Happy Birthday Marine Corps.!

In 1775 the Second Continental Congress established two battalions of Continental Marines on the tenth of November. In 1778 President Adams signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps.
The Marines have fought in every war since then with courage and valor. Sometimes at great cost to the men who wore the Globe and Anchor.
During WWII the marines lost 5,598 men KIA in 36 days on Iwo Jima, and lost a total of 19,773 KIA during the march toward Japan after Pearl Harbor.
The battle that brought the most consternation to the people at home was the 76 hour battle for Tarawa, in which the Marines lost 990 KIA. Four Medals of Honor were awarded, three posthumously.
The Marine "esprit decorps" and honor among men must be remembered in these days of Leftist anti-military rhetoric. The Marines are sent in to do all the dirty jobs, with little recognition. And for 230 years they have been doing it for this Great Republic. Happy Birthday Marine Corps! Semper Fi!

OBAMA AND HILLARY TRY TO OUT SOCIALIZE EACH OTHER

Democratic candidates for the President of the United States Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both campaigning on a social welfare program that would if implemented, raise taxes for Americans to exorbitant levels and Socialize the Republic that once cherished individual freedoms. Previous blogs have listed Hillary's Socialist agenda. This Blog is about Obama's march toward his Socialization of America.
The McClatchy News Service is reporting that the latest promise Obama has made on the campaign trail includes this "cradle to the grave" proposal.

His program is apparently aimed at women and working-class families.
"The sweeping subsidies and mandates reflect his past as a community organizer.
A retirement plan that would require employers to contribute a 50 percent match on the first $1,000 a year of retirement savings for families earning up to $75,000, an expansion of the current "saver's credit."
Require all companies - except those in their first two years of operation or with fewer than 10 workers - to enroll employees in retirement plans or direct-deposit individual retirement accounts. Workers could opt out.
A $4,000 annual college-tuition tax credit.
A major expansion of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which ensures that workers can take time off for health or family reasons."
The kind of welfare state he has in mind for America has been in effect in European countries for decades with disasterous results.
In addition to government spending, he is proposing "job-killing" mandates for employers of all but start-up companies. As the EU social welfare states like Germany and France have discovered, making it very expensive to hire people tends to make new jobs scarce. And firing an unproductive employee has become almost impossible in Countries like Germany.

Last Saturday, while campaigning in East Los Angeles, California. He gave a speech at the Garfield High School, during which he first said that Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of a Bill that would have extended scholarships to students in the United States illegally, was wrong!
He then said: "Diversity is not the enemy of excellence, it is the engine of excellence," he said. I am a strong believer in diversity, and affirmative action is one tool to help achieve it. He then went on to say: "He would institute an urban bank modeled after the World Bank to fund inner-city development, would press for affordable housing, and would back programs to help middle-school students improve their standing. Noting that Latinos and African Americans have higher dropout rates, he said that the problem would expand to affect everyone as the workforce became dominated by those groups."
Of course all of this would have to be paid by the wage earning tax payers, since the Federal Government doesn't earn money, it just spends Our money!

The NFL used to be my favorite sports organization. The players were not paid multi-millions of dollars, and in the days before television commercials made the NFL a multi-billion dollar industry. Players played because they loved football. They were paid less than $5000 per season on average, where as today the average salary is $1,169,470 reflecting a 5% increase over 1999, according to NFL Players Association documents.

In the "glory days" of NFL football, the league was known for it's hard hitting, mean "take no prisoners" play every Sunday during the fall. But in "the Days" the viciousness was on the playing field.

Players like Dick Butkus, Leo Nomillini, Gino Marchetti, Sam Huff, Ray Nitske and Alan Page, to name just a few,were known for their devastating and sometimes injurious attack on the quarterback and any running back who they could get their hands on. Butkus for one, fought ferociously on the field, and runners and offensive linemen were constantly amazed by the ferocity of his hits. Butkus could run down ball carriers from sideline-to-sideline, cover receivers out of the backfield and make the right calls for Bears coach George Halas' complicated defense.

Today the vicious play is highlighted by the dog fighting scandal of Michael Vick, and his numerous other NFL friends, who ran a gambling ring based on the killing of dogs in "DogFights".

Then there are the rule changes made by the league that have not only affected the defensive players ability to do their job, but have cut the playing time short to allow for more commercials(revenue for NFL) in the three hour television time slot.

Just a few will be mentioned here. One of the goals in revising the rules was to shorten the length of games. The game clock now starts when the ball hits the kicker's foot on free kicks and kickoffs, and when the referee signals the ball is ready for play on first downs, instead of at the snap. Many coaches believe these changes will eliminate 10-15 plays per game, and most coaches aren't happy about the changes in clock management. The TV people like it because it will keep the games in the allotted commercial TV window.

The defensive player can no longer tackle a running back or receiver by grabbing the back of his shoulder pads, the quarter back can only be tackled from the tip of his chin to his belt line. No grabbing the helmet, no hitting below the waist. And he can be in the grasp, throw the football into the ground, and still get away with out being called for grounding the ball! The league will now let a defensive player legally strip the ball by batting it or punching it. This rule hasn't been enforced, even though there was language prohibiting a player from stripping the ball by punching or batting it in the NFL rules. Many times, the officials are late in their whistle blowing during "gang" tackling to allow such events to occur. Makes for more excitement for the viewers, but also causes more injuries.

Commissioner Goodell has had to disciple too many players for off field actions. The NFL has suspended many players for varying amounts of time. Three incidents stand out. Pacman Jones being suspended for the entire season of 2007, for being involved in 10 incidents with the police, one involving a shooting that left a man paralized outside a Las Vegas night club. Chris Henry was suspended for 8 games by Goodell for being arrested four times in 14 months by police. Ricky Williams sat out an entire year for substance abuse, and these I believe are just the tip of the iceberg that is criminal activity now going on in professional football.

Former NFL players Nate Newton, Leshon Johnson and Tyrone Wheatley as well as Qyntel Woods, a first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers in 2002, have all been linked to dog fighting. Both Johnson and Woods were arrested and convicted of staging them. This all happened before the bomb shell was lobbed into the NFL. NFL star Michael Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation so grisly the losers either died in the pit or sometimes were electrocuted, drowned, hanged or shot.
The Falcon's quarterback and three others were charged with competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting and conducting the enterprise across state lines. Finally on August 24, 2007, Commissioner Goodell sent a letter to Vick suspending him indefinitely.

