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PoliAnna.com was founded to provide moral support, guidance and the truth for everyone tired of seeing American ideals getting pushed around by dishonest right wing, loudmouth bullies.
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Michael
Novak's piece is impressive in its zealotry and mendacity, as
well as indicative of the right wing pathology. Distort
the facts and tar the Democrats. The basic tenets are simple,
the war is great and noble and the Democrats are un-American,
weak, and sinister.
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Terrorists
in Iraq are planning havoc (“they want the equivalent of a
Tet Offensive”) before November 2 because they are scared
of Bush and want Kerry to win.
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How
could any right minded person take this irresponsible crap to be
legitimate journalism? First off, is there any evidence to back
this claim? We've never seen any cited. We think the terrorists
probably want Bush to win because he has done so much for radical
Islam terrorist recruitment in Iraq, while allowing Afghanistan
to deteriorate into a feudal warlord state, as Bin Ladin escaped.
Remember, Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq before this war, but they are
now. |
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imminent American offensives will strangle the terrorists, and the
towns that make up their routes. Three of these towns have fallen
into American hands in the last couple of weeks or will soon. |
Whose the Pollyanna
around here anyway? Is Novak insane, blatantly lying, or both?
The
Guardian reports that Sunni towns such as Falluja, Ramadi
and Samarra "have become virtual no-go areas for US forces”
even though Samarra was considered defeated. [Guardian, Sept.
27, 2004 and Washington Post August 28, 2004]
The senior American
military commander in the Middle East recently predicted that
United States and Iraqi forces would be fighting guerrillas all
the way through Iraqi elections scheduled for January, even as
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell conceded that the insurgency
was growing more violent. (New York Times, September 27, 2004).
Iraq is a mess that will not get better any time soon, and that
is because of the Bush/Neo con war.
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| Saddam
was planning the guerilla war with the terrorists. |
As
the 9/11 commission reported, there has never been any connection
between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
The persistence of the fighting after his capture as well as fighting
by Shias in areas like Najaf show there are several separate violent
uprisings that are independent of Saddam. Once again, Al Qaeda wasn't
in Iraq before this war, but they are there now.
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only reason the guerrilla war has succeeded in the Sunni triangle,
is because Turkey wouldn’t let US troops invade from the North.
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This contradicts Novak’s
earlier claim that the U.S. almost has hold of towns in the Sunni
triangle.
Turkey’s decision against allowing the U.S. to use the country
as a base to invade from the North was a strategic setback, not
an excuse for the incredible lack of planning and blindness to
reality - remember they were going to greet us as liberators?
Those who predicted
from the start that the Iraq war would make the country more chaotic
were ignored by Defense officials.
The incredible absence of a real plan to win the peace or of an
exit strategy, fueled by the administration's hubris and ideological
myopia led to guerrilla war in the Sunni triangle, something the
U.S. should have anticipated despite Turkey’s role.
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The
Democratic Party has “lost its understanding of the power
of the cause of liberty overseas, among the world’s most repressed
and mistreated peoples.”
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Yes,
and Tom Delay is compassionate, and W. looked into Putin's soul. |
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| Fewer
than half today's Democratic party, according to polls, grasps what
is at stake in the war in Iraq. But a lot of U.S. Democrats do.
They are cheering for our troops on the offensive in Iraq, and they
are going to vote in droves for George W. Bush, much to the amazement
of those who have not yet grasped the transformation of the world
that occurred after September, 2001. |
What
polls are these? Democrats and independents will vote in droves,
for John Kerry and against George Bush. We understand the
world transformation that occurred after 9/11, and we are aghast
at an administration, and ideology that would exploit it for political
gain. |
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Michael
Novak's piece is impressive in its zealotry and mendacity, as well
as indicative of the right wing pathology. Distort the facts
and tar the democrats. The basic tenets are simple, the war is great
and noble and the democrats are un-American, weak, and sinister.
The notion that the terrorist want to sabotage our elections to
defeat Bush is audacious, fallacious, and malicious. What's impressive
is how many of the purported facts in this story are unsubstantiated
and untrue. As lie-busters, we feel double speak in the political
arena is a very dangerous trend and requires constant vigilance. |
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