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Kerry's "Dumb" Comment

Posted by charbookguy on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:51:46 PM
 Proving what liberals really think of the troops. Here's the video and these comments are via NewsMax:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Not surprising. I had a teacher repeat basically the same thing when I was in school in the 1980's. They're both wrong. In fact, as this article reveals, the Armed Forces are probably smarter than our liberal-dominated public schools.

According to figures readily available on the Internet, 99.9 percent of the enlisted forces have at least a high school education, 73.3 percent have some college, 16.2 percent have an associate’s degree or equivalent semester hours, and 4.7 have a bachelor’s degree.
What’s more, over 85 percent of field grade officers have advanced degrees – 70.7 percent have master’s degrees, 12.1 percent have professional degrees and 2.5 percent have doctorate degrees.
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Why Karl Rove is Smiling

Posted by charbookguy on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:50:24 PM
 Here is some interesting insight on the GOP Voter Vault, or micro-targeting, recently revealed in the MSM, from the book One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century by Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten:

“The more scientific strategy has transformed the way political campaigns are fought, and it has put the Republicans in the lead. While the old-model campaign sought to educate voters about a candidate and his or her views, the new strategy almost completely reversed that approach. Instead of educating voters about Bush, Rove worked at educating himself and his staff about voters-and about how to target them with narrowly cast appeals. One could ask why it mattered if a handful of Jews in Cleveland or Latinos in Orlando or labor union members in West Virginia voted for Bush. The answer was the Republicans ability to send custom-tailored messages to relatively small numbers of voters inside Democratic precincts in swing states enabled them to slice away pieces of the enemy’s base. Each slice might seem inconsequential standing alone, but taken together the slices might add up to something very consequential. Moreover, because these once-Democratic swingers were trimmed away in so many carefully selected but disparate places-creating Bush blocs only where they were needed-the shift didn’t always register in national opinion polls, or on the radar of Democratic strategists. It was the political equivalent of stealth technology in airpower: Democrats would feel the bombs explode, but they would not see the bombers.”

This is why Bush and Rove can feel confident of a GOP victory on Election Day, despite national polls favoring Democrats. Nevertheless, liberals, of course, will blame voter fraud because of new electronic voting machines, given their ingrained paranoia of technology and fear of anything new.
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Diversity's Folly

Posted by charbookguy on Monday, October 30, 2006 7:13:56 PM
 Thomas Sowell on why fighting the Iraq War is so hard:

What is it that has made Iraq so hard to pacify, even after a swift and decisive military victory? In one word: diversity.
That word has become a sacred mantra, endlessly repeated for years on end, without a speck of evidence being asked for or given to verify the wonderful benefits it is assumed to produce.
Worse yet, Iraq is only the latest in a long series of catastrophes growing out of diversity. These include "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans, genocide in Rwanda and the Sudan, the million lives destroyed in intercommunal violence when India became independent in 1947 and the even larger number of Armenians slaughtered by Turks during World War I.
Despite much gushing about how we should "celebrate diversity," America's great achievement has not been in having diversity but in taming its dangers that have run amok in many other countries. Americans have by no means escaped diversity's oppressions and violence, but we have reined them in.

There's an old saying "try to please everyone and you please no one".
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Lynn Cheney Slams CNN

Posted by charbookguy on Monday, October 30, 2006 7:08:39 PM
 I heard about this over the weekend, but when I saw the video (get it here) I was astounded that a US Media organization needed to be asked by Lynne Cheney "Do you want us to win?":

Cheney: "Right, But what is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorist shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?"
Blitzer: "The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about it. You think we want terrorists to win?"
Cheney: "Then why are you running- Why are you running terrorist propaganda?"
Blitzer: "With all due respect- With all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda."
Cheney: "Oh, Wolf!"
Blitzer: "This is, this is reporting the news which is what we do. We’re not partisan."
Cheney: "Where did you get the film?"
Blitzer: "We got the film- Look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed. This is an issue that we reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully considered decision why we did that. And I think- And I think that if you’re-"
Cheney: "Well, I think it’s shocking."

Today, VP Dick Cheney likened his wife's remarks to "The Slapdown"!
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US Heroes Website

Posted by charbookguy on Friday, October 27, 2006 5:04:05 PM
 This is a new site at DefenseLink called Heroes in the War on Terror. Long overdue!

Also check out their new site: For the Record which debunks false Media stories on the troops. About time for both.
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Reasons to Vote Republican

Posted by charbookguy on Friday, October 27, 2006 5:00:13 PM
 Mona Charen lists 13 reasons. Here are the top 3:

1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001. Inflation has remained low. As Vice President Cheney summed it up at a recent meeting with journalists, "What more do you want?" The tax cuts proposed by President Bush and passed by a Republican Congress can take a bow.
2) The Patriot Act. Democrats and liberals mourn this law as a gross infringement upon civil liberties. Yet the much-discussed abuses simply haven't materialized. The law has, on the other hand, permitted the CIA and FBI to cooperate and share information about terrorist threats -- at least so long as The New York Times isn't publishing the details of our counterterrorism efforts on the front page.
3) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, to which liberals clung with passionate intensity, has been cancelled, permitting us to work on missile defense. In the age of Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is anyone (except Nancy Pelosi) sorry?

