Winds of War: Now It Begins

From The Gathering Storm

The Lefty commentator over at the Huffington Post gave a verbal wrist slapping to all the Republicans and their scare tactics. But as they say, watch what I do – not what I say.

A Veterans Day message to Karl Rove.

I did write a Veterans Day memo this morning to one of the highest ranking Democrats in the Senate and will reiterate this and others points very soon. What follows is a point that hit me when I returned home, and within 15 seconds Fox News had a banner headline: Holiday Terror Horror! Presumably Osama Bin Laden will have a bomb under our holiday tree and we should, again, be afraid. Here is my reaction to Fox, to Rove, to Bush, to Cheney and anyone else who has been peddling the politics of fear: kiss my ass.

Ahh, such eloquence. Nothing like winning a small majority to get the testosterone flowing.

If there is one thing we are going to kill, bury, and put away forever it is this politics of fear. This sad, pathetic, exploitive wimpy view of America that we are a nation of cowards and that we can be intimidated by fear. Maybe Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Fox News can be intimidated by fear. We are not. The American are not. This politics was kicked out the door, by we the people of the United States, on November 7, 2006. Message to Fox: keep your fear media and your fear politics to yourselves.

WOW! Maybe we’re wrong about the wimpy Democrats. Maybe we have nothing to worry about. Bring them on! They have the terrorists shaking in their boots! Right?

BUZZ! WRONG!

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush's defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran.

A purported audio recording by the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda wing gloated over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, as a top U.S. general said the military was preparing to recommend strategy changes.

Still, the Democrats do talk tough. They’re ready and willing to take on the terrorists. Right?

WRONG AGAIN! Here’s their real agenda for the next two years and it has nothing to do with fighting terrorists.

Democrats are said to be poised to launch myriad investigations to force the Bush Administration to stop its terrorist monitoring programs, including its warrantless international wiretap programs of terrorists, and to begin US troops’ pullout from Iraq. Additional investigations will be launched against other members of the Bush Administration that could effectively stop the president from accomplishing anything, including affecting tactical moves against the enemies of the United States, in his last 2 years in office.

As for the war front in Iraq, the Dems do have a plan.

Democrats, who won control of the U.S. Congress, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months, but the White House cautioned against fixing timetables……Democrats will press President George W. Bush’s administration to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was “not open-ended, and that, as a matter of fact, we need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months,” Levin said on ABC’s “This Week” program. Bush has insisted that U.S. troops would not leave until Iraqis were able to take over security for their country, and has repeatedly rejected setting a timetable for withdrawal because, he says, that would only embolden the insurgents.

Gee. You think?