Posted by
Soldier Dad on Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:37:12 PM
As Baghdad fell in early 2003, the Iraqi information minister, “Baghdad Bob,” was taped declaring that the city was securely in Saddam’s hands. Americans took the airport – he proclaimed, "We butchered the force present at the airport. We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there!" Our troops pressed further, and still he decreed, “The Americans are not there. They're not in Baghdad. There are no troops there. Never. They're not at all."
Americans laughed – surely we could never be so naïve as to believe what someone like Baghdad Bob was saying when the facts so clearly stated otherwise. Unfortunately, we do have our own Babbling Bobs right here at home. Sen. Joe Lieberman lost his party’s primary election after his opponent downplayed threats to America. Michael Moore’s blog entry this week is positively gleeful about the election. How ironic that today, a major terrorist plot to blow up more airplanes was thwarted.
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Why was it thwarted? Because the New York Times is based near Times, not Kensington, Square. Our friends across the Atlantic seem to have a better grasp of how to track terrorists – as in, their papers tend not to broadcast top-secret tracking programs on the front page.
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But Baghdad Mike continues braying – there is no threat! he says. Do not support this “this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war,” he whines.
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Since when did America choose not to go to war just because it was thought to be “unwinnable?” If Americans avoided “unwinnable” wars, we wouldn’t have a country – historians agree that the American War of Independence was largely “unwinnable.” You don’t fight the fights you can win – you fight the fights that need fighting. Michael Moore is a coward.
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The facts are here, ladies and gentlemen! They are as clear as the statue of Saddam toppling in the middle of Baghdad. Is it senseless and immoral to face them and deal with the problem appropriately and disproportionately? Americans may have forgotten what 9/11 felt like, but perhaps this morning’s events will send a wake-up call.
Have the Democrats been so indoctrinated that they honestly can’t see the threats staring us down? Do they hate President Bush so much that they would compromise our national security to oppose him? I fear that they do not take a second thought before spewing out the Pelosi Talking Points blackberried to them each morning.
And we haven't seen Baghdad Bob in a while... maybe he's working at the DNC.