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		<title>Canada Free Press&gt;The President Who Hates His Country</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great article from Joan Swirsky. You can read the whole thing here. Thanks to @RyanJGill for the link. The President Who Hates His Country By Joan Swirsky Sunday, May...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>A great article from <a href="http://www.joanswirsky.com/"   >Joan Swirsky</a>. You can read the whole thing <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10784"   >here</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/RyanJGill"   >@RyanJGill</a> for the link.</p>
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<h1>The President Who Hates His Country</h1>
<p>By Joan Swirsky  Sunday, May 3, 2009</p>
<p><img style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class="alignleft size-full wp-image-472" title="swirsky050209" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/swirsky0502091.jpg" alt="swirsky050209" width="200" height="151" />In the last century, the impassioned words and actions of patriots like Winston Churchill – along with America’s heroic help and sacrifice – saved Europe. The eloquence and actions of “I’ve been to the mountaintop” Martin Luther King Jr. brought America to an unprecedented level of social justice.The peerless oratory and tireless diplomacy of the man who would become Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban convinced the entire world that after the wanton murder of six-million Jews in the Holocaust its straggling survivors deserved their own state of Israel. The inspiring words and decisive actions of President Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, tore down the Berlin Wall, and restored economic prosperity to America. The efforts of these towering figures resulted in a more highly-evolved world.</p>
<p>We have also seen the opposite in totalitarian leaders like Hitler, Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, and Saddam Hussein, among others, who exploited their masses, destroyed their economies, brought havoc, turbulence, grief and massive death within and outside of their countries, and made the world a more dangerous and threatening place.</p>
<p>The one thing all of these virtuous and evil men had in common was love for their respective countries, in fact a burning passion that superseded all else. The virtuous believed in freedom and democracy. The evil believed in subjugation of their peoples and lifetime tenures for themselves in order to actualize their goals of conquering their eternal enemies – Americans and Jews.</p>
<p>Today, we have a new crop of inveterate America- and Jew-haters, among them the Marxist leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega, Iran’s “death-to-America-and-Israel” study-in-abnormal-psychology Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the ever-sabotage-America and anti-Semitic “leaders” of the 22-Arab states that surround Israel.</p>
<p>I have either read about or observed firsthand all of these people. Yet in my decades of commenting on the political scene, I cannot recall a single leader of any country or regime who has ever spoken negatively of his country or tolerated others speaking ill of the land or the people he represented</p>
<h3>Until now</h3>
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		<title>If You Live In A Glass House&#8230;</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>Andrew Glass was a quiet man. He had a couple of friends, but they all lived blocks away, and his best friend lived on the other side of town. His neighbors though, didn&#8217;t like him at all.</p>
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<p>Andy lived in a house that used to belong to his great grandparents, but the Basher family had been staying there for a long time before he moved back into it. Now the Bashers were angry. They hadn&#8217;t wanted to leave the house, and in the end, Andy had to call the police and force them out.</p>
<p>Because of the animosity, Andy had all kinds of arguments with the Bashers. The Bashers, who owned the houses on either side of Andy&#8217;s, would stand in their yards yelling, &#8220;We want our house back,&#8221; as they threw rocks at him over the fence.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not your house,&#8221; Andy would say to them, ducking to avoid the rocks, &#8220;It&#8217;s mine. You were just staying here while my family was gone.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Andy often had to sleep under his bed because of the constant barrage of rocks that broke the windows in his house, and clattered to the floor all over his room. One time, the Bashers got so violent that the police even kicked them out of their houses next door, and some of Andy&#8217;s family members moved into them to keep the Bashers from moving back.</p>
<p>This angered the Bashers even more, and the constant barrage of rocks got worse. Every day, members of Andy&#8217;s family got hit by the rocks. Whenever Andy went to work, or shopping, or to the park, he had to be very careful because the Bashers would hide around corners and behind cars, just waiting to jump out and attack him.</p>
