The Case for a Shah of Iraq - Bruce Walker - Aug 18, 07: “The reality is that a Shah of Iraq would be at least as legitimate as President Assad or President Mubarak, the rulers for life of Syria and Egypt, (and in the case of Assad, the heir to the throne of the Presidency of Syria) and much more legitimate that Kim Jong Il, who inherited his throne as “Dear Leader” of North Korea. “

I agree and wrote about it before. They need a strongman. They are not civilized enough for democratic rule.

Iraq bombs: 500 die in worst terror attack - Telegraph: “The number of confirmed dead was 175, with more than 300 injured and 600 made homeless. But medics speculated that the real toll could be closer to 500. Bodies covered by blankets could be seen laid in the street and outside a municipal building. Rescuers are still digging through the rubble of the bomb-flattened clay-built homes in scenes reminiscent of an earthquake zone. But Major Rodger Lemons, operations officer for a US brigade in the area, which is near the city of Mosul, said that rescue efforts are winding down. ‘My assessment is there’s probably no one left alive in the rubble,’ he said. ‘We’ve transitioned through to a clean-up phase.’ The US military has said the ‘al-Qa’eda in Iraq’ group is the prime suspect for the attack on the Yazidis, seen by Sunni Muslim militants as infidels. “

These terrorists are possessed by demons. No human of free will would do this.

FrontPage Magazine: “To say that the attempt to Talibanize Iraq would not be happening at all if coalition forces were not present is to make two unsafe assumptions and one possibly suicidal one. The first assumption is that the vultures would never have gathered to feast on the decaying cadaver of the Saddamist state, a state that was in a process of implosion well before 2003. All our experience of countries like Somalia and Sudan, and indeed of Afghanistan, argues that such an assumption is idiotic. It is in the absence of international attention that such nightmarish abnormalities flourish.

The second assumption is that the harder we fight them, the more such cancers metastasize. This appears to be contradicted by all the experience of Iraq. Fallujah or Baqubah might already have become the centers of an ultra-Taliban ministate, as they at one time threatened to do, whereas now not only have thousands of AQM goons been killed but local opinion appears to have shifted decisively against them and their methods.

The third assumption, deriving from the first two, would be that if coalition forces withdrew, the AQM gangsters would lose their raison d’être and have nothing left to fight for. I think I shall just leave that assumption lying where it belongs: on the damp floor of whatever asylum it is where foolish and wishful opinions find their eventual home.”

FT.com / World - Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned
David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”.
These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.

“With the looming retirement of baby boomers, spiralling healthcare costs, plummeting savings rates and increasing reliance on foreign lenders, we face unprecedented fiscal risks,” said Mr Walker, a former senior executive at PwC auditing firm.
Current US policy on education, energy, the environment, immigration and Iraq also was on an “unsustainable path”.
“Our very prosperity is placing greater demands on our physical infrastructure. Billions of dollars will be needed to modernise everything from highways and airports to water and sewage systems. The recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis was a sobering wake-up call.”
Mr Walker said he would offer to brief the would-be presidential candidates next spring.

Walker has told this to everyone in high government so it is not like they do not know about the grave financial situation but very few give a damn.

Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look: “WASHINGTON (AP) - Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday. ‘I think it makes sense to certainly consider it,’ Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio’s ‘All Things Considered.’ ‘And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. “

You cannot have a draft in an unpopular war any more. Have you people learned nothing from Vietnam? Rebellion in people would overturn the government and a draft would destroy the professionalism of the military. So consider it if that is what you really want to do and you will be much like Charles Randgel. On the other hand, if there were a nuclear attack on a city and a war against forces in Pakistan and radical Islam everywhere became necessary because of it then their might be enough support for a draft. Expecting a draft to be possible among our young under conditions in the country today is quite delusional.

WorldNetDaily: Al Maliki in bed with the enemy: “So, Al Maliki is in Iran. What will he accomplish? Will he send the signal that he welcomes Iran’s continued interference in Iraq? Will he slyly indicate to the Iranians that he would like their help in thwarting the plan to rid his country of the terrorists and insurgents that arrive daily from Iran and from Syria? Exactly what is it that Nouri al Maliki hopes to accomplish with these overtures to the mad mullahs of Tehran and their anointed leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?”

