(2007-01-07) — A draft copy of the speech President George Bush plans to deliver this week about “the new way forward” in Iraq has leaked to the media from a White House source who requested anonymity due to the unethical and treasonous nature of the leak.
In the text the president explains why he’s ordering an increase in U.S. troops in Iraq, rather than heeding the demands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for implementing what the president calls “a strategic skedaddle.”
Portions of the speech text are excerpted here…
My fellow Americans, as I stand to speak with you tonight, some 132,000 U.S. troops stand tall in Iraq. I want to tell you tonight what they stand for. I’m also going to call on thousands more of our heroes to stand with them, and I want to explain why this fight is too important to lose.
As you may have heard, I have directed the Secretary of Defense to boost our troop strength in Iraq immediately. This, of course, will spark new Congressional hearings. Since you don’t have time to watch all those hours of C-Span, I’ll give you the condensed version now.
Increasing our fighting force by 20,000 will not only allow us to better support the Iraqi Army’s new effort to crush sectarian militias, but it also means we can have several armed U.S. divisions on Iran’s border within hours. Once Israeli jets obliterate Iran’s nuclear facilities, we’ll be on the doorstep.Whoa, did I say that out loud or just think it?
Folks, we’re not at war with the average Iraqi citizen. We’re fighting proxies — deployed, armed and funded by Iran and al Qaeda — who are taking advantage of the Iraqi government’s chaotic infancy to advance their vision of a global Muslim caliphate. This is not a neo-con nightmare fantasy, it’s the enemy’s stated goal.
You’ve probably heard from the news media that the Iraqi insurgency is stoked by high unemployment. Well, if folks can’t pay their bills or buy groceries, where do you think they get the money to make bombs and to buy guns? Do you know how much lamb and falafel you can buy for the cost of one AK-47? The lack of money is not the problem. The people supplying the money are the problem.
As a wise man once said, ‘Civil war isn’t breaking out in Iraq, it’s breaking in.’
Some tell me that the American public doesn’t understand the stakes…that you’re too stupid to comprehend the cost of failure in Iraq, or the benefit of victory. I don’t believe that.
But just in case there’s a journalist or a politician out there who doesn’t understand why we fight, and why we must win, let me make it plain.
In every country where radical Islam takes over, the first people to fall under the sword are journalists and politicians. There is no free press under Sharia law, and no room for politicians who would advance the rights of women and homosexuals or the freedom to choose an abortion. There is no debate on these issues, because people who would speak out against Sharia law never speak again. Incidentally, there’s no debate about the death penalty either, although the appeals process for the convicted can sometimes drag on for minutes on end.
If you think America should back away from this fight, think about this:
Picture a future where the number two (Iran) and number three (Iraq) oil reserves in the world are in the hands of our sworn enemies. How long do you think it would take them to expand their regime to Kuwait, Yemen, Dubai and Saudi Arabia? Which non-Muslim nations might be the first to capitulate to whatever demands these petroleum-rich whack-jobs might make? Who would stand in the way? The United Nations, perhaps?And let me paraphrase the late John Lennon…
Imagine there’s no Israel.
It’s easy if you try.
Just give Iraq to Ahmadinejad.
Jerusalem, bye-bye.A lot of well-meaning Americans seem to think that there are a lot of well-meaning radical Islamists, who want only justice for their cause, and then they would settle down and live in harmony with their infidel brothers…that’s you and me.
Do you think the Islamic warlord Moktada al-Sadr would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony?
No, he’d like to teach the world chant in bland monotony, he’d like to put a bloody end to Christianity. He’s the real thing, and so is Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and dozens of other radical Islamic leaders who are willing to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the destruction and demise of liberty and its primary champion, the United States of America.
Let’s face the facts. Iran declared war on the U.S. in 1979. Al Qaeda declared war on the U.S. in 1998. No truce or ceasefire has been signed. Iran and al Qaeda remain at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not.
And if we continue to stumble on as if these well-funded, suicidal hate machines don’t exist, or can’t hit us, we’re going to wake up one morning to news that the tallest structure in New York is the subway.
If we wavered at news of 3,000 troops dead overseas, what will we do with news of 300,000 or 3 million dead in our own land. If we’re willing to capitulate now, how will we handle their demands then?
Keep in mind, the first to fall under Sharia law will be the media. The radical Islamists have already demonstrated an ability to dominate the headlines through random acts of terror. What will they be able to accomplish when they control the media directly?
It will be too late to act when you go to your mailbox and find the Sports Illustrated Annual Burqa Edition. It will be too late when basic cable consists of Al Jazeera and the Fatwa Channel. It will be too late when butterfly ballots and Diebold machines are virtually error free because there are only two choices — yes and no.
