Who Are We?

“Who are we?”

Hello my friends and welcome to the Hawks Press. There wasn’t an update last week, as you probably know, due to various reasons. Before I begin, I would like to offer my prayers to everyone affected by the recent Virginia Tech tragedy and say that everyone shares the pain.

I would like to talk today about some of the recent statements you might have heard from talk radio, TV, blogs, and various other sources that go back to something I said in an earlier podcast. In referring to the Democrats trying to get an Emergency War Spending Bill loaded with billions of dollars in pork and hurtful timelines that would ultimately kill the chances of success in Iraq. “So they can win the White House in 2008.”

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and -- you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows -- [know] this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” the undeserving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated Thursday. Of course, we all know Harry Reid is a brilliant military genius who has the greatest plan for Iraq.

If you haven’t been paying attention, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer have finally confirmed what I’ve been saying. “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.” For those who attack Republicans for saying the Democrats are only looking after their chances in 08 and not looking after our soldiers, you’ve just lost your argument. It may just be one of my conspiracy theories that Democrats are going to do whatever it takes to make this war a defeat for America, a failure for George Bush, and a victory for the Islamic-Fascists to regain total control of Washington again, but when you here these statements, it appears to be more than just a conspiracy theory, more than just a theory. It appears to be true.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote about Harry Reid’s statements in his recent Winning the Future newsletter, which I highly recommend if you have not yet subscribed to it. Quote: “This is not a sentiment--and these are not words—worthy of the leadership of a great nation.” Unquote. I’ll tell you what it is: despicable. Let’s look at another recent development.

[play audio clip of Jack Murtha about “we are not fighting this war”]

That was Jack Murtha’s response to statements Pete Hoekstra made about fighting the War on Terror. When I first heard of those statements listening to Mark Levin’s radio show, I couldn’t seem to be able to think of how anyone could take Congressman Hoekstra’s remarks to mean “we” as in the Congress. Apparently Jack Murtha doesn’t realize that WE are a nation and WE share in the fight, whether we are there or not. WE are proud of our service men and women and what they do, and it’s idiots like Murtha, Reid, and Schumer who don’t seem to get it.

I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way: Harry Reid should resign, and John Murtha needs to shut up. Mark Levin said it best: Harry Reid is a Traitor and has committed Treason. Levin used those two words, and I’m repeating them. Traitor: A person who betrays another. Treason: The betrayal of a trust or confidence; treachery. By publicly admitting that he’s playing with the War to pick up Senate seats and declaring that, despite what our troops on the ground and what our generals are reporting, the war is lost, he has betrayed our troops and stabbed them in the back. He is allowing the funds to be put off and is using slow bleed tactics to weaken our own army. He has given the enemy reason to celebrate by saying “You have won and have defeated the greatest nation God gave to man.” He has betrayed the trust the military has put in the Congress to give it the funding necessary to continue on the road to success. But they don’t care. They’re going to pick up Senate seats because of this war--can’t let anything change that. If you think people like Sean Hannity are just paranoid or overreacting saying that the Democrats are “invested in defeat,” listen to them now and tell me they’re not. If you can honestly say they are not investing in defeat, your name just might be Harry Reid.

By the way, the last bit of Jack Murtha’s statements says “they have won the war, the mission was accomplished.” This is strange in the fact that immediate sentence after that is “we cannot when it militarily, we can only win it diplomatically.”...The troops have won but we cannot win militarily? Well, that’s a bit of an odd statement, even more confusing when Harry Reid says we’ve LOST the war.

Before I leave, I would like to give kudos to Senator John McCain. McCain has long been a strong supporter for the War and he just may be able to do what George Bush hasn’t been able to do: change American opinion about the war. I love President Bush and think he’s a great President, but you’d never be able to tell that he’s had many successes during his Presidency from media reports, and it’s going to take more people to help begin a shift towards revealing the truth to the American people. Rather than going along with the pessimism towards the war, McCain and the Republicans and our military leaders look to the optimistic side. McCain said "Before I left for Iraq, I watched with regret as the House of Representatives voted to deny our troops the support necessary to carry out their new mission. Democratic leaders smiled and cheered as the last votes were counted. What were they celebrating? Defeat? Surrender? In Iraq, only our enemies were cheering." Thank you, Senator McCain.

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~CreepyNerd

2) History Repeats Itself, Part 2

Greetings my fellow Americans and welcome to another edition of the Hawks Press. If you haven’t tuned in before, I encourage you to download our last (and first full length) podcast. Also, don’t forget you can email us at hawkspress@yahoo.com, h-a-w-k-s-p-r-e-s-s at yahoo dot com.

