Saturday, March 29, 2008

Dancing for genocide

Found this in the New York Times:

The heavy fighting that broke out last week as Iraqi security forces tried to oust Shiite militias from Basra is reverberating on the presidential campaign trail and posing new challenges and opportunities to the candidates, particularly Senator John McCain .

The fierce fighting — and the threat that it could undo a long-term truce that has greatly helped to reduce the level of violence in Iraq — thrust the war back into the headlines and the public consciousness just as it had been receding behind a tide of economic concerns.

How cute. As the Iraqis finally take a stand against the Iranian axis of terror that has wrapped southern Iraq in a death grip, we have none other than the biased media once again beating the drums of failure. But wait, it gets worse:
The Democrats, who are calling for phased troop withdrawals, are beginning to point to the fighting in Basra as evidence that the American troop buildup has failed to provide stability and political reconciliation — particularly if the fighting leads one militia, the Mahdi Army , to pull out of its cease-fire; that could lead to a new spate of sectarian violence across the country. Some are saying the fighting strengthens their case for troop withdrawals.

Is anyone willing to look past their own personal politics anymore? Do we really have to go back on this road again? Please people, go back to debating issues like abortion...talk about the economy...run vicious campaign ads, but please don't drag innocent people into this. This is a time where we should be supporting the Iraqis' decision to route out these terrorists and criminal elements that are loaded with Iranian cash and weapons. This is not about right and left...its not about George W. Bush, and its not about the presidential election. Instead, its about our moral values and the difference between right and wrong. For the sake of preventing the slaughter of innocent people, let's finish the job and not make the same mistakes we did with Basra in 1991, when we abandoned the Iraqi Shiites and left them at the hands of the Republican Guard.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Surely you are missing their point.
Everything in America is related to electioneering, power and control. Conrtol of business, control of the media, therefore control of the people and ultimately control of the wealth.
I've watched this happen in the UK as well, but the sooner we wise up to that, the sooner both countries can foster change.

Anonymous said...

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We're launching a blog roll and would love to list you there too. With thousands of readers a month, I thought cross linking would be mutually beneficial. We saw that you're listing a lot of other political magazines such as us so we hope you'll list us too.

Thanks,
John

C.H. said...

Outspoken voice, I'm not sure I'm following you.

The media in the USA has been very hostile towards the current administration, and if you don't believe me, just click on the article I linked to in this post.

C.H. said...

John,

Interesting website...I've added you to my sidebar.

Anonymous said...

it always seems like everyone is always trying to beat one another and nothing ever get solved.