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Turkish General Warns of Damage:Danger! Democrat Foreign Policy At Work

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by Mondoreb

More evidence from the party that daily bashes U.S. foreign policy and can't get enough of the phrase "alienating countries all over the world". A grand-standing Democrat-controlled House committee voted to condemn U.S. ally, Turkey for events that happened almost 90 years ago--before modern Turkey was even a country.

From CNN:

ISTANBUL, Turkey-- Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit told the daily Milliyet newspaper that a congressional committee's approval of the measure had already harmed ties between the two countries.

"If this resolution passed in the committee passes the House as well, our military ties with the U.S. will never be the same again," Buyukanit was quoted as saying.

"I'm the military chief; I deal with security issues. I'm not a politician," Buyukanit was quoted as saying by Milliyet. "In this regard, the U.S. shot its own foot."

It's repeated by the adult press over and over: actions have consequences. Yet Democrats' continue their obsession with preening for votes at the expense of U.S. interests; acting as if other countries take no notice of their actions. Another "Party of Jimmy Carter Moment", brought to you by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the DNC.

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History Will Judge:THE REVENGE OF GEORGE W. BUSH

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by Mondoreb

"Revenge is a dish best served cold"
And so, it will be history that best judges the actions of President George W. Bush. Not the Democratic poodles who've been yapping and nipping at his ankles for the last four years. Like poodles, the Reids, Pelosis and Murthas are all bark and little bite. And when confronted, they quickly retreat behind a curtain of aides a-spinning,"clarifications", and angry denials.

This started as an excuse to use the neat RAPH graphic above. But it's also a chance to use this piece, which was sent by ornery elephant. It is by an anonymous author and was circulated by emails the last few weeks and comes via Gunslinger's Journal, a brassy cat-loving chick with a collection of big guns.

"If Bush resigned today, this is what his speech would be.....

Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in.Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this "blood for oil" thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named 'Clinton' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching.

I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off."

We're an impatient nation. When 9-11 occurred, there were a few malcontents who publicly rejoiced and were quickly slapped around by an angry and grieving nation. But then more important things came along to take our minds off of the 3000 murdered: Paris, Britney and YouTube.

Six years afterwards and the Left has tried to turn 'President Bush' into a swear word; a little like the label "liberal", from which they so recently ran. They're all "Progressives" now. They're no more civil nor any more convincing in their invective.

Just like the Democrats at the beginning of this story, they're all-negative, all-the-time. Just another bunch of politicians trying to get their hands on the levers of power; this time riding on the backs of TheDailyKOS, the Mainstream Media and a lot of kids signed on to Mom's computer. History will judge George W. Bush. History will also judge his opponents.

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TODAY's DEMOCRAT PARTY: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Leadership

by Mondoreb
The Democrat Party has control of the Senate(Harry Reid), control of the House(Nancy Pelosi) and more presidential candidates than Rosie has chins. From these vast resources, one would think that a leader would emerge--any leader.

Yet, nothing save the same tired rhetoric stumbles from these strongholds. Whether it is nurturing and preserving capital in the world's bastion of Capitalism or fighting the War on Terror, responsible Americans tune out the Dems.

New ideas? Forget it, the Democrats (and liberals in general) have had only one interesting idea in the last 40 years: using tax credits as an innovative method of financing Social Security reform. However, as this is an issue that Dems refuse to even discuss, it's almost an 0-for.

The Democrats leadership was on display this week at the Petraeus hearings: pandering to "new center of the Democratic Party", the DailyKOS kooks, Democrat after Democrat exhibited the usual eternal thirst for trying to score political points. There was no interest in leading Americans anywhere, except perhaps into one of the myriad interest groups which make up the modern Dem party.

A vigorous nation has to have two viable political parties in order to thrive. Ideas need to be debated seriously. When one side effects the attitude of 17-year-old Valley Girls--I'm bored, it's too hard to be serious--the national conversation on vital issues suffers. When you have no new ideas, the only strategy is to smear anyone who disagrees the Dem viewpoint.

The Democrats spend millions on political consultants. Is there not one who will honestly say, "Americans have only given us a majority of votes in a presidential election 3 times in the last 58 years. Something is wrong"?

History will be fair to G.W. Bush for undertaking and persevering in a war that has become unpopular. Harry Truman's historical stock is far higher now than it was during the Korean War. History will largely assign today's Democrats to the dungheap, along side their ancestors in the Copperhead wing of the Democratic Party during the Civil War.

Leadership means getting out in front, explaining unpopular issues to the electorate and expending political capital for the 'good fight'. The Dems of today are the rigid, reactionary government Establishment: carping, criticizing, destructive. If they wish to be more than the sad collection of pandering hacks they've become, they'll have to take time out from their focus groups; stop their political hair-splitting; stop putting their collective fingers in the wind.

Propose some constructive alternatives and drop the Valley Girl whine.
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