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The Anchoress asks if Obama knows who we are and goes on to ask us what we know about him.

The forced definition of the American Presidency is sitting very uncomfortably with Barack Obama. There is nowhere to hide; there are no further personae to be invented and presented. The Jekyll and Hyde who has been singing endless encores of “This is the Moment” to America for nearly three years, has finally come upon a real moment, an authentic crossroad: he must now materialize into a defined entity with a known vector. Will that entity choose to define himself by a willingness to help a nation of free and energetic dreamers sustain the most exceptional and productive dream in history? Or will it choose to remain the poorly-marked outline of an aching, light-consuming void, delivering nothing but silence?

Until Barak Obama decides who he is, we cannot know him, and he cannot know America. And until he knows America, he cannot begin to understand the good-faith majority of us, who are longing not for a god, not for a king, but for a president worthy of our trust.

This is just a taste of what she is discussing and I encourage you to go over there, read what she has written, and ponder it.

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If Jeanette was available, I know she would offer a thank you to The Anchoress for the link, and a warm welcome to her readers.

We have a daily quote on our sidebar from BibleGateway.com, a site to which you might wish to pay a visit.

Hope you enjoy your stay at J’s.

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Don Surber delights with this picture.

Want to see (in the simplest terms) what that trillion dollar debt looks like? Look no further. HT: Pundit Review

Lisa Fabrizio touches on many bullet points which can and should be addressed by Republicans in the coming months.

I agree with the never give up attitude of the post, but the burning question remains; as divided as we have become, at this point will be preaching only to the choir?

A dose of realism at American Thinker:

We were once a nation that assumed responsibility for the needs of our own family. Never would we expect our food or housing to be provided by anyone other than ourselves and we worked hard as proud providers. Over the last twenty years, we’re become a country that views itself as “entitled” and deserving of governmental provision of shelter, transportation, education and of course health care. We’re sucking our thumb, curled up in the fetal position on the lap of a lactating Nanny state. However, when the government provides what is standard government colostrums we’re shocked, appalled and dissatisfied with the stipulations.

We’ve eagerly elected politicians who are “changing” America into something against the grain of who and what we’ve historically been, yet we’re still expecting what we’ve been used to — just minus a monthly statement of any kind. Sorry comrades it doesn’t work that way. American’s are about to find out that “cold cheese sandwiches” are government cuisine and like it or not we’re going to have to gag down dry sandwiches, warm WIC milk and a mealy, rotten apple if we don’t wake-up in a hurry.

If you haven’t checked out this post at Musing Minds
you are missing out on a link to a terrific site Kimsch has discovered.

Double dare ya not to laugh:

Told ya so!

Have a great weekend all!

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Free entertainment from Amazon. Kate has the details.

*New Website*. Check out the Conservative Underground.

The Word of the Week award goes to Jules Crittenden:

Bi-Schmartisanmanship

Just try and say that three times fast!

This is when Hollywood cared less for politics and more for country:

Thanks to John Nolte at Big Hollywood for locating and sharing this wonderful video.

Jennifer Rubin captures in the title of this post exactly how I believe many of us are feeling.

Have a terrific weekend all!

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While the media and politicians (at home and abroad) jockeyed for position on the Iraq war, its residents have seen the fruits of not only the labors of the joint military forces but of their own citizens:

When hypocrites and extremists sober up from their shoe hangover they will see a new Iraq which will not be easy for them to recognize. Even harder for them will be to contain the tides of freedom and democracy which are bound to reach their shores and shake the foundations of dictatorships and extremism.

Those seeking perfection will never find it. Just look at our own country as it serves as a prime example of a nation still striving to find itself.

What is a travesty is that for pure political domination many sought to destroy those who believed in freedom for those oppressed.

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If you are concerned about voter fraud thenVote Fraud Squad is for you.

The Voter Integrity Project is a non-partisan project to help the American voter report and expose incidences of vote fraud and vote suppression, in order to ensure a more fair, open, and democratic election process.

Good stuff!

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Natural disasters used as political footballs. Never!

Oh, but wait, yes they are says Ed Driscoll:

Just telling it like it is.

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Blackfive links to Moment of Thanks which in turn is linking videos, pictures and well wishes from individuals of all ages and backgrounds with our troops.

