Me And Kevin Aylward

You look happy. Glad you’re having fun and doing a good service as well, as always.

There was an interesting review of the Conservative Political Action Conference by Michelle Goldberg at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/19/cpac/

Goldberg reports that the attendees all seemed to believe an unnamed member of Congress who claimed that we did find, and still are finding, WMD in Iraq. If conservatives really want to convince other to join, it’s important to stay grounded in reality — which includes the reality of no discovery of WMD in Iraq.

Dear Andy,

Thank you for your kind thoughts, but they are not apropos. If conservatives want to win the hearts and minds of the America, not for just one election, but for a generation, truth is always the path. It’s regrettable that some conservatives, including top Bush administration officials, saw fit to dissemble about weapons of mass distruction. This is not good for the long-term success of conservatism.

Dear Andy,

Thank you for your comments. You are correct that on election day 2004, many American voters believed on that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. You are correct that pointing out this error did not result in a win for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. That has no bearing on the truth of whether such weapons were found, and in fact they were not found.

Anom,

Pray tell, please define WMD, so we know if we’re talking about the same thing.

Is it one or more of the following?
1) Biological weapons
2) Nuclear materials
3) Weapons delivery systems
4) High Energy Expolsives
5) A horde of machete-wielding savages
5) A cabal of murdering tyrants who kill & torture for pleasure

While we’re at it, please quantify “Mass”
1) >10 people
2) >100 people
3) >1,000 people
4) >10,000 people
5) >100,000 people
6) >1,000,000 people
7) >1,000,000,000 people

You see Mike, the point here is that, whether or not a blog discussion gets into a knock-down drag-out debate, we’re not doing ourselves any favors to let a lie pass unchallenged.

For the same reason most of us know Webster’s definition of “is”.

If someone is going to debunk WMD, I’d like to hear their meaning of “is” before cracking the shell of disinformation with the squared ring of sharp edged truth like nippers. Know what I mean?

S.W. Anderson & Mark Noonan have an excellent discussion regarding political lying and conniving which conditioned the Germans to accept more of the same from Hitler a generation later. Check it out at
http://themoderatevoice.powerblogs.com/posts/1107007620.comments.shtml

My 2 cents to their comments is that Prov 22:6 & 8 supports the notion that wickedness, or in this discussion, extremisim, can generally be traced to what children learn fom their elders. Children, under the leftist mantra of multi-culti tolerance, learn intolerance and will rationalize untruths to justify their intolerance and anger.

Now, their rebellioness is coming around full circle, just when the elites (moonbats) would be justified in thinking that they suceeded in molding and shaping “conventional wisdom” of the masses to their POV, they find that it ain’t happening, hence the frothing and raving.

The leftist radicals need an underdog to rally around to support their hatred of a common enemy – western Civilization or more specifically American Civilization and Judeo-Christian moral values. They lost the USSR when it imploded economically, they lost again when the Peace Dividend turned out to be a figment of imagination, so now it’s “all hail to the insurgents”.

Nevermind if the insurgents get their way, the leftists will get their throats slit like lambs at slaughter.

Andy,

Please don’t confuse liberalism with Communism thuggery.

The whole “liberals hate western civilization” thing is so played. Liberals just hate the whole “liberal imperialism” thing.