Terrorists for Tea

by Mike Evans

The mid-term election celebrations have just begun in the Middle East. Iranand Syria, terror states that "harbor, aid and fund terrorists," are hostingthe parties. These same countries are responsible for almost 100 percent ofthe improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that are used to blow up Americantroops in Iraq and for proxy terrorists entering Iraq from other countries.

Suleiman Hadad, a member of the Islamic fascist cartel, articulated the truefeelings of the terrorists worldwide, "Bush deserves a Saddam-like deathsentence." A tape released by a terrorist group on November 11, threatened:"We haven't had enough of your blood yet." The speaker, purported to be AbuHamza al-Muhajir, also claimed that he had "12,000 fighters under hiscommand who have vowed to die for God's sake." Al-Muhajir boasted that histerrorist army would not rest until the White House had been blown up andJerusalem occupied.

The anti-war Democratic Party of the '90s considered terrorism simply a"police action." They believed in a doctrine of containment, neverpre-emption. It was all about tolerance and understanding. In their minds,terrorists were simply "freedom fighters" expressing their displeasure withAmerica. Their belief in the '90s was that America was the problem; theybelieve that more today.

John Kerry's bad "joke" was, in reality, no joke. He, like other liberalLeftists, are anti-war platinum members of the Neville Chamberlain academyof appeasement. No wonder, Yasser Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winninggodfather of world terrorism was outraged when Bill Clinton handed him acheck for $30 billion and his own state, with one-half of Jerusalem as thecapital. He considered Clinton's offer simply to be "chump change." He believed the achievements of his terrorists were worth much more.

It is no wonder that all the terrorist organizations emerged from undertheir rocks the day following the mid-term elections, when the announcementwas made that Donald Rumsfeld was being replaced by Robert Gates. Gatesopposed the Iraq war, and is part of the Iraq Study Group headed by formerSecretary of State James Baker, and former Representative Lee Hamilton. Itis common knowledge that the report to be release in December includes aphased withdrawal of American troops in Iraq. Another suggestion is toinvite Syria and Iran to join the talks in order to secure their assistance.Under no circumstances would either of those two countries join the U.S.without demanding that Israel be punished in some fashion. These twoJew-hating countries would never agree to anything that would not includefurther "land-for-peace" concessions from Israel.

This is the same James Baker that said, "F--- the Jews!" The same JamesBaker that forced Israel to a Madrid Peace Conference to demand moreland-for-peace concessions from Israel, and appease Arab rage. This was ameans to reward Israel for not attacking Iraq when that nation brutalizedthe State of Israel during the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991. Israel's"reward" included the freezing of $10 billion in loan guarantees. You canbe sure, if Baker has his way, Israel will be again be coerced to pay theappeasement bill for Arab rage.

The Baker plan to partition Iraq into three states would, in essence,accelerate the Sunni and Shi'a ethnic cleansing with Saudi Arabia on theside of the Sunnis, and Iran on the side of the Shi'a.

This liberal outrage over Iraq is a theater of the absurd and a festival ofhypocrisy. Why did America go into Iraq? Why did the President call Iraqthe "central front in the war on terror?" Simply because the plan was tofight the war on terror from Iraq. So, what's the problem? Is it that Iraqdoes not have a stable democracy, and has not been liberated? When you invite terrorists worldwide to fight you in Iraq, not New York City orWashington, D.C., can you expect a stable democracy?

What in the world does stability and democracy in Iraq have to do withwinning the war on terror? Indeed, Iraq is worse, not better, since we wentthere, but that was the plan. A global swamp full of terrorist alligatorscannot be drained without expecting to be bitten. He that defines theterms, controls the debate. The best sign of victory in fighting the war inIraq, is chaos. In the simplest terms, it means that al-Qaeda and theterror networks of the world are there fighting. The U.S. is staring intothe crosshairs of two of the most diabolical terrorist states destabilizingthe Middle East, Syria and Iran, and both know it.

How do you define success or failure in Iraq in the global war on terrorism?Did anyone really believe that the weapon of choice, the intifada, inLebanon would not become an intifada in Iraq? Israel has never beenpermitted to win a war on terror despite over 20,000 attempted suicideattacks on the nation. Every time Israel attempted to fight a war, the U.S.State Department constrained the Israelis, asking Israel to feed theterrorists, not fight them.

