The big question, before this rally, is if in fact Obama was against the war. He supposedly was told by the rally’s organizers that the event would be distinctly anti-war, and that he had to have an anti-war position to ingratiate the crowd.

Thus he is now able to say he was against the war. We may never know if it took real backbone, or if he caved in, to hold this position.

Last week, Barack Obama was designated as the “presumptive nominee” of the Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton endorsed him. What does it signify—and what does it NOT signify—that for the first time in U.S. history a Black person has been made the political candidate of a major political party? This is a very important question and we will be exploring it in future issues of the paper, including next week. This issue, however, we want to highlight the particular importance of Obama’s very first act after claiming the Democratic Party nomination—a speech on Israel, to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). more…

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and
hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than
four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food
and war materials.

Bushido Japan had overrun most of Asia, beginning in 1928, killing millions of
civilians throughout China, and impressing millions more as slave labor.

The United States was in an isolationist and pacifist mood, and most Americans
and Congress wanted nothing to do with the European war, or the Asian war.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress
unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had
not attacked us.

It was a dicey thing. We had few allies.

France was not an ally, for the Vichy government of France aligned with its
German occupiers. Germany was not an ally, for it was an enemy, and Hitler
intended to set up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, for
it was intent on owning and controlling all of Asia. Japan and Germany had
long-term ideas of invading Canada and Mexico, and then the United States over
the north and south borders, after they had settled control of Asia and Europe.

America’s allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and
Russia, and that was about it. There were no other countries of any size or
military significance with the will and ability to contribute much of anything
to the effort to defeat Hitler’s Germany and Japan, and prevent the global
dominance of Nazism. And we had to send millions of tons of arms, munitions, and
war supplies to Russia, England, and the Canadians, Aussies, Irish, and Scots,
because none of them could produce all they needed for themselves.

All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already
under the Nazi heel.

America was not prepared for war. America had stood down most of its military
after World War I and throughout the depression. At the outbreak of World War II
there were army soldiers training with broomsticks over their shoulders because
they didn’t have guns, and using cars with ”tank” painted on the doors because
they didn’t have tanks. And a big chunk of our navy had just been sunk and
damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in
gold bullion in the Bank of England that was the property of Belgium and was
given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by
Hitler.

Actually, Belgium surrendered in one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day
anyway, just to prove they could.

Britain had been holding out for two years already in the face of staggering
shipping loses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of
Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made
the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be
dealt with later and turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was
on the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940.

Russia saved America’s rear by putting up a desperate fight for two years until
the United States got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and
Moscow, 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more
than a million soldiers. More than a million!

Had Russia surrendered, then, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
campaign against the Brits, then America, and the Nazis would have won that war.

Had Hitler not made that mistake and invaded England in 1940 or 1941, instead,
there would have been no England for the United States and the Brits to use as a
staging ground to prepare an assault on Nazi Europe.

England would not have been able to run its North African campaign to help take
a little pressure off Russia while America geared up for battle, and today
Europe would very probably be run by the Nazis, the Third Reich, and, isolated
and without any allies (not even the Brits).

The United States would very likely have had to cede Asia to the Japanese, who
were basically Nazis by another name then, and the world we live in today would
be very different and much worse.

I say this to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things.
And we are now at another one.

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has or wants to have,
and may soon have the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical
weapons, almost anywhere in the world, unless it is prevented from doing so.

France, Germany, and Russia, have been selling these Islamic nations weapons
technology at least as recently as 2002, as have North Korea, Syria, and
Pakistan paid for with billions of dollars that Saddam Hussein skimmed from the
“Oil For Food” program administered by the United Nations with the complicity of
Kofi Annan and his son.

The Jihadis, or the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs. They
believe that Islam, a radically conservative (definitely not liberal) form of
Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe and
then the world. All who do not bow to Allah should be killed, enslaved, or
subjugated.

They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews.
This is what they say.

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East for the most part not a hot
war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation
today, but it is not yet known which will win the Inquisition, or the
Reformation.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, or the Jihadis, will control the
Middle East, and the OPEC oil, and the United States, European, and Asian
economies the techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC.

This is not an OPEC dominated by the well educated and rational Saudis of today,
but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis.

You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want jobs? You
want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim
Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is the moderate Muslims who believe that
Islam can respect and tolerate other religions and live in peace with the rest
of the world, move out of the 10th Century into the 21st Century. Then the
troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and
prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the
Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic
terrorist movements.

We have to do it somewhere, we cannot do it just anywhere and we cannot do it
everywhere at once.

**** We have created a focal point for the battle now at the time and place of
our choosing, in IRAQ….. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris, or Berlin,
but in Iraq, where we did and are doing two very important things:

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein and whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved
in 9/11 or not the issue. It is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the terrorist movement for decades, Saddam is a terrorist. Saddam is,
or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of
probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism
in Iraq and we have focused the battle. We are killing bad guys there, and the
ones we get there we won’t have to get here, or anywhere else. We also have a
good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for
democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a
stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is
needed.

The Euros could have done this, but they didn’t, and they won’t. We now know
that rather than opposing the rise of the Jihad, the French, Germans, and
Russians were selling them arms. We have found more than a million tons of
weapons and munitions in Iraq. If Iraq was not a threat to anyone, why did
Saddam need a million tons of weapons?

Additionally, Iraq was paying for French, German, and Russian arms with money
skimmed from the United Nations Oil for Food Program (supervised by U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan and his son) that was supposed to pay for food,
medicine, and education, for Iraqi children.