Perhaps you don’t think this is possible — that I’m just trying to scare you. That’s because you took the Self-Esteem elective in high school instead of American history.
The only reason that English isn’t your second language after German…the only reason the Congress isn’t called the Reichstag…
the only reason the president isn’t called the Führer (by sane people)…is that the blood of more than one million Americans and the toil and sacrifice of millions more scrubbed the stain of Nazism from the face of the earth.The men and women who remember what it took to accomplish that are in the winter of their years now, and so the task falls to a new generation of reluctant heroes. In their day, they heard the same excuses for not taking bold, overwhelming, decisive action. But they eventually ignored those voices and listened to a higher calling.
They gave, they fought, they suffered, they died. And because they did, we receive, we relax, we enjoy and we live. Those are good things…but our comfort and plenty have also lead us to slumber.
Those of us with the luxury of remaining stateside in this conflict debate the war as if it were a purely philosophical question. Some folks are more concerned with appearances, tolerance and the civil rights of our enemies than with the future of freedom.
A lot of people say that our military policy has to take into account Iraqi cultural and religious sensitivities as well as tribal customs and loyalties.
Hog wash.
If you blow up people with sophisticated remote-triggered roadside bombs, or send a young man strapped with explosives into a crowded market, you have cashed in your culture, your religion and your noble-savage tribal mystique. You’re a bloodthirsty terrorist and I’m not going to waste a minute of the State Department’s time trying to negotiate with you. Your file has been transferred to the Pentagon. Your days are numbered.
If you have legitimate grievances, take them to the legitimately-constituted courts or legislature.
You want to be taken seriously? Take off the rag mask, drop the AK-47, slip out of that fashionable explosive vest and start exercising some of that legendary Muslim wisdom or doing some of those charitable deeds for which your religion is so well-known.
So, here’s our new strategy in plain terms:
-Defeat the enemy.
-Extinguish the flame of radical Islam.
-Talk after victory.Today, I’m warning the tyrant in Tehran that any weapons we find in Iraq stamped with his return address shall be returned upon his head a thousand fold.
I’m offering the people who live around Iran’s nuclear facilities 36 hours to get out of town, because we’re about to deliver a major setback to Ahmadinejad’s peaceful energy research.
Finally, I’m inviting the president of Iran to fly to Washington D.C. where he’ll be taken into custody, given a fair trial for his complicity in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, and then whisked away to comfortable quarters at one of our fine maximum security prisons.
This is certainly a more desirable fate than the one that awaits him when the people of Iran rise up and take back their country from this hairball in a leisure suit and his black-robed overlords.
Thank you for listening. May God bless our troops, and grant them victory.
99 responses so far ↓
1 Godfrey // Jan 7, 2007 at 2:56 pm
God(frey) Bless America!
2 onlineanalyst // Jan 7, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Bravo! Whistle! Stamp! Cheer! Huzzah!
3 Scott Ott // Jan 7, 2007 at 3:12 pm
LEAK: Draft of Bush Speech on Iraq ‘Way Forward’…
by Scott Ott(2007-01-07) — A draft copy of the speech President George Bush plans to deliver next week about “the new way forward†in Iraq has leaked to the media from a White House source who requested anonymity due to the unethical and treasono…
4 Darthmeister // Jan 7, 2007 at 3:22 pm
We can only dream. This is the speech FDR would have given before Congress if Islamofascists had hit New York City and the Pentagon on December 7th, 1941.
Blow up a mosque that Islamic terrorists are using as a base of operations to work their evil … NO PROBLEM! Use America’s air might to level the capitals of rogue nations who provide material, moral or financial support for Muslim jihadists … THE BOMBERS ARE ON THEIR WAY! American Muslims won’t condemn the atrocities of their cousins abroad and take an oath of allegiance to the United States … SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR ISLAMIC HELLHOLES.
We will welcome as brothers any Muslim who has a deep and abiding allegiance to America and the natural rights of man … nothing short of that would suffice as the people of America hold all Islamists and their sycophants accountable for their crimes against humanity.
5 Darthmeister // Jan 7, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Blair: Saddam’s execution was ‘completely wrong’
I suppose Mr. Blair has a more kinder and progressyve way to hang Saddam? The man got more due process and consideration than he deserved.
Democrats not ruling out raising taxes…
First the Demoncrats will promise the middle class a “tax break”, then they’ll take it back with a later tax increase. Yep, sounds pretty progressive to me.
Column: Is America frightened by women in power?
I know about 46 million unborn Americans who would have been frightened by women in power … if they had been given a chance in the first place. More correctly: America is frightened by LIBERAL women in power.
