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2006-12-15 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-15 08:51|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I got chills reading this. Fix bayonets, Mr. President.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2006-12-15 09:53|| 2006-12-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent! Precisely what is needed, ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! Slay anyone who resists, and slay most, but not all, of the onlookers. The TTP and "fight" here has become basecamp Vietlite! Send the lawyers home, shi* can the ROE, arm the troops to the teeth and send them forth. It'll be quiet in 6 months or less!

Posted by Besoeker 2006-12-15 10:17|| 2006-12-15 10:17|| Front Page Top

#3 IMHO if the President did exactly what PowerLine advocates without bringing on at least the new Dem leadership, it would be in political terms the equivalent of the invasion of Cambodia. The Dhimmis may not be as willing as they said to bail now, but I fear something like that would end up invoking the War powers Act, or worse.

We just paid the cost, it's called the 2006 midterms.

Bringing the left on board not only would be impossible politically, but it would be like bringing Al Jazeera into a military campaign planning session. Not matter what someone, namely our hostile military enemies, would be tipped off.

My thinking is that had the left shown the slightest inclination to help us keep secrets in a time of war, and to back the war they themselves originally voted for I would have no problem with Bush brining Pelosi and her drapers into his confidence.

But that hasn't happened.

We have a press and a leftist political opposition that thinks nothing of undermining our military operations and war, helping our armed and hostile enemy kill more Americans as well as Iraqis.

Why should we hand them another opportunity to do so without threatening dire legal consequences to the leakers and defeatists amoungst them, and then following with vigorous prosecutions through if when they do?

Remember this if you remember nothing else:

Liberals love dead Americans!

Posted by badanov 2006-12-15 10:34|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-15 10:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Commandeer a half hour in prime time to tell the American people, and the world, that we have clear evidence of Iran's involvement in killing American servicemen.

That's exactly what Colin Powell did at President Bush's orders to justify the invasion of Iraq (except for the commandeering part). Ever since, we've had to hear a worldwide litany of lies, faked pictures, there never were any WMD etc and so forth. All the evidence in the world, all the smoking guns and tearful confessions by the head of the Iranian program on CNN wouldn't buy us the belief of that portion of the nation and the world that simply does not want to believe. The only way to make it fly would be for the heads of Germany, France and Russia to lay out the evidence with great indignation, and that will never, ever happen.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-15 11:28|| 2006-12-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree badanov. This is silly talk at this point. This is what should have been done intitially. Now the opportunity has been pissed away. Aren't you folks reading the news ? The Donks are going to have GW and Cheney paralyzed by investigations. Any further actions to ramp troop levels etc. will be stymied if not outright rejected. Funding will be delayed by endless debating. This round has been lost. That's why this administrations' actions thru the summer and fall were so critical. And, they blew it. So, the power has changed. For two more years. Troop retraction, if not outright withdrawal would be prudent right now. We need to regroup. Get the force level back up. Replace the equipment. Get ready for the next round. We have to be extremely careful of who is nominated in 2008 so we have a chance to win. Not McCain. Guilianni can't do it either. I really don't know who. But, if Hilldebest wins with Demo majorities in control, you'll see another military force bleedout like the 90's. This is what is so very, very important now.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-15 11:41|| 2006-12-15 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 TW, most Americans (at least the ones in the South and Midwest) don't care the tiniest bit about world opinion (The rest of the world really doesn't want to know what we think of them.) and as for the rest of our countrymen, their Bush Derangement Syndrome is so severe they begrudge him his every breath. The president only has to convince real Americans of the necessity of his actions and be willing to ignore the rest.

Posted by RWV 2006-12-15 11:47|| 2006-12-15 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 SpecOp: Defeatest drivel you're spewing mate! Ruck up man! Corrective action, immediately taken in the proper kill boxes will put the administration back on track! Nothing works like success. Give the troops the tools and ROE, they will succeed. Fuc* the donks and commies. The 65% solution, employed AGGRESSIVELY and WITH ENTHUSIASM WILL PRODUCE SUCCESS!

