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Intelligence Failures in Lead Up to Global Warming

by Big Dog on May 1, 2007 at 08:32 Uncategorized

After 9/11 there was an outcry from the American public to retaliate and make those responsible pay. The Congress overwhelmingly voted to go to war and during the early phases there was broad, bipartisan support. When things became worse the Democrats jumped on the opportunity to blame President Bush for all that went wrong. The Mission Accomplished banner that hung behind him has been used to lampoon him for years despite the fact the President never used the words “Mission Accomplished” and he said that there would be tough times ahead. Still, even he would admit that is has been tougher than he expected. The Democrats started their cut and run mantra and, led by groups like MoveOn, began to tell Americans that George Bush lied us to war. The Democrats in Congress said that they were lied to or deceived and that the President deliberately lied us into the conflict. These claims are made despite the reality that the intelligence agencies from around the world agreed upon the assessment and despite the fact that many of the leading Democrats confirmed what the intelligence indicated long before George Bush was elected. Bill Clinton reaffirmed this after leaving office when he indicated that there was no doubt Hussein had WMD when Clinton was replaced.

So we have many experts agreeing on the pre-war intelligence and the Democrats agreeing to the assessments. We have Democrats voting to use force, more likely out of fear of being called unpatriotic than anything else. And we have those same Democrats indicating they were lied to and they would not have voted for the war had they known what they know now (how convenient). Harry Reid has indicated that the President refuses to face reality and that the war is lost and those on the left are behind him just hoping and praying that America suffers defeat because they have staked their entire future on a bad outcome. If we win or things turn out very well the Democrats will spend decades in the minority.

Fast forward to now and we have the global warming debate. It is amazing to me that the Democrats who are telling us that this is a terrific threat and it will be our undoing are doing so based upon less credible evidence than that presented to go to war. The global warming advocates rely on the unfounded slide show Al Gore presents and the claim that a huge number of scientists agree so it must be true. The disregard the fact that there are as many or more scientists who disagree or are skeptical about the whole idea and they call those who refuse to jump on board deniers. This is the same as calling those who opposed the war unpatriotic but that is OK in the eyes of the global warming crowd. The global warming debate is even more ominous than that of the reasons for going to war in that there are those who think anyone who refuses to sign on to the GW bandwagon should be fined or put in jail much ad Holocaust deniers are in Germany.

For those who believe that President Bush lied us into war and that we were misled into believing that WMDs existed (which they did) to say that global warming is a fact is incredible. The evidence for the war was much more concrete than anything global warming advocates have presented and yet the Liberals cling to global warming like Rosie to a donut and in the same breath discount Bush as a liar. We were lied into war but we are being told the absolute truth about global warming. This is a bunch of hogwash. Not one scientist has presented credible research to show GW is real. There are many scientists who espouse the theory that this is all part of a natural cycle but they are dismissed as deniers or as paid by big oil companies to say such things. The fact that many scientists who promote global warming depend on saying so to have jobs and get research money escapes these same people.

People like Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, and Rosie will tell us in one breath that President Bush lied us into war and in the very next tell us to buy expensive light bulbs and carbon offsets to prevent GW. We are reminded by Al Gore et al that we can not afford to be wrong. The evidence, they claim, is there but even if you are skeptical can you afford not to do something? Our future depends on this! What if you are wrong? The world will cease to exist because you took that chance.

The same argument was applied to the war. We had evidence, the intelligence agencies around the world said, that Hussein had WMD and that they could fall into the wrong hands. We had evidence that Hussein was developing nuclear weapons (Joe Wilson’s lies not withstanding) and that he would sell them to those who would bring them to America and use them. His own nuclear scientists have said so. But this is all lies. This is all Bush and the warmongers. The argument made about what if we are right (or if the naysayers are wrong) did not hold water with the anti-war crowd. That was just speculation hyped up to make Bush’s oil friends rich as opposed to the global warming hype making Al Gore and his carbon offset buddies rich.

Isn’t it amazing that Democrats who balk at the war and the lead up to the war as a pack of lies so blindly follow the GW caravan? Isn’t it amazing that these same people who tell us our future depends on accepting this unknown and unproven claim blatantly chastise Bush and claim he lied us into war? There is no terrorist threat, Michael Moore said, and we were supposed to believe that. Hussein was not a threat to us, the Democrats tell us, and we are supposed to believe that. But global warming we are supposed to accept as a fact and a threat with less evidence than that presented for the war.

The Democrats are all for the defeat of America and they will stop at nothing to make George Bush look bad and to win seats. They do not want us to succeed because that would mean they were wrong and they would lose power. If only we could have Democrats as passionate about protecting America and winning the war as they are about global warming.

We can debate all day whether it was smart to go into Iraq but we are there now and that bell can not be unrung. Now that we are there we must win at all costs. Defeat can not be an option and anyone who espouses defeat is not fit to serve in office and those in office who vote for defeat should be shot as traitors. I will admit that President bush made some mistakes.

Perhaps the biggest was not presenting the case for war as a global warming issue. Then he would have had the Democrats on board.

BTW, for those who claim that 9/11 was an inside job and that the fire from those planes could not have melted steel. For those like Rosie who tell us fire does not melt steel, how would you go about explaining the fact that the fire on the California bridge involving 8600 gallons of fuel heated the steel beams until they bent and faltered resulting in collapse? Jet fuel burns hotter than regular fuel and the steel beams on that bridge weakened and fell under much less weight (and probably less heat) than was involved at the WTC.

Perhaps Governor Ahhnult staged that to help President Bush out and hide the real 9/11 conspirators…

Hey Rosie, stick to what you do best, whatever that actually is.

Big Dog Salute to Gribbit for the melting steel story.

Big Dog salute to Ron Smith of WBAL for the idea for this post (the part comparing the war to GW). Ron has some differing opinions (and a slightly different take on this topic) about the war but he makes cogent arguments and does so with respect for those with whom he disagrees.

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