Check it out!

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No, this post isn’t about Hillary Clinton although the advice is good for her, but her ego probably won’t allow her to accept defeat gracefully and she’ll continue to fight until her last breath for the Democratic nomination for president.

This is a personal story.

I had been visiting a blog based in France a couple of years ago and left because they kept preaching tolerance while putting me down for being a born-again Christian, even though I stayed on topic to their threads.

About a year ago another blogger noticed a post in which my name and email were given and she wrote to me asking about my experiences on that blog. She was actually evangelizing to them and they were calling her all sorts of vile names and placing pornographic pictures with her face superimposed on them as though it were the funniest joke on earth.

The blog owner’s wife had recently left him to return to the US via Canada. He posted how sad he was and that he wanted to commit suicide. I posted that if he wanted to talk he could email me.

He emailed me and asked me to install Skype, a program that allows voice and video conferencing if you wish.

Many long nights were spent talking to him and listening to his problems, trying to tell him of the saving Grace of Jesus Christ. Since he is a confirmed atheist I gave up on talking about Jesus except when he said something that would allow me to give a short testimony.

He finally posted a photo of the other American Christian woman that showed her face on the naked body of a woman on a cross. I asked him to please take it down, but he wouldn’t.

Things went from bad to worse until I decided to just stay away from that terrible place.

He began to write to me again, using abusive language a decent person wouldn’t use in mixed company and probably not in unmixed company.

I wrote that I would be his friend but I would not compromise my beliefs for him or anyone else, and if he intended to write such an email again I wouldn’t read it.

He then wrote an “I’m sorry and I love you” email and we had petty discussions on his current plight in life. He is preparing to move in with a woman of means since he lost his job and driver’s license.

I joked with him about cutting neighboring estates’ lawns etc. and got another nasty email from him on Saturday night.

When I told you last week I had not been walking with the Lord it was due to this character, who would say the most vile things about God every chance he got when he got angry, and he did get angry a lot.

When I received his final email on Saturday I wrote one to him telling him that he was standing in the way of my Christian walk and that I had re-dedicated my life to Jesus and would follow Him wherever it takes me.

Two days later I got a one-line email from him saying he was glad I had said I couldn’t continue to be his friend because he had come to that conclusion himself the day before.

I never should have allowed myself to get into this position, where my name and the name of the other Christian poster are considered to be poison and ridiculed all because of Jesus. There is such a culture difference with the French and Russian posters on that blog that one cannot state we are all guilty of original sin because of Adam and Eve, without them thinking we are condemning them.

As I said, sometimes it’s just best to walk away. They’ve heard the gospel, mostly from the other American but from me at times too, and it is now up to the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sins and up to them to accept Jesus as the payment of their sins.

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The Anchoress does it again.

You can be concerned about a path America is taking, but you cannot decide America “deserves” bad things. You can shudder at a million babies being aborted a year, but you also must take heart that there is an energetic faith-based opposition to abortion and euthanasia that is making real inroads into the heart of society. You don’t like the way the country is going, you work to change it and you pray…you do not sit there deciding, “well, I’m upset with the way America’s going, so I think God wants me to sit this election out because the country deserves a few years of pain.”

It almost sounds like, “I don’t have the candidate I want, so I will spitefully sit it out, and use belief in a just and vengeful God as my excuse and my justification. And boy, after that, America will learn to take my concerns and my votes more seriously! Go get ‘em God!”

Simply said with a flair which time after time cuts right to the chase.

I have only to add, “thank you.”

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If you’re a regular on this site you will notice we have changed the look of our site again. We have three themes to use at any given time, but this theme is by far the one I like the most.

The gold and soft yellow show a happiness and optimistic outlook on life. It’s cozy and I hope you like it as much as Sue and I do.

Kim from Schratwieser Consulting, as usual, has designed this template.

I want to sing her praises as I can sometimes be a very demanding client, but she very calmly does the impossible every time.

If you ever want a site designed I highly recommend her for your site. You won’t be disappointed and she’s not as expensive as some of the larger design firms.

Enjoy this theme because I have a feeling it’s going to be up a long, long time. At least until she shows me something I like better.

Thanks, Kim. ><=d>

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Most who peruse the blogs daily make at least one stop at Instapundit.

