Lebanon!

As the night wore on, the 10,000 demonstartors outside the Paliament grew to 20,000 then 50,000 all in defiance of massive army and police roadblocks and a government ban on political gatherings.

At last count the crowd has grown to over 250,000 and the flow has become a flood. Freedom is breaking out in the Middle East, as people stand up and refuse to be slaves any longer, even at risk of their lives.

As the American left sits around cursing George Bush and simmering in their own hate, the one thing that liberals used to be about - Democracy and the equality of man - is celebrating a new dawn. Without them.

I'm not wasting any more time on them - as Bob Dylan once wrote: "The old world is rapidly changing; better get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand"

 

I know I keep asking for these things and don't get them, but I've got to ask anyway:


First I asked for any evidence from a hard news report that demonstarted this fabled "right-wing bias" at Fox News. I'm still waiting.

Then I asked for one solitary thing that the Swift Boat Veterans were "proven to be lying" about. I got nothing.

So maybe this time, in honor of Mssr. Keller's post above, I'll get an answer to the question:

Please name for me ONE THING that the left has been right about since the day the twin towers went down.


France is completely on board with us against Syria in Lebanon (it doesn't help that Hariri was a close freind of Chirac's). They have joined us in our public demands and are actually leading the way in the Security COuncil today.

SO much for "destroying" any possible relationship with our "great ally" (cough choke). Chirac is only too happy to be on the same side as George Bush at the moment. Even he can see which way the wind is blowing. Unlike the idiots on the American left.

And I know exactly what you mean about 1989 - I've been totally hyped all morning as the reports keep coming in. Lebanon has suffered incredibly, and Baby Assad is going to have to slaughter an awful lot of people to put this genie back in the bottle.

Your day is over. Time to go. One more foul bastard headed for the junkheap of history.

 

Poor deluded bojendyk. Having a bad day?


1) "He said she said" does not amount to this "total repudiation" I keep hearing about. Sorry.

2) We know the left USED TO "love liberty". We also know that any "liberty" that happens on George Bush's watch is "bad liberty"

3) Our President, who is in the process of freeing more people than Roosevelt ever did, took us to Iraq for a number of reasons. One of them was to establish a democratic government on the theory that democracies pose little threat to their neighbors. This is simply undeniable fact. I know this won't prevent you from denying it, but frankly, no one cares any more.

4) So essentially your position is that Bush just happened to get lucky and clumsily cause freedom to break out all over the world. Well, like Napoleon said better lucky than good.

5) I'd be curious what you think the term "neocon" means. Since your ilk uses the word as a mantra for working yourselves into a Tasmanian dervish frenzy of hatred, you might have forgotten that it has actual "meaning".

"Neocon" refers to a bunch of guys who have abandoned traditional conservative isolationist foreign policy, believeing that - now that the Cold War is over - America must indeed engage in the sort of "nation building" type deals conservatives always deplored in the past.

So the if the President is indeed a "neocon" then he is being EXACTLY consistent with his ideological and philosphical basis.

FURTHERMORE I fiond it hilarious that, when a President who you claimed was too stupid to live and too ideologically rigid to lead changes his opinions and outlooks based on events, as any intelligent person does, and then goes on to adapt a foreign policy much like the one his opponents had for decades, that his opponents then CRITICIZE HIM FOR IT.

It's breathtaking exploit in partisanship, and frankly borders on the absurd.

Unfortunately, the left blazed on past the "Absurd" off ramp months ago and are now racing toward "Oblivion"

 

GREAT post over at Captains' Blog.

Killer graf:

Many on the left have argued that Saddam had been effectively "contained" (some used the phrase "in his box") by UN sanctions, but ultimately Saddam had continued to defy UNSC resolutions -- 16 of them -- to disarm, stop committing genocide on his own people, and provide proof of the destruction of his WMD programs. Saddam refused to do any of this. His intransigence demonstrated the UN's inability to act in its own interest, and as we later found out, the UNSC states themselves helped Saddam undermine the containment they argued to continue. Saddam's continued grip on power showed the UN to be helpless to do anything to enforce its own resolutions.
That provides part of the oft-asked question of Why Saddam and why not Iran/North Korea/Syria et al? This map provides the other part:



Geographically and militarily, Iraq holds the key to Southwest Asia, and the Anglosphere leaders proved they can read maps even if their political opponents cannot. Iraq still had the region's most potent military, and after the necessary first strike against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, all further operations in the Gulf region required neutralizing both Saddam and his army. His defiance provided all of the justification necessary for such a step, and the Anglosphere took it. They destroyed the region's best and most battle-tested military in less than three weeks, despite opposition predictions of desert quagmires and holy-war catastrophes. While the Iraqis themselves didn't welcome us with flowers and chocolates -- a product of our 1991 betrayal -- they proved less than two years later that they wanted to choose their own leaders by braving bombs and bullets to vote in surprisingly large numbers

Like Glenn says: read the whole thing


http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

 

What a great photo.

 

This is great:

First, a picture of the celebration when it was announced that the Syrian lapdog puppet government was resigning:



David Satterfield, Condi Rice's #2 in Southwest Asia, was dispatched to Beirut to meet with government officials to stress that the US (with, not coincidentally, 150,000 of the best soldiers in the world 100 miles away) will not tolerate continued Syrian occupation of Lebanon.

Here is the totally spontaneous outpouring of Syrain outrage:



1) Do these women have any idea what these signs say?

2) Are we supposed to believe that these women did these up at home with india ink?

 

Look!


Here's another totally spontaneous demonstration, this one expressing outrage over the resignation of the puppet-weasel in the picture. AP reports as many as "50 demonstrators" blocked the street in front of Weaselman's office.



Then there's part of the crowd estimated at 250,000 chanting "Syria out!"





I just don't think the Syrians are getting the hang of this mass demonstration deal.

 

The American left should be ashamed. Unfortunately, they have no such capacity any more.