6 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 7, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Scott~~
God Bless You.
I’d like to shake your hand someday.
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Whoa, someone is thinking real hard. To bad all that work isn’t slipped in secretly to the Oval Office. Good one Scott
8 antodav // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Best. Scrappleface. Ever. Hands down.
Last night I got accused of being a racist, anti-Semetic, Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi because I chose to defend President Bush against insane allegations made against him at the Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiller. You can check out the debacle here:
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/?p=1777#comments
In the end I wound up getting swept up by the spam filter by posting too many times to defend myself, and though “his majesty” claims he’s going to reinstate my account, he hasn’t done so so far.
So much for “the Rott” being a free speech zone.
It doesn’t matter, I like Scrappleface better anywhere. Most people here are not quite such angry, hate-filled fanatics as they are over there.
Antodav
9 RedPepper // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:21 pm
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.â€
- Winston Churchill
10 camojack // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:32 pm
If only, Scott…if only.
11 Tinman // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:32 pm
That is a fine speech Mr President.
12 Bill's Bites // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:43 pm
LEAK: Draft of Bush Speech on Iraq ‘Way Forward’…
LEAK: Draft of Bush Speech on Iraq ‘Way Forward’ (2007-01-07) — A draft copy of the speech President George Bush plans to deliver this week about “the new way forward†in Iraq has leaked to the media from a White…
13 Godfrey // Jan 7, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I am absolutely in favor of a surge in troop levels, as I am in favor of a renewed offensive against the insurgency. If we learned anything from Vietnam, we learned that fighting with one hand tied behind your back is a disaster waiting to happen…and moreover it’s unfair to our troops.
Very well done, Scott: although I wish Bush’s “speech” had clarified his reasons for not securing the Iraqi borders in the first place. Oh, that’s right: there weren’t enough troops for that.
Well, better late than never.
14 Maggie // Jan 7, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Excellent speech!!
You Scott,are indeed a source of pride and blessing to your family and friends and a true patriot.
You truly get it.
15 Darthmeister // Jan 7, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I don’t understand why we couldn’t “secure the border” from the air. During and shortly after major combat, there should have been a general order going out that any and all vehicular/human traffic not confined to main roads would be utterly and totally obliterated.
I’ve seen what real-time J-Star surveillance technology can do, particularly with respect to vehicular traffic. The road of death outside Kuwait City in 1991 is a good example of what can happen.
By confining all legitimate traffic to chokepoints along the Iranian and Syrian border, several M-1 Abrams and Bradley Fighting Machines, in concert with a company of American soldiers manning the outposts, could have met any challenges offered up by Muslim nutbags wanting to mix it up with American forces. Salt the roads and surrounding environs with claymores and remote controlled landmines a few hundred yards away from the checkpoints could have provided another line of defense for the checkpoints so they wouldn’t get overrun.
I can’t believe this wasn’t done. Keeping any and all traffic off everything but legitimate roadways and warning Iranian and Iraqi citizens that if they go into the desert to bypass said checkpoints would result in their immediate deaths would have kept penetration by jihadists to a minimum, or at least would have made for a lot of dead jihadists willing to take a chance. But then again maybe the Bush and the Pentagon wanted these people to come into a killing zones within Iraq but obviously you can’t let these jihadists get all the way to Ramadi, Baghdad or Fallujah and set up business as was done. I thought we had the technology and aircraft to deal with this problem.
16 Darthmeister // Jan 7, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Usama bin Laden ate my post.
17 Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Sunday Funnies // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:15 pm
[...] Basil does headline news Scrappleface: Leaked Draft of Bush’s Speech On Iraq ‘Way Forward’ Wuzzadem answers reader mail while intoxicated. Barking Moonbat shares some Sunday Funnies. Locust and Honey has Star Wars as a Silent Film. Laughing at Laughter. [...]
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:25 pm
RE: #15~~
Darthmeister~~
I, too, have often wondered why Iraq’s borders were never secured.
I am certain we have the technology, aircraft and know-how. Otherwise, the US taxpayer has been the victim of the biggest fraud in the history of mankind, considering the billions upon billions of defense dollars spent.
I hate to say it but, the only conclusion I continually come back to is that they were, and are, afraid of annoying Iran and whoever else Iraq borders. As I’ve said before, it’s Political Correctness gone mad that is driving the USA to its knees on this and so many levels.
The United States of America needs to regrow a pair.
19 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:45 pm
You may, or may not, find this video comical.
I did.
20 mig // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Put that toilet seat down boys! There’s definitely a leaking problem and it’s getting awfully messy. PelEstrogen in Duh House!
