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Here's a guest post from lifelong Cheshire resident, Tim Slocum:
My good friend Tim White has been doing this blog for sometime now. I have become a frequent visitor and have opined on a number of occasions using my name or my initials. I have been struck by the oft cold candor of the anonymous blogger. A few weeks back I noticed that Tim included a guest blog by Diane Visconti. I believe it garnered the appropriate enthusiasm her topic warranted. To her credit, Diane Visconti is a hardworking and caring town councilor. Diane cares about so much. I guess I‘m just not so caring. I commented to Tim that Diane had quite a few “hits” as they say in this business. He said that “liberals” love to blog. That dovetails with Rush Limbaugh’s claim that he has lots of Libs listening to him so it must be so.
Well I’m no Lib so I am using Tim’s forum to discuss something I feel passionate about; the war America is waging here and abroad on Islamic fascism and global terrorism. Most liberals loath this war along with an increasing number of so called moderate Republicans and independents. I look forward to the many “Anons” eager to confirm their temerity and my insanity as they read on.
Why have liberals loathed this war from day one? I believe I have the answer and as the cops often say, follow the money. Money and who has control of it is the presiding political value today. I say this with great caution because I am not suggesting that all Americans that now oppose the war are materialistic narcissistic self indulgers. I am suggesting they simply play in to the hands of the politically materialistic narcissistic self indulgers.
Most Americans express agreement on their sincere concern for our troops. I posit that more than half of Americans are shamelessly parading a lie when they make such a claim. I look to the Lieberman haters in the Democrat party for confirmation of my claim. How can liberals hate politically liberal Joe Lieberman and care about our military when the only common link is that Joe cares about victory in this war? It is simply dishonest to suggest it could be any other way. This brings me back to the money.
Most Democrats want to spend your money on their noble causes. My disagreement is with their definitions of noble. For most Democrats and many Republicans a noble cause is a popular cause driven by the press and polls. State legislatures across the country are contemplating such noble causes as universal healthcare plans, increased taxes for schools and other myriad government programs and services. The medical profession is rapidly expanding under the weight of an aging population that is living longer. I must ask why bother if the vast majority of Americans won’t support a war on terror? We’re going to be goners anyway.
History replays itself over and over. The victor always gets the spoils. The victor eventually gets fat, lazy and complacent and soon becomes a victim. And once again to the winner goes the spoils of the complacent. One of the first classes of people to go in revolutions throughout modern history is the liberals. Liberals see the best in people they usually know nothing about. They should look much harder and see these people at their worst. Fascist regimes like Iran, Korea, Saddam’s Iraq should shake liberals to their core but they would rather wage a misplaced war on our president. I scratch my head and ask why. It’s the money…all those billions they could spend on happier things.
Liberals breathe the same air, go to the same schools and churches and enjoy many of the same entertainments but they just don’t get it. That is why they will continue to let the fascists win and let our freedoms slip away. And when the enemy actually hits our homeland again they will be the first to blame a government agency, open hearings and be outraged by how this could happen here. Meanwhile they’re prepared to wage all out war on cow farts, incandescent light bulbs, global warming and your carbon footprint because some government agency says it must be so.
At the end of the day I fear liberals most.
Tim Slocum
11 comments:
In all cases when I have replied on the blog I have signed my name, but in this case I fear I would be condemmed by so many for my position. As they say I am not politically correct.
The war is wrong and for all of the right reasons. The Islamic terrorists really do not care to wage a jihad on the US on US territory. All they want is for us to get off of their land. One can debate about what started this and it was not 9/11. The US established residency afetr the WWII when the Middel East was broken up and divided by Greta Britain.
The solution is simple, pack up and leave the Middel East, allow the countries to fend for themselves, and yes that includes Israel too. We do not need their oil, there is no reason to support any country there. Let the inhabitants solev it themselves. We have no business there. How would we as Americans react if another country invaded us with the idea of changing our government. What would we do, probably resist, like we did during the founding of our country. There is a fine line between between terrorist and patriot, depends on what side of the issue you are on.
The political parties spend all their time trying to make the other guy loook bad. Both should focus on the issues at hand and what it takes to resolve them. If the energy to criticize, point fingers ans all of the other nonsense was put to use to figure out to work together and forget about who gets credit or what can we don to win the next election, we would all be better off.
