The Hanging Puts An End To Iraqi Tyrant

With the hanging of the Iraqi tyrant early this morning, closure on an era of genocide and torture ended. The gassing of thousands of Kurds with the "WMD" that "Saddam Didn't have" was enough of a reason to give this man the death sentence. And the well known fact that he supported terrorism by giving financial aid to suicide bombers families, and supported their training was enough of a reason for our gallant troops to invade and depose this maniac. His capture began the eventual process of the Iraqi peoples gaining retribution for his atrocities to his own people.
No matter how hard leftists and their Democratic minions try to minimize this event. The fact remains that another despot like Hitler and Stalin has been dispatched to his eternal reward or punishment. My sentiments are , Bone Voyage and good riddance to bad rubbish!

A Picture Speaks Volumns About Islamists

The picture to the right is a picture of a young girl who is the living example of failed application of Sharia Law. A failed beheading of a Christian Indonesian girl is an example of the Sharia Law that says Muslim converts to any other religion will be killed.
These kinds of atrocities are being committed every day around the world while in the United States a Congress full of Pacifism, self-hating, complacent Congressmen and Congresswomen are trying to pass a law forbidding with fear of withholding of government funds or civil liability any Security worker at airports or point of departure from using an kind of "implied racial Profiling".
S. 2138 "The End Racial Profiling Act of 2007" is a resurrection of a failed attempt by Congress woman Pelosi and Congressman Conyers to pass an amendment to the Patriot act which would have done essentially the same thing.
The 2007 version speaks to,"relying to any degree on race, ethnicity,national origin, or religion in selecting which individuals to subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities or deciding upon the scope and substance of law enforcement activity following the initial investigatory procedure may be subject to federal funding default, and potential civil penalties for any agencies which when challenged, cannot prove that they did not racially profile anyone they questioned, detained searched or seized contraband from." Can you imagine the Joy ACLU and "ambulance chase lawyers" would have with this law which in short says, "If accused you are guilty if you cannot prove otherwise."
Who do these people represent, CAIR? The people doing all the atrocities such as the 9/11 attack on New York were Muslim extremists. Now some imbeciles or shills for CAIR want to pass this law!
It is estimated that 5-10 percent of the Muslims residing in America are supporters of Islamist extremism. If only 10-15% of the world Muslim Population is a supporter of Radical Islamism we have a potential world wide pool of 125-200 million potential terrorists in the world. This is far more people than Hitler and Stalin together had in their quest to defeat American values and power! Germany alone has estimated a population of 32,000 Islamists who are sympathetic to the Muslim extremist position and actions.
Remember Islamists believe only Sharia law should rule. This law kills adulterers, those who change to another religion, tolerate no homosexual behavior and cut of hands of thieves.

It appears that this new Law is a reaction to the group of Imams who caused a deliberate disruption on an airplane in Minnesota and were removed from the plane.

A Very Merry Christmas to All Who Believe

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” —Luke 2:1-7 (ESV)

Thus began over 2000 years ago a religious revolution that has lasted until today when it is daily under fire from atheists, Communists, Agnostics and all their minions. Make no mistake the secularists would like to erase any trace of religious belief if they can so they can develop their idea of a perfect society that includes abortion at any time before birth, euthanasia for old, infirmed and mentally ill people who are "just taking up space".

These are just a few of the programs which will occur once the majority of people in the United States renounce God! Without God and religion their is no need for a conscience or guilt and anything goes as long it is good for the "state".

My hope and prayer for all Americans, no matter what their faith, is a return to their childhood belief of what is good and what is evil. Their God can be called whatever suits them as long as we believe we are not just matter floating around for a short time in a cosmos which will go on until the "big bang' returns. Without some religious belief and the humility to realize that we didn't just happen we are certainly destined for a terrible fall!

