Perpetuation of Puerile Politics & Poisonous Propaganda

Lee Ellis

A letter in my local newspaper starts with "Shame on Representative Mary Bono for defying the demands of the American people to end the Iraq disaster."

Disaster?

I always thought that we had created a success in Iraq by having our armed forces in the heart of the Middle East with a new giant embassy loaded with all kinds of listening devices, thus helping to prevent further attacks on the United States. In addition to creating this island of Freedom in the Middle East, we were also able to rid the world of a corrupt despot who had used WMDs on his own people and had paid each suicide bomber's family an award of $25,000. If Saddam Hussein were still in charge, I would hate to think of where his WMDs would be landing today instead of being secretly hidden in Syria, about which many officials have logically speculated. Saddam's secret financing of terrorism would have doubled the amount now financed by Iran and Syria.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and other George Soros types of Democrats have been claiming in the broadcast media that George Bush and his fellow Republicans are not obeying the wishes of "the American people" in waging the war against all terrorists. Have you noticed that some Socialist-Democrat is always reminding us that "the American people" gave the Democrat Party the majority rule in Congress with their 2006 vote? Thus these Democrats, including John Murtha (D-PA) and John Conyers (D-MI), say "the American people" demand that our President leave Iraq immediately and that Bush change his strategy to meet the demands of this new majority! I could have sworn that the Democrats slipped in with just a tiny majority, and that if just one Democrat were to change parties, our V.P. Dick Cheney would have the tie vote!

Senator Joe Lieberman, are you listening?

George Babington of AP just wrote the following for ABC TV News: "House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress. Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They're also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls."

Dr. Jack Wheeler of "To The Point" writes in his column, The Temper Tantrum that Could Kill America, "What voters did not do last November is vote for surrender and defeat in Iraq, higher taxes, more government spending, and national security imperiled. Yet that's what they got with the Democrats. And our country is in grave risk because of it. The risk is growing by the day. It has become frighteningly obvious here in Washington that the Democrat Party leadership not only is doing vast damage to our military and security services, they want to leave their country defenseless."

Why are they doing this? Some answers may be here.

As I have written before on these pages, almost all American Democrat leaders have become de facto Socialists. Al Qaeda and Socialists have united together to take control of America on the basis of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Our Jihadist enemies in the Middle East have learned three important tactics to win the current war and those of the future.

1. Use terrorism on civilians to frighten them and to break down their resolve. It is the civilian population that controls the actions of most politicians through polls and votes. It has worked in Spain and other European countries in the past and it appears to be working here in the US.

2. Control the media better to distribute propaganda so as to further manipulate the civilian population and also lower morale of their troops. Let Americans think they are still under the Geneva Convention rules of past wars. Convince them, also, that they should treat all captured Islamic Jihadists as they do prisoners under the rule of law rather than the rule of war. Terrorists would love to dominate our prisons, since they are now finding them such fertile grounds for recruiting.

3. Infiltrate American schools, colleges, churches and political organizations to convert as many youth and political people as possible so that new generations of Americans sympathize with the Middle East problems and regard their own country as an imperial nation, interested only in dominating the world to gain control of oil and other riches. These three combined tactics can win a war without having to fight on battlefields as was the case in World Wars I and II.

There will be a fourth tactic added to the other three in the future. This will happen when Iran, the new financier of al Qaeda, has access to nuclear bombs. With only a few of these, they will be able to wipe Israel off the map with one attack, and cause America, they think, to surrender when the same happens to New York or to other major American cities.

Democrat de facto Socialists have adopted similar political tactics to make sure that they keep their majority power over the American people. This is why they keep claiming that they are merely following the dictates of "the American people"! Even Juan Williams recently claimed on the Chris Wallace Sunday News Show, "Mr. President, you are not listening to the American people."

Since when have "the American people" all gone to West Point or been trained as generals in war strategy? The last time we had this type of mob rule in the world, it was called "Bastille Day" in France. Then, the government leaders were all brought in tumbrels to la Guillotine as Madame DeFarge watched the heads roll as she did her knitting. It seems to me that Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton are in a tight race to see who will be the new "Madame DeFarge" after the Socialist takeover of this country has been accomplished. Of course, when it comes to head chopping, these two ladies and their comrades may find that the Islamic terrorists may be much more successful in the handling of that job. No, Nancy, It is not like a monthly face-lift!

America is and has always been a Republic, not a democracy ruled by a mob mentality. We elect representatives to run our country, to protect us from attacks by building a strong national defense. Well-educated war strategists become our military leaders and they answer only to their commander-in-chief, the President of the United States of America.

Let me repeat this, because it cannot be said enough: With Al Qaeda and strong socialists uniting together to take control of America on the basis of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," al Qaeda (AKA "terrorists") will soon be able to deploy suicide bombers in America as long as our politicians (both Democrats and RINOs) run this government based only on phony polls of all its citizens and use propaganda on TV to fool or win over voters. With the lowering of all standards today, including a misleading and biased media, it is possible that too many polled citizens could well be naïve, misinformed or uninformed Americans. Consequently, the 2008 election may well be won based upon 5-minute sound bites of TV coverage and how its implications are inferred by the viewing public.

Can we win this type of war? Only if our political leaders and the American people can fully accept this new type of war and understand how they are being manipulated by these current al Qaeda and Democrat de facto Socialist tactics.

As President Lincoln said in 1858, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."

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Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and narrator, formerly with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He was also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He had the pleasure of interviewing Ronald Reagan as an actor and then later working to help him become Governor of California. At the age of 80, he is keeping busy writing and doing free lance narrations for radio and television. He is an active member of Rotary and the VFW.

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