<p>Andy wasn&#8217;t an easy target though. Even though he was quiet by nature, he was very strong. In a face to face fight with any of the Bashers, Andy would probably win. The Bashers knew it, so they usually attacked from afar, hurling their rocks, and running away. Sometimes Andy would call the town council and report them, but nothing ever happened. The attacks kept coming, one after the other.</p>
<p>The Bashers also called the town council, but they told them that Andy was a bully. They accused him of being the one that attacked them, and accused him of stealing their house, and the houses next door, even though Andy&#8217;s family had owned their home for generations, and his family members were only staying in the houses next door so they could protect themselves from the constant attacks. The town council felt sorry for now homeless Bashers, and talked Andy into letting the Bashers move back into one of the next door houses. Andy cautiously agreed, hoping that by giving them back the house, his family would get a little peace.</p>
<p>The peace didn&#8217;t last for long though, and soon the Bashers started using the house next door to launch their attacks anew. Andy called the town council and said, &#8220;I told you that I shouldn&#8217;t have given them the house back, now they&#8217;re throwing rocks at us from right next door again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some members of the town council, who were also friends with the Bashers, were less than supportive. &#8220;Maybe you should give them the other house back,&#8221; one of them suggested. &#8220;If you do, I promise they will quit throwing rocks at you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fine,&#8221; Andy said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll give them back the other house, but if they keep throwing rocks at me, I&#8217;m going to get angry.&#8221; He gave the other house back to the Bashers, hoping that the town council was right and that the Bashers would be happy enough to leave him alone, but, once again, the Bashers wanted more. Soon, the rocks were flying. Again.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want our house back,&#8221; they screamed at Andy from next door. &#8220;We won&#8217;t rest until every last Glass has been run out of town!&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the town councilors advised, &#8220;You know, they lived in your house for a long time. If you gave them the West wing of the house, I promise that they would be so happy that they would never want to fight with you again.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Andy replied. &#8220;They will just bring a whole bunch of rocks into the house and throw them at me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh, just give it a shot,&#8221; cooed the councilors, &#8220;what could it hurt?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fine,&#8221; Andy said once again. &#8220;They can have the West wing of the house, but they better stop throwing rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>Soon, the Bashers had moved into the West wing of the house and for a while, they were quiet. Then a few of them started yelling at Andy down the hall, &#8220;Get out of our house Andy. We live here!&#8221; Not long after, the rocks started flying again. A few of the Bashers even snuck into Andy&#8217;s part of the house and threw rocks at his kids.</p>
<p>Andy barricaded the hallway that lead to the West wing, and then called a the town council and asked, &#8220;What should I do now? I gave them back the house next door, and it wasn&#8217;t enough. I gave them back the other house, and it wasn&#8217;t enough. Now I&#8217;ve given them a whole wing of my house and they are throwing rocks at me again. What should I do?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Just be patient, Andy,&#8221; said the councilors. &#8220;They aren&#8217;t very good at throwing rocks anyway. Just ignore them and they&#8217;ll quit throwing rocks&#8230;eventually. We promise.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Alright,&#8221; Andy answered, &#8220;but I can&#8217;t put up with this for long.&#8221;</p>
<p>For days, rocks flew over the barricade from the West wing, and clattered through the house. For days Andy and his family ignored them. One time a rock that had been thrown by a Basher man fell short of the barricade and hit a Basher child. &#8220;Damn you, Andy! That was your fault,&#8221; the Basher man yelled. &#8220;You&#8217;ll pay for that!&#8221; Even more rocks followed, and Andy feared the worst.</p>
<p>Then, late one night, it happened. One of the rocks that was thrown over the barricade hit Andy&#8217;s dad in the head and knocked him out. It pushed Andy over the edge. &#8220;Enough,&#8221; he yelled! He gathered up all the rocks he could find, tore through the barricade and started throwing them at every armed Basher he could find. He went room to room, and every time he found armed Bashers, he pelted them with rocks, beaning each one in the head and laying them flat.</p>