In case you missed out last week, I talked about a theme that is becoming increasingly more important as General David Petraeus brings us the signs of good progress in Iraq. We constantly hear from the Democratically-controlled congress that there’s no hope for Victory, our troops are ill-prepared and ill-advised and we’re on a course for disaster. Last week, I discussed comparisons that can be made between Iraq and Vietnam, and the theme History Repeats Itself.

Today, I would like to follow up on this theme. My friends, when we look back on History, we see recurring patterns. We see how very different people make very similar mistakes, but we also see how the manner of the later made his mistakes compared to the earlier. By studying History, we can look at the mistakes made during the most critical challenges of the times, such as during the Civil War, the World Wars, Vietnam, and so on, but we shouldn’t stop there. We should look at how to fix these mistakes.

Think way back to the 1860s, during the American Civil War-a true Civil War if there ever was one. The nation was divided into two separate nations and we were in, what many consider, the most profound crisis in American History. General McClellan had started out a very successful general for the Union. His successes in Ohio and West Virginia led to his becoming commander of the Military Division of the Potomac, which he brought A high degree of organization and greatly increased morale among his soldiers. However, McClellan had a weakness.

McClellan failed to attack when openings were available. McClellan was slow and cautious and failed to adapt properly. What happened to George McClellan? He was replaced after failing to pursue the enemy after the bloody battle of Antietam.

With several missed opportunities in the War in Iraq and the Global War on Terror, we can easily compare the replacement of our generals to such instances during the American Civil War. We see that this worked during then, and it just may well work now. The Union won then, and the Union can win now. Lincoln replaced his generals when he saw the need, and Bush has replaced his, seeing an increasing need.

After months of the Democrats demanding the President for a change in leadership, after months of calling for a change in strategy, Bush has done so. It’s hard to tell that from the way the Democrats are talking now, though. They insist there is no new plan, which is a liberal faulty in its own right, and they keep trying to bring the advice and the warnings from the old generals to the President’s attention, despite the fact that they previously portrayed them as incompetent to the American people. Why? Because the political wind is blowing in a new direction and they are on a mandate to end the war.

I ended last week on a very important note. History does not repeat itself so mistakes can be made twice. Mistakes are made to be corrected. And this idea works the other way around, too. Success are achieved, and if we follow historical examples, we can achieve success again.

I believe I speak with America’s best interest at heart when I say we can not accept defeat in Iraq or any other major front on the Global War on Terror. We turned a bunch of unorganized nobodies into a Continental Army that could defeat the mightiest of empires. We overcame the greatest brother versus brother struggle in history. We took on the powerful Japanese fleet and the Third Reich. We won the Cold War against the might Soviet Union. We can defeat Islamo-Fascism.

To succeed, though, we must first have the desire. The Democratic pessimism does not allow for this, regrettably, but we must fight back. The same pessimism brought us defeat in Vietnam, and we can not allow it to overtake us again.

We must fight. We’re not fighting the Care Bares. We’re fighting radical extremists who will stop at nothing to bring bloodshed to the unbelievers. Regardless of what the opposition might say, we need more troops to help clear, regain, and hold the cities of Iraq. We can not stop and rethink about how we might offend people. The ancient Hammurabi Code had one firm statute that some don’t seem to care about anymore: Eye for an Eye. I’m not saying we, too, should resort to hostage taking and beheading, but it’s hard to fight a war if we are fighting with the strict Rules of Engagement we have place on our troops.

Now, I know I’ve strayed off topic, but there are many people who just don’t understand the scope of the conflict we’re in. People want to cry out about Guantanomo Bay because we’re holding known or suspected terrorists in prison cells so they can’t carry out their Jihad against the Western World. But then again, I guess as long as it’s a Democrat that wants to bash Bush, I guess it’s ok.

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~The CreepyNerd

Don Imus...blah blah blah

I guess today's talk is Don Imus' "nappy headed hos" remark and how some black leaders are "offended" and are demanding an apology. I'm not defending (Don Imus) but he has just as much right to say what he wants as Rosie O'Donell or anyone else for that matter. I choose not to listen or watch either one. That is still my right in this country. If people are getting offended so easily, maybe they need to stay home and hide in a closet. People have gotten to be such "thin" skin, it has gone past ridiculous. With everything going on in this country (the world for that matter) that is much more important than what Imus has to say, why is the mainstream media have a "field" day over this. And for all those people that claim to have been offended....I just want to say,"Get over it" or the next time you spew something out of your mouth, be prepared, it may offend someone, and maybe you will catch hell for it and I dare you to play the "double standards" game. That is what makes me sick over all this.

