HowardReaders, Please at Least Mimic Reality
I would ask my readers to please at least try to mimic reality. For example S.L. of the wonderful blog, Political Brief, seems to think that Nancy Pelosi went to Iran and made kissy-pooh with President Amadinejad. Apparently, after a google search, I determined that no one claims that this has occurred. Now, it is true that Madame Pelosi did visit Pres. Assad of Syria and tried to convey her wishes for better relations. This, even from a pro-defense standpoint, I can't see anything wrong with.
There are many worries about the source of threats to our troops in Iraq. According to recent reports in the NY Times, including US Defense Dept leaks, it seems that half of the insurgents in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is also the country of origin of the September 11 hijackers, more or less. Saudi Ambassador Bandar, now head of the Saudi NSC, got $2 billion in bribes from the Defense giant, BAE (British American Enterprise aka British Aerospace). In fact, Prince Bandar was sending thousands of dollars to two of the hijackers of 9/11. However, the Saudis are supposed to be our friends. Now Mr. Olmert of Israel seems to even want them to have our weapons.
Why don't we Americans admit that there is a British-American operation that is helping the Saudis fund terrorism? That some of our friends are more dangerous than our enemies? Attacking Iran will just try to wash all this away in a fantasy about a great US-Saudi-Israeli alliance against Iran and its allies, which will be just that: a fantasy, though potentially the cause of hell on earth.
There are many worries about the source of threats to our troops in Iraq. According to recent reports in the NY Times, including US Defense Dept leaks, it seems that half of the insurgents in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is also the country of origin of the September 11 hijackers, more or less. Saudi Ambassador Bandar, now head of the Saudi NSC, got $2 billion in bribes from the Defense giant, BAE (British American Enterprise aka British Aerospace). In fact, Prince Bandar was sending thousands of dollars to two of the hijackers of 9/11. However, the Saudis are supposed to be our friends. Now Mr. Olmert of Israel seems to even want them to have our weapons.
Why don't we Americans admit that there is a British-American operation that is helping the Saudis fund terrorism? That some of our friends are more dangerous than our enemies? Attacking Iran will just try to wash all this away in a fantasy about a great US-Saudi-Israeli alliance against Iran and its allies, which will be just that: a fantasy, though potentially the cause of hell on earth.
The Political Brief
How does it happen, Howard, that you endlessly carp on an evil alliance with Saudi Arabia and Prince Bandar and can miss something so clear as the Dems violating the Constitution for their own personal gain? Their insistence that we pull out of Iraq and abandon the civilians there who voted and would undoubtedly be killed if we left prematurely is really sick. They got elected, not for their "cut and run" position, but because they lied. They pretended to plan so many things that gullible voters thought sounded good and then (as always) delivered nothing. Anyone who remembers the end of the Viet Nam War and the "killing fields" of Cambodia knows better than to run out on people who count on us.
If you ask anyone who has actually been to Iraq and seen the progress being made on their "infrastructure", they'll tell you that things are greatly improving. If Nasty and Billary et al will try doing their jobs for a change and stop meddling in international affairs where they can only do harm, perhaps things will work better. They should leave negotiations to the diplomats who are supposed to be there. As a matter of fact, I can see no reason for diplomacy with Iran. Ahmadinejad has already made his position abundantly clear.
Thanks for the kind words about my blog, by the way. I read yours, too. Obviously.
Real Crash
Anyway, Nancy (or Nasty) went to Syria. If she went to Iran that would have been a lot different, if she had the balls to...