Operation Plymouth Rock
On Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, the U.S., along with the Iraqi Security Force, launched an attack on the entire Triangle of Death. The Triangle of Death is a “Terrorist Safe Haven” and with the success in Fallujah, the Marines decided to execute this strategic move against the terrorists. A
National Review article covers the mission, and it shows how far the Iraqis have come. It talks about an Iraqi SWAT team that apparently has a sense of humor, which is probably a relieving thing in war.
“Still, the success of Plymouth Rock has been overwhelming. And much of that success can be attributed to the Iraqi SWAT team, a U.S. Marine-trained police-commando force that reportedly leaves postcard-size calling cards at raid sites that say, "Are You a Criminal or Terrorist? You Will Face Punishment.”
Isn’t that great?!
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Recount in Florida
Have you talked to any liberals that say they
know that Bush cheated in the very democratic counties in Florida? Well, the
Miami Herald recounted the ballots in three of the overwhelmingly democratic areas that the President won, and guess what the results showed? Weird, President Bush actually won. Imagine that! Not only did he win, but he won by a surprisingly large margin.
I saw this on
Little Green Footballs, and I thought it was so important that I should post it too. Go there and he has an excerpt from the
Miami Herald.
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Iraqi Government
Today in Iraq, the government declared that they would not postpone the Jan. 30 election day when the Sunni Muslims demanded that it be pushed back. When I read this, it gave me even more hope for Iraq than I had before. Even with increased terrorism attacks, the government continued to be diligent in their decision showing that they would not bow to the
evil terrorists. This brings me hope especially when you consider the fact that even the once great Spain folded under the pressure of the terrorists.
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No, allies aren't bad
In response to DaMassPhilosipher's post, I didn't say that allies were bad. I was trying to make the point that going out of your way to get allies in this situation isn't worth it.
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Good and Evil
Other than values, I think one of the reasons that people who normally sit at home on election day came out to vote for the reelection of the president was because of the great threat of terrorism. One of the main parties believes that there is a battle between good and evil; the other party believes that there is no evil.
When I say that Braveheart or Lord of the Rings are my favorite movies, someone usually asks me why. I usually respond that they are “cool” or have a good story, but I always make sure that I mention that one of the themes of both those movies is Good triumphing over Evil. Generally, when I’m talking to a liberal that I know, they say, “Oh, that figures, of course you’d bring that up.” Occasionally, they just give me an eye roll.
Now I’m not saying that all liberals think this way, and if you’re one of them, listen up.
Liberal politicians are always spouting “Negotiate, Diplomacy!” When I hear that, I hear appeasement, and that is what it is. If you believe in evil, you should know that appeasement never works with people who are evil; history has shown this, and is currently showing this in, along with other places, the Middle East. When dealing with Evil, they will take what you give them and then turn on you.
The belief that evil is nonexistent is why liberals can think that appeasement will work. Fighting terrorism only makes more terrorists, that is the most absurd thing that you could say, and guess who says that? Liberals. So you’re just supposed to let them attack you without responding? If 9-11 wasn’t a big enough call to arms, nothing would be.
The Americans want to be protected from these psycho evil terrorists and people realized that conservatives are more willing and more capable to wage an efficient war on terror. We don’t want to be protected from evil by people who don’t believe in it. If you are a democrat an believe that there is evil and it is a problem, please think before you vote; many of you, thankfully, did.
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Bush Country
This is sure something to be thankful for on this joyous Thanksgiving!
(County by county election map, it really shows that America wanted the President back in office)
(I got this map from
Sean Hannity's website)
Why do we need allies in Iraq
One of my biggest pet peeves while talking about the war in Iraq is when someone says we need to get allies involved. There is a very good argument against this, and
Ann Coulter conveys the point well in her article, “
How to Lose a War,”
“After World War II, the United States ran the Japanese occupation unilaterally. Without the meddling of other nations, the Japanese occupation went off without a hitch. Within five years, Gen. Douglas MacArthur had imposed a constitutional democracy on Japan with a bicameral legislature, a bill of rights and an independent judiciary. Now the only trouble Japan causes is its insistence on selling good products to Americans at cheap prices.
