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Why we do it.

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Amos, a Tim Blair reader left a comment on Tims post about Dick Morris titled TRIANGULATE THIS. You should go to the post and scroll down to the comment but if your a gentle type and don’t like others using strong language I have edited the comment and included it below.
Since you ask I’ll tell you why we invaded Iraq: because Afghanistan will never be anything but a bandit-ridden hellhole, but Iraq is one of the centres of the muslim clutural world, the seat of the old Bahgdad calphate and the second biggest Shia muslim concentration in the ME after Iran. A democracy in Afghanistan will last only as long as the vareous illiterate warlords are being terrorised or bribed into line, but a democracy taking roots in Iraq will transform utterly the entire middle east. This is why absolutly every terrorist organisation, every Muslim dictatorship and every sleezy, oil-grubbing UN rep scumbag and his lawyer are trying to stop it. Democracy in Iraq is their death-kneil. If Dubya pulls this off he will have achieved in under a decade what the worlds vareous hand-wringing internationalist do-gooders and their bleating flocks of useful idiots in the media would not have achieved in a million years- the world’s first Arab democracy and the beginnings of the emergence of millions of people from medieval tyranny into the modern age.
I’ve said it before. Amos has said it. All evidence supports it but we’re still looking for WMDs and I note the ABC tonight are running what must be it’s 423rd expose of the Abu Graib torture series. Some people just cannot see the big picture.
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PM playing politics: Hicks dad.

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From the Courier Mail And Mr Hicks senior isn’t? I Googled “David Hicks” and found a site dedicated to his release. It comes with the usual left wing ‘he’s innocent’ baggage and quotes the non-applicable Geneva Convention. Bob Ellis buys in with this total disregard of facts.
David Hicks has committed, it seems, thought crime against the United States and is being detained and tormented by people unaware of his rights. It’s unlikely they know this, and they should be told.”
Bob, you fool, young David didn’t just think of volunteering to join the Taliban and thus be available to kill US and Aussie troops, he actually did it. I note the US appointed legal rep, Major Mori requests anyone who; # worked with David # employed David, or # has known or knows David to please contact him. Could I suggest he contact the Taliban, they should have some Course Reports on him.
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Letters to the Editor

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Andrew Coley from Prospect, SA
THE rise in human rights abuses around the globe since the media and coalition countries became obsessed with the debacle in Iraq has now been confirmed by Amnesty International (“Rights worst in 50 years”, 27/5).
Mmmm …50 years. Wouldn’t that include the communists killing something like a 100 million of their own citizens. Never mind..small detail.
we need to encourage nations to develop their own sense of democracy and security through international aid in areas such as trade, health and education
I agree with Andrew that international aid in areas such as trade, health and education is agreat idea and one that should be pursued after the West can develop the circumstances where aid will make a difference. Bush could have chosen not to go to war and give Saddam say, US$500 million aid to build schools and health centres. The fact that all the schools and health centres Saddam would’ve built with the aid looked remarkedly like palaces and the playground equipment like tanks and missiles wouldn’t have worried Andrew. And even if some of the change was spent on schools, they would be Schools of Hate with Clerics inciting mayhem and murder. We could have also given the Taliban aid but I think they would have given it to Osama who would have sent it back to the US in a missile loaded with 10,000 gallons of aviation fuel. Straight back to the Whitehouse Still, good idea Andrew. As US troops invaded the heartland of the AL Queda in Afghanistan I argued then that they should, amongst a whole lot of other things, secure Kabul, set up schools, let girls in and start educating the whole population. Sorry Andrew, but your faith in human kindness is not a subject in Iraq or Afghanistan seats of learning. Still, the Editor of the Australian thinks it’s good enough to print. Makes me wonder if any of these people have ever had to make a plan work. On the same page Christian Leavesly from Carlton Vic points out that;
Human rights have been fought for and won the hard way over hundreds of years. They did not spring up overnight, and their existence is proof of their necessity.
One part of history where human rights were won the hard way was during World War Two and I can promise Christian that the human rights he talks about were not uppermost in the minds of Roosevelt, Churchill, Menzies or Curtain. If a enemy POW had info that was important to the war cause then he was interrogated until he coughed up. WW2, for the younger set, was when the US gave thousands of their sons to provide a safer world where Human Rights lawyers could call them evil and not be beheaded. I like the line from Secretary Powell recently when argueing that the US were not colonising the Middle East when he suggested that the…only land we have ever kept after any invasion was a small plot for our dead. Otherwise they went home after peace had been established. Could I also mention the Marshal Plan that rebuilt Europe and the efforts that went into demilitiarising Japan. Nah. Not Anti-American enough.
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It’s do or die

