Wish I'd Said That

One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere she goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly," Yes, I always wear it and probably always will." The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak outso loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid. "Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

This perspective on President Bush is so unusual, coming from the Canadian Media that I had to pass it along -- also the Kipling poem at the end has always been a favorite -- and is very applicable in this case. George Bush, the Man! David Warren. The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, September 11, 2005 There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. I'm tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right. But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that, when you're in real trouble, That's where the adults live. That isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, it was once again the U.S. military efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly institution. We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one feckless government after another that has cut corners until there is nothing substantial left. We don't have the ability even to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At which point, our national smugness is of no avail. From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S. equivalent to the people who run Canada -- we are still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed that a heartless, white, Republican America had abandoned its underclass. This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing and receive food stamps, prescription medicine, and government support through many other programs. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood. Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth; and sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare dependency creates exactly the sort of haplessness and social degeneration we saw on display, as the floodwaters rose. Many suffered terribly, and many died, and one's heart goes out. But already the survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and their various entitlements have been directed to new locations. The scale of private charity has also been unprecedented. There are yet no statistics, but I'll wager the most generous state in the union will prove to have been arch-Republican Texas and that, nationally; contributions in cash and kind are coming disproportionately from people who vote Republican. For the world divides into "the mouths" and "the wallets." The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so far lost touch with reality, as to raise questions about the bashers' state of mind. Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was ZERO. Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days in advance of the storm landfall. In the little time since, he has managed to co-ordinate an immense recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently presidential to respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish blame-throwing. One thinks of Kipling's poem "If", which I learned to recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives postmodern leftoids and liberals to apoplexy -- as does anything that is good, beautiful, or true: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. . . Unlike his critics, Bush is a man, in the full sense presented by these and the rest of the verses. A fallible man, like all the rest, but a man nonetheless.

ALERT: "I am pro-American... That means defending American interests as vigorously as possible and seeing yourself as an advocate for the U.S. rather than as a guardian of the world itself."

Sounds great, right? Wouldn't it sound even better if the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was the one saying it?

That's exactly what we could have... if President Bush's nominee, John Bolton, is approved by the U.S. Senate. After all, it was Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton who actually DID say those words. And now Pres. Bush has nominated him to be our U.N. Ambassador.

But guess what? Liberals in the Senate -- and their radical leftist allies like "Citizens for Global Solutions" (the new name of the "World Federalist Association," a group openly dedicated to world government and global taxes) and George Soros' front groups, the "Open Society Policy Center" and the "American Progress Action Fund" -- are doing everything they can to STOP Bolton's nomination.

Let's see: Pres. Bush nominates a decidedly pro-American patriot as our ambassador to the anti-American United Nations, and true to form, the Left falls all over itself trying to obstruct his nomination.

And what's worse... they're close to succeeding. So once again, it's up to YOU and ME -- and hundreds of thousands of patriots across America -- to stand up for what's RIGHT, and DEMAND that our Senators take a stand AGAINST the anti-American Left and support Pres. Bush's conservative nominee.

But to be heard, we have to FLOOD the offices of these Senators with messages that they can't ignore... and once again, we've got just the way to to it.

TAKE ACTION: The Senate is set to begin hearings on Bolton's nomination this coming week -- and they MUST hear from you TODAY. It is URGENT that you let them know that we NEED a man like John Bolton as our voice on the UN Security Council.

And right now, you can send a personalized Blast Fax to EVERY SINGLE U.S. SENATOR, demanding that they SUPPORT Bolton's nomination!

HELP US WIN THIS FIGHT AGAINST THE FORCES OF ANTI-AMERICANISM! If we can FLOOD the offices of all of the Senators with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes, demanding that they vote FOR Undersecretary Bolton, we CAN stop the liberals dead in their tracks. But we need YOUR help. Send your Blast Faxes to the GOP Senators or the Democrat Senators for just $19, or EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Senators AT ONCE for just $29, RIGHT NOW:

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We need to FLOOD the Senate with faxes. They MUST KNOW that you want them to stand up to George Soros and the radical left-wing globalists!

NOTE: Five ex-Secretaries of State have come out urging the Senate to confirm Bolton. Former Senator Jesse Helms once remarked that "John Bolton is the kind of man with whom I would stand at Armageddon." Shouldn't we stand with him NOW, when he needs our support -- and America needs him? Send your faxes today!

As always, you can also send a FREE message to your U.S. Senators, demanding that they support a PRO-AMERICAN as our new Ambassador to the ANTI-AMERICAN United Nations -- just go to http://www.rightmarch.com/040805.htm now. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FIGHT BACK against the forces of globalism. Thank you!

Sincerely,

William Greene, President
RightMarch.com