as more than 10 terrorists held up in a Mosque and after shooting and killing 2 soldiers, call the UN and the press to show that Israeli soldiers had surrounded a mosque. And still btw, we did not enter it out of respect for religion.I would like also at this time to call your attention to another incident in which I was present. Until I saw this with my own eyes, indeed, the soldiers that served with me for 25 years were the soldiers that discovered it, and I was there. We stopped an ambulance during Operation Defensive Shield. An ambulance which belonged in Bethlehem but for some reason was way off between Nablus and Jenin. It was suspicious and had made its way through quite a few roadblocks. Upon opening the back, I stepped in to check the "wounded". Only the wounded were holding guns, and not wounded at all. Underneath them in the compartments meant for medical supplies the entire ambulance was full with C-4 and grenades. The foreign press was not far from us. They jumped on the "Israeli Army Aggressors" for stopping an ambulance. They went to town on it, UNTIL we took them INTO that ambulance to see for themselves which made front page news.I was there when a funeral was staged for "a young adult" in Jenin. As this procession moved along, unknowingly being filmed by the press and the Israelis, the area around this "funeral" procession blew up in a battle. Know what the corpse did? The corpse got up so fast off the stretcher that was carrying it, you would swear the dead came alive.This and many other incidents were filmed and recorded and put in a movie called "Three Weeks In Jenin" produced by an independent film producer. Know how I know this so well? Cause much of the movie is about my unit and my experiences as the medic in Jenin during those three weeks.So know, this will never be "proven". It is a myth. We make up these things to just make the Hezbollah and all the terrorists look bad.I have lived through a shi* load of war as a soldier. Both my sons are in the reserves. My son-in-law is in Lebanon right now. You think any of us LIKE THIS? So go ahead. Say what you like. Twist the truth or see it your way. Israel is always the aggressor. We have been so since the State was established. We should just let terrorists function on our border. We should always be more and more willing to give up land. After all only one year ago we gave up the Gush Katif settlements, hoping this would bring some sort of peace. Then watched as synagogues were burned with glee, and Kasam rockets just able to penetrate deeper and deeper into Israel (behind the green line I may add).So NO... this cannot be "proven". I have seen it with my own eyes. I have watched it happen. I cannot prove to you that it takes place, cause nothing short of YOU being there to watch with horror this taking place will make you believe it. And even then I fear, you will find some excuse. And I have seen much much worse. I can only say without any sort of judgment, that until you begin to understand that this is NOT the western mentality on death and dying that you know and are used to, you simply will never understand.And yes, as a medic I have taken care of my share of the "enemy". I have even spoken in English and a smattering of Arabic with mothers of the Shayeeds (those who blow themselves up and go to heaven as heroes). Not a word of remorse. Not sad their son's are dead. Happy they blew up women and children. Ecstatic I may add. (And ecstatic that the Israelis were taking care of their medical needs.)So this is an attempt. A small one. To explain things that I will admit are so far beyond Western mentality that they seem preposterous. Unfortunately this is reality. And if you watched Fox or CNN or even the BBC or even read the world press and just took a cursory look at the pics and film that has been released (assuming you believe they were not doctored by the aggressor-minded Israelis) you too would know this to be the truth.I know putting this up invites attack and vilification as usual. But this is way out in left field. I read this and I truly wonder, if there is any way to "prove" anything. Using that logic I would assume that even gravity can be disputed.So I cannot prove it to you. I can only say for the record that I am a witness to these things. One witness among thousands.

British thwart terror plot/Hezbollah ties to British Plot/FBI investigating terrorist cases

When I heard the news today regarding the British stopping the plans of terrorists to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage, my blood did more than just boil.

When I read through Newsmax.com later that Kenneth R. Timmerman, a senior correspondent and Middle East expert for Newsmax.com said that Hezbollah might be to blame for the terror plot thwarted by British security agencies, I found myself nodding my head in agreement.

When I came across an article stating that the FBI is investigating 10,000 terrorism cases, aside from a plot to blow up tunnels in New York City, I became fearful.

When I thought about what's going on, I began to fear for my children.

I don't understand when the leftwing nutcakes say things like, "Sure, there may be a terrorist attack here and there, but terrorism is not a problem as massive as the right makes it out to be."

Uh, what planet have they been on?

Cold hard facts: Arab Nations believe that Israel is a pirate state. They believe that the land Israel inhabits is Arab land. Islam believes that Christians and Jews are blasphemous, and must be eliminated from the planet. Radical Islam believes that the world is theirs to conquer, and anyone that does not believe in their ideology is an infidel and must be killed. Terrorists do not follow the rules of war, or the rules of humanity. Terrorists use civilians as human shields, their own children if they have to. Israel is surrounded by the enemy, by nations that want to annihilate her. The Jewish population in Israel lives in a continuous state of war because their neighbors never cease their aggressive operations against the tiny nation.

We must stand against terror, and support Israel. We owe it to Israel, our allies, humanity, and our children.

I fear for the world that my children, and their children, must grow up in. I wish it to be a safer world. Terrorism will never be completely defeated, but it can be pushed back. It can be held in check.

Israel will always be surrounded by the enemy. America will always be at risk. But fearing the terrorists, and refusing to travel, and refusing to defend our interests, or our ally, Israel, is exactly what the terrorists desire - - for putting fear in us is their first step toward world control.

We must not allow it. We must keep our resolve. We must not forget those who died. We must never forget those words spoken five years ago: ". . . the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001.

God Bless America. God Bless Israel. God Bless anyone willing to stand up against terror.

If Hezbollah ceases firing, we have peace. If Israel ceases firing, they will be annihilated.

The United Nations desires to pass a resolution that forces a cease-fire on Israel.

To make such a decision is a retreat from defending freedom and free nations worldwide, and is nothing more than an attempt to appease the threatening forces of militant Islam.

This is a warning sign that the attempt to derail American determination to defeat terrorism could be gaining strength and American leadership might be in danger of being forced into retreating.

