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		<title>Senator Narcissus?</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2005/03/14/senator-narcissus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Narcissus.html">From Greek Mythology</a>: Narcissus, who was as beautiful as Dionysus 2 or Apollo, discovered his image in a pool, he fell in love with himself, and not being able to find consolation, he died of sorrow by the same pool.</p>
<p>Or from <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=narcissist">Dictionary.com</a>:</p>
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<b>nar�cis�sism</b>   Audio pronunciation of &#8220;narcissist&#8221; ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (n�rs-szm) also nar�cism (-szm)<br />
n.</p>
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   1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.</p>
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   2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.
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<p>&#8211;&gt;</p>
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		<title>Another Vietnam Vet on Kerry</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/10/06/another-vietnam-vet-on-kerry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 12, the Vietnam Vets for the Truth held an anti-Kerry rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
One inspiring speakers earned his purple heart the hard way. Read Dexter Lehtinen&#8217;s story.
Meanwhile, Vietnam Vets for the Truth continues. We are sponsoring Operation Street Corner throughout the nation, and are putting up anti-Kerry billboard messages where [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On September 12, the <a href="http://kerrylied.com/">Vietnam Vets for the Truth</a> held an anti-Kerry rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>One inspiring speakers earned his purple heart the hard way. Read <a href="http://www.lehtinenagainstkerry.com/index.htm">Dexter Lehtinen&#8217;s story</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Vietnam Vets for the Truth continues. We are sponsoring <a href="http://operationstreetcorner.com/">Operation Street Corner</a> throughout the nation, and are putting up anti-Kerry billboard messages where appropriate. Contributions to VVR of any size are appreciated at <a href="kerrylied.com">our web site</a>.</p>
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		<title>Kerry in a Tight Spot</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/08/04/kerry-in-a-tight-spot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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Poor John Kerry
He&#8217;s found something scary
The lies he&#8217;s been telling
Just are not selling
And this new book is proving contrary.


The book is Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John O&#8217;Neill and Jerome Corsi. It gives the story of John Kerry in Vietnam and his subsequent shameful Anti-War career. Read this [...]]]></description>
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<b>Poor John Kerry</p>
<p>He&#8217;s found something scary</p>
<p>The lies he&#8217;s been telling</p>
<p>Just are not selling</p>
<p>And this new book is proving contrary.</b><br />
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<p>
The book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895260174/102-8101007-5744130?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=283155">Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry</a> by John O&#8217;Neill and Jerome Corsi. It gives the story of John Kerry in Vietnam and his subsequent shameful Anti-War career. Read this book and you&#8217;ll see why almost all Swift Boat Veterans detest Kerry and why almost 300 of them, including his entire chain of command pronounced him unfit for command, a historical (if poorly reported) event.</p>
<p>John O&#8217;Neill inherited Kerry Swift Boat after Kerry&#8217;s short tour. He debated Kerry in the early &#8217;70s on nationwide TV.</p>
<p>Dr. Jerry Corsi is a historian who specializes in the Anti-Vietnam War movement.</p>
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		<title>The Truth about John Kerry</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/08/03/the-truth-about-john-kerry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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Veteran Swift Boat Officer John O&#8217;Neill and historian Dr. Jerome Corsi have written the definitive book on John Kerry and Vietnam. John O&#8217;Neill, who inherited command of Kerry&#8217;s Swift Boat after Kerry&#8217;s abbreviated tour of duty has much insight on Kerry&#8217;s performance as a Swift Boat Officer. Dr. Corsi is a specialist on the history [...]]]></description>
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<p>Veteran Swift Boat Officer John O&#8217;Neill and historian Dr. Jerome Corsi have written the definitive book on John Kerry and Vietnam. John O&#8217;Neill, who inherited command of Kerry&#8217;s Swift Boat after Kerry&#8217;s abbreviated tour of duty has much insight on Kerry&#8217;s performance as a Swift Boat Officer. Dr. Corsi is a specialist on the history of the Vietnam Anti-war movement, and covers Kerry&#8217;s vicious attacks on his fellow soldiers and his country during his time with the anti-war movement.</p>
<p>The book is <b>Unfit for Command</b> and will be available at Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895260174/102-8101007-5744130?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=283155#product-details">here</a>.</p>
<p>This book will give you information about the presidential candidate that can be found nowhere else. It contains information so damaging that the Kerry campaign is already lashing out against it.</p>
<p>If you just can&#8217;t wait, <a href="http://www.tinyvital.com/BlogArchives/000845.html">here</a> are a few goodies.</p>
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		<title>Antisemitic Presbyterian Church</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/07/18/antisemitic-presbyterian-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was raised a Presbyterian. It used to be a pretty normal, midwestern style church. I attended in Albuquerque and in Lawrence, Kansas, sang in the choir and in general found it a very ordinary sort of church. It sponsored Boy Scouts, had Sunday School and had various communitarian activities.