My top reason is not the economy, but Iraq and terrorism.
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Real War Links

Posted by charbookguy on Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:12:39 PM
 Honest News from the War on Terror which the MSM doesn't want you to read!

Reservists Proud of Work Done in Iraq

Strykers fighting for Iraq

To Stand or Fall in Baghdad

Stopping Terrorism at the Root

Navy Donates Ambulances to Philippines

Thunderbolts Add to Their Rich History

New York’s finest serve in Iraq

Finding Hope on the Silk Road

U.S. military too strong to lose Iraq
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America's Maginot Line

Posted by charbookguy on Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:49:03 PM
The 700-mile border fence the President just authorized brings to mind the infamous French barrier, which failed to keep out the Germans in World War 2. Like the proposed wall along the 2000-mile long Southern boundary, the Maginot Line failed to completely cover the French perimeter but stopped at the Belgium Frontier, the very site of Hitler’s invasion route in May 1940.

The key to stemming the illegal tide on a long-term basis is with US businesses. I hate to sound like an anti-corporate Democrat, but American companies and farmers are willing accomplices of illegal immigration and the root source of the massive flow across the border. Free health care, free education and welfare offered by federal and local government comes in second. With the Republican Party being pro-capitalists, solving this conundrum may be difficult.

This is exacerbated by the fact that Bush’s heart is not in a border fence. The President owes much of his political success to Hispanics and once spoke out vigorously against California’s Proposition 187, which denied state benefits to the children of illegals. If Bill Clinton can be called the First Black President, surely Bush could claim the title of First Hispanic President.

In a way, I can understand Big Business’ reasoning for hiring illegals. Immigrants are not doing the jobs that Americans won’t, but they are doing them at wages most citizens refuse to accept. Americans currently demand from employers not only a day’s pay for a day’s work. Now they expect cradle-to-the-grave healthcare, fewer working hours, and a big fat pension for retirement. For a CEO or a farmer it is a no-brainer to choose a cheap migrant worker and risk breaking the law, or hire a Unionized American worker and go bankrupt in the very competitive global market.

The border fence needs be finished in its entirety. Likewise, it shouldn’t be touted as anti-immigrant, which it really isn’t, but a National Security and sovereignty issue. Surely, the lessons of September 11 give us the right.

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Democrats Exploiting Actor Fox

Posted by charbookguy on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:14:38 AM
 Rush Limbaugh is right on the money saying Democrats are taking advantage of actor Michael J. Fox for political gain. What I’ve never understood is how these actors go through life having a good time (as they should, it’s the American Dream right?). Then they contract some disease and suddenly become crusaders looking for someone to blame. Inevitably they end up testifying before Congress questioning why the government, with all it has to do already, hasn’t spent enough money curing their particular ailment. A real concerned star and an example to all of us, is comedian Jerry Lewis, for years a fund raiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Unlike Fox, Lewis didn’t wait until he contracted MD to do something about it, and he also didn’t pander to the Feds but appealed directly to the American Public in his very famous Labor Day telethons.

Democrats prefer using victims like Michael J. Fox as their spokesman on controversial issues, because we would be shamed to disagree with them. It is the Left’s subtle way of squelching Free Speech and furthering their agenda. Thus, Ann Coulter is demonized for daring to criticize the Jersey Girls, or Swift Boat Vets are themselves “swiftboated” for questioning John Kerry’s war record, and Rush Limbaugh can’t disprove Fox’s view on stem cell research.

Rush is right and Michael should be ashamed, not for his illness but for allowing himself to be exploited for dubious science.
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Terrorists Cast Their Ballot

Posted by charbookguy on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:12:31 PM
You can bet its not for Bush according to top US Generals and the UPI:

Brig. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad and head of the U.S. forces information operations branch as well as its public affairs unit, Thursday described several reasons why violence in Iraq is up despite a four-month offensive called Operation Together Forward meant to bring Baghdad under control. One of those, he said, was the American political calendar.
"We also realize that there is a midterm election that's taking place in the United States and that the extremist elements understand the power of the media; that if they can in fact produce additional casualties, that in fact is recognized and discussed in the press because everybody would like not to see anybody get killed in these operations, but that does occur," Caldwell said.

I have no doubt this is happening. I also have little concern that they will fail as long as George Bush is in office.
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How Democrats View Themselves

Posted by charbookguy on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:08:35 PM
Not so favorable according to those terrorist sympathizers at CNN:

As part of our election series "Broken Government" CNN asked self-identified Democrats around Miami, Florida, Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California, how they view their party. It was word association, "I say Democrat, you say ... " Not scientific, but instructive.
Here is some of what we heard:
• "Disorganized"
• "Afraid to take a stand"
• "Not giving us anything better to look at"
• "A little soft"
Such views were so widespread, we began to key in on a single question: What is wrong with Democrats?