Posted by Besoeker 2006-12-15 11:50|| 2006-12-15 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Besoeker, it's clear you really, really need those milk tarts!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-15 13:10|| 2006-12-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 If only....

Posted by Anon4021 2006-12-15 13:13|| 2006-12-15 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing like the clairity of being there and doing it, eh Beso? We should force congress into a "Ride Along" program outside the Green zone. That just might change a few things. There are only a few times, and war is one, when you attack first and talk after the dust settles. Iran has been asking for it since 1979, my vote is to give it to the political and military targets in spades!

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-12-15 13:46|| 2006-12-15 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Sorry to disappoint Besoeker. I personally feel as you do. I've said that over the past coupla years. But the public mood in US has changed. That's a reality that has to be faced. When this new Congress convenes, they're going to beat on GW like a little tin drum. They thought their olive branch, Baker-Hamilton, would be swallowed like the bad medicine it is. Georgie spit it out. They're gonna be on him like stink on shit. Watch and see. I'm still upset that this wasn't done right from day one. I believe in fighting with ferocity and killing all the enemy I see. I was always in trouble for this, because higher ups always have to pull thier thumbs out of their ass and stick them in the wind to see what kind of hell they're going to catch. But the opportunity has passed. You'll see. They won't appropriate operations funding. They won't replace the equipment that is needed ASAP. They will probably not approve further deployment of Guard/Reserve. The troops can be moved from Korea. That should have been done two years ago. But even that requires funding. I just don't see it, that's all. Unfortunately, I've seen this cycle happen before, so I remain a pessimist.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-15 16:54|| 2006-12-15 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Liberals love dead Americans!

And they love dead American Soldiers even more.

This is one American that loves dead liberals.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-12-15 17:46|| 2006-12-15 17:46|| Front Page Top

#13 The factor or dimension of TIME is as much agz Iran and Radical Islam as it is for both the USA + Russia = Russia-China/SCO. By asking for circa US$100B in new war funding + potentially emplacing War Reserve stockpiles inside Israel proper, IMO Dubya appears to be going for a "FORTRESS IRAQ/ME" scenario, i.e. isolating and letting Radical Iran tip its hand vv TIME FACTOR, to include LEBANON. FORTIFY IRAQ'S BORDERS, DESTROY = CONTAIN RADICAL INSURGENCY FROM INSIDE IRAQ + LEBANON + AFGHANISTAN, FORTIFY ISRAEL + OTHER ALLIES, USE UNO + UNSC SANCTIONS TO FULL EXTENT, then let Moud + Radics do the rest. Moud + Mullahs will have to either appease or risk political-revolutionary overthrow, or else ATTACK to save political careers + RADICAL POLITICAL AGENDAS OUTSIDE OF IRAN. POLITISCHTICK ASIDE, ONE-TWO YEARS IS MORE THAN ENUFF TIME FOR ANY MIL COMMANDER TO DESTROY-PACIFY-CONTAIN LOCAL INSURGENTS, , i.e. so-called "RE-INVADE/RE-INVASION" OF IRAQ, and the USA can easily outlast Moud. And, Dubya can still bomb Iranian nuclear targets iff need be. Radical Iran will have to either attack = wage war or give up its ambitions for Shia-centric ME Empire. Considering MOud's famous "visions", IMO I expect MOUD'S REACTION TO BE TO ATTACK, i.e. GO ON REGION-WIDE = GLOBAL OFFENSIVE vv NEW TERROR, which for CONUS means risking "Amer Hiroshimas" event(s) whose focii is taking out Dubya + US NPE/USG directly. REMEMBER, WE ARE DEALING WID PERSONAGES WHOM HAD ALREADY DECIDED TO TAKE THE WORLD WID THEM TO HELL IFF AMERICA DOES NOT ADOPT OWG + ANTI-AMER AMER SOCIALISM.
LESSON OF 9-11 > AMERICA SURRENDERS, OR IT WILL DESTROYED, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RUSSO-CHICOM "WAR NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED" MAD NUKE WAR.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-15 20:01|| 2006-12-15 20:01|| Front Page Top

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