Perhaps Christians Should Declare a Fatwa

Its the season of Joy and celebration for all Christians. We celebrate the Birth of Our Savior Jesus Christ on Christmas as has been the Custom and religious obligation of all Christians for Centuries.
But Newsweek Magazine Decided to throw a little controversy into this Christmas season.
In their December 18th issue they feature an article written by Lisa Miller that has the Painting by Francesco Mancino of "The Holy Family" on its' cover. From this beautiful picture one might think this is an article highlighting the reverence that 80% of the United States nearly 300 million people have for the Birth of Jesus. Wrong! The article is about a "A Nice Jewish Boy". The article refers to the First Century Jewish Family Values That Shaped Christianity. The reference to time ignores the well established reference points of BC (before Christ) and AD (Year Of Our Lord), using instead the designation of all agnostics CE (Common ERA). The article is filled with quotes from well known feminist and promoter of "The Gnostic Gospels", Elaine Pagel.
The ultimate blasphemous statement is Ms. Millers description of how The Virgin Mary let Joseph Know she was "with Child". "She then tells Joseph she is pregnant and he is not the father".....Never referring to The Christ Child as a Devine incarnation of the Son Of God. She refers to "the figure they believe to be the Son of God."
If Christians were like Muslims a Fatwa would have been issued by one of the Church leaders by sundown the 19th of December. As you may or may not recall we had a Fatwa issued for Salman Rushdie for writing "The Satanic Verses" and in 2002 Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestares issued a death Fatwa for Jerry Falwell for calling Mohammad a terrorist.
In the 1600s this woman would have been burned at the stake for her blasphemy. Fortunately we no longer burn such people, but we can boycott the magazine she writes for, and I for one will never pick up another copy of Newsweek.
If such an article were written about Jewish or Muslim dogma there would be an outcry of antisemitism or Muslim Hatred, but these days it seems like some have declared open season on Christianity. It is past time we Christians take a stand and use our purchasing power to boycott any organization that is anti -christian, including candidates for election and those holding office.

"E Pluribus Unum" Means Little Today

The advent of the "lefts" drive for political correctness and multiculturalism has begun an internal threat to this great Country never expected by the framers of our wonderful Constitution.
The "out of many,one" was adopted in the late 1700s with the hope of building a great country of diverse people from many European nations that would pull together and build a strong, unified nation. The great dream of immigrants worked for almost two hundred years. Then along came "The Great Society", The Vietnam War, and the Cold War with the Soviet Union. With all this activity came a flood of immigrants from Southeast Asia, Russia, Africa, and Mexico along with thousands from other Third world countries. And the flood of immigrants has not subsided, particularly the flood of illegals from across our border with Mexico.
While the Country was being invaded by an ever increasing illegal immigrant population, the Liberals in our schools and government were busy inculcating minds open to new ideas that it was only fair to embrace the concepts of multiculturalism and the idea of hyphenated Americans such as Mexican-Americans and African-Americans, and while we are tyring to accommodate these new "citizens" it would be so nice to accept the use of their native language. Thus we have bi-lingual classes in schools, thousand of streets in large cities with Vietnamese or Mexican or Cuban names. The end result is the rapid "Balkanisation" of The United States". We now have large areas where no English is spoken at all, and try to get information on the telephone, and you will have to select a number to press to get information in a variety of languages.
Early immigrants assimilated with one another. Yes, they sometimes fought one another, and large groups lived in "Ghettos", but in the workplace if you wanted to get ahead you spoke English. Tests were given in English. Textbooks for schools written in English were Universal, and the test for Citizenship was in English.
In California it is probably the worst situation, The "Recoquistas" are an organization of Mexicans, legal and mostly illegal, that refuses to assimilate in any way. They preach speaking only Spanish. The forbid interracial marriage and hope to take over California and "return it to the rightful owner", Mexico.
The latest threat comes from the radical and nearly radical Muslims. This group also lives in separate enclaves in some areas of the country, and in many cases recognize only Sharia law not American law.
All of the above plays into the hands of the Left wing "One Worlders" who hate our singular achievement as "One Nation Under God", and plan to do everything they can to bring us down!

