Who said that?
C'mon. Someone out there must know? ...............maybe not.
It's funny the things that you remember from childhood. One story I remember hearing at a very young age, one that impressed me mightily and left a definite mark on my consciousness was the "Emperor's New Clothes". For readers who aren't familiar with the story, I'll paraphrase briefly.
Basically it involves a very vain, yet incredibly stupid Emperor. No, the Emperor's name was not Al, John, or Bill. This was long, long before Democrats sold their souls to Satan......except Al. He's so stupid he sold his soul to Santa instead. But I digress....
Our Emperor in this story is only so vain that he seeks clothing that no other ruler anywhere on Earth wears, and he sets this task before his chief tailor, threatening to behead him if he cannot comply. At his wits end, and knowing that such a request cannot be met, the tailor devises an ingenious plan. He tells the Emperor that he has discovered a cloth that no one else is aware of. Invisible cloth. Delighted, the Emperor orders the tailor to get to work on a new set of clothing made from this miraculous thread.
The tailor makes a great show of pretending to weave cloth and sew it together, and finally presents his "work" to the Emperor. Out of fear of the Emperor's anger, power, and stupidity, the nobles and ladies present all gush and admire the new set of "clothes" the tailor has made for the Emperor. Overcome with vanity and self-adulation, the Emperor promptly strips naked and puts on his new "clothes". Hiding their embarrassment, the nobles all applaud their Lord dressed as no other King in the land.
Demonstrating that there is no real limit to the level of embarrassment stupid people are capable of, the Emperor schedules a parade for the entire kingdom to view him and his wonderful new clothes. The nobles comply and arrangements for a huge pageant are made. The day arrives and the Emperor is at the head of the procession, full of pomp and conceit. Of course, he is also stark naked. His subjects, sensing that the Emperor is quite pleased with his new "clothing", and observing how the nobles and ladies are admiring his newly-exposed expanse of skin, decide to err on the side of caution and also cheer their Emperor and his new clothes.
Just then a small boy peeks out from the crowd along the side of the road, points at the nude Emperor, and exclaims loudly, "LOOK!!!! THE EMPEROR'S GOT NO CLOTHES ON!!!!"
The Emperor glares at the small child....and then looks down at himself, and sees......that he is wearing no clothes,.....and is stark naked.
The End
Now why would I tell this story? Because there is an entire nation of Americans looking at Iraq, and admiring the "new clothing", that's why. Everyone has completely fallen for the absurd and obvious LIE that we are losing in Iraq, are in a "quagmire" in Iraq, are in a "subtle-moment-when-the-blowhards-of-history-blow".....err, strike that...winds of history,...... "winds". You get the picture.
Not only could nothing be further from the truth, but the fact that the vast majority of this nation, including some quite famous conservative pundits, think that Iraq is a "problem", in light of the readily available evidence, is a rather poor statement on the collective IQ of this nation. Maybe letting the guys in the cutesy pastel-pink ties think for you isn't your best idea????
Now, before I get reallllllly started, I felt that there were two different ways I could approach this. 1) I could use logic and evidence, start from the root of the "it's VIETNAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!" bullshit that druggies who can't let go scream about and trace the lie from there. But then I'd run smack into the fact that most of you bought 3rd grade rhetoric without even a second glance or a gulp. In common vernacular this is termed "a sucker". So let's not go there.
Or, 2) I could go straight for the jugular and make you feel absurdly silly for believing these snake-oil salesmen you elect time after time after time, ONCE AGAIN. I opted for the latter.
Now I could go on and on, pull out my U. S. Navy service and rub that in your face.....yell about how pansy civilians don't have the right to even COMMENT on who, what, when, where, or how volunteers in the front-lines of this war against insane Islamofascists do their job.....or DIE doing that job. First of all, people who support sucking the brains out of small babies DON'T HAVE THE INTEGRITY to comment, or be taken seriously. Who gives a flying squirrel crap what Jeffrey Dahmer thinks about gourmet cooking?..........Getting my point?
But I'll fore-go all that and get straight to the heart of the matter and use language that even my liberal readers should be able to comprehend. Here we go:
Islamic Terrorist Screaming "Death To America" and Planning It = BAAAAAAAAADDDDD
Dead Islamic Terrorist = GOOOOOOOOOOD
.................with me so far?
