23-24 February 2007

In the last 24 hours I have read that the number of terrorist attacks in Iraq have declined by 80% in the last two weeks. And I have heard that it was the "surge" led by the U.S. that has done it. The U.S. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) has ruled that the September 2006 Act allowing the now-set up "military commissions" to do the exclusive review of all cases of "enemy combatants" captured on the battlefield while engaged in terrorist jihad against the U.S. I am pleased. Now if we can do the same to the likes of the Council for Islamic-American Relations---a fifth column load of traitors if there ever was one.

Coming back tomorrow.
Adios.

22-23 February 2007

---Consigiliari---

Hi. I am here in my home, with the rain falling softly outside. I enjoy this time of night, right after midnight, when the rain is like this. It's a very romantic time for Gail and myself, and I try to treasure moments like that.

I read today in the Financial Times of London that Iran has completed obtaining the 3,200 centrifuges necessary to start building enriched uranium, and that they will start doing so in May. Once starting to do so, the process of completing the building of a nuclear weapon will be complete within a year, that is, by the spring of 2008. And that assessment was made public in a report filed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear monitoring organ of the United Nations. This is the crowd that has been consistently underestimating the development of WMD activities by several Muslim countries, especially the old Saddam regime of Iraq, Syria, and of course Iran. As recently as last week, the IAEA estimated that the development of a weapon by Iran was 4-5 years away. Even Israel had estimated that the weapon development was not to be complete until 2009, and the USA had estimated a time span of between 2-4 years. Now we find that the likelihood of an Iranian nuclear capability is now within less than 15 months away! And that's according to the UN! One can only imagine what the real window of time actually is now. Personally, I think that it will be by the end of this year.

Strange, that such development is going on while the USA is working on establishing the beginning of an anti-missile shield on land in both the central Pacific, in Japan, and in Eastern Europe (Poland and the Czech Republic). One principle that should always be observed is that, in war, an aggressor nation does not usually strike its victims when they are doing nothing to prepare for the battle. That strike usually comes when the victim state has been preparing for war, but is just short of being prepared. The reason is in order to strike one's enemy when his military and industrial resources are nearly complete and vulnerable, so as to gain the maximum amount of destruction of the enemy's assets, and eliminate its ability to wage resistance in the future, making conquest simpler.

So, here we are, a society that has one political party doing everything it can to ensure the defeat of this country's armed forces in Iraq, the central front at present for the war between Islamism and the West, especially the USA. We are more obsessed with the cause of death of Anna Nicole Smith and the emotional breakdown of Britney Spears than we are of a moving development of the ultimate conflagration. We have people in the West and America who, with a straight face, will say that George Bush deliberately set up the 9/11 attacks upon his own country so that he will have a war with Saddam Hussein. And all this while our enemies are preparing for an assault that would eliminate Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East theater.

So, get ready, boys and girls. The party is almost over. Get ready, because you're not.

Stay tuned.

---Belisarius II---

22 February 2007

I am here, at 4 a.m., wondering what to write that hasn't been said in a far more eloquent way than I can. I'll stay with the facts. The CH-46 Apache helicopter shot down last week in Iraq, was apparently shot down by a Soviet/Russian style surface-to-air missile, and a shoulder-carried one at that. The jaws keep going into the mouth of the bear. We'll talk , and soon.

---Consigiliare Belisarius II---

21-22 February 2007

As of tonight, I am going to change my call name. I have been referring to myself by several names, most particularly the name Belisarius II. A slight change will be made. I will still have the name of ShilohHouseCA for the blog. However, I will take on the name in Latin for counselor in connection to Belisarius II, the name Consigiliari. In the alternative, I will use the name in Spanish for a local judge-mayor-magistrate, the name Alcalde del Cid, in honor of the great and legendary Spanish leader, who stood with both Christian, Jew, and civilized Muslim against the Jihadists of his time. I like the name Alcalde myself, because that was an honored title in my native Texas for jurists and statesmen, even after its independence from Mexico, and later in the annexation by the Americans. I also like the title of Consigiliari, because it is the title of the counselors to the great leaders of the Holy Roman Empire, particularly the Christian kings and popes who stood defiantly against the repeated onslaught of the Islamists that made the Crusades seem like a ladies' garden club.

