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Bernstein Invites The Apocalypse

Monday, April 30th, 2007

 Oh boy, now he’s gone and done it. The man who once was revered as one of the dragon slayers during Watergate has just shown his true colors. Oh yes, you know it’s true, even if you don’t believe it, but Hillary’s “people” will point it out to us very shortly. Carl Bernstein is a closet rightwingnutlander. Yep, you heard it here first, boys and girls.

     In the tradition of Joe Namath before Superbowl III, I am going out on a limb here. I predict, no…I guarantee that before he knows what hit him, Bernstein will be demonized by almost every media outlet as a right wing hitman for the Republicans. Does anyone remember Edward Klein, and the way the New York Times turned on him? Not to mention anyone else who had a desire to see Hillary succeed. The article in the “Salon” link offered this confused bit of wishful thinking combined with a fear of the results:

     “Even if most of the claims in “The Truth About Hillary” turn out to be baseless, there’s a palpable fear that it could be a lethal cousin to 2004’s campaign killer “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.”  Larry O’Donnell would be proud.

    

     Bernstein can look forward to the same kind of offhand dismissal that Klein received, with cancelled interviews galore, and a general shunning from his old pals. Woodward is probably spitting mad right about now. My advice would be for Bernstein to rush to David Horowitz immediately to receive counseling. (There’s a guy who knows all too well what it’s like to leave the reservation.)

     If there is to be any consolation prize for Besnstein, it is this: with the company of Klein, and the supposed safety in numbers that that affords, he will be less like Salman Rushdie and more like John O’Neill.

     In the meantime, as Hillary’s campaign goes farther off the tracks and the wheels begin to bounce high into the air on either side as they work their way into the distance, it will be interesting to see how this pantsuited tempest handles the realization that she will not be crowned in January 2009. She may surpass Howard Dean for the fastes freefall award. Can you say “YEAHHHH!!!”?

    Oh, and I hope that Carl Bernstein “loves the smell of napalm in the morning”. Hillary’s “people” will be sure to give him a whiff.

-Woody

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Buying Sinner’s Offsets

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

    Is it possible? Can we actually trick God into believing in the purity of our souls by throwing some coin at the collection plate? Is there any rational person among you who would fall for this codswallop, and if so, would you feel that you could sleep soundly at night with the soothing comfort that you had done all that you could do, simply because your check was larger than that of the nearest person in your pew?  

     The bigger question is: do any of you believe that you can sway God’s judgement at all, be it by conscious thought or by deliberate deed? Or more to the point, by financial counterbalance…
    
     My bible says no.
    
     So does the “bible” of science, and yet we have multitudes of the “pure” preaching to the masses (that would be you and I) about how we should live and how we should consume resources bestowed upon us by the Creator. These minions have decreed that by the very nature of their message that they have immunity from the laws they seek to impose upon the rest of us, that being energy conservation, although this law has evolved to include the light bulbs we use to even the amount of toilet paper with which we wipe our bums.
    
     Is Cheryl Crow really using one little, thin square? Ridiculous, unless she has the best fibre diet available to mortals. At the risk of sinking to locker room vernacular…well, never mind. There are times when the jury can be swayed by what they don’t hear.
    
     Back to the original point here. “Gorites” have opened an entire new phase of human behavior, that being that any excess you wish to indulge in is easily offset by simply purchasing impunity.
    
     I find it utterly amazing that the very people who protest loudest about capitalism are the people who have the most money. Multiply that amazement 10 fold and you will only begin to understand my confundity at those who consume the most fuel and still rail shrilly at the rest of us for struggling to fill our tanks. Then again, we poor folk should just throw in the towel and bike to work, even if it is a mere 52 miles round trip. Hey, we can make great strides towards eliminating obesity!
    
     Bottom line here kids is, if someone has a thirst for blood, should he be within the rights of society to donate money to a family and then have the clear conscience and blessing of the courts to kill their only child? It’s pretty much the same principle with “carbon offsets”…  If you’re paying for them then you must be acknowledging that your habits are bad.
   