Then the leftists took over, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was raised a Presbyterian. It used to be a pretty normal, midwestern style church. I attended in Albuquerque and in Lawrence, Kansas, sang in the choir and in general found it a very ordinary sort of church. It sponsored Boy Scouts, had Sunday School and had various communitarian activities.</p>
<p>Then the leftists took over, and the national Church (which barely qualifies for the name) has done one outrageous thing after another.</p>
<p>Now the national church has taken a major antisemitic step:<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39504"> they have chosen to divest their investments in Israel</a>. In other words, they are economically attacking the Jewish homeland. This is happening around the same time that the Catholic Church formally recognized anti-Zionism as antisemitism.</p>
<p>This is what happens when the left takes over an organization. First, it starts promoting all sorts of trendy causes, no matter what the official mission is. Then it starts supporting the hatred agenda of the hard left.</p>
<p>I am ashamed of this organization. I would hope individual congregations would leave the national organization. It is no longer behaving as a Christian organization, but rather as one more arm of the morally backwards left wing world of hate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mainstream&#8221; protestant denominations in America have been captured by the left. This is probably a result of Vietnam era draft deferments for seminarians. As a result, the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Churches are gaining in membership, as the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; churches slowly wither away.</p>
<p>For the Presbyterian Church, withering away cannot happen fast enough.</p>
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		<title>No Freedom of Speech in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/07/07/no-freedom-of-speech-in-sweden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WND:

A Swedish court has sentenced Ake Green, a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon, according to Ecumenical News International.
What this guy said was fairly nasty, but in the US nobody would send [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39328">WND</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>A Swedish court has sentenced Ake Green, a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon, according to Ecumenical News International.</p></blockquote>
<p>What this guy said was fairly nasty, but in the US nobody would send him to jail. But in Sweden, offending homosexuals is worth a month in prison. Since just about anything goes in Sweden, it&#8217;s interesting that offending homosexuals (in a church sermon) is a crime.</p>
<p>One more reason that the European superior attitude towards the United States is so wrong.</p>
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		<title>Little Blogging for the next ten days</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/05/26/little-blogging-for-the-next-ten-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 07:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my regular readers,
Thank you for reading ths blog.
My blogging will be dramatically reduced for the next 10 days or so.
But then, blogging will return.
John Moore
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To my regular readers,</p>
<p>Thank you for reading ths blog.</p>
<p>My blogging will be dramatically reduced for the next 10 days or so.</p>
<p>But then, blogging will return.</p>
<p>John Moore</p>
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		<title>Chutzpah Squared</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/04/13/chutzpah-squared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From israelinsider:
Scores of Palestinians demonstrated yesterday in Gaza and the West Bank against what they called American &#8220;war crimes&#8221; in Iraq, media sources reported. The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations, which are reportedly considering joining the Fatah in a power-sharing arrangement in Gaza, hailed the &#8220;new Intifada&#8221; against the U.S.-led &#8220;occupation&#8221; in Iraq. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&amp;enDisplay=view&amp;enDispWhat=object&amp;enDispWho=Article%5El3506&amp;enZone=Diplomacy&amp;enVersion=0&amp;">israelinsider</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Scores of <b>Palestinians demonstrated</b> yesterday in Gaza and the West Bank <b>against what they called American &#8220;war crimes&#8221;</b> in Iraq, media sources reported. The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations, which are reportedly considering joining the Fatah in a power-sharing arrangement in Gaza, hailed the &#8220;new Intifada&#8221; against the U.S.-led &#8220;occupation&#8221; in Iraq. </p>
<p>More than 150 Palestinian women protested outside the UN offices in Gaza City, burning an American flag to protest coalition efforts to quell an uprising by Shiite militiamen in Iraq, the AFP reported. The women also handed over a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in which they denounced &#8220;the grave violations perpetrated against the Iraqi people&#8221; by the U.S. forces. </p></blockquote>
<p>This speaks for itself. The Palestinian are insane.</p>