So, new changes. I think it may fit my personality. Hope that I will carry those names with dignity. Salaam alayakum. Hasta a la manana. Jesu Cristo es Dominus et Deus.

---Alcalde del Cid---

20 February 2007

Well, I have been reading my usual list of articles that have to do with the war against Islamofascism. One of them, from Powerline, dealt with the case that would be made in favor of war against Iran through assassinations of the extremist mullahs, Ahmadinejad, and nuclear scientists working on the development of nuclear and other WMD weapons, all done by covert operatives sent by the Bush White House. I also read another article in the same blog, one of the very best out there, that reprints a story in the BBC that states that the Bush administration is putting together plans for an all-out air attack against Iran. Not only will Iranian nuclear facilities be targeted, but command and control, airfields, naval bases, military barracks, the entire Iranian military system, in effect. The conclusion made by the blogger, and by those who originally proposed it, bloggers Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit and Hugh Hewitt, are, I believe, really spot-on. It would be infinitely much more thorough and effective to kill those at the nerve center of the terrorist regime, the center of the whole world-wide Shiite radical effort, and assist the opposition groups who have the support of the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people to overthrow their masters. Possibly tens, if not hundreds of millions of people may be saved by such an act. But the ironic fact is that the left wing has so totally cowed the American political establishment, left and right and center, that such a measure will probably never happen. So we will be forced into a war of gargantuan proportions, and out of fear. The truth is, it is legal. And that is what the first Powerline story will explain.

Getting ever closer. Muuuuaaaahhhhh!

---The only answer for a jihad.....is a crusade!---
---Belisarius II---

18-19 February 2007

Sleeplessness and migraines. It's just too much. The week has been pretty shabby, too. I'll talk more in the morning. Adios.

12 February 2007

I could write my own piece about today, but sometimes it's just silly to do it when someone else has captured the essence of what you wanted to say, better than you ever could. Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the second of three great American Presidents whose birthdays fall this month: Ronald Reagan, which came last Tuesday the 6th (God rest his royal soul); George Washington (the 22nd); and today Mr. Lincoln. Powerline's Scott Johnson has written this introduction and reprinted the accounts of the Great Emancipator's remarks made in 1858, which made the annals of history as one of the greatest expressions of the love of liberty and the principles at the heart of our American Republic. So, herein it is repeated, with due credit:

"Today is of course the birthday of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America's indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its "ancient faith" that all men are created equal.

"In 1858 Lincoln attained national prominence in the Republican Party as the result of the contest for the Senate seat held by Stephen Douglas. It was Lincoln's losing campaign against Douglas that made him a figure of sufficient prominence that he could be the party's 1860 presidential nominee.

"At the convention of the Illinois Republican Party in June, Lincoln was the unanimous choice to run against Douglas. After making him its nominee late on the afternoon of June 16, the entire convention returned that evening to hear Lincoln speak. Accepting the convention's nomination, Lincoln gave one of the most incendiary speeches in American history.

"Lincoln electrified the convention, asserting that the institution of slavery had made the United States "a house divided against itself." Slavery would either be extirpated or become lawful nationwide, Lincoln predicted, provocatively quoting scriptural authority to the effect that "a house divided against itself cannot stand."

"On July 9 Douglas responded in a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak and invited Lincoln to sit on the balcony. In his speech Douglas rang the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and fall for Douglas's senate seat.

"Douglas paid tribute to Lincoln as a "kind, amiable, and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen and an honorable opponent," but expressed his disagreement with Lincoln's June 16 speech to the Illinois Republican convention that had named him its candidate for Douglas's seat. According to Douglas, Lincoln's assertion that the nation could not exist "half slave and half free" was inconsistent with the "diversity" in domestic institutions that was "the great safeguard of our liberties." Then as now, "diversity" was a shibboleth hiding an evil institution that could not be defended on its own terms.

"Douglas responded to Lincoln's condemnation of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision -- a condemnation that was the centerpiece of Lincoln's convention speech. "I am free to say to you," Douglas said, "that in my opinion this government of ours is founded on the white basis. It was made by the white man, for the benefit of the white man, to be administered by white men, in such manner as they should determine."