By contrast, the German occupation was run as liberals would like to run postwar Iraq – a joint affair among "the Allies," the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. It took 45 years to clean up the mess that created.
The Soviets bickered with the French, refusing to treat them as "allies" (on the admittedly sensible grounds that they didn't fight). While plundering their zone, the Soviets refused to relinquish any territory to France. Trying to be gallant, the U.S. and British carved a French zone out of their own sectors. The Soviets then blockaded Berlin, built the Berlin Wall, and Germany was split for the next 45 years.
The British made Germany's war-torn economy worse by trying to impose socialism in their zone (as well as in their country). Predictably, economic disaster ensued. Over the next five years, the U.S. was required to spend the equivalent of about $200 billion annually in today's dollars to bail out Western Europe under the Marshall Plan. I note that there was no need for a Marshall Plan in Japan.”
I encourage you to read the rest of this article and after reading just this excerpt, do you still think that we should have gone out of our way to get "our allies" into this war in Iraq? If you don't think of a resounding "No!", then that gives more proof to this statement: Liberalism is a mental disease.
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Hannity vs. Rall
Tonight on
Hannity and Colmes, Ted Rall and Michael Reagan were on talking about two of Ted Rall’s latest comic strips: the first one is racist comic strip that was attacking Condoleezza Rice and the second strip attacking all conservatives that are minorities.
On the show, Rall was saying that everyone in his business has a few bad strips, and this was one of them. The only problem with this is when you have more than a just few bad strips and you promote some absurd idea, you will have to brace yourself for the people who are going to rip on you. Hannity brought up some of his earlier comics that assaulted widows that received money after their husbands were killed on 9-11. The most preposterous comic that Hannity talked about was one that called the honorable Pat Tillman stupid. Pat Tillman was a selfless man who turned down a contract with the NFL to join the Marines to fight for freedom and serve his country in Iraq. Sadly, his life was taken while in Afganistan; because of this, Ted Rall called him stupid. Because of what Pat Tillman did, I
cannot stress enough the amount of respect I have for him.
Ted Rall refused to apologize to the widows of 9-11 and to the memory of Pat Tillman. When Hannity heard this, it looked like his blood started to boil. He began to tell Rall (and remember,they are sitting only feet apart) that he was the sickest person he had ever met. I don’t think that anyone could disagree with this; I don’t think that I have ever see anyone more
genuinely mad than Sean Hannity was right that moment, and he was completely justified. It was great to see this man beaten to a pulp verbally. Ted Rall had no idea what to do and personally I am glad that he received this tongue lashing. Michael Reagan hardly had to do anything, because Sean basically covered it in his diologue.
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President Bush Rescues Security Guard
If you haven’t already heard about this story, I think it’s awesome.
Yesterday in Chile, President Bush was entering the Estacion Mapocho Cultural Center with his wife, the Chilean President Lagos, and his wife for the APEC Summit dinner when one of the Chilean security men stopped President Bush’s bodyguard from entering. With all of the Chilean security following closely behind the President, he must not have noticed this. The security guard demanded to be let in and all voices started to rise. A second of Bush’s guards was pushed up against a concrete wall and roughed up a bit. The President and his party heard the commotion and approached the crowd and upon seeing his bodyguard in this crowd, he reached over a few rows of people and pulled his Secret Service man out. Do you think that some Elitist president would do that, no way; you can really tell that President Bush is a normal person like you or me, I think that's a great quality to have when you are president.
Thankfully no punches were thrown.
I thought that was worth posting
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Media Bias
Whether you like it or not, you have to understand that the media is biased. Not only does it do everything it can do to make the situation in Iraq look bad, but also anything related to Republicans look like a failure when it is not.
