some think that mistakes were made in iraq

mistakes?

in recent decades, have had to come to grips with things that have been absolutely personally detestable, to me, as a human being, and learn to thank god for them. truthfully, praise of god, in moments of torment, have been mandatory.

after my daughter's wedding, on the way back to the coast, tears developed that were alligator size, because i was not allowed to walk her down the isle, and give the bride away. within a mile of "praise you father god," a new thought was planted in my reprobate mind:

"dummy, you did not have to pay for any of that extravagant wedding." within seconds, there was a smile on my face, and joy in my new heart.

during my evangelical training period, my favorite evangelist was a guy with the name of Ben, on the seven hundred club. one day after telling us that we have to thank god for all things, like the scriptures tell us to, he said, "...and if you have a bad marriage, you thank god that you are not a bigamist, and have two of those suckers."

one of the biggest targets, of most pundits - left leaning and even one popular independent pundit on cable, that have been brutal, in recent years, has been the mistakes made in iraq by the administration in power, relative to the liberation of close to thirty million souls. their focus seems to have been an incessant rant, on everything that has gone wrong, that the u. s. of a. was/is responsible for; ergo, mistakes.

it seems as though that most people, here in america and the leftist - socialist - countries abroad, ESPECIALLY THE MSM, AND DEMOCRATS, seem to think that a script for the war was written, like a script for a movie, only to their liking of course, in hollywood, and you had damn well better follow the script, or we will criticize you every minute of every day!

or even worse, we will by god INVESTIGATE every person that we can get our hands on, rather than legislate which we have tried and failed at - except for the minimum wage increase of course, and if that doesn't ruin you, maybe we will even try to impeach you, because the bastards did indeed impeach our real president - even though he was elected with only about forty-three percent of the electorate, for lying to a federal grand jury, and a federal judge, under oath.

wonder why god say's "revenge is mine, sayeth the lord." resentments really are hell, aren't they?

Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.” (Matthew 9:13 NLT)

am i the only one that understands that congress is not the commander in chief, thank god? seems as though they have taken their paranoid delusional personalities to new heights, that god in his heaven did not even think was possible.

This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom. (bigbook pg 62)

america's guiding icon, for the entire world, is the statue of liberty, in new york city. see, the french are good for something, which i am glad to proclaim, since my surname is from french descent.

according to a recent article about retired general powell, people from all over the world are in our embassies, requesting visas, for what ever reason. wonder how many people are hoping and praying to get into cuba, north korea, iran, mexico, nicaragua, palestine, and venezuela, in hopes of becoming law abiding citizens? oh well, you get the picture.

all spiritually centered people understand that god desires all to be happy, joyous, and free. but we do not believe that we can meddle with the scripture that states, "all things are lawful unto god," not lawless.

over the eons of time, americans have always been willing to go into harm's way - via war, to liberate, not to conquer, control, and dominate the oppressed, when it was necessary. maybe that is one reason that god has truly blessed real americans so wonderfully, from the get go.

another, and maybe the main reason, is that spiritual pilgrims, from europe, upon arriving in the colony of virginia, got down on their knees in the sand on the beach, and dedicated the future united states of america to god.

having set the stage, so to speak, let us now return to the topic of this web page; mistakes. any y'all remember turkey saying that we could not go into iraq, from the north, and tens of thousands of troops had to be sent to kuwait, which stopped the pincher effect on baghdad, to kill or capture the renegades?

in just a matter of hours, before the journey to baghdad began, saddam freed about thirty thousand convicted felons, that had a life sentence, or were scheduled to be put to death.

and this has never been mentioned, to my knowledge, in any of the pundit's commentaries, ever. for over a decade, embargos were in place, in iraq, which were part of the u. n. sanctions on iraq. in that ten to twelve years of sanctions, "criminals" were trained to black market - imports and/or exports - what ever saddam wanted. and if you would not go for that, you were beheaded.

next came the folks from iran coming into iraq, under the disquise of a pilgrimage! heard that there were twenty thousand of them. and of course, syria had to do their do, to try to hurt america.

wonder if hollywood would have included any of that in their script?

(in reading an interview with mr. rumsfeld on 9/10/07, it was mentioned that there were twelve sets of circumstances, beyond our control, rather than the three mentioned above, that had significant influence on our efforts in iraq, all of which tested our resolve.)

when we think of the close to twenty thousand members of our military losing their lives during the battle of the bulge, in a matter of days, or the seven thousand that gave their lives, for our freedom, on the day they entered europe, on the beaches at normandy, it gives me the thought of how crazy are the people that do not understand that we are in a war?

surely the loss of life is very difficult for all family members. but let us reveal what god thinks of those very brave loving souls, that did indeed give their lives for america's principle of freedom:

“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." (John 15:9-13 NLT)

how many can claim that perfection? HERE IS ONE CLUE. others include our first responders that have been so selfless and gallant.

being considerate of the arab muslims, because of their indoctrination of being taught to hate america, because it is the great satan, ho ho ho, some may say that a mistake was made during mr. donald rumfeld's leadership, at the dod. i just disagree with them.

from the get go, fortunately, our elected leader, president bush, understood, and told us, that we were now in a war, not of our choosing, that was going to last a long time. believe that he said that it would last a generation. it seems to me that they had to get their feet wet, just to see what we were up against, in the middle of arab muslim culture. not to even mention the heat that they have to endure, during the summer time.

we will let the historians write about keeping a small foot print over there, until we found out what we really had to do, against an enemy that has no country, no offices, except caves, but definitely know how to con the media, to their advantage, much to the media's shame. but for there to be just the few thousand casualties that there have been, in the number of years that we have been their, none can say that what was established, a surgical war, was not the best that we could have done, given the circumstances that were not of our choosing.

and for our brave military to even go into the "hate filled center" of the world - wahhabism, with an awesome task, against ruthless hate filled extremists, they all need our prayers, praise, thanks, and admiration. it is for our freedom dummy, that they are willing to lay down their life, if necessary.

probably ninety percent of americans do not understand that the muslim terrorists think that they are going to control the world, with sharia law. and the strangest thing to me is that the people that are trained in madrassas are taught that they are god's chosen. wow.

folks, madrassas have been in southeastern asia for over four hundred years, and their theme of hate and the love of death has not changed. sure am glad that jesus says, "I am life."