On Feb 15, 6:46*am, D Peter Maus wrote:
dxAce wrote:

David wrote:

BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
www.rense.com/general80/hillms.htm

And thinks/hopes she will win Texas, Texans are not stupid.
Some of them are, and if you believe just about anything that's on
Rense, you are too.

From Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama, she has NO chance at
all!
Yawn, who cares?

BDK

If you are an American, you better care, because there are people dying
in your name.

Didn't Vince Foster die in Hillary's name? Mighty suspicious.

* *Only Foster?

* *The list of names of Clinton associates who've exited the building is
ponderous.

* *But on the subject of dying in the name of America.....

* *I had a conversation with an Army pilot who's just returned after two
years in Iraq. He's amazed at the press the operation is getting. He
refers to it as an operation because he's no longer seeing enough
conflict in the region to call it a war.

* *Two stories he had to tell that made the impact of the discrepancy
between what's going on on the ground, there, and the reportage in the
press significant. While we're getting the horror in our living rooms,
he's seeing a country about the size of Texas, with pretty much peaceful
living, except for fighting in 3 regions. Imagine the three worst
counties in Texas and you have an idea the size of the conflict. Where
it's bad, it's bad. But most of the country is not seeing the insurgency.

* *Well, ok....two stories....

* *One is the story of a decision made to include the right to keep and
bear arms in the new Iraqi Constitution. Hotly debated, but only on this
side of the pond. See, al Quaeda was well known for invading people's
homes, putting a knife to the throats of young children in the home and
announcing the home had been selected to assist in the efforts of al
Quaeda. Well, that's what you get when the public is disarmed.

* *So, it was decided to include the right to keep and bear arms as a
fundamental right of citizenship.

* *Well, Military operations, US, Iraqi, and coalition forces, unearthed
a cache of weapons in a small town in one of the areas seeing a good
deal of al Quaeda activity. Mostly AK's, a few hand guns. So, they pass
them out to every able bodied citizen who wants one. And with their
brand new rifles...30 bullets to each citizen carrying one. *One rifle.
30 cartridges. The newly armed citizens return to their homes for the
evening.

* * In the morning, in the village square. *18 dead al Quaeda. Arranged
neatly for easy disposal. 18 dead al Quaeda.

* * No one "knows" what happened.

* * The town doesn't see another al Quaeda home invasion. Al Quaeda
moves on.


IMHO - We could use the same Clean-Up in many of our
Inner-City Urban Locations to help reduce Gangs and Drugs.

* * The other story is a bit more poignant. It's about religion. And
it's about religion in a nation that's seen more than it's share of
religion driven killing.

* * This is in Baghdad. Now, the government was planning to sell off the
vacant homes of Christians run off during the early days of the
conflict. Al Quaeda had been purging the city of non-Muslims. As things
settled down, following the retaking of Baghdad, some, but not all of
the Christians had returned. But the government had made the decisions
to sell off the unoccupied homes. Almost in unison, the community
petitioned the government to stop the sales. Promising that the
Christians would be returning. These are primarily Muslims. Petitioning
the government to let them care for, maintain, and ready the homes for
Christians whom they were fully convinced would return. And so far,
these Muslims have been right. Christians are returning to Baghdad.
Welcomed as the brethren they are, by their Muslim neighbors.

* * This return of Christianity has resulted in some amazing moments of
unity. One was the opening of a new Catholic Cathedral. This is in
Baghdad, now. A new Catholic Cathedral. And on the first day of worship,
the faithful could barely get near the place for all the Imams and
Mullahs, from the Muslim community, lined up halfway down the block, to
shake the hand of the Catholic Priest in his new house of worship. These
are Muslims, lining up to shake the hands of the Catholic Priest. In
Baghdad.

* * The construction of the Cathedral, itself, is something of a wonder.