Friday, May 14, 2004

SORRY, MR.. BERG.  BUT YOU'RE OUT OF LINE

There is just no imaginable way to understand the grief of Michael Berg.  His 26-year-old son was brutally murdered -- his head sawed off -- by Islamic monsters, and the whole thing was videotaped and not appears on the internet for all the world to see.  Michael Berg is and was against the war in Iraq, and, by all accounts, has never been a fan of George Bush.  Nick Berg, on the other hand, was a supporter of George Bush and the war effort. 

From the very time Nick Berg's body was found on a roadside in Iraq, Michael Berg has been making statements blaming the Bush administration for his son's fate.  Now Michael Berg is telling the world that his son "died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld." 

Sins?  Does Michael Berg mean the sin of liberating over 10 million Iraqis from the brutality of Saddam Hussein? Saddam had rape rooms.  In these rooms people weren't stripped naked and arranged in piles.  They were raped, they were electrocuted, and they were murdered .. and no small number of them suffered deaths unlike that suffered by Nick Berg.  Or maybe Michael Berg is talking about the sin of making sure that Saddam would never again use biological or chemical weapons against his own people, Iranians or anyone else, and that he would never succeed in his long-term goal of developing nuclear weapons.  Perhaps Berg is referring to the sin of making sure that Saddam is never again capable of launching missiles into civilian areas Tel Aviv. 

Quite a sinful guy, this George Bush.  He stepped in where much of the rest of the world would not.  He stepped in where the much-vaunted United Nations would not.  He removed one of history's bloodiest dictators from power, and quite possibly saved the lives of untold thousands of people -- maybe tens of  thousands of Americans or Israelis --  who were destined to become the victims of a terrorist attack with weapons too horrible to imagine; weapons supplied by Saddam Hussein.

After a decade of inaction by the United Nations ... which actually par for the course for the United Nations ... and in the face of the reluctance of our European "allies" to do anything (after all, they were getting big bucks from Saddam), George Bush acted.  After 9/11 he was determined that no rogue nation, no nation that cooperated with terrorists, was going to be permitted to produce chemical, biological or nuclear weapons that could make their way into the hands of Islamic Jihadists.  A bold policy?  You bet.  And thank God we had a president who was strong enough to take that stand.

Look ... there were only two ways to go here.  Ignore Saddam, and let him continue with whatever his plans were.  Maybe he would behave.  But, again, maybe not.  We would be taking that chance.  We would be betting the lives of tens of thousands of Americans on the idea that Saddam wasn't going to proceed with his weapons plans, and wasn't going to continue his flirtation and cooperation with terrorists.  Or .. the second choice .. we could remove the potential threat by removing Saddam from power. The world community gave him every opportunity to cooperate -- to play nice.  He refused.  Now he's gone.  It took guts.  Bush had guts. 

As for Michael Berg.  The last time I checked, Mr. Berg, the evidence was that your son traveled to Iraq on his one ... looking for work.  He wasn't drafted.  He wasn't conscripted.  He wasn't forced.  He made the decision, and unfortunately paid with his life.  There are Islamic terrorists throughout the world, Mr. Berg.  Your son could have gone to the Philippines instead of Iraq.  Islamic terrorists have decapitated Americans there, too.  Would you have also blamed that on Bush and Rumsfeld?

Wouldn't it be a travesty if Michael Berg were using the death of his son as an excuse to assign blame to a president he hasn't liked from the beginning?  For now, we'll just chalk it up to grief.  A few more words out of Michael Berg and we're going to start thinking otherwise. 

CONGRESS PENNY-PINCHING THE WAR ON TERROR

The United States Senate got upset yesterday about President Bush's request for more money to fight the war on terrorism.  Senators such as Robert Byrd howled "our forefathers would have scorned such arrogance as has been demonstrated by this request."  Oh really?  I think our forefathers have been rolling in their graves for decades.  So why is it that Congress always balks at additional expenditures for defense, but gleefully spends infinitely more money on the failed welfare state?  Robert Byrd would never raise an opposition to a request for some grand new program to subjugate more millions of Americans to government.

