Residual Forces

The PiPress has finally gotten around to launching their warmonger salvo on Rep. Michele Bachmann. In an Editorial aimed at scaring off anyone who still thinks the Iraq war was a noble and just war or believes that Iran is a serious military threat to free western nations, the Editorialist uses lots of progressive shock and awe to scare them straight.

The use of poll tested words of such qualified foreign policy experts of MoveOn.org, and Cindy Sheehan should really make you consider the source, the PiPress bashes Bachmann by just bringing up the left’s sexed up charges about why we went into Iraq.

Remember that time? Remember the flag-waving, homeland-protecting rhetoric that gave us no option but to take out the tyrant who was itching to destroy us? Remember the weapons Saddam had ready to hurl at us? Remember how those who said otherwise were shouted down?

OK, so you get where the PiPress is going here. Yeah, they’re trying to paint Rep. Bachmann as a warmonger. I think Victor Davis Hanson can do a much better job smacking the PiPress Editorialist up side the head with a little reality and pointing out that they are just picking up the latest MSM and liberal meme from DC.

A new round of Middle East hysteria has broken out in Washington. It goes like this: Iran is not really such a serious threat; but once again we are cooking intelligence, ignoring moderates, being needlessly provocative, acting unilaterally and preemptively, looking for a mere pretext to strike, and refusing to try diplomacy. Supposedly Mr. Bush, if just for political reasons alone, can’t wait to face the bad choice of removing the Iranians’ centrifuges and the worst choice of letting them be.

That we have been engaged with Iran on and off for 27 years is forgotten. We are also apparently to put aside for a moment Iran’s breakneck efforts to get the bomb and forget its serial threats to wipe out the Israeli democracy.

This Bachmann bashing is exactly that, bashing the Churchill minded Americans who can see the writing on the wall. Iran is a gathering threat. Al Qaida in Iraq is setting up a caliphate called the Islamic state of Iraq to train terrorists. In fact we just captured a major player in that group the local MSM seems to deny the existence of.

The closing line of the PiPress attack salvo obviously fell on the deaf ears of the all too willing accomplices to the Bachmann detractors and DFL.

Before the next war, let’s get our facts straight.

I would argue that before the PiPress launches its next attack against Bachmann and the war supporters they look a little deeper than the pacifist roots that make up too much of the press corps. Iran is a real threat, not just in Iraq, but on a global scale. Al Qaida in Iraq and beyond is a real threat.

These cheap partisan attacks cloaked as Editorials are dangerous. Iran is actively at war with us, and not just diplomatically, but they are aiding, supplying, and fanning the flames of hatred in the Middle East. All that hatred breeds violence, and it has one goal, the end of Western civilization. In case the MSM didn’t notice, that includes the United States.