The problem is that we had elections in Iraq way to soon. The US administration put on this facade of democracy for world consumption. Instead, we should have put a strong man in power and after he secured the country maybe there could be increased democratic rule. I would think that the strong man will arise anyways and that is what some of this infighting is all about. I doubt if Al Maliki is that man and I doubt if he will be around much longer.

The Arsenal of the Iraq Insurgency: It’s made in China.: “One might wonder why Beijing, as a matter of policy, would sell weapons to Iran for the clear purpose of killing American soldiers. ‘There is a great shortfall in our understanding of China’s intentions,’ said Lawless of China’s overall military policies, and ‘when you don’t know why they are doing it, it is pretty damn threatening. . . . They leave us no choice but to assume the worst.’

Why China is ‘doing it’ need not be a mystery. In 2004, Beijing’s top America analyst, Wang Jisi, noted, ‘The facts have proven that it is beneficial for our international environment to have the United States militarily and diplomatically deeply sunk in the Mideast to the extent that it can hardly extricate itself.’ It is sobering to consider that China’s small-arms proliferation behavior since then suggests that this principle is indeed guiding Chinese foreign policy.”

Yet, we keep sucking up to the Chinese.

Disaster looms as ‘Saddam dam’ struggles to hold back the Tigris - Independent Online Edition > Middle East: “As world attention focuses on the daily slaughter in Iraq, a devastating disaster is impending in the north of the country, where the wall of a dam holding back the Tigris river north of Mosul city is in danger of imminent collapse.
‘It could go at any minute,’ says a senior aid worker who has knowledge of the struggle by US and Iraqi engineers to save the dam. ‘The potential for disaster is very great.’
If the dam does fail, a wall of water will sweep into Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city with a population of 1.7 million, 20 miles to the south. Experts say the flood waters could destroy 70 per cent of Mosul and inflict heavy damage 190 miles downstream along the Tigris.”

The next major Iraq disaster is now imminent.

cChuck Baldwin — An Appeal To My Fellow Christians
“Yet most of my fellow believers who say we have no Christian duty to oppose President Bush as he strips us of our liberties, defies our Constitution, and makes a mockery of justice, will turn around and shout the loudest in support of a war against a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11 and did not even pose a legitimate or imminent threat to our country. Besides, even if it did, using the same logic of many Christians, “It is part of prophecy; there is nothing we can do about it.”

The reason many will not support Pastor Baldwin is because of statements like he made above. Pastor Baldwin buys into every conspiracy theory in the book and then he chides Christians for not supporting him in his rebellion against government authority.

President Bush is not stripping us of our liberties or defying our Constitution or making a mockery of justice. If anyone is doing that it is the godless humanist socialist far Left. However, the American people are ultimately to blame for what happens to them. There is no one in office that was not elected into office or appointed by someone who was elected into office. There is no one in authority that who was not given that position by God. The leaders of this country reflect the morality of this country. If you really want to change America to morality there is only one way to do that. Convert them to true Christianity.

True Christianity is quite different from the Balwin agenda. True Christianity does not force human governments to conform, that is rebellion. True Christianity converts hearts one at a time to accept Jesus and to conform to the commandments of Jesus. That is, to love God and your neighbor as yourself.

Baldwin says the war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 and was not a threat to our country. He is wrong. What is a threat to Israel is a threat to the whole world. Baldwin does not see the big picture but he expects Christians to see his little picture that displays fictional American pie.

Perhaps Baldwin and many others that post on this website ought to read what the New Testament says about submitting to government authorities set over them. They take a little truth from here and there and somehow fit them all into their grand satanic conspiracy plan. They somehow believe the US is the promised land and that it should stay separate from the world. I have news, it is not.

World government is inevitable as population increases on the earth. That does not mean that World government is evil. The Millennial reign of Jesus Christ will be a world government! Yeah, we know that the Antichrist will come to power and establish a world government before this but his world government can’t happen until God allows it and I sincerely doubt if God will allow any satanic conspiracy to upset His own timing. My Bible says that Satan is only granted power to rule the earth for only 3 1/2 years to deceive those who will not believe the truth. So who do you think is really ruling the earth?

Get back to preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ instead of preaching another gospel. There is plenty to say about the satanic conspiracy in the world to keep people from seeing the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ rather than to get caught up into governmental conspiracy speculations that is really telling Christians to build on the house of God with straw.