<p>Andy yelled for his family to join him as he marched through the West wing of the house, bashing one Basher after another with rocks, and chasing them out into the yard. &#8220;No more,&#8221; he yelled! &#8220;If you want to throw rocks at me, fine! I&#8217;ll throw them back!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Wait! Wait!&#8221; The town councilors, who had rushed over to Andy&#8217;s house, were frantic. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that! You can&#8217;t go into their part of the house! You can&#8217;t throw rocks at the Bashers! They didn&#8217;t mean anyone any harm! You&#8217;re being a bully! You&#8217;re trespassing!  We demand that you stop this right now!&#8221;</p>
<p>Andy paused for a moment, considering. &#8220;You know,&#8221; Andy said, &#8220;you told me to give them back one house, and I did. You told me to give them back the other house and I did. You told me to give them part of my house, and I did. I&#8217;ve done everything you&#8217;ve asked trying to appease them. Despite all of your promises, the Bashers never stopped throwing rocks. If you want the Bashers to live in your house, you&#8217;re welcome to them, but I&#8217;ve had enough. One of us is leaving the neighborhood tonight, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Andy turned his back on the town council, picked up some more rocks, and marched out into the yard, scattering Bashers as he went. If the town council wasn&#8217;t going to help him, he was damn sure going to help himself.</p>
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		<title>Do Muslims Eat Eggs Benedict?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>A few days ago, during a speach in his home country of Germany, Pope Benedict quoted the 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus who said. &#8220;Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.&#8221;</p>
<p>Basically, what Paleologus was saying, and Pope Benedict was referring to, was that MohammedÂ commanded his followers to spread Islam across the world, and if necessary, force religious conversion at the point of the sword. Those who wouldn&#8217;t convert were simply killed at the point of that sword. The concept of &#8216;Militant Missionaries&#8217; is not a new one, nor is it unique to Islam. The Holy Roman Empire is equally guilty of a checkered past that included spreading &#8220;by the sword&#8221; the faith they preached. The Church of England did the same, as did the Jews.</p>
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<p>The difference is, Christianity and Judaism have bothÂ matured into relatively peaceful religions (self defense not withstanding) while the &#8216;peace loving&#8217; children of Islam will typically stab you in the eye if you dare besmirk the name of their beloved Mohammed. Muslims all around the world are protesting Pope Benedicts speech but their very own protests are proving the truth of his words. So far, several Christian churches have been burned (no Catholic churches though) to the ground across the middle east. Muslims are rioting in the streets and the Pope has been burned in effegy. Many islamo-fascists are calling for the destruction of the Vatican, and violence against Catholics worldwide.</p>
<p>It is no wonder that people are pigeon holing Muslims as dangerous, as violent, and as terrorists. Every time anyone dares to criticize the tenets of their religion, Muslims around the world riot, destroy property, burn things, and even kill innocent people. Tell a Christian that Jesus was a fake, you&#8217;ll get called a sinner and told that they&#8217;ll pray for your soul. Tell a Muslim that Mohammed was a fake and you&#8217;re likely to get strung, quartered, and decapitated.</p>
<p>If Muslims around the world want to be taken seriously and their religious beliefs given the respects that they believe it deserves, then they need to stop reacting to critiques of their religion with raving madness and destruction and instead react with reasonable dialogue and constructive debate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Moderate&#8221; Muslims continually cry that the fundamentalists do not represent their entire religion, but until the &#8220;moderates&#8221; start to do something about the fanatics, they will continue to have egg on their faces.</p>
<p>Peace,</p>
<p>Wisdom</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>written by <span class="mh-hyperlinked"><a href='http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01XuqZMTyd8LLQjwpTOAHnJw==&c=Bgs5lby75zQaE3fvbYTYxYHgTerJgcBDOD6CvWKlOhk=' onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01XuqZMTyd8LLQjwpTOAHnJw==&amp;c=Bgs5lby75zQaE3fvbYTYxYHgTerJgcBDOD6CvWKlOhk=', '', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300'); return false;">Larry Abraham</a></span></p>
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<p><em>I urge all of my readers to make copies of this report and send them to your friends and relatives. The information is too critical to be overlooked in the madness of this election year.</em></p>
