Declaring Victory and Going Home

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Kudos to the Presidt in adhering to the departure date negotiated by former Presidt Bush in Iraq.  The NeoCon GOP wing doesnt like it, and neither will the Military Industrial Complex, but it is the right decision.

The Iraq War was nation-bldg and settling old scores, nothing more.  Time will tell whether it was worth the cost.  $800 billion, 4,400 American casualties and 30,000 wounded.  Saddam, and his sons are dead; the country has a Constitution and a somewhat functioning government.  There is nothing else we can do there that we havent already attempted.  They will stand or fall on their own.

Saddam was a Sunni, and now the Shi’ites are in power. that cannot be good since the only other Shia dominated country is Iran.  The northern Kurds are grateful and pro-West, but they are surrounded by enemies. Turkey and Iran are willing to wage war on them.  The Maliki govt would not guarantee the right for American GI’s guilty of crimes there to be tried by the US Military, so all troops are scheduled to pull out.  Declare Victory and go home.  Have parades all over the country as they arrive.  Move on, and hope the neoCon wing of the GOP can be defeated in primaries by true conservatives….

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Unifying The Conservative Movement

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Pat Buchanan, my favorite Catholic and a great American political philosopher, whose work will be featured on this site often, ventures to say that the Conservative Movement is finding its voice again in opposition to the centralizing activism of the Obama Administration.  Buchanan said in “Pitch Fork Time” (3/10/2009), “By misinterpreting his mandate, Obama has acomplished something John McCain could not- unite the Republican Party and instill in it a new esprit de corps.”

The tremendous deficit begun by the Bush administration, compounded by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s TARP in September, is being dwarfed by President Obama’s current budget.  It is not being paid for by tax revenue, but must be covered through foreign borrowing and new Fed printing of money.  Buchanan continues:

“[Obama] wants a cap-and-trade systemm to deal with a global-warming of climate-change crisis many scientists believe is a hoax.  He is going to provide health care for all, including immigrants… He is going to plunge scores of billions more into education, though education has eaten up the wealth of an empire, as SAT scores sink further and further below the apogee of 1964, before LBJ and the feds barged in….  He is going to ensure every kid gets a college education.  He is going to drop half of all wage-earners off the tax roll, whole the top 2 percent, who already pay 40 percent of all income taxes, are forced to cough up more….

By daring Republicans to fight on the issue of a $1.75 trillion deficit, Obama has liberated the GOP from any obligation to him.  He has come out of the closet as a radical liberal spoiling for a fight over an agenda of radical change.   Sooner than any might have thought, we ahve clarity.”

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