Glenn Reynolds is in the running for an ABA award for Top Law Blogs.

If you have a minute, stop by this site and consider throwing your support his way or if you prefer, any of the other fine men and women in contention.

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Many years ago, my Dad was stationed at Schofield Barracks. I have fond memories of not only the island but the wonderful people of many cultures we had the pleasure to meet while living there.

Like all things through the years it is certain that there are things which have changed at this installation, but one constant is the beauty of the island which serves as home to many military families.

You can imagine my delight to see that Sgt. Nichols of Jack Army and his wife Jill have started up a new blog, Hawaii with Jack and Jill Army.

I can’t wait for the next post. Hopefully it will contain wonderful photos just as the first did.

Give it a look…I know I will be checking in often.

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Ed Morrissey, whom I believe every blog I read has linked or quoted from time to time, was invited to do a segment on CNN in regards to the Clinton campaign’s planted questions.

Well done Captain.

UPDATE: For a related story from CNN go here. It doesn’t look like this student is backing down at all. Good for her and if others are unearthed, I hope they do the same.

We can all only imagine what Hillary’s campaign would do to one of her rivals if this situation was proven to be taking place within their camp.

He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.

“The top one was planned specifically for a college student,” she added. ” It said ‘college student’ in brackets and then the question.”

Still believe the candidate was unaware of this situation? Check out the whole interview and also the video below.

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Serving as a reminder that we are nearing the close of the Bush admiistration and heading quickly towards an election which may be one of the most important in many years is the closing of a chapter in the Blog World.

I would skip over at least once a day to see what the guys at Blogs For Bush were thinking on the events of the day.

I was delighted to see that the site itself will remain up so the archives may be accessed but even happier to see that Mark and Matt will continue their work at a new site, Blogs for Victory.

Should you have a free few minutes, you might want to wander over a take a look.

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Matthew Burden of Blackfive is a finalist in a contest where the award is a $10,000 scholarship.

In my opinion, Blackfive is one of the best milblogs on the web and if you could give him a hand by taking less than a minute to vote for him at College Scholarships.org, I am certain it would be much appreciated.

There are twenty finalists for this scholarship so every vote for Matt will help. Thanks in advance.

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Sister Toldjah’s blog is 4 years old today. Stop by and wish her a happy blogiversary.

Congratulations, and here’s to many more years of great reads. <:-p

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Kim from Schratwieser Consulting and Musing Minds has made the new design for our blog.

I think it gives the flavor of an internet cafe now and wish to thank her for her creativity and her quick turnaround on the job.

I love it, Kim! Thanks!

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In anticipation of the 2008 races, the NRSC has not only launched their new site, but are also offering a blog with up to date information for those of us who are news junkies.

This one is worth a bookmark as we soon head into what promises to be one heck of a political season.

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“Right Wing Nuthouse celebrated it’s third anniversary yesterday. It is a daily stop for me as I find the commentary both insightful and enjoyable.

Today marks the third anniversary of Right Wing Nuthouse. Looking back on my humble, fumbling beginnings (and my even more humbling present) makes me realize how much and how little has changed in my life as well as the wide, wide world of blogs.

I am a little wiser today, a lot better informed and more circumspect in my language (believe it or not). I’m a little more cynical about some things, less so about others.

Happy (belated) birthday Mr. Moran and may you have many, many more.

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With Dan Rather’s announcement that he is suing CBS and Viacom over his dismissal from CBS, new life has been given to the Rathergate TANG report.

Mary Mapes has been writing at Huffington Post (I don’t read it) and I found this one piece of her quote to be quite interesting:

What was different in our case was the brand new and bruising power of the conservative blogosphere, particularly the extremists among them. They formed a tightly knit community of keyboard assault artists who saw themselves as avenging angels of the right, determined to root out and decimate anything they believed to be disruptive to their worldview.

Thanks to Captain Ed Morrissey for checking HuffPo and reporting on it. That’s where I got this quote.

I found the quote to be interesting because I have noticed something in the blogosphere.

The conservative or right wing bloggers (use your favorite term) have their blogs set up to have comments and trackbacks and are willing to share their information as long as they get credit for the original post.