     For the record, I don’t buy offsets. I just drive.
-Woody 

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Democrats Speaking Through Recta

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says that the war in Iraq is lost. There are probably many private citizens who would agree with that assessment, as is their right to do so. What is troubling is the fact that a U.S. Senator, and the leader of that body, has uttered these words for the world to hear. (I call that speaking through his rectum, something most of the democratic party has engaged in recently). The critical segment of said world is comprised of our enemies who have access to the same (mis)information as do we, and they have no doubt had a completely inverse reaction to Reid’s words than I did. While I am outraged, they rejoice.

     They have just been given a half-time pep talk, the likes of which could never have been nearly as effective if delivered by bin Laden himself, and that which will cause more problems for our young soldiers deployed in Iraq. Good job, Harry.
     There is a blogger out there who goes by the name of “crotchety old bastard”, and he posted this a few days ago. It is a concise “open letter” to Harry Reid in which the author takes the Senator to task for suggesting that this war is lost and over while enabling its continuance, which would indicate a willingness by the Senate to sacrifice our military personnel for political gain.
     The democrats do not have the courage to cease funding for this war and thereby facilitating its immediate end. My guess is that they really, truly know what result that would bring both to the Iraqi people and to our own, yet they are forced by party thirst for power to pander to what they perceive as a groundswell of anti-war sentiment and thus think that they will curry favor with the electorate at the expense of the kids in harm’s way. I find that absolutely disgusting.
      As “crotchety” so eloquently stated, Harry and his ilk should stand up and bring the kids home NOW, or shut the @%&# up. Senator, if you won’t lead and help them win, just get the hell out of the way!  
     Oh yeah, Harry? I’m willing to bet that the suit could grow to class action status with ease. Something for your party to ponder. In the meantime, either bring ‘em home or let ‘em win, and stop helping the enemy to carry on another day.
-Woody

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New Age Religion Rigamarole

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

  Just so we’re all clear on things from the start, I have never been remotely considered a religious man. My father was a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism for the privilege of marrying my mother, and he did so without qualm because he felt the same way that I do, obviously from his example; I just find the whole organizational, exclusionary and combative aspects of “big religion” to conflict with what I believe in my heart. In all my smugness, I also believe that I am closer to God than most. I pray that I am right, and also that those who feel offended by that stance do not decide it their duty to put my soul to the ultimate test. It’s just my opinion, okay?

     That being said, I really do like Christmas, and Easter, and I wish people would just leave it alone. Enough, already. Vastly more than two thirds of this country has grown up decorating for these holidays and enjoying school pageants related to their respective themes. No one died in the making of these productions either, just for the record. Some may have felt the slightest bit left out at times, but many of them grew up without serious emotional scars.
   
    Sports teams in schools across the country have traditionally had prayers before games. The reason was never about trying to see how many new recruits they could bring over to Jesus’ Team…the reason was to pray that the game was won and that no one got injured in the process. (And if anyone really believes that Jesus actually prefers oh say, Texas A&M over Oklahoma for example, you might want to have that belief looked at by a professional).
    
    When the Left engages in its attacks on religion, and Christianity in particular, they are following the template laid out by the Communist Manifesto, which is something they claim to loathe, despite the striking similarities in ideology and ultimate goals. Two of those goals specifically target that which…well, that which is being targeted as we speak:
  • 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

    Can anyone see the usefulness of Scientology at play here? Or any of the other pseudo-religions that prominent thespians have been promoting on Oprah, et al? “Intellectual Maturity” in this context is simply instructing the mindless to find a crutch which does not demand so much personal sacrifice or purity of mind and soul. 

  • 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

    Ah, so there it is. The common denominator. # 29 should have been, “Deny vehemently any such attack on religion and make the accuser feel shame for the allegation thereof”. (Actually, #29 deals with discrediting the US Constitution, something we will address in another article).