Moving forward, so far patriotic American volunteers have managed to kill right around 250,000 Islamic terrorists since 9/11 in both Afghanistan and Iraq. A little over 3000 have given their lives for the right to do that. That is about 1-2 servicemen or women a day. To kill 250,000 of the enemy.
Now, I don't know about you, but if you give me those kind of casualty figures in ANY conflict......video game, board game, sporting event, real-life.....you name it, I have that kind of casualty advantage? LOL, I'm going to kick your ass.....as in brutally. Over and over and over and over I'm going to kick your ass. I'm going to kill HUNDREDS of your guys to my one. And you WILL lose. Anyone who thinks that isn't winning is simply retarded, no offense to the mentally ill.
That being said, then what IS the strategy in Iraq and how are we achieving our goal by being there? Isn't that really the question?
Our strategy is simple. We are at war with Al Queda and all moslems who are allied with Al Queda and actively support them, most as combatants. Since Al Queda does NOT have a central location by the very nature of what it is, then the OBVIOUS (yes, so obvious that even a child can see it) strategy is to draw them to us. Since we don't want to draw them to us here in the USA, (the term is "self-defeating" for the liberals that never got past 4th grade) as it turns out we can go there and the radicals are so stupid that they will literally run into machine gun fire.
250,000 have done so already.
Now for the translation for the liberal reader part: I've been in some of your homes. You may not be aware of it, but we now have this neat invention called "flypaper"......it attracts those annoying flies that swarm around the trash that you never empty,...they get stuck to the sticky flypaper,...don't bother you anymore,...and then die. Nifty idea, huh........
The sweet thing about mathematics is that it's hard to argue against it, unless you're a Rhodes Scholar and have a PhD in fuzzy math, that is. 250,000 to 3,000.......hmmmmmmm. Hey, I know!!!! Let's ask Alec Baldwin!!!!! He can set us straight!!!
Feel stupid yet? You should. How in the world can anyone NOT laugh in the face of someone so blatantly stupid that they not only believe this Jack Murtha, John Kerry "quagmiiiiiiiireeeeee in Vietnaaaaaaaammmmm" bullshit, but actually comment on it???
Hey, I laughed in their faces. I'm blameless.
Every single soldier returning from Iraq, every single website out there that the troops run all say the same message: "The media is ignoring what we are doing and focusing on stories that promote their version if what's happening here."
The simple facts are that Iraq has been the safest war and subsequent occupation in the history of mankind. Well, except for 250,000 dead fanatical Islamic freaks. But hey, they've all got virgins now, so it's all good.
You get to a point in the point where further conversation is only belaboring the whole issue, so I'll close for now with this. You must realize by now that not protesting other Americans running around spreading the same lie that Al Queda is spreading, "Iraq is Vietnam......you are losing, losing.....losing", like some Baghdad version of Tokyo Rose is tantamount to supporting them.
He who knowingly remains silent in the face of wrong is just as guilty as he who speaks as the advocate of that wrong.
Oh, by the way: "If Everyone Is Thinking The Same Thing, Then No One Is Thinking.".....????
That was General George S. Patton ;-)
Have a nice day......................
as always................to be continued
These aren't exactly my views, but I'll throw these out for you to take into consideration before you try to call everyone who doesn't agree with you stupid.
The fact that the US is "winning" doesn't necessarily mean we should be there. Just because we can kill efficiently, does it mean that we should keep doing it? Because we're strong, does it mean we have the right to bully other countries around until they do what we want? There was no declaration of war, so should we be there? Can we afford the war? Don't they have a right to be angry if we've had permanent bases there for eternity?
Efficiency is just one consideration. Take into account other things. Even if we're winning, these opinions may make people oppose the war no-matter how efficient we are at what we're doing.
Posted by: Hans | April 26, 2008 at 06:33 PM
i have friend she is thinking the same thing what i'm thinking so can i see a way to speak with her
Posted by: paul | May 23, 2008 at 01:28 PM
Hans, you have some interesting points to discuss which proves the premise of the article. "If everyone is thinking the same thing, then no one is thinking." That is the point, everyone should be thinking...and thinking different things, and from different angles. That is the way to begin solving problems. Thank you all for your comments...its better than just waiting to be told what to think by the Democrats or Republicans.
Posted by: PrideDedicationDesire | May 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Merlin the Magician was first to say, "When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking at all". These were his comments on military.
Posted by: Sandy Helland | January 25, 2010 at 06:14 PM