Then there is the scandal involving the NFL players pension and disability plan. The Courts are filled with suits claiming that the "OLD ERA" players are being denied their duly earned disability benefits.

It doesn't help that some of the biggest names in football history - including Mike Ditka, Gale Sayers, Harry Carson, Sam Huff, Mercury Morris, Jerry Kramer and Sandy Unitas, Johnny U.'s widow - accuse the league and the Players Association of abandoning the very athletes who turned the NFL into a $6-billion-a-year enterprise, the biggest attraction in America's sports-industry.

The former players say the plan is set up to stonewall players debilitated by injuries suffered during their careers. The plan will shop for doctors until it gets an opinion it wants to hear, they charge. Delays are frequent and lengthy. It's often difficult just to get plan administrators to return phone calls. Typical is this comment from former Oakland Raider Dave Pear: "The truth is that the NFL disability process is cruel, evil and deceitful and designed to deny benefits."

In 1986, an arbitrator - using the kind of warped logic that could be called ambiguous at best, decided that Victor Washington(former player for Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers) should get $750 a month for non-football related injuries, instead of the $4,000 he would receive if his problems were football-related. The plan's language, the arbitrator said, specified the higher payment for "a football injury." Since Washington suffered multiple injuries, he was out of luck

More than 60% of retired NFL players suffered at least one concussion during their professional careers, according to the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. Retired NFL players with three or more concussions, the center adds, had a nearly three-fold risk of being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to Alzheimer's disease. According to former players - Boyd, Bernie Parrish and Morris, in particular, the NFL and the Players Association are taking a stand against claims that could cost them huge amounts of money.

Former Viking Boyd, testified that plan official Miki Yaras-Davis said that his doctors' reports and brain scans would not be considered because "the owners would not open that can of worms" by approving disability for a brain injury. Chris Goetz, a guard who played for the Jets in the early 1990s, told the Daily News one of his doctors, Robert Neviaser, told him the plan doesn't like to pay out a lot of money so it sets its standards unreasonably high.

And if it were not for the following fact, more details on the evolving scandal of the NFL retirement plan probably would be revealed.

Mr. Upshaw( head of the players union) and the NFLPA have hired a "scandal manager" to cover it up for them using their new "Truth Squad." Lanny Davis wrote the book Scandal Management 101 and came up with the line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," for Bill Clinton and without a stream of NFLPA scandals Lanny doesn't continue collecting his $900 an hour from your NFLPA and Retirement Plan assets.

Gene Upshaw is notorious for having this to say about a ex-player who had the timerity to say something negative about the way the Retirement Fund is managed: "A guy like DeLamielleure says the things he said about me, you think I'm going to invite him to dinner? No. I'm going to break his goddamn neck."

Add this to the scandal sheet. A jury found former Minnesota Viking Moe Williams guilty of disorderly conduct, but cleared him of the other two charges against him for his actions in the infamous sex boat scandal on Lake Minnetonka last October.Williams, 32, charged with indecent conduct, disorderly conduct and lewd or lascivious behavior, stemming from the Oct. 6 cruise chartered from Al and Alma's Restaurant and Cruises, according to WCCO-TV. Williams was found not guilty of indecent conduct and lewd or lascivious behavior.

Earlier in the trial, prosecutors had characterized the party as a "floating orgy".Former Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper was also charged in the incident, but a judge later dropped those charges. Vikings Fred Smoot and Bryant McKinnie have court dates scheduled in May for the same charges.

The Commissioner has fined the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichick, for videotaping the signals of the New York Jets during a game.
Belichick was fined $500,000, while the Patriots were separately fined $250,000 and will likely lose a first-round draft pick in 2008.

The Patriots put microphones on their defensive lineman in order to capture the offensive line calls and quarterback audibles. Then, the audio and the video of the game would be matched up, and defensive players would be given the code at halftime.

If principals of the league's best team engage in an intricate game of cheating, that's as bad as it gets. It doesn't look particularly good for the Champion Patriots, on the video taping front. The Packers, Lions and Bills reportedly observed the team doing the exact same thing, ruling out the possibility that it was some rogue video assistant who was doing this on his own.

Roger Goodell works for management. Of course, it has always been this way, even though the story line is that the commissioner is anything but the collective employee of the 32 owners. I believe his main job is to promote the "money machine" that has become a media entertainment event more than a sport. If you don't believe me, look at the past three Super Bowls.

Consider this, the$23 million in retirement benefits that the NFL annually contributes to the Players Retirement Fund, is only 0.003% of $7.1 billion. Visualizing this, it might be easier; an African Bull elephant weights 7 tons (See $7 billion like 7 tons) the amount the owners provide in retirement benefits to those who built their industry is equal to 9 mice or (4 size 10 ball caps worn sideways) in proportion to that elephant's size. The NFL elephant is $7.1 billion in profit per year.

For these reasons, and too many others that would take up too much time for the reader. I have decided to watch College Football instead of NFL games. The colleges have their problems also, but for the most part the majority of players on the field are in college to get an education that will help them in later life after their playing days. Not many will go on to play on Sunday for the "Big Bucks League".