I am anxiously awaiting for Fred Thompson's announcement on his candidacy. He is the modern day "Ronald Reagan", well respected, and with a conservative view I think will appeal to the majority of republicans. Go Fred Go!!

Happy Easter

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter! Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Got a new podcast ready to be recorded and uploaded online tomorrow, I'll have the transcript here ;) Again, Happy Easter~
~The CreepyNerd

Greetings listeners and welcome to the Hawks Press. Today, I would like to talk about a theme of history that has never been more important for us to understand than now.

History Repeats Itself

When you were in elementary school, you probably asked your history teacher, on several occasions, "Why do we need to know this?" You probably also pointlessly, and incorrectly, added "It's not like we're ever going to use it." If your history teacher never answered your fatuous question, I'll answer it for you with a phrase you may have heard a few times in your life: History Repeats Itself

If you've never understood that or never really paid attention in History class, now has never been a better time to start learning. With the increasing unpopularity to the Iraq War, we find ourselves in the middle of the most challenging crisis of our time...again. Failure to overcome the Anti-America, Anti-Semite, and Anti-Freedom Islamo-Fascist movement could very well be the end of the United States as we know it.

Political shortsightedness is probably the biggest factor that is hurting our chances of winning this war and if it were not for the adamant stubbornness of George W. Bush, the democratically-elected Commander-in-Chief of the United States, and his administration, we probably would have already lost the war. What makes this even worse is that the Democrats are playing politics with this war. Since being kicked out of power, we have witnessed some of the worst ad hominem fallacies in our political history, and there appears to be no end in sight.

Why do I say this war is being played as politics? Because I'm a member of the quote/unquote "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy"? No. Listen to the statements. Listen to the rhetoric being used. Rather than supporting the troops and giving their commander a chance, the tone the Dems are using portray a message that we should not have ever invaded Iraq, which they voted to authorize, and now we're stuck in an impossible-to-win situation, despite the progress the new U.S. Commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, reports to us. This may not sound too new to our older audience.

Vietnam. Vietnam is often used by both sides of the political spectrum. This goes back to the theme I mentioned earlier: History repeats itself. Comparisons can be made that show some shocking similarities between the Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, and the Iraq War. If our newly elected leaders do anything at all, it had better be to remember history. Those who use defeat in Vietnam as an excuse to leave Iraq are just wrong. Rather than taking a look from the perspective that Iraq is turning into Vietnam, we should take every opportunity to correct the mistakes that we made then so that we CAN now. There were efforts made then that seem to be coming up now. The resolutions being sought after by the Democrats are not too different from those passed during the Vietnam Era. What happened then?

The situation in Vietnam was bad, but securing the independence of South Vietnam wasn't very far out of reach. But no! The war wasn't winnable, the Democratic Congress said. Starting with showing their displeasure to the war, the opposition continued to go through resolution after resolution until "peace with honor” wasn’t possible. They cut off funding, which they are proposing to do now, despite the fact that situation was beginning to turn around and victory was at hand. They ordered all troops back home by 1973, despite the fact that victory was at hand. They cut off all military support to the South Vietnamese, no matter what the reason, despite the fact that victory was at hand. Sound familiar?

Iraq, as the President has admitted, has had some mistakes. But it is not a "debacle". President Bush announced his new plan in January. David Petraeus said he would need until summer of this year to tell if it would work, but he reports signs of significant progress. Violence in Baghdad is down, and the Iraqis are stepping up and taking control...so much for those who say more Americans would lead to the Iraqis becoming more lazy. Yet the House has passed a nonbinding resolution condemning this plan and if this progress continues, politically-speaking the Democrats have made a huge miscalculation and they will not keep that which they have struggled for over a decade to regain. Their continued use of restrictive language isn't helping anyone. If they continue, they WILL create another Vietnam.

Passing a War Spending Bill loaded down with pork and a timeline doesn't help either. Congress knows President Bush is going to veto the bill, yet they continued to press on with it. Why? So the President wouldn't have the funds he needs to keep the well-thought out strategy running its course and to hurt his and the Republican Party's image. So they can win the White House in 2008.

I don't have the time to go into the Civil War and World War II today, so I will continue this next week. But remember, defeat is not imminent. Defeat is not acceptable. Our Congress must remember this. History does not repeat itself so the same mistakes can be made twice. Mistakes are made to be corrected.

~The CreepyNerd

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