The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Rockefeller: So WHAT if Iranians are Killing Americans?
I have long suspected Sen. Jay Rockefeller to be one of the primary sources of the New York Times and Washington Post leaks--at least some of them. (John Kerry is another I suspect...)
I have no proof of this, Rockefeller just seems the most likely candidate of several. But by virtue of his postion on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has access to highly sensitive secrets. He is highly partisan, vehemently leftist, if not Marxist, and since the very beginning he seemingly has done and will do anything to see that America's War fails miserably--for one reason and one reason only: because a Republican President took us there.
Interestingly, Rockefeller was pro-intervention when Clinton bombed the Aspirin factory and sent troops into Bosnia. If I am not mistaken, he has even argued during the Clinton Adminisration that Saddam had WMD's, was dangerous and must be dealt with, etc...
But times have changed. It is a Republican Adminisration now. And Bush has now raised the stakes even higher: if Bush succeeds with this "Surge" and Iraq stabilizes over the next 12 months, Republican stock will rise, and the Democrats stay in power might be short-lived; if on the other hand America fails miserably and is unable to pacify Baghdad; if we are forced to retreat in shame, the Dems have a much better chance of retaining Congress and possibly even the reclaiming the White House.
Never mind the sacrifices of thousands of men and women who believe in the mission; many of whom have given their lives in the cause of killing Al Qaeda and Shiite hardliners before they kill us here at home. Many enlisted after 9/11.
So when I saw what Rockefeller said in the New York Times--about basically not caring if Iranians are killing Americans--well I can't say that it surprised me; but my disgust was barely containable.
I pointed Thursday to a poll that said 49% of Democrats want the US to FAIL in Iraq. Forty-nine percent! For these so-called "citizens", this is not about doing what is best for their country, this is about gaining and holding raw political power, damn the consequences. And even these "party above country" Democrats--who represent a near plurality of the party--still for the most part do not go out of their way to BETRAY their country. But when it comes to Rockefeller, I am not so sure... And if my suspicions are right about him, then the is a traitor in every sense of the word--a man who in other eras or American wars would have been imprisoned and/or executed.
The slaughter in Iraq should we desert these kind, gentle, and intelligent people who are for the most part pawns in a game chess between Iran and Al Qaeda, with both sides determined to break the will of US public support at home for Iraqi self-determination---will make the Cambodian killing fields, where 2 million South Vietnamese and Cambodians were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge after our desertion of the South Vietnamese (and a direct result of the Democrats' pulling the plug on the funding of our longtime allies in the South)--look like a church picnic.
Again, the blood of millions of innocent souls would be on the Democrats' hands. I really wonder: how do any of these "49%" who have even a shred of honor or morality sleep at night? They may not be American patriots, but surely many of them must know what will happen to all these innocent people should we just pull out.
Democrats are the first to wail and moan about genocide in places like Darfur and Rawanda, but when it comes to the hard slogging that it takes to prevent genocide, raising the minimum wage and eliminating the opposition from the public airways (via the Stalinist "fairness doctrine") seems much more palatable to them than does saving millions of lives, showing the repressive regimes around them that America is not to be trifled with, and--most importantly--sending the message to moderate Arab states that America does not desert its "friends".
This is who we have elected for our "fresh start"; God help us all.
I have no proof of this, Rockefeller just seems the most likely candidate of several. But by virtue of his postion on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has access to highly sensitive secrets. He is highly partisan, vehemently leftist, if not Marxist, and since the very beginning he seemingly has done and will do anything to see that America's War fails miserably--for one reason and one reason only: because a Republican President took us there.
Interestingly, Rockefeller was pro-intervention when Clinton bombed the Aspirin factory and sent troops into Bosnia. If I am not mistaken, he has even argued during the Clinton Adminisration that Saddam had WMD's, was dangerous and must be dealt with, etc...
But times have changed. It is a Republican Adminisration now. And Bush has now raised the stakes even higher: if Bush succeeds with this "Surge" and Iraq stabilizes over the next 12 months, Republican stock will rise, and the Democrats stay in power might be short-lived; if on the other hand America fails miserably and is unable to pacify Baghdad; if we are forced to retreat in shame, the Dems have a much better chance of retaining Congress and possibly even the reclaiming the White House.
Never mind the sacrifices of thousands of men and women who believe in the mission; many of whom have given their lives in the cause of killing Al Qaeda and Shiite hardliners before they kill us here at home. Many enlisted after 9/11.
So when I saw what Rockefeller said in the New York Times--about basically not caring if Iranians are killing Americans--well I can't say that it surprised me; but my disgust was barely containable.
I pointed Thursday to a poll that said 49% of Democrats want the US to FAIL in Iraq. Forty-nine percent! For these so-called "citizens", this is not about doing what is best for their country, this is about gaining and holding raw political power, damn the consequences. And even these "party above country" Democrats--who represent a near plurality of the party--still for the most part do not go out of their way to BETRAY their country. But when it comes to Rockefeller, I am not so sure... And if my suspicions are right about him, then the is a traitor in every sense of the word--a man who in other eras or American wars would have been imprisoned and/or executed.
The slaughter in Iraq should we desert these kind, gentle, and intelligent people who are for the most part pawns in a game chess between Iran and Al Qaeda, with both sides determined to break the will of US public support at home for Iraqi self-determination---will make the Cambodian killing fields, where 2 million South Vietnamese and Cambodians were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge after our desertion of the South Vietnamese (and a direct result of the Democrats' pulling the plug on the funding of our longtime allies in the South)--look like a church picnic.
Again, the blood of millions of innocent souls would be on the Democrats' hands. I really wonder: how do any of these "49%" who have even a shred of honor or morality sleep at night? They may not be American patriots, but surely many of them must know what will happen to all these innocent people should we just pull out.
Democrats are the first to wail and moan about genocide in places like Darfur and Rawanda, but when it comes to the hard slogging that it takes to prevent genocide, raising the minimum wage and eliminating the opposition from the public airways (via the Stalinist "fairness doctrine") seems much more palatable to them than does saving millions of lives, showing the repressive regimes around them that America is not to be trifled with, and--most importantly--sending the message to moderate Arab states that America does not desert its "friends".
This is who we have elected for our "fresh start"; God help us all.
Labels: Appeasement, Democrat, Democrat Sabotage, Intelligence, Intelligence War against Bush Admin, Iran, War strategy
