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Don’t know how I missed THIS one. But I did.

Semper Fi US Marines.

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Here’s a Marine who could use some prayers. As could his family…

MARION TOWNSHIP — A U.S. Marine from Bellefonte who was seriously wounded in Iraq is “still fighting” for life at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where his family and fellow Marines are keeping vigil, his father said.

Marine Cpl. David Emery Jr.’s, legs and left arm were shattered on Feb. 7 in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq’s Anbar province. Emery, 21, nicknamed “D.J.,” also suffered a severe abdominal wound, including a severed artery that caused his kidneys to shut down, his family said. He is on a ventilator and is also suffering from pneumonia.

“I still can’t believe it’s happening,” said his father, David Emery, who made a one-day trip back to his Marion Township home before returning today to Bethesda. “I keep thinking it’s a bad dream I’m going to wake up from. But I keep having it.”

The younger Emery’s wife, Leslie, who is seven months pregnant with the couple’s first child, remains at her husband’s bedside along with the Marine’s mother, Connie.

David is in a coma. Every breath he takes right now is a blessing. He is in a very acute, intensive care situation. There is no way to predict how this will pan out.

“Right now he’s maintaining his own blood pressure,” David Emery. “They took him off the medication for that. So that’s a positive sign. He’s still on a ventilator, and they’re still doing dialysis every day. And every day they are cleaning his wounds.

“They haven’t even started working on his fractures yet,” the elder Emery said. “We take it a day at a time. Every day he holds on, there’s some improvement. It means he’s not getting worse.”

David Emery Jr. has not regained consciousness since he was wounded in the bombing. But his loved ones think the Marine is aware of his family, friends and a long line of Marines who have visited him, the father said.

“I took his hand and said, ‘If you can hear me, squeeze my hand,’ ” David Emery said. “And he squeezed my hand. Boy was that a good feeling.”

He can hear his father. And everyone else. I hope they are taking care of the pain he feels too. Often they keep severely wounded people in medically induced comas just so they can start the process of healing without the pain.

While staying in Bethesda near his son — the family is being housed by the Marine Corps — David Emery attended a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for the Marine he thinks saved his son’s life.

David Emery said his son’s sergeant major, Joseph J. Ellis, of Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, appeared to have realized that a man pushing into a crowd near Ellis and David Emery Jr. was an insurgent. Emery said he was told by Marine Corps officials that Ellis got between the suicide bomber and his son. Ellis was killed by the bomb.

“I think of him as a hero,” David Emery said of Ellis, a 40-year-old Marine from Ashland, Ohio. “He saw him pushing his way through the crowd. He moved to get this guy and probably saved my son’s life.”

It’s sad when a hero dies in the act of saving others. But it happens daily in Iraq. For those left living, the pain and sorrow of being ALIVE is forever with them. The guilt, that feeling that they somehow should have been killed, is always there. David needs prayers, lots of them.

Semper Fi young Marine…

Teach has a story about the good work of some American soldiers…how they saved a baby’s life…at Pirate Cove’s Tuesday Trackback party.

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The Lemoncrats (TM) doing damage control.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders backed away from aggressive plans to limit President Bush’s war authority, the latest sign of divisions within their ranks over how to proceed.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday he wanted to delay votes on a measure that would repeal the 2002 war authorization and narrow the mission in Iraq.

Senior Democrats who drafted the proposal, including Sens. Joseph Biden of Delaware and Carl Levin of Michigan, had sought swift action on it as early as this week, when the Senate takes up a measure to enact the recommendations of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.

Reid, who will huddle with Democrats Tuesday to discuss whether to postpone the Iraq debate, cited pressure from victims’ families for quick action on the Sept. 11 bill as the reason for doing so.

“Iraq is going to be there - it’s just a question of when we get back to it,” Reid said, predicting it would be “days, not weeks” before the Senate returned to the issue. The war reauthorization legislation also appears to lack the 60 votes it would need to pass the Senate.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meanwhile, said she doesn’t support tying war funding to strict training and readiness targets for U.S. troops.

The comments distanced her from Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who has said he wants to use Congress’ spending power to force a change in policy in Iraq, by setting strict conditions on war funding.

Pelosi said she supports holding the administration to training and readiness targets, but added: “I don’t see them as conditions to our funding. Let me be very clear: Congress will fund our troops.”

I’m going to hold them to this. Cruella Pelosi has made a statement all Americans must remember.

A priceless scene I so wish to watch: Murtha’s cowardly face right about now. Bet he’s blowing some hot air off right about now.

