The Coming 3rd Iraqi War

Barack Obama has declared the war in Iraq over, and has withdrawn American troops. There was a ceremony in Iraq that was not attended by Iraqi officials. American troops were ingloriously moved to one of our bases in Kuwait. Here in the United States, there was nothing. Obama gave a speech, the press gave it a day’s worth of headlines, and life went on as normal…oblivious to all things Obama.

What am I missing? I am not a military planner. I have no experience with anything military. I have degree in international relations, but for the most part that was the Vietnam era. I am not privy to any classified information, and my general knowledge about both Iraq wars is limited. But it seems odd to me, and should to you, that America has now fought for Iraqi territory twice, and we have absolutely nothing to show for it but huge loss of American blood and treasure.

And what is worse, the existing government in Iraq is not particularly friendly to the United States even though its very existence is owed to the United States. Immediately upon withdrawal of American troops the sectarian violence in Iraq resumed with a vengeance. The government in Iraq is weak, and its former deadly enemy Iran is salivating at the border, ready and willing to fill the vacuum that the United States has left.

What is Obama doing? It seems to me that no country should have to fight for the same territory twice, and give it up a second time. In February of 1991 American troops were within 150 miles of Baghdad, and Bush the Elder unilaterally stopped the advance and withdrew American troops back to Kuwait. We had the sneaky bastards and the Iraqi Republican Army on the verge of collapse…and Bush withdrew.

Now Obama has done it again. It is Obama, not our troops, who is unilaterally leaving Iraq with his tail between his legs making whining noises about nobody better not ever try anything or else. He is leaving without one drop of oil, or not one petro dollar to repay the United States for disposing of the despot Saddam Hussein. What is he thinking?

What is really upsetting is Iran is still rushing headlong to make a nuclear bomb and wipe Israel off of the face of the earth. Obama has decided to sell some twenty odd fighter jets to Iraq. I hope Obama is smart enough to get paid in advance, because you can be sure that within a year or two those fighters will in the possession of Iran.

This is the single dumbest foreign policy move in a series of dumb foreign policy moves by the Obama administration which is acting on ideology rather that practicality and reality. The showdown with Iran is coming. It is just a matter of when. And our troops will have to fight for Iraq a third time. Only this time they will be fighting Iranians on Iraqi soil. Thank Mr. Obama for such a bright future. No American soldier should ever have to risk his/her life fighting for the same piece of land twice, let alone three times. And oh yes....

For those of you who will complain that we shouldn't have gone into Iraq the second time in the first place...you may or may not be right...but that doesn't make the withdrawal policy of the Obama administration any less lame!!!!!!

Punch Payroll Tax Here / Push Mortgage Tax There

Once again the old adage robbing Peter to pay Paul is rearing its ugly head in American fiscal policy. In the quintessential example of government "planning" gone amuck, the government extension of the payroll tax holiday for another month or for a year, depending on which politico is pontificating, is being paid by a $15.00/month tax on new mortgages backed by everybody's favorite Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac. And that's 90% of all mortgages currently being issued in the United States. Barack Obama has done a good job of making sure the private mortgage market is dead. 

Here's the skinny. As you have heard, 48% of all wage earners pay no income tax. It's tough to give a tax reduction to those who pay no taxes. However everybody pays a "payroll" tax which funds social security. As part of Obama's stimulus package, the payroll tax, although Social Security is going broke, was reduced from 6.2% to 4.2%. Unless Congress acts, the payroll tax will go back up to 6.2% January 1. The Senate bill extends the cut until February 28, 2012.

This effort is opposed by the House which wants to extend the payroll tax deduction for a full year, and the Republicans in both the House and the Senate have mixed in the construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to Houston for good measure. This was done in an attempt to back Barack to the wall to approve the pipeline, a shovel ready project that would create a minimum of 20,000 jobs and help assure North American energy independence, that so far he has refused to approve placating the global warming environmental whacko bunch.

Notwithstanding, the payroll tax reduction needs to be paid for. Although the payroll tax reduction is temporary, Congress has decided to pay for it with a $15.00/month permanent tax on new home mortgages. Isn't that special? And you thought Super President promised not to raise taxes on the middle class. Of course, he can say he really isn't raising taxes since no new mortgages are being issued anyway. Who knew?

This is pitiful. If you want to know why this country is going down the toilet, look at the policy these jack asses are implementing. You can poke it, shake it, reshape it, bend it, and squeeze it....but at the end of the day.... when dealing with these kinds of temporary fixes to the economy, you are always robbing Peter to pay Paul.

And don't forget to go and borrow money to buy a house to make sure you pay your fair share with that new $15.00/month tax!!!

