Obama adjusts Iraq narrative, now blames Bush for troop withdrawal

The president who spent years touting the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq suddenly has had to distance himself from that action.

At the White House on Saturday morning — less than 48 hours after authorizing airstrikes against Islamist militants and humanitarian air drops to save the lives of trapped Iraqi civilians — President Obama blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the absence of American troops in Iraq and rejected the assertion that he could have left a small peacekeeping force in the war-torn nation.


He uttered those after three years, and a successful re-election campaign, in which the full removal of U.S. forces from Iraq was cast as this White House’s most significant foreign policy achievement and one Mr. Obama had promised all the way back to the earliest days of his first presidential campaign in 2008.
Now, however, with the terrorist force the Islamic State running roughshod through Iraq, capturing key territory, slaughtering Christians and promising to “raise the flag of Allah at the White House,” Mr. Obama has begun to adjust the narrative.

“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Mr. Obama told reporters just before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. “So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq. So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.”

Mr. Obama’s new take on the 2011 troop withdrawal quickly came under fire from a number of political pundits who pointed out the irony of a president moving away, at least in part, from his signature foreign policy achievement.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/11/obama-adjusts-iraq-narrative-now-blames-george-w-b/#ixzz3A91y63QR
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Hiroshima's Lessons for the War on Terror

In the summer of '45, the United States concluded a war that had come to be seen by some as unwinnable after the carnage at Iwo Jima with a bang.

On August 6th, the bomb fell on Hiroshima. And then on the 9th, it was Nagasaki's turn. Six days later, Japan, which had been preparing to fight to the last man, surrendered.

For generations of liberals those two names would come to represent the horror of America's war machine when they actually saved countless American and Japanese lives.

The two bombs stand in stark contrast to our endless nation-building exercises in which nothing is ever finished until we give up. Instead Truman cut the Gordian Knot and avoided a long campaign that would have depopulated Japan and destroyed the lives of a generation of American soldiers.

That we can talk about Japan as a victory, that the famous couple was caught kissing in Times Square rather than sighing in relief, is attributable to that decision to use the bomb. Without it, Japan would have been another Iraq or Vietnam, we might have eventually won at a terrible cost while destroying our willingness to fight any future wars and that would have given the USSR an early victory in Asia.

Professional soldiers understand the humanitarian virtue of ruthlessness. The pacifist civilian may gasp in horror at the sight of a mushroom cloud, but the professional soldier knows that the longer way around would have left every Japanese city looking far worse than Hiroshima.

More people died in the Battle of Okinawa on both sides than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 9 out of 10 buildings were destroyed. As much as a third of the island's population committed suicide, fled into caves that were bombed, were used as human shields or were killed when American soldiers found themselves unable to distinguish between Japanese soldiers posing as civilians and actual civilians.

And all that was in a part of Japan that was not fully aligned with its national identity. It does not take much to imagine what trying to capture Honshu would have looked like. Take the worst horrors of Vietnam and keep multiplying until you run out of imagination. If you run low, remember that at Okinawa the military was handing out grenades to civilians and its home defense plans involved encouraging the civilian population to commit suicide attacks.

The United States military did not understand the fanatical mindset of its enemies, but it did understand that they had to be fought with equal ruthlessness.

And now on another hot August, we find ourselves in another unwinnable war.  It isn't really unwinnable, but there is the sense that we have done everything possible and all we can do is live with it. As the left will tell us, more Americans died in car accidents in 2001 than on September 11.

Doubtlessly more Americans died in some assortment of accidents in 1941 than at Pearl Harbor. Instead of calling it a day that will live forever in infamy, FDR could have put their deaths into perspective by comparing them to the number of Americans killed by Polio and given a typical Obama speech warning the public not to jump to any conclusions.

Read more: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/08/hiroshimas-lessons-for-war-on-terror.html

Paul Young - Come back and stay 1983

Christine Tasin Convicted of Sacrilege Against Islam

Last year, during a confrontation with a Muslim bully on the street in Belfort, Ms. Tasin stood her ground. She acknowledged matter-of-factly that she was an Islamophobe, and told him, “L’Islam est une saloperie”, which is translated here as “Islam is crap”, and previously as “Islam is filth”.