World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with a
”whimper” in 1928.

It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of
China. It was at war for fourteen years before America joined in it. It
officially ended in 1945 a 17 year war and was followed by another decade of
United States occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries
reconstructed and running on their own again a 27 year war.

World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full
year’s GNP adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars.

World War II cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000
are still missing in action.

The Iraq war has so far cost the United States about $120 billion, which is
roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives,
which is roughly 1/3 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed on 9/11.

But the cost of not fighting and winning World War II would have been
unimaginably greater, a world that would now be dominated by German and Japanese
Nazism.

Americans have a short attention span, now, conditioned I suppose by 30 minute
television shows and 2 hour movies in which everything comes out okay. The real
world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly.
It always has been, and probably always will be.

If we do this thing in Iraq successfully, it is probable that the Reformation
will ultimately prevail. Many Muslims in the Middle East hope it will. We will
be there to support it.

It has begun in some countries, Libya, for instance also Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
If we fail, the Inquisition will probably prevail, and terrorism from Islam will
be with us for all the foreseeable future, because the people of the
Inquisition, or Jihad, believe that they are called by Allah to kill all the
Infidels, and that death in Jihad is glorious.

The bottom line here is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until
we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away on its own. It will not go
away if we ignore it.

If the United States can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we
have an ”England” in the Middle East, a platform from which we can work to
help modernize and moderate the Middle East.

The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility
and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates.

The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And
now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons
unless we or somebody does prevent them.

The Iraq war is expensive, and uncertain, yes. But the consequences of not
fighting it and winning it will be horrifically greater. We have four options:

1.We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2.We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as
early as next year, if Iran’s progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it
is).

3.We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East,
now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

4.Or we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more
widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and
Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will be more dangerous, more
expensive, and much bloodier then.

Yes, the Jihadis say that they look forward to an Islamic America. If you oppose
this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may
live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that
resembles Iran today.

We can be defeatist, as many Democrats and liberals, peace activists, and
anti-war types seem to be, and concede or surrender to the Jihad or we can do
whatever it takes to win this war against them.

The history of the world is the history of civil clashes, or cultural clashes.
All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be
like and the most determined always win. Those who are willing to be the most
ruthless always win.

The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

In the 20th Century it was western democracy vs. communism, and before that
western democracy vs. Nazism, and before that Western democracy vs. German
Imperialism.

Western democracy won, three times, but it wasn’t cheap, fun, nice, easy, or
quick. Indeed, the wars against German Imperialism (World War I), Nazi
Imperialism (World War II), and communist imperialism (the 40-year Cold War that
included the Vietnam Battle, commonly called the Vietnam War, but itself a major
battle in a larger war) covered almost the entire century.

The first major war of the 21st Century is the war between Western
Judeo/Christian Civilization and Wahhabi Islam. It may last a few more years, or
most of this century.

It will last until the Wahhabi branch of Islam fades away, or gives up its
ambitions for regional and global dominance and Jihad, or until Western
Civilization gives in to the Jihad.

Remember, perspective is everything, and America’s schools teach too little
history. The Cold War lasted from about 1947 to 1989 at least until the Berlin
Wall came down in 1989. Forty-two years.

Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870
to 1945 fighting Germany.

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation and the
United States still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in
the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people,
depending on which estimates you accept.

The United States has taken a little more than 4,000 Killed-in-Action (KIA) in
Iraq. The United States took more than 4,000 KIA on the morning of June 6, 1944,
the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.

In World War II the United States averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most
of the individual battles of World War II lost more Americans than the entire
Iraq war has done so far.

But the stakes are at least as high: a world dominated by representative
governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms–or a world
dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, and by the Jihad, under the
Mullahs and the Sharia.

I do not understand why many Americans do not grasp this. Too much television I
guess.

Many Americans profess to be in favor of human rights, civil rights, liberty,
freedom, and all that. But not for Iraqis, I guess. In America, but nowhere
else.

The 300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass graves in Iraq, not our problem. The United
States population is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let’s multiply 300,000
by twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American bodies in mass
graves in America because of our president? Would you not want another country
to help liberate America?

”Peace Activists” always seem to demonstrate where it’s safe and ineffective
to do so: in America. Why don’t we see peace activists demonstrating in Iran,
Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea; in the places in the world that really need
peace activism the most?

Are we not supposed to be in favor of human rights, civil rights, democracy,
multiculturalism, diversity, etc? Well, if the Jihad wins and wherever the Jihad
wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism,
diversity, etc

Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their
own worst enemy. If the Jihad wins, it is the death of ALL OTHER “ISMS” !

It is better to have someone who takes an opinion (McCain or Hillary) then one who’s afraid to do so (see: his record in the Illinois legislature) and Monday morning quarterbacks the outcome.

It’s easy to say that one is against the war when it isn’t their decision to make. It’s easy say that “dumb wars” are a disappointment when no one’s asking you to cast your vote. It’s easy to feel secure in your own righteousness and your own skin when it isn’t your state that was terrorised–3000 of your constituents that never made it home. It’s easy to say “no” to something–whichever war he meant–when History won’t hold you accountable.

Hillary got unlucky in this one. She dared to win her Senate seat and then do something with it.

When and if this man makes it into office, we will see for ourselves the breadth and deepth of his vision; we will see his capabilities laid bare. And when they fall far short of what they’ve promised to be, we will feel, once again, fooled and “bamboozled” by a man who knew just the lies to tell.