On July 31, 2006, Syria's military raised its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for so-called Lebanese resistance against Israel. The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad was quoted as saying, "The barbaric war of annihilation of the Israeli aggression is waging on our people in Lebanon and Palestine is increasing in ferocity." Excuse me? This is coming from a man that is a part of an ideology that desires the annihilation of Israel as a state, as well as eventual domination of the West, and he calls Israel's actions to defend herself barbaric aggression?

In Connecticut if Ned Lamont defeats Senator Joe Lieberman (a longtime, Democratic, supporter of the war) in the primary it could be a major blow to America's stance in the war against terror. If Lamont wins by a large margin, Lieberman will probably drop out of the race, and push us as a nation to a decision point. A national-security debate more important than any since the years following World War II may open up and the questions put upon the table will be, "Do we seek victory against the forces opposing us? Or do we cut and run as a result of the naive belief that appeasement now will spare us from more horrific threats later?

There is every indication present that the U.S. State Department and France has gotten together to produce a resolution to the U.N. that would well be seen as a victory for Islamic terrorists and dictatorships. The draft resolution calls on Hezbollah and Israel to agree to an immediate cease-fire. It treats Israel as the moral equivalent of Hezbollah. Hezbollah (& Hamas) is the aggressor in this conflict. Any resolution should call for Hezbollah to disarm, not Israel. In turn, once the aggressors cease their activities, Israel will be glad to pull her troops out of southern Lebanon.

Do people not realize that Israel's move against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is in defense of herself?

Hezbollah refuses to follow the international rules of war. The terrorists consistently target civilians in Israel, promoting civilian deaths in Lebanon by using the Lebanese population as a human shield. Hezbollah troops blend in with the civilian population because they dress like civilians (in direct opposition to international law with requires combatants to dress like soldiers). Yet, they continue to portray all of the civilian casualties in this conflict as entirely Israel's fault. Qana is a case in point. Israel had information indicating that Hezbollah was using the area they hit in Qana as a base of operations to fire rockets into Israel. Israel leafleted the area repeatedly urging civilians to leave. The fact that civilians died in the attack by Israel is tragic, but was of Hezbollah's making, not Israel's. There is no strategic purpose served for Israel to target civilians. The civilian deaths, for which Hezbollah is responsible, do serve Hezbollah's strategic purposes by baiting the worldwide spectators to urge Israel to use more "restraint" while Hezbollah continues its rocket attacks specifically targeted against Israeli civilians.

As an added note, I believe that Israel has used a tremendous amount of restraint. If they weren't using restraint, the war would be over, and Lebanon, Syria, and anyone else that got in the way would be dead and their land would be nothing more than an international a parking lot.
Negotiation, by the way, has gone from proposing a strong NATO-led force that could disarm Hezbollah, to a weak little UN force that will have no effect on Hezbollah. The United Nations have had a 2,000 man force in Lebanon for the last six years, and all it did was allow Hezbollah to arm itself. What makes the UN think that a few more troops in a puny UN force that refuses to take any true military action is going to change things?

The Lebanese have more to fear from Syria and Iran than they do from the United States and France. Hezbollah have no intention of disarming. Syria and Iran have no intention of withdrawing their support from Hezbollah. The forces of terrorism, through such a resolution as the one that may be offered by the United Nations, will become stronger as the forces of democracy become weaker, placing our safety, and the safety of Israel, at a greater risk.

The liberal idea that this kind of UN Security Council resolution will halt Hezbollah's war (backed largely by Syria and Iran with indirect Chinese influence) against Israel is misguided and destructive. The UN is proving that it has no nerve, and that it is willing to undercut the efforts of the democracies to defend themselves. Neville Chamberlain allowed empty diplomacy like this to lull the world into a false sense of security about the nature of Hitler, and the result was the Second World War. Resolutions such as the one before the United Nations Security Council at this moment is nothing more than a rationalization that is lulling us into a similar self-deception regarding the threat of Radical Islam, with Israel's very existence hanging in the balance.

We need to continue to allow Israel to defend herself, and destroy Hezbollah as a threat to her security. Any resolution needs to focus on the roles of Syria and Iran in creating this conflict, and to insist on the implementation of the earlier UN resolution for disarming Hezbollah. Also, the UN should force Syria and Iran to pay reparations to Lebanon for the damage caused by the conflict.

Why hasn't Americans realized what Hezbollah's illegal tactics are all about? Why hasn't the United Nations (and the Europeans, for that matter) called for Hezbollah to move out of civilian areas, or demand that they wear military uniforms to identify themselves as combatants? Why does the world opinion not recognize Hezbollah's appalling encouragement of Lebanese civilian deaths?

The answer? Liberalism. It runs rampant through the minds of some very unfortunate people, and through the pages and broadcasts of the media.

Militant Islamic propaganda has gone a long way, and the liberals have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.


The world opinion, if common sense was a common commodity (of which it isn't), ought to be:

Disarm Hezbollah and Hamas.

Evict the Syrians and Iranians from Lebanese soil, or any place else they have their claws dug into.

Return Lebanon to the Lebanese government's control.

Demand that Israel's right to exist is not threatened by any nation, especially by those run by leaders sympathetic to radical Islamism.

People don't realize that this is an old war that has just escalated. It's nothing new. Problem is, we've been here before, and rage has given way to sadness. People have forgotten 9/11. They have forgotten what it feels like to be the target of terrorism. They have forgotten the anger and the rage we felt after the Twin Towers came down.

Israel experiences such terrorism against her daily. She is surrounded by the enemy. She is surrounded by nations that follow an ideology of violence and Israeli annihilation.

Mexico's Plan for the American Southwest

Referred to as the Reconquista Movement, Illegal Mexicans in America, Mexicans in Mexico, and some Mexican Americans are deadly serious when they claim that California and large sections of the American Southwest were stolen from Mexico by the United States in the 1800's, and they seek to reconquer this territory by taking the land away from America and returning it to Mexico. The final goal of this rising movement is to Reconquista (reconquer) these stolen territories for La Raza.

