Bill Foster's America Firster mailer
Foster's latest. He's gone America First.
Also, he says on the third page he quit Fermi Lab to do something about Bush's War and that doesn't square with the lengthy four page resignation letter he wrote about the resignation.
...I also realize that my voice will not be heard, since after years of insisting that unpleasant technical realities be respected in strategic planning in HEP, I find myself branded as a troublemaker with an axe to grind.No mention of Bush's War in that letter.
Now he's ready to walk from our Iraqi allies. Democrats weren't always so quick to abandon friends. Even when the majority of Americans weren't always with Democrats.
Far from it, while Lindbergh was talking America First (and even Lindbergh dropped the America First talk after we were in it, and fought like heck over FDR's objections to get in it); FDR's Harry Hopkins said this to an ally few Americans were ready to stand with at the time,
Few dramatists could match the poignant scene when Britain stood alone against the Nazi power that dominated a conquered or fawningly neutral Europe. Roosevelt sent his envoy Harry Hopkins to Churchill. At dinner Hopkins quoted from the Book of Ruth: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people and their God my God," softly adding, "Even to the end." --From Meachem Franklin and WinstonEven to the end... no more Democrats like that. The world (and history) will note that from now on.
The mailer,
2 comments:
What nonesense Bill. Our so-called "Iraqi allies" are playing us for a bunch of fools, while our brave soldiers continue to die.
Our troop escalation or "surge" has failed to achieve its primary goal: reconciliation or political compromise between the various Iraqi insurgencies.
It's no secret that most Iraqi people want us to leave. We are viewed as "occupiers." Have you noticed how many have fled to other countries? Our military action has destroyed their land.
Anon,
From Col Jill Morganthaler's weblog entry for July 4, 2004 and the ...stories like that of Iraqi Army Lt. Col. Ahmed Lutfi Ahmed Raheem - an officer in this country's newly rebuilt army.
..... Ahmed, like so many others in the Iraqi Security Forces that show up for work everyday, knows that security and protection from the individuals bent on denying Iraq its chance at freedom is paramount to his country's future.
"I want to provide security to my country," Ahmed said.
"Saddam Hussein didn't just destroy the buildings and the streets," Ahmed said. "He destroyed something inside of all Iraqis. He destroyed the truth and something inside us.
"You know what Saddam Hussein did inside us from 1979 to 2003?" asks Ahmed. "He was president of Iraq for 25 years. In this period of time what did he teach Iraq? What did Saddam teach Iraq? Fight. Take your rifle. Take your pistol and fight. Fight, fight. Fight for what? Eight years with Iran - fight for nothing. And he told us to go to Kuwait and steal. And he laughed. He taught the people how to steal. He made people forget Islam and the Al Koran.
"So now inside of all Iraqis it is just to 'fight,'" Ahmed said. "And now we're fighting between us.
"I do my best, though," Ahmed said. "I do my best to protect my country and to give my country its security."
And he does one more thing that doesn't earn medals in any army on earth: he continues to show up for work.
And in the face of suicide bombings, targetings, and abductions and beatings, in Iraq, this is just the typical story common to all the 230,000-plus Iraqi Army Soldiers and police service officers choosing to serve their country.
It's not a story of the courageous actions of Soldiers storming enemy machinegun positions. And there are no medals awarded for the simple act. But it's a typical story of valor in this country.
And a standard that courage never met.
Everyone, please keep me in your prayers
GI Jill
It would be a huge tragedy if we abandoned such people now, after so much has been gained, for short-term local political gains... a huge tragedy to abandon people the Colonel describes.
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