This Thorn in U.S. Side Must be Removed

If the United States ever hopes to develop a stable government in Iraq there is one man who must be removed one way or the other from the scene. His name is Mugtada al-Sadr.
This man, the fourth son of Ayatollah Muhammad Sadig Al Sadr, is a member of one of the most prominent families in Iraqi religious and scholarly circles. His father was instrumental in the Iraqi attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein in 1991. The Kurds and Shiites managed to overthrow the Saddam leadership in 14 of 18 Iraqi provinces, but the alleged promised support for this up rise was never forthcoming from President Bush's' father. The result was Saddam put down the up rise and murdered tens of thousands of the Kurds and Shiites and their families.
Mugtada was left with his three brothers and a father who were hated by Saddam. The result was that his father was murdered while at prayer in 1999 and two of his brothers were killed that same year. The third brother went into hiding leaving an angered religious cleric to twist in the winds of hatred. Mugtada took up his fathers cause of proclaiming every Friday evening before prayers the phrase,"No.No to America; No, No to Israel." He took up residence and located his quest for power in the Shiite slums outside Baghdad called " Sadr City". It is from here that he started the Shiite army known as "The Army of Mahdi". The name is taken from a Messianic figure in Islam!
From a small band of angry Shiites who survived the Sunni oppression of Saddam he has built a sizable force that is apparently trained across the Iraq border in Iran. Iran also supplies this army 80 million dollars per month to buy weapons, supplies and night vision equipment. They are well supplied by Iran!
Mugtada relishes the fact that he is considered an "outlaw". and has apparently mobilized the Shiites who follow him in his hatred for The United Sates and Israel. His supporters are called "Sadists", and they grow in numbers daily.
If he is allowed to continue as a threat to the Forces in Iraq the chances are very good our mission will fail. The obvious conclusion is that he must be taken out one way or another. If we hope to have some kind of lasting peace in Iraq, and finally bring our boys and girls home, instead of leaving them to be picked off one by one by the "Army of Mahdi.

The Making of a Feminine Leader

Even as we morn the deaths of our brave soldiers who were killed in the fight against the terrorist insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. A three star general looking forward to his fourth star is the leader of a school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, that trains each year 2000 young Army officers how to be"more culturally sensitive."
General David Petraeus, a highly decorated leader of the 101st airborne division in Mosul, Iraq in 2001-2003 , now is in charge of making the future leaders of our troops, who go into battle, how to do their utmost to avoid large scale destruction. To win the hearts and minds of the people in the countries they are sent to fight. They are taught respect for foreigners, have cultural awareness and practice tolerance.
This General with the aid of Marine general James Mattis has written a 241 page manual that is the new way to combat counterinsurgency.
You probably won't be able to read these articles in our "Lame" Media". I found it in a lengthy report written for Der Spiegel on line by Ullrich Fechtner. A German citizen who was allowed access to this highly classified and barb wire protected Army base to interview General Petraeus about his "revolutionary" approach to training our combat leaders.
One of the quotes from this General that caught my attention was his assertion: "It is easy to blow down and go in with machine guns blazing or throw grenades. But when you do that you often risk creating more enemies because of the way you conducted the operation". The huge impact of cultural, religious and ethnic factors. Those are the key elements when you plan and conduct military operations. A nation building army with money as the best ammunition ,is the new way." This really scares me!
Doesn't this man realize he is taking men and women who either in their four years in training at West Point or during their ROTC training were taught to be trained leaders of people who are trained not to be diplomats, they do that in diplomacy schools, but to lead people who can kill the enemy so we win the war. Whatever it takes.
By feminisation of our Army we are building a schitzophrenic group of leaders who will have to stop and think before they pull the trigger. By that time they and their men will be dead. God help us!
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President Bush Must Not Ignore Senator Nelsons' Perfidy

The following is a paragraph from the Logan Act. This law was originally passed in 1799 when John Adams was President and last amended in 1994. If you read it you will see that the latest Democrat to violate this law was Senator Nelson from Florida. My Senator unfortunately. This man willfully undermining the Constitutional authority of the President is not the first Democrat to do so. Kerry, Kennedy and a few others have done the same thing. Made trips to foreign Government leaders for discussions which were not authorized by the only man Constitutionally responsible for Foreign Policy . President Bush must not let this act go unnoticed and must condemn Senator Nelsons act of perfidy. Too many important Issues depend on the relations with Syria to allow just any legislator to independently contact a leader of a country which may or may not be a potential enemy of this Country.
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).

