I hope this does not insult or enrage any of the military that have served and survived war but I want to bring the Liberal position into perspective for the liberals. We have to force them to look at their own positions because deep down they know they are wrong.

The left needs to judge the progress of the Iraq war by the number of body bags that arrive in the US every month.

Time after time I have called the left on this and as always the counter with 'Have you served?" "Do you know what it is like?" Having received this reply from actual Vets I decided to play ball within their rulebook...

We lost Vietnam. We lost big. Our military, supposedly the finest in the world failed to do it's job. You guys failed to defeat a third rate enemy. You lost and communism won. 47,378 of our soldiers died for nothing. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are war criminals for sponsoring an illegal war amongst a free and sovereign nation.

Our soldiers went into Vietnamese homes and raped and pillaged and generally terrorized the population not unlike Genghis Kahn. 15 years of utter violent futility...

How do I know this?

Well, if Iraq is a loss after three years and 3000 casualties (1000 casualties a year average), then Vietnam (3158 casualties a year average) was an even worse defeat.

Why are we losing? Well George Bush of course. He an idiot. He's dumb. He doesn't have a plan. We also do not think his plan (which he does not have) is working. 3000 dead soldiers told me so...

We need to leave Iraq now because we have lost 3000 soldiers. Don't tell me about the consequences, I don't want to know. We lost 3000 soldiers. The evacuation of Vietnam set off a virtual genocide but it does not matter. We lost 47,378 casualties. Yes Victory was in grasp in Vietnam but it did not matter. We lost 47,378 soldiers and there is no way those 47,378 would want their sacrifice to be vindicated because....we lost 47,378 people. Defeat is a must. We deserve it. We earned it.

Since we have set a precedent someone needs to grab a shovel and dig up George Washington. We may have gained our independence from the United Kingdom but we lost 4435 men. That's more than Iraq. Go to any pub in the UK and you my over hear "Sure they got their independence but they lost 4435 soldiers." Washington needs to be impeached. Where's John Conyers?

So what do we do now? Iraq is 80% secure. Do we surrender that 80 percent to the 20 percent that have been successful at hiding in mosques and behind women? Or do we fight on and finish the job? The left says we surrender because we have lost 3000 political talking points. the right says we've had three elections, we've formed a government, and the Iraqi army is taking the lead. Let's finish. It's what we do best when left alone to do what we do best.

-Bert.

 

I love Joe Biden. He's good for at least one "Kerryesqe" sound bite every six months. They're usually race related. Last time it was something about Indians and 7-11. I never understood that one. This time it is about black people. Or to be more specific Barak Obama. To be even more specific it was about the clean, articulate, sharp Barrack Obama.

Now Joseph Biden is not a racist by any means. Racially insensitive maybe but not a racist. He is a person whose mouth works faster than his brain. This is all exacerbated by his belief that he is the smartest thing since Hermann Einstein who came up with the idea of creating an Albert Einstein. Just look at his performance during the Samuel Alito nomination. He had 20 minutes to question Judge Alito and spent 19 minutes of it telling him how he should answer the questions. Trouble was there were no questions. He seems to think that everything that comes out of his mouth is absolute gold.

What do the Indians think about that?

So instead of spending the day talking about his announcing he is running for president he spent the day trying to play down his remarks about Barak Obama. Obviously he has shot any chance of the Democratic nomination in the proverbial left foot. This has to be some sort of record. He lost any chance of getting the nomination on the day he announced he was running.

Ironically if he said this 20 years ago no one would have paid it any attention.

In 1988 the Democrats realized they could blame their election losses on Race. The Willie Horton ads the Bush team ran were unfairly accurate. Coupled with Michael Dukakis and his ego which was curiously taller than he was, the American public decided they did not need a commander in chief that insisted on releasing non parole inmates into the free world every weekend.

By the new millennia they had expanded it from using race to explain why they lost an election to using race to prevent losing one. By the time Strom Thurmond realized he was retiring years after he died they figured out how to use race to kill a Republican's political career.

It's all about race with them. The latest victim is George Allen. If you listen to them Senator Allen laid awake at nights thinking of an obscure word that demeans a foreigner. (I'm not even sure what nationality the guy was). George Allen will always be connected to the word "Macaca". Does anyone believe George Allen would stare into a camera and hurl racial slurs at an opponents staffer a few weeks before an election?