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		<title>March 20th &#8220;Peace Protest&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/03/20/march-20th-peace-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2004 03:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s part of the &#8220;World Wide Protest&#8221; in Phoenix was a bit of a disappointment. It seemed to have an incoherent message. I don&#8217;t know what they were trying to say. It sounded mostly like a combination of a Hate Bush cult, a bunch of far left folks tropes, and various other odd concepts. Certainly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s part of the &#8220;World Wide Protest&#8221; in Phoenix was a bit of a disappointment. It seemed to have an incoherent message. I don&#8217;t know what they were trying to say. It sounded mostly like a combination of a Hate Bush cult, a bunch of far left folks tropes, and various other odd concepts. Certainly some predictably advocated immediate removal of our troops from Iraq (which is, of course, idiotic). But otherwise it was a strange little group.<br />
<span id="more-400"></span><br />
Organizers estimated 400 people attended (far less than last year). Twice I asked police for their estimate. One said 100, and the other said &#8220;A lot fewer than 400.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyway, I guess their message had something to do with politics, since they marched along the sidewalk (last year, their numbers filled a street) to the Republican Headquarters.</p>
<p>Useful Fools, which of course enjoys photographing and talking to useful fools like we found at this event, will probably show more photographs on this later.</p>
<p>But for now, a few pictures&#8230;</p>
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<img src="/images/demo042003/ArmedProtesters.jpg"><br />
Armed Protesters at a Peace March? (sorry for the lack of focus, I didn&#8217;t want these folks to see me taking their picture!).</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/BizarreMsg.jpg"><br />
One side of a rather bizarre sign.</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/BizarreMsg2.jpg"><br />
The other side of a rather bizarre sign.</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/BushProfitsFromBombs.jpg"><br />
Trite and false &#8211; the President Profits from War silliness.</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/CAIRandBushPuppet.jpg"><br />
Speaker from Council on American Islamic Relations (These folks were aginst the liberation of Iraq last year, and have quite unsavory connections).</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/CAI_JFK_911.jpg"><br />
One of many different silly conspiracy signs.</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/GoodCounterProtestSign.jpg"><br />
Counter-Protester sign from folks organizing at <a href="http://www.protestwarrior.com/">Protest Warrior</a></p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/UN.jpg"><br />
The &#8220;Leave it to the UN&#8221; silliness.</p>
<p><img src="/images/demo042003/WomenInBlack.jpg"><br />
Women in Black? Whatever.</p>
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		<title>Bush Campaign Tactic Provokes Outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Campaign is over the top with this campaign tactic!
[Thanks to Vox for the pointer]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bush Campaign is over the top with <a href="http://silentrunning.tv/archives/003869.php">this campaign tactic</a>!</p>
<p>[Thanks to <a href="http://www.bkennelly.com/vox/">Vox</a> for the pointer]</p>
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		<title>Former POW, Senator Accused Kerry of Treason</title>
		<link>http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2004/03/10/former-pow-senator-accused-kerry-of-treason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vietnam POW and Senator Jeremiah Denton has publicly accused John Kerry of actions which constitute treason. He also described Kerry&#8217;s voting pattern as &#8220;consistently detrimental to our national security.&#8221;
Knowing that I served in the U.S. Senate with John Kerry and that, like him, I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, many people have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former Vietnam POW and Senator Jeremiah Denton has <a href="http://www.al.com/opinion/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/opinion/107882739575630.xml">publicly accused</a> John Kerry of actions which constitute treason. He also described Kerry&#8217;s voting pattern as &#8220;consistently detrimental to our national security.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>Knowing that I served in the U.S. Senate with John Kerry and that, like him, I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, many people have asked me what I think of him, particularly now that he&#8217;s the apparent presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. </p>
<p>When Kerry joined me in the Senate, I already knew about his record of defamatory remarks and behavior criticizing U.S. policy in Vietnam and the conduct of our military personnel there. I had learned in North Vietnamese prisons how much harm such statements caused. </p>
<p>To me, his remarks and behavior amounted to giving aid and comfort to our Vietnamese and Soviet enemies. So I was not surprised when his subsequent overall voting pattern in the Senate was consistently detrimental to our national security. </p>
<p>Considering his demonstrated popularity during the Democratic primaries, I earnestly hope the American people will soberly consider Kerry&#8217;s qualifications for the presidency in light of his position and record on both our cultural war at home and on national security issues. </p>
<p>To put it bluntly, John Kerry exemplifies the very reasons that I switched to the Republican Party. Like the majority in his political party, he has proven by his words and actions that his list of priorities &#8212; his ideas on what most needs to be done to improve this country &#8212; are almost opposite to my own. </p>
<p>Here are two issue areas that I consider top priorities: the war over the soul of America, and national security. </p>
<p>Top priority should be placed on an effort to recover our most fundamental founding belief that our national objectives, policies and laws should reflect obedience to the will of Almighty God. Our Declaration of Independence, our national Constitution and each of the states&#8217; constitutions stress that basic American national principle. </p>