The Clinton Legacy Strikes Again

Another Clinton appointed Federal Judge has stuck a blow for the ACLU, Amnesty International and all anti-death penalty groups.

Judge Jeremy Fogel of the United States District Court in San Jose California has declared lethal injection "cruel and inhumane punishment" for convicted murderers sentenced to death.

The Judge was appointed by Clinton in 1997. Prior to his appointment he was a Harvard law school graduate who served as Directing Attorney for Mental Health Advisory Project.

During this past week Governor Bush of Florida called a halt to pending lethal injections because Angel Diaz required two venapunctures to administer the lethal drugs, and it took 34 minutes for him to die. During the 34 minutes witnesses said he exhibited that he felt pain, he grimaced and shuddered.

Putting aside the fact that this man murdered a man in Miami in 1979, and prior to that had escaped from a prison in Puerto Rico where he was serving a life sentence for second degree murder.

Executions are not supposed to be pleasant experiences for people who have committed heinous crimes with little regard for the feelings of the victims and their families. Our Judicial system has allowed this man, Angel Diaz, to live for 27 years while millions have been spent exhausting all appeals. His victims were killed by this killer who did not kill them in a painless and humane way! He owed his debt to society, and two needle insertions beneath his skin are something that unfortunately occur every day in clinics and hospitals. I myself incurred six such failed attempts to insert an intravenous drip by some inexperienced technicians in one of the best hospitals in Rome Italy. Yes it hurt, but it was not inhumane!

When people sit on the federal bench and declare such a "humane" way of carrying out a capital punishment, as "inhumane and presenting an unacceptable risk of cruelty." It is an affront to the victims of violent crime, and no wonder there are so many murders in this country every year.

The horrid thought and fact is that this same judge will continue to sit on the Federal bench and dispense such disproportional opinions for the rest of his life! And we don't know how many more like him Clinton stacked the Judicial deck with.

Washington Syndrome

The news, television and blogs are filled with stories about who is going to run and win the presidential election. Instead of spending so much time and effort on an election that is in 2008. The news should be about what will happen to this country if we lose the war against terrorism. The U.S. press was concentrated on the War in Iraq for a few days after the IRSG report was released, and the foreign press is having a field day printing stories about "Bushs' failed War". The fact that less American soldiers were being killed each of the last two years and tens of thousands of Iraqis voted twice is ignored. Let us not forget that the despot who ruled Iraq has been tried for his crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death by hanging.
The whole world seems to assume that President Bush will "role over" and declare, as too many have, that he made a mistake and the war in Iraq can't be won. The problem with all of this prattle is we did win the war, the army of Saddam Hussein was torn to pieces by our brave and dedicated soldiers, marines air force and navy. But maintaining the peace is the difficult part. When terrorist fanatics are willing to kill their own people this battle will be as hard to win as has been the war in Northern Ireland. Nothing we do can make the fanatical Sunnis not hate the fanatical Shiites! They have been fighting of and on for centuries, with the willing support of such "bastions of freedom" as Syria and Iran.
It is regrettably true that once a man or women gets elected to either the House of Representatives or the Senate they catch the fever, The fever is power and prestige, which drives them to begin campaigning as soon as they are sworn into office. A problem that can only be solved by instituting universal term limits. We have it for the president, What make the other Washington "Princes" so special?
Maybe if term limits were enacted we would have politicians who come to Washington to do some good for the country. Not just special interests that keep them in the office they hold. If they knew they had to go back to normal life after a given time. They would work together to protect the great country they are suppose to represent!