HILLARY NOW THE TARGET NOT THE SHOOTER

In 1969 during her address to the graduating class of Wellesley College Hillary Clinton fired her first salvo against a Republican Politician in a public arena.
The target of her wrath was Senator Edward William Brooke, United States Senator from Mass. The first African-American to be elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction days.
He was the Commencement speaker at Hillary's graduation. A five year veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the European theater of operations during WWII. who eventually served two terms in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.
Senator Brooke's comments apparently angered the 22 year old Hillary with a Saul Alinsky, leftist leaning position that appears to remain today.
The following are the remarks uttered by the Senator at the conclusion of a lengthy inspirational speech that he hoped would provoke patriotism not radical dissent from the graduating class.
" My message today is a simple one. Lest it be misunderstood in the more complicated discussion of social trends and innovations, let we state it briefly.
This country has profound and pressing social problems on its agenda. It needs the best energies of all its citizens, especially Its gifted young people, to remedy these ills.Let us not dissipate these energies on phony Issues or misguided missions.Let us not mistake the vigor of protest for the value of accomplishment.Let us direct the zeal of every concerned American to the real problems.Let us forsake false drama for true endeavor.Let us, in short, recognize that ours is a precious community that demands and deserves the best--",
Hillary used the Commencement podium, to lash out at the socially liberal Republican Senator that she had once supported, because the distinguished man had the temerity to politely criticize the New Left's anti-war rhetoric, as offering aid and comfort to our communist enemies in Southeast Asia.
Fast forward to 2007 to a Senate hearing on the war in Iraq when General Petraeus was reporting to the Senate on his progress in the fight against militant Islamists. Hillary once again lashed out at her target with biting commentary. She had this to say about the Generals testimony: "Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief." Thus illustrating her belief in the Radical activist Saul Alinsky's proscribed technique of "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." To destroy it/him/her as the situation requires. . For her attack she was praised by the Left wing oriented MoveOn.org with the following: Thank You Senator Clinton for Calling General Petraeus a liar"!
But last week this self anointed champion of radical feminists, gay rights and the gimmee-gimme class has had the tables turned on her. The one whose reaction to any criticism or question, that didn't suit her, pulled out the conspiracy or gender cards has been caught in her own web of deceit.
It occurred last Tuesday night in Philadelphia during a Democratic candidate debate. Senator Obama and Ex-Senator Edwards went on the attack with Hillary as the target.
She was asked about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Clinton tried to demonstrate empathy for her governor's predicament but duck specifically endorsing his position, as she had in a previous newspaper interview. Thus, she opened herself up on two fronts. Her answer was unclear in a way that can live on in video, and it provided Republicans with a possibly useful weapon against her on an issue that fires up the GOP base. Obama and Edwards jumped on her answer as proof of the kind of double talk they'd been accusing her of all night.

WHY HILLARY WILL NOT WIN

Not since the Days of Karl Marx and his friend Engels, when they published the Communist Manifesto in 1847, has there been such interest in "common good" from people running for the Presidency of the United States.

Senator Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards all have made some Socialistic/Communist pronouncements in the name of "common good" as things they will do if elected.

But a study of Hillary Clintons advocacy positions in her campaign for the White House show an alarming similarity of her promises to those written in the Communist Manifesto.

Both Engels and Marx agreed that for the "proletariat to attain dominance over the Capitalistic system, "there must be first the destruction and replacement of individual rights through defined systems of taxation and the destruction of individual property rights.
To accomplish this they advocated the following :
"Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inheritance taxes, abolition of inheritance of property, through abolishment of inheritence tax exemptions.
Transforming the relations between the sexes into a purely private matter which concerns only the persons involved and into which society has no occasion to intervene. It can do this since it does away with private property and educates children on a communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage -- the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of the children on the parents.
They also spoke directly to what must be done in America to establish their "Common Good".
"In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the Communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie(aka property owners), and use it in the interests of the proletariat -- that is, with the agrarian National Reformers." This is the redistribution of wealth to the "have nots" from the earners that have the wealth.
It doesn't take a superlative intellect to associate the statements of Hillary Clinton, and Marx /Engels, regarding her plans for her Presidency, God forbid, if she takes the seat in the White House.
Her program of extending insurance to illegal immigrants and others who aren't now insured will trigger a massive increase in the demand for medical services. The result would be a steep price rise that would force rationing of health care, particularly for the elderly. But she mustn't say any of that - so she pretends that her health-care prescription is just a band-aid to cover the nagging little problem of 50 million uninsured and that her solution won't bother anybody else.
Driver's licenses for illegal immigrants? Certainly, she favors them. During her husband's administration, she helped kill proposals to ban them. In the Senate, she voted against prohibiting them. But she can't say so without seeming to be soft on terror, so she dodges the issue, expressing sympathy - but not support - for the plan.
A day after the other Democrats battered her over the issue in the debate last week she released a statement of "general" support for Gov. Spitzer's (New York) goal of making illegal immigrants eligible for driver's licenses. But, once again, a la Hillary, she sent confusing signals by stating that she hadn't studied it and wasn't "endorsing" any plan. So she's apparently for it but not for it. Get it?
The Alternative Minimum Tax? Bill Clinton vetoed legislation to repeal it in 1999. She voted against repealing it in 2006. She likely intends to limit or terminate it once she's elected, but only in return for other massive tax hikes in its place. But, again, she has to criticize the tax because of her need to attract middle-class voters and speak of opposing a "trillion-dollar" tax increase on them.
The preceding facts were obtained from the web page, "The Hillary Project", and illustrates that Senator Clinton is guilty of one of the most popular forms of the Communist/Socialist movement, duplicity".
Senator Clinton does the "two step" when ever she is asked a question that might reveal her personal opinion not that of her political persona.

SENATOR SHUMER AND FRIENDS SHOULD WAKE UP AND RECOGNIZE THE THREAT

Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.

Even though Senator Charles Shumer(Dem. NY) doesn't seem to grasp the threat pose by Iran's quest for nuclear arms. He seems to believe that it would be a political disaster for the Republicans if President Bush decided to take out the nuclear facilities in Iran.

Bahrain's Crown Prince, Salmanbia Hamad Isa al-Khlfa, has publicly said that he thinks Iranian leadership is lying about their intention to develop nuclear weapons. ... “While they don’t have the bomb yet, they are developing it, or the capability for it,” he said – the first time one of Iran’s Gulf neighbors effectively has accused it of lying about its nuclear program. The Crown Prince also gave a blunt warning that “the whole region” would be drawn into any military conflict if they are not stopped.

This is a leader of a country dominated by Sunni Muslims, but their government is controlled presently by the Shia Muslims. Unlike their neighbor to the North, Iraq, they are not fighting each other, and they are a wealthy country that is the gateway to the oil rich fields of Saudia Arabia. They also are a major base for the 5th Fleet of the United States, which is stationed there to protect the Straits of Hormuz.

The Straits of Hormuz, between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, is the only waterway available to the Persian Gulf states to transport 20% of the World's oil supply to the open oceans. It is only 21 miles wide and is bordered on the north by Iran. Thus it is a possible "choke-point" if Iran should decide to block it with nuclear tipped missiles.