    Here’s the rub, though, when it all comes down to the Left trying to remove religion from society, or in the case of Hollywood wackos, replace it with faux religions. The rationale they use is contrary to that which guides most of their agenda; the common good. We are led to believe by Democrats that, particularly in regards to taxation, we are all for one and one for all. Hillary Clinton has plainly said so again and again.
   
    So if the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, why are the few allowed to dictate virtually every aspect of life concerning the many? Why does one non-Christian player on a high school football team have sway over what goes on in the locker room before hitting the field? Why does one family in a townful of folk have the ability to protest and deny the rest of Christmas decorations at Town Hall?
   
    The answer lies primarily in the Christian Doctrine, the one that states that “the meek shall inherit the Earth”. The enemies of righteousness have used our own playbook against us, and I’m willing to bet there was no pre-game prayer to watch over the health of the contestants. I for one believe that the meek will take only so much before they kick some serious ass, win, settle down again, and then inherit the Earth. Much to the chagrin of the not-so-meek.
-Woody

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Liberal Actions Really Do Hurt

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

   The following is a letter from Sergeant Eddie Jeffers, serving in Iraq. It is mature, it is poignant, but more than anything, it is pointed.

    When the left says that they support the troops but don’t support the war, they clearly have no idea what the hell they are talking about. Please read Sgt. Jeffers’ eloquent letter:

    

The Shame of The liberals – A Soldier’s Letter from the War Zone
USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq)
Author: USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq)
Source:
Date: April 13, 2007

 
We are humbled, yet so very proud to share this letter from Sergeant Eddi Jeffers who is serving in Iraq. The contents are magnificent, wise and sobering. Such heroes put the “war protestors” and self-absorbed liberals to shame.

The Shame of The liberals – A Soldier’s Letter from the War Zone

USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq)

As originally submitted and published at The New Media Journal  on February 1, 2007.

Hope Rides Alone

I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.

I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again…and yet, I too, am just a boy….my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid…because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.

There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own…but that are necessary for survival. I’ve made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets…who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not.

And to think, I volunteered for this…

And I am ignorant to the rest of the world…or so I thought.

But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn’t fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.

I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that’s that they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.

People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don’t realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy’s brutality because it’s against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy.

The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation’s news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes…only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society…and they are becoming our enemy.

Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word “quagmire” around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even on their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet…and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed…for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we’ve done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools or hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It’s all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of Bush? They will ignore the good news, becaue it just might show people that Bush was right.

America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War Two, where people rationed food, and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a
service member, its life as usual…the war doesn’t affect you.

But it affects us. And when it is over, and the troops come home, and they try to piece together what’s left of them after their service…where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can’t touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.

We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped, and murdered if they do no comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause, and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor…we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It’s supporting our President, our troops and our cause.

Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn’t.

Let’s stop all the political nonsense, let’s stop all the bickering, let’s stop all the bad news, and let’s stand and fight!

Isn’t that what America is about anyway?

Eddie Jeffers - Iraq

Sergeant Eddie Jeffers is a US Army Infantryman serving in Ramadi, Iraq. jeffers221@bellsouth.net

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Subterfuge In Global Warming Articles

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

 I must say from the outset that I believe not one iota of the ridiculous hysteria being thrust upon us by the global warming kooks, but I admit that the media machine has been more than formidible. It is a well orchestrated movement to achieve what, I do not profess to know, but they are diligent and and determined. Gotta hand it to ‘em on that count, at least.  

    One such article I happened to stumble across was this one on Yahoo! News (the AP), and it’s titled, “Far north feels worst effects of warming”. As I read this puzzling piece I was on the verge of maybe, just maybe, beginning to believe that I may have to rethink my views. After all, these people were on the ground in the Arctic, they must be on to something! Then I began to notice a few very clever tricks used by the author, and I decided to do some research, that pesky practice that purveyors of such rubbish do not expect the reader to indulge in.
   
