Other than that addition, good stuff.

The goal of Islamic terrorists is to eradicate the western way of life. That means we convert to their way of life or die. That is something that can’t be negotiated with, it can’t be bartered with or paid off. Despite the political rhetoric out of the media and Washington never in the history of mankind has any party negotiated a successfully agreement with a tyrannical dictator. To believe otherwise would be to claim that the Jews should have negotiated a better agreement with Adolf Hitler before his final solution.

The United States walked out of Vietnam in 1975. Shortly thereafter 2 Million South Vietnamese were executed. In 1979 Iran took action against the United States by taking Americans hostage for 444 days. Iran believed the U.S. was weak at that time because WE WALKED AWAY FROM VIETNAM and they acted on that weekness years after we backed out of that war.

We as a nation made a decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003. It is our duty to finish this action not only for the safety of this nation but for the safety of the citizens of Iraq. If we walk away from Iraq now and millions of Iraqi citizens are executed as happened in Vietnam that will be blood on our hands.

I thought we were out of Vietnam around ‘72-’73, and the ARVN did OK for a couple years…until our congress dropped the 276 million aid to them…and in ‘75, the Marines only came back for rescue. Then the purges took place.

The predator always hunts the weak and wounded. We walk away and we once again become the hunted.

Keep up the fire…

I am not a highly educated person or history buff like many here who post. Nor do I have any personal military background. That is why I enjoy reading Pats site, his views, and many of the commenters/bloggers here. I learn so much.

With that said, it really is sad to think that any portion of our society does not seem to understand the true nature of the threat and serious intent of our enemies after everything they should have learned from the past. They truly will not just go away whether we leave or not.

As just an average person without the knowlege many here possess, I know and always knew that freedom isn’t free and that this is one fight we cannot walk away from. The cost in human lives is always mourned. Like you said though the price without the cost of those lives will be even higher if we were to walk away. Walking away will only serve to embolden the enemy and allow them time to gather strength. Now if we could only get the other side of this country to understand that - it sure would help. It would be a beautiful thing to see this whole country unite to win.

Somalia is remembered vividly and I wish we would have stayed and made them pay for that. At least in this conflict President Bush took a stand and stuck to it no matter how unpopular/difficult it has been and most importantly, so have the vast majority of our soldiers. God bless them all.

Thank you for your service LCPL Howell.

I think the reason there are so many people against the war is simple. Most people work their 9 to 5 jobs and then come home to spend time with their family. They turn on their local news and then the national news. What is shown every night in every newscast around the country? It’s full of sensationalized negative, depressing, and pessimistic stories about crime, death, conspiracies, and exposing people who are out to get us all.

The mainstream media’s quest to uncover the next Watergate scandal drives them to dig up the most appalling and polarizing stories out there.

Most Americans are too tired and lazy to seek out the truth on sites such as Pat’s, Michael Yon’s, etc. Generations have been raised on the evening local and national news. Yesterday’s young kids were bombarded with the crap that passes as journalism and since they grew up modeling what their parents did they now do the same things with their families.

However, since the glass is always half full in my view of the world there is hope. The fact you and everyone else is reading this post is a telling sign of the coming changes to the way things have always been done. The days of the good ole boy’s biased and detrimental media propaganda machine are numbered.

Truth goes thru three phases:

1) It’s ridiculed
2) It’s violently opposed
3) It’s accepted as self-evident

I believe people like us in this community are leading the wave of the future. We are the ones who have gotten off the negative propaganda treadmills to seek the truth. Everyday this community grows bigger and stronger. Everyday the old propaganda machine of negative and falsified reporting grows weaker. Remember all the layoff at NBC in the past year? Shrinking market share? Each one that unplugs from the old media “matrix” if you will, strengthens this community and weakens the “matrix.”

One day in the not too distant future the “matrix” will collapse and people will follow only relevant sources of truth. Since there are thousands and thousands of places to get information now instead of a handful of corrupt media organizations, people will stick with a source only as long as they trust it.

So my fellow bloggers and posters lets be grateful to people like Pat Dollard and thousands more like him who continue to stand up for what they believe in.

The light always scatters the darkness…

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3)

God bless our troops and their fast approaching victory! Thanks for what you do Pat and thanks to everyone reading Pats blog. Please tell everyone you know to come to Pat’s site. Let’s speed the demise of the old media into the dustbin of history!

Love in action

Corey Wayne

I believe you are right about why some of the general public has not been all over the leftist media.

God knows I have a very hard time of keeping up this this site alone and several others I read as well. It took me a while to find the sources of true media. I am greatful to have found them. God bless Pat Dollard and all our bloggers and posters of the real truth about our military and mission that we seek to accomplish. Hopefully those who are lagging behind in the reality of it will tune in soon.

I will continue to spread the word about Pat’s site and all who are dedicated to winning against the enemies of this country and our people.

I will remember this:

“The light always scatters the darkness… ”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3)