Making Conservatives Cringe Since 1977

"Fred we support killing terrorist ...in Iraq in Afgan everywhere...you dont....you dont support the war on terror..."- »©ávėмāń From his command post in West Texas, with the Franklin Mountains framing the landscape in the background, this defender of freedom uses the most powerful communication tool ever known to man to spread his positive message to the world:

Who I am has nothing to do with how strong or salient my arguments are, at least in a perfect world it shouldn’t. If there is anything the left should take away from what has happened over the last few years it’s that it doesn’t matter how unimpeachable your integrity, or strong your character; those without either will go for the jugular with smear tactics and outright lies every time. The two best examples of this are Senator Kerry and Congressmen Murtha. The argument has to be sound. So what do I argue? What is it I put forth as a qualifier on the statement, “I, Herman Frederick Bieling III, support the War on Terror,” now that I’ve made it? How about all the things I do not support: ○ I do not support the assertion that Iraq was anything but a War of Choice. ○ I do not support the misuse of Intelligence to claim there were WMD in Iraq and strong-arm the American public into war. ○ I do not support redirection of troops from Afghanistan to Iraq before Osama bin Laden was captured or killed. ○ I do not support the systematic physical torture of any captive of the United States, whether it be on our soil or abroad. ○ I do not support the denial of due process for any detainee in U.S. Custody. ○ I do not support the exposed cover-up of the circumstances concerning Pat Tillman’s death, nor the confirmed staged rescue of Jessica Lynch, nor the media blackout of pictures of our Nations sons and daughters coming home to their final rest. ○ I do not support Administration reprisals against former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife for exposing the Presidents patently false claims regarding Iraq’s Nuclear Weapons program, claims which were later acknowledged as false and retracted. ○ I do not support the notion that having 72 hours after the fact to get a warrant for a FISA court is such a burden that the President feels it is justification to throw the Constitution out the window. ○ I do not support Bush apologists. ○ I do not support terrorists, foreign or domestic. Read anything else into those statements you want, leave a comment, ask me if I support transgender preachers having intercourse with immigrant mules if that’s what you get out of it; I’ll tell you plainly, no. As for Iraq I reject the idea that we can finally settle on the excuse that we waged this war to see a free, stable, and Democratic Nation in the heart of the Middle East. It has become clear that our presence fuels the insurgency. There is no argument anywhere that refutes what our Military Commanders are telling us from the field, and as for when to leave, now that we’ve installed this “Democracy,” who is to say they shouldn’t have a ballet referendum as to whethur they want us to stay, or go?

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

posted by Frederick  # 1/08/2006 11:17:00 AM