Crushing a Flower of the Cedar Revolution
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“The assassination of Lebanese Christian politician Pierre Gemayel this Tuesday has revealed that the Tehran-Damascus axis remains busy with terror activities across the Fertile Crescent.”

U.N.: October bloodiest month yet for Iraqi civilians
“BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The United Nations said Wednesday that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll since the March 2003 U.S. invasion and another sign of the severity of Iraq’s sectarian bloodbath.”
This was an interesting number by the UN, because even if you use this number to calculate an average of dead Iraqis for the duration of the war…..and the UN itself says it is the “highest” number of civilians killed, forty three months since the war started multiplied by 3,709 murdered is way below the numbers mentioned in a highly touted report by John Hopkins university claiming 655,000 dead.
Multiply that high number 3,709 by 43 and you come up with 159,487 people who have been killed during the war. Since the various people involved in these numbers are suspect to me as having an anti US agenda, I’ll leave it to God to tally those who have died while Freedom is being established in that blighted nation.
I wonder if anyone counted up the civilian war dead from the American Revolution?
Sure, it is easy to say that Freedom’s Fight is never worth the loss, but that will have to be decided by the people of Iraq, wether the fight was worth it or not. I’m glad for my ancestors who fought and died during the American Revolution, because now ten generations later, I am still enjoying the fruits of that fight. My guess is that the descendents of the people of Iraq today will hail this generation of freedom fighters as a courageous memory of what it takes to free a nation from tyranny.
They will build monuments and political buildings and great highways and roads in memory of those who are fighting and have lost their lives.
And if you need a sobering reminder of the threat….Hugh Hewitt….

“What we see at the extreme end of the spectrum are resilient networks, some directed from Al-Qaida in Pakistan, some more loosely inspired by it, planning attacks including mass casualty suicide attacks in the UK. Today we see the use of home-made improvised explosive devices; tomorrow’s threat may include the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology. More and more people are moving from passive sympathy towards active terrorism through being radicalised or indoctrinated by friends, families, in organised training events here and overseas, by images on television, through chat rooms and websites on the Internet.”

And for those of you conservatives who are still feeling the sting after the recent election….here is Peggy Noonans take on the most recent spasm of freedoms fight in America….
“In a way they never tell the truth until the concession speech. That’s when nothing they say can hurt them anymore. They’re worn to the bone and they’ve been in a struggle and it’s over, and suddenly some basic, rock-solid, dumb knowledge of what they’ve been involved in–a great nation’s life–comes loose and declares itself.
Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee, who lost his Senate race, said he’d wanted to be in government since he was 4 years old, that people had taken a risk on him, that he was grateful. “I love my country,” he said. “Don’t lose faith in this great thing called America.””
I have not lost the faith, and as a confirmed Neo-Con, I would just like to see these blessings of liberty spread confidently and courageously all over the world.
Jenny Hatch