<p>For about 200 years, the entire country, both parties and all branches of government understood that principle and tried to follow it, if imperfectly. </p>
<p>For some 50 years, our nation&#8217;s opinion-makers, our courts and, gradually, our politicians have been abandoning our historical effort to be &#8220;one nation under God&#8221; in favor of becoming &#8220;one nation without God,&#8221; with glaringly unfavorable results. </p>
<p>I believe our political leaders, educational system, parents and opinion-makers must all return to teaching the truth most emphasized by our Founding Fathers. </p>
<p>George Washington called religious belief indispensable to the prosperity of our democracy. William Penn said, &#8220;Men must choose to be governed by God or condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants.&#8221; And when asked what caused the Civil War, President Lincoln said, &#8220;We have forgotten God.&#8221; </p>
<p>In these days we have not only forgotten God, we are by our new standards of government and culture rejecting him as the acknowledged creator and as the endower of our rights. </p>
<p>As a result, we are suffering cultural decay and human unhappiness. The decline of the institution of the family is the most obvious result. </p>
<p>Perhaps the current movie, &#8220;The Passion of the Christ,&#8221; will help many to come to realize the cost of the redemption of our sins, and the destructiveness of sin. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s remember that over 95 percent of Americans during our founding days were Christians, and though our Founding Fathers stipulated that no one was to be compelled to believe in any religion, and also stipulated that there would be no single Christian denomina tion installed as a national religion, there was no question that our laws were to be firmly based on the Judean Ten Commandments and on Christ&#8217;s mandate to love your neighbor as you love yourself. </p>
<p>That setup brought us amazing success as a nation, lifting us from our humble beginnings, through crisis after crisis, to become the leading nation of the world. </p>
<p>Now, though, we are throwing away the very source of our strength and greatness. Yet I am not giving up on our country. I am encouraged at the stand and the attitude of our president, and inspired by his courage. There are many more of his stripe in Washington now. </p>
<p>Though Rome and other empires have decayed and fallen, the cultural war in the United States can and should be won by the majority of Americans &#8212; a majority to whom Kerry and the Democrats disdainfully refer to as the &#8220;far right.&#8221; They are people who believe in God and in the original concept of &#8220;one nation under God.&#8221; </p>
<p>As a nation, we are now at the point of no return. The good guys are finally angry enough to join the fray, and I pray we are not too late. </p>
<p>John Kerry is not among the good guys. The Democratic Party isn&#8217;t, either. </p>
<p>Indeed, on the subject of national security, John Kerry epitomizes a fatal weakness in the Democratic Party. </p>
<p>During the decisive days of the Cold War, after the Democratic Party changed during the mid-1960s, the party was on the wrong side of every strategic debate on policy regarding Vietnam and the USSR, and is now generally on the wrong side in the war on terrorism. </p>
<p>The truth is that the Cold War was barely won by a narrow margin &#8212; a victory and a margin determined by the political choices made by our government regarding suitable steps to deter Soviet attack and finally win the Cold War. </p>
<p>If the U.S. had followed the Democratic Party line, the Cold War would have concluded with the U.S. having to surrender without a fight, or the U.S. would have been defeated in a nuclear war with acceptable losses to the USSR. </p>
<p>It was not Johnson and Carter and the Democrats; it was Nixon, Reagan, George Bush and the Republicans who led us to victory in the Cold War. </p>
<p>And George W. Bush and the Republican majority &#8212; not John Kerry and the Democrats &#8212; can lead us to victory in the war on terrorism. </p>
<p>Jeremiah Denton is a retired Navy admiral who served in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1987. Readers can phone him at 473-1010, send e-mail to transff1@aol.com, or log on to his Web site at www.nff.org.</p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Ray of Dissecting Leftism writes:
Anti-Americanism in Iran is running out of steam, thanks to the US Army: &#8220;Iranian pilgrims returning from Iraq are spreading admiring stories of their encounters with American troops. Thousands of Iranians have visited the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala since the war ended. Many have expressed surprise at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jon Ray of <a href="http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/">Dissecting Leftism</a> writes:<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34513-2004Feb11.html">Anti-Americanism in Iran is running out of steam</a>, thanks to the US Army: &#8220;Iranian pilgrims returning from Iraq are spreading admiring stories of their encounters with American troops. Thousands of Iranians have visited the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala since the war ended. Many have expressed surprise at the respectful and helpful behavior of the U.S. soldiers they met along the way.&#8221; </p></blockquote>
<p>Once again, the U.S. Military shows the good side of America. Good job, folks!</p>
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<blockquote>The Left is remarkably nonchalant about these new terrors. When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn&#8217;t care less.
