Al-Maliki had made news last week when remarks he made were interpreted to indicate that he would like to see some sort of a timetable included in the bilateral agreement the two countries are in the process of hammering out. The two leaders, who spoke Thursday via video conference, discussed that pact, which will cover security, diplomacy, economics, health and culture, among other areas.
Suggestion to everyone-Democrat, Republican, Independent….AMERICANS:
Memorize that phrase; “CONDITIONS-BASED”
Withdrawals of forces from Iraq will have a schedule, but they will not be an inflexible The-War-Is-Over-On-11/11/10 date. They will be FLEXIBLE schedules that can change depending on conditions on the ground; they will be CONDITIONS-BASED. That means (for those who oppose the war primarily for political purposes and not for realistic ones) that, If the enemy makes a new offensive in Iraq…then the timetable goes out the window because the enemy does get a vote. Right now, the enemy in Iraq is largely defeated. If it stays that way, then more troops can come home. The decision from President Bush, President Obama, or President McCain will be a decision that is flexible and CONDITIONS-BASED.
When you hear that there is a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, start listening closely to see if the report suggests “war is over on such and such date” kinda story, or if they point out that the withdrawal will be CONDITIONS-BASED.
1215 American troops re-enlisted in the military on July 4th. They know they’ll be sent back to Iraq. What do they know that Democrats and others who continue to oppose the war don’t? Will opponents of the war ever recognize that the arguments fueling the opposition to the war have always been and continue to be lies, and that those lies are mere political tools for professional politicians seeking to gain or hold power?
1215 Americans who have been there, who are there, and who will either stay there or return…those 1215 Americans know something that the most fervent opponents of the war do not. They know something that the mainstream media apparently isn’t reporting. They know that regardless of a six year old debate, the enemy-a death cult of faux Islamic Holy Warriors-is waging a terrorist war in Iraq, and that if America leaves the fight, there will have to be a 3rd invasion.
My personal thanks to all those who serve, served, and particularly to those who re-enlisted in Saddam’s old palace yesterday, on July 4th, 2008.
Now, let’s face it…Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews aren’t gonna change their minds and suddenly face the reality that Saddam’s regime was willing to work with AQ groups, did work with AQ groups and leaders, and the threat of the so-called “Nexus of Evil” connection even existed.
Captured members of Al Queda groups from this same camp claim that they were assisted, trained, supplied, and funded by Saddam’s IIS as well as taking orders from Saddam’s IIS.
Captured documents confirm their claims.
Captured regime members confirm their claims.
Now even highly anti-war/pro-Democrat MSNBC confirms the claim itself.
Al Queda leaders confirm the claims (Zawahiri and Zarqawi specifically).
Why believe “Bush Lied”? Because it’s easier to believe that the solution to today’s problems can be solved by changing a circle to a dot on a ballot than it is to face the real and scary threat as well as own up to the failures of the past.
Yet AGAIN there’s another document showing that Saddam’s regime was not only willing to work with Al Queda groups, but in fact did so. This time, it’s a 2002 memo from Saddam’s regime to Al Queda’s strategic planner (often described as the real brains of the terror group alliance).
The “no ties” myth gets another shovel of dirt on its grave
…Another investigation finds that the Bush Administration didn’t lie, fabricate, or deliberately mislead people about the threat posed from Saddam Hussein’s regime. STILL, the average Joe seems to believe that President Bush is an evil mastermind capable of fooling 535 members of Congress, all the national and international media, and successfully cover up a myriad of lies about “Saddam’s wmd” in almost a dozen independent, bi-partisan, often international investigations. Amazing. Read the rest of this entry »
That is the document that led the United States to enter World War I. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Prior to the discovery of the German effort to give away American territory in exchange for an alliance with Mexico, there had been other incidents that by themselves were not sufficient to warrant a declaration of war, but with the Zimmerman Telegram…the sum of the threats and offenses combined to equal a casus belli. One can blame the war on the Lusitania, the sinking of US freighters by German submarines, interdiction of trade, human rights violations by Germany and her allies, or a host of other reasons, but this decoded piece of paper was the last straw. National Archives story of Zimmerman Telegram Read the rest of this entry »
The recent “report” from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has a number of conclusions and amendments. Often, when these reports are released, many people don’t have the time or tenacity to read the entire report. Instead, they literally jump to the conclusions and argue their political talking points from there. I’ve taken the time to go through this latest “report,” cut out the conclusions, and added any amendments to those conclusions whenever possible. Readers are encouraged to read the actual report (particularly the “Additional Views” and “Amendments” sections). It appears that there are at least 150 examples in this report where Democrats have deliberately misled the American people. Examples range from false quotes, blaming Bush Administration officials for making statements not supported by intelligence when the intelligence report cited came out months or even years after the statement in question, misleading wording, and much more. It’s for this reason that the amendments are added to the following Key points/conclusions of the report. By including the amendments and putting them right next to the conclusion that is misleading, readers will see first hand that the report is fictional, distorted, inept, and written with incredibly poor ethical standards of fact-checking to say nothing of the political bias. Read the rest of this entry »