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Reason number #28,745 why John McCain is not the man to be voting for.

The fact that this Jerk is a veteran, a former POW, and now calls himself a Senator, I simply could not believe what happened. Every time I hear the man’s name I get tense. Of all the shitty things that happened while Chuck was in the hospital, this was the topper for me. If a man like the Jerk thinks he’d make a good president, he better do some serious soul searching. He claims to support our troops, but the experience we had with him shows me he’s full of shit.

The true colors of an American hero? A patriot? One who claims to respect the military? Not. Go read why…

UPDATE-
I just found this article that says a lot:

The John McCain candidacy, launched amid much hope, fanfare, and high expectations, may be dying before our eyes.

Even worse, it may go out with a whimper instead of a bang.

It may not end in an Armageddon style primary defeat, but just dry up from lack of support, money, or interest.

Throughout all of 2006, McCain sat atop the polls right next to Rudy Giuliani. In the Fox News survey of December, 2006, he was getting 27 percent of the Republican primary vote to Rudy’s 31 percent. But, after Giuliani announced that he was running, the Arizona senator fell to 24 percent while Rudy soared into the stratosphere at 41 percent of the primary voters. But even when McCain was polling well, he wasn’t raising the money he needs for this campaign.

In the last quarter of 2006, during a time when he was tied for front-runner status in the GOP and doing well in general election matchups against likely Democratic rivals like Hillary Clinton, he raised only $1.7 million according to his filing with the Federal Elections Commission.

Even worse, he had less than $500,000 on hand, pocket change in a presidential race and barely adequate for a run for Congress.

Part of McCain’s problem was that he wasn’t raising money. But the other part has been that he is spending money too rapidly — and not on reaching voters but on paying political consultants. One top Republican operative from the old Reagan campaign commented, “McCain has hired every consultant he can find. He has all the top names, but no money.”

What is McCain’s problem?

Dick Morris has more analysis on this.

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Has John Dumbo Murtha lost his ability to influence his own party? Has the old coot managed to show, in bright colors, just how torn apart the Lemoncrats (TM) really are? It appears that way.

The plan was bold: By tying President Bush’s $100 billion war request to strict standards of troop safety and readiness, Democrats believed they could grab hold of Iraq war policy while forcing Republicans to defend sending troops into battle without the necessary training or equipment.

But a botched launch by the plan’s author, Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), has united Republicans and divided Democrats, sending the latter back to the drawing board just a week before scheduled legislative action, a score of House Democratic lawmakers said last week.

Members of both parties got wind of Black Jack’s latest attempt to cut and run, to leave the troops he so adamently claims to love and defend- without the tools they need to fight the battles they face. Dumbo Murtha is a traitor to the American military and to the American people. And it’s coming back full force at him.

“If this is going to be legislation that’s crafted in such a way that holds back resources from our troops, that is a non-starter, an absolute non-starter,” declared Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah), a leader of the conservative Blue Dog Democrats.

Murtha’s credentials as a Marine combat veteran, a critic of the war and close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) were supposed to make him an unassailable spokesman for Democratic war policy. Instead, he has become a lightning rod for criticism from Republicans and members of his own party.

Lightening rod is a polite term. When members of his own party question the motive and ethics of Dumbo’s latest moonbat driven proposals, it says much. Of course Republicans went wild over the sneaky underhanded antics employed here- we’re supposed to do that…our job is to watch for this stuff and expose it.

The story of Murtha’s star-crossed plan illustrates the Democratic Party’s deep divisions over the Iraq war and how the new House majority has yet to establish firm control over Congress. From the beginning, Murtha acted on his own to craft a complicated legislative strategy on the war, without consulting fellow Democrats. When he chose to roll out the details on a liberal, antiwar Web site on Feb. 15, he caught even Pelosi by surprise while infuriating Democrats from conservative districts.

Then for an entire week, as members of Congress returned home for a recess, Murtha refused to speak further. Democratic leaders failed to step into the vacuum, and Republicans relentlessly attacked a plan they called a strategy to slowly bleed the war of troops and funds. By the end of the recess, Murtha’s once promising strategy was in tatters.

Yes it was and still is in tatters; because MOST people were shocked and PISSED off about it. Further, this event showed the American people just how rotten the lemons really are when it comes to all things military and war like. Dumbo Murtha shut up cause he was TOLD TO BE QUIET. Cruella Pelosi cracked her whip. There is no other reason.