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<p><i>But if you can&#8217;t at least question the justifications you are given by your administration, which keep changing as the evidence changes and legal arguments falter, then really, don&#8217;t waste my time.</i></p>
<p>This would appear to say that if I don&#8217;t find fault with the administrations reasoning, then I am wasting your time. Well, I do question the Bush administration. I wonder why whether we have been strong enough in dealing with North Korea. I wonder if we have a large enough army to deal with possible contingencies such as an Al Qaueda friendly takeover of nuclear armed Pakistan. I dislike the administrations refusal to use adequate profiling to detect terrorists.<br />
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We had multiple justifications which were given before the war. But the ones which were most critical were the WMD&#8217;s and the association with terrorists. That doesn&#8217;t mean that we didn&#8217;t have others, and if you go back you will find that we cited all of them well before the war. </p>
<p>You glibly say that this wasn&#8217;t a war of self defense. If not, why the heck do you think we did it? We expended lives and vast amounts of money to overthrow Saddam. Do you think we did it just for the fun of it? We certainly didn&#8217;t do it for the oil, as Iraq&#8217;s oil production capability is pathetic, and we could just as easily had the oil by buying it from Saddam at the Saudi stabilized market prices. So what, pray tell, is your fantasy about why we went to war?</p>
<p>I also listen to the arguments of the proponents of &#8220;international law.&#8221; I find them sorely lacking. You seem to be upset about our claimed (disputably for sure) violation of international law in our occupation of Iraq. Americans do not worship the UN and international law as much as Europeans. We see flawed and corrupt organizations, often giving honors to some of the most evil people on earth, and failing to achieve much good. We see an organization (UN) which is always to ready to condemn us, but not the many truly evil leaders in the world. We see a nation with a Security Council veto, France, which has adopted a stated policy of reducing our power, even after we have been subjected to the horrible attack of 9-11 and are threatened with many more. That same nation was the second greatest weapons supplier to Iraq, and itself has a recent history of non-UN sanctioned interventions.</p>
<p>So why the hell should we pay attention to the UN? It is corrupt. It is biased. It gives equal votes to dictators like Saddam and democracies like the US or Switzerland. The Security Council is a relic of the cold war, and when France and Russia announced that they would not vote for our attack on Iraq, we recognized that this was because of their desire to continue profiting from Saddam (they were the two largest suppliers of weapons to Iraq, by far) and because they wanted the US to lose power. So we have contempt for that organization. We have contempt for those who would talk legal niceties while our citizens die. We have contempt for those who do not have the vision to recognize that whether we like it or not, the world has many very dangerous people in it, and they will not pay any attention to &#8220;international law&#8221; or a bunch of peace loving folks demonstrating in the streets.</p>
<p>We KNOW that we are living in a jungle. You don&#8217;t want to face that fact, so you accuse us of creating that jungle by shattering your finely crafted but utterly ineffective institutions such as the ICC and the UN and other various instruments of &#8220;international law&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Europe, and the transnational supporters  envision a world in which sovereignity is golden (regardless of the type of government, unless it is Jewish) and war is fought by armies out in the open. In this world, the wise European intellectuals would solve all of our disputes of tea and wine. Evil people would somehow magically go away.</p>
<p>Instead, we are in a war fought by shadowy groups who have every intent of using weapons of mass destruction to destroy our society. And of that there can be no doubt, as they have demonstrated their willingness for mass murder (attempting TWICE to kill about 100,000 people in the world trade center). And that war is not complete. We observe that many of the same people who criticise us for our defensive actions were apologists for the USSR, until the evidence of its depravity became too much to deny. We have no reason to hand our security over to such people, and we sure as hell are not going to hand over our sovereign right to defend ourselves.</p>
<p>So lets go down the line, point by point. Afghanistan. That was very clearly justified. We had hard evidence (which has been confirmed) that the Taliban regime was deeply in league with an organization which made the worst attack on us in our history, and which previously had made other attacks, and which is still threatening us. To doubt that we had justification to destroy the Taliban regime is beyond silly. But when we destroyed it, we did so with a minimum of force and a minimum of civilian casualties, because unlike our enemies, we are a civilized and moral people. An important side effect is giving the people of Afghanistan the possibility of a civilized government. Of course, we do not do this simply out of the goodness of our hearts (although you will find that the US does indeed have many good intentions), but because such governments are the best way to prevent the growth of terrorism.</p>