And how will this be done? Millions of illegals are pouring into the U.S., swearing allegiance to Mexico. A joke on my job (in the construction industry) is that they (the Mexicans) are breeding out the white people (a joke on me since my wife is Mexican, these jokesters claim). In other words, Mexico is going to reconguer the American Southwest with sheer numbers and presence. The Reconquista Movement believes that it is only a matter of time when they will take political control because the Hispanics will be the majority, and once California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are controlled by Mexican immigrants, the states will secede the United States and join Mexico, much in the same way the Confederate States seceded from the Union during the American Civil War.

And the left is pushing the Reconquista agenda gladly. The leftists in Mexico have maps incorporating large sections of the American Southwest and the theory that the U.S. stole these territories from Mexico - - and this is even being taught in "Hispanic Studies" programs in U.S. schools.

The plan is sinisterly sound. They plan to expoit American generosity to the fullest, while mocking us, and then illegals will get their citizenship for themselves and their children so that they can eventually vote to return to Mexico large sections of the American Southwest.

Do you remember the protests recently over illegal immigration that even the Mayor of Los Angeles marched in? Banners held during those rallies said things like, "I'm not illegal, I'm Mexican, and I'm in my Homeland." "We are Indigenous - - the only owners of this continent." And do you remember all of the Mexican flags waving?

A Minuteman recently observed this occurrence in Rancho Cucamonga, California:

"On January 7, 2006, the Minuteman Project held a National Day Laborer Site protest. Often, a day labor site is nothing more than a parking lot outside a building-materials store where the owner sees a business advantage to allowing illegal alien day laborers to stand around and wait for job offers.

At the day labor site in Rancho Cucamonga, the Minuteman Project videotaped an angry Mexican who came out into the street to shout insults. “Go back to Germany where you belong!” he shouted. “Stay in Germany! Get out of here!” Then, pointing demonstrably to the ground with his right index finger, he screamed, “This is Mexico! This is our land! Get out of here, racist pigs! Viva Saddam Hussein! Viva Cuba!”

Clearly, the illegal immigrants at the day labor center didn’t want to be identified, since they were planning to take jobs at below-minimum wages and not pay taxes. Yet, the claim that California is actually Mexico was not made lightly. For millions of Hispanics in the Unites States, and for millions more in Mexico, the assertion is made in deadly seriousness."

Jose Angel Gutiérrez, a political science professor and former head of the Mexican-American Studies Center at the University of Texas, Arlington, spouted this typical Reconquista rhetoric in a recent speech:

"We remain a hunted people. Now, you think you have a destiny to fulfill in this land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. We are a new Mestizo Nation. This is our homeland. We cannot, we will not, and we must not be made “illegal” in our homeland. We are not “immigrants” that came from another country to another country. We are migrants free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here.

We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging, white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."

The "Mexica Movement" is a large part of the belief system held by the Reconquista movement. The primary point of the Mexica Movement is that current U.S. citizens are colonialists and European imperialists who stole the land from its true owners, the Mexican Race, which dates back untold centuries by way of their Aztec roots. Here is some rhetoric from the Mexica Movement’s website:

"Mexica Movement is a Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) rights educational organization for the people of Mexican, “Central American,” “Native American,” and First Nation descend of Anahuac, in what is now called “North America.” Occupied Anahuac includes the colonial nations of Canada, U.S., Mexico (also controlled by Europeans), and “Central America” (down to include “Costa Rica,” which are also controlled by Europeans). “North America is the geographical area of the culture of Anahuac, which is the culture of corn, which brought about our civilizations. We, the Nican Tlaca people of Anahuac, are one people. We are one race. We have origins in one culture. We include all Full-bloods and Mixed-bloods as Nican Tlaca. We include ourselves with all similar movements in the Western Hemisphere (including those now starting in “South America.”)"

Of course, Liberals use race as an argument, and since in their eyes they base their entire political vision on race, it is politically incorrect to call the organization racist.

Aztlán is the mythical place of origin of the Aztec people. In the politics of illegal immigration, Aztlán has come to represent that part of the U.S. that the Reconquista movement intends to reclaim for an expanded Mexico. Using this base, maps have been drawn to illustrate Aztlán as a redefined Mexico which includes much of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Aztlán is the dream of another radical organization, the Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, which translates as the “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán,” more commonly abbreviated to the acronyms “M.E.Ch.A” or “MEChA.” The symbol of MEChA is a black eagle against a red background. The eagle holds in its right claw a weapon similar to a machete, and in its left hand a stick of dynamite. In the beak of the eagle is the lighted fuse needed to blast the dynamite.

The intent of MEChA is clear in its national constitution:

"The Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlán must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlán."

And underneath this incredible racial agenda is a radical leftist political agenda that shares with socialists, communists, and Islamism the goal of destroying the United States. MEChA agrees with radical socialists, and communists that the United States is a colonial, imperialist country controlled by Europeans and dedicated to capitalist exploitation of workers. MEChA presents a version of Marxism with a racist twist. And MEChA has a huge presence as a student organization with more than 300 chapters in high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.

Reconquista desires to push back the U.S.-Mexican border to where it stood before the 1846–1848 Mexican-American War settled the breakaway of Texas from Mexico. Reconquista radicals wish to see the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase negated. Extreme Reconquista radicals would like to revisit the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, which established the border of U.S. territory from the Rocky Mountains.

The only trouble with annulling the Adams-Onis treaty is that would cede the western United States to Spain, not Mexico. Reconquista radicals of today may speak the Spanish language, but their cultural and racial orientation harks back to the indigenous Indian or Aztec roots of ancient Mexico. Reconquista radicals want to deal with European Spain about as much as they want to deal with the United States.

