The last few weeks have really been quite the nightmare for the U.S.A. in Iraq. Starting with the troops holding back as Iraqi soldiers entered Fallujah, it's been just one disaster after another.

As I understand it, we allowed the Iraqi forces to enter Fallujah in order to avoid the possibility of a confrontation between Shi'ite forces and the troops of the coalition (read U.S. Troops). What ended up happening was that the Iraqi forces were apparently outgunned and so let the bad guys slip out of the city. The reality of this is that the ones who got away aren't going to run home to open Dunkin' Donut shops. They'll regroup and create as much havoc as they can in the near future. These are fanatics and please, let's not misunderstand their frequently reiterated mission. They want to kill you and your family and me and my family and everybody like us. There are no exceptions. They're just not nice.

That could be why a whole bunch of them end up in prisons like Abu Ghraib. Maybe you thought they were there for parking tickets? Should they be abused as they apparently were? No, they shouldn't. Should they be interrogated often and vigorously? You better believe it. If they're found out to be some of the real bad guys, they should be locked up deep in the deepest of the dungeons for a long, long time, or, better yet, executed. If they're just bad guys of the moment, then keep them locked up for the duration of U.S. involvement, and then turn their fates over to the Iraqis when they take charge. And then we should just walk away.

Who are the real bad guys? The real bad guys think your children should be tortured and killed if you're an American. After years of frustration and humiliation in the world of the Mid East mullahs and sheiks, the bad guys have decided that since you seem to be doing fairly well, you must be the problem. For all the wealth of the oil rich Arab countries, the bad guys may as well be living in the 12th century. Even multimillionaire Osama seems to prefer caves. The one big exception you may have noticed, the weaponry. For some reason known only to the bad guys, Allah has decided that the women should be in burkas, but it would O.K. to use shoulder launched Stinger missiles to shoot down the infidels' aircraft. None of this has to make sense as long as you remember that Islam is a peaceful religion. Just ask the family of Nick Berg. And he wasn't even the first to be on the internet having his head hacked off. There was Daniel Pearl before him. What kind of lunatics would perpetrate this special sort of madness? The same kind that cheered in the streets at the news of the Trade Center. I remember years and years ago being told that when a country goes to war, the enemy is almost always dehumanized. It's a form of propaganda that every one uses. So I was lead to believe. It really doesn't have to happen in this case. This enemy brings the evidence of their depravity directly to your living room for you. This enemy actually is composed of the most vile beings imaginable. Which brings up another point.

Vile beings. Not just for being Bush haters, and there are plenty of them. But for hating Bush so much that they don't mind throwing the baby out with the bath water. Lenin called people like this "useful idiots". There were plenty of them then and now they're at it again. If the bad guys had any sort of brain power, they'd be ecstatic over the rantings of such domestic morons as Ted Kennedy, Charlie Rangle, and John Friggin' Kerry. Two senators, and a representative, if you can imagine. Here's an example or two: Ted Kennedy, it seems, has attracted the attention of some with his comparison of Iraq to Vietnam. "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," Kennedy said at the Brookings Institution on April 6, 2004. He was kind enough to also add:

This is the pattern and the record of the Bush administration [on] Iraq, jobs, Medicare, schools, issue after issue -- mislead, deceive, make up the needed facts, smear the character of any critics. Again and again, we see this cynical, despicable strategy playing out.

What can the enemy possibly think of positions like that from people like this? They would probably be encouraged to continue to resist, since it eventually worked in Vietnam. Charles Rangle, House Ways and Means Committee, commented after Bush stated for the millionth time that we would "stay the course" in Iraq:

I don't know whether 'stay the course' is the way we should go when we don't know how we got involved in this course, or where it's going to take us.

Well, he may not know, but I seem to remember a little incident in Manhattan that may have had something to do with it. Rangle only knows how to incite people. What can his constituency be thinking? Then there's Kerry. "War Hero". Maybe. What's he want to do in Iraq? What all liberals want to do. Hand off responsibility to the U.N. You remember the U.N. right? They're the ones who left Iraq as soon as a bomb went off near their Iraqi headquarters. They're the ones who said "We really mean it this time" seventeen times. They're the ones that were sure there were WMD while Clinton was in office, but not so sure when Bush went to get them. Kerry also wants to get more international support. Like our "allies" France, Russia and Germany I guess. Those would be the countries that had been ripping off the U.N. "Oil for Food" program to the tune of billions (with a 'B') of dollars. It allows one to understand why they were so adamant about not lending a hand. Kerry just doesn't get that, I guess.

Was Kerry really in favor of the war in Iraq? January, 2003:

Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

Sounds pretty hawkish to me. Maybe I've been wrong about Kerry. But no. Shortly after saying that he voted against the eighty seven billion dollar appropriation needed to carry out the then ongoing war in Iraq. Mr. Dependable. You can always depend on him to switch his stance. Just like the moronic Abu Ghraib prison guards and the brutally insane Islamic beheaders, John Kerry lacks what is called a moral compass. The only difference is degree.

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just a thought. bill brower, 15-May-2004

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