<p><i>Major, incredibly important change as of Iraq (the second time): while the security council system has been a broken machine for a long, long time, and has only recently re-emerged as a working apparatus since the end of the Cold War, what occurred with Iraq has never happened before, and may herald the end of international law as we&#8217;ve known it under the U.N. system, and herald the beginning of simple brute force, whether it be the U.S., China, or any other power that comes along and decides that it has sufficient reason to act against another state (because they have weapons they might use, resources they want; whatever). I&#8217;m not talking about extending/stretching the use of resolutions. Comparatively, that is a technical point. I am talking about fully turning your back on the security council. Never happened before.</i></p>
<p>This is an amazing paragraph. You seem to have ignored the many wars which have taken place before and during the Iraq regime change which were not sanctioned by the UN security council, to focus all of your outrage against one which was instigated by the US and Britain. I mentioned Kosovo once before and you ignored it. Why the selectivity? Where is your outrage for Russian attacks on Chechnya? Does you precious international law help either side there? How about the two French interventions in Africa in the last year, without Security Council pre-approval? How about Russian interference in Geogia&#8217;s internal affairs? How about Chinas anexation of Tibet and its brutal oppression of its people? How about the Chinese supported rebellion in Nepal? Why do I only hear a huge outcry against the United States&#8217; destruction of one of the most evil regimes around, while I hear nothing from the international law crowd about China and Russia&#8217;s violations, not to mention those of France? And you also forget that the Security Council resolution that did pass was so worded that we had technically every right to attack Iraq. </p>
<p>If this becomes the end of the Security Council, I will cheer. The UN is simply not a useful organization, not even during the post-cold war period where you imagine otherwise. It was only suitable for dictataors who want cover for their actions, and little insignificant nations who want to feel as powerful as the US or China. The UN needs to be replaced, as it has lost all relevance. There need to be forums for treaty making, for helping refugees, and for global medical aid (such as WHO). But for those who believe in freedom, the UN is a worthless organization. For those who want security from attack by evildoers, the UN is counterproductive.</p>
<p>It would seem to me that your main objection is that the world&#8217;s most powerful nation, which is also the worlds most damaged nation by terrorism (except for Israel), is taking actions it views as being in its self defense, without asking your permission. To which I say&#8230;. grow up. </p>
<p>Your fantasies about international law are just that: fantasies. Europe, which has chosen to disarm itself to the point where it asked the US to help it in Kosovo (you forgot to mention that one, btw, where we also ignored the Security Council, at the request of Europeans!), wishes against all evidence that some sort of international power can arise that will magically solve international problems and bring peace. But this is a fantasy because you have not provided adequate mechanisms for dealing with the sociopaths who too often rise to power; with the regimes which choose to oppress their people and use force and terrorism against others. Your goals may be noble, but your results are counterproductive. Even today, Serbia may elect a Milosovic regime while your ICC tries to deal with him.</p>
<p>Fortunately, European security agencies are not nearly as naive as European ideologists. The security agencies know that it is only a matter of time until radical Islam becomes a terrible threat to the survival of Europe. Thus they cooperate with us on international terrorism, even as their ideologues vilify us.</p>
<p>You say that Iraq was not about self defense. That is because you are stuck in the pre-9-11 thinking, last century logic, where enemies are formal and nicely situated in single countries. Most Americans recognize that we live in a new century, where threats are so grave that we cannot allow them to fester. We also recognize that Iraq was one of the more dangerous places, and also a very useful one to occupy. It stops whatever WMD programs were or were planned there; it ends Saddam&#8217;s subsidies to terrorists who attack Israel, a democratic ally of ours; it interdicts the flow of people and material between Iran and Syria, and threatens both outlaw countries. It gives us a base to attack anyone who attacks us from close range and quickly, and to make further preemptive strikes if needed. And, of course, hopefully it allows us to help a people set up a free society in the cess-pool of the middle east, something which might very well improve the governance situation in the area.</p>
<p>But your vision is too narrow. The combination of Islamic fundamentalism and pan-Arab nationalism, tied with weapons of mass destruction, is extremely dangerous. I have seen no way in which international law has reduced that threat. Rather, it props up the dictatorial regimes which create the hatred, in the name of stability.</p>
<p>And yes, our attack on Iraq was like shooting someone who is walking down the street armed. But only a someone who has a record of murder and brutality and who is providing assistance to those who have already killed some of our children.</p>
<p>From our point of view, we are at war, right now. We are constantly being threatened, and at some point those threats will succeed. An outlaw nation (maybe North Korea) will sell an Al Qaueda group a nuclear weapon or weaponized smallpox or some other horror, and it will kill huge numbers of people in the US or England. If that happend, you will then discover how restrained the US has been in this war. You will see, as the Japanese saw after Pearl Harbor, that we are capable of fighting total war if needed. And your international law will be used as toilet paper by our soldiers.</p>