Ain’t that right my friend!
21 Godfrey // Jan 7, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Hank: in a post-combat situation (i.e. after “mission accomplished”) I don’t think it would be expedient to have Al Jazeera reports of refugee families being bombed by American aircraft merely for being off the main highway. Indiscriminate killing is rarely good for PR.
Also, if you check out Google Earth you’ll see that the very long border with Iran is mostly mountainous terrain…very different from the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. So I doubt that air power alone would have been enough to secure it. Air power in conjunction with satelite surveilance and boots on the ground, however, would probably have been effective.
I hate to harp on a the same old theme, but what we needed was more troops from the outset. Doesn’t Bush’s “surge” amount to a tacit admission of that fact? Not that such an admission is necessary, given the circumstances.
I’m very upset with Bush for not having adequately planned this out in the first place (how many lives has that mistake cost?)…but I honestly haven’t felt this hopeful in about a year that we can turn this thing around.
As I’ve said before, the insurgency has the luxury of time; we don’t. We really can’t afford to lose this thing.
22 Pros and Cons » What do our enemies in the Middle East want? // Jan 7, 2007 at 8:19 pm
[...] On could usually guage Soviet goals by reading Pravda. Now, one can better guage the mood of the mad mullahs better by reading the Tehran Times than by reading the ISG report. It is generally a good idea to do the opposite of what our enemies suggest, at least if memory serves. Hat tip, Scott Ott. [...]
23 Fred Sinclair // Jan 7, 2007 at 8:36 pm
This is a prime example of why I click on the little PayPal button every month.
Thanks again Scott. You have a way of making it all worthwhile.
Better than either Tehran Times or ISG report.Simply read the New York Times (if you’ve got the stomach for it).
Heirborn Ranger
24 Right Truth // Jan 7, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Someone leaked Bush’s speech…
Another horrible leak out of Washington. Some traitor leaked the final draft of President George W. Bush’s Speech on Iraq titled ‘Way Forward’. Here are a few excerpts: As you may have heard, I have directed the Secretary of Defense…
25 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 7, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I guess, after reading this, that I was wrong in my previous comments about funding for the war.
Shows how much I know. I just took it for granted that the President of the United States of America, the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces, would have unfettered access to all necessary resources in wartime. Silly me.
26 gafisher // Jan 7, 2007 at 9:21 pm
“…requested anonymity due to the unethical and treasonous nature of the leak.”
Ashamed to take (immediate) credit but not to do the deed: the Democrat version of morality.
Excellent excerpt, Scott. Who’s your candidate for the ‘08 Conservative nomination?
27 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 7, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Pelosi hinting she won’t fund the extra troops. Bob Woodward is still alive
President Ford is in the news
60 and 70 Hippies now in office
The gates are opened for the grandchildren of the shagy-brained nit wits who believe they ended the war in Vietnam by not bathing
Forest Gump, where are you now that we need you.
Hey, Forest may be dumb, but he is a lot smarter than what we have in office.
I smell a deja-vu around the corner
28 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 12:02 am
Good night, see you in the morning.
29 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 12:08 am
wha?
30 MargeinMI // Jan 8, 2007 at 4:32 am
C’mon Scott. Don’t hold back, tell us what you REALLY think. The ONLY satire here is that you made Bush say it. Excellent.
Morning all!
31 mig // Jan 8, 2007 at 7:30 am
(Yawn) Have the Dems really dawned? (Stretch) Was the whole Pelosi nightmare just that; a bad dream? (Yawn. Stretch)
(Eyes wide open, hands holding cheeks,gasping sound coming from throat!) Oh my goodness! It’s a daymare and it’s only just begun.
32 MargeinMI // Jan 8, 2007 at 7:31 am
(push)
33 kajun // Jan 8, 2007 at 7:54 am
One of The President’s best speeches…Good Morning, from da bayou; everyone!
34 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:21 am
Ted Strickland (D) took his oath at 12:01 am this morning. We kept them stinkin dempocrits out of Ohio for 12 years, but thanks to Dorky Rhodes, we got ‘em back.
Will Ohio State save us tonight at the Sand Bowl, or will Florida stomp us. Well, as of last night we are not on a good roll
35 Darthmeister // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:28 am
I’m sure after Bush would deliver his speech about “the way forward” in Iraq, Harry Reid would give a response titled, “the way backward” in Iraq … but we support the troops!
36 Hawkeye // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:35 am
Good one Scott! I hope GW takes some pointers.
37 MargeinMI // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:47 am
“Perhaps you don’t think this is possible — that I’m just trying to scare you. That’s because you took the Self-Esteem elective in high school instead of American history.”
