ACTION ALERT!!!!!

Our good friends over at Foundation for Defense of Democracies have a favor to ask. They'd like everyone to call the senators listed below and express their support for the amendment by John Kyl and Joe Lieberman. The folks over at FDD are patriots and work very hard to keep our liberties and freedoms intact.

(and my contact is a smokin' hot baby doll. Yeah yeah...its a Marine thing. It's not my fault all conservative women are smokin' hot and incredibly intelligent.)

From my contact:

Every single day Iran inches closer to obtaining the world’s most dangerous and deadly weapon known to man – a nuclear weapon. They must be stopped!

We already know the Iranian regime funds and trains terrorists who are killing American soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. The President of Iran has also threatened to wipe the United States and Israel off the map – calling us the “Great Satan.” These people simply cannot be trusted with nuclear capabilities!

Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) have sponsored an amendment to President Obama’s budget that will hit Iran where it hurts – by making sure your U.S. tax dollars DO NOT support companies that do business with Iran’s energy sector. This may be the last peaceful way to stop Iran from getting the bomb.

The Senate will vote on this amendment TODAY and we need you to do your part to pressure Congress by telling them to vote in favor of the Kyl/ Lieberman Amendment #932.

Please take less than 5 minutes to call the Senators listed! Tell them to stop Iran’s nuclear bomb by voting in favor of Amendment 932!

Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) -- 202-224-5623

Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) -- 202-224-2043

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) – 202-224-3224

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) – 202-224-2621

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – 202-224-6542

Thank you for taking action today!!

President Bush fulfilled his pledge to U.S.

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H/T to Jeff Emanuel.

Regardless of your opinions on whether we should have gone into Iraq or not, one thing is for certain:
We have not been attacked on our soil in the past 7 1/2 years.
Thank You President Bush for keeping us safe.
Thank You Troops for keeping us safe.

Earl Harrison

Guest Columnist

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The main burr under everyone’s saddle is the Iraq War.

In this respect, I challenge you to read the book “Dereliction of Duty” by Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson. In this book, the basic planning of 9/11 was fermented in the Clinton administration.

When the 9/11 calamities struck our nation, President Bush pledged to the American people that he would do everything possible through the powers of his office to prevent another occurrence of such calamity from striking our nation again. He also pledged to hunt down the terrorists responsible for 9/11 and destroy them. President Bush had to challenge Congress to give him the “power of office” to check phone calls and other means to detect and apprehend anyone with tendencies toward terrorism.

He had to bang heads of the FBI and CIA to work together and apprehend undesirable people in our effort to prevent terrorist acts.

The world governments knew that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). His army used them on a segment of his nation. Hussein gassed thousands of people. It was common knowledge by many nations that Hussein was in cohorts with the terrorists. He paid homage to the families of the suicide bombers that were killing the Israeli people. He supported training camps for terrorists located in Iraq. Although it was determined that Hussein did not direct the 9/11 terrorist acts.

The United Nations gave a number of directives to Hussein; that he acknowledge having WMDs and dispose of them. Obviously, Hussein ignored all the referendums. The final referendum warned Hussein to comply with the directives or suffer the
consequences. At this point, President Bush implied that the consequences would be an invasion of Iraq to destroy the WMDs and the terrorists. President Bush concluded that it would be better to fight the terrorists on their streets than have to fight them on our streets. Hence, the invasion of Iraq. In addition, he wanted to make sure that the terrorists would not acquire any WMDs and use them in an attack on our nation.

President Bush sought approval and assistance from the United Nations, but they refused, and because of the danger from WMDs to the world, President Bush pledged that we would do it alone. In spite of the protesters, he stayed the course of his commitment.

On the invasion of Iraq, the military determined that Hussein had removed the WMDs from Iraq, but the military found large caches of military equipment designed for gas warfare. This was proof enough of his possession of WMDs.

The Iraq conflict has been prolonged by the invasion of terrorist elements from the neighboring countries. President Bush has permitted the military to conduct the operations. In contrast, civilian Washington micromanaged the Vietnam operation, which proved much more disastrous than Iraq.

I thank President Bush for trying to fulfill his pledge to the United States of America.