http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm
Paul, you're getting some of your information from al-Jazeera? The Jihad Gazette? Well, that's all I need to know. I wondered where some of you had been picking up your daily talking points. Now I know. You should listen to Neil Boortz occasionally. He's one of the leading spokesmen for Libertarians nowadays, and even HE knows al Jazeera is full of it.
You should also pay more attention to Andrew, PAPPY, Jack and our other lefties for your war information. They're all experts in international affairs and military strategy because of their years of involvement in such things. Why, they even know how to selectively copy and paste stories from the Associated Press. Such wisdom!
I'll bet if you asked any one of them to answer that dimwit's earlier question about why Osama bin Laden is still breathing valuable oxygen, they could probably explain to you that bin Laden is probably in Pakistan (which, as I'm sure all of the geography experts on this blog know, borders Afghanistan), that Pakistan is a SOVEREIGN NATION that has actually been our ally in the War on Terror (particularly against the Taliban and al Qaeda), that Pakistan's president has a somewhat shaky hold on power owing to his own ethnic rivalries, that if WE take it upon ourselves to send troops into that SOVEREIGN NATION in pursuit of bin Laden is may very well leads to HIS overthrow, which would create a power vacuum taht could complicate a tenuous and somewhat shaky truce between Pakistan and Indian, who have fought several wars over a region the two sort of share called Kashmir, and both of whom just happen to have NUCLEAR WEAPONS. But, to explain all that to the knucklehead who thinks we should just INVADE Pakistan to get bin Laden would probably give him/her a headache - and God knows there's plenty of room in that empty head for an ache, so we probably shouldn't push our luck. Just let him/her go on thinking that we should just send a couple of divisions into Pakistan regardless of the consequences. Just thank God he/she isn't in charge of anything significant.
Actually, it never ceases to amaze me that so many many of our bloggers seem to know more about strategy and tactics than the combined wisdom of our military planners and soldiers, who think we're actually WINNING the War on Terror. Silly people. Why, somebody on here earlier on this thread even asked if it's even a WAR we're fighting and if we're maybe fighting in the wrong place. Let me see if I can answer that. My son lost his best friend to a bullet in a firefight near Ramadi on December 5, 2006. That bullet was not fired by a friend. It would seem to me that if you are a U.S. Marine, and you're in a place where a whole lot of people are trying to shoot you and blow you up, you are PROBABLY in a war zone, and you have PROBABLY found the enemy. I could be wrong, though. I'm just not as smart as Petunia, who, as we all know, knows EVERYTHING.
Anyway, those local leftist bloggers who show their brilliance on here day, after day, after day are certainly better sources than al Jazeera - well, only slightly better, but better, nevertheless, because they at least PRETEND not to be playing cheap politics with our soldiers' lives.
At least they don't hate all Americans. Just Republicans, Christians, soldiers and anybody who thinks we have a right to defend ourselves against people whose stated goal in life is to kill all of us infidels and eliminate our way of life. Some on this blog may not see that as a threat. I'm sorry. I do.
And now, with that, I am going to withdraw from this thread, this group, and this blog. I have had all the liberal bullshit I can take. From now on, I will spend my time on a blog where at least the posters are SMART enough to know that George W. Bush CANNOT run for another term as President of the United States, that he IS NOT on any ballot in 2008, and that TAKING CONTINUED SHOTS AT HIM AND THE U.S. ARMED FORCES purely for cheap political points is undermining our Armed Forces, endangering the lives of those soldiers who are, indeed, in a war, and can certainly accomplish the mission they were sent on by an overwhelming vote of both houses of Congress in 2003.
Don't misunderstand me here. An American citizen has every right to criticize the President, the military, Congress, the Supreme Court, or anybody else he or she wants to criticize. But YOU DO NOT HAVE RIGHT TO SURRENDER TO THE ENEMY ON MY BEHALF, and you do not have a right to be part of a DOMESTIC debate that has my son asking me, in one of his infrequent telephone calls from Iraq, if I thought it would cause a problem if he wore his uniform to the school he graduated from when he gets back stateside. I told him there are obviously many here who will show him disrespect, some who will call him names and spit at him - just as they did when many of our soldiers came home from Vietnam - but I still firmly believe that MOST Americans understand we are at war, that Iraq is part of that overall war, and that our Armed Forces are doing everything that's being asked of them and more to win that war.
