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Thanksgiving Day greeting for the troops

Ben Stein is his usual eloquent self in thanking the troops for putting everything on the line for our fat, lazy asses. He also wonders what Patrick Fitzgerald thinks he's doing.

2.) It is not just a guess, but a certainty that if the U.S. were to abruptly withdraw from Iraq, as the Democrats are urging us to do, there would be a bloodbath in Iraq far worse than what we have seen so far. There would be outright civil war, large scale massacres of civilian populations beyond what we have seen by an order of magnitude, and a Middle East in chaos as Iran, the Kurds, and the Sunnis fought it out for land and oil and power. The word of the United States would be mud. Is this really what the Democrats want? Can they really contemplate with calm equanimity the mass murders that will follow a sudden U.S. withdrawal?

I see a frightening pattern here: the Democrats wanted us out of Vietnam, and never mind the genocide that followed. The Democrats want us out of Iraq and never mind that the Baathists will fill the vacuum and all Iraq will be screaming in pain except the murderers, who will exult -- especially Osama bin Laden. Can it be that the Democrats really want to surrender to the same man who killed 3,000 civilians on 9/11 and laughed about it? Are we so weak that in only four years, after a war smaller in casualties than many unknown battles of the Civil War, we are already eager to surrender to the man who murdered women and children and made terrified couples hold hands and leap to their deaths from the World Trade Center? If so, there really is little hope for us as a people. My prayer is that careful reflection will convince the Democrats that while we are all unhappy about the war, war is hell, and surrender is far worse.

Posted by evariste on Nov 23, 2005 1:11 pm

21 comments, latest by Laura at 11:30 am 11/24

#1 Pamela Παμελα at 1:13 pm on Nov 23, 2005

yes if it wasn't for the soldiers we wouldn't have th freedoms we have. Thank-you everyone of you the soldiers this Thanksgiving.


and a Happy Birthday to Mauro!

#2 מ?רין מ?מ? , Marine Momma at 1:20 pm on Nov 23, 2005

How I love my sons.

#3 Pamela Παμελα at 1:32 pm on Nov 23, 2005

again Marine Momma, say Thank-you to Eric, from a grateful American!

#4 Topf & Sons at 9:17 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Stein,

You are full of shit, Saddam was a secular despot and there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the invasion. There is nothing sweeter than Imperial arrogance getting it's ass handed back. I love dead American soldiers.

#5 zorkmidden at 9:20 pm on Nov 23, 2005

I love dead American soldiers.

What a lovely human being you must be. Do you love dead kittens too?

#6 evariste at 9:23 pm on Nov 23, 2005

#4 Topf & Sons
Stein,

You are full of shit, Saddam was a secular despot and there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the invasion. There is nothing sweeter than Imperial arrogance getting it's ass handed back. I love dead American soldiers.

You are truly a top intellect.

#7 Topf & Sons at 10:06 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Evariste,

The US Army could use your cultural skills, don't you want to visit wonderful Baghdad were you can view the tremendous progress first hand?

#8 evariste at 10:09 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Do I hear "chickenhawk"? I'm an Arabic speaker, you idiot, the Army would love to have me. I'm not interested, but not out of lack of patriotism. You're not interested because you're a moron.

#9 evariste at 10:10 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Topf is not interested because he's too busy whining about imperialism and wanking off to nazi fantasies to realize that there are things worth doing to make the world a better place.

#10 Topf & Sons at 10:27 pm on Nov 23, 2005

realize that there are things worth doing to make the world a better place.

Yes like giving Iraq away to the frigging Ayatollahs LOL thats the way the Yanks combat Radical Islam.

#11 evariste at 10:30 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Actually, if you had any knowledge of the situation at all, you'd know that Iraqi Shi'ism is a very different beast than Iranian Shi'ism. It's like the difference between mainstream Catholicism and Latin American "liberation theology". You're just an ignorant douchebag sniping from the sidelines while real men change the world, and you'll never even be a footnote in history. If you had any self-respect or dignity you would shut up.

#12 evariste at 10:34 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Previous DL blogging on Iraqi Shi'ism: here and here. You're way out of your depth here, Topf.

#13 Topf & Sons at 11:06 pm on Nov 23, 2005

you'd know that Iraqi Shi'ism is a very different beast than Iranian Shi'ism. It's like the difference between mainstream Catholicism and Latin American "liberation theology


Spin away dude spin away, as if this is what you intended. You never expected the Ayatollahs to take power in Iraq & now you are trying to trim their beards and say they are liberal people. Such a pathetic display of intellectual dishonesty. This invasion has dramatically shifted the balance of power in the region in Iran's favour. O I can't wait for you to spin that.

#14 aridog at 11:16 pm on Nov 23, 2005

Holiday greetings for our resident expert, Topf & sons....
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#15 Dances With Typos at 3:54 am on Nov 24, 2005

Topf is way out of his depth in any discussion involving courage or morality or decency.

He repeats stupid lefty shibboleths, without any understanding of underlying factors, and thinks that makes him knowledgeable.

He's simply a dolt. In every facet of anything he's ever said, it shines through.

So what else is new?

#16 aridog at 5:25 am on Nov 24, 2005

As said before, "Topf" means "pot"....as in chamber pot in my opinion. A critic's critic, all aspersion, no suggestions. He apparently believes in nothing by himself. Perfect identity for some wellfare state.

#17 Laura at 9:27 am on Nov 24, 2005

Topf & Sons you are a despicable degenerate who should be castrated.

Now getting to the actual topic at hand, it was Bush who surrendered to osama by shifting resources away from Afghanistan into what increasingly looks like an unnecessary invasion of Iraq. Of course now that things have gone this far I don't think we can turn back and it has become a neccessity to complete the mission and finish off zarqawi and his murderous gang.

#18 Dances With Typos at 9:31 am on Nov 24, 2005

WOW!!

What great Thanksgiving entertainment!

Watching Topf & Laura fight would be better than football.

But in the end, the football game would make more sense, and have more effect on world affairs, than both of them together ever could.

#19 Siddhartha Vicious at 9:35 am on Nov 24, 2005

Hmm, looks like I need to repeat this from yesterday;

#20 מ?רין מ?מ? , Marine Momma at 9:45 am on Nov 24, 2005

Laura, you're smoking the strange stuff again, aren't you????

#21 Laura at 11:30 am on Nov 24, 2005

Not at all Marine Momma. I am perfectly rational.

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