Quote Originally Posted by Torog
Whatever happened to Semper Fi ?

New York Daily News ^ | 11/18/05 | Editorial


Whatever happened to Semper Fi?

Congressman John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is a retired Marine colonel, decorated Vietnam veteran, ranking member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, longtime supporter of the military and a noted hawk who was an early advocate of the U.S. incursion into Iraq - a man, in short, none would call faint of heart. When such a figure declares that the time has come for America to turn tail and bug out, his views carry more weight than do the similar assessments of the Dennis Kuciniches and Barbara Boxers and Cindy Sheehans of the world. But, sadly, he is as wrongheaded as they are, and Murtha might as well be sending up the white flag for all the terrorist gangs to see. Doubtless there is much rejoicing in Al Qaeda's rat holes this day over still another encouraging cut-and-run signal from U.S. shores that maybe someday soon, with U.S. troops pulled out, the rodents will have Iraq - and beyond - all to themselves.

Murtha's mouthings arrive hard on the heels of ex-President Bill Clinton, whose utterly disgraceful shame-on-America remarks in Dubai the other day could only have made it sufficiently plain to many millions of Middle Easterners, both those who are with us and those who are not, that the United States cannot be counted on to stand behind the historic mission that toppled the butcher Saddam Hussein, helped persuade crazed Libya to give up its nuclear intentions, was instrumental in driving Syria out of Lebanon and is daily leaning hard on the malevolent mullahs of Iran.

Defeatism, it's called. Willingness to give it all up. In Washington, it isn't so much the war effort is going badly as it is the poll numbers are going badly. Congress has a nervous eye on America's popular distemper, and many on Capitol Hill want some idea of a withdrawal deadline. But a commander would be mad to even consider setting such a deadline, inviting an implacable foe to sit tight and wait it out.

There's still a job to be done - a miserable slog, no doubt, and one, it is true, that could and should have been undertaken more efficiently from the beginning. But the job cannot be left unfinished. Yes, defeatism is in the American wind, there's no question about that. It must not prevail. For what is already in the wind far across the sea is the gleeful, hideous laughter of a triumphant enemy.

Ho Torog,
a year before bush stole the election, there were freedom fighters, now there are only nondescript terrorist surrounding you, threatening to rape your baby's and eat your women, this in itself is absurd.
From before the time of the crusaders and Saladin, the white christains have thought they knew what was best for the world, and have tried to push their perverted ideas of freedom onto the world.
now the u.s. and those they call allies are the only countries allowed to have nuclear weapons, the only countries free to use biological and untested weapons on their own people, even torture is within your means. where now do you draw the line between good and evil? are the good guys the ones that can have elections that can be rigged? are the good guys the ones that can torture and hold people without charges or trials? the good guys can bust down doors and drag people away in the dead of night never to be heard from again? got any real answers? or just the pap and drivel the government feeds you?