Showing posts with label Reid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reid. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Meet the Press: Harry Reid's Plan for America

 
Senator Reid, many on the right side of the aisle took you to task for saying the war is 'lost'. How do you respond to your critics?

No one wants to succeed in Iraq more than I do, but this war cannot be won militarily. It must be won diplomatically, via earmarks, and backroom political corner-cutting.

But can negotiation be expected to dampen the ever-growing threat of global extremism?

We on the left side of the aisle believe war never solved anything.

You mean 'war never solved anything' except for ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism?

Don't be a smart-ass, Tim. You know what I mean.

Not sure that I do, Senator. How does calling the war 'lost' help anyone but Al Qaeda?

The truth will set you free, Tim. How can our military possibly stand up to the terr-- uhm, insurgents' -- awful weapons of AK-47s, suicide bomb-belts, and old artillery shells? Their weapons are too powerful, their tactics too sophisticated, and their goals too evil for us to prevail!

Senator, where do we draw a line in the sand, so to speak? Global Islamic totalitarianism has been on the march since 1979 with the Iranian Hostage crisis and continues to escalate...

We Democrats and our friends in the mainstream media believe that terrorism is a criminal enterprise. We think the RICO statute and the prosecution of Junior Soprano are lynchpins in our anti-terror operations.

So you would treat the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Bali, Beslan, Madrid, London, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Israel, Mumbai, Kashmir, Thailand, Darfur, Somalia, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines as criminal investigations?

Exactly. These are all separate incidents that require their own, independent investigations. And that's why we've demanded that the President ask the City of Las Vegas for access to CSI's Gil Grissom, Nick Stokes, and Catherine Willows.

Errr... but, Senator, they're fictional characters. They're not real forensic detectives.

No matter -- think how impressed the media will be... think of the photo opps... when that team steps off a private jet in Abu Dhabi or wherever the next terrorist attack is! Picture this: a closeup of Catherine de-planing. She's wearing sun-glasses, walking down the steps in a desert wind, her hair framing her face, her clothes whipping about her, accentuating her figure, her leather chaps gently caressing her thighs...

Back to Iraq, though - what do you say to critics who point out that actual military losses pale in comparison to typical peacetime fatalities?

Like Twain said, there are lies, damn lies, and damn right wing conspiracy statistical lies.

But, sir, how would you deal "diplomatically" with terrorists who seek our destruction?

Oh, that's easy, Tim! We seek out moderate terrorists!

Moderate terrorists?

Yes, they only blow up old people and farm animals.

So, if we do negotiate a withdrawal with moderate terrorists, how do you propose to protect the U.S. from the real extremists, who are likely to strengthen and follow us back here?

I'm glad you asked that, Tim. I call my plan Operation Invisible Maginot Fence. It involves building a series of fortified installations at all major ports -- something this administration was loathe to do -- that can protect the American people from nuclear weapons, hurricanes, and Wal-Mart's low-cost imports.

Well, thank you for your time, Senator Custer -- I mean Senator Reid. I know you have a pressing appointment...

Indeed I do. I've got an interview with Al-Jazeera television. And I'm hoping to take my message -- that the war is lost -- directly to the Arab street in the hopes that the terr-- uhm, insurgents -- leave us alone. I call this Operation Neville Pelosi Chamberlain and it's guaranteed to succeed, at least until the '08 elections are over!


Update: Welcome Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, and Wizbang readers! At right you'll find some additional illustrated posts, including Presidential Jeopardy and Al Gore's Second Annual Carbon Offset Going-out-of-business-Sale!.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Harry Reid through history


Reid at Valley Forge: But, General Washington, this war is lost, I tell you! General Cornwallis will treat us with dignity if we only raise the white flag now!

Reid with William Henry Harrison: Tippecanoe and surrender, too!

Reid at Gettysburg: Four score and seven years, my a**! This war was lost three years ago!

Reid at the onset of the Spanish-American War: Remember the Maine... and the fact that it's time we surrendered! ¿Se Habla EspaƱol?

Reid in the Argonne Forest: Over here! Over here! We are losing badly over here!

Reid at Pearl Harbor: Do you see? Do you see?? How can we possibly fight the Imperial Japanese war machine? This war is over!

Reid during an Alien Invasion: It's pointless to fight these beasts! We must surrender to survive!

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If the likes of Harry Reid had accompanied George Washington in 1776, we'd still be subjects of the British crown.

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Democrats wage Information Warfare against U.S. forces


In Military Review, Lt. Col. Timothy Thomas (Ret.) lists strategems of information warfare (IW), which include:

* Direct [enemy] commanders' thinking and force them to make errors by attacking cognitive and belief systems.
* Generate heavy psychological pressure by using intimidation to signal inevitable [enemy loss] concentrating forces and coordinating information networks [such as mainstream media].
* Hide reality by creating a fictitious reality.
* Mislead the enemy by pretending to follow his wishes.

These strategies are designed to force cognitive errors in the enemy and create a multidimensional threat with which the enemy must contend...

Let's take each in turn and determine whether the Democrats and their public relations arm -- the mainstream media (MSM) -- qualify.

Direct [enemy] commanders' thinking and force them to make errors by attacking cognitive and belief systems: In declaring the war 'lost', Democrat Harry Reid has attacked U.S. commanders' belief systems. Reid has plainly stated that commanders are waging a pointless war and -- in the words of military blogger COB -- has thereby placed a very real stake in the ground:

If Senator Reid, based on the information that the Senate Majority Leader has, has determined that this war is lost; there is nothing left to do but come home. The way I see it, if you were to vote for anything less; you would be personally liable for any future wounded or God-Forbid dead soldiers...