That W is such a meany. Wah….
/lib mode off
38 kajun // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:47 am
MargeinMi
How long will this labor go on? Hope to hear of some results soon!
39 MargeinMI // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:49 am
Hey Fred, 2395!!!! Woot!
40 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:59 am
Slightly off-topic:
Captain Ed has been keeping his readers up-to-date on the Islamofascist cabbie fatwa farce since it began.
Here’s something he says today:
“Why have we heard so few complaints about this attempt to impose Islam on cab customers? Because of oversensitivity to multicultural issues. The MSA and its apologists want us to consider the religious and cultural sensitivities of the cabdrivers, but again, no one forced them to take jobs where they could come in contact with people who have service dogs or bottles of wine. Should a restaurant end its alcohol sales if it hires a Muslim waiter? Should supermarkets ban service dogs if it hires a Muslim cashier? No. It is the responsibility of the immigrant to assimilate into our culture and to obey our laws, not the other way around.” (emphases mine)
To which I respond: Hear, hear!
41 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:05 am
I love the smell of blasphemy (tinged with heresy) in the morning.
It makes me want to pray.
42 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:18 am
Oh and good morning everyone. Kajun hand me a ben, ben, er a French doughnut
43 Maggie // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:32 am
Good Morning to everybody also.
44 Shelly // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:38 am
Good morning all!
I hope the President’s (I consider myself a sane person) speech writers consult Scott before Wednesday.
Ms. RW, as you cheer on Ohio State tonight, I hope you are comforted by the fact that the Dems closed the House today because of the game. There are 168 hours in a week, but apparently several weeks in 100 hours.
45 r3e2 // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:43 am
If only we could the President would use this as his next speech. Anyone know how we could do this?
46 Amused Cynic » Blog Archive » // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:44 am
[...] Scott Ott is best known for his brilliant parodic humor. This one starts out funny…I particularly like the part I highlighted in the opening paragraph…but it gets serious while remaining funny during the rest. It would be so helpful if the president were to deliver such an explanatory speech on Wednesday. A draft copy of the speech President George Bush plans to deliver this week about “the new way forward†in Iraq has leaked to the media from a White House source who requested anonymity due to the unethical and treasonous nature of the leak. [...]
47 r3e2 // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:46 am
Oops. Typo. What I meant to write was if only we could get the President to use this as his next speech.
48 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:58 am
It’s a good thing next Monday is a holiday or they’d also have to take that off to catch the 2nd episode of “24″.
What hypocrites.
The game isn’t until 1930 EST, anyway. What time do these people GO to “work”!?! How many hours do they “work”!?! Do they actually NEED 4 days to whip up some guacamole!?! Or to open a jug of caviar!?! Can’t they get their servants to do it!?!
They should be paid by the hour-I mean it, really, they should. Take a day off, get docked.
Nevertheless-GO BUCKEYES!!!!!
Scarlet and Gray
ALL. THE. WAY!!!!!
49 onlineanalyst // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:19 am
Several dozen beignets and urns of chicory-laced coffee coming up!
I have to agree with JL3rd, analchord (What a name!). Snarky, cynical blasphemy/heresy is not appreciated here. You might try reading this editorial that shows the way out of Iraq via “a heavier footprint” before you trash the strategy with a winning potential.
Nancy (Clueless in SanFran) and her best buddy Harry (In the Dark in Searchlight) have misconstrued their narrow win of the majority as a mandate about retreating from the Iraq committment. They had better understand that those who voted for them presumed that they were honest in their claims about bipartisanship in winning. Those of us who voted in opposition to them recognized that their claims were as wispy as their plans.
The dhimmicrats who listen to the whinings of Cindy and her CodePinko Communist Party of America-affiliated underwriters had better wake up to the best interests of our nation unless all of those “for the children” photo ops are just another effort of style over substance. Cindy and her co-fellow-travelers are currently in Cuba to demonstrate against the “inhumane” and “illegal” facilities in Guantanamo. Maybe the bag of bones friend of Chavez, Fidel, would allow them permanent residency in his island “paradise”…were we so lucky!
50 mig // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:46 am
Hey Online- we all know that even a slim win by the Dhemocrats is a mandate, and a Republikkan win is voter fraud. Geesh. How many times do we have to say it. Over and Over again. Voter fraud- Repubs, mandate- Dhimmis. Voter Fraud-Repubs, mandate-Dhimmis.