Murtha, 74, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, still holds a unique position on war policy, stemming from his roots as a veteran, his close ties to the uniformed military and his long-standing alliance with Pelosi. When he first publicly called for ending the war in 2005, he commanded the attention the party’s left and right wings.

The strategy he would craft was designed to calm the nerves of the party’s conservatives by fully funding the war, while placating the antiwar left by attaching so many strings to those funds that the president would not be able to deploy all the 21,500 additional combat troops he wanted.

To be sent to battle, troops would have to have had a year’s rest between combat tours. Soldiers in Iraq could not have their tours extended beyond a year there. And the Pentagon’s “stop-loss” policy, which prevents some officers from leaving the military when their service obligations are up, would end. Troops would have to be trained in counterinsurgency and urban warfare and be sent overseas with the equipment they used in training.

I really hope this non plan of a plan is DEAD because many troops will be if this becomes law. Dumbo KNOWS this and it sickens me that he would do this to the military. It also sickens me that ANY member of the House, Republican and Lemoncrat, would endorse this.

Pelosi endorsed the plan in concept but never the details. The plan surfaced Feb. 15 in an unorthodox Murtha appearance on MoveCongress.org, an antiwar Web site affiliated with the liberal activists of MoveOn.org.

It came the day before the House voted on a nonbinding resolution opposing Bush’s additional troop deployments that Democratic leaders had been touting as a major rebuke. Murtha dismissed that vote as he promoted his coming plans regarding the war spending bill. “This vote will be the most important vote in changing the direction on this war,” he said of his proposal. “This vote will limit the options of the president and should stop the surge.”

To many Democrats, that was not only impolitic, it was disloyal.

Why the Lemoncrats feel such a NEED to pacify the likes of the MoveOn people is beyond me…these people are anti-American, not just anti war. They share beds with ANSWER- the pro-communinst activists. Do the Lemoncrats want to be associated with these people? Nevermind basing legislation upon the warped and very small numbers of people these thug groups represent…no wonder the Lemoncrats cannot do the right thing. They’re hanging with the wrong crowd! And Boss Cruella has proven she is not capable of holding her position of power. She’s not on top of things; she doesn’t have command. Her boy toy Dumbo Murtha is pushing her around.

Even after that Web appearance, some senior Democratic aides say Murtha might well have been able to save his plan if he had quickly laid it out before the Democratic caucus and marshaled Democratic leaders behind a defense. Instead, the House recessed for a week, Murtha disappeared from the media, and Democratic leaders were silent, saying they could not discuss Iraq legislation because no real plan existed.

Sabotage and surrender is not a plan. It’s a strategy. And it’s often the very backbone of these Lemoncrats like Murtha, who are too dumb to come up with anything more viable. He’s a thug. A stupid one at that…and it’s showing now. Just listening to him one gets the impression of the level of education and expertise he (does not) have. To give him the power he has is dangerous to America. I’m thinking he needs to removed from his high chair and placed back in the play pen.

In the face of an unanswered Republican assault, the Democratic rank-and-file cracked — on the left and the right.

“While we’re all for troop readiness, we’re all for them having all the equipment they want,” Matheson, the Utah Democrat, said, “I’d be very concerned about doing anything that would hamstring resources and commanders on the ground.”

Indeed, Matheson and other Blue Dogs said the Democrats should concentrate on oversight hearings on Iraq policy, while refraining from binding legislation on the war.

They can’t have it both ways. BUT they cannot cut the tools our soldiers and Marines MUST have while they are at war; and the war is real, it’s live, it’s happening. Whether people agree with the merit of this war isn’t up for debate anymore (although some think it is). Now, we have a duty to see the mission in Iraq through- and stand with our military and support them. I think the Lemoncrats are dealing themselves a very sore loser when they ponder ideas of ending this support with these sneaky and unethical deeds and deals being handed by Dumbo Murtha. He needs to GO. Nancy Pelosi needs to cut and run from Murtha and fast. Question is: Does she have the balls to do this?

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Everybody knows John is a Liberal in Disguise, but did you know he is the worst American Senator I can think of…

Sen. John McCain Calls Rumsfeld One of the Worst Defense Secretaries in U.S. History

We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement — that’s the kindest word I can give you — of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war,” the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. “The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously.”

John is a fool and I would vote for Hillary before I vote for this fool! at least I know I am getting screwed by her, John has been lying his whole career…fucking career politician.

I will only Vote for someone that has a spine and will stand up for America. They have to support the American Hero’s in the War on Terror, Build a fence to stop the Mexican Invasion, Stop the growth of Government welfare programs.

