Wednesday, February 19, 2003
King of Terror
The only thing the US is losing, as I said before, is the propaganda war. They are not doing a great job convincing the world of the need for a preemptive strike to dethrone Saddam. [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060505419/canadaprotestpag]
Saddam: King of Terror[/url], should change your mind.
“Writing a biography of Saddam Hussein is like trying to assemble the prosecution case against a notorious criminal gangster. Most of the key witnesses have either been murdered, or are too afraid to talk,” notes Coughlin…
Monday, February 17, 2003
Weekend Protests
I suppose I can’t get away from mentioning the anti-war protests over the weekend. Diablogger has some pictures from his area.
I trudged on over to the anti-war rally in Tallahassee on Saturday looking for
intellectual stimulation, fair-minded discourse, and moral illumination. So of course, I brought a book to read.
Suffice it to say that these rent-a-crowds don’t know a thing about history, Hitler, war, or how to run a world.
That said, they do have the right to be out there and make fools of themselves.
I had to lift this photo from The World’s Most Confused Jew
Saturday, February 15, 2003
The other Hussein
ABC’s 20/20 did a piece the other night on Uday, Saddam’s evil son. This loose cannon has all kinds of power, including access to much of the weapons that Saddam says Iraq does not have.
Then there’s this: From Rush’s Stack of Stuff: Uday Hussein Admits Smoking Gun.
My friends, during Open Line Friday a caller made the excellent point that, if Saddam Hussein’s son Uday is now threatening a poison gas retaliation if we attack, is that not the smoking gun we’ve been looking for? By making this threat, he’s essentially admitting they have the weapons they say they don’t have.
Peanuts
Margaret Wente writes on how Saddam is Lucy and the West is Charlie Brown.
My bet is, we’ll go for a few dozen more feel-good UN resolutions while Saddam hides his anthrax in Lebanon. We’re quite happy to be Charlie Brown. Saddam is Lucy with the football. She pulls away that football every time. And then she tells him she won’t do it again. And he gives her one last chance. And she does it again. He never understands that she always will. It’s her nature.
Give thanks
Dear member of the U.S. military:
Thank you for defending our freedom.
Signed,
Go ahead, add your name. Do something good for the country.
Friday, February 14, 2003
the Lord Speaketh
Lord Black, whose only fault was to desert Canada (for good reasons), writes why the UK needs to support America.
There is not the slightest doubt that Iraq is an international terrorist-supporting state. It continues to shelter and support terrorist organisations that operate against Iran, Israel and many Western countries.
HT: LGF
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Buchanan comments
I always liked Pat Buchanan, and he has some comments on the Iraq situation.
“How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?”
“Nobody knows because it’s never been done yet.”
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Barbarians at the Gate
Silent Running has an excellent piece on why we need to rise up and fight the barbarians at the gate.
This is a fight for the survival of civilisation against barbarism, and anyone who is not prepared to defend civilisation is objectively allying with its enemies.No nuances, no polished phrases, no diplomatic initiatives, and no concessions. Here are some new words to try.
Awwww too bad
Pacifict and general twit Sean Penn is whining that his foolish outburst on Larry King Live opposing the war has cost him a role.
Bad-boy actor Sean Penn says his opposition to a war in Iraq cost him a lucrative movie role - but the film’s producer, Steve Bing, calls the claim “extortion.”
Maybe he’ll keep his anti-patriotic stance to himself next time.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
JDAM
This war will be brought to you by the letters J,D,A, and M. Read this and read why the war will be over before the UN rearranges another load of paperwork.
“You just fire and forget… That’s why they are so wonderful.”
Friday, February 7, 2003
Sacrifice called war
As we move closer towards war, I decided to reflect a little on my dear Grandfather, Lorne E. Flood. Gramps was in the US Navy, at the age of 36, my age, went off to the Pacific conflict to fight the Japs aboard the USS Gambier Bay.
He had a wife and a small child, with a baby on the way. Despite his young family, he volunteered to fight for his country—and very nearly died.
Would anyone in Canada fight today for their way of life? I doubt many would, besides the few we have in our military. It’s clear that there are many more willing to die for their country in the US. Why is this?
History has shown that Canada has always stood alongside the Allies in times of war. It’s such a shame that today we have no stance and simply hide behind the bureaucracy of the UN.
A country that doesn’t stand by its allies or stand for anything doesn’t stand a chance.
Thursday, February 6, 2003
7 things…
A new blog, a new source of good info. Go ahead, pacificts, depress yourselves.
