In view of the president’s speech on Iraq to be given Wednesday I wanted to put out there what I know and believe about Iraq and it’s future. Much of what I postulate and claim here is drawn from the 4 prior essays. I didn’t want to be considered derivative of his speech. He hasn’t called me. I haven’t emailed him my thoughts. He wouldn’t use them anyhow.
I suspended the “my opinion in red”, for this part of the essay. Much of this is my opinion based on the facts I researched earlier in parts 1-4. In that way this is an "if than" summary. A summary before the Jury of my peers.
It’s long, it has titles. It covers a lot of real estate and reviews a lot of what has already been said. So, let’s get started:
First let me deal with some of the issues of the day before I tell you of the outcome.
LIE OF THE LEFT = BUSH LIED
It is a settled fact that the President gave us what he believed. Both parties knew what they knew. It was poor intelligence. Some of it was because of a build down of the CIA by Clinton. The Republican’s like things that save money. They agreed. The protestations by Bob Graham are just lies. He should be ashamed. I have in the past cataloged comments by people from the Democratic party of their conviction of WMDs and the need to take out Saddam Hussein. That is no longer up for debate. No one lied, everyone was mislead. It is among the most egregious contentions that anyone would send men and women to die (both parties voted YEA) without good reason. We all did this together. ALL of us red and blue states alike. And if there is guilt: there’s plenty to go around. This guy says it better than I could.
HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS? LONG VIEW
We as a country carefully trained the world what to expect from us as a nation. They just don’t believe in us any more. I’m amused by people who say our status in the world is reduced by Iraq. Our status stunk because of decisions made by Leaders for the last 30 years. Every one reduced our stature of a country that must not be messed with. When 9-11 happened it was an act born out of contempt for a weakened irresolute USA. Osama bin Laden said as much. (we can see that as soon as the Americans take casualties they run away) So did General Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam in 1990. (we were not strong enough to drive out a half million American troops, that wasn’t our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war) And as recently as 2 weeks ago a Japanese official said the same thing. (The USA could never win a war with China over Taiwan, they lose their resolve and retreat after a couple thousand war dead) They think we are weak and spineless. Thankfully, that applies only to certain people in government. Not our President.
There are other actions and Global lessons learned from our enemies (and our weak Allies) about who we are as a nation.
Nixon’s silence after the 73 oil embargos
Message: We can control them, Our Oil is Our Power
Carter’s Windfall Oil Profit Tax
Message: The US doesn’t want to produce Oil. It increase our dependence on foreign oil because stateside profits were taxed.
Carters Handling of Iranian Hostage Crisis
Message: The US won’t attack even if their own people are in peril. And Russia invades Afghanistan in response to keep it out of the hands of similar Islamic terrorist and keep it for themselves.
Carter Training of Militants after Afghan War starts with USSR
Message: The US likes wars they don’t have to fight in
Peace Accord angers Islamist Fascists who assassinate Sadat. US does nothing.
Message: Don’t count on the USA to back you Mr World Leader if you cooperate. You are a pawn. They become less willing to stick their neck out.
Reagan Pulls troops out of Beirut after Barracks Bombing
Message: If they take casualties, they will run
Reagan fuels both sides: Weapons for Saddam and Iran (contra) during the Iran Iraq war
Message: The USA likes dead Muslims, no matter how they are killed.
Iraq Invades Kuwait. Bush 1 does nothing but try diplomacy. Response to the invasion was slow, uncertain, tied up in UN junk. Iraq doubted our resolve.
Message: The USA believes in diplomacy over action. Diplomacy with tyrants like Saddam is like feeding a hungry alligator Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses. He’ll eat them as long as you feed him but he really want to eat
you. This fired up the Isalmists. Let’s get em, they said.
Bush 1 and Powell back off from invading Baghdad and taking control.
Message: The price was too high, too scary. OOOOO.
Our enemies began to see a pattern. We don’t have the guts to finish the job.