"Lincoln invited Douglas's audience to return the next evening for his reply to Douglas's speech. Lincoln's speech of July 10 concludes with an explanation of the meaning of the American creed with matchless eloquence and insight, in words that remain as relevant now as then.

We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty---or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,---with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men,---we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these [Independence Day] meetings in better humor with ourselves---we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men---descended by blood from our ancestors---among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe---German, Irish, French and Scandinavian---men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [Applause.]

Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of "don't care if slavery is voted up or voted down" [Douglas's "popular sovereignty" position on the extension of slavery to the territories], for sustaining the Dred Scott decision [A voice---"Hit him again"], for holding that the Declaration of Independence did not mean anything at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it. Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form. Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will---whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it! [Voices---"me" "no one," &c.] If it is not true let us tear it out! [cries of "no, no,"] let us stick to it then [cheers], let us stand firmly by it then. [Applause.]

Thank you, Mr. Lincoln: "Let us stick to it then, let us stand firmly by it then." "


Amen. In the light of people who have no idea what their country is supposed to stand for, let them look no further than the words of the Great Emancipator. In the Name of God, Amen.

10-11 February 2007

Hi. I am just going about my business tonight, while Gail is in the kitchen, doing what keeps this house from becoming a mess. I have been going through the menagerie of news and world events that have come across my way, using the contacts that I have read. Tonight I come from reading Hugh Hewitt, who talked about the complete mess that the Washington Post, along with the Associated Press, made of the Defense Department Inspector General's report. They kept up the lie....the treasonous lie!!!.....that it was George Bush's people who lied about intelligence in Iraq about a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Both Hugh and, especially Powerline came up with all sorts of well-documented information showing the mainstream media to be absolute liars!!! But what do you expect from traitors???!!!

Powerline even came up with an archived video from ABC News in 2000, reporting the close connection between the two entities, particularly through Saddam's former Internal Security minister and Osama himself. But of course, there will be no correction or retraction. Both the 9/11 Commission and the Lord Butler Commission in Great Britain documented the Saddam-Al Qaeda Commission, as differentiated from the issue of the 9/11 conspiracy itself. There were even conversations between the two organizations about their mutual interest in finding nuclear weapons materials, and the building of WMD, both in Iraq and Sudan, where both Osama and Saddam had interests. But then again, there is that little thing about the traitors in our midst.....they must keep the masses stupid and ignorant of the true circumstances of the war, which, by Ayman al-Zawahiri's own admission, is the central front now in the war between the IslamoFascist terrorists and the United States and her allies (those few we have---thank God for Australia and Poland).

Well, there is more. I read an incredible article, reprinted in Bridget Gabriel's website, American Congress for Truth, of an interview made in Frontpage with Dr. Bill Warner, an eminent historian. The subject was about the duality of "Political Islam", in which Islam is exposed as a study of contradiction: its approach to humanity denying the notion of equality, with "believers" treated with utmost respect while "infidels" are treated as no better than animals. The incredible fact is how the world reacts to the incredible litany of injustices by this evil religion with complete denial. Shame, humiliation (to think the Muslims assume to themselves the right to those emotions), leading the West, India, Africa, the world to pretend that nothing happened at the hands of Islam's followers. To think that 60 million Christians (that's right) died in the initial 400 years of Islam's war against the Christendom of the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and the invasions of Europe before the occurrence of the Crusades! One million European slaves during those early years...the entire world-wide African slave trade which lasted over a thousand years....all of that Islamic-originated. The Muslim conquest and destruction of India's former Indus River civilization between 700-1400--70 million dead! I can understand why so much hate toward the Muslims exist by the Hindus of India. The fact that the tradition of widows throwing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands in India originated with the shame of wives, raped by Islamic conquerors, committing suicide---incredible! And after that period, the total death toll by Muslim conquerors and tyrants through dhimmitude of non-Muslims worldwide? Another 270 million! Even communism did not equal such carnage!

What makes it worse, is that the Islamist willingness to destroy all trace of intellectual resistance and competing art and culture makes it intimidating to even give voice to all that has been done in the name of Allah. The reaction to Salman Rushdie, the Danish cartoons, Pope Benedict's quotation of the words of a 14th century Byzantine potentate of of Islam's legacy of bloodshed, not to debate it, but to simply threaten death to the heralds of historical truth.

