Ahmadinejad to Visit U.N., Columbia, NOT Ground Zero!
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has no justification to go anywhere near the site of our greatest national tragedy. The driving force behind state sponsored terrorism, self proclaimed enemy of America and the man harboring bin Laden’s son, he represents the very Jihadist mentality behind the 9/11 attacks. His request to lay a wreath would only be played out in Al Jazeera as honoring the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks. (more…)
General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker presented concise summaries along with two days of testimony to House and Senate Committees on the current situation in Iraq and the consequences of the surge. Though their reports and testimony were anything but rosy, some Liberal Democrats maintained their posture that these were embellished to suit the posture of the Bush Administration. In fact, they were somber assessments of the challenges we face in helping Iraq realize a stable secular government and achieving security for the region.
The clamor of Senators preaching the failures of our military leadership was as if they were Roman and Caesar just crossed the Rubicon. The Senators joined MoveOn.org in flooding the media with propaganda dispelling any successes anticipated in the report from General Petraeus, Commander of Multi-National Force Iraq . The report from the General was to be discredited at any cost lest the ability of the Democratic Congress to manage the conflict and to end it with the Bush Administration, whatever the repercussions, would be lost.
The absence of Fred Thompson at Thursday’s