Uhhhh-All of the above? Plus they no longer believe in anything; God, country, family, morality...
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Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets

Posted by charbookguy on Monday, October 23, 2006 6:23:18 PM
Cybercast News reviews a new book by Paul Kengor, a political science professor at Grove City College titled, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.":

In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party...

Specifically, Kennedy proposed that Andropov make a direct appeal to the American people in a series of television interviews that would be organized in August and September of 1983, according to the letter. "Tunney told his contacts that Kennedy was very troubled about the decline in U.S -Soviet relations under Reagan," Kengor said. "But Kennedy attributed this decline to Reagan, not to the Soviets. In one of the most striking parts of this letter, Kennedy is said to be very impressed with Andropov and other Soviet leaders."

This is interesting. And today, Democrats are looking to our current mortal enemies, the terrorists, to bring them victory at the polls in November
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Will Democrats Turn Out In November?

Posted by charbookguy on Monday, October 23, 2006 5:34:23 PM
Democrats, the Media, and many Republicans are questioning whether Christian Conservatives will turn out in any numbers to effect the upcoming elections. After the Mark Foley scandal beginning earlier this month to increased violence in Iraq, many polls have given the Left a huge win in perhaps both houses of Congress. The real question is if Democrats, after suffering so many setbacks in recent years, will turn out to support their ailing Party. I began pondering this question as far back as the 2004 Presidential Election, after George Bush trounced Senator John Kerry in an unexpected win. Such was the demoralization of their base; it made national headlines afterwards with Democrats seeking professional counseling to deal with the discouragement. Titles such as these right after the election are revealing: Clinical Depression (Washington Post), Dejection grips city Democrats (Washington Times), and Democrats Confront Identity Crisis (International Herald Tribune). Liberal icon Michael Moore later appeared on the Tonight Show dressed to the nines in suit and tie in a bizarre show of humility, with host Jay Leno making the comparison that he looked like Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Today, their lack of message continues, other than the same “We’re not the others guys” which failed them in the last campaign. Add to this the same weak leadership of Pelosi, Kerry, Reid, and Murtha and you see very little in the way of new ideas. In contrast, the outlook for the Right seems as strong as ever. Given liberals lack of leadership on the threat posed by terrorism, conservative governments have risen to power in many countries, including Canada, Germany, and Japan, while maintaining its strength in Australia and America. So, come November don't be surprised if the long-predicted Democrat resurgence turns out to be a washout.
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No Tet, Not Yet

Posted by charbookguy on Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:41:49 PM
 It becomes pretty obvious why comparisons of recent escalated violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam fall short. Here’s what the Press Secretary Tony Snow said to a reporter from CNN yesterday: “Well, your network has shown pictures of snipers hitting Americans, which was used as a propaganda tool.” Back when the networks were more respected than they are today, the free press could get away with something like this. So influential was the Mainstream Media in the days of Vietnam, Walter Cronkite could express the War as a failure, and then cause an American president to lose all hope in his goal to keep a nation from falling to the despotic communists. Now, the Press has so often abused its freedoms, proving themselves anti-American and even treasonous in the eyes of most citizens, their blundering attempts to instigate another Battle of Tet, in which the US wins the battle but loses the war, falls far short. Thankfully now there is the internet blogs and conservative leaning Fox News to give a more balanced interpretation of the Iraqi Conflict, over the one-sided liberal Media viewpoint. A more relevant view, if comparisons must be made, would be the Battle of the Bulge of December 1944. There America, thinking the war nearly won, was struck with a vicious German counterattack from the Ardennes Forest. The only forces General Eisenhower had in place to blunt the attack was a few weak and worn-out divisions who thought they would get a much-needed rest. Instead of panicking, Ike saw this new attack as an opportunity to deliver a blow to Hitler which he would never recover from. This proved to be the case, and when the Allies renewed the offensive in 1945, the Germans had little resistance left in them. Though over 19,000 US troops died in the campaign, the Bulge is considered one of our greatest military victories. It’s all a matter of perspective, and I will choose the President’s view that we are winning in Iraq over the defeatist Democrats and the gloom and doom Press any day.
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Iraq No Comparison to Vietnam

Posted by charbookguy on Friday, October 20, 2006 9:51:44 AM
 This according to renowned military historian John Keegan :

By January 1968, total American casualties in Vietnam — killed, wounded and missing — had reached 80,000 and climbing. Eventually deaths in combat and from other causes would exceed 50,000, of which 36,000 were killed in action. Casualties in Iraq are nowhere near those figures. In a bad week in Vietnam, the US could suffer 2,000 casualties. Since 2003, American forces in Iraq have never suffered as many as 500 casualties a month. The number of casualties inflicted in Iraq are not established, but are under 50,000. In any year of the Vietnam war, the communist party of North Vietnam sent 200,000 young men to the battlefields in the south, most of whom did not return. Vietnam was one of the largest and costliest wars in history. The insurgency in Iraq resembles one of the colonial disturbances of imperial history.

If you really think about this, compared to other wars in America's history, the Civil War, WW 2, Iraq is much ado about nothing. Any death is regrettable, but our country use to think freedom was worth fighting for.
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