Words, merely empty words meant more to calm a nation than a clarion call to arms, is that all these words were President Bush? Saddam was a terrific start even if it was executed haphazardly due your administrations confusion, and no I don’t consider Afghanistan a start it was merely a warm up. With Iran baldfacededly throwing insults and threats towards our very civilization do we now back away from those words? Were those words mere signals to show how serious you were? Did you never conceive that another nation might just call your bluff? Now we face the main powers behind some of the worlds worst terror and in the face off we have not merely blinked but have closed our eyes and turned away. Did you mean these words President Bush?
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. (Applause.)
They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions — by abandoning every value except the will to power — they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies. (Applause.)
Pray tell how will that happen if the worlds only hyper power does not even have the will to increase defense spending to the level of former President Clinton who candidate Bush chided for crippling the military? Don’t believe me? Here are the facts showing the story of a President unwilling to dedicate the same percentage of funds towards defense as Clinton did and Clinton was not facing multiple maniacal nations led by religious freaks (ht: Theodicy ) threatening to end civilization. (1990=5.6, 1991=5.0, 1992=5.2, 1993=4.8, 1994=4.3, 1995=4.0, 1996=3.7, 1997=3.5, 1998=3.3, 1999=3.3) Defense spending in 2003 remained at 3.3% of GDP a level that marked the lowest point of the Clinton years.
Explain Mr President who it is that will bring down the remaining members of something you call the Axis of Evil if you are unwilling to do so? Shall we throw Israel to the wolves? Will the Jews again feel the wrath of the mass murderers because we are unwilling to settle a debt from 1983 when 241 of our Marines were cold bloodedly murdered by Iran’s former religious freaks? We all know that Israel by itself cannot bring down Iran, especially not with the current leadership it has burdened itself with. Indeed it is entirely possible to believe that Olmert had absolutely no idea what sort of forces were set in motion when he started responding to the terror that Iran directed its proxies to rain down on his country’s head.
Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.
Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom. (further on)
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Iran has admitted to giving weapons to Hezballah. Indeed Iran has bragged that Israel must be wiped (ht Blogs of War ) from the face of the earth. Where is the starting point for negotiations with a nation threatening extermination for a one of our most steadfast allies? Do we compromise and sacrifice Haifa or Tel Aviv? Is the compromise with a madman demanding the extermination of a people that we sacrifice only the old? The young? The cripples?
Some say that we must not attack Iran because to do so would risk alienating her people who are not our enemies. I have a great deal of sympathy for this attitude we are not murderers but neither are we martyrs willing to sacrifice our families for a people who refuse to overthrow a government threatening many with extermination. Also on a personal level I wish to avoid attacking Iran since at one point in my life I had some very strong feelings for a lovely Iranian woman. The problem is she is not running the country and apparently she is unable to gain control of her country. We cannot wait so long that we sacrifice our lives to save theirs. How sad a time we live in when we have to weigh in the balance our childrens lives against another peoples childrens lives to avoid the madness of a crazed religious lunatic.
It is time to live up to your words President Bush. Iran is the personification of evil your words warned us about and I pray your words were not mere posturing.
A list of others who are fearful we will wait too long.
Barbara Learner We’re Losing World War IV The Missiles of 27 Rajab by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
And the ever perceptive Andrew McCarthy War? What War?
Daily Pundit with a post that hits the spot…great minds think alike.
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