The pragmatic problem for Bush is that we-the-people did not put enough representatives and senators to support the crusade in ‘02 & ‘04. Will we correct that in ‘06?

All the same, the decision to target or not target ‘holy’ places when fired upon rests with POTUS and in bending over backwards to ACLU, AI, Donks et al, we paid the price with incessant ambushes and attacks from mosques, hospitals and school yards. The problem with public facilities, not counting mosques, is that if we break them, we’ll eventually have to replace them.

All the same that would have been a small price, if in the beginning, we were clear about the rules of engagement — fire upon us from wherever and the site gets rubbled. After a few incidents the locals will get the message real quick and make the terrorist pick another location to fight from.

We are winning, if you look at the back story on the unfortunate deaths of the Marines earlier this week. After the attack, the terrorists went into the village bragging of their exploits. Shortly thereafter, the locals surrounded the terrorists and demanded they surrender, when they refused, the locals killed them. Supposedly there were 20 or so terrorists, so I’d say the price has been more than repaid in blood.

The MSM would have you think that the battle is one-sided and that we’re getting all the hits while any dead terrorist tends to get lumped with the civilians as if they were but yet another collateral casualty.

More egreious is no MSM mention of uprisings by the locals to rout out the cancer within their neighborhoods. More stories like that, or at least an accurate accounting of each incident would give Raymond cause to chill out.

In fact you should do a little googling and see what kinds of Christian missionary work is being accomplished there WITHOUT OIF coalition protection.

We are commanded to spread the Gospel to the ends of the world, even if it means losing your head or poked by a curore tipped arrow. Of course not everyone is cut out to be the “feet” of the body of Christ, but by all means we should do whatever we can within our abilities to support those who do.

Edumacate yourself by looking up http://www.persecution.com, then look up a copy of “Through Gates Of Splendor” by Elizabeth Elliot.

There is no losing when you do the right thing however difficult it may be, no matter the price…

We also need to show strong resolve and sane policy here at home. Islam is the enemy. If we wish to encourage reform within the Islamic community then we have to show an unapologetic resolve in dealing with the enemy at home as well as abroad.

It also needs to be understood that if our country is directly attacked we will counterattack with devestating consequences – if there is collateral damage, well so be it.

I think some of the frustration people are expressing with Iraq is not so much that it is bad policy (it’s not) but the timidness we have shown in our strategy both at home and in Iraq itself.

What took so long??? European nations oust imams Countries across Europe are working to expel radical Islamic clerics who glorify and condone acts of terrorism, in hopes of stemming the tide of extremism among impressionable Muslim youth. France depor…

All of this could have been avoided had Gen. Patton been alive and in charge or if Coach Steve Spurrier were a general instead of a football coach.

Offense. Offense and more offense.

We need to make it clear that we will drop 2,000 lb bunker busting bombs on terrorist houses and sites.

Unfortunately we’ve cowtowed to the left in our niceness and then handed them ammunition to say “see our troops are getting killed”.

What makes you think after committing in a left turn that we should stop in front of the oncoming car?

…gotta love irrelevant questions.

Just curious. What makes you think we are winning in Iraq or will win?

This is the elephant in the room that those who remain pessimistic about Iraq’s future ignore — that if the Sunnis or Shias have their way idelogically speaking, they will lose the Kurds along with the natural resources they sit on. The Kurd region is, and has been for quite some time even before Saddamn’s fall, almost paradise by comparison to the other two regions.

In fits and starts, liberty and religious freedom is making its way to the fore as the Chaldeans, Druse, Christians, Feminists, Secularists and other so-called infidels and apostates are making their voices heard in the political & social realm.

By ignoring this dynamic, the pessimists add fuel to the fire for ‘failure’ and weaken the cause of the true freedom fighters.

http://www.leaderu.com/wri/pages/walid.html

In the article are these nifty little pearls:
1) “I did not forget the first song I learned in school just before the six day war titled “Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.”

2) “….Holy Land would be recaptured and the elimination of the Jews would take place in a massive slaughter.”

3) “….watching the movie “21 Days in Munich”. The moment we saw the Palestinians throwing grenades in the helicopter, killing the Israeli athletes, hundreds of viewers yelled “Allahu akbar” (Allah is the greatest). ”

4) “…students used to ask the teacher during our Islamic studies in Bethlehem High school, if it was permitted for Muslims to rape the Jewish women after we defeat them, his response was “The women captured in battle have no choice in this matter, they are concubines and they need to obey their masters, having sex with slave captives is not a “matter of choice for slaves.”, ”

5) “I remember when I still tormented my mother by calling her an “infidel” and a damned American Imperialist who claimed that Jesus is the Son of God. ”

6) “I hated her and always asked my father to divorce her and re-marry a good Muslim woman.”

7) “With Hitler being my idol, and Mohammed my prophet, I went on with my life with little regard for Jews, Christians, or anyone who was not a Muslim. I believed that one day the whole World will submit to Islam,”
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At the end is the following (as he transformed)

“Yes I say it to the whole world, I love Jews, I love them because of their Messiah, I love them because they brought light to the world, and through them came the light and the truth, for that I love Jews. I no more despise them and I know from the Bible that the Jews are God’s chosen people to give light to Arabs and to the whole World, if we only allow them, for God made them a blessing to the World, we need to love and support them as God said to Abraham:

‘I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’ — Genesis 12:2
Knowing the truth transferred my way of thinking from believing in Hitler to believing in Christ, from believing lies to knowing the truth, from being spiritually sick to being healed, from living in darkness to seeing the light, from being damned to being saved, from doubt to faith, from hate to love, and from evil works to God’s grace through Christ. This transformation taught me that without the (true) word of God things could look good on the surface but in the core lays deception. I accepted Jesus the Messiah, as my Lord and Savior, who died for all of our sins; to him I submit.”

has the following Koran verses:

Koran 8:7 “Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels [non-Muslims] out to the last.’”

Koran 8:39 “So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.”

Koran 8:59 “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.”

Koran 9:5 “When the sacred forbidden months for fighting are past, fight and kill disbelievers [non-Muslims] wherever you find them, take them captive, beleaguer them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war”

The absolute lack of reason can be tied to one thing: moral relativity. Without a number of absolutes, there can be no common sense.

USA, love it or leave it.

God bless America….And REAL Americans.

Dan