FrontPage Magazine: “If al-Qaeda does mount a major terrorist attack, or campaign of attacks, against the United States homeland, it would be an act of desperation. It would be a sign that the “surge” in Iraq is working, not only in a military sense but in a political sense, as Sunni and Shia tribal leaders are brought into the U.S. strategy of national building. If al-Qaeda is on the run, as many reports from the scene indicate, its leaders may decide to roll the iron dice in an attempt to win in Washington what has been lost in Baghdad. How Americans would interpret such terrorist actions, and react to them, would reveal to the world the state of the nation’s self-confidence and moral strength, the real determinants of effective power in world affairs.”

That why I think there will be an attempt in September to strike multiple targets in the US. If they do not get the desired results they could lose much influence. If they do carry out their desired objectives in the US it could backfire on them when the US takes stronger action against their strongholds. They can only make significant gains if they can manipulate the US to get out of Iraq or the US takes some other action that is equally as stupid.

A Few Questions For Liberals - Edward Daley - Aug 03, 07: ” If George W. Bush is as stupid as so many liberals claim, how did he manage to steal an election, mastermind 9/11, cover up his administration’s involvement in that event after the fact, con practically every Congressional Democrat into going to war with Iraq just so he could further enrich his cronies in the oil industry, single-handedly destroy every American’s civil rights via the Patriot Act, and then steal a second election on top of all that? And if he’s really an evil genius, which he’d surely have to be to get away with even half of those things, why aren’t his primary political adversaries in prison on trumped-up criminal charges right now… or dead?”

FrontPage Magazine: “Muslim Groups in the U.S. have joined with left-wing Protestants and Catholics in planning an “interfaith fast” on the upcoming “day officially known as ‘Columbus Day,’” according to fast organizers. Called “From Conquest to Community, From Violence to Reverence: An Interfaith Fast to End the War in Iraq,” the day of October 8, 2007 will conveniently synchronize with Islam’s “Night of Power” during Ramadan.
The fasters include officials from the Islamic Society of North America, the National Council of Churches, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Catholic Maryknollers, Sojourners, the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, and the Quaker Fellowship of Reconciliation.
What better way to draw religionists together than to transforming the sinister day of conquest formerly known as Columbus Day into a Ramadan fast devoted to opposing American imperialism?!”

The interfaith out-of-faith lefties think they can end the war in Iraq by not eating for part of a day. I have news. Christians cannot join with Muslim groups and be heard by God. Muslim’s deny the Son of God is God and according to the Christian Bible they therefore cannot know the Father either. You out-of-faith interfaith “Christians” ought to read the Bible for the first time in your life.

If fasting itself actually has the power to change things on the earth why don’t you all get together to fast to cool it. I am going to eat twice as much on that day so all your pseudo Christian and Muslim fasting vibes do not cause a nova on the sun and melt Antarctica, causing the real agenda of Muslims to be fulfilled when Israel is flooded.

Frank Gaffney: Saudi arms deal rewards terror ‘abetters’ (OneNewsNow.com):
A defense policy expert is expressing concern over a proposed U.S.-Saudi Arabia arms deal that would send the Saudis $20 billion in advanced weaponry over the next decade.
“The deal, announced yesterday in Washington, DC, purportedly will help secure Iraq and the Persian Gulf while at the same time promote stability and U.S. influence in an area of the world threatened by terrorism and rising Iranian ambitions — or so says the Bush administration. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the proposed package ‘will help bolster forces of moderation’ and support efforts against what she called ‘the negative influences of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.’ The weapons package for Saudi Arabia reportedly includes advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to its fighter jets, and new naval vessels”

20 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, 13 billion to Egypt, 30 billion to Israel! All this supposedly to contain Iran? Yet, they know Iran will not be a threat much longer. The government of Iran will either soon be overthrown or most of its military capabilities will be destroyed by air strikes. Its not like they don’t know this, they have plans to carry this out.

The real threat is Islam, yet we are the ones arming Islam in the hope that a few secular leaders will prevail. They will not. It only pushes off the inevitable conflict against world Islamofascism and makes that conflict more deadly.

Sending arms to a majority of people who embrace violent Jihad against Israel and the non Muslim world as if doing this is somehow going to bring stability is nuts. The people suggesting these arm sales need to be locked up in padded rooms. The continual PC denial of Islam’s hatred for the West will prove to be deadly for the West.