Well, I will speak. Now I know that I was one who was willing to lift up his voice and be counted. When you read that, knowing that there is absolutely nothing ever done by Christendom to remotely compare with the actions done by Islam. But yet, it's like the notion "steal a dollar or steal a million dollars, you're both equally a thief." I never bought that idea, and the absurdity has never been more clear than in the revelations I have learned.

I am angry a lot these days, but not hateful. I hate Islam, but find myself happy to greet clearly Muslim people with "salaam alayakum" when I meet them. That means, I can hate the sin yet love the sinner. That drove some of the people in my former church crazy...they thought that it was arrogant to say that, that we should just accept wickedness, even deny that evil is even evil. What a disgraceful thing to believe in a Christian church! That is why it is my former church, and their pastor my former pastor. But I guess there will be many who will soon learn soon enough that, to paraphrase Marvin Gaye, only love does not conquer hate in this case. Love will be met with wrath, tolerance with outrage, kindness with destruction.

Only hate will destroy Islam. Hate and war. Love will come, but only after we have totally destroyed them, destroyed their cities, annihilated tens of millions of people, perhaps even more. Utterly broken them of the belief that there is a future for that religion and its vision of the world. Once that comes, and believe it or not, I am convinced that victory for the West and Christianity will occur, then we help them build a new world and a new life for them, in peace and freedom. They may not want it on the front end, but as was the case for Japan and Germany in World War II, destruction made it possible for their nations to have two of the most free, peaceful, democratic, and prosperous societies in the history of the world, and the greatest in the history of their respective countries.

It's not popular, but I will say it. The answer to Jihad is.....Crusade!

As the Crusaders would say, "God wills it!!!"

---Belisarius II---

5 February 2007--War Update

The thing that I am getting that is surely going to be ignored by the Western press is the following: First, that in the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), that was released on Friday, the news that was stated is not only wrong, but it completely ignores the real facts that were in the report. The basic principle that I am seeing as I read about the report is not the conclusion that within the next 12-18 months Iraq will completely descend into chaos, and that the U.S. can do nothing to stop it. It is how incredibly wrong, and how incredibly stupid and biased American civilian intelligence has become. They appear to be so completely given over to hating George Bush, being careerists who vote Democrat, that they are too preoccupied with leaking classified intelligence and about classified programs like the NSA phone intercepts, now defunct (congratulations, traitors!), to do any good intelligence. What I have read are two findings that, if properly followed up on, would be of incredible value to the Bush administration's argument that Iraq is indeed the centerpiece of the enemy's war of jihadist terror against the U.S. and the West. I found that in Hugh Hewitt and in Powerline, as well as in Captain's Quarters, that there is evidence, categorically rejected by the civilian intelligence cretins but held as absolutely conclusive by the Marine Corps and Army (who is doing the fighting and dying there), that Al Qaeda in Iraq have completely taken over the command apparatus of the Sunni insurgency from the Baathist party and local Sunni militias. That is a devastating development for the safety of the local populations, confirms that this is akin to a foreign invasion, and makes it imperative that Bush should pursue the troop surge and major campaigns in Baghdad and Al Anbar province with all possible speed.

Second, the fact also exists that a truly cynical alliance has now been created by Syria and Iran to engage in a pincer movement against Iraq, squeezing the Americans and their allies, and using the still-relatively open borders as a means to send men and material into the country. While time forbids continued pursuit of the ramification of this strange Machiavellian alliance of Shiite and Sunni, for all their professed hatred of each other, the possibility of ending their challenge effectively through the successful sealing of the border makes the gloominess of Iraq's future questionable indeed.

Also, it is important to note that, as quoted in Powerline, Hamas is being reported in the Jerusalem Post as very near the complete takeover of Gaza, the Palestinian region's largest city, over the Fatah Party of President Mahmoud Abbas. There is already similar intelligence that not only Al Qaeda, but Iran's Revolutionary Guards now have a prominent role in the city, working alongside Hamas. It is truly incredible that the people who now openly declare that Israel shall be destroyed by them now have the outskirts to the gates of Israel itself. And yet the Super Bowl almost completely ignores the troops, in their ceremonies, and their commercials, at a time of war. As said by Dean Barnett on Hugh Hewitt and in Powerline, it is sad, and disrespectful to say the least, that the troops have been told, by the Super Bowl, the likes of the Senators voting on the Biden-Warner resolution, and most of the American people, that they would just prefer that the war and the troops would just disappear.