We have not lost the War on Terror. We WILL not lose the War on Terror, because if we do, Art Kaldas will be the only one here who will be able to read this blog two days after we lose. For now, I can still read it, though, and I don't like what I'm reading. It makes it hard for me to encourage that son of mine, and - unlike many of you - I certainly don't want to undermine the morale of a young man who puts his life on the line every day so some of you can continue to run our mouths in public about what losers you think he and his brothers in arms are.
I can hear the backlash now. "JD, how can you SAY such a thing."
Easy. It's true. That's exactly what you're saying. Y'all claim you support the troops. No you don't. Hell, some of you are almost GLEEFUL that the Army is having trouble meeting its recruiting goals because of the domestic gloom and doom spread by the anti-America, anti-military, anti-war media and so-called AMERICANS we have demeaning their mission, their goals, their tactics, their leaders and their very level of intellilgence of anybody who would actually VOLUNTEER to defend the United State of America in a war. And you seem absolutely DELIGHTED to find out that an OUTPATIENT CLINIC at Walter Reed Army Hospital might not meet your lofty DEMOCRAT PARTY goals for such failities, giving you one more thing to bash the Commander in Chief over the head with and one more thing to use to demoralize the troops. (By the way, the first time I ever saw the inside of a Veterans Hospital - Oteen in Asheville - was in the mid 1960s. It sucked then. If I'm not mistaken, that same DEMOCRAT PARTY consistently held the power of the purse in Congress from 1954 through 1994. Republicans held that power from 1995 through December of last year. Seems to me that BOTH PARTIES have neglected that system for about, oh, FIFTY YEARS.)
Been real. Been fun, mostly. But I can no longer hold my tongue while you dumbasses demean my son, our military, our President, my God, and our country. Perhaps everybody should take a deep breath, try to look at the big picture, try to look past the next election, and actually get something ACCOMPLISHED for this great nation.
I suspect that won't happen, though. Y'all are going to keep patting each other on the backs, getting your news from al Jazeera and CNN, talking about what Constitutional scholars you all are because you know there's a "wall of separation between church and state" in the U.S. Constitution, even though Thomas Jefferson didn't coin that phrase until more than 20 years after the Constitution was ratified. (And, for what it's worth, that "wall of separation" if it exists is there to protect the CHURCH from the STATE, not the STATE from the CHURCH.)
You'll keep patting each others' backs and licking each others behinds until you convince each other that you're all right, and the rest of the world is wrong, and that's just the way it is. (And oddly enough, you will continue to convince yourselfs that Anderson County leans to the LEFT, despite the overwhelming evidence that just the opposite is true, and that you are in the majority in your county.)
Meanwhile, everything this nation was founded on will get turned on its head, and our will to defend ourselves in future wars will be so diminished that we may never again be willing to defend our national interests against anybody or anything. Is that your goal? It certainly seems that way to me sometimes.
Since I joined this blog, I have almost always tried to find some middle ground in our debates here. Often, I have started out right of center and ventured FAR, FAR, to the right while playing Devil's Advocate to keep the debate going. It usually works. But on the issue of the War in Iraq, and on issues of religion in public life, there IS NO MIDDLE GROUND HERE. The compromise position on both issues is perfectly clear, but none of you want to even take a look at it.
Goodbye. And may God help us all of any of you are our hope for the future of a continued free and sovereign United States of America.
J.D. Tippitt, police officer, City of Dallas, born September 18, 1924, died November 22, 1963.
J.D. Tippett, blogger, The Cocklebur, born June 16, 2006, died March 3, 2007.
Both gunned down while attempting to defend the American Presidency against enemy sympathizers.