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The US is fighting a fairly good war considering they are fighting on two fronts; in Iraq against the terrorists and over the rest of the world against the media. I get the opinion that some amongst us believe that Rumsfeld actually gave orders to Pte Lynndie England to parade with a naked man on a leash. It simply doesn’t happen that way. All Rumsfeld would have said was ‘Get these interrogations moving. Iraqi’s and our troops are dying. Get some intelligence. The people in Abu Ghraib aren’t traffic fine defaulters, they are people who may know from whence the explosives for the terror attacks are being sourced. They may know the pipe line the terrorists are using to infiltrate weapons and troops. They may have some answers but they are never going to answer these questions out of a desire to help Iraq. They are not there to help Iraq. This is not LA Law, you morons, its war. No clever court room debates -life isn’t a TV series. If Intelligence doesn?t get the answers to these questions then innocent Iraqis are going to die in the hundreds. US troops will die as well but more importantly, if we don’t win this war then thousands of westerners will die. All the tin pot terrorist leaders will be buoyed by any defeat of the great Satan. Recruiting will boom and you will see the result in downtown Sydney, London and New York. It’s not a bloody ratings game – its life or death. If Intelligence held a terrorist who they knew had detail about the WTC slaughter prior to Sep 11 what would you have them do. Read him his rights? Call up the local human rights lawyer? Ask him nicely if he could help? Wake up! While I would argue that it is going to take a lot of Abu Ghraib’s to equal one Nike Bergin others would say “..but the formula isn’t balanced. Nick Bergin doesn’t make Abu Ghraib right”. They are only half right right, the issue is deeper than that. What does bring some perspective; some balance to the issue is this; The US forces recognized the problem well before the media did and they reacted positively before the media attacked. They run an investigation, found there was a case to be answered, charged the offenders, have already found one guilty, sentenced him to a dishonourable discharge after he serves 12 months in prison and then the President of the US, Bush, actually apologised to the people of Iraq. Meanwhile, the terrorists in Iraq are indiscriminately targeting woman and children, they are decapitating US civilians and they are using kids as young as eight on the firing line. And they are not all Iraqis; they are from all of the far flung reaches of the Islamic world, all congregating to kill the infidels. They are there to create as much havoc and mayhem as they can to de-stabilize the march of democracy into the Middle East. People talk of moral equivalence and that the US cannot demand a high standard when they stuff up in Abu Ghraib. Well, they can. The behaviour of the guards is not the norm and the US is doing something about it. I don?t see the terrorists holding inquiries and charging people with crimes against humanity. And, aided and abetted by the media, they are making it extremely difficult. Like tone deaf, out of beat drummers, they are keeping the marchers out of step. The media are bogged down in the minutia of war and cannot see the big picture or are deliberately obscuring the big picture. They recycle the events of at Abu Ghraib time and time again. The Army acknowledged the problem in January and took remedial action straight away and it still gets front page treatment. They virtually ignore anything positive out of Iraq (and believe me there is a lot), to concentrate on a small incident. The media are fighting an American Presidential election seemingly saying anything is better than Bush in the Whitehouse. And they are very, very wrong. Not that Bush is the greatest leader ever to occupy the Whitehouse, he isn?t, but he is a leader. The war is much bigger than Bush or Kerry in the Whitehouse, it?s about civilization. This from Real Clear Politics
The decapitation of Nicholas Berg – which, it merits reminding, required several cuts of the knife to stop his screaming – was a front-page story for just one day. Only one newspaper that I know of, the Dallas Morning News, plus the Weekly Standard magazine, made the point that Berg’s murder is “why we fight.” By now, Abu Ghraib has been a lead story for weeks. And Congress has gone so far as to pull top U.S. commanders back from the battle zone to grill them about it – just as America’s enemies are launching what they hope will be the Iraqi equivalent of the 1968 Tet offensive, hoping to undermine the June 30 handover of power to Iraqis.
Common tactics. In Vietnam in 1968 the North Vietnamese were crushed in the 68 Tet Offensive but in a Presidential Election year, the media, led by Walter Cronkite, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and saved the day for the Communists. They helped convince the voters that the war was unwinnable. There are a lot of similarities about Vietnam and Iraq, but not what the left would have you believe. The similarities are in the media assault on the Presidential Election to affect an outcome that they think is best for America. The arrogant, elitist bastards. Update: Check out Defence for the Government’s thoughts on the matter. Extreme Right wing or Looney Left you owe it to yourself to be informed Update II: For good news on Iraq visit Chrenkoff. He is doing the work of the Western Media
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The Australian loses it!