This war has become like Vietnam, incredibly brave and skillful American soldiers being totally disrespected and their victories turned into defeat by an American people unworthy of their sacrifice. All I can say is that God is watching, and He has ways to make sure that the ingrates pay, and pay dearly. I will describe it in one man's name: G. Adnan Shukrijumah (do a Google search in the archives of The Patriot Post, as well as the Los Angeles Times (free subscription required). It is totally chilling).

Tick, tock, tick, tock.


---Belisarius II---

2-3 February 2007

Well, hello. I have to say that it's amazing how spending your day helping your wife (that's right!), self-repair your car and replace a dead batter in a 15-year old vehicle that has been well-worn and the support bolts deteriorated to the point they were almost stripped, turning your one-hour job into an all-day job, really helps your sense of self-esteem. In other words, while trying to thunder against the madness of so many of your fellow countrymen, blissfully unconcerned about the gathering storm of war at hand, so quick to criticize our President, our military commanders, our intelligence officers, etc., for infractions that are dwarfed by the gaffes by leaders of the past (ever hear of the battle for Pelilu Island in 1944? 10,000 American dead for an island that turned out to be of no strategic value at all.), life still does have to go on.

We are going to confront Iran. The world will go on. The end of the world, whenever that materializes, will come at a point determined by a person far greater than I can imagine. Only He is not telling, and won't until He's good and ready. No problem. I have enough trouble with sensory overload anyway. Until tomorrow, God willing.

---Belisarius II---

1-2 February 2007

Well, I am undone. I have been meditating on a whole series of events that have been occurring in Iraq and the USA, as well as in Iran. I know that there are events and situations involving all sorts of tragedies and concerns around the world, in countries that have little concern with the USA or events that directly engage our concern and interests. I have often heard what friends and acquaintances have expressed about Americans and our media, that we act as if the world revolves around us and we are woefully ignorant of the plight and conditions of people around the world. While I think that the accusation is often unfair, and our awareness of the world is probably not much different from that of people in other nations, I understand it.

But the more that an observer examines the cause-effect of the war in which America finds itself, in Iraq and Afghanistan, he begins to see that the center of the world is rapidly beginning to form at two cities central to all human experience: Babylon and its modern successor, Baghdad, and Jerusalem. The first city of men and the city of God; strange, mighty strange indeed.

So, here we are, 50 people dying today in a Shiite market place from two sick Al Qaeda Sunni suicide bombers, the Iranians continuing their nuclear buildup, the New York Times saying that the Bush administration is bullying Iran toward war for its nuclear power-weapons program, as if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is some kind of abused puppy. The U.S. Senate is debating, on the verge of joining the House of Representatives in a resolution that will tell George Bush that his increase of American troops and change of tactics will fail, and that the U.S. armed forces have only six months to successfully transfer control of all Iraq to the fledgling government; which is the signal to our enemies of how little time they need to hang on to the fight before they can begin to see victory. Al Qaeda has openly declared that Al Anbar province, in American-occupied territory, is a de facto Islamist stronghold, employing Sharia law on its people.

The battle between Hamas and Fatah over Gaza in Palestine is not a sideshow, either. It is the battle to determine who will have the pleasure of attacking Israel, along with Hezbollah in Lebanon and elsewhere. And on top of that, Al Qaeda, which is actually supported in Iran through the son of Osama bin Laden himself, in a mansion paid for by the Iranian government from which he carries out field instructions from Zawahiri to bring the battle to Iraq and other places in the world.

We are asleep, and even while bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri's field lieutenant in the Americas, G. Adnan Shukrijumah, makes his plans and preparations for the "American Hiroshima" attack on the cities of New York, Washington, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Boston, and Atlanta, probably later this year with WMD (chemical and suitcase nuclear), we go on as if nothing will change. The Democrats are interested in political conquest and the Republicans in maintaining their privileges and more congressional benefits through earmarks and contracts for their constituents. No one has any perspective, no vision.