Who will do that? I only hear Tom Tancredo talking about it and also walking the walk.

Never will John win…

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Jaguar kills Denver zookeeper

A jaguar mauled a Denver zookeeper to death today at about 11:30 a.m. as she was working inside the animal’s cage, officials say.

The employee, whose identity was not released, was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, but died from her injuries, said Sonny Jackson, Denver police spokesman.

Zookeepers who entered the jaguar’s enclosure to rescue the injured worker shot the animal to death when it approached them, said Tiffany Barnhart, zoo spokeswoman.

Damn, that is a bad day.

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Sorry I have been neglecting my site way more than I should, Life is like that. and Right now I have been taking care of family and business issues sense I moved back to Colorado (and while I was away it turned into a blue WAKO state) we need to make it red again.  And soon!

Raven my first and best on line friend has been helping me with posts here and there. I am forever in her Debt.

I think (not 100% sure yet) that I will start having some time each day to read and to post on the issues at hand.

What are the issue these days?

1. Bush and the lost spine, who could step into place next
2. Lemocrats who want to lose and feel sorry for themselves (and then blame Bush)
3. The Global War on Terror
4. Criminal Immigration / Identity Theft / MexiDruggies
5. Colorado Politics
6. Stupid Peoples Independent Socialists Republic of Boulder (something to laugh at)
7. Triathlons

I signed up for the Boulder Muddy Buddy with my sister (we won our age group several years ago.

This is the best race I have ever attempted, in fact this will be my 5th.

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My Friend Mustang sent this a couple weeks ago, I am just now getting to my emails.

