The Rant

Limbaugh greets Democrats as liberators On the November 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to "feel liberated" by Democratic victories in the House and Senate on November 7 because he is "no longer going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried." Limbaugh added that the Republican Congress has produced "some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs."

by George Will Shortly after the [First Iraq] war, the then secretary of defense, Dick Cheney, said why arguments for "going to Baghdad'' had been "fallacious.'' "Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it," he told The New York Times. "It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?'' Good questions, the answers to which we now know. Entire Article

I am a little puzzled as to why everyone, even Republicans, seems often to assume that we are losing the war. So far as I am aware, our side has won every battle. Saddam was utterly defeated and has just been tried and sentenced to hang. We have not lost the war. But we are having trouble maintaining the peace. The various internal groups within Iraq continue to snipe at one another and murder one another. Even here, if the so called insurgents choose to come out from hiding and engage us in battle, we defeat them. The enemy cannot defeat us on the battle field. What we have is a peace problem, a law enforcment problem. It does seem to me that this is more a problem for the Iraqis than for the United States. It does seem time to me to beging to turn this problem back to the elected government of Iraq. Bob Clasen

by By Diana West Part I Part II If Democracy does not achieve America's goals in the Islamic world, here is a different suggestion . . . What do you think? This is a proposal by Diana West of what the President should announce as American policy about Sharia Holy Law in America. _________________________________ If this were a sane world, this is what we would hear during the president's next address to the nation: My fellow Americans. For almost as long as I have held this office, I have been leading this war. On my watch, the United States sent troops into Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban and drive Al Qaeda from the safe haven it used to plan attacks on our country. On my watch, we sent troops into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and break this link in the terrorism food chain. On my watch, the United States spearheaded an ambitious drive to bring democracy to regions of the Middle and Near East as part of an effort to touch brutalized peoples with the salve of freedom...