It is hard to find a liberal or left-wing blog (use your favorite term) that allows trackbacks, although they do have plenty of comments. The difference is they delete any opposing views from their comments and almost always require the reader to subscribe and wait for a password to make a comment.

It’s something that has really dawned on me in the past week while helping Guss learn how to do trackbacks on his blog. There are no trackback codes to many of the liberal blogs and information is not shared easily.

To have Mary Mapes say the conservative blogosphere blew this story apart is indeed a compliment to the bloggers on the right, even if she didn’t mean it to be one.

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Right Wing News sent out a questionnaire to 240 right/center bloggers asking 7 questions ranging from their opinions of the two major parties’ positions on the military to the presidential candidates.

50 blogs responded.

I’m not going to give the entire post, but I am going to give you a couple of the questions and answers to them:

6) If your preferred candidate doesn’t win the GOP nomination, will you

A) vote Republican anyway: 44 — 96%
B) vote Democrat, stay home, or vote for a third party? 2 — 4%

7) If Hillary Clinton turns out to be the Democratic nominee, which candidate do you think would stand the best chance of defeating her?

Sam Brownback
John Cox
Newt Gingrich: 2 — 4%
Rudy Giuliani: 24 — 50%
Mike Huckabee
Duncan Hunter: 1 — 2%
Alan Keyes
John McCain
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney: 1 — 2%
Tom Tancredo
Fred Thompson: 20 — 42%

Go over and see the other questions and the responses to them. It’s all very interesting.

Hat Tip to Sister Toldjah.

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What an honor it must have been for several milbloggers to have an opportunity to meet President Bush and have him answer their questions. I am certain the President felt much gratitude towards these men and women, as they have tirelessly worked to deliver the true message on issues military.

It was difficult to select the blog to link to in this post, but I ultmately chose Mudville Gazette as Mrs. Greyhawk provides excellent photos and also links to the sites of others in attendance.

The anticipation of meeting the President was far more nerve wracking than actually meeting him. Matt joked before hand that he wasn’t sure if Mohammed would be able to go the whole meeting without a cigarette. I worried I’d have to excuse myself during the meeting to go to the ladies room after gulping down an extra large white chocolate mocha coffee from Starbucks. But after the President entered the room, worked his way around the table, shaking hands and sitting comfortably in his chair, we all immediately felt at ease. He thanked us for coming and acknowledged it was the “first time a president had met with bloggers at the White House”. It was history in the making. This alone was awe-inspiring and I did have to concentrate hard to keep from having an idiotic grin on my face thru out the meeting, especially since we were all discussing serious issues.

I cannot think of a group more deserving of some one on one time with President Bush and I hope they recognize how many of us also appreciate their (in many instances) first hand commentary.

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This was the original post put up on this blog. Since some changes have been made I am reposting the purpose statement with the update included.

This is the first post for J’s Cafe Nette .

The intent of this blog is to talk about current events, which will naturally involve talking about politics.

We will have a conservative Republican (me) and a liberal Democrat (a user name as yet to be chosen) along with a very fair-minded conservative Republican, Sue.

The intent is to have debate without fights on this blog. We want you to feel at home here and understand some debates will get strong, but we don’t want it to get into a name-calling contest.

We will refer to elected officials by their real names or title and last name. We may refer to them by their last name only, but we will not be using common slurs for any of our elected officials.

It is my hope that conservatives as well as liberals and those in between can come together and find some common ground.

Just as I don’t believe all Republicans are good I don’t believe all Democrats are bad. If our elected officials in Washington cannot act as the adults they are supposed to be, then let us show them how it is done on the grassroots level.

There will be no swearing of any kind on this site and there will be no dirty jokes or postings of photos that make someone look unflattering.

I will also be mixing in some posts having to do with faith and invite you to join in those discussions as well.

I had a blog that was strictly a faith blog and abandoned it because I was too heavily involved with a strictly political blog. I found I wasn’t happy with talking about just politics and circumstances arose that made my exit happen.

As more posts get added, I pray the items you now see at the bottom of this post will move to the sidebar where they are supposed to be.

I wish to thank kimsch of Musing Minds and Schratwieser Consulting for doing such an excellent job of getting this blog set up.

With that I bid you a very warm welcome to J’s Cafe Nette.

