Hagee speaks

No, not the pastor, but General Michael Hagee, the soon-to-be former Commandant of the Marine Corp who's approaching the end of his term. CBS News spoke with him and is running an interview on their website. In typical MSM fashion they've cherry-picked a comment about the post-invasion phase to paint him as an anti-war convert about to join Mama Sheehan.

I challenge anyone to listen to the ENTIRE interview and come up with the same headline they did, which says, "Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq". If you thought the big Democrat victory might slow down the MSM's Bush-hate train, think again.

The Hagee story segues nicely into the redeployment issue. Seems we've reached a strange turning point where Bush will be forced to make a key decision that might affect the world's future in unknown and possibly drastic ways. Based on what's being discussed, I dare say if a Martian landed on Earth and inquired as to our strategy the answers might be perplexing.

You'd have to explain why the Democrats, most of whom voted for the use-of-force resolution in 2002 (some with gusto) are now publicly advocating outright defeat. Mr. Martian might scratch his oversized head and ask about the fate of the remaining terrorists still there. No answer would come forth. "What about the other Coalition forces still there?" Crickets.

Perhaps he'd also ask about the UN resolutions still in effect that call for a Coalition force to remain until Iraqi forces can stand up, since logic says a weak army can't repel an invasion. Suppressing laughter, you'd have to inform him that Iraq and busted UN resolutions are like sunrise and sunset--one always follows the other.

Finally you'd have to explain that all the details above are merely trivial loose ends to the Democrats, who believe the real issue of our time is stopping a megalomaniac neo-fascist who sees a terrorist behind every rock and won't engage in happy talk with his enemies. At that point he'd pop back in his craft and zip off.

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This has nothing to do with Iraq, but I mentioned Pastor John Hagee at the outset. While not a regular viewer I landed on his program one day while channel surfing and he was preaching about the end of the world, which the Bible says will come by fire (I'd take that bet if I was a betting man, but it's kinda hard to collect). Anyhow, Hagee was using color props, and while pointing to a picture of the world completely engulfed in fire he said, "for all you tree huggers, THERE'S your global warming". Hillarious, but it sort of made sense in a "we really don't really control the planet or the universe" sort of way.

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