<p><em>Part I of this essay was written in January before the Democrat Party primaries settled anything and before the occupation of Iraq took a turn for the worse. However, it is now more obvious that what I wrote about the nature of the Third Great Jihad is all too true. The political picture has deteriorated in Europe and the U.S .to a great degree since then so Part II takes these developments into consideration. Again, I urge all of you to distribute this essay as far and wide as possible without any concern for copyright violation. Our fellow citizens need to know the true nature of what we all face. LHA</em></p>
<p>As we watch and listen to all the Democrat Party candidates running for the nomination of their party, it is tantamount to enduring the Chinese water torture. The blah, blah, blah goes on and nothing of value comes out except the pain of listening to the same nothingness over and over again. I won&#8217;t take the time or space to repeat what you have heard so many, mind numbing times over the past months but what you have not heard is crucial.</p>
<p>I must also fault President Bush and the administration spokesmen for not telling the American people what they really need to know about this &#8220;war&#8221;. If they don&#8217;t do that sometime between now and November it may cost them the election.</p>
<p>It Did Not Start on 9/11</p>
<p>The war we are now facing did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authorities in Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger context of this encounter, but an important one none the less.</p>
<p>This war is what the Jihadists themselves are calling the &#8221; Third Great Jihad&#8221; and are doing so within the framework of a time line which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the Seventh century and their attempts to recreate the dynamics which gave rise to the religion in the first two hundred years of its existence.</p>
<p>No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, than did Islam and the reasons for this growth are not hard to explain when you understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad&#8217;s death in 632 AD. The Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the Eastern Empire was based in Constantinople and trying desperately to keep the power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as a de facto state religion. The costs to the average person were unbearable as he was being required to meet the constantly rising taxes levied from the state along with the tithes coerced by the Church. What Islam offered was the &#8220;carrot or the sword&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you became a convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If you didn&#8217;t, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (old testament). Both were called &#8220;children of the book&#8221;, the book being the Koran, which replaced both the Old and New testaments for Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>With this practical approach to spreading the &#8220;word&#8221; Islam grew like wild fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the &#8220;first&#8221; great Jihad and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours in France, after they had firmly established the religion on the Iberian peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492 at the battle of Granada.</p>
<p>The &#8220;second great jihad&#8221; came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms. The Ottoman Empire was Islam&#8217;s most successful expansion of territory even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in &#8220;the ways of the Prophet&#8221;. By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on both land and sea and the final and failed attempt to capture Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated principalities, and roving tribes of nomads. However, by this time a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a new revival know has Wahhabism which came into full bloom under the House of Saud on the Arabian peninsula shortly before the onset of WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and sects, especially the Shiites. What this sect calls for is the complete and total rejection of anything and everything which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and it finds its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afgani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the &#8220;third Jihad&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter sets the stage</p>
<p>The strategy for this &#8220;holy war&#8221; did not begin with the planning of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the plans for toppling the Shah of Iran back in the early 1970&#8242;s and culminated with his exile in 1979. With his plans and programs to &#8220;westernize&#8221; his country, along with his close ties to the U.S. and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft target.</p>
<p>Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department the revolution was set into motion, the Shah was deposed, his arm forces scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they call the &#8220;Great Caliphate&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Great Caliphate</p>
<p>What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and finally what they call the &#8220;occupied territory&#8221; Israel.</p>
