comMITTed to Romney!

Like millions of people around the world, the first site I click onto in the morning is the DRUDGE REPORT. This morning there were three headlines that made be rub my eyes, because I wanted to make sure me eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.

The first was that a schlub like Al Franken could be elected to the U.S. Senate. I know there will be lawsuits and that the Dems have postponed plans to seat the illustrious Mr. Franken, but still, the mere fact that this clown has gotten as close as he has is an indication of how far we have sunk as a nation. Twenty years ago, I used to change the channel when a skit on SNL would feature this bore. If you would have predicted that someday this guy would be a U.S. Senator or even an almost U.S. Senator, I would have wondered about your brain chemistry.

The second headline that was viewed in disbelief was: “Hamas: Israel sanctions the killing of children.” Hamas SPECIALIZES in the killing of children, Israeli children, Arab children or any other children unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of one of their bombs when they go off. Hamas is one of the most violent, corrupt and cynical organizations on the face of the earth. They love violence when they can practice their deadly craft with impunity, but when the Israeli Defense Force comes after the child murdering cowards they scurry down into their spider holes and wait for the “international community” to call for a “humanitarian cease fire” which gives them a breather and allows Iran to re-arm them with ammunition and missiles. Here’s hoping the IDF sends Hamas back to the Stone Age.

The third headline was from Sen. Diane Feinstein of California. The Senator is miffed that she wasn’t “informed” by Barack Obama about his plans to nominate Leon Panetta as the new head of the CIA. Actually, this headline caused a double rub of the eyes. The first rub because Mr. Panetta has ZERO experience in the intel community and the second rub came because O hasn’t even taken office and already the honeymoon is over. It’s roughly the equivalent of a newly married couple getting into an argument in the limo on the way to the airport, as they head off to Aruba.

It’s stuff like this that keeps me hooked on politics and world events. Truly, never a dull moment!

~~John Cronin~~

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If we had pursued Obama’s advise to treat global Jihad as a law enforcement matter and had issued a subpoena for Osama Bin Laden to give a deposition to a U.S. Court concerning his possible involvement in the the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, I just wonder if we could have heard him laughing at us from atop whatever mountaintop cave he has been hiding in?

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=
626&pageid=44&pagename=Slices

Barack Obama’s approach to the war on terror shows “frightening naiveté,” says Mitt Romney.

“Even the peaceniks of the last decade have recognized that the pre-911 thinking of the early 1990s was wrong,” Romney says. “The great majority of those who opposed the conflict in Iraq nevertheless recognize that it is a war against a radical, violent Islam. But Barack is one of the few who has still refused to speak out against radical violent Islam and jihadism.”

To suggest, as Obama has, that the way to deal with terrorists is to prosecute them “bespeaks a remarkable lack of understandingat which we face,” Romney says.

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Good news coming out of the Pentagon. Gen. Petraeus is set to become the new head of our
military operations for the Middle East and Central Asia. Congratulations to a very fine commander who has saved American and Iraqi lives by taking the fight to the Jihadiis.

Now let’s go get Muqtada al Sadr!

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/washington/24military.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

By THOM SHANKER

WASHINGTON — Under a plan announced at the Pentagon on Wednesday, the two commanders most closely associated with President Bush’s current strategy in Iraq would be elevated into new posts with responsibilities extending into the next administration over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gen. David H. Petraeus would take charge of all military affairs across the Middle East and Central Asia, and would be succeeded as the senior commander in Iraq by Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who returned to Washington in February after serving 15 months as General Petraeus’s deputy.

Asked whether the planned nominations by Mr. Bush were a sign that American policy was to “stay the course” in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that the security gains that had been achieved under General Petraeus’s command meant that “staying that course is not a bad idea.”

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Romney has said that we must not allow Jihadist to replace all modern Islamic states with a worldwide caliphate. What do you think?Reasons to agree

1. We should not allow people to change borders. Mexico should not take Texas back. America should not take Panama back. Russia should no re-create the Soviet Union. Iraq should not break into 3 different countries. China should not take Taiwan back. India and Pakistan should stop fighting over Kashmir. America should not take over any more territory. Russia should stop trying to claim the North pole. For each of these conflicts, thousands of people would have to die, in order for one side to be completely happy. Countries should stop trying to change their borders, and just deal with the problems they already have. Only countries that have a free press, freedom of speech, and other human rights, should be allowed to take over failed states, and expand their territory. Dictatorial and repressive regimes, that would kill those whom they conquer, or have a history of mistreating their own citizens, should not be allowed to expand. Countries that have a significant amount of political prisoners, who did not advocate violence, should not be allowed to expand. We must not allow violent people who use suicide tactics, like Osama Bin Laden expand his influence in Afghanistan, Africa, Pakistan, or any other country.

 Exit question: What should we do to stop the Jihadist?

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