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April 27, 2006
More Democratic Lies (grab a kleenex)
Everytime I hear Chris Matthews say what we were told would happen by the administration, I yell at the television. He says that the American people we were told that Saddam had ties to 9/11, we were promised WMD, a cakewalk, that our soldiers were greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil would pay for the operation--none of which were true (he says).
What a liar. No, we did not find the WMD in Iraq and I was certainly disappointed. I remember watching the news for a month straight waiting for our soldiers to find them. Every bunker they found where the field tests tested positive, I was happy that we got to them before Saddam used them. But they were not WMD and I was frustrated.
I was frustrated for all the wrongs reasons. The only reason I wanted the WMDs to be there was to rub it in the face of all the Hollywood actors and self-important Democrats that voted for the war then cried foul before the first shot was fired.
I get upset with Chris Matthews because the rest are blatant lies. No one said that Saddam was involved with 9/11 other than that random Iraqi agent in Germany and the fact that Iraq was complicit in the first WTC attack. War is never a cakewalk and most people involved believed that Saddam would use WMD against the troops as they approached Baghdad. And this pay for the war with Iraqi oil is the exact OPPOSITE position the administration took before the war. It would BE a war for oil if that was how we were going to pay for it.
But what burns me up the most is the new Democratic lie that we were not greeted as liberators. I saw it with my own eyes on television (all news outlets) and in newspaper pictures. As Ann Coulter reminds us, it is easy to be a Democrat because, for a Democrat, history begins every morning. They fiddle with history and try to pretend things didn't happen (like forgetting everything the Clinton administration said about the dangers of Saddam Hussein in 1998 1999).
Larry Elder reminds us of what the Democrats want us to forget--what the Democrats want to steal from our soldiers honor for the brilliant battle they fought to take Baghdad.
Our soldiers and heros were greeted as liberators:
From a soldier
"In April 2004 I was in the first push through Fallujah after the four American contractors were murdered, desecrated and hung from a bridge. I was critically wounded after I was shot through the hip in a firefight and nearly bled out on the battlefield. It was six months before I was able to walk semi-normally on my own more than 20 feet unaided by crutches or a wheel chair. In December of 2004 I was medically retired, and even now over two years later I still cannot run and I honestly don't think I will be regaining that ability in this lifetime.... Well I have had multiple people ask me about what I think about everything going on over there and I always respond the same way.... I reach into my wallet and pull out a card and let them read it. It speaks for itself; I don't need to say a word. I received this shortly after the invasion in 2003, a young boy walked up to me with his father who was standing behind him with his hands on his shoulders and just reached out his hand and gave this to me.... Sure there are those who want us dead and gone and will do anything to get rid of us, but they are a minority."
The soldier enclosed a copy of the card. It has a big heart on the front, and inside it reads: "Thank you George Bush. Thank you American soldiers. Thank you Marines [sic] soldiers. To save us. We are so grateful. Your friend, Ali Ahmed. An Iraqi boy, 9 years old. 2003.4.15 Wedensday [sic]."
From the NYTimesOn April 10, 2003, John F. Burns filed this story from Baghdad:
"Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed in a matter of hours today across much of this capital city as ordinary Iraqis took to the streets in their thousands to topple Mr. Hussein's statues, loot government ministries and interrogation centers and to give a cheering, often tearful welcome to advancing American troops.
" ...Army and Marine Corps units moving into the districts of eastern Baghdad where many of the city's 5 million people live finally met the kind of adulation from ordinary Iraqis that American advocates of a war to topple Mr. Hussein had predicted....
"Much of Baghdad became, in a moment, a showcase of unbridled enthusiasm for America...
"American troops, but almost as much any Westerner caught up in the tide of people rushing into the streets, were met with scenes that summoned comparisons to the freeing of Eastern Europe 14 years ago....
"Shouts to the American soldiers of 'Thank you, mister, thank you,' in English, of 'Welcome, my friend, welcome,' of 'Good, good, good,' and 'Yes, yes, mister,' mingled with cries of 'Good, George Bush!' and 'Down Saddam!'...
"A middle-aged man pushed through a crowd attempting to topple a statue of Mr. Hussein outside the oil ministry with a bouquet of paper flowers, and passed among American troops distributing them one at a time, each with a kiss on the cheek.
"A woman with two small children perched in the open roof of a car maneuvering to get close to a Marine Corps unit assisting in toppling a Hussein statue outside the Palestine and Sheraton hotels, the quarters for foreign journalists, wept as she shouted, 'Thank you, mister, thank you very much.'...
From our generals
Gen. Georges Sada, the No. 2 ranking general in the Iraqi Air Force, said the same thing when I interviewed him Feb. 9, 2006.
I said, "You said the president did the right thing in invading Iraq -- "
"Excuse me," said Sada, "you say invading, I always say liberating.... In most provinces of Iraq and Kurdistan, the forces were received with cheers and flowers, in the South, it was the same thing in my province." The people living in the Sunni triangle did not consider Americans liberators, he explained, because Sunnis ran things. "When they found that this is all gone, of course they didn't like it."
And of course, our MSM hasn't reported on much outside the Sunni triangle as they seldom stray from their hotel balconies.
Posted by Aaron at April 27, 2006 11:51 AM
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