<p>As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and what was attempted in Egypt with the murder of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic goals. 1. The U.S. withdrawing from the region just as it did in Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. 2. Taking control of the oil wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known reserves, and 3. Using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to annihilate Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in East/West negotiations.<br />
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in the facts that immediately following the 9/11 attack, their first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two would be the next targets for al Qaeda while Americans focused on the disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most important objective was to send a loud and clear message that the U.S. was in the region to stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send a message to the Jihadists. The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison.</p>
<p>Why Iraq?</p>
<p>The war on Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or his willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known, were serious indications of on-going collaboration, as Saddam funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others in Kuwait.</p>
<p>What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location which effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and a host of other strategic reasons.</p>
<p>Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations, world-wide, to &#8220;Stop The War&#8221;. Failing this, they also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with the War in Iraq as a plebiscite, using a little know politician as the thrust point; Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what the clueless media called the &#8220;Dean Phenomenon&#8221;.</p>
<p>By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the &#8220;Hate Bush&#8221; liberals, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from Iraq and turn the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue, i.e. Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any circumstances, possibly even the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>Should George W. Bush be defeated in November and a new administration come to power we could expect to see the dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of Civilizations would then become a life changing event in all of our lives.</p>
<p>What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense of patriotism spread across the country They were not expecting this reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I believe that this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their tactical mentors, V.I. Lenin admonished &#8220;two steps forward, one step back&#8221;.</p>
<p>A couple of additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator Frank Church and Carter&#8217;s CIA Director, Admiral Stansfield Turner. This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up to this very day with consequences which are now obvious. Jimmy Carter is the one man who must bear the bulk of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad. Americans should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders constantly seek the &#8220;advice and counsel&#8221; of this despicable little hypocrite who now prances around with his Nobel Prize, while attacking President Bush with almost as much venom as his fellow Nobel Laureate, Yassir Arafat.</p>
<p>Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western Europe, especially the French.<br />
Since failing to protect their own interests in Algeria by turning the country over to the first of the Arab terrorists, Amid Ben Bella, the country itself is now occupied by Islamic immigrants totally twenty percent of the population.</p>
<p>We are in the battle of our lives which will go on for many years possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are facing or falter in the challenge of &#8220;knowing our enemy&#8221; the results will be catastrophic.</p>
<p>PART II (May 1, 2004)</p>
<p>Since writing the above, we have witnessed some frightening evidence in support of our hypothesis both internally and in other parts of the world.</p>
<p>The al Qaeda bombing in Madrid has emboldened our enemy into believing it can use terror as an instrument for democratic regime change. Based on what happened there, they may be right.</p>
<p>Kerry and bin Laden on the same page</p>
<p>John Kerry and other leaders of his party constantly refer to the United States as &#8220;acting unilaterally.&#8221; They give no credit whatsoever to countries like Great Britain, Poland, Italy, Australia or even tiny Honduras for putting their limited armed forces in harm&#8217;s way to support the U.S. led coalition in Iraq. It is little wonder that some are considering doing what Spain has done&#8221; pulling out. The leaders in these countries have spent considerable political capital in this effort, and have little to show for it as it relates to fostering good will with the American public. Couple that fact with Osama bin Ladin&#8217;s latest offer of withholding attacks on those who &#8220;quit&#8221; the coalition and you have all the elements for a Democrat party fostered &#8220;self-fulfilling prophecy&#8221; where the U.S. will be totally alone in the pacification of Iraq. John Kerry and the Bush critics persist in the &#8220;lie&#8221; of the U.S. going it &#8220;alone&#8221; in Iraq but Osama bin Laden knows differently and will use the Kerry rhetoric to help isolate the U.S. The terrorists now see themselves as political &#8220;king-makers&#8221;. They may be right.</p>