And then we have the words of a traitor like Washington Post columnist William Arkin, who, in his column yesterday, responded to NBC stories of frustrated soldiers in Iraq, justly demanding that Americans support them and their mission, by calling them "mercenaries" and that they should just shut up and remember they perform at the pleasure of the American civilian public. He had the nerve to say that they are paid well and their families cared for and given "obscene" benefits, like the ability to contact their families by e-mail and let them know that they are still alive after watching their buddies blown to bits by IEDs. The goddamned traitor! The feckless coward and communist pig! If I was the veteran, and father of a boy laying in a bed in Walter Reed Hospital, in rehab from losing a leg in a firefight in Baquoba or Najaf, and I read that column, I'll not be able to tell you what I would do in this column. But I promise you this, I'm perfectly at peace before God imagining what I would do, and hoping someone out there will, and that such a person never gets caught.

The First Amendment is not absolute, not for traitors. I've had it, on a lot of levels.

For the people I am leaving behind, in the set of relationships I am now severing, I will declare this.

I want this war. I look forward to it. I hope that I get to be a part of America's victory over Islam, as a participant, not just an observer. It will break the power of Islam, ensuring that Christianity's spread is complete, as it was destined to be. This is one time that war in the Name of God is good, right, proper, and blessed by Jesus Christ. My sentiments are no doubt bizarre and grotesque to you, but a day of fire is coming. A day unlike any that this country, this civilization has ever seen. And on that day, you will understand why a Christian man like me, who believes in a God who loves everyone in every land, and who sent His Son to die for the sins of the whole world, even the most wretched, would say such things. May God have mercy on us, for we shall surely need it. We have greatly sinned as a nation, with the blood of unborn children and that of many other sins piling high as heaven before a holy God. It will be God's mercy indeed, that it will not be a judgment that will be totally destructive of our cities. But believe me, He will get our attention. It's just sad that so many must die before we finally heed Him and remember what He intended when He established this country.

---Belisarius II---

31 January-1 February 2007

I do believe I live in a world of flaky, weak-minded people. Jacques Chirac thinks that if Iran has the bomb, it is no problem, then says he didn't mean it. The Republicans in the U.S. Congress say that they want victory in Iraq, then say that it will be too late if it doesn't happen in 6-9 months, giving the signal to the enemy of the time they need to maintain their pressure on the Americans and the Iraqi government in order to ensure American retreat and victory. The Democrats say they want immediate withdrawal, then they don't, they want to cut funding for the troops, then they don't. John Kerry waits until he goes to Davos, Switzerland to tell the world's elites that America is a global pariah. Our military, knowing that Iran and North Korea are working at breakneck speed to perfect long-range missiles capable of hitting London along with creating the bomb before the end of the year, announces that they should have a missile defense shield that would include the Middle East, by the end of the year. Good move, guys, that tells Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il exactly how much of a window of time they have before they can strike the USA. And Hugo Chavez has been given power to rule by absolute decree for the next 18 months, enough to form a large armed force for wholesale guerrilla warfare in the Americas, from La Paz to Oaxaca.

The enemy, if I am a betting man, are busy reading history. In particular, the Tet Offensive of the Vietnamese communists in February 1968, and the timing of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Singapore-Malaya, Formosa (Taiwan), Indochina, Burma, and the islands of the western Pacific, all in December 1941. What do they have to find in those stories? Two important principles: 1) even if militarily unsuccessful, in fact, a disaster, the sight of an all-out grand uprising in Tet intimidated the American people, led by their elites, into turning and running from Vietnam; 2) the best time to attack your enemy is just before he is prepared to fight you: he is not prepared yet to fight, and you can destroy much more of his military resources if you wait until he is almost ready to fight. Don't think that Ahmadinejad and bin Laden aren't thinking those things.

And the party goes on, even down to my own life and circle of "friends" and acquaintances. It is one reason why Gail and I are now looking for a new community of Christians where we will worship; the other one is led and frequented by people who think that the mad dogs of war can be reasoned with and all will be well if we just "celebrate diversity." As Jesus said, "Think that I have come to bring peace? Nay, not peace, but a sword."

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

---Belisarius II---