Republicans never get a pass when they say something dumb. Democrats pounce on each and every one of these gaffes with a zeal we wish they reserved for the terrorists. Meanwhile when a Democrat does a Biden the mainstream media simply ignores it or excepts a really weak excuse. (Sandy Berger was simply unorganized. He's messy and Chris Mathews is okay with that).

So what is happening now is Republicans jump on every minor infraction. outraged not necessarily because the remark was wrong or obscene but because if it was one of them they would have been strung up.

So in a sad twist of Irony Joe Biden who is always at war with his own vocal chords is the victim of his party's own need to create a racial situation out of nothing. Other than the now (in)famous quote he said some pretty intelligent things about John Edwards and Hillary Clinton's plans for surrendering in Iraq.

But what did he say anyway? He said Barak Obama was articulate. Well he is. Senator Obama never really says anything but he says it so well. Was Biden saying it's nice to see a black man run for president that something other than Ebonics? Perhaps Biden expected Barak to sound like Snoop Dog. I just don't know.

He also said Barak was clean. How often Senator Obama takes a bath I do not know. I'm also not aware of any unusual hygiene habits of Senator Biden. Biden claims he meant Obama is clean cut. Well if you are comparing Obama to other black Presidential candidates like Al Sharp ton and Jessie Jackson then Senator Biden was spot on.

Joe Biden is probably safe until the election heats up and he is forced to make several statements a day. Lord knows what he will say next. I'm waiting for the Clinton camp to fabricate a story about John McCain's family owning six slaves and a Peruvian butler.

-Bert

 

This weekends rally on the Mall in DC was just the spectacle I thought it would be. A pathetic display of aging hippie Dinosaurs, rabid Socialists, and Tim Robbins. It was cheesy chants, bizarre rallying calls, badly worded protest songs and a trumpet.

This was not your parents Vietnam shindig.

First of all this war's Walter Cronkite, Bob Scheifer listed the total attendance at over one hundred thousand. In reality it was just shy of 9,000. this wasn't San Francisco. This was recreation time at the retirement home. Let's do some math. If 9,000 aging hippies showed up that means 91000 aging hippies checked into reality after 1970, got jobs and became productive members of society. Jane Fonda's contribution to Society has been Ted Turner and "Barbarella"

We had the hip hop caucus. They had trouble getting their show off the ground and asked to start over in mid Rap. They were a bit miffed when they were not allowed to give speeches. I'm not surprised. They couldn't get their rap organized there wasn't enough time to let them get their speeches together.

Of course there were the 'Aging Grannies". What rally is complete without them. These are someone’s grandmothers and they are out there singing this Country Joe McDonald type stuff...badly.

Then there was this Mexican guy. In pulverized English he explained the we need to get all the "Gringos" out of Iraq. He didn't seem to worried about the American troops. He apparently said we need to "stop the funding in the Iraq" and "get the Gringos out of Iraq". I say apparently because it sounded like he said "stop the fun in Iraq" and "Get the Gringos our Iraq"

Of course Tim Robbins was there. It's not like he has any movies to make. Jane Fonda made an appearance saying she had not attended an anti war rally in 35 years. Translated she meant she had not spat on a Military Vet in 35 years.

John Conyers spoke. He again called for Bush's impeachment. I thought Ms. Pelosi said impeachment was off the table. they should have coffee. Anyway I wonder if Conyers took notice of who he was celebrating anti Americanism with. These are the people the Democratic party is beholden to. Fat enraged hippies who struggle to get into their bellbottoms. These are the people who sit behind their keyboards and give credence to the far left websites. This is the moveon.org crowd.

What should have been more telling is the total number in attendance. 9,000. In the late 60's and early 70's every rally attracted hundreds of thousands. Vietnam was a different scenario. By exiting Vietnam we did not put ourselves at immediate risk. Americans know Iraq is a different story. Not being careful how we leave Iraq we will put ourselves at greater risk. Sure the majority of Americans want the troops home now but they don't want an immediate withdrawal if it will make things worse.

In other words the Democrats are afraid of a small percentage of the left that has moved farther to the left. These people were spitting on Iraqi Vets that attended the rally to offer a different point of view and these are the people that John Conyers and most of the Democratic party feel they need to represent. A small but fanatical minority.

Nobody listens to stupid people. Why do the Democrats? This group trashed the Capital steps and trashed the FOX news van. I thought they were for peace. They're anarchists. They defaced the Capital steps by spray painting anarchist symbols while John Conyers and Maxine Waters looked on. Is this what the Democratic demographic wants in their party?

-Bert