It's Only a Bumper Sticker War on Terror

"It is now clear that George Bush's misnamed 'War on Terror' has backfired — and is now part of the problem. The War on Terror is a slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe. It's a bumper sticker, not a plan."

--John Edwards

In addition to Edwards, three other Democrat presidential candidates said that they did not believe there was a global War on Terror -- Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.

The UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown also wants no talk of a War on Terror.

If these geniuses don't believe that we at war with an enemy, islamic fascists (AKA terrrorists), then what would they call it?

They admit that these animals are a threat; but it's a mistake to speak of being at war with them. They claim that the Bush administration is engaged sloganeering and political games.

According to Edwards and those of his ilk, there is no War on Terror. It's a myth.

Bush is the enemy.

This line of thinking is mind-boggling to me.

How in good conscience can these presidential wannabes and the UK's prime minister completely dismiss reality and the nature of our enemies?

This horrific story is from June 2006:

Children looking for handouts of candy would often approach 1st Lt. Anselm T.W. Richards and the men in his platoon. The soldiers would oblige them, then ask for information.

Sometimes, the children would tell them who made bombs and dealt in weapons. Everybody in town seemed to know the answer.

One day, Richards says, the parents of a 12-year-old boy told him their son had been beheaded by insurgents because he accepted a soccer ball as a gift from soldiers.

"We said to the parents, 'You tell us who did it and we will get them.' They said if we talk to you, they'll kill us as well,'" says Richards, a hedge fund broker from Philadelphia.

"That's the fear in which these people live. That's probably the biggest hindrance to them moving forward."

That's absolutely nauseating.

A 12-year-old boy was beheaded for accepting a soccer ball from American troops.

These ruthless savages beheaded a child.

What sort of blackened souls are capable of carrying out such horror?

Here's another story of an unspeakable horror. It comes from Michael Yon, relayed by Victor Davis Hanson:

*WARNING* Very graphic *WARNING*

On Friday, Yon reported that al Qaeda served up a son for dinner to his own family— a barbarism reminiscent of Atreus (hence the "curse" on the House of Atreus) cooking (sans feet and hands) and then serving his twin brother's sons to their unsuspecting father Thyestes. So Yon reports a revolting modern-day Thysestean feast:

The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11-years-old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man's words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, "What did he say?" Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.

I wonder how the Dems and a few Republicans can be willing to accept defeat and let these sort of atrocities go unanswered.

I just heard Michael Moore blabbing and bellowing at Wolf Blitzer, insisting that Blitzer apologize for failing the American people because he and the mainstream media failed to ask the right questions about Iraq five years ago.

What would Michael Moore say about the beheaded child and the "baked boys"?

Is he ready to apologize for wanting to bug out of Iraq and spark certain humanitarian disaster?

And what would blowhard Rosie O'Donnell say?

She claims to be the voice for abused children and for all those innocent Iraqi civilians "who are dying in unprecedented numbers because of the occupation by the U.S. forces of their nation."

What about the "baked boys"?

U.S. forces have NOTHING to do with that. O'Donnell isn't blogging about the torture of these children. Not one word.

Where's the outrage?

Where's the coverage by The New York Times and The Washington Post?

It's nonexistent.

The silence of the Left is deafening.

I suppose John Edwards might say there are two Wars on Terror.

One is nothing but a bumper sticker slogan and the other involves beheading and baking children.