The big mistake made by President Bush was declaring that democracy was thesilver bullet that would defeat Islamo-fascism. It is not, not in thePalestinian Territory where HAMAS is the government; not in Lebanon whereHezbollah is part of the government; and it certainly is not in Iraq whereIran's personal Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army has 32 seats inparliament, five cabinet posts, and 20,000 terrorists. They are turning Iraqinto a living hell with the aid of Iran. And, by the way, Prime MinisterNouri al-Malaki, a former Shi'ite radical won the top government post lastSpring, thanks in part to the support of al-Sadr. Al-Sadr is afundamentalist Shi'a cleric whose father, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fadiqal-Sadr, was the most powerful Shi'a cleric in Iraq in the 1990s. Hisuncle, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqar al-Sadr was the leading Shi'a radical beforehis execution by Hussein's forces in the '80s. Al-Sadr's plan is to becomethe president of Iraq under the leadership of Iran.

There is no democracy in Iraq, and there will not be one with a Shi'apopulation of 60-65 percent. The Shi'as and Sunnis in Iraq are the problem,not the solution. Their support from Gulf rich oil states is enormous dueto the fear they will be next in line. Al-Maliki is harboring, aiding andeven funding terror. A prime example is his intervention when the U.S.government attempted to arrest a notorious death squad leader, Abu Deraa, orhis demanding that America accelerate funding and training of the very sameIraqi security forces that moonlight as death squads.

Not only is al-Sadr part of the government, so is Badr, an Iraqi Shi'aterrorist that was trained in exile by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. HisBadr Brigade is a powerful terrorist armed wing for the supreme council ofthe Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI, a political organization that wasestablished and financed by the theocratic regime in Tehran. It is Iraq'slargest Shi'a political organization and holds the largest number of seatsin the parliament.

America has a war to fight, and ground zero is Iraq. The terrorists have tobe fought regardless of whether or not they are members of the Iraqigovernment . Like a marriage for better or worse, America cannot divorceitself from the war on terror, and leaving Iraq would not only be as big avictory as the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, but would create an IslamicShi'a caliphate from Tehran to the border of Israel, destabilizing theMiddle East and the world.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah al-Khamenei, called President George Bush'sdefeat in the mid-term elections a "victory for Iran." In fact, it is.The belief that America can build Iraq's security forces and mediate itssectarian division while conducting a phased withdrawal is totally absurd."Stay the course" has not run its course. It's time for President Bush totake the battle to the American people. They are willing to support a longwar in Iraq, but they will not support nation-building and a democracy inIraq. They are intelligent enough to know from their Sunday School lessonsthat Arabs have been fighting with Jews for thousands of years, and willcontinue to do so.

The radical Islamic fundamentalists are the same group that feel theydefeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan which caused the collapse of the"evil empire." America's fall in Iraq would be perceived as the same,emboldening the terrorists beyond comprehension. I ask you, since when isdemocracy the answer? The Germans elected Adolf Hitler by a landslide. Weare fighting a global war on terrorism with Iraq as the central front. Itis time to stop playing politics. A committee needs to be established tomove innocent Iraqis to other countries so that the war on terror can befought and won in Iraq.

President Bush needs to go back to the "T" word, terrorism, and stop callingterrorists "militia" and "insurgents." There are no George Washingtons, Benjamin Franklins or Thomas Jeffersons running around Iraq. War is hell;it has never been heaven.

Nancy "Alice in Wonderland" Pelosi needs to have her tea party under herdesk. You can be sure that tens of millions of Islamic fascists that wishto kill us because we are "infidels" will be more encouraged to attack theGreat Satan now, while our soft underbelly is exposed.

Iran has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, has threatened to send52,000 suicide bombers into the U.S., is responsible for the majority of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq, and we offer to have tea with them. Syria is thepipeline for terrorists into Iraq to kill Americans with impunity, and weoffer to have tea with them.

Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, must be allowed tobecome a true partner in the war against terrorism. They can do more tohelp the U.S. in the Middle East than anyone. They have proven that fordecades.

I find it strange that the very terrorists killing American troops in Iraqare parroting al Gore's political theme, "one man, one vote." They knowthat the Shi'a are the vast majority in Iraq, and a true democracy wouldguarantee a Shi'a revolution. It is disingenuous to say that instead offighting a war on terrorism in Iraq, we need to spend our time playingpolitics and appeasing Arab rage.