Small but important point: the proper term is "Democratic Party", and only idiots get it wrong more than once.
Tim you really need to read some history/
FDR a liberal led us vs the fascists in WW two
Harry Truman a Democrat led us into the Korean conflict to fight communists
IKE would not go the Hungary situation
Johnson a liberal went to Vietnam
To say that there is not commitment to fight from lib or Dem is not supported by facts
Wow!! He can't be real.
Well Tim often gets his facts wrong. I recall Tim stating that Sikorsky lost the Marine One Presidential helicopter contract due to the fact that the defense department was concerned with the then potential strike at Sikorsky. Tim was wrong and his comment was based on pure hogwash. Sikorsky lost the contract to the British contractor as pay back to the British for their support in Iraq. Everyone knew it was going to happen and it did. Tim of course made a statement that was wrong and misguided, one of many he has made.
Now remind me again why we went to Iraq??--What reasons do we use this week?
I think there are a couple of important distinctions that you have glossed over in your comments.
Most Americans (the vast majority dare I say) support the war on terrorism and toward the goal of protecting our country and it's citizens. That does does mean that most Americans support a war with Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the war of terrorism and one which posed no threat to our homeland or it's citizens.
We all know now that we (including our Congress) were duped into a war with Iraq. There were no WMD's, no imminent threats, nothing. Along the way to this war, we gave up many individual freedoms (you know, the ones we want everyone else to have). It is now okay for the government to read your mail, tap your phone calls, scan your email, and - should they decide you are an enemy combatant, to send you off to some far away prison where you will never be heard from again.
In fact, in the place where we should have focused our efforts, Afghanistan and the Taliban, we lost focus - allowing for a resurgence of Islamic extremist in that country. Does anyone remember Osama Bin Laden? By launching a preemptive strike against Iraq, based on entirely false pretenses, we have been completely distracted from the true war on terrorism, sacrificed our standing in the world, and enhanced the power of extremist governments such as Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
Fighting the war on terror means protecting our ports, guarding our borders, controlling immigration, and keeping a vigilant eye out for those that would like to do us harm, and vigorously pursuing those that follow through on that desire.
Over 3,300 soldiers have died in Iraq. I wish I could say it was for a "noble" cause, but I don't. I try to read each of their names every day, paying attention to how old they were when they died, and where they lived - and imagine how many other lives have been ruined as a result.
Sorry Tim, we are supposed to have a government "of the people, by the people, for the people". This administration has failed, more so than any other in the history of this country.
A few points:
First, plenty of liberals have fought before. the problem is the post-Vietnam types who smile when they remember the last helicopter leaving Saigon.
Second: If we were duped into a war in Iraq, one needs to blame the Clintons, who also believed the WMD's were underway and who signed a federal laws declaring regime change our nation policy. Silly Dubya, actually implementing a bill Clinton signed
Third: The critics of present policy are correct we're bungled much of what we started. "Nation building" is probably unattainable, especially in a Middle eastern Ulster. We should have anointed a Mubarak or Mussaref since quasi-military dictators are what works in that part of the world.
Packing up and leaving and being blamed for the inevitable meltdown is immeasurably worse, though. While Brzezinski forgot the "kiiling fields", most haven't
As for the first anomymous, we won;t be left alone until the Islamofascists complete what Hitler started. If we are lucky. Since I do not believe we will permit that to happen, deal with reality.
After reading Mr. Slocum's comments I can only believe that he was just posting an April Fools Day joke.
George W. Bush will go down in history! First he will be given the award of worst president. Second he will be awarded the prize of conducting the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of the US. I feel sorry for the next president whoever he or she may be because they are going to be left with W's mess to clean up.
The claims linking money and war are not only irresponsible they are reprehensible. Could it be that liberals don’t like seeing there sons and daughters coming home in boxes for a war that the premise for starting was a lie? After 9/11 we had to go after Bin Laden and try to close the terrorist camps in Afghanistan and stop that state from sponsoring terrorism. Iraq? Why? No link to any of it. What Iraq has done has taken our eye off the real threat, which is terrorism. No one has ever explained how the war in Iraq is stopping the terrorist threat. I fear we are now less safe because of it.
Tim you are crazy and the us against them attitude helps no one and it is that attitude that is hurting local government and I am sure has made you and your friends very ineffective as elected officals.
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