New evidence in JFK assassination conspiracy
Less than a year ago, Vice President Dick Cheney shot a friend. It was an "accident", of course. There was no cover up. The leftist press was just trying to turn our warm, sweet Dick into a scary monster.
But now...
The recent discovery of some old photos from 1963 may actually implicate the current Vice President in the crime of the century. In the photo (above, left) a Cuisinart looking remarkably like a younger Dick Cheney is seen sighting his rifle. And the location in the photograph? It has been positively identified as the notorious "grassy knoll" in downtown Dallas Texas.
A second photo clearly shows two individuals -- confirmed as the ever inseparable Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld -- standing just below the tree pictured in the first photo. By curious coincidence, Cheney and Rumsfeld were spotted in Dallas last weekend, paying a return visit to the scene of the crime. Not visible in the newer photo is Cheney's "lucky penny" which he carries with him at all times and which is dated...1963.
posted by Small Appliance Puppet Theater @ 10:23 AM
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Oh, those rascally appliances. One never knows what a really smart appliance will come up with to solve a problem. "Can't we just wipe them off the map?" Some solutions are so simple - hey! Didn't the Iranians say the same thing about Israel? But, while it may be wrong when they say it, it's WrongCo when we say it!
But this brings up a good question that's been avoided lately by the likes of the National Review and CNN's Lou Dobbs. What does victory in Iraq honestly, realistically, look like? Do we wipe them off the map?
Americans must brace themselves for a truth that is hard to take - victory in Iraq will look like defeat.
Americans have a pride that we always succeed and we always win. In truth, it has probably pushed us to success many times when otherwise we (or other peoples) would have failed. We walked the moon; we harnessed the atom. We are pathalogically averse to failure.
And so the legacy of Vietnam gnaws at us. We lost and we left. America had 58,000 killed and 153,000 wounded, and peace came when the North Vietnamese occupied and secured the south.
Victory in Iraq will come when the Iraqis take control - a statement by our president that is very deep in its truth. But as in Vietnam, we will never create a peaceful nation and simply hand it to the Iraqis to govern. In fact, our continued presence only serves to invigorate the resistance and make a peaceful Iraq a more distant target.
Victory in Iraq will occur when the Iraqis take the responsibility for the violence. When terrorists are no longer tolorated hidden within their neighborhoods, using both intimidation and backwards loyalty to enable their operations, much as happens in our own drug-infested neighborhoods. This will happen only when Americans are no longer the targets and the excuse for the violence, and are expected to be the only control of it. We are only beginning to see this, as violence increases against Iraqi civilians.
Sadly, Americans must withdraw and allow the violence to swell against Iraqis - proof to them and to the world that the terrorists are criminals and not freedom fighters. Only when this pain forces the Iraqis out of their complacency and learned helplessness will they take true responsibility and stand up to the violence. It will cause the ultimate victory in Iraq.
And that will look like a defeat for America. It will weigh the hearts of Americans possibly as much as seeing the carnage in Iraq itself.
But if America takes this action now at our option, rather than later when all our energies are spent, then we can help the victory be less expensive in lives and time. We must do it piecemeal. Pick a town - an easy target. Low insurgency, homogenious culture, small population (not Bagdad), have them set up their local council, school board, police, and -- leave.
The insurgency will flock there, violence will skyrocket, terrorists will gloat on web videos, and the locals will be overwhelmed. We will have failed.
And we will return, restore order, contribute equipment and training, set them on their feet again, congratulate their effort and -- leave.
Some things will be done differently, and the city will still melt down, but not as badly. It will still look like defeat. And we will return to help again. And we will do it in another city, and that will fail. And another and another.
And eventually, the insurgency will tire, spread too thin fighting their own countrymen, many of them questioning why they are fighting, yet the US still capturing and killing many of them, with all the credit going to the Iraqis. The Iraqis taking responsibility for their own nation.
When we leave, it will be because we weren't in their city any more. There won't be a parade of troops marching out on a street lined with people shouting "liberators!" We will ride in a dirty truck to a ship and sail home to a weary nation that doesn't understand their challenges any more than we understand any benefits we got from their sacrifice.
The nation of Iraq will have turned against the terrorists. It will be a victory.
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