<p>Your approach requires waiting for the bad guy to shoot your wife and kids, and then have a committee meeting to figure out what to do about it. That was the Clinton approach. It is not the Bush approach, thank goodness.</p>
<p>I believe that we are in a major clash of cultures. The Islamists are spreading a virulent brand of Islam in many parts of the world. If you look at a map of current fighting in the world today, almost every bit of it is on the edges of Islam. There is a ring of fire, as Islamic terrorists attack those of other faiths in their countries or neighboring ones. For example, please advise how international law has prevented the slaughter and slavery of Sudanese Christians &#8211; just one of dozens of similar cases. Islam, as preached by the Ayatollahs of Iran or the Wahhabis (and these are too very different sects) is a violent force which will use any means necessary to achieve an Islamic world. We do not plan to let this happen, UN or not, international law or not.</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t ask for this war. We didn&#8217;t harm those who attacked us &#8211; rather we enriched and educated many of them. We are the victims in this situation, the aggrieved party. Those we have fought were evil and I would hope that you can recognize that. Those we freed are better off than if we had followed some international law process. </p>
<p>Who would have liberated Iraq? Who would have kept Saddam or his sons from building or buying nuclear weapons? Do you really think the sanctions would last forever, or that he would break under them? He had payed for missiles which could target Europe. Do you think he planned to put only high expxlosives on them (oh, btw, those are categorized as WMD&#8217;s in the UN protocols, and we have solid evidence that he had ordered them).</p>
<p>You say we are the worst imperialist nation. Please explain which part of our empire gives us profit, and how much tribute is paid to our imperium? Please explain which people we are oppressing. Perhaps it is because of Europe&#8217;s collective guilt in imperialism that you feel a need to call us imperialist, but it is mere rhetoric.</p>
<p>We have no colonies. We seek no colonies. We fight wars of self defense (although I agree that the Noriega situation was stretching self defense into the drug war, which I think is inappropriate). You claim that we use to follow international law but now we don&#8217;t. Have you been through a time warp????</p>
<p>The US once was an imperialist nation (&#8221;manifest destiny&#8221;) and we conquered many indigenous tribes in order to acquire our territory. We did this before and after the founding of our country. We also intervened in Latin America for commercial reasons during the &#8217;30s. </p>
<p>But more recently, lets look at our wars and battles&#8230;</p>
<p>Korea &#8211; repelling an invasion instituted by the USSR&#8217;s agent (Kim Il Sung) with UN Security Council approval &#8211; which was only given because the USSR made a tactical blunder and walked out when they otherwise would have made a veto. We lost over 40,000 of our people in that war, but South Korea has had 50 years of freedom as a result.</p>
<p>Vietnam &#8211; we took that mess over from the French, who had tried to re-institute their brutal colonial rule. Since the North was a communist state supported by the USSR, and we were concerned about the spread of hostile regimes into SE Asia (and especially the Phillipines), we fought there and held back the communists long enough that only two other countries fell to them (Cambodia and Laos).</p>
<p>Panama &#8211; That was a strange situation. Noriega was out of control and had killed an American, but was not about to attack us, although he was playing patsy with the Chinese, a geostrategic enemy. At the time, I did not feel we had the justification for the attack. However, the results were very positive &#8211; Panama is a much better place today (and yes, I have been there and checked it out).</p>
<p>Gulf War (1991) &#8211; We repulsed a brutal invader. However, because the UN did not give us authorization for regime change, we stopped after driving his forces from Kuwait. The result of that was the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq.</p>
<p>The more recent ones have been mentioned.</p>
<p>Oh, and to answer your comments on stability&#8230; It is Europe that craves stability, because it doesn&#8217;t have the means to deal with anything else. We supported stability in the cold war as a means of containing communism. But Reagan recognized that we could defeat the true imperial power, the USSR, by destabilizing communist regimes (Nicaragua, Angola, etc).</p>
<p>Now the USSR is gone (although I fear it will be back, and it is still building new generations of ICBMs). But a new enemy has arisen, one which represents a very different danger than the USSR. And that enemy requires a different kind of fight, which is what we are doing.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if the Iraq invasion was the best choice. Perhaps we should have attacked North Korea instead, or joined with India to capture Pakistan. But one thing I do know, and that is that George Bush has ONE primary international agenda, and that is to defend civilization and especially to defend the United States. That isn&#8217;t just some pap fed to willing idiots. It is clearly his motivation.</p>
<p>I will also say this: I don&#8217;t know if there is a solution to the current crisis. I don&#8217;t know if the war can be won. I am not certain that our approach is the corect one.</p>