They are ten minutes by jet or missile from the border of Iran, so when he distrusts the intentions of Mahmond Ahmidinijad, he speaks with first hand experience of living next to a Country that could bring WWIII.

The Government of Bahrain just purchased 2.2 million dollars of Hind and Mi-17e helicopters and T-90 Tanks from Russia. I not sure this is a good thing, since the French were also in the bidding process for these type weapons, and I am sure that American companies would have liked the sale also.

The point is, this small Country of Bahrain Country, takes the threat of Iran more seriously than the senior Democrat Senator from New York, and unfortunately too many running for election in 2008!

THE TWO FOR ONE SALE IN 2008

If you think for a minute that Senator Clinton, if elected, will be the one running the government. You had better think hard again about that question. And while you are contemplating that, take this small quiz.

Who said it? "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A. Karl Marx B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
"It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few... And to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
"(We)... can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushchev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
"We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own... in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
"I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov D.
None of the above
"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above Answers

None of the above were spoken by the dictators and co-conspirators listed as possible answers. These Statements were made by Hillary Clinton.6/29/2004
2 Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
3. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
4.None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
5. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
6. D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

The package that the Clinton's are selling is the same package that reigned for eight years when Bill Clinton was President. Bill the President and Hillary the alternative president. If you believe I am exaggerating just remember the closed door "task force" with dozens of hand picked "experts" on Health Care that Hillary gathered in the White House, behind closed doors, to fabricate her Socialized Medicine plan.

Do the Americans really want the "LADDY" in the White House and a President who were involved in Impeachment, Watergate, Chinagate, Travelgate, Pardongate, Ron Paul Gate, Filegate, and Whitewater?

Then there is the fact that Bill Clinton cultivated the idea that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction while he was President, and failed to do anything about the genocide in Rwanda where over one million Tutis and Hutus were murdered while The Clinton's hosted then Premier Jiang Zamia of Communist China at the White House.

Then there was the disaster in Mogadishu, Somalia that is known as "black Hawk Down" and the disaster at the "Branch Dividians".

And if that is not enough to keep Americans from voting for the Clinton's again. Reflect on these facts:

The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance -

Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates* - Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation - Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify -
Most number of witnesses to die suddenly -
First president sued for sexual harassment. -
First president accused of rape. -
First first lady to come under criminal investigation-
Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case- First president to establish a legal defense fund.-
First president to be held in contempt of court-
Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions -
Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad-
First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

These statistics were gathered from The Progressive Review, not exactly a Conservative site!

FACTS DON'T LIE!

Despite being beaten back by advocates for border security, and the public sentiment being strongly against granting any kind of amnesty to illegal(undocumented in PC talk) immigrants. People like Senator Reid and too many of the Democrats running the race for the White House are still pushing for amnesty,
The arguments are varied, but I wish to discuss just two important issues.
The cost of treating illegals in California as a result of there being burned by the recent fires, 11 out of 18 people admitted to the burn unit of UCSD hospital were illegals.
Last year, San Diego County hospitals provided $619 million in uncompensated care, and an estimated 10 percent to 17 percent of that paid for treatment for undocumented immigrants, according to the Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
Burn care requires ventilators, multiple surgeries, round-the-clock intensive care and grafts from human cadaverous skin. McAfee said grafts can be grown from patients' own skin to minimize tissue rejection at $500,000 per patient. I am not saying that they should not be treated, but if we had a fence and adequate border security, they would not have been in the fire zone!

Those who wish to get more voters for the Left Dominated Democrat party, keep telling us how much these illegals contribute to our Society.
The facts show that the illegals cost the Federal Government, and the taxpayers in particular , over 250 million dollars in grants to offset the cost of treating illegals in hospitals.
This is one problem that could have been avoided, and the other is that of the growing threat to many of Our Nations cities of the negative effects caused by the gangs MS-13 and MS-18. These "thugs" are responsible for thousands of murders and shootings which send people to emergency rooms of local hospitals. They also are one of the largest purveyors of illegal drugs. Many of their victims require treatment. These gang members would most probably be swept in with the rest of the illegals, if amnesty is passed by Congress in any form. Can we really allow this to happen?

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF OLD?

As John Stuart Mill once observed: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is worse."

During the VietNam war there appeared on the American scene a treat to Our liberty more devastating than any foreign enemy could at that time provide.

Today, the line between formal members of the Communist party and fellow travelers of the hard left has become increasingly blurred, and the hard left now exerts a virtually vice-grip control of the Democrat Party.

While the goals and tactics of the hard left are virtually indistinguishable from communists, this group has, until now, managed to avoid the still-pejorative label. In a recent series of articles, James Lewis did us all a favor by defying the PC police and giving these people a fitting moniker: Neocommunists.

The goals and tactics of the international communist movement have never changed. But now the movement is peopled to a great extent by Neocommunists who disavow membership in the party,and most are not members, but still work actively, sometimes due to duplicity, to accomplish its goals.

George Soros, foreign born billionaire, is a major player in that movement, and his organizations and money have been behind much of the Democrats’ outrageous initiatives in recent years.

The illegal amnesty bill,attack on the Patriot Act, the “Global Warming” scam, the anti-war movement, ACORN and PROJECT VOTE are just a few of the leftist initiatives supported by Leftists like Sorros.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are also willing participants in that movement. Democrat legislators, like Henry Waxman, Barbara Boxer, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer, are “Democrat” in name only. They wouldn’t know the “mainstream” if they were drowning in it. These people have nothing, repeat, nothing to recommend them but they all have one thing in common: an ego so titanic they believe they are entitled to do literally anything. President John Kennedy would be ashamed of the Democrat party of today if he was alive.

A review of the educational history of Democrat font runner, Hillary Clinton, shows that: Hillary Clinton’s college senior thesis was written about the methods of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who said: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." Sound familiar?

Lenin said: "the organized minority will beat the disorganized majority every time."

The present day Left is very organized as they have demonstrated repeatedly. Unfortunately, unless we get our act together, the Neocommunists who define American political and popular culture will take the rest of us down with them.

People who believe in the United States of America, people who believe in real justice, the rule of law and in real freedom , must organize to defeat them. And we must do it NOW.