51 Pursuing Holiness » Blog Archive » Replaying Vietnam // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:48 am
[...] Over at Scrappleface, the full text of Bush’s leaked upcoming speech has been posted. The fact that this could be written as parody is sad. It ought to be the actual speech. Folks, we’re not at war with the average Iraqi citizen. We’re fighting proxies — deployed, armed and funded by Iran and al Qaeda — who are taking advantage of the Iraqi government’s chaotic infancy to advance their vision of a global Muslim caliphate. This is not a neo-con nightmare fantasy, it’s the enemy’s stated goal. [...]
52 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:59 am
RE: #50~~
onlineanalyst~~
Thanks for the link.
I agree that words like “surge” have been been turned into cuss words by the MSM.
Personally, I’d like to see President Bush pound the podium (or his desk) with his fist and say, “We’re gonna storm (wham!) that Islamofascist scum (wham!) with a mighty THRUST (wham!) and we’re gonna annihilate (wham!) them!!!!!”
The next sound we would hear would be the deafening cacophony of spontaneous cheers and applause from the American People.
53 onlineanalyst // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:25 am
Michael Barone has another good column about the coming storm on the Hill at http://www.townhall.com. Several of the commenters have great points, especially the one that describes nation building and its process… and why that term is not a dirty word.
Another commenter links a lengthy self-test that asks if you are a “normie”. I am glad to say that with painfully honest (warts and all) responses, I scored a respectable 15.5 percent. Here is the link for the test: http://www.non-normie.com/test_yourself.php
Read the questions totally, for they capture extremes at both ends of the spectrum.
54 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:33 am
Is today not some great leaders birthday or something like that and just where is my mailman. Dis someone give him a day off????
I think the guy started the Lutheran Church
Oh, and this is what Al Jerez said about Bushes upcoming speech
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55 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:40 am
Dartmeister
Here is a headline you missed
Oprah Still Has a Soft Spot for White Kids!
Ummm, ah forget it, I probably can’t say that anyhow (big belly, ho, ho, ho)
56 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I scored 27% (I have signs of non-normieness (I am normal, but borderline).
57 seneuba // Jan 8, 2007 at 12:55 pm
“hairball in a leisure suit and his blackrobed overlords” ….
It doesn’t get any better!
58 Hawkeye // Jan 8, 2007 at 1:20 pm
“the Sports Illustrated Annual Burqa Edition”… Funny stuff Scott.
59 Ironmonger // Jan 8, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Only problem with the Sports Illustrated Burqa Edition is that under Sharia law, sports are forbidden, since it distracts you from Allah. Just ask your local Afghani.
60 Hawkeye // Jan 8, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Anonymous #60…
I don’t know about that. Check HERE.
61 upnorthlurkin // Jan 8, 2007 at 1:49 pm
OLA, I too passed though with a slightly higher 18%. The sky is still blue where I live!!
Scott, this was so profound I could cry! This is the tone I’d love to hear/see in DC!! We need another Patton!! Winning the war should be the job of the generals not politicians!!
62 Mitch Blankenship // Jan 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Right On, Scott! You da’ man! I love your 3-point strategy as well as your 3-part warning to “Stinky” Ahmadinejad. If God’s willing, there will come a day when the Tyrant from Tehran is no more!
63 Darthmeister // Jan 8, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Looks like Iraqi “insurgents” might be getting help from Michael Moore in producing anti-war films which consist of stealing soldiers identities and misrepresenting their real views about the War on Jihadism.
If not, Mikey would still be proud that Iraqi “freedom fighters” are creative enough to use the modern propaganda techniques he pioneered. Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, is it not? I guess there is honor among thieves and liars after all!
64 Darthmeister // Jan 8, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I ain’t touchin’ that one, Ms RightWing!
65 Darthmeister // Jan 8, 2007 at 2:36 pm
In case you missed it the first time, Achord:
CBS Radio News
12/29/1944
Once again American non-interventionists leveled criticisms against the beleaguered Roosevelt Administration as the latest Nazi push into the Ardennes threatens the ports of Antwerp, thereby setting in motion a possible defeat of American forces that are being divided by this mechanized German thrust. The question on most Americans’ minds today is what military might does Hitler still have that we don’t know about?
Now known as the Battle of the Bulge, media-savvy Americans are becoming weary of war and angry at the Roosevelt Administration, though to a person they say they still “support the soldiersâ€. With American war dead reaching 315,000, including the 19,000 killed in this latest Eisenhower failure to totally neutralize the Nazis’ offensive capabilities in the Ardennes, Republican calls were renewed for the impeachment of President Roosevelt and drawing down American troops in what most Americans now perceive as an ignoble and immoral European war which merely furthers the President’s imperialistic goals.