The massive protests in March, April, and May 2006 supporting illegal aliens were entirely one-sided expressions of First Amendment rights, and those who dared take to the streets in counter-protest, like the Minutemen, risked attack and injury from the politically intolerant who were thrusting their message upon America as if theirs were the only legitimate message.

Protests marched onto freeways and blocked traffic in major cities, the point being to disrupt business-as-usual. The protest organizers originally encouraged students to walk out of schools, until the teachers’ unions complained that schools might lose government funds. Students displayed openly the leftist ideas that they had been taught about immigration, flying the Mexican flag above an upside down U.S. flag at the schoolyard.

The goal of the liberal Mexican Left is to launch an invasion that would only become obvious to Middle America when it was too late. Along the way, agents of various terrorist groups are hopping across the Mexican border as well. It seems to me that the Reconquista movement would love to see a terrorist attack on America again, as long as the victims were not members of the Mexican Radical Left.

My wife is currently applying for citizenship to the United States. She grew up in the U.S. Her parents came over to America as true immigrants. They followed the rules, jumped through the hoops, and envisioned a better future for themselves and their children in the Land of Opportunity. They followed all of the laws, worked hard, and pursued the American Dream. My wife, the only one of the children born in Mexico (she is the oldest, and fell victim to the Aztlan rhetoric through most of her childhood and young adult years - - until now...her main reason for seeking citizenship is so that she can vote, and be yet another voice against the liberal left) is pursuing her bachelor's degree, and her family is an example of what immigrants truly are, and that they have been successful in chasing the American Dream. She sees these Mexican Leftists as users and criminals. If any of them receives amnesty, that is a slap in the face to her, and her family.

With the recent release of the Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem, Middle America is beginning to feel like we are losing America to the demands of Hispanic illegal immigrants. They are an invading army posing as a gift of cheap labor. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. As long as we continue to allow them to jump the border without consequence, the battle will continue to be lost. The primary intent of the millions of illegals crossing the border is to take over and re-invent the United States in their own image and to their liking. Action must be immediate. Our resolve must be sound.

God Bless America. We must defend her now. The invasion continues, and these invaders must be treated like the criminal members of an invading force that they are.

Ruthless, cynical and cruel enemy.

Israel struck a building containing civilians, 37 of which are children, and even though they provided film footage proving that the enemy was firing rockets at Israel from beside this building, they are under immense attack by the liberal media.

Hezbollah, and Hamas, are terrorist groups. They don't play by the rules. They don't wear uniforms, and they use non-combatants as shields.

Qana is a hub for Hezbollah, and Israel asked the citizens to leave the area. Hezbollah made the people stay. The terrorists wanted this to happen. The terrorists designed it to happen. Islamic Terrorists are willing to sacrifice innocents to further their cause. Israel must attack the areas of Hezbollah activity. They must not stop until Hezbollah is destroyed, and unable to continue to attack Israel. Disarmament is not good enough. The enemy must be completely disabled.

My post indicating that "Radical Islamism is a bigger threat than Nazism" was also posted on a Forum I am a member of called Absolute Write. I was met with angry responses, one indicating that I would be best dressed in a straight jacket. These people of this forum accused me of being inflamatory against the poor, poor Muslim people.

Some of their responses included:

"Extremists of any flavor are dangerous. Including homegrown American ones. Probably especially those."

"...terrorist acts through history, carefully noting the overwhelming number of them committed by "homegrown american" terrorists. My god, when will the world wake up and just wipe us off the map?"

"...your ability to reduce ordinary ambivalence regarding enormously complex issues to so much frothing far-right bullsh*t never fails to completely amaze me."

"Best dial down the inflammatory rhetoric, or take it somewhere else."

"...your political ideology is seedy..."

Of course there was a couple (two to be exact) posters that defended me, and I appreciate them, but the response made me want to abandon my membership in that forum. However, I'm staying for the same reason that Kevin McCullough chose to air his conservative radio shows in Blue States. Take the fight to the liberals, and maybe some of it will stick.

The protesters attacking the UN building brought chills. The Venezuelan leader who is aligned with Castro is visiting Iran. Iran and Syria are the driving force behind this. Nobody is getting up and saying that it is Hezbollah, and in turn, Iran and Syria and all of radical Islamism, that caused those children to be killed in Qana. They are so busy trying to undermine the U.S. Government and our troops and anything that resembles support for Israel that they can't see the truth.

The Islamic Terrorists must be completely stopped. If they are not, Israel's existence is at risk, as is America's. That is the cold, hard truth.

An extreme ideology that is a bigger threat than Nazism was

New Hezbollah rockets are raining down on Israel. Hezbollah launched a new kind of rocket yesterday making its deepest strike into Israel yet.

Hezbollah and Hamas must be disarmed. Israel should not have to tolerate having terrorist armies on their borders. Israel should not stop until Hezbollah is defeated.

This war that Israel finds herself waging is the same war America is fighting in Iraq. The enemies are the same Islamic terrorists backed by Syria and Iran, and the stakes are the same - whether Islamic totalitarianism or democracy will prevail.

Behind Syria and Iran is Russia and China, and so Israel must also rely on her ally, the United States of America. Yet, the liberal media that has been attempting to sabotage America's war in Iraq is not undermining the Israeli effort as well.

The American Press has said the following regarding this recently:

Item one: As Israel came under attack last week, the producer of a talk show on a major Washington D.C. radio station declared that because the existence of Israel was bringing us to the brink of nuclear war, he could no longer support Israel's right to exist.

This producer is a left-wing Jew.

Item two: Around the same time, the website Daily Kos, which is a power in the Democratic Party and is spearheading the campaign to unseat Joe Lieberman, posted an item headed, "Imagine a world without Israel." The subhead read, "Or is that not allowed?" This kind of hate-Israel sentiment is common on the left, and the left's influence is growing, especially in the Democratic Party.