Material for this blog was obtained from an article written in The New Media Journal by Jim Simpson, a former White House staff economist and budget analyst (1987-1993).

"FIRST WE LOOSE THE WAR THEN COMES THE REVOLUTION"

Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.

It is not often that I use the movie industry to illustrate a point. Personally I believe the trash they churn out for the American public to waste their money on, is detestable, full of violence, sex, foul language and promots cigarette smoking, as well as trying to lead people away from their religious beliefs and faith in Our Country.

Never the less, there is a movie made in the "old Days" that has a brief statement that may just be the key to why the Peaceniks, anti-war leftists are once again trying to accomplish what they did in the late 1969's and early 1970's.

It all starts in the elementary schools, and then the bright little minds "full of mush" move on to high school. Those who do well in high school go on to college, and during all these 16 years ,on average, they are fed a unrelenting propaganda theme of anti-Western culture, political correctness, anti-free enterprise socialism and anti-religion ilk.

When these privileged young people enter public life, many have been taught to hate what their father and mother have done to make the money to send them to college, as well as the system that allowed them to do it. They are "too sophisticated" to bother with Religion, so many turn to Marxist socialism, ecology worship"tree huggers", animal loving activists who want to raise the level of importance of the animal species to that of humans.

Waiting for them are the radicals who make up organisations like Code Pink, CAIR, National Council of Churches( more on them later),and the leftist dominated media.

These organisations all have one agenda. To have us loose the war in Iraq!

The untreatening name of the National Council of Churches, which was founded in 1950 and absorbed into it's organisation the Communist front organisation known as Federal Council of Churches.

This organization sends it's members to every anti-war demonstration, and has made an unholy alliance with the Muslim advocacy group CAIR. This group, founded by Hamas and "The Holy Land Foundation", that has been declared a money laundering source for Hamas and terrorists, was closed by pressure from Our Government. Astrange alliance for a group that professes to be religious!

The Chairman emeritus of CAIR, Omar Abmad Said Islam, said not too long ago "that Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam should be the only accepted religion on earth."

This appears to be no problem with members of the 35 "Christian" organizations who are members of NCC!

The threat of Islam also appears to not be apparent to the Media, intelligentsia and the groups known as atheists and agnostics, but it should be a concern to the 85% of Americans who claim to be Christians or Jews.

Perhaps it is not a conspiracy to over throw our government and the Capitalist system, but just a mindset that has accepted the dogma of Political Correctness. Either way, the result is a society that is bombarded by fears of offending others rather than about celebrating our culture and accomplishments since the Founding Fathers framed this Great Republic.

Perhaps the words of "Strelnikov" in Boris Pasternak's(1890-1966) book, and later movie(1965), Doctor Zhivago should sound the alarm bells. As most people who saw the movie or read the book will remember, Strelnikov (aka Tom Courtney) said to Laura in response to her question,

" but will happen to us, if we lose the war?" He said."first we loose the war, then comes the revolution!"

IS SYRIA ANOTHER IRAN?

FIRST IRAN NOW SYRIA APPEARS TO BE COMING NUKE COUNTRY

A recent ABC News item reported on an Israeli air strike that took place early last month inside Syria. This air strike allegedly destroyed a fledgling nuclear reactor being constructed deep in the Syrian desert. What makes this story more than it appears is that it exposes the fact the United States balked, flinched on preventing Syria, a State Department designated state sponsor of terrorism and an ally of Iran, from attempting to attain nuclear capability. Instead, the United States stood by as Israel set the Syrian nuclear clock back.The air strike is still cloaked in secrecy. The Israeli press is forbidden from reporting on it and only a few White House insiders are privy to the details which led to the action. But ABC News reported a “high ranking intelligence official” divulged that Israel had infiltrated the team constructing the nuclear facility. The operative meticulously documented the work being done, gathering evidence that would render impotent any argument that anything but a nuclear facility was being constructed. The operative also gathered evidence that North Korean nuclear technology was being exploited at the Syrian construction site.After weighing all of the evidence the White House indicated that it was not interested in engaging in any military action against the Syrian facility. Those examining this decision, including those at ABC News, believe the White House balked, in a large part, because the evidence presented wasn’t overwhelming enough. They believe that because fissionable material hadn’t actually been created that there wasn’t enough evidence to act.Although the threat of nuclear proliferation by a state sponsor of terrorism should be of utmost importance to us all it is easy – albeit disturbing – to see why the Bush Administration would refuse to take action without actual WMD being developed. It is easy to understand because the world just witnessed the demonizing of the Bush Administration for thwarting the nuclear capabilities of Saddam Hussein’s regime, a regime that was much further along in nuclear proliferation than Syria. This demonizing was the result of political opportunism.Those willing to be honest, listened to or read President Bush’s September 12, 2002 address to the UN General Assembly and understood that the existence of WMD in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was the least among the reasons given for regime change in that country. People of integrity, who chose to familiarize themselves with the facts, understand that there were several more critical reasons why Hussein’s regime had to come to an end, including the genocide of the Iraqi Kurds and Saddam Hussein’s nuclear development program, which was far more advanced than the Syrian or Iranian programs.Of course, all of those elected to office are not honest or people of integrity. Many elected to office are agenda and ideologically driven, simply engaged in the pursuit of power. To these people, the truth is a “good thing” when it aids their cause and something to be spun or ignored when it stands to detract from their agendas. Such is the case with the WMD argument of the Secular-Progressive, anti-war Left.

Armed with a solid understanding of the facts and a genuine accounting of the reasons for military action in Iraq, it is hard to recognize the rhetoric of the Secular-Progressive, anti-war Left as anything but dishonest.

Those with a fact-based understanding of the issue understand the Secular-Progressive, anti-war Left has employed a political tactic (PROPAGANDA) , to effect a change of power in Washington toward a government more favorable to their ideology.

With a faithful "lapdog" in the mainstream media, their disinformation campaign to obfuscate the truth in their quest for power is formidable. Normally this type of behavior is greeted with a roll of the eyes or a sigh of intellectual exhaustion for its ability to drain the will of even the most ardent supporters of the truth.