Constantly reminded of the latest military debacles in newspapers and through radio broadcasts, dispirited Americans are having less stomach for the prospect of possibly seeing another 85,000 to 100,000 American soldiers die in this growing quagmire as the U.S. Army and airborne units slog toward Berlin and Hitler’s underground bunkers over the next six months to a year.
Many Americans are also beginning to wonder why Roosevelt chose to fight a costly war in Europe when it was the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor in the first place. Conspiracy theories have arisen which claim the President wanted war and previously knew about the impending Japanese “surprise attack”. The war in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese is costly enough with close to another 31,000 Marines and Navy personnel dying during the last nine months alone.
President Roosevelt not heeding the earlier G-ESG recommendations has caused American families to lose another 54,000 of their sons, fathers and husbands to death and 160,000 to battle wounds. This military quagmire also has inarguably created all manner of misery to French and Belgium civlians and a growing chaos in the European theater of operations.
The President’s vague references to “beating the Nazi thugs†and “unconditional surrender” when asked for a clear exit strategy by Republicans and the Washington media has caused much consternation among the American people who think this war is more about French wine and German sauerkraut than it is about American security.
66 da Bunny // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:23 pm
15.15% on the normie scale.
Scott, you’ve outdone yourself! Excellent!!
Regarding the vulgarity posted at #40 by the breaker of wind, where’s the “delete” button these days? And, that bloghandle is over the top, too.
67 RedPepper // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:31 pm
da Bunny #67: I think Scott burned out the fuse on the “delete” button’s circuit while cleaning up after neverblink.
68 RedPepper // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:34 pm
After all … you can’t spell “delete” without “ET” …
69 da Bunny // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:39 pm
True, RedPepper, but perhaps a new fuse could be installed to take care of the “mess” in “aisle 40.” And, to rid our fair Scrapple Village of that foul bloghandle.
70 mig // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:41 pm
#40 -
Do you even care that we have installed a shia government hellbent on sunni genocide, establishing a shia superstate with Iran, and destroying israel?
Is that a trick question? Cuz muh answa is ‘Not really’. I think I could care more about Global Warming, but I won’t.
Did you mean to make a little i in Isreal and a big I in iran?
71 Harry Daschle // Jan 8, 2007 at 3:49 pm
For the secular progressives that had no problem on Jesus Christ’s birthday, simply referring to it as a “Holiday”, I have a little experiment I want to try on January 15th.
I am going to alternate between wishing people a “Happy civil rights leader day”, and a simple “happy holiday”.
My prediction?
Righteous indignation that I am disrespecting MLK, (who was ONLY a man). To which I will reply that they did the same thing to Christ, (who was NOT just a man, but God in human form).
I am really looking forward to “significant other’s day” in February!
Formerly known as Valentine’s day.
Maybe I shouldn’t give the SP’s any ideas????
72 upnorthlurkin // Jan 8, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Harry, I love it!! I read an article over the weekend about the disappointing retail sales in December. I wonder how many of the disappointed retailers had holiday promotions and sales instead of Christmas promotions?! I only spent money at stores who used Christmas in their ads and in their stores. Yes, it was a personal boycott and didn’t contribute to anyone going bankrupt but it sure made me feel better! (And after all, isn’t that what’s important….feelings?!)
73 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 5:08 pm
re:55
oops, next week is Martin Luther’s b’day
never mind
74 Reverend Martin Luther King Junior // Jan 8, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Ah had a dream once ah was this eloquent…
Go back to San Francisco, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, go back to the Slough of Despond on Capitol Hill knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed if only we will it so.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day the peoples of all nations will rise up and live out the true meaning of the values we hold dear: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day in the Cradle of Civilization the sons of Abraham and the sons of Mohammed will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Iraq, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, cowering under the yoke of fear, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
…if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the Mazar e Sharif to Kabul. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of Dohuk to Kirkuk. Let freedom ring from Dirwaniyuh to Baghdad!
And when this happens, When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every souk and village, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black and brown and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics and Muslims, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
75 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Just because I like to look things up:
November 10, 1483.
76 seneuba // Jan 8, 2007 at 5:44 pm
As it’s actually MY birthday next week, why don’t we all use the following greeting:
“HAPPY SENEUBA-DAY!”
Noe THAT has a nice non-PC ring!
77 MargeinMI // Jan 8, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Whew! 21.21% makes me ‘borderline’ and that’s good enough for me!
78 Mack // Jan 8, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Is it 2008 yet?
79 kajun // Jan 8, 2007 at 7:10 pm
January 19 ( Friday; next week) is the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Guess it’ll be celebrated on Monday by Government Office and Post Office closings, etc., like so many other special “days”.
Maybe Floozie will shut down The House for one day, in honor of the Great Statesman.
