Grab a Cup of Joe!

This past week ten Republican dwarfs had a "debate" over who would be the best Republican Presidential candidate.

Needless to say, there was a lot of more noise than light, a lot of verbal smoke and mirrors. It was as bad as the Democratic Party debate the previous week. But this should not be surprising because the average politician in the United States is a man or woman more concerned with getting the vote than doing what is right for the nation.

But it's a pretty damn sad thing when the sitting President refuses to face the fact that the War in Iraq against Islamic terrorism is not confined only to Iraq. Mr. Bush has refused to proclaim that the nation as a whole is at war; not only the military. In other words, while the military is fighting, we, as a nation, are supposed to behave as if there were no war at all. This is tantamount with equating the "small wars" of Victorian England with the war in Iraq. The "small wars" were colonial wars and meant little to the survival of Great Britain. The War in Iraq and the war against terrorism are battles for the survival of Western Civilization.

Part of the reason for the apparently growing opposition to the war is due to the fact that Mr. Bush has not emphasized the threat that we face. This may be due to a deep seated an apparently sense of political correctness that he harbors because of his patrician background. Maybe it's because he really doesn't consider the Islamic threat as serious as he claims he does. He seems to be waging a "gentleman's war" instead of a war of survival. The enemy, on the other hand, whether they be in Bagdhad, Kabul, Birmingham or Montreal, is trying to wage, as best they can, total war. They want us, along with the Israelis, dead, dead, dead. Mr. Bush seems to want to make them friends. If he would make a study of the Byzantine area he would find that having a friend with a knife in his hand is often the same as having an enemy sleeping in one's guest room.

The only way these idiots will wake up is if we wake them up. And before we wake them up we have to wake up ourselves and quit worrying about Paris Hilton going to jail or Don Imus being fired for being Don Imus.

In other news, Sarkozy has won the election in France: Sarkozy wins French presidency - CNN.com He was the conservative candidate and claims that France will now be a friend of the United States. Let's hope so. Maybe the French have gotten tired of riots in Paris.