David Horowitz calls Israel "the canary in the mine." The Islamic terror war against the United States mirrors its terror war against Israel, just as the left's attack on Israel mirrors its attack on America.

Just as Islamists accuse America of being the root cause of 9/11, so the left accuses Israel, a victim of fifty years of Arab wars to destroy it, of being the aggressor in the Middle East.

Item three: The cover of The Washington Post's magazine last Sunday was headlined, "Is the Israel Lobby Too Powerful?" The idea that Bush-Cheney-Rice and Rumsfeld are manipulated by a bunch of second and third tier Jews in the Administration is a modern-day version of the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion which provided a text for Hitler and claimed that Jews ruled the world. But today it is entering the mainstream of liberal thought at an alarming speed.
Part of the reason this kind of anti-Israel, anti-American propaganda has traction is that people are woefully in the dark when it comes to the nature of the enemy we face.

Muslim and radical fanatics and haters of America and Israel operating in the universities and the press, along with their liberal fellow travelers, have been preaching the gospel that the Palestinians and the terrorists are actually victims of the imperialism of the West, and that their heinous acts against humanity are legitimate expressions of hopelessness and despair.

Sounds like the argument Hitler used to convince the German people that all Jews must be slaughtered.

And then there is the link right here in America. Hezbollah is currently invading the United States from Mexico. These Hezbollah agents are coming across the border from Mexico with ease, and some could be coming across with weapons of mass destruction.

Some have been arrested and are currently in federal prison. One group is convicted for sending money back from Detroit to Hezbollah agents in Lebanon. There are Hezbollah sleeper cells in America right now!

We will take another attack if these Hezbollah agents are not all captured, and if the border is not sealed shut fast. The border problem is not about Civil Rights as the Illegals cry out - it is about protecting the citizens, men - women - and children - of the United States of America.

Radical Islam does not play by any rules. It is their goal, no matter how much you want to kid yourself otherwise, to destroy Israel and America. We have to defeat this extreme ideaology. It is a larger threat than Nazism was.

World War III

A week ago on NBC's "Meet the Press," Newt Gingrich described the scale of terrorist attacks and plots, world conflicts, and the hostile declarations by rogue states and their pursuit of nuclear weapons as an emerging Third World War.

With the emergence of problems in India, the crisis regarding North Korea, attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel, the active political, financial, and military support of Iran and Syria, and the terrorism performed around the globe by the Islamic Terrorist Network, in addition to our own war on terror, I think that Mister Gingrich's assessment is correct.

And Iran is at the epicenter.

This is a Third World War, and the United States and her allies face a long war that includes, but is not limited to, battling with the irreconcilable radical wing of Islam.

Recently, in this war, these are some of the disturbing events that have unfolded:

--Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas is waging war against Israel in both southern Lebanon and Gaza.

--Seven bombings in Mumbai, India.

--North Korea launched seven missiles in deliberate contempt of repeated warnings from the United States, Japan and the United Nations Security Council

--Seven Americans were seen on video tape in Miami pledging allegiance to al Qaeda.

--A plot to bomb New York City subways and tunnels was discovered.

--18 Canadians were arrested for plotting terror with an explosive force twice of that used in the Oklahoma City bombing in a plan to blow up the Canadian parliament.

--The British Government has uncovered more than 20 major conspiracies by Islamic terrorists and as many as 1,200 potential terrorists now live in the United Kingdom.


And during this time of war and crisis, our own American media commits treason against the United States daily.

Americans must recognize that we, and all free people everywhere, are in a world war pitting free people against terrorists that wish to bring our world into a dark age with them in charge.

All of the worldwide terror is connected. It is a network. The bombings in India are related to the attacks on Israel. The attacks on Israel were designed to take our eyes off of Iran's nuclear aspirations. Want proof that it is all connected? Iran is erecting a statue of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in a gesture of alliace, and he is linked to Castro's efforts to weaken America. Suicide bombings in Iraq are further linked to efforts to kill thousands of civilians in Canada and New York.

There are more than 800 suicide bombers in Iraq alone. Several thousand over the last decade worldwide. Talking does not work against murderous terrorists, and anybody that undermines our effort to defend ourselves (yes, I am talking to you, New York Times and all of your liberal media cronies) needs to be prosecuted for treason against the United States of America.

By the way, have you heard about the University of Wisconsin professor teaching students that 9/11 is a conspiracy in which Bush had the government set off explosives to bring down the World Trade Center, and hired people to hijack the planes so that he had a reason to declare war on the Middle East? This professor is protected by his right of free speech. However, you know as well as I do, that if he had said anything about God in the classroom, he would have been fired.

In San Diego a federal court has ordered that the cross at Mt. Soledad be taken down.

Groups are demanding that plaques of the ten commandments be removed from all federal court houses.

I am shocked and dismayed that people honestly think that God is a larger threat to them than radical Islamic terrorists.

I stand with our troops. I support our president. I believe in the American way, freedom, and liberty.

Freedom isn't free. It must be defended continuously.

The enemy is currently actively seeking weapons of mass destruction with which to threaten the United States, and there is no amount of touchy-feely karma and enlightenment that is going to stop them. The global threat is going to return to the United States if we don't stop them now, where they are at, with our military might.

Americans must understand the nature and scale of the challenge we now face. We must stand firm. Stand strong. Stand against the enemy, or else freedom and liberty will be lost forever.

I am proud of America - - but the liberal media would have you believe otherwise

I am proud of our troops.

The mainstream liberal media would rather you believe that U.S. troops in Iraq are guilty of oppression, murder, and that they oppose the war effort. The liberal media would have you believe that we are losing the war and our troops think so too. Fact is: Our troops are winning the war, regardless of the media's attemps to undermine the effort, or the New York Times' efforts to sabotage the war. Our troops are upholding the highest standards of decency and selflessness in their effort to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of freedom-hating terrorist fanatics.

I am proud of Israel.