80 da Bunny // Jan 8, 2007 at 7:42 pm
kajun, I think we’d more likely see U. S. gov’t office and P. O. closings in celebration of Elvis’ birthday way before it would ever happen for “Marse Robert.”
81 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 8:30 pm
15 January 2007 is more important as my younger daughter’s 36th birthday, anyway.
82 The Two Malcontents » LEAK: Draft of Bush Speech on Iraq, A Way Forwardâ„¢ // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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83 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 8, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Can it be!?!
We actually DID something!
84 onlineanalyst // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Well, if we are all bragging about birthdays, mine in January 23… and it’s a big one!
JL3rd: That news (#83) is an important development. Stay tuned. I think that we have begun a period of resolve that should rattle those bent on disrupting peace through terrorist maneuverings.
Totally OT: Has anyone seen The Pursuit of Happyness? The misspelling in the title is deliberate, as it is part of the plot. What a satisfying movie with wonderfully convincing acting! Apparently the narrative is based on a true story.
85 onlineanalyst // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:11 pm
And, dang it, Dick Cheney was literally in my neck of the woods today to to do a little hunting…and I missed the opportunity to cheer on one of the good guys when the motorcade departed from the airport to head to his destination.
86 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Oh, poor Ohio State
87 da Bunny // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:16 pm
MRW, you have my sympathies. Not lookin’ too good thus far…:-(
88 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 9, 2007 at 12:03 am
poor, poor, poor, Ohio State. Pride go beforeth pride
89 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 9, 2007 at 12:05 am
er Falleth.
da bunny
No skin off my teeth, I hate Ohio State with a royal passion. Someday, after all the owies are cured I will tell you why.
Cheers being raised in the Plaza Hotel’s bunker
90 everthink // Jan 9, 2007 at 12:50 am
“I’ve seen what real-time J-Star surveillance technology can do, particularly with respect to vehicular traffic. The road of death outside Kuwait City in 1991 is a good example of what can happen.” Comment by Darthmeister - January 7, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Woo Wee, Henry! When you say “real-time” were you aboard a J-Star or, did you see it on TV (like everyone else)?
You are talking the Jahra Highway (Hwy 80), the “Highway of Death” aren’t you?
91 everthink // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:02 am
JamesonLewis3rd,
You’re really on a losing streak aren’t you, poor fellow? Well, you just hang in there, and wait to hear what Biden’s Senate hearings reveal?
The Gators are my team. That is the National Champion Gators!
92 everthink // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:16 am
Look here Kaiser,
I was nice enough to say Dumbyah wasn’t smart enough to be compared to Hitler. Well then, dummo, you surely can’t compare him to FDR!
Why don’t you guyz try to quote Republican Presidents for a change, and leave the ones who wouldn’t want to be quoted by you alone.
I’d be happy to help, but Scott asked me to stop quoting at least one of your idiots. Guess who? That’s right, it’s “The FDR Clone” himself.
Bahwahwah.
ET
93 everthink // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:41 am
OLAf,
Dang it; everthink, maybe you could have even gone hunting with Deadly Dick “in your neck of the woods”.
Who knows, maybe you could have been on TV, or at least a vehicle with flashing lights!
ET
94 MargeinMI // Jan 9, 2007 at 4:11 am
Woke this morning to a beautiful blanket of white outside-the first this winter. It’s lovely. It’s nice to see something besides puddles and mud.
Well that was good, it can melt now.
Morning all!
95 Effeminem // Jan 9, 2007 at 4:55 am
43%. I need a 12 step program.
Unfortunately, I think we’re past the point where brutality will stabilize Iraq. I don’t know how many soldiers we need in Iraq, but we can’t sustain the current conflict unless we increase the size of the military. Hopefully we’ll be able to pull out in a year or two and that won’t be an issue.
Hey Hank, can you beat 43%?
96 dmiller372 // Jan 10, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Scott Ott is a communication genius. He has been on a consistent roll since the holiday break. He is right on point and is able to present his point of view with a bit of humor thrown in. Very rare indeed in today’s environment. I salute you Scott; you are the man!!
97 larry // Jan 10, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I have visited this page for several years to enjoy Scott’s commentary and read the variety of responses from the “regulars”. I signed up to make this comment - Would’t it be one of the most courageous actions of the GWB presidency if this would be the speech he gave tonight?
98 INJUSTICE PREVAILS // Jan 10, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Let me just say this,
If the democrats cut off the funding of this war
IRAQ WONT BE THE ONLY PLACE ENGAGED IN A
CIVIL WAR
99 Links for 2007-01-10 [del.icio.us] at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. // Jan 16, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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