James Dunnigan has listed the ten worst things that could happen to the US if the West invades Iraq. Some of them are very, very unlikely, but that isn’t the point. The point that Dunnigan makes is that Iraq still loses. I find his list interesting, but I believe he did a lot of work and then missed stating the main point - perhaps because it is self-evident to him. The main point is that any of these worse case scenarios is less risky than leaving Saddam in power. Let’s examine the risk of leaving Saddam in power.
Shut up celebrities!
I know I’m not the only one who is sick of celebrities shooting their mouth’s off against the President and his battle to protect the American people. Hoffman blasts Bush’s war plans - and I say, who cares? What does he know about protecting the US? He’s an ACTOR, and nothing more. He doesn’t have and shouldn’t have access to intelligence information that the President and his men have.
“If they are saying it’s about the fact they have biological weapons and might have nuclear weapons and that gives us the liberty to pre-empt and strike because we think they might hit us, then what prevents Pakistan from attacking India, what prevents India from attacking Pakistan, what prevents us from going into North Korea?
I’ll tell you what gives us the right: the right for self preservation. What prevents Pakistan? Self preservation - they’d be blown back into the earth’s core if they attacked India. Nothing is preventing us from blowing up North Korea - yet. Their worldwide threat is far less than Iraq’s - but they’ll be next if they keep threatening the troops the US has over there.
Thank God we don’t have a Hollywood fawner in office at the White House.
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Powell at the UN
Powell gave everything but the zip codes of the evidence today at the UN.
“The facts and Iraq’s patterns of behaviour demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort – no effort – to disarm, as required by the international community.
“Indeed, the facts and Iraq’s behaviour show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.”
Personally, the US is just killing time before the boys all get over there and the JDAMs are built.
In the meantime, they may convince the Germans and the Gauls that there’s a good reason to whack Iraq - but I doubt it.
Saddam’s bodyguard speaks
Saddam’s bodyguard warns of his secret arsenal - one I’m sure Secretary Powell is outlining right now.
SADDAM Hussein’s senior bodyguard has fled with details of Iraq’s secret arsenal.
His revelations have supported US President George W. Bush’s claim there is enough evidence from UN inspectors to justify going to war.
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
War on SUVs
Everyone is equating North America’s use of SUVs with the need to invade Iraq. Obviously this is an incredibly tenuous link at best, and should be discounted out of hand. In Canada, SUVs are already heavily taxed at the new car dealer. The heaviest tax is at the gas pump, of course.
Jerry Taylor on SUVs on National Review Online - writes about the accident stats that are constantly misrepresented by the anti-SUV media.
The result: SUVs saved between 1,023 and 1,225 lives every year. And the study found no statistically significant evidence that you are more likely to die if your car collided with an SUV than if it collided with another car. Interestingly enough, White found that light trucks were responsible for an unnecessary 2,260 deaths every year. Apparently, it’s the pickups and minivans ” not the SUVs ” that are the problem.
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
A case for war
Eject! Eject! Eject! Is the name of a fine blog, now residing to the left in our blogroll. Once more, thank you Loudmouth for this link.
Here’s an except from an exceptional essay answering all the questions our annoying liberal media cannot.
And I will not forget another one, either. As long as I draw breath, I swear I will never forget the sight of two people holding hands, and leaping from 108 stories above the hard concrete sidewalks that I myself have walked, gawking skyward at one of the wonders of the world. I will not forget them. I will not forget their fall, the spin that finally tore their hands apart as they fell forever, forever down that quarter-mile.
History repeating
Daniel Pipes writes about an article by David Gelernter in which he states that history is repeating itself.
He finds today’s Europe “amazingly” similar to that of the 1920s in other ways too: “its love of self-determination and loathing of imperialism and war, its liberal Germany, shrunken Russia, and map of Europe crammed with small states, with America’s indifference to Europe and Europe’s disdain for America, with Europe’s casual, endemic anti-Semitism, her politically, financially, and masochistically rewarding fascination with Muslim states who despise her, and her undertone of self-hatred and guilt.”
Saturday, January 25, 2003
USS not Clueless
Looks like I’m going to have to start a war category, as the war drums are starting to beat and things are getting interesting.
As most of you readers know, real info and insight is found in the blogsphere: it’s amazing how traditional media is letting everyone down AGAIN!
USS Clueless, in my blogroll to the left, is an excellent source of information so you know what’s really going on and not being reported!
It’s an engineering aphorism that the sour taste of poor quality lingers long after the sweet scent of early delivery is forgotten.
The point being that when customers, management and marketing are all yapping about slipped schedules, you need to stand firm and take the time needed to make the product actually work right. Shipping crap early is worse than shipping something good a bit late, all other things being equal. And what people worry about in the run up to shipment is different from what they remember after the fact. Once you actually ship, no one will talk about that part of it any longer.