With the whole Clinton Library opening, the former president has been in the news quite a bit. On Nov. 28, CNN was covering the Clinton Library, and Judy Woodruff praised Clinton like none other. "Bill Clinton is the quintessential American, super sized.", "Conjures memories of his often dramatic successes." She claimed, but failing to actually say why, and she never supported it with a fact. She showed Arafat signing a treaty (that lasted long didn't it?), and she seemed to forget that he pulled our troops out of Rwanda and almost let a genocide happen. Judy Woodruff also seemed to neglect the fact that Clinton bombed innocent civilians in Sudan (that curiously happened on the same day that Monica Lewinski went to see the grand jury) These people weren't actually linked to terrorism (It's OK when he bombs innocents, but when President George Bush bombs totalitarian Iraq, it's a war crime!).
They claim to be reporting both sides, but truly they are only reporting the other side. But when you think about it, news really isn’t about reporting both sides of a story, it’s about reporting reality and the truth, not the “other side”, and that is what TV news stations don’t understand.
In Iraq’s case you don’t report all of the horrible things, and you don’t report all of the good things either, but you should report them proportional to the amount that they are occurring. I know there are more good things happening than the major networks show; I have heard many soldiers say how well things are going, and if that isn’t a first hand account, I don’t know what is. In a time of war, if you err on one side, it should be on the side of reporting positive stories, because public opinion is directly correlated to how efficiently we conduct the war, and possibly even if we win or lose. Vietnam was not lost by our troops, it was lost here on our own soil, but that is another argument for another time.
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Liberal Talk Radio
The other night, I was listening to the radio, and thought it might be interesting to see what lies were being spewed out over "Air America", the liberal talk radio station. To sum my experiance up, it was very boring, had bad messages which were not supported, and it was slanderous.
I can’t remember the name of the guy who was bloviating those non-sensicle ideas, but it was horrible. On public air waves, it is extremely discriminatory to call an entire group of people you don’t even know “asses.” Not only did he do that, but he called President Bush’s secret service people “bastards.” After this I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and while I was brushing I couldn’t really hear what he was saying, but every few seconds he screamed loud enough that I heard him yell “fagot”. After he finished spouting expitives, he took a caller and when the caller started to swear, the host cut him off claiming the they couldn't have that kind of language on the show.
Even if this shouldn’t be censored, I do think it is very dumb. I have never heard his Right Wing counterparts on the radio swear that much even when you put them together, and I been listening to conservative talk radio for 2 and a half years. When you host a radio show, or any show for that matter, it is a very bad idea just to insult people and call them names without backing it up. You should present your ideas and then support them with facts or reasoning. He never took callers that disagreed with him, so he never had to actually argue or prove his point. Throughout the entire time I listened, he had underlying themes that seemed to suggest that christianity is a horrible religion but every other religion is fine.
If that isn’t bad, he then proceeded to impersonate conservatives and start to yell out very hateful statements of the like that follows: “I hate gays, I hate muslims, I hate liberals, I hate Jews”, and many other uncalled-for phrases (I think that it is kind of ironic that he mentioned hating Jews, because the conservatives are the only ones who are truly helping the nation of Israel; the liberals are actually the ones who indescriminatly hate Israel and Jewish values). It was the most hateful rant I have ever heard and he was saying that conservatives actually think this, which is completely untrue. It really does show the level that liberals have stooped down to.
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Communism is evil!
In response to DaMassPhilosopher’s post about communism not being evil, I would say that it is. Like you said DaMass, every single communist society ever created, has become a dictatorship. I believe that because human beings are human beings, and have human nature, communism will never be able to exist without eventually becoming a dictatorship or cause serious damage to its citizens. There is no question that no matter where or when, Communism is doomed to fail, and once that happens, it will hurt the people of that country. So when you think about it (thinking is the key idea here), a government that fails and harms its people every single time it is created, is an evil government.
This debate about communism and capitalism was the perfect segway into what I intended to talk about anyway: Ronald Reagan and how he defeated communism and thusly ending the civil war.
Reagan was a very unpopular president at the time, mainly because hippies and other crazy folk wanted a nuclear freeze, and at first sight, this sounds like a very sensible idea. But when you delve just a little bit deeper into the facts and circumstances, you find out that this would have been much less efficient and potentially very dangerous.