<p>Another aspect of the &#8220;anti-Bush&#8221; political axis is how both his political enemies and the main stream media take ghoulish delight in &#8220;the body count,&#8221; just as they did in the later days of Vietnam. Oh sure, they pay incidental homage to the memory of the young Americans who gave their lives in the greatest threat this country has ever faced, but they do so with all the sincerity of Madonna making a vow of chastity. As the body bags grow in number, they believe, so grows their political prospects. They may be right.</p>
<p>If the Bush administration is further weakened in the months leading up to the November elections, we will witness a heightened al Qaeda offensive in all parts of the world, including our own country, and especially in Iraq and nations surrounding it ,i.e., Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Events within the past few days in Jordan not only make this argument but also point to the possibility of &#8220;what happened to the WMDs.&#8221;<br />
Iran and Syria are daily growing more overt and bold in their support of insurgents within Iraq, believing that Bush has been so hurt by internal politics that he is powerless to act against them in any meaningful way. They may be right.</p>
<p>The Leftwing initiative, Political Correctness and Our Will to Win</p>
<p>Within our own country we are witnessing and almost insane application of &#8220;political correctness. &#8221; As the barbarism of radical Islam grows more apparent in the streets of the Middle East from Gaza to Basra, we see a cultural suicide taking place within our own schools and communities.</p>
<p>Our children are being taught from the Koran, our professors are preaching intifadah in their class rooms, and Muslim &#8220;call to prayer&#8221; loud speakers are blaring out from city halls. The more precarious our very existence becomes, the more our liberal brethren embrace their enemies. It is a Stockholm Syndrome which can only lead to the recruitment of young Muslims who will be willing to duplicate in the West what their co-religionists are doing in the streets of Israel and the market places of Baghdad. The liberal P.C. crowd say nothing about the silence of the Muslim religious leadership as it relates to the carnage of innocents but couldn&#8217;t speak out fast enough against the inspiration supplied to tens of millions of Christians by Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of the Christ. They were put off by the movie&#8217;s &#8220;violence&#8221; and its alleged &#8220;fostering of anti-Semitism&#8221;. Movies must represent their &#8220;reality&#8221; as the real thing moves them not at all. Among liberal Jews in America, hatred of George W. Bush is only surpassed by their contempt for Ariel Sharon; Let them explain it, I am at a total loss to do so. Maybe they just miss seeing Bill Clinton smooching Yassir Arafat in the White House Rose Garden.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Jesse Jackson is now calling the U.S. &#8220;guilty of crimes against humanity&#8221; as he sets out to mobilize the non-Islamic Left. None of the Democrat leadership says a word in opposition to Jackson&#8217;s treason or Hillary&#8217;s attacks on the President and U.S. policy in an Arabic newspaper, while in London. You can bet that al Jezeera didn&#8217;t miss a beat in their reporting of both events.</p>
<p>The campaign takes its toll</p>
<p>The campaign is seriously hurting Mr. Bush&#8217;s leadership role in the War on Terror. While ducking every new book critical of his initiative or trying to counter the partisan nitpicking of the 9/11 Commission, he has persisted in the misbegotten insistence of &#8220;installing democracy&#8221; in Iraq. Our purpose for being in that beleaguered country should be restricted to one purpose and one purpose only, to stop the expansion of The Third Jihad and provide a base for doing same in the neighboring areas. This can be done by sealing the borders, attacking anything that moves in violation of same and by making it clear to Syria and Iran that any participation on their part will be considered an &#8220;act of war&#8221;. Let the country be governed by the local tribes, Shiite in the south, Sunni in the central and Kurds in the north with a U.S. pro consul overseeing the military. Oil revenues could be spilt by population allocation. How about installing a Republic; it worked pretty well here with diverse populations.</p>
