05-14-07 -
FOX News obtained this memo by General Barry McCaffrey, an adjunct professor of International Affairs at West Point and former drug czar under President Clinton. The general also does some TV commentary and has been very critical of the Iraq War. So his thoughts on where we are right now are interesting.

Fox News, summing up his eight page analysis:
Gen. McCaffrey says this: "We have brilliant military and civilian leadership on the ground in Iraq. Our cause is just. The consequence of failure will be severe. The American people hold that the U.S. Armed Forces are the most trusted institution in our society. The polls also show that domestic opinion is Not calling for precipitous withdrawal.

"However, this whole Iraq operation is on the edge of prevailing as the poor Iraqis batter each other to death with our forces caught in the middle.

"We now need a last powerful effort to provide to U.S. leaders on the ground;  the political support, economic reconstruction resources, and military strength it takes to succeed."
 

Fox News comment:
"Now, I doubt you'll see the general's memo in The New York Times or any other left wing media. For them, (the liberals and Democrats) the Iraq War is over. And the Republicans lost it, so let's all vote for the Democrats in 2008." Bill O'Reilly

I don't know what is really going on in Iraq.  I'm a US citizen, listening to the news.  Most news reports I don't even trust because I can hear so much bias in them I don't know what is fact and what is opinion.  So what do I do as a US citizen?  I vote.  That is our system.  If you don't like it, move somewhere else.  But once I vote, and our elected officials take office, I trust that they and their advisers know more about what is going on and what to do about it than I do.  If I don't like it, I tell my congressmen what I think, and I vote!  That is our system.  If you don't like it, many other countries will take you in.  You're welcome to move.

And that's the way I see it.  If you don't like it, you don't have to.  And I won't lose sleep over it.

                                                      

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
.... Ronald Reagan

If you are an educated American, then you should know...

Freedom is not free.

America has problems. It is not perfect. But it is still the best place on this Earth to live.

We are the most diverse nation in the world.
And virtually everyone in the world who understands us, wants to come here, even with our problems.

Do you still feel thankful and proud to be an American?
Do you still get Goosebumps when you hear our National Anthem?
Have you forgotten the freedoms we have, the opportunity for pursuing our individual passions, the ability to choose where we want to be and what we want to do?
With all of America's problems, are you contributing to help solve them?
And with these problems, do you realize that we still are a part of the greatest country the world has Ever known?

Watch the following video and see where your heart is.

 
 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Whitney v. California [1927]
 

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