It's an amazing contradiction, isn't it?  The left will spend trillions (that's right, with a T) on the war on poverty, with no exit strategy, no plan and no end in sight.  All while the federal government spends astronomically more on social welfare spending than they ever have on defense.  Yet, when the White House asks for more money for our troops, for equipment, for weapons, Congress suddenly turns into the most tight-fisted bunch in Washington D.C. Maybe you can't buy votes with defense spending like you can welfare dollars.

Which would you rather pay for: guns, bullets, tanks, humvees and body armor for the troops fighting the war on terror, or more get-out-of-work-free coupons for able-bodied, lazy wastes of oxygen?  Think about it.

The war on terror can not be lost.  It costs what it costs. Period.

BUT I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ?

The CIA says voice analysis of the Nick Berg murder video proves that Al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the one that sawed off his head.  But wait a minute....I thought the Democrats have been telling us there was no link between Al-Qaeda and Iraq?  What about the line from Richard Clarke's book that invading Iraq after 9/11 was like invading Mexico after Pear Harbor?  Looks like the liberals have some explaining to do.  Of course, the media will never hold them accountable.  They never do.  It's Bush's fault, you know.

But now, there is no doubt. Al-Qaeda is squarely in Iraq, just like they were in Afghanistan. And wherever these Islamic terrorists fight, they must die.  So again, the people that killed 3,000 innocent American civilians on 9/11 are the same people that sawed off Nick Berg's head and the same people that are fighting our troops in Iraq. The Democrats, The Poodle, and their buddies in the media have all been trying to make the case that we should have gone to war in Afghanistan, since that's where Al-Qaeda was, but not Iraq.  So now what will they say?

Saddam had been harboring terrorists for years...where's the media on this?

THIS ONE'S FOR TED RALL

THE POODLE'S EMPTY DISH

Well, The Poodle has been collecting signatures on his web site demanding Donald Rumsfeld's resignation....and it just isn't getting nowhere.  Matter of fact, sKerry is sort of being pushed off the front page these days.  What to do now?  He's just going to have to try something else.  Gunning for Rumsfeld is a lame issue.

While The Poodle is calling for his head, Pentagon Don makes a surprise trip to Iraq, and is greeted by thunderous applause. Everybody loves him there. He tours Abu Ghraib prison himself, and holds a town hall meeting. He vows that those responsible for the abuse will be brought to justice. Not a whole lot there for sKerry's myrmidons to hang their hats on, is there?  Let  The Poodle keeps calling for Rumsfeld's resignation,  at least it gives him something to do other than touting his Vietnam experiences.

Hey, Poodle!  How about telling us how bad the economy is!  Naw ... that won't work either. We just had a great jobs report. the economy is recovering quite nicely. We may very well be on the cusp of another big boom. Nothing here for The Poodle to sniff out either. So what then is going to be his big issue?

Gas prices? That'll probably be it. But any person not educated in government schools knows President Bush has no control over gas prices. Despite what the media may say, these are lean times at The Poodle's campaign headquarters.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The International Red Cross says that conditions were terrible at the Abu Ghraib prison.  Sorry, suspect information.  The Red Cross has been politicized. 

What's good for the Bush administration is bad for the media, as Rumsfeld announces there was no cover-up in the abuse scandal. The Democrats will have to go back to the drawing board to look for their smoking gun.

Friends and neighbors of Nick Berg are noticing the same thing we are.....that the news of his death has mysteriously left the front page. Typical of the media...gotta get the prison abuse photos back up there.

If The Poodle really wanted to win, he would read Mort Kondracke's latest column.
 
So how are the poll numbers looking for the 2004 presidential election?  Michael Barone takes a look.

Thomas Sowell continues with the third installment in his series about the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education supreme court decision.

What is the more important issue? Re-electing President Bush, or winning the war in Iraq?  Jonah Goldberg says he'd gladly trade a Bush defeat for an Iraqi victory any day. Check it out.

The Abu Ghraib pictures are bad...but do they really justify the way the Democrats are exploiting them for political gain?  Jeff Jacoby takes a look.

People only demand the resignations of government officials when they're Republicans. Charles Krauthammer has an example.

As far as we know, the incidents at Abu Ghraib were isolated. Why does The Poodle keep demanding  Rumsfeld's resignation?  Mona Charen checks in.

The media is trying to find the moral equivalent between the Iraqi prison pictures and the vicious beheading of an innocent American civilian. Not so fast, says Marvin Olasky.

Be all that you can be.  OK .. I'll just be a slut!

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