<p>The very idea that we should spend our sons and daughters blood or our tax dollars on trying to building a &#8220;democracy&#8221; in the region which has neither a history nor a desire for such, is sheer nonsense. The very essence of Islamic teaching speaks directly against this principle. Continuing on the current path can only result in fostering greater hatred for the &#8220;Great Satan&#8221;. Force is the only thing which is respected in that part of the world and this force need not be tied to &#8220;reform&#8221;. I suggest Mr. Rumsfled acquaint himself with a copy of Julius Caesar&#8217;s Gallic Wars and Sun Tsu&#8217;s Art of War. All the tactics and strategies necessary to subdue the Iraqi insurgents can be found in those two military gems.</p>
<p>Please not the UN</p>
<p>Bringing the U.N. to the party will only compound the problem without adding any accountability. The U.N. has been accused of many things over the years, but being a &#8220;democratic&#8221; institution has never been one of them. Just the latest scandal of the &#8220;Oil for Food&#8221; program should provide any thinking person with all the evidence they need to keep the U.N. at bay. But this doesn&#8217;t seem to bother the likes of the John Kerry&#8217;s of the world who prattle on as if the scam doesn&#8217;t even exist.</p>
<p>Just one example will make my case; the UN mandate in Israel, which has been in place since 1948. One more salient point needs to be made on this subject. There is no such thing as &#8220;The International Community.&#8221; There are only individual countries, each with its own agenda which is always self serving. The myth of a higher level of &#8220;moral authority&#8221; coming out of the UN as been one of the greater lies of the past half century, but it is a lie which persists in spite of a bloody record of hypocrisy, graft, genocide and &#8220;perpetual war for perpetual peace.&#8221; I have a suggestion for the 9/11 Commission:.Why don&#8217;t they look into what the UN was doing before the attack on the World Trade Center? If they do, they will find that exactly one week before, the UN was holding a Conference on Racism in Durbin, South Africa where the delegates voted overwhelmingly to condemn Israel, as &#8220;racist and terrorist.&#8221; The U.S., Canadian and Israeli delegates walked out in disgust. Nary a word was uttered about Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, or the Taliban, to say nothing of what was happening in Rwanda while they crunched caviar on toast and washed it down with vintage Champaign. Genocide does not qualify as &#8220;racism&#8221; according to the UN &#8220;morality.&#8221; Neither we nor the world needs the UN to muck up what is already a very delicate situation. If given proper leadership every Middle Eastern country named above will throw in with the Coalition, for if they don&#8217;t they will be the next targets of the Third Great Jihad and the Great Caliphate. Pakistan is already showing the leadership which others will follow. What do you think moved Kadahaffi to cozy up to the U.S. and Great Britain? He fears the Jihadist more than he hates us.</p>
<p>Evil Does Exist</p>
<p>Our current crises, in meeting the threat of the Third Jihad, is one more example of how most Americans simply refuse to believe there is evil in this world and are willing to grant moral equivalence on any human action. Unless the crime is personalized such as in the case of Lacy Peterson, we lose interest quickly and become bored or at least not involved.</p>
<p>To try and understand what we are facing, look into the eyes of your son or grandson and try to fathom a mind which would take pride in strapping a bomb to his body and sending him out to kill himself and countless innocent people. Or in the case of your daughter or grand daughter, try to imagine a religion which commands you to mutilate her vagina to destroy her sex drive or demands you to stone her to death if she has sexual relations with a man other than of your choosing.</p>
<p>If you can comprehend these facts both intellectually and emotionally, then you will start to understand what we are facing in the months and years ahead, both at home and abroad.</p>
<p>The radicals of Islam will stop at nothing to destroy us and all we stand for. They see this war as their &#8220;entry to paradise&#8221; and a release from the miserable existence they have built for themselves within the confines of an evil and perverse religion. The Jihadist are NOT like us, nor most of their fellow Muslims. But, like terrorists everywhere they have silenced any criticisms from fellow Muslims through threat and intimidation and have, with the help of the &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; in the West, &#8220;created the appearance of popular support&#8221;.</p>
<p>If we are incapable of understanding these realities and acting accordingly, within the life time of everyone who reads these words, we will see our cherished way of life cease to exist and chaos become our lot. The Clash of Civilizations is now reaching out and touching all of us. May God grant us the wisdom and the courage to meet the challenge.</p>
<p><em>I respectfully dedicate the above to the memory of Pat Tillman and his 872 comrades who by their courage and willing sacrifice set an example for every American. May we be worthy of their &#8220;greatest love&#8221;</em></p>
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