The conflict they find themselves in is simple to understand, though the liberal media claim that the Israeli Defense Force are the terrorists. The liberal press call the invasion "Israeli occupation," "an attempt to gain more Jewish settlements," "a cycle of violence perpetrated by Israel," "more proof of the rise of the Zionist Empire," and so forth. CNN actually has stated that Israel is acting "disproportionately" in responding to Hezbollah's attacks. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, said, "I condemn without reservations the attack in southern Lebanon." He went on to describe Israel's military response as "terrorism." As usual, the liberal press and liberal political worldview is sympathetic to terrorists, but has forgotten that Israel is only a tiny sliver of land amidst a vast sea of enemies. The liberals seem to forget that Israel is a nation of 7 million, with a military of about 200,000 personnel surrounded by Arab nations and other Muslim enemies of Israel (which does not necessarily mean every Arab and every Muslim) that desire the destruction of Israel. Iran, Syria, Al-Quaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, and a vast sea of other groups and nations support terror against Israel, and want the Jewish nation, and every Jewish person on the planet, annihilated. In 1947-48 the Arab states tried to destroy the tiny Jewish state as the United Nations worked at forming Israel. In 1967 a number of Arab nations tried to destroy Israel in the Six-Day War. Two months after that war the Arab countries convened in Sudan and announced on September 1, 1967 that regarding Israel there will be no peace, no recognition, and no negotiations. Six years later, in 1973, Egypt invaded the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula, setting up a bull-crap treaty in 1978 that gave the entire oil-rich Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt. Then, three years later Sadat of Egypt was murdered by an Egyption Muslim Terrorist group, a move vocally supported by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, because Sadat deserved the death for doing the unforgiveable: he had recognized Israel and made peace with her. Israel aches for peace so bad that the Palestinians could probably have the West Bank and Gaza tomorrow if they and the Arab League recognized Israel, normalized relations, and renounced violence against the Jewish State. Give Israel peace, and Israel will give you land. They proved that with Egypt in 1978. Israel made such a promise to Arafat during the Clinton Administration, offering 97 percent of the West Bank and 3 percent of Israeli land in exchange for peace. Palestine's rejection of the offer was followed by Israeli citizens being routinely blown up by Palestinian terrorists. They don't want to share land with the Jews. They want "the pirate state of Israel" destroyed. They state that a true Arab wishes for Israel's demise, and will settle for no less. CNN is right, the war going on is disproportionate, but the disproportion is against Israel. I am glad that Israel is not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. They have every right to defend themselves.

I am disappointed that the liberal media has become a worse enemy to the United States than has the terrorists.

Radical Islam spreads terror because they hate us for our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and because we refuse to treat women as second-class citizens, we don't kill gays, and we are a free society. The liberal press claims to be our window into the news of the world, then acts recklessly in total disregard of our safety. Last December when the New York Times ran the story revealing that the NSA was conducting electronic surveillance of calls from suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists overseas to persons in the United States I was appalled. Not because of what the NSA was doing. I was appalled at the fact that an American News Agency would undermine a war effort during a critical time of the war. Then they printed the story about how we were tracking terrorists through their bank transactions. Again, the paper committed treason against the United States. And in these cases, along with a dozen others that I don't have time to talk about, the U.S. government asked the Times not to publish the story, and they did. But if the government prosecutes the press for this, they will use their power of brainwashing the people into believing more polls rating the president as a failure. Why does the Times, or any of the other Liberal News Agencies, do this? Do they hate America? Do they dislike their freedoms? Do they wish that we will be attacked again? The press is at war with Bush and our troops as we are at war with merciless enemies that could care less if they killed our children in a cowardly terrorist attack. The press is an enemy that must be contained. They must stop their treasonous activities. They must cease or we will lose our freedom.

And through this all, the Times stated that they are upset because they are being singled out.

What kind of lapse of logic are they suffering from? Are they truly that stupid?

Unfortunately, the answer is "Yes."

Islamic Terrorist Network of America

This is downright frightening.

Getting ready for an Israeli ground invasion

Hezbollah has rained down rockets on Haifa and other cities in Israel continuously of late.

On the Lebanese border Israeli tanks and troops are currently amassing there.

The Isreali Defense Force has stated there is not going to be a full-scale Isreali invasion. They don't want to push all the way to Beirut. There will be only limited operations aimed at disabling Hezbollah.

The goal is to stop Hezbollah from flinging rockets into Isreal and for the release of the two Isreali troops being held in Iran.

The Lebanese Army has not been strong enough to deal with Hezbollah, a group some claim is larger and stronger than Al-Quaeda (and is backed primarily by Iran), so Isreal must take care of them and prevent them from further pounding of cities in Israel.

The Isreali Ambassador claims that about half of Hezbollah's weapons and munitions have been destroyed.

John Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. states that the connection of Hezbollah to Iran and Syria should not be overlooked.

I agree.

Israel continues to claim that this is a war against Hezbollah only, and they have a right to wage this war since it is Hezbollah that has been attacking Israel.

Just because Syria was pushed out of Lebanon last year during the Cedar Revolution, this does not mean that Syria is not heavily involved.

Hezbollah has become a state within the state of Lebanon, and Lebanon is not strong enough to confront Hezbollah. Had Lebanon been strong enough in the past to deal with Hezbollah, then perhaps Israel's involvement would not have become necessary.

Fact is, Hezbollah has been attacking Israeli settlements and cities, and Israel must defend herself.

If I were the other nations, I would be backing up quickly, because Israel on the prowl will only mean defeat to any army that gets in Israel's way.

Life on this planet of ours

When life gives you lemons you toss them aside and grow a peach tree.

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror
waiting for your reflection to smile first.

I have been absent for a few days because my wife spent a couple days in the hospital, and I was there by her side (not sleeping or eating) the entire time. I love my wife and could not imaging a single day without her in my life. As much as the world situation continues to brew, and World War III lurks in the shadows, as Newt Gingrich would indicate, my life with my wife takes precidence. She is home, now, alive and confused after a situation that could have ended her life. She is one of the healthiest people I know, yet suddenly she has been struck down unexpectantly.