Update 9/14/07 Although we started out with good intentions in March, hoping to show Republicans and Democrats could reach some sort of consensus to make our country better by working together, it just didn’t work out.

We found ourselves bickering and throwing political jabs at one another, so I decided the best solution would be to get our one Democratic blogger his own blog, which is under the umbrella of this blog.

Guss at Guss’ Coffee House has his own blog to address issues of interest to Democrats/liberals.

Although it is under the umbrella of this blog, it is totally written and managed by Guss, and I have nothing to do with the writing on that blog. My only role over there is to help him with coding issues he may have.

Our goal is still to present both sides of the story, but to do it on separate sites.

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Guss has his inventory in place, the chairs are comfy, and the lights are on!

Coffee’s good too!

Go visit. Guss’ Coffee House
 
(gussescoffeehouse.com)

There’s a link in our sidebar as well.

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Generally if I link to a post, I attempt to do a bit of my own commentary on the piece but sometimes time just won’t allow for elaboration.

For some great reads across the web, check these out.

Duane Patterson post an excellent take down of Senator Schumer and his comments on the Senate floor over the past few days. On this same topic there is a must read from Sweetness and Light. It seems the Senator has done a bit of editing of his remarks on his website.

A Media Research Center Report is the topic of a piece at Pundit Review. Those of us on the right who believe there is media bias can take some comfort in this post.

Confederate Yankee points out how the Democrats are not just trying to destroy the credibility of the Petreaus report but how they are dissing the General himself.

For a great roundup of what she calls the “happenings on the “Religion of Peace” front” head over to Sister Toldjah Lots of terrific information compiled in one post.

Hope you enjoy.

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Yesterday, Guss surprised all of us by saying he was going to stay away from blogging on this blog until after the election due to the tit for tat that has been going on.

We are in the process of setting up a separate blog for Guss that will be his alone to manage.

The URL for the new blog will be http://gussescoffeehouse.com, but we have to wait up to 72 hours for the name to be usable in order for anything to be uploaded to Word Press and get his theme up and running.

We will be linking to that blog from here as it will be our sister (brother?) blog.

Guss is very excited about it and says he will probably be asking if there are any Independents or moderates from ether side who would like to blog with him.

If you know of any, you can contact me at j@jscafenette.com and I’ll pass the information along to him. He still needs to set up an alternate email address so everyone doesn’t have his personal email and know his real name.

I’ll be putting up a post as soon as Kim from Musing Minds and Schratwieser Consulting has the site ready to go live.

We are still going to be under the same principles and Guss will probably operate under the same rules we do although you will probably see a few cuss words over there.

We look forward to this new endeavor and hope you will all go visit him and make comments as soon as he is up and running.

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Something rang true with me this morning when reading Grim at Blackfive.

The whole point of the Surge is to address this particular problem. It is six months in the making, if you count from the start of the buildup. If the politicos in Washington set goals that Iraq could not realize, that is their own fault. It is the fault of those whose goals were set without bothering to take any account of military reality.

We’ve got people who are risking their lives every day to give Iraq the chance embodied by the Surge. There are 25 million people in Iraq whose lives depend on the outcome. These games in DC and among the press, they are beyond reprehensible. Real lives are at stake here — better lives than the ones lived by these politicians and journalists.

It is oh so easy to be the “Armchair General” or to “Monday morning Quarterback” all decisions made in Washington in the past.

The President has often said most of his decisions as to operations in Iraq were made after hearing and taking advice from the Top Brass with boots on the ground. That being said, final decisions were in his hands and are his responsibility. However, I believe both the Commander in Chief and those doing the “hard work” in this war see well beyond Iraq.

Would I like to bring home every soldier, sailor, marine and air force member serving in foreign territory..that goes without saying.

Do I believe as Americans we should expect Iraq to field a strong government of their own..absolutely, but standing up that government will be hard work, especially when dealing with the various sects within the country.

Unfortunately, I believe no harder than it would be to stand up a government today in Washington DC with the partisanship and corruption we have on both sides of the aisle.

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Just one of those days where time seems to be at a premium so just a quick update on a few sites that you might find worth a read.