No One Asked Us

Major Stan Coerr, USMCR
George Bush coalesced American support behind invading Iraq, I am told, using two arguments: Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and the capability to deliver them, and Iraq was a supporter of Al-Qaeda terrorism, and may have been involved in the attacks of 9/11. Vicious words and gratuitous finger-pointing keep falling back on these points, as people insist that “we” were misled into what started as a dynamic liberation and has become a bloody counterinsurgency. Watching politicians declaim and hearing television experts expound on why we went to war and on their opinions of those running the White House and Defense Department, I have one question.
When is someone going to ask the guys who were there?
What about the opinions of those whose lives were on the line, massed on the Iraq-Kuwait border beginning in February of last year? I don’t know how President Bush got the country behind him, because at the time I was living in a hole in the dirt in northern Kuwait. Why have I not heard a word from anyone who actually carried a rifle or flew a plane into bad guy country last year, and who has since had to deal with the ugly aftermath of a violent liberation? What about the guys who had the most to lose—what do they think about all this?
I was there. I am one of those guys who fought the war and helped keep the peace. I am a Major in the Marine Reserves, and during the war I was the senior American attached to the 1 Royal Irish Battlegroup, a rifle battalion of the British Army. I was commander of five U.S. Marine air/naval gunfire liaison teams, as well as the liaison officer between U.S. Marines and British Army forces. I was activated on January 14, 2003, and 17 days later I and my Marines were standing in Kuwait with all of our gear, ready to go to war.
I majored in Political Science at Duke, and I graduated with a Masters degree in government from the Kennedy School at Harvard. I understand realpolitik, geopolitical jujitsu, economics and the reality of the Arab world. I know the tension between the White House, the UN, Langley and Foggy Bottom. One of my grandfathers was a two-star Navy admiral; my other grandfather was an ambassador. I am not a pushover, blindly following whoever is in charge, and I don’t kid myself that I live in a perfect world. But the war made sense then, and the occupation makes sense now.
As dawn broke on March 22, 2003, I became part of one of the largest and fastest land movements in the history of war. I went across the border alongside my brothers in the Royal Irish, following the 5th Marine Regiment from Camp Pendleton as they swept through the Ramaylah oil fields. I was one those guys you saw on TV every night- filthy, hot, exhausted. I think the NRA and their right-to-bear-arms mantra is a joke, but by God I was carrying a loaded rifle, a loaded pistol and a knife on my body at all times. My boots rested on sandbags on the floor of my Humvee, there to protect me from the blast of a land mines or IED.
I killed many Iraqi soldiers, as they tried to kill me and my Marines. I did it with a radio, directing airstrikes and artillery, in concert with my British artillery officer counterpart, in combat along the Hamar Canal in southern Iraq. I saw, up close, everything the rest of you see in the newspapers: dead bodies, parts of dead bodies, helmets with bullet holes through them, handcuffed POWs sitting in the sand, oil well fires with flames reaching 100 feet into the air and a roar you could hear from over a mile away.
I stood on the bloody sand where Marine Second Lieutenant Therrel Childers was the first American killed on the ground. I pointed a loaded weapon at another man for the first time in my life.  I did what I had spent 14 years training to do, and my Marines - your Marines - performed so well it still brings tears to my eyes to think about it. I was proud of what we did then, and I am proud of it now.
Along with the violence, I saw many things that lifted my heart. I saw thousands of Iraqis in cities like Qurnah and Medinah - men, women, children, grandparents carrying babies - running into the streets at the sight of us, the first Western army to arrive. I saw them screaming, crying, waving, cheering. They ran from their homes at the sound of our Humvee tires roaring in from the south, bringing bread and tea and cigarettes and photos of their children. They chattered at us in Arabic, and we spoke to them in English, and neither understood the other. The entire time I was in Iraq, I had one impression from the civilians I met: Thank God, finally someone has arrived with bigger men and bigger guns to be, at last, on our side.
Let there be no mistake, those of you who don’t believe in this war: the Ba’ath regime were the Nazis of the second half of the 20th century. I saw what the murderous, brutal regime of Saddam Hussein wrought on that country through his party and their Fedayeen henchmen. They raped, murdered, tortured, extorted and terrorized those in that country for 35 years. There are mass graves throughout Iraq only now being discovered. 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, liberated a prison in Iraq populated entirely by children. The Ba’athists brutalized the weakest among them, and killed the strongest.
I saw in the eyes of the people how a generation of fear reflects in the human soul.
The Ba’ath Party, like the Nazis before them, kept power by spreading out, placing their officials in every city and every village to keep the people under their boot. Everywhere we went we found rifles, ammunition, RPG rounds, mortar shells, rocket launchers, and artillery. When we took over the southern city of Ramaylah, our battalion commander tore down the Ba’ath signs and commandeered the former regime headquarters in town (which, by the way, was 20 feet from the local school.) My commander himself took over the office of the local Ba’ath leader, and in opening the desk of that thug found a set of brass knuckles and a gun. These are the people who are now in prison, and that is where they deserve to be.
The analogy is simple. For years, you have watched the same large, violent man come home every night, and you have listened to his yelling and the crying and the screams of children and the noise of breaking glass, and you have always known that he was beating his wife and his children. Everyone on the block has known it. You ask, cajole, threaten and beg him to stop, on behalf of the rest of the neighborhood. Nothing works. After listening to it for 13 years, you finally gather up the biggest, meanest guys you can find, you go over to his house, and you kick the door down. You punch him in the face and drag him away. The house is a mess, the family poor and abused — but now there is hope. You did the right thing.
I can speak with authority on the opinions of both British and American infantry in that place and at that time. Let me make this clear: at no time did anyone say or imply to any of us that we were invading Iraq to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction, nor were we there to avenge 9/11. We knew we were there for one reason: to rid the world of a tyrant, and to give Iraq back to Iraqis.
None of us had even heard those arguments for going to war until we returned, and we still don’t understand the confusion. To us, it was simple. The world needed to be rid of a man who committed mass murder of an entire people, and our country was the only one that could project that much power that far and with that kind of precision. We don’t make policy decisions: we carry them out. And none of us had the slightest doubt about how right and good our actions were.
The war was the right thing to do then, and in hindsight it was still the right thing to do. We can’t overthrow every murderous tyrant in the world, but when we can, we should. Take it from someone who was there, and who stood to lose everything. We must, and will, stay the course. We owe it to the Iraqis, and to the world.
Stan Coerr is a SuperCobra attack helicopter pilot and Forward Air Controller, and was recently selected for Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He lives in San Diego.

What the Liberals are doing is trying to lose the war so they can blame Bush…they are wrong…very wrong

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Two years ago today. The LIMB Support Group was formed.

And I still remember spilling my coffee all over my lap reading the comments to that post.

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Did you know Ward Churchill has a fan club?? And this club has a blog??

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Be inspired.

Cpl. Cooper Brannan isn’t one of those guys who’d give his right arm to do anything.

Marines such as Brannan work hard for everything they get.

No shortcuts. No trade-offs.

So instead of talking dreamily, as young men will, about giving his right arm for a chance to play in the major leagues, Brannan went to war and gave up a chunk of his left hand for his country.

His right hand, though, may be plenty enough to take the former Gilbert Highland star to the mound with the San Diego Padres.