Will History Be repeated?

The time is long past due for the American people to realize that history is about to repeat once again. It seems as though the memory span of most Americans is limited. More so with every new generation in my opinion.
Perhaps it is because very little American history is taught in our Public schools. Then again it might be just more convenient for Fast moving ,Want it now" generation to never look back.
Whatever the reason it is about to be Korea and Vietnam revisited if President Bush buys into that "trash" called the ISGR. Once again the "peace at all costs" crowd seems to be winning the hearts and minds of the decision makers in Washington.
In the 50's it was Truman relieving General MacArthur from his command in Korea, because he wanted to wage all out war against the North Koreans and Chinese if necessary. Had we done what he wanted , including use of nuclear weapons if needed their would be no North Korean nuclear missile threat, and Communist China would not be the strong nuclear power they are now.
In the late 60's and early 70's the left wing press and the communist sympathizer organizations in the U.S. caused President LBJ to give up the presidency and President Nixon to make peace with the Communists that resulted in genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia. and a further destruction of the morale in military leadership. Even the great general Schwartzkoff has said he contemplated retiring from the army,because morale was so bad.
Now if President Bush follows his fathers friends advice, and uses the IRSG report to end the Iraq war, we will once again be "back to the future." The possibility of genocide in Iraq is very real, as is the possibility of another"Diem Bien Fu"for the reduced number of troops that are left as advisers if we withdraw our troops from Iraq.
The first President has the legacy of failing to finish the job when we went into Iraq during his only term in office. Let us hope and pray his son won't do the same thing due to pressure from the "Diplomacy Freaks"!

The Destruction of A Patriot

The resignation and acceptance of President Bush of the resignation is a great loss to this country.
Yes, Mr. Rumsfeld was an abrupt man who broached no foolishness. As an ex-Naval Fighter pilot he was unaccustomed to the duplicity of diplomacy. He spoke "it" like a true patriot. Because of his abrupt manner he made too many enemies, especially with the politically correct military brass and of course the career members of the career Defense Department. But he understood the threat this country faces from the Muslim extremist, and did his best to support the military in the fight to defeat this threat.
The media hated him as did all the leftist Democrats, and a few leftist Republicans. So now he is gone and the Country is weaker because of his loss. His replacement is no match for this mans fidelity to winning the war against terrorism. He is a diplomat, and President Bush made a poor choice when he replaced a true Patriot!

We Have to Believe!

The one thing I like about blogging is that I can say whatever comes to my mind as long as it is not obscene, treason, criminal or libelous.
The thing that keeps nagging my consciousness is that at this time of the year especially we Americans, :have to believe"!
although I am what some would call a senior citizen I had never read the book or watched Tom Hanks version of "The Polar Express" until last night. My wife has cherished the book for the 33 years we have Been married, and read it to our now grown son every Christmas while he was still a child.
The movie version is cleverly done with computer animation, and a good watch for adults as well as the children. Its' theme is "you have to believe".Of course the belief they talk about is the belief in Santa Claus and the North Pole where he and his elves weave their magic for Christmas eve delivery to all "good children".
At varying ages, mine was at age seven, we all learn that Santa is a myth, but that doesn't stop our belief system fortunately. I want to propose that we have to believe in certain fundamental principals.
We should believe in a Devine power who created this wonderful if flawed world we live on. Whether it is God as I believe, Buddha, Allah, or some other name. It is important to realise that whether God created the earth by causing the "Big Bang" or it took him the six biblical days it doesn't matter. All we have to do is look at the miracle of birth to realise this doesn't happen by accident.
We have to believe we should be thankful for living in this great Country. No other country in the world has all the wonderful opportunities for a good life if you are willing to work for it.
We have to believe there are people who hate us, some unfortunately within our country who would love to see us go down the way the Roman Empire did.
We have to believe in the rights of individuals without which we are nothing more than a sham.
We have to believe this is all worth fighting for if we believe it exists at all.
We have to believe it is better to fight our avowed enemies on their home soil rather than wait until they are here and we are fighting in our streets not theirs.
Lastly we must believe that Goodness can triumph over evil if only their is a will to do it!

