American liberals, Congressional Democrats and anti war idiots across the fruited plain are doing their best to ignore something, they don't want you to notice either and are pulling out all the stops to divert your attention from it.

We are winning the struggle for Iraq.

I submit for your consideration. The main stream media, with it's predominantly anti war agenda has almost imperceptibly begun to broadcast positive news coming from Baghdad. And never forget, Baghdad is the key to Iraq. Baghdad and the Al Anbar Province is where the violence is concentrated, but Baghdad is generally recognized by the experts as the linchpin of Iraq. Control the situation in Baghdad and you control Iraq.

Mooky Al Sadr has fled Iraq and is now safely tucked away in Iran. Do you need any further proof that Iran has been supporting Mooky and his ilk all along?

Iraq has ordered her borders with Syria and Iran sealed.

Since our courageous troops began offensive operations in Baghdad, there have been no attacks on our troops.

The spectre of our troops going on the offensive and taking the fight right at the militias and death squads in Baghdad was enough to force them into hiding. Our troops are weeding them out and killing or capturing them at breakneck speed. And high ranking terrorists have been killed or captured as well.

Liberal bloggers both professional and amateur are going nuts! They have gone off the deep end. Our troops are now regularly being called mercenaries. In general, the liberal blogesphere has pulled out all the stops in a desperate smear campaign directed at our Commander in Chief and our Soldiers and Marines. It has been a very disgraceful display.

The Democratically controlled Congress, now full of yellow bellied anti war cowards have spent the last week debating a useless nonbinding vote to oppose a troop surge that has already begun?! Talk about desperation. I hold any representative who votes in favor of this measure in utter contempt! Words fail to describe how I feel about these traitors! Lets suffice to say that I think our troops will remember this in the next election; I know I will.

Consider if you will, the mass and power of the United States Army, and Marine Corps. If our ground forces are determined to out last the insurgents they can. It is a matter of numbers. While I don't think that ten Iraqi lives are worth one of our troops, I submit to you that our overall casualty rate in Iraq is mild in comparison to wars past. And considering what our troops have accomplished in Iraq, the casualty rate is astounding. Our troops, even with draconian rules of engagement and other rules that interfere with their ability to protect themselves have performed miraculously.

All classic insurgencies eventually transition from guerrilla tactics to conventional military tactics. Read your military history, there are a plethora of examples. Where is the insurgent Army? Where is it hiding? Fact is, they don't have an army and they can't take control of Iraq when or if we leave. One of the features of this war that makes it different from insurgencies of the past is that the conventional component of the insurgents is non-existent. In other words, the insurgents and the foreign terrorists goal is simple, to force us out of the country. Once this was accomplished, what you would have seen, was the Iranian military moving in and taking over the country and we can all agree that would be a disaster.

Our troops have turned the corner my friends. And the worst nightmare of the screeching anti war crowd is on the verge of coming to fruition. We are going to win! Our troops have had to fight against the odds since the day widespread looting broke out upon the fall of the Hussein regime. But our troops never gave up, they watched, and they learned. The applied those lessons learned and became experts in this kind of war.

During this operation, I had faith in our military, hell, I helped train some of the troops over there and I know their quality. While I became frustrated with Rumsfeld and the OSD, I never lost faith in the military. Now, we have who I consider the best General Officer in the entire US Military leading the best Army we have ever had. We are going to win.

Be happy my friends, be happy indeed. And witness the three ring circus on Capital Hill as the Democratically controlled Congress attempts to convince the American public that we are losing, that we can't win and that we simply must leave Iraq.

Too late. We're winning.

William Arkin must go!

As you well know by now, William Arkin an employee of the Washington Post has created a firestorm in his blogs insulting, attacking the integrity of the American Soldier, questioning their motives for serving and berating them for craving the support of the American public.

I have been going to his blog since Feb 1 every so often to read responses to his hate filled diatribe and it can only be described as a circus.

I would caution anyone thinking about accessing his blog to see the responses, you will probably be disappointed. It is now dominated by five or six morons who have turned the comment's page into a running verbal abuse contest, not worth your time.

And as I pondered this issue, the thought occurred to me that Arkin may have created this controversy on purpose for the sake of ratings and attention. It seems like a strange way to go about it, but then again, Arkin is an avowed liberal lunatic, a hater in the first order who doesn't let facts get in the way.

I would urge Americans to respond in a way that Arkin, the Washington Post, NBC and General Electric will actually feel it.

Believe it or not, I subscribed to the Washington Post as a way to keep tabs on what the wacky left is up to, but two days ago I cancelled my subscription.

I will boycott NBC, if I could I would remove that channel from my television. Be that as it may, I will never tune to NBC again, or, until Arkin appears on national TV to admit his stupidity and apologize or, he is fired.

I have written an email to the CEO of General Electric, which is the parent company of NBC and the Washington Post and in that email I urged Jeffrey Immelt to have Arkin fired. I also informed Mr. Immelt that I'm dumping my shares of GE stock this week. I have procured a fair amount of GE stock as part of my kid's stock portfolio's that I intended to use to help pay for their college. But, there are plenty of blue chip stocks out there performing better than GE, it's no sacrifice to dump it.