     Here’s the first thing I noticed:
  • “This is where a culture has lived for 5,000 years, relying on a very delicate, interconnected ecosystem and, one by one, small pegs of that ecosystem are being pulled out,” Steger said by satellite phone from a small village outside Iqaluit, about 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Iqaluit is the provincial capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

       So, I decided to check:

    Now, I know how to read a mileage legend on a map, and it certainly looks to me like Iqaluit is double the distance from the Arctic Circle than the 200 miles the author cited. Why would the author lie about it, I asked, before I double checked and realized that they said “about 200 miles” south of the Arctic Circle. No foul, no penalty, as long as you’re on the right side of semantics, I guess. OK, let’s keep going, shall we? Goody.

      Here’s another excerpt:

  • “When he was interviewed in early March, he and his American and Inuit colleagues were heading for the Clyde River, through the highest polar bear population in the world. It was still the height of winter in the Arctic, but the temperature, 11 degrees Fahrenheit, was more typical of spring.”

       OK, here my first thought was to wonder if the sub-arctic melted at a lower temperature simply because it was so accustomed to being much colder, but then simple physics kicked in and I realized I was dreaming, so I did some more digging. And to think I hated homework thirty five years ago! From the website seeking people wishing to re-locate to Iqaluit (you know who you are), I found this:

  • The Capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit is the largest community in Nunavut. Iqaluit received it’s Order of Official Status as a City in 2001. It has a population of about 6000 and is located approximately 2,000 kilometres from Ottawa. The mean temperature in January is -30°C and in July is 15°C. Iqaluit experiences 24 hours of daylight per day in June, and six hours per day in December.

       For those of you who still hate homework, that’s -22F in January and +59F in June, so I had to ask…is +11F in March so bad? (And take special note of the mixture of American Standards of Measure and European Standards. The author uses them selectively to acheive the desired effect on the reader). I also found this picture of Clyde River from ten years ago. Looks pretty nice and cozy to me:

 

        And yet the article makes it sound as though this has for 5000 years been a frozen wasteland that is now being destroyed by Exxon and Chevrolet, to name a few.  Not to mention one last, important detail, (he said with a wink)…

        “…were heading for the Clyde River, through the highest polar bear population in the world.“

       Wasn’t it Al Gore who was claiming that the loss of ice was endangering the polar bears? If that beautiful scene above is the center of the highest polar bear population in the world, methinks Al Gore doest protest too much.

       One thing to remember as this debate goes forward and, as I predict it will, becomes ever increasingly shrill, is to do your own homework when confronted by misleading articles such as this, and not blindly accept what you are fed upon their consumption. There is much we don’t know until we learn and much we don’t see until we look. Don’t rely on others to be your eyes. That is all…

-Woody

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From King To Duke

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

   Royalty has always been more about the illusion that those born into the Regal Family are inherently better, more refined folk than those in the “kingdom proper” than it has ever been about the basic truth of the matter.  What has never materialized in the psyche of modern man is the fact that this notion is and always has been utter frapdoodle, for lack of a better term. Perhaps the individual mind has always known this to be true at some sub-conscious level, but the collective consciousness of society as a whole has been so completely confounded by the ever-increasing bombardment of images and so-called information that right about the apex of realization, we were turned about and steered back towards believing once again in our own inferiority. Don’t be fooled, this has been a concerted effort.

   It was a crucial tool in the persecution of the Duke LaCrosse players. One woman of “common” fare was, for one brief, shining moment, a Queen. She was a cause to be championed and there was no deficit in the pool of the willing and eager to seize the ring. The scrum amongst celebrity protectors of the oppressed has been brutal, and the wanton deceit of their intentions embarrassing, to say the least.
  
    The underlying meaning of the case, if not previously so, should now be adundantly clear. But the timing could not be better for the exoneration of these young men, for it coincides with the furor over the Don Imus-Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team flap. The conflict of interest and selective outrage could not be better bared for our examination if we had all paid a lofty tuition expense for the education we are now receiving, however bitter the lesson might be.
  