But this time, deceitful political opportunists have literally put us all in harms way. This time they have intimidated the Government leadership into questioning solid, actionable evidence of nuclear proliferation by a terrorist supporting nation and, in the face of that evidence, ponder to the point of inaction as to whether the evidence was “enough” to justify any military action.

In our government’s hunt to attain enough “evidence” to convince the inconvincible they almost allowed a terrorist friendly nation to move closer to attaining the capability for bringing about a nuclear Armageddon. Thank God for Israel!

Syria has also proved open to Iraqi refugees, with the United Nations reporting that Syria is hosting approximately 1.5 million of them. More than a thousand arrive each day.

In allowing relatively free transit from Iraq, parts of Syria near the Iraq border are not completely under the Iran regime's thumb, providing far more space in Syria for potential opponents, particularly jihadists, to organize.

Bashar has tried to embrace and co-opt Islamists, moving away from his father's emphasis on repression alone, but many Islamists, and all jihadists, see the secular and Alawite regime Assad leads, as heretical and little better than the Zionist(Israel)regime next door.

They may tolerate Assad when they have other enemies to strike, but they will remain potential adversaries, and some will exploit the political space he has opened.
One lesson of Iraq is that massive instability is dangerous for U.S. interests, even when it occurs in the territory of an adversarial regime. Will we continue to talk about the threat or will we decide to do to them what they hope to do to us in the near future?

DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA ALLIES USE PROPAGANDA

"Modern propaganda is distinguished from other forms of communication by its deliberate and conscious use of false or misleading information to sway public opinion. Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognition's, and direct behaviour to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist."
The preceding quote is found in Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus.
The use of propaganda to win or maintain political power has been used in the United States since the days of President Wilson, but today the Democrat Party has refined it to an art form. The following are some examples of the lies used as propaganda to sway public opinion.

"I hope the administration stops this malarkey about that the war in Iraq is about Al Qaeda." – Sen. Joe Biden, Presidential Candidate and veteran of the Senate Armed Services Committee CBS Early Show interview with Hannah Storm. (October 16, 2007)
Al Qaeda has been in Iraq long before the invasion. Prior to the U.S. led invasion, there were numerous Islamic extremist groups operating freely and with the support of Saddam’s regime and Al Qaeda’s command councils. Among these groups, Ansar al Sunni, Ansar al Jeddah, and Ansar al Islam were the most prominent. Saddam’s intelligence forces , worked through them, using these groups to conduct assassinations and other attacks on Saddam’s opponents in Northern Iraq. Numerous detainees; captured Iraqi intelligence agents of Saddam as well captured members of those groups and captured Al Qaeda detainees all make this claim.
Senator Biden and other Democrats lied to Americans by saying: "that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror; the fight against Osama Bin Laden and his network of terrorist groups."
The Democrat Party’s Congress ordered that the words, “Global War on Terror” no longer be used. Senator Edwards (another Democrat seeking the Presidency) has said that the "the war on terror is just a bumper sticker!".
Leaders of the party’s base like Michael Moore and Bill Maher have told us that " there is no war on terror at all."
Speaker of the House Pelosi has told us that the war in Iraq is not only not tied to a war that her party’s leaders say doesn’t exist, but she goes further to say that it’s not even a war. It’s “a situation to be solved.”
Last fall Democrats were told a flat out lie by Chairman,Dr. Howard Dean, and other Democratic Party leaders who were trying to find a way to take power on Capitol Hill. Americans were told that Democrats would provide a New Direction in Iraq, and that it wouldn’t be an immediate rout or “redeployment” or withdrawal. Americans were told that there was a plan for success; a change in direction. On election night, Dr.Dean, admitted that there was never even a committee formed to brainstorm ideas on when to hold a meeting to draft such a plan.
There whole plan is a denial of the threat posed by Islamist terrorists, and calling the war, "Bush's war, despite the fact that most off them authorized the use of force against Saddam before our invasion.
The collaborators in this propaganda campaign, The media, uses half truths and distortions daily to convince the American public, that the war is unjust and that we are loosing it and our prestige in World opinion. This despite the fact that we are daily making progress toward victory.
The Democrats, and the Leftist who appear to control it, are dedicated to the loss of the Iraq war and the destruction of the Judeo-Christian principles that this Country was founded upon and to replace it with a "PC" secularist Nation. This is not unlike the principles of Carl Marx, who theorized the Utopia of Communism, but never lived under it.

SCHIP GIVES US PEAK AT SOCIALISM HILLARY WANTS

Thr Presidntial race on the Democrat side appears to be locked up by Senator Hillary Clinton, I don't believe the scandal involving Hillary and Ron Paul will have much effect on her nomination. It may have an effect on the general election.
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly shown her Socialist inclination, but the following quote from her illustrates her position very clearly. Hillary Clinton:
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Clinton said, according to the Associated Press. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you...We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
The "common good" has been used as the excuse used by despots to take away individual rights, and redistribute the wealth for many years.
The Democrats in Congress are making a move to expand the Socialization of American health system by pushing the expansion of the SCHIP law,S-CHIP bill (H.R. 976),
This politically motivated bill advances a government run health care system by arbitrarily spending $35 billion over the next five years to expand a social program originally targeted at poor children to now include children and adults in families making over $100,000 a year and people who already possess private health care insurance.
In consequence, over 2 million people will be crowded out of their existing private health insurance and ensnared in this social welfare program.
Moreover, despite pretending otherwise, this bill ensures many of these new enrollees will also be illegal immigrants, who need only show a valid driver's license to join.
Some states, most recently New York, a person need not prove citizenship to receive a driver's license.
Compounding these problems, the bill refuses to prioritize federal spending and, instead, imposes a regressive tax disproportionately impacting the poor. Even with the new tax hike, the new S-CHIP program is unsustainable beyond 2013 and, thus, is fiscally irresponsible. This insult to the taxpayers is exacerbated when one takes into account the Democrats' Budget Resolution's promise of massive personal tax increases, many of which will be earmarked to fund S-CHIP or worse in future years. (source for this is Congressman T. McCotter of the House Republican Policy Committee)

THE BEST REASON TO VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2008

Even though the media darlings Hillary and Obama seemed destined to capture the democrat nomination there still is a lot of uncertainty as to whom the Republicans will nominate to run against either one in 2008.

