Since we can not get a news report in the United States that has not been bent to fit the agenda of the main stream media, we have to find out what is going on in the world from international sources. Perhaps, if stories like this get through the American media filters, the “cut and run” crowd will take the latest news from London seriously. According to The SUN, Iranian troops have crossed the border in to Iraq and may be responsible or the deaths of British soldiers.

IRANIAN forces are being choppered over the Iraqi border to bomb Our Boys, intelligence chiefs say.

Military experts claim this worrying move means we are at WAR with Iran in all but name. The Sun

The questions now are what response we will see from the British and whether or not the United States will view this as Iran openly entering into the Iraq war. If this is viewed as an act of war then it falls to the American Congress to decide if they will continue to try and neuter the military or finally allow them to take the gloves off and fight this as the war that it is.

We always hear that we have the strongest and best military in the world today. This does not do anyone much good if they are handcuffed and muzzled while the enemy operates unfettered. It is impossible to fight a politically correct war or to try to create the image of not stooping to their level. Iran has now entered the war, the time to start taking this seriously has long since passed. Allow the military to do what they do best; hit them hard and fast, kill as many as they can as quickly as they can, and win this war already!

How long are we, as an ally of Israel, going to tolerate the anti-Semitic ravings of the President of Iran? Let me qualify this by stating that I am not Jewish, I simply believe that if we are to be considered Israel’s ally then the time is long past due for us to step up and stand by their side. If not, what kind of an ally are we and who will stand by us in the future if we let Israel hang out on a limb?

What am I talking about? Iranian President Ahmadinejad has once again spoke of the destruction of Israel:

"With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a speech. . .

. . . "If you make a mistake and create another war against the oppressed Lebanese nation, this time the angry ocean of the nations of the region will remove your rotten ... roots from the region," the president said in another speech on Sunday night. Story

I suppose that with a congress that is trying to cut an run as soon as possible from the war in Iraq’ it is too much to hope that we will step up to the aid of our Israeli allies. Never mind the fact that it is in everyone in the free, non-Islamic world’s best interest to take this lunatic out as soon as possible, it is much more important for American politicians to keep their collective political backsides covered and run from the greatest evil since Hitler.

The political correctness and touchy feely approach to dealing with evil is not working. People like the Iranian president do not respond to meaningless UN sanctions. They know there are plenty of nations in the world who will buy their oil, they don’t need to listen to the UN and they won’t. He openly thumbs his nose to the “community of nations” and goes on about fulfilling his goal of wiping out Israel and becoming a nuclear power. As American politicians position themselves for the 2008 election I have a suggestion for both parties; FIND A CANDIDATE WITH A BACK BONE!

If you listen to callers on talk radio shows across the nation, you have a good feel for the negative response of the conservative base to being force fed this immigration amnesty bill. Many Americans feel that GOP members in Washington, from the President down to the lowliest freshman, have lost touch with their constituents and do not care about their opinion. There is one way to get their attention, however, and that is and always has been money.

I have personally told RNC fundraisers why my check book is closed, sent back their mail solicitations with notes on why my check book is closed, and have sent emails directly to the chairman telling him why my check book is closed. Apparently many other registered Republicans have taken similar action and it is being noticed:

Several of the solicitors fired at the May 24 meeting reported declining contributions and a donor backlash against the immigration proposals now being pushed by Mr. Bush and Senate Republicans.

"Every donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue," said a fired phone bank employee who said the severance pay the RNC agreed to pay him was contingent on his not criticizing the national committee. Story

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I was a very strong Bush supporter for many years. I have been a contributing member of the RNC, RSC, and RCC but have not sent a dime this year. I truly believe that there is a disconnect between the GOP and its conservative base. From issues ranging from immigration and runaway spending to global warming, they act as if their base will take what ever they do and support them like lemmings walking off a cliff. I suppose that this is due to the assumption that the base hates the Democrats so much that they will not turn their back on the Grand Old Party. Did they not learn anything from the mid-term elections?

As if he has decided to run the full gambit and add insult to injury, President Bush has now done a 180 on Global warming. After years of standing firm on this issue he has, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, flip – flopped on the issue.

George W. Bush on Thursday unveiled a striking about-face on global warming, calling on the world’s leading economies to join the US in agreeing a global target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before the end of his term in office.

The US president was speaking just ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change was expected to be high on the agenda of European governments. He explained that his apparent conversion – which follows almost seven years of having rejected precisely the road he outlined – was prompted by new scientific findings. Story

The President claims that there is new scientific evidence supporting this tree hugging boondoggle. The mainstream media hype has done a masterful job of only talking to scientists who support his theory. The scientists who don’t support it face the possibility of losing their funding if they don’t toe the line on this issue. Never mind the fact that the earth has gone through 7 ice ages and warmed up each time without industrialized man’s help. Never mind that as recently as the 1970s the conventional wisdom was that we were headed for the next ice age. All in all, this is a money making issue and they will play it out at our expense until there is no more money to be made.

Anyone who has been to Mexico, Central America, or Asia has seen first hand that the pollution there is what is out of control. If someone truly believes that man is “destroying” the planet then they should put the pressure on developing nations and leave one of the cleanest countries in the world alone. Further impacting the taxpayers of the United States and putting more restrictions on the people of this Nation is not going to have any impact on the world. We are already light years ahead of the third world in terms of reducing pollution.

Imagine how imposing further fuel regulations will impact an already strained refining system. We already are producing somewhere in the neighborhood of 50+ blends of gasoline to comply with individual state regulations on emissions. The knee jerk reactions to the President’s 180 will probably put further strain on an already maxed out system. Even if the United States were running at zero emissions, it would not impact the drivers in Mexico City, Bangkok, or Beijing. There must be money in it to make the President make such a radical about face on his position and further alienate his conservative base. Let your check books speak out on this issue as well.