I think the best thing I’ve read so far was from the family of a 20 year old Marine who was killed. His family said that though they were devastated, it wasn’t a waste because he had been fighting for freedom. Wow. [A Marine’s Story]
“I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be “dead” for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But “indirectly” they are doing a lot.
The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call “a democracy”, relies heavily on what a sh*t hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly–i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary’s Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts.”
From Right Wing News’s recap of the Top Ten Worst Quotes from the Democratic Underground.
That’s all I needed to know about the nature of the “loyal democratic opposition”.
Loyal, my ass. These quotes make me sick.
Victor Davis Hanson writes:
After watching a string of editorial attacks on America both at home and from abroad in the aftermath of Saddams capture, I thought back to the actual record of the last two years. In 24 months the United States defeated two of the most hideous regimes in modern memory. For all the sorrow involved, it has already made progress in the unthinkable: bringing consensual government into the heart of Middle Eastern autocracy, where there has been no political heritage other than tyranny, theocracy, and dictatorship.
In liberating 50 million people from both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein it has lost so far less than 500 soldiers some of whom were killed precisely because they waged a war that sought to minimalize not just civilian casualties but even the killing of their enemies. Contrary to the invective of Western intellectuals, the American militarys sins until recently have been of omission preferring not to shoot looters or hunt down and kill insurgents rather than brutal commission. While the United States has conducted these successive wars some 7,000 miles beyond its borders, it also avoided another terrorist attack of the scale of September 11 and all the while crafting a policy of containment of North Korea and soon-to-be nuclear Iran.
Thus by any comparative standard of military history, the last two difficult years, despite setbacks and disappointments, represent a remarkable military achievement .Yet no one would ever gather even the slightest acknowledgment of such success from our Democratic grandees. Al Gore dubbed the Iraqi liberation a quagmire and, absurdly, the worst mistake in the history of American foreign policy. Howard Dean, more absurdly, suggested that the president of the United States might have had foreknowledge of September 11. Most Americans now shudder at the thought that the former might have been president in this time of crisis and that the latter still could be. [National Review]
Only three minutes left before 2003 fades away. Sinatra sang once that “it was a very good year”.
And it was, for my family and I.
I’ll always remember though the ones who won’t see 2004.
Happy New Year!
David Gurley dodged the spiked strips officers set out to stop his speeding Buick — but three sheriff’s cars didn’t Monday morning and flayed their tires.
Even so, after fleeing police for almost an hour, Gurley wasn’t in the clear. The chase began, police said, after a deputy noticed the license plates on Gurley’s car didn’t match the vehicle.
Then ahead of Gurley on I-70 waited a truckers’ rolling roadblock, police reports said. In an effort to swerve around the big rigs, Gurley ended up mired in a Clark County field, where he was arrested at 5:30 a.m.
Gurley, 33, 3000 block of Forest Avenue, was brought back to Indianapolis after the chase. He is being held on $30,000 bail at the arrestee processing center, facing preliminary charges of resisting law enforcement, operating a vehicle with a suspended license and as a habitual offender, criminal recklessness, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. [Indianapolis Star]
And thus began the alliance that led to the Battle of the Pellanor Fields.
There is a very odd film on Starz right now – set in India, has some quite pretty women on it, costumes and scenery is incredible, but I am so completely lost as to what the plot is.
Weird.