Personally I don't care who the Republicans nominate as long as he/she can pledge that the EITC law won't be signed into law if it is passed by Congress. No one could do as much damage to the U.S. economy as a Democrat in the White House and Congressman Charles Rangel as head of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Rangel has proposed a sweeping change to the tax code which he claims will give relief to working Americans. But people who know how the economy works have said his new proposal could destroy Our economy.

The following is a quote from the National Ledger: "Finally achieving his coveted chairman's role after years of waiting, Rangel wants to make history. His staff is hard at work on an audacious plan that over the next decade would redistribute up to a trillion dollars in American income through the tax system. Even if this package gets through the House, it likely would be filibustered to death in the Senate, with a veto by President George W. Bush as the last resort. But Rangel is targeting 2009, when he envisions a Democratic president and a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate.

Unlike the Republican Ways and Means chairmen who preceded him over the previous 12 years, Rangel has a comprehensive tax strategy and a calculated plan. His wedge is the AMT, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is part of the federal income tax system in the United States. There are two AMTs, one for individuals and one for corporations.

The AMT for individuals is is the most atrocious taxation imposed on the American taxpayer. In its present form it will raise $1.4 trillion in revenue over the next decade, through taxation of 23 million additional families this year alone. Congress regularly prevents this catastrophe by enacting a "patch" to the tax law that limits AMT coverage to 4 million upper-bracket families."Mr. Ranger proposes to raise this by abolishing the AMT.

The Secretary of the Treasury had this to say about Rangels proposed Bill: Meeting reporters at breakfast last week, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson set as his tax priority a "patch" to slow the runaway Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). This statement flys in the face of Rangels proposed expansion of EITC, that would turn the need for a temporary tax fix into the most radical left-wing tax revision in half a century. It would include the raising of the maximum tax paid by workers from 33% to $40% to offset the income loss in the give aways of increased EITC.

In his meeting with reporters last week, Paulson claimed to be puzzled that Congress had not yet passed an AMT patch this year. Paulson views a tax increase as the worst medicine for today's economy. Paulson is alarmed that the U.S. advantage in tax policy is gone, with corporate taxes here now higher than those of foreign competitors. However, cutting corporate taxes, no matter how desirable for the sake of American prosperity, is no part of Charlie Rangel's desire to make history.

The Fear Mongers of the Democrat aspirants to the White House like Senator Durbin are trying to pull OUR attention away from the Socialization of the United States, by claiming President Bush will go to war against Iran. I believe the Israeli's, with our help, will handle that problem if it comes to that. The real problem with electing Democrats is their main thrust is the redistribution of wealth and the elimination of Christian values in the United States, while making us part of the "One World" community dominated by the UN.

DURBIN FAILS AGAIN

Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.

Senator Richard Durbin(Dem.Ill.),already notorious for his calling the treatment by U.S. troops at the prison in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba of treating terrorist prisoners similar to the Nazi death camps, and his infamous calling of general Petraeus a man who would lie for the President. Now has lost another battle.

Only this one is a victory for those of us who believe in the rule of law, and specifically the laws of the United States.

The Senate effectively defeated his bill called "The Dream Act",when the vote to cloture fell eight votes short.

This bill would have given fast track approval for citizenship to all children of illegals who qualified by meeting requirements specified in the bill.

Opponents of this bill, the Republicans who "held the line, believe that our borders should be secured before the "amnesty" concept is enacted.

Senator Durbin pulled out his crying towel and had this to say:

"I don't know when the next chance will be," he said. "But this is an idea whose time will come because it is an idea based on justice and fairness. To think that these young people would see their lives ruined because their parents were undocumented, because their parents brought them to this country."

I guess he doesn't believe the rule of law applies to justice.

Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell had this to say.
"Though I recognize and appreciate the tremendous contributions to our country made by generations of legal immigrants, I do not believe we should reward illegal behavior," he said.
"It is our duty to promote respect for America's immigration laws and fairness for US citizens and lawful immigrants."
Republican candidate for President, Fred Thompson, said enacting the Dream Act would put children of illegals in a more favorable position than those of legal immigrants.

This act was nothing more than a continued attempt by Liberal Democrats to broaden their electoral base, and this blogger is pleased it was stopped.

PR CAMPAIGN WILL NOT CHANGE PUBLIC OPINION OF DEMOCRATS

House Democratic leaders, concerned about the public’s negative view of Congress, has launched a public relations offensive. Monday they began to "polish" the image of the new majority after a series of legislative setbacks this month.

The campaign, ranging from traditional events to conference calls with groups outside of Washington, is designed to co-opt some of the negative news about them.

Democratic operatives, like George Soros, aka: György Schwartz) and MoveOn.org, believe that the American public are fixated on the Democrats standoff with President Bush over Iraq.

They have decided that no other message is reaching the public. In a private meeting for scores of staffers, top advisers to the party’s leadership called on every Democratic lawmaker to amplify domestic accomplishments, from raising the minimum wage to expanding college aid, in a series of events back home in their districts. Part of the Democrats’ new offensive will remind voters exactly who they voted out of office last fall, particularly with regard to the "updated ethics" and lobbying laws...The plan is drawn, because the latest polls show the American public has a more favorable opinion of President Bush than of Congress, 34% to 24 %.

This plan will fail as have so many other propaganda efforts of regimes of the past. Before they can claim to have updated the ethics they will have to address the issues surrounding their leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. Senator Hillary Clinton is the subject of a lawsuit brought forth by a Hollywood promoter, Los Angeles millionaire lawyer and businessman Peter Franklin Paul who has asserted Clinton failed to declare to the Federal Election Commission more than $2 million in contributions – a massive omission he believes prevented her 2000 senatorial campaign from going bankrupt in the crucial final weeks.

They also conveniently forgot about Robert Torricelli - Democrat, who withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.