The Saudi Connection: “ALMOST SIX YEARS after September 11, 2001, and more than four years since the beginning of the U.S.-led intervention in Iraq, the American government and media have begun to admit something every informed and honest Muslim in the world has known all along. That is: the ‘Sunni insurgency’ in Iraq, as well as 9/11 and certain acts of extremist Sunni violence inside Iraq before then, are consequences of the official status of the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia, Iraq’s southern neighbor. Saudi Wahhabi clerics have preached and recruited for terror in Iraq; Saudi money has sustained it; the largest number of those who have carried out suicide bombings north of the Saudi-Iraqi border have been Saudi citizens.”

Saudi’s have been funding much of the world terrorism. The Saudi government really has no control over the Wahhabi Mob. It is like the Queen of England actually controlling the Anglican Church. The Mob allows the royal families to stay in power so they can continue their Fascist Islamic agenda without any interference from the West. If the Saudi King actually did anything against this Mob he knows his government would be overthrown.

The Real Reason Why Gasoline Costs More - Alan Caruba - Jul 29, 07
You’re looking at a world that needs new production estimated at four million barrels per day and it’s not going to happen. You don’t just create production or refining capacity overnight. It requires lots of money, something the free market Big Oil companies have been willing to risk up to now. That’s something Communists don’t do.

There are other options, but right now the Democrats that control the U.S. Congress, led by Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, are howling like moon-besotted coyotes that the United States must become “energy independent.”Congress is refusing to allow known, vast oil reserves in Alaska to be extracted, nor facilitating exploration and extraction of other potentially vast reserves of oil and natural gas off the continental shelf of the United States. Indeed, they want to punish Big Oil for whatever profits they may have garnered from their investments in the Gulf of Mexico.

The vast matrix of insane “environmental” laws and regulations has made it impossible, i.e. unprofitable, to build a single new refinery in the United States since the 1970s. The New York Times recently reported that mechanical breakdowns in U.S. refineries “have created a bottleneck in domestic energy supplies”, helping to drive up the cost of gasoline. Even if an oil company was to begin construction tomorrow, you’re still years away from it coming on line. Instead, the Democrats are wailing about “global warming” and “climate change”, demanding the imposition of “cap and trade carbon credits” and, in general, racing toward the worst possible choices for a nation whose energy needs are being ignored in the name of fraudulent science and pure politics.These are things you need to think about as the cost of a gallon of gasoline goes up at your local gas station or the price of heating oil rises as winter closes in on the northeast and elsewhere.

When gas and heating is over the equivalent of 5 dollars a gallon it will become a critical issue. However at that point it will take 10 years to do anything about it. There are only two things that can prevent $5 gas for the next decade. One is a serious world recession and the other is the end of all the issues like terrorism, environmentalism as well as greed from the oil producing nations.

World recession or depression is a real possibility in the new few years and energy prices could help bring it about. If there is a world downturn the consequences for oil prices will be favorable but the economic costs to people on earth will be even greater than high oil prices. The second possibility will not happen soon enough to benefit people in this decade but a successful war against radical Islam might make for lower oil prices in a decade if we can get Iraq and all other oil production up to its full potential. Environmentalism and lack of refinery issues will also need to be fixed and that will also take a decade or so.

Therefore, if there is not a world downturn expect $5 gas in normal times and $10 gas in times of disruptions for at least the next decade. The political consequences will be immense. People who can do so might start considering moving off grid or where they can use public transportation facilities. If there is a world downturn the consequences for oil prices will be favorable but the economic costs to people on earth will be far greater.

Unless there is some magic breakthrough in energy we will have immense problems in the near future. The main focus on all levels should be to find a solution to the upcoming shortage of cheap energy. Some think that solar will provided the answer to cars. It will not. Due to Global warming hype we will soon have much more expensive electricity and a shortage of electricity will develop as well. At that time you may wish to plug your car into your power plug to charge it but your house will have already used your daily ration. If you want more than your ration to charge your car you can do so but it will cost ten times more per KWH.

The sooner we get serious about these problems the better off we will be. Meanwhile, prepare to pay $100 every time you fill up your gas tank and expect to pay $600 a month to heat your homes in cold states in the winter or expect a depression. A Depression or run away inflation is the likely outcome for many other reasons anyway but when the recovery comes we will still be hit be the same old problems if we have not dealt with the energy issues.