Cheney slams Obama for projecting ‘weakness’

Interestingly Cheney is correct on this point. It is like a spark of intelligence hit what can only be considered an agenda-driven radical that sabotaged America for 8 years.

I, in an item about Iran to our beloved blog-owner mentioned about the ol' Veep. I will repeat those portions below to get my view accross.

"Now, going to the issues that we obviously see completely diffeferently.

Yes Bush had balls, I personally thought his father was better and had bigger ones, or at least ones that did the right job. Yes I blame his administration for embracing radical-far-right concepts that are still by its very nature radical, which I am apposed to. Extreme right or left, it is a danger.

If you speak to almost any professional diplomat you will find that they loathed the Bush Administration, even if they respected Colin Powell, whom I have met once and I respect. So far every professional US diplomat except one, that I have met, and I am friends with and know many, all were thankfull of the change of government and policy. Why? Because the policies of aggressive, we know better than you and carrot with stick approach simply alienated, isolated and annoyed almost the entire globe except for two stalwarts - Australia and Great Britain. The Bush Administration had no concept and destroyed the capacity of the US to preform "constructive engagement" which is the beadrock of diplomacy. They also engaged ultra-hawkish war-mongers like John Bolton whom, if given enough rope would have strangled anyone and anything caught up with it and thankfully, Congress never allowed him to keep his job. Rumsfeld and the Veep had agendas that were so obvious that they can only be applauded in how they kept their faces straight

Now do not get me wrong, I am not a liberal or a democrat supporter at all. I consider myself as centrist as they can get, I supported many ideals that were in the Republican camp and I am not at all happy with Democratic fiscal/financial policies which I think is all wrong. I simply at present agree with the Obama Administrations's foreign policy approach. Back to politics, if anything, I am a Reagan Supporter and he understood the balance between giving the diplomats and constructive engagement all the opportunities to do their job but with the firm hand of strength to back-up, but not overshadow, that effort."

I know you are almost all right-wing and conservative to the core, so just letting you know my opinion on the subject of foreign policy. I am, frankly, not interested in domestic politics in the US..

" ...agenda-driven radical that sabotaged America for 8 years."

It didn't sabotage, but protect America.


" for embracing radical-far-right concepts that are still by its very nature radical, which I am apposed to"

Concepts such as freedom of press, religion and women's rights.


"ultra-hawkish war-mongers like John Bolton "

John Bolton is a honorable, clever and patriotic American. He was second to none in his former
position.


"if given enough rope would have strangled anyone"

That would be Salim, your uncle. Rabat's Police still looks for him.


" I simply at present agree with the Obama Administrations's foreign policy approach "

Of course you do. An America that BOWS to a muslim "king".That's what you craved for.


"I am a Reagan Supporter "

He'd despise you.

It's ironic that Obama seems to admire Lincoln so much and sees parallels with him, then turns around and consistently violates one of his most basic principles, "you cannot please all of the people all of the time". It appears to me that is exactly what his Afghan strategy he announced last night tries to do. Particlularly the announcement that he will begin to remove the surge troops in 2011. A sop to the leftists that want a timetable for withdrawal, while prefering immediate and total withdrawal. In the meantime, I find myself having to support this strategy and hope it succeeds for the good of the nation and the world, because it's the best we're going to get while Obama is CnC.

Anyone that agrees with Obama and his lies, is a fool. U know Sir Wilhem he has to save face since he's dropping in the polls, "so just lie, that will work, huh!" Just don't turn your back on the CnC, of which even that title is a real stretch, with no truth in it. GRRRR

A German's View on Islam

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Fine work.

Well put and I could not agree more. It is the silence to radicalism that is the point, not scriptures, principles or the like, it is hate and not doing anything about it.

People show hate all the time, if they can get away with it they will even act upon it, as it is done by many, many Muslims at present. The hate in return is also an issue, just look at this site.

Oh please. He's making the point that YOU are irrelevant because you are silent. You can't even bring yourself to support AIFDemocracy without injecting some sort of apologetic for political Islam.

He's making the point that silence on your part is what's driving more and more people against Islam, not those who are actively speaking out against it.

For such an elitist as yourself, you'd think you'd be able to decipher that simple point.