The Senate Intelligence Committee finally released it’s long-awaited/overdue report on their investigation into pre-war intelligence on Saddam’s Iraq. This final report was supposed to look at statements made by government officials in the run up to war from 1991-2003. It was supposed to examine the pre-war marketing or threat assessment and descriptions to the public about the intelligence regarding the threat posed by Saddam’s regime. Instead, the report looked at just 5 Bush Administration speeches. It completely left out any and all comments from Pres Bush Sr, Pres Clinton, anyone in his administration, and every member of the House and Senate over a twelve year period. The Committee determined that nothing any of those people ever said was as important and moving to the American people as 5 speechifications from President Bush and his administration. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the final findings of their four year investigation into pre-war intelligence on Saddam’s Iraq. The report was amazing. In direct contradiction, on the very first page of the report, Democrats controlling the committee chose to seize the opportunity to target the Bush Administration and cover up any and all accountability for anyone else (particularly themselves) regarding pre-invasion statements about how threatening Saddam’s regime was to the United States. Previous reports have been bi-partisan and even unanimously supported by the committee. This one was not. This time, the Republican minority used their allotted “Additional Comments” section of the report to flat out accuse Senate Democrats of a cover-up, of distorting the report’s findings, and of deliberately misleading the American people at the specific expense of degrading the capability of American intelligence agencies. Read the rest of this entry »
Hours after Senator Clinton dropped out of the race, and the news cycle was swamped with never-ending coverage of the inevitable doing the inevitable something was released under the radar.
Much has been made for the past six years of President Bush and his administration’s efforts to convince the American people and the world of the necessity to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein. It is an issue that has left few stones unturned, and as such, the time has come for history to examine the role that President Clinton and officials from his administration and the era of his reign had in marketing the idea that Saddam Hussein was a WMD threat.
The WaPo takes a jab at the recent Rockefeller report on Bush and Iraq that Scott wrote about a few days ago. It’s not a terrorist jab, more like a uppercut, but either way he tears it apart.
Rockefeller asserts:
“In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent,”
But his own report contradicts this assertion:
On Iraq’s nuclear weapons program? The president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”
On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president’s statements “were substantiated by intelligence information.”Read the rest of this entry »
Democrats and opponents of the war in Iraq have claimed that American troops should be withdrawn from Iraq because “the war is lost.” Republicans and even the traditional media outlets have seen that the change in strategy put forth by the Bush Administration in January 2007 has indeed dramatically reduced violence, enabled political and social reconciliation to begin among Iraqis, and has bought the Iraqi security forces enough time to start substantially taking the lead in operations against insurgents. The new Bush strategy (commonly called “The Surge”) has also decimated Al Queda groups in Iraq. Forces involved in the new Buhs strategy/The Surge have largely been withdrawn, and now it appears that next month General Petraeus is going to order more force reductions; more U.S. withdrawals.
Why? Is it because President Bush embraced a strategy long promoted by Senator and Presidential Candidate John McCain, or will American troops be withdrawn in a defeat as Democrats claim?
How does one spin success into defeat while “supporting the troops”? What will Senator Reid and others say to American forces who return? “Welcome back, too bad you failed, but we always knew you would?” Or will they say, “Thank you for doing what we thought was impossible?”
Yes, that’s right boys and girls. The report that many politco-geeks have been waiting YEARS to read, has finally been released; the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Investigative Report on Pre-War Intelligence About Saddam’s Iraq. We’ve waited FIVE YEARS for clear evidence that Bush lied, and what do we get….(insert Price Is Right style drum roll here):
A report that is purely political and partisan
and a report that has nothing to do with Iraq, but looks at Bush Administration officials who had “talks” w Iran before the war, but failed to go through CIA and State Dept channels.
Several things strike me about this investigation, and there will be further pieces describing its findings, but one, single, fact rises above everything else….NO ONE CARES. That’s right, no one cares. There have been so many investigations into WMD and regime ties to Al Queda that now, five years after the invasion…no one cares. When this report came out yesterday, it was mentioned, but it wasn’t the core of any newscast anywhere. No one cared. Read the rest of this entry »
Ahhhh, how many times have I heard and seen that expression? It seems to popup every time an opponent of Operation Iraqi Freedom responds to discussion of Al Queda’s role in Iraq. What makes it interesting today is that the relevance of the argument declines with each passing moment.
Now, I’m clearly one of those people that believes groups in the Al Queda network of terrorist groups were in Iraq before the invasion, and were working with Saddam’s regime. That too is less and less relevant with each passing day, and therefore we can debate the matter of historical event and presence elsewhere and at another time. For now, right now, today-in 2008, it’s infinitely more important to talk about Al Queda and the war in Iraq as it is TODAY. Read the rest of this entry »
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