Hitler is attributed as saying: The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. (This is a condensed version of a long formulation in Mein Kampf, although Goebbles used the term to describe the Jews’ use of same. Yes, it does sound like the height of hypocrisy… as so it is.)

Global Warming is the “big lie” of our times. And yes, I think I am justified in comparing Global Warming alarmist to Hitler. They, like Hitler, are using a big lie to gain power and riches. Al Gore is at the $100 million mark, but is predicted to become a Global Warming billionaire if this big lie is successful.

We can’t deny Big Al, now can we?

You are NOT going to hear it exposed on ABC, CBS, or NBC. I wonder when people will realize that Fox News, while not perfect, will report more of the news that the Big, Bad 3 censors/propagandists. Liberals may be upset because they can’t dispute FNC’s reporting as lies…because they aren’t able to disprove them. That’s the best side effect of telling the truth.

Conservatives are perfectly justified in calling ABC, CBS, and NBC as censors and propagandists. And these guys don’t require presidential kneepads anymore!

Headline I saw yesterday: 12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal

and they operate without the extreme ideological factor.

Gee, Obama should have read this as he was dithering around the WH and playing golf while our troops were waiting for reinforcements. Maybe it would have changed a few lines in his political diatribe. Some highlights;
- U.S. troops in Afghanistan increased by over 80% in the first five months of 2008
- Troops surged by 21,643, bringing the total U.S contingent in Afghanistan from 26,607 in January to 48,250 in June
- In September, 2008 – President Bush an increase of up to 4,500 U.S. troops

Sounds to me like they were getting everything they asked for- Oh and notice no time lines or budget gimmicks to cut their funding

We talked to him every week or so and I had a weekly mission of getting a case of Red Bull at Costco for him. You could get 21 of the 24 cans in a USPS Priority Flat Rate box and ship it to Afghanistan for $8.65. It would usually get there in a week. Anyway, they start missing their mail and he’s complaining bitterly about no mail, meaning no Red Bull that he was selling for exorbitant sums, so much so that I dropped a line to Sen. Stevens who tuned somebody up and they started getting mail regularly again. This goes on for a month or two and all he wants to talk about is getting mail and the “Air Force Pukes” who won’t fly it in. Finally, he gets a bunch of mail and calls home to tell us. Just in passing he asks me if I can find him a foam pad or an air mattress and send it to him because he’s tired of sleeping on a sheet of plywood; he’d been there for months! When he gets home, he has pictures of that fire base; a bunch of Conexes, some makeshift huts, and tents all surrounded by mountains of sandbags because of mortar attacks; it was a grim-looking place. He really had no use for our gallant NATO allies but came to appreciate them when they left and he had to do the sandbag filling duty they’d been performing.

And if the fire base wasn’t primitive enough, they’d go on patrol for a week or two at the time and live on the ground the whole time and eating MREs.

if our gov’t is teaching theirs how to be a democracy, how could they be anything other than corrupt?

From what I’ve gathered, Afghanistan hasn’t gone particularly well relative to Iraq and others.

My main point was if Bush and Rumsfeld had been competent warfighters, this would all be over and we would not have Bambi dealing with this mess.

our intervention in Afghanistan, but I think that we should do it right, and admit when we screw up. The initial invasion was handled well, but since then we’ve been at a loss for a comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan. Personally, I’m happy that we found the right strategy for Iraq before the Dems could screw it over, and I wish we could have found the right one for Afghanistan. I just think we should be realistic and acknowledge that not all was sunshine and roses under Bush and co. (though I certainly can’t blame them, given the difficulty of the task).

BTW, I think that Afghanistan is still salvageable under the right President and conditions, and had we someone with Bush’s tenacity as President, we might have found a strategy that worked. Oh, well.

I think we did better than the historical average in the two conflicts. That is a far cry from saying that they’ve been run smoothly, though.

The Clinton administration cut the defense budget to a point that it was considered “stripped.” Bush was only in office for less than a year, I believe, when 9/11 happened. As I’ve read somewhere, you go to war with the troops and equipment you have. With a Democrat contingent in Congress, trying to stop the wars at any cost, and, a reliant MSM trashinging Bush at every turn, true or not, you have a bad public opinion of the war, and, Code Pink. If the public has given up on amy war, the war is lost, just as in Vietnam. In all, I think you are wrong asthete, because I really believe your view of war all comes down to the dollars spent on it. You have said in your bio that you are a fiscal conservative. I think that there are many that believe that our country’s security means a little more than just dollar signs. Ron Paul put dollar signs on everything. I am not saying you follow Ron Paul, but I do have to question your desire for victory in Afghanistan, especially when it may come from the cost perspective.

I could very well be wrong; I would sure like to be, anyways!

Let me know if you want me to clarify anything else, Mr. Penguin.

Of know that no matter or condescending or arrogant he is with the press, it’s still highly likely that they’ll paint the Administration in a positive light.

I wish the press would hurry up and get tired of being taken for granted.