Jon Stewart's Vile Comments About the Shroud of Turin

The war on Christmas took a particularly ugly and highly visible turn last week when Jon Stewart did “comedic” commentary re: Bill O’Reilly and other Fox News figures’ criticism of Rhode Island’s Governor Chafee who called the statehouse Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree. Stewart quipped that calling it a Holiday Tree is “not akin to wiping your ass with the Shroud of Turin.”

For those of you not familiar with the Shroud of Turin, it is a relic believed by many Roman Catholics to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. On the shroud is an imprint of a man who was crucified bearing all of the wounds described in Jesus’ crucifixion. Even more interesting is that while image is only faintly visible on the cloth, it is actually a photographic negative.

Experts are divided as the authenticity of the shroud. Carbon dating puts the origins of the cloth back in the middle ages thus making it impossible to be the burial shroud of Christ, but the carbon dating was done on a small sample, and the cloth had been almost destroyed in a fire during the middle ages. Scientists now feel that the carbon dating may have been skewed with carbon residue on the cloth from the fire. The cloth itself seems to be authentic to the time of Christ. Some scientists have claimed to have duplicated how the image on the shroud was created…but those claims have been unverified. The Catholic Church has taken a neutral stance on the shroud, but millions of Catholics and other faithful believe the image was created on the shroud at the moment of Christ’s resurrection.

To many, apparently Jon Stewart among them, the shroud is a fiction. But most matters of faith aren’t provable. That’s why it’s called faith. Is the shroud any more of a fiction than the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed mounted his horse, leaving his foot print in the rock, as he began his ascent to heaven?

So while Muslims attack and kill Christians throughout the Mideast, and fly planes into our buildings, and issue death sentences to those who bring Bibles into Saudi Arabia…Jon Stewart worries about Fox News complaining that Governor Chafee called a Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree.

The hypocrisy of the left is unending. Those who preach tolerance are the most intolerant of all. I can guarantee you that Jon Stewart would never use similar phraseology when commenting on Islamic issues. God forbid you print a picture of Mohammed and death edicts are issued by Muslim clergy while people riot in the streets for weeks.

Even more disturbing is that there is no outrage anywhere outside of the blogosphere about Mr. Stewart’s comments. The hate of Christianity from the left has become so prevalent in our society even vile comments like this are greeted with a “what’s new” shrug of the shoulders.

To be honest, I don’t know what can be done. I don’t watch so called liberal gurus like Jon Stewart and the hate mongers on the View. I stopped watching Bill Maher on HBO when he began to call President Bush a douche bag...over and over and over again. These folks claim to be comedians to shelter their vile and hateful comments.  But at the end of the day, they expose themselves for what they are: vile and hateful human beings who reveal the true face of American liberalism.  Shame on Jon Stewart.

Lynching Herman Cain

My first choice for the Republican presidential nominee is Newt Gingrich. My second is Chris Christie. And my third is…was…Herman Cain. Do you want to know why we don’t have better candidates running for office? Look at what they did to Cain. A rabid, liberal press, fearful of a black conservative presidential candidate, vilified a fine man on the word of some floozy bimbos not even alleging sexual misconduct…just that maybe he made some advances if that.

The credibility of these women was zero. They either had overt ties to the Democratic Party, or were in such terrible financial condition it was obvious they were looking to cash in on either money or their fifteen minutes of fame. Wolfe Blitzer media types, eyes bulging as their tongues wagged, jabbered on and on and on and on, never questioning anything these women said.  This was the same press that looked the other way on John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and the Kennedy brothers…especially Ted.

Here is the liberal segment of our society, the supposed champion of the downtrodden and racially oppressed, leading the charge for a public lynching of a black candidate because he didn’t fit the mold. They pulled the worst kind of racism out of their collective hats…black men having sex with white women. The Dems and their media supplicants called out the dogs to keep the uppity black man on the plantation until he learned his place. Shame on them!!! It is disgusting and vile. What have we come to in this nation?

I think we all can agree Herman Cain was not the best choice for a Republican presidential candidate. Although a shrewd businessman, he lacked governmental experience and political savvy. I don’t think even he believed the press could be guilty of such contemptible conduct, and was unprepared for the frontal assault. Now he has withdrawn to try to heal the wounds and repair damage to his marriage based on innuendo…and not much innuendo at that.

Even if just half of the accusations were true, they wouldn’t rise to the standard of sexual tolerance of public officials established by Bill Clinton: oral sex in the oval office with a twenty year old intern…then lying about it under oath parsing words. Let’s not forget all of his other indiscretions, one of which approached if not crossed the line of rape. Of course, for Bill Clinton, it was the women who were the evil ones. Not him.  The press still treats it as a joke.

What happened to Herman Cain is the true racism that exists in America. It is racism in its worse form perpetrated by those who claim to be enlightened. Whether it is Herman Cain or Clarence Thomas, raising up the myth of black sexual prowess in order to defeat an African American with whom the liberals disagree is wrong.

Like I said, you wonder why we can’t get good people to run for office.