PRC is Operating In Iraq Behind The Scene

One of the unmentioned issues in Iraq that was conveniently ignored by the ISG report is what will happen in Iraq after we withdraw and the Chinese are left to their own ambitious ways.
Little mention is made of the fact that there are presently many technicians and telecommunication workers from the Peoples Republic of China (Communist China) operating with impunity in Iraq.
These PRC people are busy building the Iraq telecommunications network. Both fiber and wireless system are being built by the PRC, and not one Chinese person has been killed or kidnapped in the time that they have been there. The Terrorists are too busy trying to drive out The United States and its' Allies.
It is also a little publicized fact that the PRC has been supplying sophisticated weapons in large quantities to Mohmoud Ahmadinijad, president of Iran. A good supply of these weapons is making its' way into the hands of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, to be used against Israel and Lebanese who oppose Hezbollah.
From "the Human Events News" we learn that the PRC is on a worldwide quest for more minerals including oil. They are active in The Sudan, and wherever they go they operate with impunity. None are killed or captured as hostages.
Not only do I think that it is unfortunate that apparently President Bush has"shot himself in the foot" by selecting a member of the IRS committee in Mr. Gates, but I think it is long past time that the majority of Americans ,whom polls seem to indicate want us out of Iraq ,wake up and realize that some morning they won't have oil or gas to heat their homes or run their fancy cars. If we abandoned the oil producing countries we depend upon and the Communist Chinese fill the vacuum, that is what will happen!

Old Men With Old Ideas

It was a Democrat-controlled Congress that decided to sink free South Vietnam, by cutting off its supplies ,even of rifle ammunition after the peace treaty signed by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in 1973. It was Congress that ordered all U.S. bombing halted -- air strikes that could have made mincemeat of the regular North Vietnamese army, marching openly along the South’s main highways in 1974. The U.S. never lost the war militarily, and could easily have won it without self-imposed restraints. But the enemy was more ruthless, and the allied will to fight evaporated.
Now a 34 year veteran of Congress as a Democrat, and a past Secretary of State under President Bush,Sr. as co-chair of a Commission on Iraq appointed by Congress. Have together come up with another "cut and run" report on the Iraq war.
Although their report makes no specific recommendations for action other than the failed bromide of Diplomacy. It could have been written by the cadre of Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy,and Clinton.
The foreign press, no friend of the U.S. and especially full of animus for President Bush use such phrases about the report as: "the report is a major humiliation for Bush", forces Him to admit a devastating defeat."
Hamilton was also co-chair of the "mish-mash" 9/11 report, and James A. Baker III can be remembered for his diplomatic handling of the crisis in Lebanon during the Presidents' fathers administration. His solution was to withdraw our troops and hand over Lebanon to Assads' Syria. We all know how successful that turned out.
The Iraq Committee was stacked from the beginning with pre-9/11 foreign policy consensus people. Diplomacy was all they knew and believed in.
Diplomacy has done nothing for the U.S. in the North Korean situation. Did little for defusing the Communist Russia threat until President Reagan started"Star Wars" saber rattling! And it did wonders for Europe when Neville Chamberlain used diplomacy with Hitler in 1936.
It appears that history is about to repeat itself. Once again we have tried to fight a war with a military with one hand tied behind it's collective back due to political interference.
It took five years before the New York Times and Washington Post took up their collective pens against the war in Vietnam. In the Iraq war they were against the effort from day one, ably abetted by the leftist politicians and academics. The tragic end will be a cut and run policy and the consequences will be bloody for the poor dumb Iraqis' who believed in our cause.
What would have happened if in the years 1774 to 1781 when the Continental Congress' was struggling to put together this new countries government, they were given a mandate to finish their business in a year or we would bring in the French, German and British to straighten it out?