    Not only are we being treated to the revelations of past mis-deeds of supposed “black leaders”, but we are witnessing what I believe to be the fracturing of the foundation on which these leaders have exploited those they have pretended to “protect” for all of these decades. Not only that, but there are many who have begun to emerge from under that umbrella and they are righteously indignant, and they are vociferous about the experience.  Hallelujah…to a point. They are bearing a burden which I pray they can bear.
  
    There is a cottage industry in the “protection of minorities” and the black leaders have become wealthy as the (pardon the pun) “white knights” and the arbiters of what is right and what is wrong regarding the masses they shepherd, but increasingly the “herd” is rebelling and the power has begun to be sapped from the leaders. What it means is that those emerging from the shelter are joining society as equals and shedding the mantle of victim, despite the fact that they are now targets for victimization from members of the same “race”,  a word I am loathe to use, which is why I surround it with quotation marks.
  
    I must question the intent of Dr. King’s Dream and whether he ever envisioned that it would be used to bring about the demise of Duke. I have serious doubts, but what do I know? I’m white, and at least for the time being, I am automatically excluded from being a member of a society who can actually see with clarity an end to racism.
  
    Go figure.
   -Woody

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Discriminating Discrimination

Monday, April 9th, 2007

    Many moons ago discrimination was a good thing. It meant that we had the ability to differentiate between that which we deemed good and that which we deemed bad, or at the least, bad for our own particular tastes. There was a term to describe the perfect gentleman: “A man with discriminating taste”. (Remember that one, ye who have walked the earth for a while?) Then…things changed.

    Discrimination became the buzz word for the civil rights crowd and suddenly that perfect gentleman was a lout. It mattered not what he was deciding upon, whether it was coffee beans or the most superb wine, the fact was that he was discriminating, which all at once equated to something evil. It had to be stopped for the “common good”. Then, something else happened, something quite unexpected by at least the unsuspecting, bewildered gentlemen of the world; discrimination returned to vogue, but only if you were not a white, Christian gentleman.
  
    The Boy Scouts were attacked as exclusionary (read discriminatory) because they didn’t allow girls. Duh, it’s the Boy Scouts. Men’s clubs came under attack while women’s groups were allowed to flourish simultaneously. American Bandstand was on television where every race who cared to dance was welcomed, but Soul Train  only welcomed blacks. Sorry, African-Americans. I have never gotten used to hyphenated-Americans.
  
    Today, we have the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus (notice that they have yet to rename it the CA-AC). This caucus has teamed with Fox News to sponsor a few Presidential debates. Kudos to them for that, but it seems that the Democratic participants scheduled to appear at these debates have begun to, um…discriminate! Yes, they apparently don’t like Fox News or to put it more aptly, they discriminate against Fox because the network fails to toe the party line of the Democrats.
   
    There was a debate scheduled in Nevada for August that Fox was to co-sponsor, but MoveOn.org was successful in convincing Democrats to avoid those debates simply because they were being sponsored by a media outlet with which they didn’t agree, or for the discriminating mind, “thought was bad”. Now, we have John Edwards pulling out of debates sponsored by Fox, and most recently, Barack Obama pulling out for the same reason; discrimination.
  
    Does anyone think there may possibly be a backlash against these cowardly political wannabes, or will they be permitted to engage in the practice that they build their platforms upon railing against? And with the fact that Fox News is the highest rated cable news program in the land, how can these Democratic candidates claim to represent the “wishes of America” when they refuse to expose themselves to her largest audience? What are they afraid of? Being the victims of discriminating taste?
-Woody

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No Outrage From The Press?

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

    My ears hurt from the deafening silence. They would welcome at this point the deafening shrieks from the main stream media regarding the “torture” of the illegally detained Brits. All I have heard from this group however, is the congratulations and gratitude for the magnanimity of the Iranian government for releasing those they had captured and imprisoned…illegally!

