My Turn ( A Christian View Point on Everyday Issues and News)

I have not posted anything here for some time. I was under the weather for a while due to allergies. I have been somewhat following the news about the prison scandals in Iraq. I am at the point where you have so much to say but you just don't have the patience to put it all down on paper. So I read David Limbaugh's column and he just took the words out of my mouth. Here is an excerpt of what he said you can read the whole article here

"The pugnacious antiwar Left, after shooting mostly blanks at President Bush since we invaded Iraq, believes he is finally wounded. And like sharks, their appetites are surging with the scent of his first drops of blood.

Will the Left's dream of destroying George Bush finally be realized with reports of our soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war? I am optimistic that the answer is "no" after hearing President Bush firmly announce that he will stay the course. But it won't be because the Left tires of trying.

They have tried everything, mounting every conceivable criticism since we attacked Iraq. Nothing has worked yet, including such gems as "quagmire," "unilateralism," "unwelcoming Iraqis," "we haven't captured Saddam" and "Bush lied about WMD," to name a few.

But they really thought they'd hit pay dirt with Richard Clarke's book and counterintuitive testimony declaring, in essence, that President Bush's powerful performance as commander in chief since 9-11 is overshadowed by his relative laxity toward terrorism prior to 9-11. Ultimately his claims proved to be so irrelevant -- if not incredible -- as to be absurd.

This abuse incident, though, gives the Left new reason for hope. But their fantasy that these revelations will show that we should never have attacked Iraq is bizarre. And their hope of indicting the entire Defense Department, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush over the actions of a few is shamefully ludicrous and shows they're looking for any excuse to undermine the administration during this election year.

More important, the Left's hysteria over the abuse illustrates how differently they view the enemy, and how much they misapprehend the motives and mindset of conservatives and President Bush. It underscores just how detrimental it would be to American security if they recaptured the White House during this critical, white-hot phase of the War on Terror.

The Left is intrinsically appeasement-oriented. You have to club them over the head with evidence before they'll acknowledge the evil and threat of terrorism. September 11 was such a club, but they've already forgotten about it, with their leader John Kerry saying we're exaggerating the threat.

Their appeasing nature leads many of them to agonize over what we did to cause Osama to attack us, to prefer isolated cruise missile attacks, sanctions or endless weapons inspections to full-scale military assaults, and to ignore Saddam's multiple violations of U.N. resolutions. It deludes them into believing that terrorists can be negotiated with and mollified and that the Arab press could be won over but for our infractions.

But the most troublesome aspect of the Left's naïve worldview is that it precludes them from understanding the scope of the War on Terror. They seem to believe that since Osama masterminded the 9-11 attacks, we should limit our response to Al Qaeda and possibly the supporting Taliban regime."

If I was not an American, just listening and reading to the main stream press such as CBS, CNN, NYTimes, etc. will make me hate this country. In their zeal to discredit Bush, the main stream media has done nothing but destroy the image of America and put American lives in danger all over the world. Everyday that passes, they give the enemy more ammunition to fight and destroy Americans that they never had before.

In the eyes of the Islamic radicals, America and George Bush is the "real enemy" according to the democrats and the left, George Bush is the "real enemy", not the people who brough the war to our door steps, not the terriorists, but Bush. To me, it seems the left and Islamic radicals are on the same side.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, whatever a person sows, that will he also reap. Those who go around sowing lies and deceit will definitely reap the same.

posted by elizabeth @ 4:18 PM