My comments follow the places I've highlighted in bold and are italicized. -Lefty
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War as a way of life
By Jules Crittenden
Boston Herald City Editor
Friday, July 14, 2006 - Updated: 02:45 PM EST

Get ready for it.
You will have to pay more to drive your car. Everything will cost more.
You will need to make a choice. The time for easy "war is bad, peace is good" choices is passing. This could be the end of button-pinning, sign-painting, street marching anti-war vs. quiet, stay at home silent majority pro-war kind of choices, where you can "support the troops" and despise their mission; being glad Saddam is gone, but hating Bush for doing it. Where you can loudly parrot the "Bush lied" line and secretly think things were better when Saddam was politely torturing people to death behind closed doors and plotting his next move toward domination of the world’s primary oilfields. Or conversely, where you can drive around with an American flag and a W’04 sticker on your SUV, drop a remark now and then, and maybe even know someone whose son or daughter is over there. This difficult insurgency in Iraq may come to look like the prelude.
If Iran has its way, the American left may get what it wantswho is he talking about?). A military draft. Those would be your sons and daughters. Or maybe you yourself. In khaki, in the desert, amid the fire, defending your country and democracy against an enemy that desires an end to both.
Let us set aside for now concerns raised by heightened tensions in Northeast Asia after Kim Jong Il’s missile launches, and heightened tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in the wake of the Bombay attacks allegedly by a Pakistan-backed terrorist group. These developments can only be viewed as encouraging factors to Iran.
Iran, sharing the view of the American left that the United States is hopelessly bogged down in Iraq, has signaled that it wants all-out war.(again, wtf? Where do these great winger pundits get thier supposed info? There is nothing new about this. They have been itching for it since 1979, when radicalized Iranian students -- some of whom are now in power there -- committed a gross violation of all international norms and seized the United States embassy, holding diplomats hostage for 444 days.
Iranian-backed terrorists since then have killed 241 U.S. Marines in the 1983 barracks bombing and executed U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. Iran has played both sides of the street in Iraq, supporting both anti-US Shiite militias that waged several unsuccessful campaigns on U.S. troops, and the same militias’ infiltration of Iraqi security forces and attacks on Sunnis, in hopes of sparking further chaos from which Iran might benefit and come to dominate Iraq. Iran, now flanked by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, its traditional playgrounds, never intended to take that quietly.
Iranian-backed terrorists in Lebanon and Gaza have now seized three Israeli soldiers and attacked deep into Israeli territory, derailing an unilateral Israeli disengagement policy that threatened to neutralize the conflict there ... the last thing Iran wants to see. Israel, already engaged in Gaza and raiding into Lebanon, is poised for open conflict with its neighbors and the puppet master in Teheran.(Oh ya, I forgot, everything going on over there is the fault of the palestinians, it's not like they haven't been begging for a cease-fire for the past 2 weeks...stupid me!
Because what Iran wants is region-wide conflagration. Iran believes it can swallow us in its deserts and cities, bleeding us, humiliating us, setting the stage for Iran to rise as a new nuclear-armed Islamic superpower. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadnijad has been clownishly calling for the destruction of Israel for the past year, sounding a lot like a clownish pre-war Hitler. He has also been thumbing his nose at the United States and Europe on the issue of nuclear weapons. Ok, so I know this is wrong of me, but why should any other country do what we say when it comes to nucULAR stuff, when we don't even do as we say??? Earnest efforts to negotiate a solution with Teheran promise to be as effective as Neville Chamberlain’s talks in Munich with the gentleman he politely referred to as "Mr. Hitler."
Israel is not given to sitting still and taking blows and insults the way the United States traditionally has. Israel cannot afford to, the way that American presidents going back to Jimmy Carter have deluded themselves into thinking America can.
Nor, despite recent crowing about the "End of Cowboy Diplomacy," is George Bush’s term over or his work done. Even timid Europe -- with no desire to climb into a military cot with either Israel or the United States -- is alarmed by Iran’s bellicosity and has indicated it recognizes a military option may be inevitable.Statements like this, that are completely NOT backed up by any proof are what end up convincing the average Joe that certain things are inevitable and right...
The tragedy is that the Iranian people signaled repeatedly in recent years that they were tired of extremist government. ya, sort of like how American's have been signalling they are tired of the Extremist Bush regime for several years now???Extremist government, however, was not tired of ruling them and engineered its own survival in de-mock-cratic exercises made to look like real elections. OMFG, who is this dude kidding? Remember when way back in 2000 the SCOTUS gave Bush the NOT won election???
The culmination of a 25-year Iranian campaign against the United States and Israel is coming to fruition, and sadly the time to wish for the Iranian public to act on its own desires is passing.
War is ugly, but it is not the worst of options. That would be acquiescence. The situation, while dangerous, is not bleak, and total war may not be the outcome. Iran, like an unruly child who has never been disciplined, is making some serious miscalculations. The Iraq War has shown us that the Arab street has limited interest in rising against the West ... only a handful of zealots over the past three years -- several thousands among the hundreds of millions -- have opted for martyrdom in Iraq. Most Arab nations have learned that openly confronting either the United States or Israel is a bad idea, and are not likely to rise to take sides with Persians and Palestinians. Iran is also dealing with two highly capable adversaries, the United States and Israel, that have shown they are capable of decisive, targeted action. Ya, cuz if you are brave enough to stand up for yourself, we'll just kill you.
Should the situation escalate into open warfare throughout the Middle East, including the frontiers where United States forces now face Iran directly in Iraq and Afghanistan, should the U.S. Army find itself extended and in need of more troops, we will see a push in Congress for more money to boost the size of the volunteer army. Then, the American left in its desire to hobble the Bush administration, will push for a draft. They should be careful what they wish for. Even in periods of prevalent isolationism -- and this is not one of them -- Americans have shown themselves willing to rise to the needs of the nation.
The time has come to prepare. To get ready for it. War brings hardship, loss and hard choices. War spares no one. War requires both mental and physical preparation. We are far from done with this one, and perhaps only in the early stages of it.
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I got tired of reading this drivvel long before half way.
How many times can one person blame literally everything on the Left? (stupid questio)

Farkin retards have no idea that these things are the results of "THEIR" policies, and in fact the left is saying stop that!
Is there any wonder the Right is suffering so badly in the polls?
Even the most passive of sheep knows what Bull Shit smells like!

I'm not so sure. A lot of people (sheeple !!) are still convinced that Iran is dangerous, and that "Radical Islam" wants to take over the West...what the hell they would do with it after the "takeover" is another concern !!!

Never underestimate the stupidity of people, especially when they turn on, tune in and drop out to Fox and its ilk. The worst part is that these monkeys vote, as if THATS important....and the pushed misconception of the "Left" or "Liberal" in the 'States seems to be predominant, ie; if you're a liberal, you are anti-American flag-burning scum, and you don't "support the troops..."