Positive Things

I am taking a break from the last subject to go back in time a bit. I occasionally read some thing that makes me want to shout from the roof tops: YES YES THAT IS WHAT IS REALLY THE TRUTH!!!! I found such an article in my CC (Conservative Chronicle).

Conservative Chronicle June 28, 2006 page 23, Jeff Jacoby writes an article titled, “There are signs of success in Iraq.” The first half of the article is about what the MSM (main stream media) has been putting out as the truth and the “real” story in Iraq and what a pack of lies it all is. (Can’t you see how the Beast and the Anti-Christ will use the MSM to convince the entire world to believe in him?) A quote,”Virtually from day one, the media have reported this war as a litany of gloom and doom. Images of violence and destruction dominate the TV coverage. Analysts endlessly second-guess every military and political decision. Allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. soldiers get far more play than tales of their heroism and generosity. No wonder more than half of the public now believes that a war that ended one of the most evil dictatorships of our time was a mistake.” The remainder of this post is long but I ask that you stick with it to the end. If you receive the CC take a read any way it is a great review!

CC June 28, 2006 page 23, Jeff Jacoby: IN THE JUNE ISSUE of Commentary, veteran Middle East journalist Amir Taheri describes “The Real Iraq” as a far more promising place than the horror show of conventional media wisdom. Arriving in the United States after his latest tour of Iraq, Taheri says, he was “confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable” – an image that”grossly…Distorts the realities of present-day Iraq.”

What are those realities? Drawing on nearly 40 years of observing Iraq first-hand, Taheri points to several leading indicators that he says he has always found reliable in gauging the county’s true condition.

He begins with refugees. In the past one could always tell that life in Iraq was growing desperate by the long lines of Iraqis trying to escape over the Iranian and Turkish borders. “since the toppling of Saddam in 2003,” Taheri notes, “this is one highly damaging image we have not seen on our television sets – and we can be sure that we would be seeing it if it were there to be shown.” Instead of fleeing the “nightmare” that Iraq has supposedly become, Iraqi refugees have been returning, more than 1.2 million of them as of last December. (Tony Blair former Prime Minister of Great Britain said: “You can always tell the condition of a country by how many people are trying to get in and how many are trying to get out. Every one is trying to get into America [now Iraq] no one is trying to get out.”) Iraq added by me.

A second indicator is the pilgrim traffic to the Shi’ite shrines in Karbala and Najaf. Those pilgrimages all but dried up after Saddam bloodily crushed a Shi’ite uprising in 1991, and they didn’t resume until the arrival of the Americans in 2003. “In 2005,” writes Taheri, “the holy sites received an estimated 12 million pilgrims, making them the most-visited spots in the entire Muslim world, ahead of both Mecca and Medina.”

A third sign: the value of the Iraqi dinar. All but worthless during Saddam’s final years, the dinar is today a safe and solid medium of exchange, and has been rising in value against other currencies. Related indicators are small-business activity, which is booming, and Iraqi agriculture, which has experienced a revival so remarkable that Iraq now exports food to its neighbors for the first time since the 1950s.

Finally, says Taheri, there is the willingness of Iraqis to speak their minds. Iraqis are very verbal, and “when they fall silent, life is incontrovertibly becoming hard for them.” Such silence was not uncommon under Saddam, when many Iraqis were afraid to express any political opinion. They aren’t silent now. In addition to talk radio, Internet blogs, and lively debates everywhere, “a vast network of independent media has emerged in Iraq, including over 100 privately owned newpapers and magazines and more than two dozen radio and television stations.” Nowhere in the Arab world is freedom of expression more robust.

AS CONGRESS ENGAGES in its own wide-ranging Iraq debate this week, Taheri’s essay is well worth reading. “Yes, the situation in Iraq today is messy,” he writes, “Births always are. Since when is that a reason o declare a baby unworthy of life”?

See told you it was long. I hope that those of you who are reading this tell their Senator and/or Representative about some of these things and to not stop backing up the soldiers who are making all of this possible.

God Bless you all.

In His Service,

A Real Man

Immigration cont’

It has been a while and I apologize to my three faithful readers. I am going to tread lightly on the following because I do not have the articles I read to quote properly. Because I believe they do not have the right to destroy our country, I am not going to go a bit easier on Hispanic illegal immigrants. However, the time is coming and I believe has come to stop talking and take action!

There are several groups of Hispanic origin out on the west coast whose sole purpose is to “retake what was stolen” by the United States back in the 1800’s. This means that every one of the history lessons I learned was false. Those lessons were that the Spanish came to the Americas as Conquistadors or conquerors and took the entire continent from the Horn of South America north all the way up into what is now present day Oklahoma and west to what is now California. The French all ready had Louisiana but the Spanish conquered east all of Texas to the river dividing them. Then in the 1800’s the Spanish speaking people of the southwestern United States along with the Anglo Saxon English speaking people rebelled against the Latin government in Mexico City and fought a bitter struggle with them to win their independence from Mexico. Just as the Mexican people did to win their independence from the French.

Now unless I have my history very wrong here our country is ours by right of to the victor goes the spoils. As well as the fact that the people of the time were oppressed by the government of the day and decided to free themselves from the oppressor. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. …when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The decision to throw off the government of Mexico was not an easy or impulsive one. It took years of oppression and governement abuse to make them rebel against there present protectors. So where and how were the south western states of the United States “stolen” from the country of Mexico? Had the governing powers back then been good to the people and let them alone in their lives to do the things that made them prosperous and productive, Mexico might still be a larger nation with one of the best vacation spots in the world on the west coast of California to use as they saw fit. But they were not and the independent minded people of the south west knew they would have to fight a terrible bloody battle to win their independence and they would have to fight to keep it. They did both.

Now we have the whiners who say that the United States of America stole the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma from Mexico and they are demanding that the U.S. return those states to the control of Mexico. They are demanding that we allow them to have spanish speaking tax payer provided schools, bi-lingual employment opportunities and fly the Mexican flag over the schools to which they send their children.

Since I started to write this post I have received a copy of my Human Events newspapaer that states that the 700 Miles fence has been signed into Law. Now all they have to do is fund it and build it. While it is law it seems that without a republican house majority it may never get built due to the liberal opposition to illegal immigration reform. We must start doing what we can to take those who want the blessings that can be provided by the United States without the responsibilities that go with real citizenship and throw them out. Teddy Rosevelt said it best, “We are a nation with one flag, one language, and one culture. The American Flag, the english language, and a christian culture.” Those were not his exact words but that was the message.

God Bless You All

In His Service

A Real Man