The Global War on Terror - Where We Stand

Kevin from Wizbang has done an excellent job recapping the history and current position we find ourselves in the WoT. Go read the whole thing, you won't be dissapointed.

Launch Point

The Real Nazis

Guest post by The Mad Scientist

All hyperbole aside, I think the Bush=Hitler stuff has blinded many to the fact that the opposite may be true. I’ve always known that we in the US are but one Depression away from our own form of fascism, but I never could quite envision how the transformation would occur. This election has made it clear as day. You have a candidate in Kerry that not only lies, but does it with such frequency and audacity as to make one think he believes himself beyond reproach. A candidate who has proven time and again that he believes himself superior to the common man. A candidate who has proven that he sees nothing special or noteworthy in being an American, that in fact being an American is to him an embarrassment.

You have a base of support for this candidate that is close enough to being a majority as to cause consternation, a base that is just as delusional as their leader, and passionate enough to believe that the ends justify the means. They denigrate their opponents as, if not sub-human, then sub-intellectual. You have a political organization built up around this candidate filled with felons, rabble rousers, and other miscreants whose only goal is the attainment of power. An organization so corrupt as to threaten post-election repercussions against those that dissent, so corrupt as to already be planning on protesting the election no matter the outcome, so corrupt as to use former presidents to disparage a sitting president in time of war.

A rebounding economy, a state of war, and relatively low casualties from Iraq are probably all that stand between us and fascism. Taken as a whole, this should be enough to chill anyone to the core.

Another Lie

Caught in yet another "exaggeration", John Kerry will have to explain why, in the second debate, he said he met with "all the members of the security council". Joel Mowbray of the Washington Times reports that at least 4 members of the council say this meeting never happened.

U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council.

"This president hasn't listened. I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable," Mr. Kerry said of the Iraqi dictator.

But of the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' U.N. missions had met with Mr. Kerry either.

The former ambassadors who said on the record they had never met Mr. Kerry included the representatives of Mexico, Colombia and Bulgaria. The ambassador of a fourth country gave a similar account on the condition that his country not be identified.

Go read the rest.