The American people will be reminded by the bloggers and the

"lone rangers" who publish Conservative news that the Democratic-controlled Senate, which has chastised the Bush administration for politicizing the attorney general’s office, has placed a "secret hold" on the nomination of Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez as Puerto Rico's attorney general.
According to The Hill, the hold was placed on the Rodriguez-Velez nomination just before Congress passed the new Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. That act requires that the name of any senator blocking a legislative decision be disclosed to the public within six days.
Observers say the nomination, which was approved by a voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee, could remain in political limbo indefinitely.
Rodriguez-Velez has waged an intensive probe of Puerto Rico’s ruling Democratic Party. It is widely believed that an ally of Democrats targeted by her three-year corruption investigation has blocked her nomination.
Most of the speculation hovers around Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., a close ally of Anibal Acevedo-Vila, the Democratic governor of Puerto Rico who is under investigation for campaign finance irregularities in his 2000 campaign.
All George Soros millions can't hide the truth from the American public. I predict this "move" by the Deamoncrat party will blow up in their face as have many other efforts over the past few years.

HILLARY HAS TO DEFEND ANOTHER FLIP-FLOP!

The thought of having the Clinton's back in the White House must make the hairs on the back of the necks of the Secret Service stand up!

Hillary is notorious for the alleged rude treatment she inflicted on her Secret Service detail. An ex-agent even wrote a book about her antics.

But before she captures the prize that she and "First Laddy wannabe"covet, she will have to explain to the voters why she has flipped on so many important issues depending upon whom the audience is that is listening to her.

The latest flap is over her position on Iran's rush to develop nuclear capability. When speaking to a Jewish group she said there are no options taken of the table when it comes to stopping Iran's development of nuclear weapons. But recently in Iowa she was questioned about this "hawkish" position, regarding her "Revolutionary Guard" vote. The person asking the question assumed she had given President Bush the "green light" to attack Iran.

Senator Clinton responded in a letter to Iowa voters this way. She says she "decided to support the resolution after Democrats removed language that according to Hillary could have given Bush the green light for military action", the New York Post reports.
“Only then did I and a lot of other Democrats vote for the resolution in order to pressure Iran by clearing the way for sanctions and pushing the President to get them to the negotiating table,” Clinton wrote in her Iowa letter.
“I was there, and I exercised leadership, and I explained my vote at the time,” she said, in an apparent reference to Obama, who missed the vote. She had been criticised previously by Obama and Edwards for her apparent support of a Bush attack on Iran.

Hillary – who is evidently now opposed to military action – said in February that "no option can be taken off the table" when dealing with Iran.
"U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal,” she told a crowd of Israel supporters. “We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons. In dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table."

Long time White House Correspondent Helen Thomas had the following to say about Senator Clinton in an article printed recently in The New York Times Union. "Clinton has blown hot and cold on Middle East issues, including Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. She is at best pragmatic. Principles? Well, that’s another story.
Before and during her early years in the White House, she supported Palestinian statehood, but she apparently forgot this after successfully running for senator from New York as a Democrat.
The rest is history. She obviously had to cater to a new constituency, make the ritual trip to Israel and forget any sympathy she once had for the Palestinians. But is her 180-degree flip-flop on that festering issue a portent of her leadership if she attains the White House?
As for Iraq, she voted in October 2002 to authorize President Bush to do what was necessary to unseat Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Unlike former Sen. John Edwards, she has refused to say she made a mistake when she voted for the war.
She cannot claim she was misled. During the lead up to the war when she was briefed on the latest U.S. intelligence about Iraq, Bush was shouting from the housetops that he was going to attack Iraq.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld often strutted before reporters at the Pentagon two years before the invasion and bragged about the attack the U.S. would wage against Iraq.
Clinton is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a post that will allow her to embellish her credentials as a possible future commander-in-chief to show she would not hesitate to make tough military decisions.
As a member of that committee, she visited Iraq in 2005 and said U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake. But she also criticized the administration for making poor decisions about the war."

Do Americans really want this "liar" to have the "seat of Power" in the United States?

REID AND HARKIN LEAD CHARGE TO SILENCE CONSERVATIVES

Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.

Our troops need your prayers to win the fight against those who would force us to become Muslims or die, and someone must be praying, because the war is finally looking like we can win.

This has disturbed the "MoveOn.org Democrats deeply. So much so, that they had to revert to the dirty tricks of the Viet Nam era anti-victory ilk.

So they dragged out a lying Army Basic Training Camp washout to perpetrate a lie. This liar claimed that while earning his purple heart in Iraq, he witnessed atrocities committed by our troops.

We have since learned that his story was similar to that of now Senator Kerryaka "Swift Boat John", as he told lies to Congress about the atrocities committed in his presence in Viet Nam.

Only, unlike Senator Kerry, Jessie Mac Beth had never been to war. He was discredited and charged with attempting to defraud the VA.

The people like Senator Reid, who declared the war was lost over a year ago, and Senator Harkin of Iowa didn't disavow this anti-war liar. They decided to attack the Conservative Talk Radio personality who called the liar, Jessie MacBeth, a "phony soldier".

Senator Harkin is a known deceptive person, who lied about his military service during his political campaign. "Dingy Harry" stooped so low that he sent an email to thousands of constituents declaring that Rush had demeaned our troops.

To further add insult to injury, he sent a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel Channel Communications, and demanded that Rush be removed from their network. This letter was co-signed by 41 of the 50 Democrat Senators with such notably anti-military/anti-war Senators as Feinsteine, Durbin, and Dodd.

Not wanting to be outdone, retired General Wesley Clark demanded that Rush be removed from the Armed Forces Radio Network. We are lucky he is not leading our troops in Iraq. He would probably have advised President Bush to quit fighting by now.

Still smarting from their defeat of the attempt to pass the Fairness Doctrine, that was a craven attempt to silence talk show radio programs. The "egg on their face" for their support of MoveOn.org's calling General Petreaus, "Gen. Betray Us"! The Democrat leadership introduced a failed attempt to hurt the war effort with their attempt to censure Turkey for genocide that occured over 100 years ago.

They will never admit it, but the results they were looking for was not the censure of another despot for genocide, but to anger the leadership in Turkey enough that they would revoke the U.S. right to fly over their Country when transporting supplies to the troops in Iraq!

These people hide behind the saying, "they are doing their patriotic duty to protest and stop an unjust war." What their real intent is, in my opinion, is to discredit the Republicans enough that they can capture the White House not with positive programs, but with negative stories and lies about the war effort, President Bush and all who support "his war".

Wake up Conservatives! Mickey Mouse would be better in the White House than a Socialist/Democrat.