The Thomas Chronicles

Dec 30 2006

Whitewater rapid events

Published by Thomas at 9:57 pm under Christianity, General, The Mouth of Madness, Social Commentary, Islamofascism, Illegal Immigration

After hearing the deluge that was the news this week, I am almost overwhelmed by events. Almost. What I found most disturbing about this week is our lackadaisical mood concerning earth-shattering events. Most of the mainstream media and the blogosphere seems to be moving from inertia rather than any drive to engage in the sphere of public opinion.

The pace of events a had serious uptick this week. Allow me to recount them:

President Ford died.

Bob Woodward returns to true Watergate form, dishonoring Ford by twisting Ford’s words artfully to make him say what Woodward wanted him to say. Funny, isn’t it? Woodward, with Hilary Clinton’s help, arrives at superstar fame with the Leftists by ousting Richard Nixon from office (thus, causing the fall of Saigon, the Communist invasion of 20 or 30 odd countries around the world, US embassies burning around the world, etc, etc… All the fruits of a coup in the Presidency. Nixon was forced to resign for not disclosing what he knew and when he knew it about the Watergate break-in — the circumstances of which involved a man who tried to avoid being blackmailed by someone who had pictures of adulterous wife. Of course, when Clinton perjured himself over 30 times about actually committing adultery, he was given a pass. “What IS is?” But that’s another story.) which gave Gerald Ford the Presidency. 40-something odd years later, he uses Ford to hammer a sitting President. Perhaps he could gain the Leftists’ favor once again. Perhaps not. The bold print was done by me for emphasis.

Ford said:

“And now, I’ve never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do.”
“Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction.”

… “I don’t think I would have gone to war” … “I don’t think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly,” he said, “I don’t think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer.”

Woodward wrote:

“Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified.” [Note: Ford said he disagreed the President Bush’s emphasis for going to war, not that the war was “not justified”.]

“Ford had faced his own military crisis — not a war he started like Bush, but one he had to figure out how to end.” [Note: I’m sure Bush would have swamped into the Mideast even if 9/11 didn’t kill three thousand Americans, right?… Oh, and I think Woodward doesn’t give himself enough credit. He really helped in giving Ford that “military crisis”.]

To summarize, while President Ford disagreed with President Bush on his foreign policy, that he would not have gone to war but would have squeezed Iraq in another way, this does not mean that he is anti-war. Indeed, when it comes down to it, he said that America should go to war only when it suits our national interests rather than for the idealism to freeing people. He said, “And I just don’t think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.” Personally, I agree with him. Woodward tried to paint President Ford, the man who ordered the bombing of all of Cambodia because of the Mayaguez incident, as an anti-war spokesman. It’s not often reported that Ford bombed every government building, every military target, and every bamboo stick strung together to make a bridge across a mud gutter. Ford ordered the destruction of Cambodia’s infrastructure to demonstrate a point to the Communists and the world, that our route in Vietnam does not mean we’re retreating from the world. To say Ford is an anti-war advocate is just inane.

Colorado is an icebox.

Saddam Hussein was sentenced and executed (by hanging no less) in less than a week.

An enormous glacier breaks free from Canada. It’s a bit larger than Manhattan with an area of 66km² and could move westward when the ice around it melts for the summer. Manhattan is only a measly 61km².

Our Democratic leaders are swinging around the world to josh with our enemies. (They could be doing it at our government’s behest for all I know, but it’s disturbing nonetheless…)

It’s confirmed and nailed down that Sandy Berger, Clinton’s former National Security Advisor, stole top secret SCI documents and destroyed them. Those documents would have proven either Clinton did everything he could to halt the path of terrorists to our shores or proven him as being almost criminally negligent on this point. Who knows? It’s gone now. In any case, Sandy Berger gets a slap on the wrist and gets a “$50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and a three-year bar from accessing classified material.” Anyone who signed the Morrision Directives and is below a particular pay-grad gets 30 years in Levenworth for doing the same thing. Class has its privileges, I guess.

Bush signed into law to build a fence across the US-Mexican border, and allocated 1.2 billion dollars for this purpose. What this really means in real dollar terms remains to be seen. Is it enough to pay for all the border patrol agents, the high-tech detection devices, etc.? We know what Mexico thinks of all this. And they’re very loud about it too. (How dare you prevent me from stealing what I want?! Your jobs, your entire Southwest belong to ME!) Um… right…

Bush is ordering National Guard units active as part of his plan to win in Iraq. He plans to surge the number of troops to clench the war.

Somalia’s transitional government, backed by Ethiopia’s army, have retaken Mogadishu. Ethiopia’s troops, unconstrained by civilian casualties, virtually rolled back the Islamic tide. A showdown in southern Somalia is expected at any time.

Anyone just skimming the headlines of newspapers on their walk to work could have gathered these facts, which is not to say this is all there is to it. I would be three hours reading and still won’t perforate the surface of all that’s occurring. In this recounting, I’m leaving out the thousands of just mind-twisting random acts of violence that seem to have erupted out of nowhere. It feels like a madness is rapidly taking over the world and the people in it.

May the Lord stand between me and this spirit of madness…

Brace for impact, ya’ll. I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet.

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