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The Australian continues it campaign on behalf of the terrorists by slowly cycling though their pics of jail-house ‘torture’ and their Thesaurus of superlatives. Horrific…disturbing..shocking. Apparently seven US soldiers are involved. Pretty weak stuff really, when compared with the Bergin killers. Fancy the Australian doing its best to impede democracy and not realizing that the world are over it. One soldier has been charged and goaled and others will follow although the animals who decapitated Nick Bergin will be unlucky if they all meet justice. Four have been arrested but I can’t see any pressure from the Western press to pursue justice with the alacrity that they demand for theTorturers Slats is getting sick of it and so am I. Two days ago they place a front page piece based on allegations from a Taliban ex-prisoner about Hicks being beaten up and now today they recycle the piece with Habib as the fall guy. Hicks’ lawyer, Stephen Kenny, says;
… that allegations of abuse against enemy combatants were now “so overwhelming” that there needed to be a “full and proper” inquiry into the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
I think the word Stephen was looking for was underwhelming If The Australian publishes one ‘torture’ pic every three days they should be able to drag it out until the handover due late June. In the meantime they can maintain the rage about Gunatanamo by quoting some other reliable source, maybe another Taliban terrorist in Afghanistan. Hang on…Osama Bin Laden would most probably be willing to say his troops are being treated badly as well. That’s it, quote Bin Laden. Over to you Editor. Meanwhile, after a lot of searching for some truth on the Iraq War, I came across this piece. Surprisingly, not in a newspaper and definitely not in the Australian An extract;
I looked over and saw the two little kids that were on the bridge earlier, they were firing at me again. The older one, who had shot me earlier, was firing at the trailer and the semi, and the younger kid was firing two to three rounds at a time directly at me. I fired another round over their heads but they didn?t budge, and apparently they were not about to. Then I aimed at the younger kid’s chest and fired the round. It went into his throat and out the other side, and he dropped to the ground dead.
Read the whole piece before you demand he be sacked for shooting at innocent kids. Go read..it is a very intense account of the 9 Apr ambush of a fuel convoy.
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Iraqi Governing Council President Killed in Attack

