Sunday, March 23, 2008

Political Food for Thought - Iraq

"To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go
through it. Our country is now facing the most serious
threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced
in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the
fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly
lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really
means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far
as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to
September 2001, with the following attacks on us:
* Iran Embassy Hostages, 197 9;
* Beirut , Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut , Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie , Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York
1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran , Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military
complex 1996;
* Nairobi , Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam , Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* A! den, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there
were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?

Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms.
The attacks happened during the administrations of
Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We
cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there
were no provocations by any of the presidents or their
immediate predecessor, President Ford.

3. Who were the attackers?

In each case, the attack s on the US were carried out
by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World?

25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?

Hopefully, but that is really not material. There
is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of
Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership
of Hitler (who was also Christian (?)), that made no
difference. You either went along with the administration
or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million
Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons
(including
7,000 Polish priests).

(see http://www.Nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm)

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were
killed by the Nazis, as the six million holocaust Jews who
were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other
than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world
focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing
anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of
taking over the world - German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the
world on the US , but kill all in the way -- their own
people or the Spanish, British, French or anyone else. The
point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no
protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many
peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us
from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are
fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements
-- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the
peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut
up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?

There is no way we can honestly respond that it is
anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be
politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion
can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't
clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major
questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two
pivotal questions:

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as
it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many
of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question
- What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that
losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops
home and going on about our business, like post-Vietnam.
This is as far from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the
world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will
steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us,
over the past 18 years. The plan was, clearly, for
terrorists to attack us until we were neutered and
submissive to them.

We would, of course, have no future support from
other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that
they would see; we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one
at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them. They
already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it
was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from
Iraq . Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed
their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything
else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on
France is that they might see the light and realize that if
we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't
resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may
already be too late for France . France is already 20%
Muslim and fading fast!

Without our support Great Britain will go too.
Recently I read that there are more mosques in England than
churches.

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports
and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by
the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslim terrorists, how
could anyone else?

The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on
this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning,
at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise
committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of
losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we
cannot unite and really put 100% of our thought s and efforts
into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to
win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by
"imploding." That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to
recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in
and lending full support to the war effort. If we are
united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to
be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply
don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this
situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of
Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were
committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age,
Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that
sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war!
For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of
the civil rig hts we have become accustomed. We had better
be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or
we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We
gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately
restored them after the victory and in fact added many more
since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton
before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain
all of our Political Correctness, and all of our civil
rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful,
honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them
out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war
and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would
literally like to see us lose.

I think some actually do, I hasten to add that this
isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just
don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that
conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are
divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does
great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the
politicians and media regarding the treatment of some
prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying.
We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a
few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our
military police. These are the type prisoners who just a
few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings,
cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and
otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing
with Saddam Hussein. !

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners
chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same
reason. They are also the same type of enemy fighters, who
recently were burning Americans, and dra gging their charred
corpses through the streets of Iraq . And still more
recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing
videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading
of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians,
who for several days have thought and talked about nothing
else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not
burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the
streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.

Can they be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of
impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't
show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of
the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and
death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of
losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political
standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero
playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to
what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any
other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media
people are disloyal. It simply means that they are
absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we
are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been
pushing us, for many years.

These people are a serious and dangerous liability
to the war effort. We must take note of who they are and
get them out of office. Remember, the Muslim terrorists
stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into
ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States , but
throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being
'arrogant.' That charge is valid. We are arrogant in that
we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we
can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and
that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat
anything bad in the world! We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it
will not survive, and no other free country in the world
will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout
the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought,
freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for
anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or any status for
women, or that have been productive in one single way that
contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be
united on this war or we will be equated in the history
books to the self- inflicted fall of the Roman Empire . If,
that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be
written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye
on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or
less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population
of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the
established French traditions.

The French will be fighting among themselves, over
what should or should not be done, which will continue to
weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't
that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away
from them by some external military force. Instead, they
give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by
politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who
have shown, worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not
apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in
power.

Muslims have universally shown that when they have
taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over
whom will be the few who control the masses.

What is happening in Iraq is a good example. Will
we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the
"peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said
above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose.
I hope now, after the election, the factions in our country
will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and
will unite to save our country. It is your future we are
talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it. I
reiterate. A national election is months away.

After reading the above, we all must do this not
only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our
country and the world. Whether Democrat or Republican,
conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians
and media of our country and the free world"

-Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired

Thoughts/Arguments anyone?

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Shatze Wants to be a Chef...

Last night Kris and I got home after about 11pm and as we walked up to the door Kris said, "I think I'm gonna go straight to bed - I'm pretty tired." I replied, "Yeah, me too."

Little did we know that while we were gone (about 5 hours), Shatze decided to whip up a little something in the kitchen. She decided to use everything on the third shelf...2 boxes of hot chocolate mix, a couple of boxes of apple cider, a bag of brownie mix, some pasta shells and crackers... Unfortunately, we got home too late to take part in the majority of the festivities and just got the left overs - and she left the mess for us to clean up too...
(The view of the dining room as we walked in.)


(Shatze and Roxy ate most all of the chocolate, but apparantly didn't take too
well the the tart taste of the apple cider.)


(Roxy's bed covered in chocolate footprints and hot chocolate foil packaging.)


(Obviously knows she's in trouble, and yet still trying to hide some evidence.)


(The kitchen floor covered in chocolate, dog slobber, and dog prints.)


(You can imagine our thoughts at 11pm...)


(The clean up sweep - you can see none of the chocolate powder was left [or came off the floor] and she ate all the wheat thins. Isn't this like drinking a diet coke with a double cheeseburger and chili fries?)


(The survivors: a few crackers, apple cider, one brownie mix,
and lemon-poppy seed muffin mix...)



Shatze has not done this in a long time...and never this big. And Roxy - her whiskers were completely covered in chocolate. Yes, we know dogs are allergic to chocolate... Shatze probably lost a few braincells considering she ate an entire large bag of miniature Reese's PB Cups a couple of years ago and just left me the foil. Roxy spent the evening throwing it up and then slept in her kennel. Shatze was quite proud of herself but has been regretting it a bit today as she's been really thirsty and trying to take a solid dump...

And to make matters worse, Shatze ate a pair of underwear the previous day (why she was locked downstairs) - just because she was bored.


We can't give her toys because she destroys and eats them in record time - including Kongs... And now, she's sucking on her hip...(refer to previous pet post).