   Imagine, if you will, a man kidnapping a young girl and holding her for two weeks while her family and the entire country wonder what will be her ultimate fate. In the rare instance that the perpetrator actually relents and sets such a hostage free, do we then throw a party for him because he was so kind as to let her go and live? Is he made a hero in the eyes of those he harmed along the way? The obvious answer is a resounding NO. More often than not, we would be finding ways to keep her father from killing the son of a bitch while privately wishing we could let him through untouched.
  
   The British Sailors and Marines are speaking out on the treatment they received and it’s getting ugly. So much so that I expected the Human Rights Watch group to kick into high gear, demanding retribution from Tehran. Maybe an apology? Perhaps a threat that “we’ll not like you anymore”? Nope, nada. The sound of crickets chirping, which I normally find a soothing sound at sunset on a summer night but which I find infuriating in this context.
  
   Ahmadinejad has achieved a masterful public relations coup and our press here and abroad are vibrating like the strings of the best played Stadivarius, cooing their accolades and making him the “good cop” in this international incident.
  
   If only they could see far enough to afford the same to the U.S. Military…
 -Woody

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A Lesson In Enemy Tactics

Friday, April 6th, 2007

   I’ll begin with the saga of the British sailors’ capture by Iran and the events subsequent, but make no mistake; this tactic and the disease it engenders goes much deeper than we care to realize. It is a standard tool of the left and its all too willing media accomplices here in America, and it threatens our very existence. I know, some of you have already begun the obligatory eye-roll, thinking that I engage in alarmist bloviation. That’s fine, but read on and see how you feel at the end, then let me know if the inside of your eyelids look better than what I describe, fair enough? Good, let’s go…

   Aside from the overtly insane, e.g Rosie, who from the outset claimed that the British sailors’ capture was an orchestrated event to pave the way to war with Iran, there were also many media outlets in the free world wondering aloud if the Brits had indeed strayed into Iranian waters and whether Iran had a right to their actions. The UK claimed immediately that it had GPS proof that their people were in Iraqi waters, but no one bothered to ask for that proof. Then we were treated to multiple photos of the sailors laughing and “being treated well”, which aside from failing to be dismissed as Iranian propaganda was not even mentioned as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, something the left claims to hold dear. Apparently only when we could possibly be perceived as violators of such.
  
   Now the sailors are free and they are speaking out about the treatment they received at the hands of their captors. They are saying that they were “blindfolded, bound and stripped” and that they were “under constant psychological pressure”, all things that are considered torture if inflicted by Americans by today’s standards. The reaction thus far? Iran is stealing a page from the Democrats playbook in responding that the sailors were treated well and are now being forced, by their own government, to lie about Iran! Wait for it, kids…there will be a stampede by leftist “experts” such as Sean Penn and his ilk to be the first aboard the Iranian bandwagon on this.
  
   I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the Clintons are the pioneers of this tactic. They mastered the art of doing whatever they pleased and then turning the guns on those who had caught them in the act, accusing the discoverers of engaging in a witch hunt. In my mind that is akin to pleading to the judge that your speeding ticket is the result of the police actually doing their jobs because they had the unmitigated audacity to monitor your speed.
  
   So now we have Ahmadinejad claiming a “vast Western conspiracy” and it remains to be seen if his tactic will take hold here at home. I fear that it may. With the shrinkage of the world brought about by the advent of the world wide web, the examples of our corrupt politicians are being mimicked and utilized to the advantage of those who wish us harm. They know what sells here, and they have donned the classic plaid sport coat of the best used car salesmen of all time. They are becoming the hucksters who can bring us down and we cannot allow that to happen.
  
   Sometimes I feel as though I have been the victim of a diabolical plot to make me think I’ve gone insane and that all that I knew to be true was a lie. That is what the enemies of America, both home and abroad, have been successful in doing. They have subverted truth and made believers out of willing dupes who think that if the newspaper says it, it’s true. Many of us know better, but we fight an uphill battle much as the sane person does when trying to escape the asylum.
  
   Pray that propaganda loses.
-Woody

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