Greetings from Dublin, California. As you know, the family is spending a long weekend with friends in The San Francisco Bay area, and we had a wonderful time today at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, followed by a lovely Thai meal. The photo at the right is Madison, weightless in space (kinda).I want to share with you today a commentary from Michael K. Hurder writing in The Valley Times, an East Bay newspaper. Those of you familiar with San Francisco know what a hotbed of liberalism this area is, so to find an article such as this in a Bay Area newspaper is refreshing to say the least.
Lenin was right! Several years back the president and the vast majority of the U.S. political circle heeded the U.S. (ahem) intelligence community’s assessment that Saddam Hussein was a really bad man. They all agreed that Saddam was a threat to the world and the U.S. directly, that he had WMD, possibly even nukes and the absolute chutzpah to use them. All but Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oaklan, decided to oust the bad man…. at least verbally.
Only then did the Democrats find out that there existed a man in the White House who would do just that. (Arianna Huffington ststaed that the Dems would never have gone to war over that intel in spite of all the huffing and puffing they did prior to the invasion. My guess is they thought President Bush was as gutless as they).
Some years down the road it turns out the intel was “less than accurate.” The same folks who pretty much demanded the president do what he did immediatelty attempted to crucify him. It didn’t work.
After all, we were attacked and our security was still at risk. He was re-elected.
Fast forward to today. The U.S. (ahem) intelligence community has now tendered a report stating that Iran is not a near-term nuclear threat. The president, having been scorched from relying on such intel sources before, doesn’t buy it.
The press and the Democratic Party do buy it and run with it. The president is now being attacked for not heeding what could be another dose of “less than accurate” intelligence.
Some folks might even call it speculation.
No matter. If it goes against president Bush it must be good.
Forget that Iran is led by vicious, blood-thirsty theocratic dictators, who have openly stated that we in the west must die; according to sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harry Reid, it’s Bush who is the enemy of the U.S. (Does either of them realize that Bush is not running in ’08?).
In the meantime, Joe Liberal moves to the press driven beat of the socialist drum, ignores another threat and blames Bush on the editorial page while slurping down another latte.
Lenin was absolutely correct. The useful idiots among us will indeed sell our enemies the rope with which they will hang us.
Lenin was right! Several years back the president and the vast majority of the U.S. political circle heeded the U.S. (ahem) intelligence community’s assessment that Saddam Hussein was a really bad man. They all agreed that Saddam was a threat to the world and the U.S. directly, that he had WMD, possibly even nukes and the absolute chutzpah to use them. All but Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oaklan, decided to oust the bad man…. at least verbally.
Only then did the Democrats find out that there existed a man in the White House who would do just that. (Arianna Huffington ststaed that the Dems would never have gone to war over that intel in spite of all the huffing and puffing they did prior to the invasion. My guess is they thought President Bush was as gutless as they).
Some years down the road it turns out the intel was “less than accurate.” The same folks who pretty much demanded the president do what he did immediatelty attempted to crucify him. It didn’t work.
After all, we were attacked and our security was still at risk. He was re-elected.
Fast forward to today. The U.S. (ahem) intelligence community has now tendered a report stating that Iran is not a near-term nuclear threat. The president, having been scorched from relying on such intel sources before, doesn’t buy it.
The press and the Democratic Party do buy it and run with it. The president is now being attacked for not heeding what could be another dose of “less than accurate” intelligence.
Some folks might even call it speculation.
No matter. If it goes against president Bush it must be good.
Forget that Iran is led by vicious, blood-thirsty theocratic dictators, who have openly stated that we in the west must die; according to sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harry Reid, it’s Bush who is the enemy of the U.S. (Does either of them realize that Bush is not running in ’08?).
In the meantime, Joe Liberal moves to the press driven beat of the socialist drum, ignores another threat and blames Bush on the editorial page while slurping down another latte.
Lenin was absolutely correct. The useful idiots among us will indeed sell our enemies the rope with which they will hang us.
I'll see you tomorrow Lost Iowan readers, from the warmth and comfort of home. And thank you to Alan and Tamera and the kids for being such wonderful hosts this weekend.
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