Brannan, 22, signed a letter of intent last week with the Padres and is scheduled to finalize a formal contract once he is discharged from the Marine Corps in May. Meanwhile, he will go on leave - officially assigned to spring training.

Semper Fi Cpl. Brannon

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BWAHAHAH!! Hollywood ditched Billary for Obama. Politics are about to go INSANE for the Lemoncrats (TM):

Hillary Clinton was reportedly “furious” at the three Hollywood moguls and Clinton “friends” who hosted Tuesday night’s fund-raiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Three of the entertainment industry’s biggest names – DreamWorks studio founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen – hosted the private Beverly Hills fund-raiser for Sen. Obama, and checks from Hollywood’s A-list of stars – including George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Barbra Streisand – added up to a one-night take of $1 million.

The New York Post, quoting a source, said Sen. Clinton “was furious at the three, who she thought were her friends, for supporting her rival.”

You know…Hollywood is all about appearances and looks and other phoney traits, right? Given a choice between Billary and Obama, HE wins. Because SHE is nothing to look at even with all her clout.

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Americans want to WIN?? Since when? According to the Lemoncrats (TM) we want to lose..and lose big time. We want to run away screaming with white flags waving.

Public Opinion Strategies conducted a poll about Iraq and America’s involvement…asking people from both sides of the fence what they think.

The Report, with Poll results (PDF)

* 57% believe “The Iraq War is a key part of the global war on terrorism.”

* 57% “support finishing the job in Iraq, that is, keeping the troops there until the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people.

* 50% want our troops should stay and “do whatever it takes to restore order until the Iraqis can govern and provide security to their country” while only 17% favor immediate withdrawal

* 56% believe “Even if they have concerns about his war policies, Americans should stand behind the President in Iraq because we are at war.”

* 53% believe “The Democrats are going too far, too fast in pressing the President to withdraw the troops from Iraq.”

And:

* “The survey shows Americans want to win in Iraq, and that they understand Iraq is the central point in the war against terrorism and they can support a U.S. strategy aimed at achieving victory,” said Neil Newhouse, a partner in POS. “The idea of pulling back from Iraq is not where the majority of Americans are.”

* “How Americans view the war does not line up with the partisan messages or actions coming out of Washington,” said Davis Lundy, president of The Moriah Group [the Chattanooga PR firm which commissioned the survey]. “There are still a majority of Americans out there who want to support the President and a focused effort to define and achieve victory.”

* “The key group driving public opinion here are what we call the “nose-holders”, said Newhouse. “They don’t believe we should have gone to war or should still be there, but they believe we should stay and do whatever it takes to restore order until the Iraqis can govern and provide security for their own country.”

OK…I get it now. I have thought all along the Lemoncrats were over rating the public opinion on this war…and claiming a mandate to end our involvement in Iraq as a voice to the American people. Now we have some tangible proof.

What’s next? Will the limpy dicked weakling Democrats change their strategy? No. Probably not…but at least we know the truth now and they chose to ignore it. As always.

Rick Moran is spot on with this:

Perhaps if we all stopped treating the public as little children who need to be told what to think, what to believe about Iraq, we could get beyond the one dimensional critiques of the war on both sides and work together on a plan consistent with their wishes to get out of Iraq with the goal of leaving an Iraqi government in place that can handle its own security and not be a threat to us or her neighbors. If those goals are achieved, I think it’s pretty clear that the majority of Americans would see our efforts in Iraq as a success. Perhaps not a “victory” in any realistic sense – but far from a defeat and definitely something to build on in the years ahead as Iraq will continue to struggle with instituting democracy.

Americans have always been winners. Why now, the sudden popularity with being losers? Does it say something about the Lemoncrats (TM) who control the House??

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If the Democrats could only practice what they preach.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is cautioning Republicans against blocking a vote Monday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq, saying it would be a “terrible mistake.”

“It’s obstructionism,” said Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “This is not tolerable in a situation where it’s the number one topic in the nation, and the Republican party prevents the Senate of the United States from debating.”

No it’s not obstructionism my dear. It’s standing up for the right things- this case it’s about NOT cutting and running and burying one’s head in the sand. Some Republicans still have the balls to do this. The number one topic in the nation? Yes. Bet we can change that fast though: Let someone present a serious bill to outlaw abortion…then we’ll see what’s the number one topic. Democrats are the most disingenuous lot of people there are. Every “new” idea they have come up with lately are all old ideas, recycled and re-named. Don’t fall for their grand standing on Iraq. They could care less.

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