...You, a person in high authority in the US government, have made a definitive statement that an action is occurring with no redeeming value. Said action is causing harm and death to US citizens. You have the unique power to stop said action and thusly stop the harm...


Generate heavy psychological pressure by using intimidation to signal inevitable [enemy loss] concentrating forces and coordinating information networks [such as mainstream media]: The mainstream media has, for the last several years, rallied around the meme that "Iraq is Vietnam" and various calls for retreat and surrender (see Murtha, Reid, et. al.). ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and other major print and broadcast outlets have studiously ignored the facts surrounding the Iraq War and the rise of global Islamofascism. Instead, the MSM has called attention to car bombings and -- by historical standards -- a very low death rate among U.S. forces.

Gateway Pundit also points out that the MSM/DNC's drumbeat has been picked up by the foreign (and some would say "enemy") press. That is, The Tehran Times, Al-Jazeera, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, and Iran Press TV have all led major stories with Reid's statement. The Volokh Conspiracy concludes, "it seems to me hard to doubt that this statement will have grave cost."

Hide reality by creating a fictitious reality: The New York Times is the poster-boy for a fictitious reality. As the standard-bearer for much of U.S. media, the Times provides a template for other outlets to follow. And consider its Al-Qaqaa fabrications synchronized to impact the 2004 Presidential Election; its unleashing details of Saddam Hussein's active nuclear weapons program -- ostensibly to discredit Republicans -- just hours before the 2006 Congressional Elections; its revelations of classified programs including monitoring of international calls to terrorist enclaves, phone-number call analysis, and SWIFT; its 'selective' censorship of the National Intelligence Estimate... all are simply examples of a blinkered, rapidly spinning and fictitious reality designed for a single purpose. And that purpose is to coerce Americans into a hopelessness, a loser's mentality; so that America itself will lose any war in which it might engage.

Mislead the enemy by pretending to follow his wishes: Democratic leaders routinely state that they, "support the troops." Yet, the leadership has wildly -- and some would say schizophrenically -- switched positions on the war. Just a few months ago, Democratic leaders such as Harry Reid and Silvestre Reyes were in favor of a troop surge. They unanimously confirmed Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Army General David Petraeus.

Yet, only days later, the Democratic leadership began a campaign to undermine the troops and their mission using every tool in their information warfare arsenal. All the while, Democrats continue to pretend that they support the troops while their very statements embolden the enemy.

Imagine it's the year 2020. An Alien invasion force has landed on the Earth in multiple locations. Possessing many forms of advanced weaponry, Alien forces inexorably obliterate city after city, razing each to the ground and killing every human that stands in their way. Would the likes of Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha hem and haw; decry our military's attempts to defend the Earth; and visit alien leaders in vain attempts to negotiate?

Well, news flash. Iran's mullahs are Hitler with nukes. Worse, they represent only the leadership of a worldwide, nihilistic cabal of extremists bent on destruction. Or are the attacks in Manhattan, Washington, Bali, Beslan, Madrid, London, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Israel, Mumbai, Kashmir, Thailand, Darfur, Somalia, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines not connected? Not according to the Democrats and the MSM.

Put simply, the Democrats and their public relations arm -- the MSM -- are successfully waging information warfare against the United States military. No war, not even a global conflict against an intergalactic alien invasion force, can be won with the useless, treasonous, and duplicitious "opposition" party represented by today's Democratic leadership.

We need patriotic Democrats in power -- not this despicable crew -- and I fear it will take major bloodshed on American soil in the form of yet another terrorist attack for it to happen.

Harry Reid must resign now.

Update: Dan Riehl is even more upset than I am... and that's saying something. And Jules Crittenden takes note of Andrew Sullivan on the Reid resignation issue.

Others calling for Reid's Resignation: Byrne's Rightings, Chicago Ray, JWeaver, Mark Levin (National Review Online), Mark Levin Fan, Never Yet Melted, Ol' Broad, OPNTALK, Politics, Hon, Right Angle, Right Wing News, TomG Report, UCV

Friday, April 20, 2007

Harry Reid signs articles of surrender to Al Qaeda


We have exclusive photos of Harry Reid signing articles of surrender to Al Qaeda's Iraqi commanders. After announcing that the the war was lost, Reid decided to make it official, signing documents of unconditional surrender to Al Qaeda in Iraq.

During the ceremony, Reid stated, "These fearsome suicide belts and car bombs have destroyed any hopes of success! Our military has no way of defeating these awesome weapons. Our military -- Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy -- all are powerless against these ragtag warriors with their AK-47s, rusty knives, and decades-old artillery shells."

"It's best to turn tail and run home to America with sincere hopes and prayers that these terror... -er- insurgents won't follow us," Reid said.

Asked about "never forgetting the lessons of 9/11", Reid noted that the Democratic statute of limitations for never forgetting was five years, which had expired in September of 2006.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Reid and Levin's Private Conversation



We're going to cut off funding for the war.


I don't think so, my wimpy-voiced friend.


Yes. We're going to force a phased surrender, I mean phased withdrawal, I mean phased redeployment.


Look at me. Look at me. What does my letterhead say?


"Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee." But - look at this...


What is that?


That's my honorary peace-sign badge from Daily Kos. I received that for meritorious blogging against the war. I head up the phased surrender, I mean phased redeployment, subcommittee on Kos.


Is that it? Those are your qualifications for de-funding the war?


Well, I'm helping spearhead the translation of Daily Kos into Arabic and Farsi for some of our biggest supporters.


Impressive.


So what's your prediction? Withdrawal from Iraq by March of '08?


Minority status for another dozen years.