Time for some meaningful dialog?

Talks or Walks?

President Obama said something to the effect that our enemies will grow to understand and even love us if he could get together with their leaders and talk. I realize the President is busy trying to bring the US into socialism, but those enemies aren't going away.

I'm thinking of the enemy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea, not that there aren't others. These folks seem to hate Obama and the US. How come no 'talks'?

Putin on George Bush

Click to see what Uncle Pootie is doing

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says of US President George Bush: He's OK, but the people around him are rubbish. Well, Vlad, we don't like you, the people around you, or the tank you rode in on.
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As for George Bush: He is the hero of the liberation of Iraq. Just ask the people of Iraq. You'll have to ask them because the radical leftist 'mainstream' US news media won't tell you.

Canada gets one right: kicks out US deserter

Corey Glass - US Military Deserter

The Canadians finally get something right. From Hot Air:

During the Vietnam War, Canada gave refuge to as many as 90,000 draft dodgers and thousands of deserters from the United States, treating them as immigrants and refusing extradition requests from the US government. When the Iraq War began, scores of deserters traveled across the border, expecting a similar reception. Yesterday, the Canadian government gave them a rude awakening:

They are going to kick at least one, perhaps more, of the numerous shameful US military deserters out of the country, presumably to face desertion in time of war charges back in the homeland they betrayed. Read the smirking coward's 'explanation' for his treachery:

I went to Iraq because I was ordered to, like I did what they told me to do, but I started feeling way too wrong about it," Glass told 12 News' Investigative Reporter Colleen Henry. "I could talk to certain people, but I couldn't dig too deep to find out some things, like changes from like civilians being like, killed, to like, so now they're insurgents. How does that change?"

Glass now sits chain-smoking in a Toronto, Canada apartment with other American servicemen who've walked away from war, their way of life and their world.

"I tried to tell them I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't think it was right," Glass said. "They weren't taking any of it. They were just thinking I was getting stressed out. They said, 'You're getting stressed out,' and send me home. (I was) on leave for like two weeks. I told them I wasn't coming back. I never showed back up.

I hope the miserable rat winds up in front of a military firing squad, but what are the chances of that happening is today's wussified, wah-wah PC world? Instead, he'll probably end up sitting in the token whitey chair next to President Obama's hateful wife at Barack's first State of the Union address. After he gets a welcome home hero parade from the anti-war left.

Iraq War Dead at 4,000 - a perspective

4,000 US lives Sacrificed for Freedom

Here is a little chart I put together to help put the number of US dead in the Iraq War into perspective. Just as when the toll reached 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000, todays total of 4,000 deaths is being touted as some sort of awful milestone.

The Iraq War hasn't called for more sacrifice than our soldiers have been willing to make. We should honor these 4,000 men and women, not using their deaths to mock their cause. To ensure that their deaths will not have been in vain, we must stay the course to victory in Iraq.
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Most of the numbers came from here.
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Yet another perspective, from Wizbang:

If you divide the total number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood in 2006 by 365, you find out that they performed an average of 793 abortions a week day -- presuming they operated 24/7/365. If you knock off weekends and holidays, it's probably closer to 250 days, which brings the total up to 1158.6. That converts to roughly, five years worth of American casualties in Iraq every three and a half DAYS.

Some tragedy, no?

President Bush's Iraq War Speech: no apologies

Its nice to hear a speech from a political person that doesn't consist of excuses, apologies, spins or flip-flops. The war in Iraq has been and will be historically regarded as a great success. The long-term positive geopolitical consequences of our bold action are impossible to overestimate. The human and financial costs of this bold and timely intervention on the side of goodness and reason have been held to a minimum.

Our troops are statistically almost as safe in Iraq as they would be on the streets at home, but their losses are meaningful, willing sacrifices. Getting nailed by a stray bullet in one of our cities is tragic, but these deaths, like highway fatalities, serve no end, good or evil. Our enemies, the nation-less but pervasive fanatical Mohammedan Jihadists, aren't faring well at all. Iraq is not Viet-Nam or Korea. We are winning this important war, and the world will be a better place for it.

Thanks, President Bush, for turning a deaf ear to the defeatists. Short-sighted idiots with long-range delusions of Global Kumbayah, like Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, would keep America making excuses and apologies.
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Barack Obama's Iraq war speech: what a whiney moron. You can see "forget about Rev. Wright" in the poseur that would be president's face. Gosh, but he sure talks slick! The man is nought but a silver-plated tongue mounted on a weather-vane.

Victory in Iraq is at hand

Update: More good news from Iraq via Wizbang blog: "Iraq and the United States are currently negotiating the terms of troop reductions next year which could leave as few as 50,000 active-duty American military in the country by the time President Bush leaves office."

Its Viet-Nam! Its Viet-Nam! Its Viet-Nam!

I think this New York Times article indicates that the cats who thought to cast the righteous war in Iraq as another Viet-Nam are beginning to see the light. The light that will illuminate their defeatist attitudes is Victory. Iraq might never be a perfect nation, but they will soon be able to join the ranks of the civilized world. Iraq is not and never was another Viet-Nam. We lost in Viet-Nam. We are winning in Iraq.

Free Banner

To celebrate, I've made this nifty victory is at hand banner. Feel free to use it on your blog any way you please. (Same policy with anything you find at the feedlot.)

Perhaps the cut and run surrenderists in our government, a few of whom are are pictured above, will admit they were wrong and, for once, really get behind America's important war efforts. No apologies necessary; pushing for victory will suffice. Except for Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who needs to shut up and fade away. And what will Ron Paul do if we win?

We are in serious danger of winning the war in Iraq

So lets cut and run!

Silver haired RINO Senator John Warner of Virginia has called for President Bush to bring our soldiers back from Iraq by Christmas. It seems there has been an ugly rumor going around to the effect that the military actions in Iraq might just succeed. This would be intolerable to the Bush haters and their friends, the perennial peaceniks. So lets cut and run now, while we can still say it was a fiasco.

Bring the boys home for Christmas. Has a nice ring to it, no? But I question Warner's insensitive choice of a Christian holiday to associate with their anti-war message. Why not "Home for Ramadan" or "Home for Earth Day"? I thought peaceniks all hated Christianity as much as they hate cheeseburgers and capitalism. Maybe it is a trick.

US Defeat in Iraq

Surrender!

Lorie Byrd has some thoughts at Wizbang blog worth reading on the new Congressional plan for US defeat in Iraq. She has stirred up some interesting comments there as well.

The old feeder has already declared defeat in Iraq. But I see it as just one battle in a very big war. The US has never won every battle in any major war. When all is said and done, the war against the Mohammedan Jihad will be a major war, in which Iraq and Afghanistan are only the West's response to the enemy's opening attacks.

The war in Iraq may be all over but the shouting, but the war on Jihad will continue for a very long time. Weak leadership will give way to stronger as the Mohammedan threat becomes less easily denied. I hope.