<p>History may have genetically engineered biological weapons destroying most of humanity, resutling in a global totalitarian state as the only way of preventing a repeat. That is, unfortunately, a likely prospect, and that is the kind of stakes I think we are fighting for! Not some little war like colonialists were so fond of, but an asymmetric World War IV, with WMDs likely employed by the Islamic fanatics. In the cold war, attacks on superpowers were prevented by the bizarre philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (and not by any international law, btw). But today&#8217;s fanatics cannot be deterred, so we are attempting to deter the governments which allow those fanatics to operate, and will ultimately destroy those governments should they not change. And THAT is self defense, not imperialism, because we have nothing to gain out of such a mess other than our security!</p>
<p>Now, since you have made the very common, but utterly unsupported charge that we are the <i>worst imperialist power since Rome</i>, I think you owe me a defense of that charge, because it is hurtful and, in my opinion, utterly idiotic and ahistorical. I cannot imagine how someone who can otherwise argue so logically can make such an absurd charge.</p>
<p>I will offer up just two counterexamples (although 2000 years of history provides many): </p>
<p>The Soviet Empire. That regime conquered and oppressed eastern Europe and a number of countries adjoining Russia. It practiced ethnic cleansing and mass murder (ask the former Kulaks of the Ukraine). It stole from its subject nations, keeping the wealth for itself. It developed the largest arsenal of biological weapons in history, in direct violation of international law, after the US had destroyed its stocks. The USSR maintained a regime of terror for its citizens, putting many in the gulags where they suffered horribly and usually died. It sent its agents throughout the world, destabilizing governments and teaching terrorism and respressive techniques to potential allies. It was so brutal that its own returning POWs, after WW-II, were sent to the prison camps where almost all died. It killed an estimated 50,000,000 of its subjects, especially Jews and intellectuals.</p>
<p>The French Colonial Empire. That empire controlled many countries, and unlike the British empire, left them with no decent infrastructure or traditions when it pulled out. The French looted countries to their hearts content, and use brutal techniques to maintain control (ask the Vietnamese). To this day, France feels free to meddle in the internal affairs of former colonies in Africa, as I mentioned above.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t resist adding the Nazi Reich. No need to go into its depravities.</p>
<p>And you call US the worst imperium since Rome? How can you be serious?</p>
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		<title>Massive Demonstrations in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the President goes to Britain, we will see massive coverage of anti-Bush, anti-US demonstrations sure to happen.
Meanwhile, the press entirely missed more important massive anti-terrorist demonstrations in Nassiriyah, Iraq&#8230; demonstrations a little closer to where the action really takes place, by the people actually affected by the situation.
As reported by the excellent new Baghdad [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the President goes to Britain, we will see massive coverage of anti-Bush, anti-US demonstrations sure to happen.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the press entirely missed more important massive anti-terrorist demonstrations in Nassiriyah, Iraq&#8230; demonstrations a little closer to where the action really takes place, by the people actually affected by the situation.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/archives/2003_11_01_healingiraq_archive.html#106900293529043709">reported</a> by the excellent new Baghdad blogger, <a href="http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/">Healing Iraq</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Huge anti-terrorism demonstrations were held in Nassiriyah yesterday by students association condemning the attacks on the Italian force carrying signs such as &#8216;No to terrorism. Yes to freedom and peace&#8217;, and &#8216;This cowardly act will unify us&#8217;. I have to add that there were similar demonstrations in Baghdad more than a week ago also by students against the bombings of police stations early this Ramadan. I hope the demonstrations advocates that bugged me are satisfied now. There are also preparations for anti-terror demonstrations before Id (end of Ramadan holidays).</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Calling all Human Shields!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Ablution has tracked down more recent quotes from a quotes of Saddam&#8217;s Useful Fools who tried to be &#8220;human shields.&#8221; It seems that at at least these two still have the capability to respond to actual facts. 
His comments section attracted some current useless fools, you know, the kind you see smugly marching [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://dailyablution.blogs.com/the_daily_ablution/2003/11/calling_all_hum.html">The Daily Ablution</a> has tracked down more recent quotes from a quotes of Saddam&#8217;s Useful Fools who tried to be &#8220;human shields.&#8221; It seems that at at least these two still have the capability to respond to actual facts. </p>
<p>His comments section attracted some current useless fools, you know, the kind you see smugly marching down the street wearing silly costumes with ignorant slogans on them.</p>
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