You're confusing contempt for hate Solkhar.
We little bloggers here, like peace lover, regard Islam as a poisonous supremacist totalitarian ideology
that has a stated aim of garnering more political influence by any means(I repeat any means)
I personally regard the death cult as a black comedy leading to a possible nightmare(just like the rise of the Nazis).
The time to marginalise them is right now!;and we do that through unrelenting derision and derogation of
their disgusting beliefs and ambition.
There is a rising tide of opposition(view Pat Condell on Youtube);chief amongst which is the possible election of Geert Wilders as Dutch prime minister(what a day for celebration!!!).
Don't you find it absurd thnat a member of the Dutch parliament needs round the clock protection from Muslim maniacs.?
If you are against murdering madmen of your religion;then why not stick your head above the parapet
(like Zuhdi Yasser)and identify yourself publicly as moral and civilised.
Instead you whinge and whine about the contributors here making fun of the abomination you call a religion
and have the haughty temerity to label us as lacking dignity.
How many politically correct euphemisms would you prefer us to apply?
Merde est merde!Scheisse ist Scheisse,shit is shit;you can dress up a turd in any fancy way but the core is still excrement!
May Allah suffer the same pain as your cholecystitis;did you pray for relief?
Allah the useless was probably found wanting again?
What you have demonstrated(as noted by John)is the misinterpretation contained within freedom lover's missive!
The message of Islam is submission;clearly you are among the fools that do!
Meanwhile the merry troubadours here will continue to scoff at your asinine beliefs.
Just doing our little bit to bring the world to its senses.
It takes the fractured reasoning of the brain damaged to ;I suspect ,pretend that his comment supports your point of view!

I agree, Obama has been displaying massive weakness. When you consider the margin he won by, and the the fact that he has control of both houses. (by just enough), he should be striking out boldly, implementing the changes people thought he represented when an unquestionable majority of Americans voted for him. Unlike his predecessor, he actually -does- have a mandate. (unlike Bush who thinks an election so close it had to be decided by the Supreme Court is "a mandate")

To wit:
#1 - full out investigation of anyone who participated in making torture "legal". [Note - the torture and other abuses of the American Colonists was one of the most direct reasons the American leaders of the revolution (Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Washington et al) decided to separate from England. It is why Our Constitution includes so many specific restrictions AGAINST cruelty and guarantees so many specific legal protections for the people (to protect them from those in power). One of the most basic premises of the Constitution is that governments cannot be trusted to not abuse their power so it made it illegal for them to use that power in way that would be easy to overtly abuse.] So by now, Bush, Cheney, many of Bush's DOj appointee's should be under full prosectution.

#2: restore the writ of Habeous Corpus to all arrest procedures.

#3: halt all extrordinary renditions

#4: while he is at it, restore the Pledge of Allegiance to its original form. dropping the superstitious stupidity inserted by the fear-paralyzed and frankly, brainwashed or unthinking masses of the McCarthy era.

These actions would go far to re-center America in the principle of Freedom and Liberty our country was founded on.

By restoring those you enable people to begin making the changes we need to truly protect the country from terrorists. Especially from the ones working inside the country to erode from within.

(if you are going to play around at worshiping imaginary being of ultimate power, at least use one with a little color and character. I suggest Thor, or his Dad, Odin. or go to the other extreme and worship the "Care Bears". )

wrong topic buddy...but since you're channeling your inner Ron Paul vis a
vis Alex Jones

#1 What constitutes torture? If you're referring to the infamous
waterboarding, do you realize that never at any moment in time during
waterboarding is the recipient put in ANY physical harm? There is documented
proof that medical personnel are standing by to make sure it doesn't happen.


#2 & #3 don't make any sense. We're at war. Enemy combatants don't deserve
the same treatment or rights as American citizens. Read the Constitution.

#4 I could care less either way. Not a big deal, nothing to do with anything
but a couple words. The word "God" doesn't bother me. Not the biggest
issue of our time...

Here's one for Sir Wilhelm & ljcarolyne: Letter to the Grim Reaper


Dear Mr. Grim Reaper, So far this year you have taken away my favorite actor Patrick Swayze, my
favorite entertainer Michael Jackson, and my favorite actress Farrah
Fawcett.
Just so you know, my favorite politician is Barack Obama. Thank you. Author unknown

ROFLOL My favorite news outlet is Al-Jazeera :)