Bush 1 turns his back on potential over throwers of Saddam even when we told them we would help.
Message: You can’t trust the Americans
Clinton Endorses Gays in the Military
Message: To a fundamentalist religion like Islam, this is a joke and sent the message that real American soldiers wear PINK!
World Trade Center Bombing in 93. After arresting the guilty parties, little effort made to go deeper and seek out their supporters.
Message: Get a few dummies to do the deed, they’ll never come after us
Saddam tries to assassinate Bush 1 in Kuwait. No substantive response from the USA. A few pawns arrested.
Message: Put on your orange, it’s open season on American’s and their President
Mogidishu and Blackhawk down withdrawals
Message: Humiliate a few Americans and they will run
North Korea Clean’s the Clinton Administration’s Clock on “Nuclear Disarmament”
Message: They are not only impotent, they’re stupid
CIA encourages Kurds and The Iraqi National Congress to overthrow Saddam. Then Clinton backs down. Leaves thousands to die.
Message: If the US says, “we’re behind you”, they’re not
Osama bin Laden Bombs 2 US embassies in Africa. We bomb a factory in Northern Sudan.
Message: The US is oblivious to who it’s enemy is
An arrest warrant for OBL is issued.
Message: Hide and Seek is now the game
USS Cole is bombed, Clinton does nothing
Message: Hey fellow terrorists, lose your own life and kill an American, it’s worth 72 Virgins. This was the real kick off to the suicide bombing binge.
2000 “Election” of Bush 2 divides the country deeply
Message: Divide and conquer now will work. It has.
CONCLUSIONS THE WORLD MAKES OF US PRIOR TO 9-11
We are an unreliable ally, an impotent foe, an incompetent world power and a bumbling bunch of infidels in the eyes of the Islamic terrorists.
TRUTHS ABOUT OUR ENEMY AND HIS GOALS
They believe that if they hit us on many fronts it will keep us off balance.
That succeeds for a while in a 24/7 news cycle. Plus more people are interested in what Brittany is wearing, or who Paris is “dating” (innuendo intended) or if Jennifer Anniston has found true love than hearing hard truth about a global struggle for dominance.
That’s what this is. There is no longer the option of living and letting live. They won’t let us live. They are a conquering army. More insidious than Hitler and the Axis powers ever were. Far more purposeful than The USSR. This is about cultures, religion, power.
There are imperfect solutions which must be found. War is never perfect. The result must be.
For instance: Iraq is ethnically and religiously divided. It never was a country except as caliphates (tribal governments) with overarching Persian control.
It consists of Kurdistan, the Shiite South and the unsettled Sunni Triangle. Except for a few attacks the north and the south are in relative peace. But like India Kashmir and Pakistan, Former Yugoslavia under Tito, England and Scotland, Northern and Southern Ireland, and even in a soft way Basque separatists in Spain, or Quebec Separatists in Canada. Not exactly peace, but detente.
Iraqi peace may not be easy to hold, but it must be won to become whatever it will become. If we have learned anything about how to pull together a country after a bitter civil war of our own perhaps we can help them do the same. Easy? No. But essential.
WHY THE UN CAN NEVER BE PART OF THIS EFFORT
Let me disabuse you of any potential positive influence from the UN regarding Iraq. That is a sham organization at best and a corrupt haven for global criminals at worst. They have no place at all in Iraq’s future. I am thankful John Bolton is there if only as a rat patrolman for the rats that run wild in that building.
Madeline Albright was the worst secretary of state and worst UN Ambassador this country ever had. The corrupt Oil for Food scandal was her baby. She catered to the UN without any capacity for influence. Her unsteady hand is at the root of many of the problems we face today.
The UN is the most impotent body of nations. NATO has more power and unity than they do. IF we had sense it would be disbanded.
While the UN formed the state of Israel by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 but now 1 out of every 4 resolutions from the UN has to do with condemning Israel. It’s a den of liars and thieves.