To understand why this would be the case, take a look at capitalism and communism. When the government of a capitalist society needs to borrow money, they can get it from the private sector. When a communist government needs to borrow money, they have to take the money from other government programs, because there is no private sector.
When Reagan increased the amount of money put into missiles and other offensive/defensive programs, it forced the Soviet Union to do the same if they wanted to keep up with America. When Reagan continued to do this, the Soviet Union focused all of its efforts on the Cold War and neglected the other parts of the government. Also, all of the money Reagan forced the communist government to put in to the Cold War efforts had to come from somewhere, and so they took it from other government programs. This caused the government to fall apart very rapidly. Some people say that Reagan was not the reason that the Soviet Union collapsed, it would collapse anyway. For one thing, that proves my first point, that communism is evil, but the real point is that Reagan forced the Soviet Union to collapse before they could nuke us. If we had stopped producing missile defense systems, do you think that, that would have changed their minds and they would have disarmed also, I don’t think so.
This and other reasons are why I think that Reagan was the best president of modern history and one of the best ever.
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Who is full of hate?
Apparently to my liberal counterparts, us conservatives are filled with an intense hate that is baseless and unreasonable. But when I put on the goggles of nonpartisanship, my eyes see it very differently.
Liberals are actually the hateful and unreasonable ones. There’s a plethora of examples from my life concerning this issue, but I will write of one of the most recent incidents.
One of my favorite t-shirts is a Ronald Reagan t-shirt that is made in the style of those Che shirts (the shadows on the person’s face is what makes the picture of the person). Anyway, the first dreadful day I wore the shirt to my prison (school), I was eaten alive for wearing it. The comments that were thrown at me were along the lines of, “Ronald Reagan was just a bad actor and a horrible person.” , “Communism is worth it.” (I don’t even know what that one is supposed to mean) “Reagan didn’t destroy the Soviet Union.”, “Che was a revolutionary, Reagan was nothing.” and “You Conservatives are so stupid!” Not only were the insults full of hate, they were also backless.
Communism is worth it? I don’t think so; it has only killed 100 million people, it always has and will always fail. I wouldn’t say that 100 million innocent lives are worth that.
As for Che being a “revolutionary”, I say, so what? What really mattered was that he was a revolutionary promoting communism, and communism is one of the great evils this world has to endure until we can wipe it out completely.
Why would anyone even bring up whether or not Ronald Reagan was a bad actor, and saying that he was a horrible person is just unbelievable. I asked that rage-filled person why Reagan was a horrible person, and he didn’t have and answer for me.
My favorite angry phrase I heard that day was “You Conservatives are so stupid!” This line truly unveils liberals’ hatred and elitism. Again I asked the accuser to back-up this claim and once again all they could say was, “Just because.”
Whenever liberals get the chance, they blame everything, even the most random of concepts, on George Bush. The hate they hold for President Bush is completely irrational. No one can defend their hate of George W. Bush and when they attempt to, they use lies or absurd arguments. One such argument I've heard is that President Bush doesn't fund the arts sufficiently. My dad is a professional photographer, I don't think that government should be spending large sums of money on the arts. The private sector is how you should go about funding the arts, not with our tax money.
Whenever a liberal spits out their spineless rhetoric, it really reveals who they truly are, and who is really the one full of blind hate.
In my next post I will talk about why it really was Reagan who defeated the Soviet Union.
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First Post
Welcome to the first edition of our rants and raves about politics and everyday life.
Hopefully these posts will become a regular habit for us and that our humble opinions will be interesting. Everyday we're thrust into the belly of the beast, public education, and fight against seemingly insurmountable political odds; thankfully we've escaped with our ideologies intact. In fact, this political oppression has only strengthened our belief in truth, justice, and the capitalistic way. The various stories, opinions, and cold, hard truths we've gathered over the years may be surprising, shocking, or simply deserving of a chuckle, but we sincerely hope that by reading the views of a few young conservatives you'll enjoy yourself, and perhaps even learn a thing or two.
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