My dad has always said, "You are only as strong as your weakest link."

He's right.

Thanks for your support and prayers.

God Bless America.

Israel prowls against terrorism, Palestine, Syria, Iran. . .

Syria, and her ambassadors, are done with Beirut. Ja'afari, the Syrian Ambassador said, "We cannot go in, then go out and come in like mercenaries, it will not happen. But, we wish Lebanon well."

In turn, the Diplomat from Syria also stated that the Hezbollah attacks on Israeli soldiers did not warrant such a strong response from Jerusalem.

He also stated that Israel's nuclear installations could eventually be targeted by Hezbollah, later claiming that Syria knows of seven Isreli nuclear centers all over the country. He also stated that it was Syria's forced withdrawal from Lebanon (Syria had previously occupied Lebanon for 20 years) that has allowed the Hezbollah attacks on Israeli settlements, concluding that Washington bears some of the responsibility for the current escalation of tensions.

In turn, Iran's president warned Israel against extending its offensive in Lebanon to neighboring Syria, saying such a move would be regarded as an attack on the whole Islamic World.

Okay, I've had enough of this. Attacking Syria is an attack on the whole Islamic World? Like Syria is this innocent little country minding its own business, or something. When we moved in Afghanistan and Iraq I felt we should have also invaded Syria and Iran at that time, but everybody scoffed at what I said.

How about this? Attacking Israel is an attack on the whole Jewish World -- and the Arab nations have been doing that ever since Jacob and Esau's situation with Isaac over a bowl of soup! (You'll have to refer to the Old Testament to understand that statement, and honestly, I haven't the time to hold a sermon just now).

The Arab world calls Israel a pirate state, and occupying regime (West Bank and Gaza), and now Iran is calling on all Muslim countries to create a united front against Israel.

Oh, and the captured Israeli prisoners that this all started over are being transferred to Iran.

What kind of dog-caca is this?

I hope the world wakes up soon, or that Israel makes minced meat of the area (of which they are completely capable of) or else North Korea and Iraq and Osama will be the least of our worries. Nonetheless, Israel is our ally, our friend, and not only has a right to defend herself, but we should be there by her side through it all.

I guess it is finally time to crush the remaining dictators and terrorist sympathizers.

Victim 

The Democratic Party is now using images of flag draped coffins to raise money for their campaigns

Is it possible for the Democratic Party to stoop any lower?

see the ad here

The ad is typical liberal doom and gloom. They have obviously recognized that in order to have a chance to win any election times must be bad. The apocalypse must be upon us. The ad is filled with the flashes of high gas prices, hurricanes on the radar, and car bombings (presumably in Iraq).

Here's the problem for the liberals -- things are actually going pretty well.

The use of our dead soldiers for the purpose of raising money and trying to make the Republican Party look bad is disgusting. You just don't do that. It's wrong.

But since when would the liberals know the difference between right and wrong?

Terror Strikes India - the liberal press continues its idiocy - Superman no longer fights for the American Way

Radical Islamic Terrorists struck a number of crowded trains and buses killing nearly 200 people yesterday near Bombay, India.

These attacks are simply more evidence that Islam does not mean peace. In fact, the jihad warriors despise democracy, will do all that they can to resist it, and the idiots in the press (the BBC and NY Times included) fall for the propaganda spread by these people.

Islamic terrorism and violence is provided for in their Koran. The promise of virgins in paradise to those who die killing the infidels encourages suicide bombings. They rejoice in the slaughter of Christians, Jews, Americans, and anybody else that dares resist them -- and then lie through their teeth to protect themselves, and break treaties in the process.

And all the while the liberal press embraces the terrorists, claims that Bush is the real terrorist, and that our country is going into the toilet because of him.

These very same journalists fail to mention that the economy is growing thanks to the Bush Tax Cuts three years ago, the federal deficit has shrunk a bit, and millions of new jobs have been created. They fail to notice the growth of democracy in Iraq. They forget about the fact that 500 WMD's have been found, only providing more proof justifying the war in Iraq. They fail to mention to the viewers while stating that millions of dollars are going into the war that the Iraq War is actually consuming far less of the U.S. GDP than other wars in the past. The liberal press denies that strong conservative leaders have been winning straw polls in state conventions around the country.

It's nuts. They are nuts. Sometimes I think it is their goal to destroy America, and the American way.

By the way, not that this is any surprise, but here's more evidence that the press and Hollywood nut-jobs are doing whatever they can to undermine America:

The Original line of Superman was "truth, justice and the American Way."

The new Superman movie cut out the words: "the American Way."

Word is, Warner Brothers doesn't want to offend any foreign viewers with pro-U.S. sentiment.

That's pretty sad when the left wing wack-jobs even have enough pull to pull the pride of being American out of a movie about a traditional, American comic book hero.

Then again, what is the American way now? Thanks to the leftists, it is not what it was when Superman had flown by before. The new way is far from American. The new way is liberal, idiotic, and anti-American. I'm surprised they didn't decide to put a Koran in Superman's hand.

The only thing that seems to remain the same is the fact that Superman's hidden identity is that of a newpaper journalist. Of course, as I have said before, that makes sense, because no one would ever guess that Superman works for a New York Newspaper during his non-hero hours -- simply because a journalist is exactly the opposite of a hero - and if anything, would probably print information that would lead to Superman's death if they could anyway.

The presence of WMD's in Iraq

Speaking to a liberal friend (hey, aside from his politics, he's a nice guy-- Besides, I have a new-age liberal cousin that would blow him out of the water with liberal idiocy) it seems those people (the liberal-minded, Bush hating wackoes) are still screaming "Bush lied to us. There were no WMD's. We have no business in Iraq because Bush lied to us."

Did Bush lie to you?