The UN has been shameful in aiding and abetting genocide.
This is an example of UN peacekeeping. During the Balkan wars, Blue Helmeted Dutch Troops stood by and watched as Thousands of Bosnian Muslims were massacred by Serbs at Srebrenica on July 13, 1995.
I won’t even mention the UN’s impotence in Rwanda. The UN is useless.
I won’t be able to get rid of the UN but I need to let you know they have no part in Iraq’s future.
MY OPTOMISITC VIEW OF THE FUTURE OF IRAQ
I have hope. A great deal of hope. Despite the gloom and doom from the left, there is a lot of reason to believe things are getting better and will continue to get better:
IF Alqueda is staging men and munitions in Iraq it means we have them where we want them and when they are neutralized it will be harder for them to start again elsewhere. Jordan, nope. Syria, Iran. Only if they like really flat burned over land.
IF Iraq settled down and builds hotels, tourism (I’d go), agriculture, and mass exports of oil at $40 a barrel you will see a phenomena like Germany became after WWII or Japan. We will have a sizable continent in Iraq for decades to come. We must never pull out complexly. Maybe only 30,000 but like Germany, Japan and South Korea, it will become another peacekeeping mission with American bases. We are still in Korea and are just leaving Germany and Japan.
Saddam is gone, his evil reign over, his thugs are gone and people no longer live in fear of him the world is a better place.
IAbu Graib was a problem, and it was, it was a indicator of bad oversight of not well led soldiers, not bad policy.
Oil is being pumped and sold, Sewer, Water, and electricity is being hooked up that’s the sign of a war nearly won. You don’t hook up things, you cut them off in war.
IF we back down now we condemn Iraq to the scrap heap of the world. We would sanction terrorist action and once more reinforce the USA’s image in the world as a global wimp.
THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER EVERY DAY IN IRAQ
Kurds are free and peaceful. Look at this Kurdistan Website:
Someone will be a leader of Iraq. It might be a strongman like Tito was. That may be essential. Even if it’s Chalabi, we must allow this to happen as it should.
Even though France and England are slow to recognize this, the Islamic Fascists in their countries are there to do them harm. Islam practiced by peaceloving sects is a positive thing. It however has at it’s core warlike tenets. Those are doctrinal things that are as argued by those in Islam as we argue about Creationism. This is always a problem.
I have hope for IRAQ
People without hope are the walking dead.
Hope in Iraq is of the spirit and you can’t kill the spirit.
Blue thumbs in 2 elections and once more in December proves the spirit of the people. They are becoming partners in their own destiny. Good partners.
Democrats know full well that the buildup to 150,000 soldiers in Iraq was a pre vote buildup for security. After that time 30,000 will be withdrawn. They will of course take credit for this action.
Insert bitter reviling here. Every time a contingent of troops comes home over the next 2 years, the Democrats will take credit, but it will be most like Stewart on Mad TV. “Look what I can do” And about as important.
WE HAVE ALREADY WON, IT’S JUST NOT REPORTED
The reports of victory and significant progress in Iraq are everywhere. Only people who purposely turn a blind eye can admit there is not future and in the end it won’t have been worth it all.
A few links:
Australia understands the importance and is in this for the long haul. We are not alone.
A soldier just back from Iraq weighs in
A report on progress by the Christian Science Monitor
The Iraqi Army is stepping up to take the lead
20 New Cement plants are being built by entrepreneurs in IRAQ
Security in Southern Iraqi City passed now to Iraqi Troops
5 New Universities being launched in Iraq
Iranian infiltrators arrested in Basra by Iraqi Police
New Refinery opened in Southern Iraq
New power project for Electricity in the South
Sunni Arabs Trust the Iraqi Prime Minister
Tomorrow Night I imagine our president will have many others. I just wanted to get my 2 cents in before. I'll be interested to compare.