Ms. Tasin was tried, convicted, and fined by a French court for those words. As she says in the video below, this means that a French court has applied sharia law, and has punished her for a crime not seen in France since the reign of Charles X (1824-1830).

She’s a gutsy woman, and she’s going to appeal her conviction all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, if necessary. I don’t have a link to any legal defense fund for her, but those who can read French may be able to find one at the Résistance Républicaine website.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:


Translation of the fixed text on the screen:

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Video transcript:

00:00		In France there is at least one Islamic Court.
00:04		It is the Court of Belfort. The judges of Belfort
00:08		have just applied Sharia in France.
00:12		They have decided to apply Article 22 of the
00:16		Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,
00:20		that is, Freedom of Expression is
00:24		granted within the limits of Sharia. The judges of Belfort
00:28		have just sentenced me to a fine of €3,000
00:32		(€1500 suspended) for saying that ‘Islam is
00:36		crap’. It is evident that with this
00:40		they are restoring the criminal offence of blasphemy.
00:44		Even better: they restore the crime of sacrilege,
00:48		which was used for the last time in France under the reign of
00:52		Charles X. We are in an unbelievable regression,
00:56		an unbelievable barbarism linked to Islam,
01:00		because let’s remember it is only everything
01:04		concerning Islam which has such consequences.
01:08		Everyone can say that Christianity is
01:12		crap, that Buddhism is crap; no-one
01:16		will find themselves in court. In France
01:20		one cannot say that Islam is crap. 13 years ago
01:24		Houellebecq was acquitted for saying that Islam was the
01:28		most idiotic religion. In 13 years we have regressed
01:32		to find ourselves in the era of Mohammed.
01:36		All this at the very moment where they sell Christian
01:40		girls and women in Iraq, in the name of Islam.
01:44		They sell them as slaves in the name of Islam. And they want to condemn me
01:48		because I say that Islam is crap? All this at the very moment
01:53		where the Islamists of Boko Haram kidnap
01:57		little girls, force them to ‘marry’ and make them slaves in the name of Islam.
02:01		And one wants to forbid me to say that
02:05		Islam is crap? The fact of the matter
02:09		is that Islam is indeed a gigantic pile of crap!
02:13		who could doubt it, seeing the examples I have
02:17		just cited, and God knows they are legion. In the name of Islam
02:21		they cut throats all over the world. In the name of Islam they kill.
02:25		It seems that Muslim associations,
02:29		instead of filing complaints against me, should
02:33		fight so that Islam is not all that,
02:37		and not to prevent me from expressing my concern,
02:41		the danger to me and my refusal of this barbarism.
02:45		So it is obvious that I will appeal. One cannot
02:49		accept that in FRANCE one is condemned for saying
02:53		that Islam is crap. This would mean that
02:57		this judgement would create a precedent and that freedom of
03:01		of expression would be dead for everyone from then on in this country.
03:05		Of course we count on you
03:09		friends, supporters, militants,
03:13		and friends of human rights to help us in this second battle
03:17		Please send your donations to “Resistance Republicaine”
03:21		Thank you everyone. http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/08/christine-tasin-convicted-of-sacrilege-against-islam/

LBJ ‘Destroyed African-American Families’: Former NFL Player Reveals

He took a lot of hits playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys, and now he’s not pulling any punches in politics.

Garry Cobb, the 57-year-old former NFL linebacker, is running as a Republican for Congress in New Jersey, and he recently sat down with Newsmax TV to explain why he has rejected the Democrats.

“We started out poor,” Cobb said. “As a kid I could remember eating mayonnaise sandwiches, ketchup sandwiches and drinking sugar water, but we were able to go out and do better than our parents and that’s what my parents dreamed of.”

A major reason his family succeeded: his dad was around.“All my brothers and sisters have gone to college,” Cobb said. “The reason we were able to have some success was our dad was there, there was some discipline in the home.”

While Cobb said he was a Democrat in his youth, he has since realized that many other black families did not have a father in the home because of the actions of Democrats.

He pointed to President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” anti-poverty programs, saying that since single mothers were afforded more aid under the programs than intact couples, many black fathers were tacitly encouraged to leave their families.

