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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

WHICH IS THE QUAGMIRE, KOSOVO OR IRAQ?

DAILY DEMARCHE:
The "Paper of Record", late last week, ran an editorial entitled "Kosovo, Still Messy After All These Years" lamenting the failure of the U.N. efforts there to produce a lasting peace with real results. What I love about this piece is that when the U.N. is involved and six years have passed and there is nothing to show for it the results are "messy." When George Bush frees Iraq, successful elections are held and a constitution is overwhelmingly approved (and underwhelmigly reported) in a fraction of that time, the result is a "quagmire." Just for giggles I searched for "quagmire+Iraq" on the times web site and got 271 hits. "Kosovo+quagmire" returned 42 hits, at least seven of which also contained the word Iraq. I stopped counting after that. Why beat a dead horse?
Of course there are two OBVIOUS reasons that the Left - and the MSM they still dominate - maintain that Iraq is the "real" quagmire: (1) it was done by a GOP president; and (2) we've been suffering casualties on the ground, every week - for 2.5 years. (Kosovo was part of Serbia, a nation we PREEMPTIVELY ATTACKED WHEN WE HAD A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT; AND HE DID IT WITHOUT - REPEAT WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL! But the dem-left doesn't say a peep about Kosovo!)

One major reason is that we are suffering casualties in Iraq.

Blowhard jerkoff and former Dem-lib political operative CHRIS MATTHEWS tonight called these casualties HORRIFIC. I know that to each family each loss is horrific, but to the USA and to the future generations these losses are:

(A) NOT horrific - not by ANY historical measure or standard (we lost 20x more in IWO JIMA ALONE!) And we have liberated more people and more territory with fewer losses in Iraq than in ANY previous war in all of human history!); and

(B) OBL specifically stepped up attacks against the USA and our allies after Somalia (and with VIETNAM as the arch-template) because he believed that he and his islamofascist allies could win ANY war against the USA if it MERELEY inflicted casualties; OBL thought we'd cut and run as soon as the going got tough.


Therefore, winning in Iraq while sustaining casualties is DOUBLY important for the USA: (1) we begin liberating a vital region from tyranny and poverty (draining the proverbial swamp); and (2) we send the signal to our enemies that we WILL fight, and we WILL stick it out until we win, (which should make them think TWICE before instigating trouble against us); and (3) we put pressure on Libya - and Kaddafy caves, we put pressure on Syria and they exit Lebanon, and we pressure Assad EVEN more - and he might be about 2-3 months from going into exile!), and (4) we isolate and surround Iran surround Iran. And we get a field-tested battle-hardened military that's more ready to rumble than any other ion the entire world - and THAT's also a great deterrent!

So, the benefits of the Iraq War are HUGE!

Yup folks: THIS IS NO QUAGMIRE; IT'S A GREAT HISTORICAL TURNING POINT!

BOTOM-LINE: The political process in Iraq is going very well - by ANY historical standard.
It is CERTAIN to lead to eventually to a stable democratic republic of Iraq which will be a staunch ally of the USA.

The Dem-Left will never live down the shame that they opposed it.
(FDR and JFK mst be spinning in their graves!)

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