Omar from Iraq The Model has one of his first hand accounts on various issues taking place in his country. I suppose the following may be the reason we have not heard much from him as of late:

These months have been the worst in electricity supplies ever. We’re getting an average of one hour per day of electricity from the grid. The last time we had such hour was three days ago!

Second Chances is the latest dispatch from Michael Yon. I usually find a favorite line or paragraph in each of his pieces and this particular one was the easiest yet.

Yet street by street, house by house, step by step, the infantry soldiers cleared most of Baqubah, working under intensely stressful conditions. They cleared block by block, no place to sleep but the ground, no showers to wash away the sweaty grit of war. This combat-experienced brigade outsmarted the enemy. I’d like to say more, but the enemy will get no help from these pages.

Also included in Michael’s latest piece are two audio interviews and as usual his terrific photography.

Last, but certainly not least a Letter to America from a site I have recently discovered, Jack Army.

I asked an Iraqi I know to write a letter to Americans. I told him he should write whatever he wants. Specifically, I said, “if you could say anything you wanted to the American people, what would it be?”

This is what he wrote:

To my brothers and sisters all over the world,

Hi, I am in individual Iraqi, I can only express my own ideas about what is going on in this whole situation and I am very sure that the majority of Iraqis have the same idea.

First, before Coalition Forces came to Iraq, we were under a tyrant regime. Saddam and his followers, no doubt most of them were from Arab Sunni, those people were from Iraq too but they tortured, abused and offended the Iraqi people a lot, like mass graves, genocide, and so on. I cannot talk to you about the details of all what they did against us because it is unbelievable to someone to understand that.

Part one continues here. Part two of the same letter may be accessed here.

I strongly urge our readers and bloggers to read each of the posts listed in this post of Sue’s, and to listen to or read the information provided to you in Ayschlay’s post “Soldiers as Voters”. Each post has valuable information in it. ~J~

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When General Petraeus goes before Congress in September to give his assessment on the situation in Iraq, it might serve him well to bring along Omar from Iraq The Model.

I will post the first and second paragraph of his most recent piece but I paid particular attention to the latter as it says in few words what I have thought so many times.

It’s almost July now, and General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will present their report about the situation in Iraq, military and political, at some point in September.
I don’t know what parameters the two men are going to list statistics for in their report but I expect it to show the results of fighting al-Qaeda and other armed groups in numbers, the progress in building the ISF in numbers, also in numbers and of course the report would include the progress, if any, that our political leaders will have made by the time.

I think what matters more than the way of presentation would be how the data in the report is going to be read and afterwards interpreted into attitudes and actions.
One thing I hope the decision-makers and the media do when they read the report is to not isolate the war in Iraq from the war on terror and al-Qaeda as a whole, and at the same time put in mind the difference between war and nation-building. The latter takes much more time than winning a military conflict but requires different tools.

This is from a man who calls Iraq his home and sees first hand the struggles but also the accomplishments on a daily basis. Do we have a politician here at home or a daily newspaper who can say the same? One who understands the culture intimately and can speak on it intelligently and not only present one side of the picture. I do not believe we do.

No we see and hear of the roadside bomb or the beheadings, never of the progress, however slow it may seem. I remember not to long ago hearing the words “civil war” being bandied about constantly. Well, here is what Omar has to say about that bit of information:

For over a year the media and many officials were spooking us with the exaggerated ghost of civil war. I wonder what they have to say now! I think their silence is more telling than anything they would’ve said.

How true that statement is. After the deluge of talk shows, radio and media print on the topic, you barely hear those words spoken now. Fear mongering is what they call that and it has been used effectively to drive this Presidents numbers down and turn the American people against this war.

I would never be so foolish as to say all is well and every day is bright in a country ravaged by terror. But we must bear in mind, it is not the average citizen of Iraq that poses the problem. They are rising up and fighting. Our forces are doing their very best to stand up an Army which can defend its homeland and daily removing another person or persons who would not think twice of killing any one of us or our children and grandchildren. How difficult it must be to fight a faceless enemy.

The entire piece is well worth a read if you really want a good sense of what is happening in some areas in Iraq. I would love to see a major publication in this country print it verbatim. It is wishful thinking of course, but perhaps the people of this country would be enlightened on a different level, not just spoon fed chosen sound bites.

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