LAST WORD FROM ME PERSONALLY
I believe this is part of a divine plan of God. My belief in what is going on in the Middle East will be the power of Leavening. A successful profitable Iraq will by example topple and replace corrupt dictatorial Islamic governments all throughout the Middle East. This will mean a safer better world for all of us. That’s why I believe this is a war beyond our comprehension. This is for our very future as a world.
Why GWB? I think God has a way of using the foolish things of the world to confound the wise 1 Corinthians 1:27-28. Gideon was the lowest of the low but defeated the Midionites with 300 men against huge odds. Judges starting at V 15. David was considered an idiot at Gath while hiding from Saul. 1st Samuel 21: 10-15 And of course Balaam’s Talkative Donkey Numbers 22:28-30.
Even Jesus when on the cross was considered a failure by everyone, even a thief on one side of him. Guess that didn’t turn out the way the masses thought that day, did it.
GWB is not the brightest; I think that may be by design. He doesn’t have it all together. He certainly can look foolish like King David. But as is evidenced by some smart people in Presidencies past, they have the ability to rely on earthly wisdom and ending up looking really stupid and foolish later.
My hope isn’t in politicians or press. Iraq is for me is a walk of Faith. It was important to have the evolution discussion so I could encourage you to not separate your faith from your reason. Many believe they are mutually exclusive. That’s too bad. Both must work or one is a sham in your life. Reason can be the enemy of faith. But Faith well exercised is never the enemy of Reason. If they are exclusive and I have to choose, I know what side I come down on. I’m not moved by what I see, I’m not moved by what I hear, I’m just moved by the mighty word of God. That is enough. Filter everything thru that and you will never go wrong.
I’m a big believer particularly looking at Israel’s past in the factor known as “BUT GOD”. Israel was also an artificial partitioned land. But God’s grace and favor has preserved and enlarged her. It has become a divider and a stumbling stone for many. Israel has taught us how to deal with terrorism and national security in many ways. They are most of all an example of courage.
I am allowed a few peeks behind the curtain from time to time. I will tell you of a couple of them. All by faith and not by sight.
I tell you these things so that when they come to pass you will know that it’s all real.
I appreciate this because it helps me keep balance and offers comfort during difficult circumstances. I can’t conjure it up. It just happens. I am not alone in this. Many people are given this if the just open their eyes.
Here are a few:
The election on Dec 15 will have a few surprises. But all for the best. And it will be successful. It will be a first last step on the way to the victory we hope for.
The terrorists will continue but they are spiritually driven. We don’t fight against flesh and blood. We fight against spiritual forces. We must break their spirit. We will. It will take time.
There will be a significant confession and or revelation by an Iraqi General near the end of January beginning of February 2006. He will give absolute proof of not only the existence of WMDs before the war started in 2003 but where they are today. What happened to them. He was the General responsible for ferrying them off to Syria and other places for safekeeping. He will name names. He flew some of the cargo planes. This will rock the Middle East and take any wind left out of WMD discussions in the USA. The timing will be good because it will come before the 2006-midterm elections in the USA.
The Republicans will hold house and senate in fall of 2006 because of the success of the war, the economy and the futility of the opposition’s arguments. Bush has a very low approval rating right now. The Democrats approval rating in congress is lower.
The Kurds will be instrumental long term in leading the way to Iraq entering the 21st century. This was prophesied thousands of Years ago by the Prophet Isaiah. There is a fulfillment yet to come. Isaiah chap 13: V 17-22.
Just so you understand, The Meads are the Kurds of today (who are not Semitic Arabs) and the Persians are the Iranians of today (who are also not Arabs). Islamic yes, but just not Arabian.
When Saddam was captured in his spider hole, I immediately thought of the following chapter. Isaiah 14:
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read it in your own Bible. You will see. That’s how he gives me a peek behind the curtain from time to time.
God is still God, and he cares for Babylon. He will restore it as a mighty place.
I have hope, Much Hope.
Iraq would be lost, BUT GOD!
