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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Larry Elder :: Townhall.com Columnist
Regarding Iraq: Open letter to Andy Rooney
by Larry Elder
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-- Former Secretary of State and informal Bush adviser Henry Kissinger -- who knows something about the consequences of cutting and running -- wrote, "Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy."

-- The political aim of our Islamofascist enemies is a worldwide Caliphate, or Islamic world. Renowned Islam expert Bernard Lewis recently reiterated his support for the war: "The response to 9/11 came as a nasty surprise [to bin Laden and his followers]. They were expecting more of the same -- bleating and apologies -- instead of which they got a vigorous reaction, first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. And as they used to say in Moscow: It is no accident, comrades, that there has been no successful attack in the United States since then. . . . [T]he effort is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us."

True, 2,800 of our best have died. Any figure above zero is a tragedy. But America -- on both sides of the Civil War -- lost more than 600,000 soldiers, or 2 percent of the country's population of 31 million. Of our country's 132 million, we lost more than 400,000 in World War II, or .3 percent of our population. In the Korean War, we lost 37,000, and the Vietnam War saw 58,000 dead.

Many people say that after failing to find stockpiles of WMD, Bush "switched" rationale for the war. Consider this excerpt from a New York Times editorial about a speech Bush gave weeks before the coalition entered Iraq:

"President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead of focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, or reducing the threat of terror to the United States, Mr. Bush talked about establishing a 'free and peaceful Iraq' that would serve as a 'dramatic and inspiring example' to the entire Arab and Muslim world, provide a stabilizing influence in the Middle East and even help end the Arab-Israeli conflict."

Still confused? Please write back, and I'll try again.

Sincerely yours, Larry Elder

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Larry Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author. His latest book, "What's Race Got to Do with It?" is available now.
 
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Glassman: Have mercy on us
For the love of the (non-)Diety(/ties) of your choice or non-belief PRESS THE ENTER KEY A FEW TIMES. You think someone is going to read that massive block of letters with no break on the eyes?

IS THIS SO FAR FETCHED?
Here is what I see going on. There is no way for me to know if this is any kind of a conspiracy, but it is definitely happening and it is not good. The Chinese are supplying Iran with weapons. Sure, some weapons are officially going from North Korea to Iran, but N. Korea does nothing China does not allow. Therefore,Iran is taking these Chinese weapons and distributing them to their various terrorist gangs to engage America and/or Israel.America has to defend the free world and support Israel.This costs money, lots of it.Now Iran is in the process of making nuclear weapons.Not many people know it, but Russia sold Iran ballistic missile subs while Billibabla Clintahammud was chasing Harmonica Blowlowski around the Oval Office.Now AMERICA is going to have to spend billions to prevent Iran from nuking more than a couple of AMERICAN cities.Add to this the billions we will need to recover from the nukes that probably will go off in AMERICA before the lefterals (leftist liberals) allow the military to end the threat from Iran.All this time,China is bleeding AMERICA’S economy dry by using slave labor to take more and more AMERICAN jobs away from AMERICA and bankrupting the companies that try to compete without closing their AMERICAN factories and moving them to China.When the AMERICAN economy collapses from all this, our military will become a shell of its former self because we will still be fighting terrorists supplied with weapons from China,but we will not be able to replace anything used or lost fighting terrorists because the government will be broke due to no one paying any taxes. That’s because nothing will be manufactured in AMERICA, on account of all the import buying and the foreign companies,who do assemble goods over here,don’t pay any corporate income tax because their books say they don’t make any money and no one,who could do anything about it,will.All this time China is steadily building up their military,with the help of traitorous AMERICANS and money-grubbing western countries like France and Germany.Then,China will deal the final blow to AMERICA’S economy by nationalizing the only AMERICAN owned factories left,the ones built in China by companies that would have gone out of business if they did not.This could have been averted,in my opinion,with tariffs on all goods imported into AMERICA in excess of the amount of untariffed goods a country buys from AMERICA.And don’t hand me any crap about trade wars.Our trade deficit(3/4 trillion per year and skyrocketing)tells me that AMERICA would kick butt in that war.Sure,some companies may suffer, but they WOULD HAVE(tariffs ain’t going to happen as long as there are lobbyists)brought that on themselves by moving their factories overseas.Anyway,with AMERICA’S military broken and broke,we will be at the mercy of China and their thugs,the Muslim insanists,if there are any left alive.I don’t remember China being merciful to anyone before,so I don’t see them starting then.AMERICA could be in for some deep #@$&%!~();&:* and it will be our own fault.
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