by Lionel Bascom — September 17th, 2007 — 2 comments
This is sobering from a writer in New Jersey who mixes and mingles too much contradictory disinformation and honest to goodness common sense. Staying in Iraq after telling enormous lies to get troops there is a high crime that no number of replacement generals can erase. There are so many layers of nonsense, I don’t blame any one of us for being confused, even generals who have built careers on doing just what they’re told to do.
This piece illustrates how a bamboozled public like ours can no longer think its way out of a paperbag, nevermind war that will kill thousands of our children before our babies are safe from the fools running our government. My apologies to Marion Eggleton in the Camden Courier Post in advance or not standing behind her 100% but I’ve heard people use that what she says is right on:
“Daily we are offered pronouncements from the liberal Congress through the major media outlets that the war in Iraq is lost. They say we cannot win and must bring our troops home.
First, they authorized the war and sent more than 3,600 of our finest men and women to their deaths. Then when the fighting gets tough, or what they view as tough, they want to put our tails between our legs and come home. Untouchable
Are they oblivious to the daily threats by al-Qaida and Islamic terrorists who are committed to destroying life as we know it? Do they think we still live on an island and are untouchable by our world enemies?
Have they forgotten how easily a few committed individuals were able to bring down the World Trade Center towers, killing more than 3,000 people? Have they forgotten how close they came to losing their own lives in a similar attack on the Capitol had it not been for a few courageous passengers?
They sit in their cushy, air-conditioned offices with all the comforts of a king, oblivious of the threats being posed to the citizens they have sworn to protect. Are they so willing to sell America out for the sake of their perceived political lives?
They have already demonstrated this with their unwillingness to secure our borders, to enact realistic immigration reform and their willingness to trade our children’s and grandchildren’s futures with their frivolous, nonstop spending to buy political favor. Establish base
Don’t they see the front line for the Islamic terrorist thrust is in Iraq? Don’t they realize that giving up that front will allow al-Qaida and similar groups to establish a major base of operations with oil and nuclear possibilites from which to foment their religious thrust to convert all of us to their way of life?
Do they want their wives and daughters wearing burqas and everyone on their knees five times a day to pray to a God that only Muslims recognize? Wake-up call
The London and Scotland attacks in June should have been a wake-up call that individuals whom we trust to protect our health, and have every opportunity that life has to offer, will and can turn on us and destroy our way of life.
Daily, these members of Congress turn their backs on the events happening around the world and they seem to be oblivious to the fact that the next attacks, if and when they come, are going to be directed at their pompous, secure lives.”
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Ms. Eggleton states the fearful message with vigor. Common? Yes. Sensible? I wonder.
Does she realize that her words support the very fear tactics of the generals whom she fervently admonishes, who are sworn to uphold the decisions made by their Commander in Chief?
The United States has intelligence operations in place at this very moment. It was our intelligence that assisted the capture of those involved with the recent terrorist activity in Europe. We should all pray that young women and men with high ingenuity and resourcefulness will continue to choose to enter the professions dedicated to preserving our peace. They work with intensity and intention 24/7, 365.
Our country is strong. We have intelligent, creative leaders who are ‘chafing at the bit’ to receive the winning number of votes of educated citizenry in the next election. Right now, the duty of every U.S. citizen is to analyze the evidence before us. Read, listen and, most of all, question those who wish to be the leaders in the upcoming years. Accept only logical answers. Encourage discussion.
Inventing fearful scenarios will only perpetuate ignorance. We have had enough ignorance!
We attract into our lives those conditions, which dominate our consciousness. I don’t know about you, but I intend to live a fulfilled, productive life, and I wish the same for my children along with those of my relatives and friends.
As long as there is breath in me, I will be the United States citizen who concentrates on and contributes to the advancement of this nation, illustrating to the world its strength of character, altruism, creativity, intelligence and stewardship. That is the only way to maintain a secure future for our loved ones.
Jeanne · September 18th, 2007 at 6:30 am
I think you should post this everywhere. How about the NY Times?
Lionel Bascom · September 18th, 2007 at 11:44 pm