Media Misimformation Revisited

The Main Stream Media, particularly CNN and th AP news network have been daily bombarding the American Public with stories of civilian killing in Iraq. Their premise being that this "civil"war" is being caused by the presence of American Armed Forces. Nothing could be further from the truth. This un- civil fight between Shiia and Sunni Arabs has been going on since the death of Muhammad in 653AD. Their fight began over the decision regarding the rightful heir to the leadership of the religion He founded at the age of 40 in 610 after allegedly having a Divine revelation from God. Muhanmmad said his religion was not a new religion , but the rebirth of the Old.Which he thought had been debased by Christians and Jews.
The Sunnis who consist of approximately 85% of the world wide Muslim population believed that the ledership passed on to Ali. They regarded Ali as the 4th and last of the Muslim "rightly guided Caliphs".
The Shias believed that Ali was the first Caliph and the Caliphate should pass down only to direct descendants via Ali and Fatima. War between these two Muslim factions broke out after Uthinan was murdered during his prayers in 661. Alis' youngest son was allegedly paid off not to succeede his brother as the Caliphate, but he died a year later allegedly from poison.
The battle of Karbala was waged in 680, after which Husseins infant son was proclaimed the Calipate, and the permanent division between Sunnis and Shiites was complete. The modern day equivalent of "Supreme Iman is Ayyatolah Khomeni.
The Shia over the years has become imbued with "Pope -like" infallibility. Although both Sects believe in the five Pillars of Islam, The Shia Muslims membership includes a strong theme of Martyrdom and suffering.
Sunni Muslims more closely resemble the American Protestantism which broke away from Roman Catholicism.
Iran has a 89% Shiia population, whereas Iraq has about 60%, and world wide they comprise only 10-15% of the Muslm population.
The Baath regime led by Saddam Hussein is Sunni, and has waged war against the Shiites since 1968. Throughout the 1970s' the Baathist regime stepped up oppression of Shiites. This violence continues today!
The Sunnis are the majority of the Taliban and AlQaeda who advocate persecution of the Sunnis as heretics. Their fighting in modern day history has gone on since 1932. Iraq is well on the way to being first Shiia ruled State in the Arab world!
The unrelenting violence occuring now is a continuation of the sectarian warfare going on for over 74 years. The effort being suggested by the "so called experts" is to involve the Syrians and Iranians, but I believe this will lead to more killing and possible genocide as occured in Vietnam and Cambodia where hundreds of thousands were killed after U.S. forces left.
Don't let the "Conspirator News Network and The Anti- Patriot news service convince you the violence against civilians will stop if only we pull our troops out. It will be a blood bath!

Cold War Sequel Coming Soon?

When the Berlin wall was taken down, and the Communist USSR apparently self-destructed, and the Communist Country became Russia , a country of 141.5 million people, 9 time zones and 17million square kilometrs of land mass. This country rich in mineral resources, and now not only indepndent of OPEC for petroleum, is a supplier of gas to Communist China. The economy which was declared bankreupt in the early 1990 has steadily increased since 1998 to the point where Russian President Putin has decided it is time to increase the military budget 40%, by 2.5 billion dollars in 2007.
This increase in military spending will include everything from fighter planes to new Topol -M ( SS-27s) with a range of 6200 miles and the capability to evade all known present anti-missle system in our known arsenal. They presently have 42 similar missles strategicly in place.
Russia defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has publicly stated that "Russia doesn't rule out the use of nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike anywhere in the world if National interest demands it".
Since Russsia has no Ecologist holding the government back as we do here in the U.S. they have developed oil independence. This allows them to stockpile all the oil a hot war would require while at the same time exporting to countries of their choice oil products for cash to run their economy. We have no such luxury thanks to the "chicken-livered"politicians who have allowed the Ecologist to stop not only the drilling for oil in remote Anwar and off shore, but has failed to allow a new refinery to be built in over 25 years!
We are good at constantly making our passenger cars smaller and our trucks larger. Resulting in the killing of over 40,000 people a year on the highways. But we can't be energy self sufficient, and their is no way to fight a war without large stores of oil.
President Putin proudly demonstrated the operating principle of the new nuclear missles to previous president of France Chirac.
This places Russia in a position to start another cold war over any counrty the U.S. has a strategic interest in, such as Iran, Iraq or any far East Country. Formosa being one place that China has coveted its' take over for many years. Or how about Korea revisited!
None of this will appear on our television or in our newspapers. You can bet the farm on that.