As I have stated before, when it comes to unreasonable dictators like Saddam, just because you don't find something doesn't mean it didn't exist. But here's the thing - on a number of occasions weapons of mass destruction were found (or used by Iraq) but in an attempt to support their "Bush lied" argument, the liberal media conveniently decided that the WMD in question was in fact not a WMD.

Hmmmm.

When Saddam Hussein wanted to kill thousands of Kurds, he carpet-bombed them with chemical weapons.

"Oh, but the Kurds were traitors to Iraq," my friend cried out. "Besides, those weren't technically weapons of mass destruction."

You know, if we found WMD's that the liberals were willing to accept as being WMD's, you know they'd accuse Bush of planting them.

Liberals tend to base their opinions on a fantasy world where facts have no bearing. Just ask Michael Moore.

Hannity and Colmes stated that WMD's were found in their episode with Rep. Hoekstra. See it

HERE

And of course Colmes argues, first, the weapons were degraded, and second, they weren't the WMD's we went to war over.

Has everyone forgotten the tons of natural and enriched unranium we found? Howabout the roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas near a U.S. military convoy in 2004?

The book, DISINFORMATION by Richard Miniter indicates that the items listed above, as well as 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons, 1,000 radioactive materials (ideal for radioactive dirty bombs), and 17 chemical warheads (some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin) were also found.

On Hotair.com I found a list that reads like this:

5,000 sarin-filled 122mm rockets
44,500 liters of GB/GF
120 liters of GB
5,000 liters of D4
1,100 liters of dichlorethane
16.5 tones of thiodiglycol
5.5 tons of mustard agent (an agent used often by Saddam, even in the presence of our troops)

And also, remember Dick Cheney stating that we had satellite photos showing convoys of trucks heading to Syria.

Must a WMD be detonated on top of a New York Times journalist for them to recognize the presence of the weapons?

How obvious is obvious?

Even if the above numbers are not completely accurate, the presence of the weapons are (and have been) undeniable.

Senator Rick Santorum, R-Pa stated a couple weeks ago, "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard and sarin nerve agent. . ."

I don't know what else to say. Perhaps, as Anne Coulter said, the New York Times building needs to be hit before they realize that Iraq is a just war, terrorists have weapons of mass destruction, and you can't reason with the unreasonable.

Period.

A Promise to the Future

Why do we combat the treasonous actions of the New York Times?

Why do we support the spread of freedom to places such as Iraq?

Why do we wage war against terrorism?

Why are we outraged when the liberal media determines that 7 Marines and a Navy Corpsman are guilty before proven innocent?

Why do we speak out regarding the challenges facing our nation?

The answer is simply to leave the generations of the future with the best America that we can -- a safe, free, and prosperous America.

Unfortunately, the media has not held up their end of the responsibilities of keeping America safe.

If we are to preserve for our posterity the freedom and prosperity our ancestors preserved for us, we must continue to assert our outrage against the barbarism of our enemies, and against the treasonous actions of the New York Times and the rest of the liberal media. Our outrage must create resolution through action -- we must continue to fight against the liberal lie -- we must continue to be outraged -- we must continue to follow the path to victory. For the sake of the coming American generations of the future - our children and their children - we can accept no less.

First they fire the missiles, and now North Korea mocks international criticism.

North Korea doesn't care that nobody appreciates the threat they pose. In fact, they are threatening to fire off more rockets.

In the face of nearly unanimous world condemnation of the seven missile tests on Wednesday, North Korea released a blustery statement declaring that it had the right to develop and test its weapons, and vowed unspecified retaliation against anyone who tries to stop it.

This is proof that all of the talking that liberals and new agers preach doesn't do a thing. We've been talking all nicety to the North Koreans since during Clinton's years, and North Korea's response is to become nuclear capable and to test a missile that could reach the U.S. west-coast mainland.

For 13 years we have talked, and for 13 years the North Korean dictatorship has lied and hunkered down and continued to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

The strategy of talking has failed.

Liberals and activists want us to talk to the Islam Radicals, to Iran and Iraq, to the Chinese, and to North Korea. You can't reason with the unreasonable, and we can't afford failure regarding North Korea anymore.

Though we have a missile defense system, it is not proven technology just yet, so we cannot afford to wait and attempt to shoot the next missile down after it is launched. America's actions must be decisive. We are faced with a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship acting in defiance of all of its international commitments. Talking time is over. Either they dismantle their missiles, or we must dismantle them ourselves.

North Korea could take out a west coast city to impress us with how serious they are. Imagine the political fallout. Imagine how they would try to explain away that they allowed such a thing because Washington was trying to be prudent and cautious.

Saving American lives and American cities is less risky than waiting for North Korea to launch a missile at us. I don't care how we do it, but we must take action and ensure that there are no more launches. It is a painful fact, and it is one that Washington must act upon.

Pyongyang is an international outlaw and needs to be treated as such. Otherwise, if allowed to pursue his nuclear ambitions, he will be a nuclear model for other dangerous nations.

There must be serious and effective economic sanctions applied to North Korea. And we have to use our Navy, deploying our fleet within range of any missile that may be fired. We must arm the strategic missile defense visibly. We must make it clear to North Korea that we will destroy any missile deployed by them, and we will destroy it over their territory. We must convince them that we will not tolerate anymore breaches in anymore of their international agreements. Strong resolve and iron will is the strongest deterrent. Peace through strength. . . not a bunch of talking.

I'm Back from the Oregon Coast, and man, what a trip. . .

oregon06 

See that big smile? It's called the joy of paradise. The house is in the hills surrounded by forest, and five minutes from the harbor. When the time comes, and that may be very soon, we will move up there permanently. Tonight, after I have calmed down, rested, and realized I'm back in Southern California where it is too hot, too smoggy, too crowded, and there are too many illegals runnin' around, I'll have an article for you about North Korea's 7 missile test-launches. . . as well as comments on a few other things going on in the world. Stay tuned, and thanks for visiting my blog.