I urge you all to stand up and be counted. This is something that you can do to really put some meaning in the statement "I support our troops."

Do it now people.

Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman & CEO
jeff.immelt@corporate.ge.com
General Electric Company3135
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Fairfield, CT 06828-0001

DUNCE!

Rockheads, below, you will find a blog entry from William Arkin of the Washington Post. I must give credit where it is due, I have read some of Arkin's writings and found them to be generally well informed, articulate and sometimes interesting, others not.

But, in the case of his blog "Troops Should Also Support The America Public" Arkin strikes me as a big baby. As a man who "got mad" at the troops because they had the nerve to express an opinion about the lack of support from the folks back home. As you read this incredibly ill advised blog, keep in mind that Arkin is a professional journalist, working at newspaper with a global readership and a good amount of influence. I think that Arkin's blog is more damaging then he realized.

One thing that I hoped that America would be able to avoid regarding the war in Iraq is an us versus them mentality i.e. an anti military movement against Soldiers. It appears that intended or not, Arkin's ill advised words have moved us one step closer to that catastrophe.

I would advise Mr. Arkin, that the I believe the vast majority of America does support the troops in so far as they will not tolerate a journalist using his position to attempt to discredit them. In fact, I think a good number of Americans are downright protective of their troops. From the number of responses his blog prompted, I'd say that is logical assumption.

If you are going to blog about the troops Mr. Arkin, weigh your words carefully and never presume, assume or guess.

I might add that this has turned into a running event. William Arkin has updated his blog in the attempt to explain why he was so critical of our troops and why he used the pejorative term "mercenary" to describe them, but I'd say he has a lot more to answer for than that. For his blog was more than inflammatory, it was divisive and even hurtful. If your going to blog like this Mr. Arkin, you should expect such responses, like they say. If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

I recommend reading his blog entries of Jan 30, 31 and Feb 1. His original attack on the troops, his condescending response to the hundreds of angry responses he received, and his attempt to explain why he did it.

William Arkin's blog

I've been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq last Friday in which a number of soldiers expressed frustration with opposition to war in the United States.
I'm sure the soldiers were expressing a majority opinion common amongst the ranks - that's why it is news - and I'm also sure no one in the military leadership or the administration put the soldiers up to expressing their views, nor steered NBC reporter Richard Engel to the story.
I'm all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn't for them to disapprove of the American people.
Friday's NBC Nightly News included a story from my colleague and friend Richard Engel, who was embedded with an active duty Army infantry battalion from Fort Lewis, Washington.
Engel relayed how "troops here say they are increasingly frustrated by American criticism of the war. Many take it personally, believing it is also criticism of what they've been fighting for."
First up was 21 year old junior enlisted man Tyler Johnson, whom Engel said was frustrated about war skepticism and thinks that critics "should come over and see what it's like firsthand before criticizing."
"You may support or say we support the troops, but, so you're not supporting what they do, what they're here sweating for, what we bleed for, what we die for. It just don't make sense to me," Johnson said.
Next up was Staff Sergeant Manuel Sahagun, who is on his second tour in Iraq. He complained that "one thing I don't like is when people back home say they support the troops, but they don't support the war. If they're going to support us, support us all the way."
Next was Specialist Peter Manna: "If they don't think we're doing a good job, everything that we've done here is all in vain," he said.
These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.
Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.
Sure, it is the junior enlisted men who go to jail. But even at anti-war protests, the focus is firmly on the White House and the policy. We don't see very many "baby killer" epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon.
So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?
I can imagine some post-9/11 moment, when the American people say enough already with the wars against terrorism and those in the national security establishment feel these same frustrations. In my little parable, those in leadership positions shake their heads that the people don't get it, that they don't understand that the threat from terrorism, while difficult to defeat, demands commitment and sacrifice and is very real because it is so shadowy, that the very survival of the United States is at stake. Those Hoovers and Nixons will use these kids in uniform as their soldiers. If it weren't about the United States, I'd say the story would end with a military coup where those in the know, and those with fire in their bellies, would save the nation from the people.
But it is the United States, and the recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.
The notion of dirty work is that, like laundry, it is something that has to be done but no one else wants to do it. But Iraq is not dirty work: it is not some necessary endeavor; the people just don't believe that anymore.
I'll accept that the soldiers, in order to soldier on, have to believe that they are manning the parapet, and that's where their frustrations come in. I'll accept as well that they are young and naive and are frustrated with their own lack of progress and the never changing situation in Iraq. Cut off from society and constantly told that everyone supports them, no wonder the debate back home confuses them.
America needs to ponder what it is we really owe those in uniform. I don't believe America needs a draft though I imagine we'd be having a different discussion if we had one.

Pretty incredible stuff huh? And some people wonder why the main stream media has such a terrible reputation.