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Terrorists strike again – lets see if this gets the Prisoner ‘Torture’ beat-up off the front pages. Most probably not – the Terrorists, their clerics and their western media smell blood. I hate to be an armchair general, particularly as I only made Major, but surely the incident smacks of amateurism.
Witnesses said a convoy of five white Nissan vehicles was passing through the Harthiya neighborhood toward a checkpoint into the Green Zone, where U.S. authority and the Governing Council have their headquarters, when a red Volkswagen Brazil sped up to the convoy and exploded.
Surely someone is responsible for the Governing Council’s mobile security; surely someone looked at the problem and considered any vehicle broaching or approaching the convoy en-route must be a threat; surely someone thought an armoured vehicle fore and aft of the convoy with appropriate ‘Don’t approach or we will treat you as a suicide bomber” signage would have helped. Particularly if offending vehicles took a strike from a 120mm smooth bore if they got too near. Surely ‘someone’ is looking for a new career somewhere. This is a war after all. It is not a lesson in Human Rights – terrorists who blow up innocents have abandoned any claim to Human Rights. Smart after the event? No. Every Army in the civilized world has manuals on how to protect convoys. If it’s not safe to drive around the country, and it seems that is the case, then at least make it safe for the leaders. Full-on ‘Protect the US President’ or Blair, or Howard should be afforded the Governing Council. I warn you, the terrorists, aided and abetted by the media, are currently winning the war and if we don’t pull together and support the Coalition, even when they are imperfect, then a dark curtain will come down over the Middle East and no-one will be game enough to try and draw the curtains again. They will be back to the 12 Century and we will have fed their zeal and they will keep on killing us. You will hear it on the streets of Bahgdad, through the Middle East, the African continent, the sub continent and in the Mosques in Indonesia. The West is weak – lets attack again. Kill the infidel. Update: Read the Professor’s latest post dealing with the media’s support of the Terrorists. Sickening!
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Anti War Ego stopped

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Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. The Terrorists have lost one of their best PR Agents but not to worry, the Western press, trained by the communists during the Vietnam War, will be able to fill the void.
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Beheading OK – it was only a Yank!

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This item from News.com talks of a video released today on an Islamic militant website . It appeared to show US businessman Nick Berg being beheaded. That’s BEHEADED. Not stripped naked and photographed, not threatened by dogs, not leashed naked like a dog, not even photographed with a pretty westerner laughing and pointing at your genitals – but beheaded.
After reading a statement, the men were seen pulling the man to his side and putting a large knife to his neck. A scream sounded as the men cut his head off, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is great.” They then held the head out before the camera.
Don’t bother looking up any headlines of main stream media. Not a mention. If Private John Doe, the most insignificant US soldier in Iraq had even muttered the word ..prisoner beheaded in his sleep there would be questions in the House. Bush would be called upon to fall on his sword, Bob Brown would be calling for a Senate Inquiry. and the Arab world would be enraged. Sure, it could be a set up but it’s pretty hard to fake slicing a knife through a man’s neck. Even if the IT disadvantaged Arabs had managed to fake it can you imagine the media feeding frenzy if CNN showed a video of US soldiers supposedly decapitating an Iraqi. Fake or not it seems to me a case of I see your torture and raise you a beheading Puts it all in perspective. Doesn’t it? beheading.jpg Pictured: Berg’s family on hearing of his death. Compare this with the pictures of Arabs dancing in the streets on Sept 11. Update: I was wrong. The Age/SMH has carried the story here
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The Downside of Democracy

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Bob Brown accuses Howard and Downer of knowing about the Iraqi prisoner saga in January and in the time honoured tradition of left wing politics calls for an inquiry that will never happen but in the meantime some people will be left with the impression that Howard and Downer have known all along. Mud sticks. Who needs evidence. Just stand up and utter anything that comes to mind and some of it will stick. But he said his accusations could never be proved unless there was an inquiry into when the government became aware of the mistreatment. Accusation by suggested inquiry. He goes on to suggest Australian troops may have involved by boldly stating;
…an inquiry would also find out if Australian troops were involved in the abuse.
No one, anywhere, in any newspaper anywhere in the world have mentioned Australian troops being involved and don’t you think that if there had been even a suggestion of this, that the media would have been attacking Howard from all sides? When Churchill said ‘Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried’ he must have been talking about having to put up with people like Bob Brown because clearly the greatest downside of Democracy are the ‘Bob Browns’ and compliant media. There is a lot of comment on the web including Slats quoting a letter full of commonsense, Andrew Bolt says We’re not that sorry and Chrenkoff says ‘Bush made me do it’ All worth reading.
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