Democrats will never see how stupid they have been all along to oppose drilling in ANWR and offshore which is responsible for our country sending gazillions of dollars to countries which threaten our security:

• Venezuela:

  The Guardian, Russia sends warplanes on Venezuela training mission

  Two Russian strategic bombers have landed in Venezuela as part of military manoeuvres, the Interfax news agency reported today, at a time when US-Russian relations are at their most strained since the cold war.
  ...
  The Russian agreement to send planes and ships could be seen as part of a campaign by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, who never loses an opportunity to take a jab at the US, to build up his military. Chávez has been on an arms-buying spree [with our money - Bernie] and has proposed a hemispheric South American defence council aimed at the US.

  
  


• Russia:

  Powerline, Russia Threatens Nuclear Attack On Poland

  the U.S and Poland announced that after 18 months of negotiations, they have reached on an agreement whereby the U.S. will furnish Patriot missiles to Poland and will locate a missile interceptor base in that country.

  This outraged Russia, which believes that it has the right to point missiles at its neighbors, but its neighbors have no right to defend themselves against those missiles. The Associated Press reported that Russia responded today by threatening to attack Poland:

  A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.

  
  


• Saudi Arabia:

  PBS Frontline, Madrassas

  All of these groups are rooted in a network of seminaries, or as the term is called in the local vernacular, "madrassa." My argument was that the main source of funding for these groups is Saudi Arabia. In fact, this whole phenomenon that we are confronting, which Al Qaeda is a part of, is very closely associated with Saudi Arabia's financial and religious projects for the Muslim world as a whole....

  You said that the main source of funding for these Islamic extremists--

  Or at least the institutions that train them.

  -- is whom?

  It's Saudi Arabia and its network of charities and the like. The argument I make is that there is an undercurrent of terror and fanaticism that go hand in hand in the Afghanistan-Pakistan arc, and extend all the way to Uzbekistan. And you can see reflections of it in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Indonesia, in the Philippines.

  kids with guns For instance, in one madrassa in Pakistan, I interviewed 70 Malaysian and Thai students who are being educated side by side with students who went on to the Afghan war and the like. These people return to their countries, and then we see the results in a short while.... At best, they become hot-headed preachers in mosques that encourage fighting Christians in Nigeria or in Indonesia. And in a worst case, they actually recruit or participate in terror acts.

  What you're saying is that, if we wanted to look for the causes of what's happened -- Al Qaeda and the movement worldwide -- we would have to look to the schools, to the educational system which Saudi Arabia has fostered in the Islamic world?

  ... In order to have terrorists, in order to have supporters for terrorists, in order to have people who are willing to interpret religion in violent ways, in order to have people who are willing to legitimate crashing yourself into a building and killing 5,000 innocent people, you need particular interpretations of Islam.

  Those interpretations of Islam are being propagated out of schools that receive organizational and financial funding from Saudi Arabia. In fact, I would push it further: that these schools would not have existed without Saudi funding. They would not have proliferated across Pakistan and India and Afghanistan without Saudi funding. They would not have had the kind of prowess that they have without Saudi funding, and they would not have trained as many people without Saudi funding.

  
  

Liberals have weakened the United States and strengthened our enemies to the point that they openly threaten the United States. It is no longer an if there will be a WWIII in our lifetime but when. Now as in 1914 there are unresolved territorial disputes and no shortage of enemies of world peace. We can appease the Soviet Union, the Islamic regimes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Venezuela's communist dictator -- Or we can drill in America, wean ourselves off our enemies' oil teat, and disable the leftist traitors in this country.

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Caption for photo above:Bought in Bordeaux, France, this is a hand tinted patriotic French postcard dating to World War One. Shows Soldier and his sweetheart. These cards were intended to remind the soldiers at the front of what they were fighting for.








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