“[LBJ's anti-poverty programs were] an incentive for the man to leave the home, and it’s destroyed African-American families throughout the country,” Cobb said.

Now he’s running for Congress in a bid to turn things around and get government out of areas in which it has no business interfering.

“African-American communities throughout the country are doing horribly under Democratic-run cities and that’s why I want to put an end to it,” Cobb said.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/09/lbj-destroyed-african-american-families-former-nfl-player-reveals-what-led-him-to-the-gop/

Mexico vs United States Laws - Guy From Boston

Vulgarity Warning

A Public Service Message Regarding Our Colonization

Sorry for the language, but the Guy From Boston has it right regarding illegal immigration — just like our neighbor to the south:

Meanwhile Mexican politicians bleat with a disgusting combination of sanctimony and piteous victimhood whenever they feel that we aren’t facilitating their colonization of our country with sufficient obsequiousness.

Found at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=48967

An Open Address to the Elders and Princes of the Judaeo-Christian Ecumene by Seneca III

from: http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/08/an-open-address-to-the-elders-and-princes-of-the-judaeo-christian-ecumene/#more-33966

I stand before you this day as man, never more than a man and often less, and I acknowledge in all love and humility that you are also men, mere mortals like me. However, I also acknowledge that you are different from me — different in the sense that the burden you carry, your vocation together with its obligations, is far heavier and has far greater and far more reaching consequences than any burden that ever has or will fall upon my shoulders. So, it is with a heavy heart and no great certitude as to the outcome that I address you, the Lord’s senior servants, as I do hereunder.

If you look around you with eyes fully open you will see that your Flocks — those simple, decent people who look to you for temporal guidance and protection as well as spiritual — are not simply being decimated, they are being exterminated or, in the case of the not so lucky few who survive the swords of Islam, enslaved. From the Middle East through Africa to the Far East the ravening savages of the Prophet of Mecca and Medina are on the march again in pursuit of their eternal quest, the global Caliphate, and the tides of blood grow higher each day.

And you, with a few notable exceptions, what do you do? Well, I will tell what you are seen to be doing — or rather not doing — and how your actions reflect in the eyes of the common man as he watches these same hordes gathering in less than quiet readiness in our Western homelands.

Time after time after time after time when faced with this catastrophic sequence of events you do not take Islam and its proponents openly and firmly to task, except on the odd occasion where then you shortly thereafter retract and apologise for speaking truth in daylight. Instead you seek to compromise, to mollify, excuse or appear to close in some form of professional ranking with these purveyors of death and destruction. In so doing we, your Flock, lose ground and lives with every backward step you take. Can you not understand that to a Muslim turning the other cheek is but a way of presenting your and our necks for severance?

Why do you not understand this?

Surely you must be aware that the Imams, Ayatollahs, Mullahs, Muttawas of Islam and their lay proselytisers within and without the Ecumene are well-practised in the black arts of disinformation and dissemblance. Indeed, their Book mandates such procedures in their dealings with you and us, we whom they refer to as Kuffar, and yet you persist, even after fourteen centuries of exposure to this practice, in either failing to recognise or refusing to acknowledge the reality. Again and again it is we that end up paying the ultimate price for this dereliction of your moral and spiritual duties.

And yet, and yet, as the butcher’s bill rises by an order of magnitude almost daily, still you gentlemen in the main continue to play dice with your own immortal souls, seemingly unknowing or uncaring that one day you will have to stand before the Gates and answer for the way those dice rolled as below you the black cloud of slavery only slightly muffles the sound of clanking chains and the crack of whips.

Gentlemen, I am of a mind that the answer to what I presume to be your dilemma, and our physical salvation, lies in your relocating some of your moral vertebrae, and, like your predecessors did so many times in the past when confronted by the ancestors of these same barbarians, become again the Church Militant.

Furthermore, I suggest, even beg, that henceforth your only refrain should be…

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire! *

…and I do not mean in any metaphorical sense either, please note.

Thank you for listening. Please bear in mind that I expect nothing of our political classes but I would hope for so much more from you.

—

Seneca III in Middle England as we approach the Ides of August 2014 CE.

* William Blake, from “And did those feet in ancient time”, 1804
For links to previous essays by Seneca III, see the Seneca III Archives.

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