Comment From a Cogent Reader

Great article that hits the nail on the head but sadly these fools in Wash.and the mainstream media are obsessed with passing this very real threat to any non muslim as so much malarky.Like the ant and the grasshoppers,are our naive grasshoppers going to find out too late that these people mean exactly what they preach.They don't play politically correct mind games with relativistic words and the phony definitions our liberals and other non thinkers use to mean anything but what is intended.

The New Racists

It has been said and printed for too many years. Especially since political correct speech has taken over public discourse,that anyone who speaks negatively about Blacks, Chicanos, and now Muslims is a racist.
Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus defines "racist" in many ways. "crank, extremist,zealot,bigot,super patriot,intolerant, communist, socialist and lastly right winger." It would be hard to find a more equivocal definition then this. Webster however, gets right to the PC version. It defines a racist as "one who believes his race is superior and as such should rule all other racists. Further noting "that a racist believes "racial differences produce inherent superiority of a particular race."
Fortunately only a few "White Racial Supremest" groups exist in our Country, but every time a person utters a criticism of a minority race member, even one who have committed criminal acts the immediate come back is the person who spoke the criticism is a racist. To me this gets a little old and an easy way out for people of minority races to wiggle out of real problems many times.
What concerns me is the broad acceptance of Muslims by both our highest government leaders and as is expected "the main stream media".
The troubling facts are the following. The CAIR organisation founded in 1994 as the American equivalent of the Muslim NAACP to politically and publicly represent American Muslims. If this were in fact what they are doing then it could be placed in the category of NAACP. The fact is it is an open supporter of Hezbollah whose war cry is "death to America."
Nihad Awad director of CAIR and Amid Bediar have both publicly proclaimed that "their aim is to make Muslims Koran the basis for Americas religion. Along with the Koran comes the Islam law "Sharia" that include stoning of adulterous woman, throwing off roof tops homosexuals, cutting off the hands of thieves and beheading those women and men who commit capital crimes, making women inferior to and subject to the will of men to mention just a few of the radical laws. When are we going to strip away the political correctness and call CAIR what it really is. A racist radical Muslim front for supporting terrorism.

Why Leftist media and Politicians Want U.S. to Withdraw from Iraq

It is a well documented fact that since the 1960s the U.S. media and too many politicians in the Congress have had an animus toward the military. Despite all the proclamations to support our troops that both entities have uttered. The leftist mentality feels the way to support the troops is to bring them home rather than support both morally and monetarily their fight to save our Country from the spread of radical Islam.
The media will celebrate their achievement if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq and the World will look at us as an efete military as was the perception following our withdrawl from Vietnam.
Although Rogets Thesrarus defines "insurgent" as an anarchist, revolutionary, riotous and seditious person the media has never called them what people who bomb and gun down members of their own country what they rightly should be called---Terrorists!
The leftists look at the 226 million dollars a day spent by Us in Iraq as a source of $76 billion a year to spend on furthering their road toward a welfare state that can expand its' power base by including more people who are dependent for their daily existance on the government.
Because of this mind set we see daily items published in the newspapers and broadcast on the TV main stream which could easily be interpreted as giving aid and comfort to the enemy, a treasonable offense that is hidden behind a loose interpretation of "freedom of the press".
Unless Congress and the President decare that we are in fact in a state of war this will continue until the American people once again demand defeat by withdrawl!