Is it an Insurgency when Foreigners are fighting?

In a press release this week, the CENTCOM informed America and the Press, well Americans who go to the source of CENTCOM to get the truth, instead of the We are Losing in Iraq chant from the Hate America First Folks, and Press who had nothing better to do, that 48 "Insurgents" were tried and convicted last month by the Iraqi Courts.

Jan. 03, 2007MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ COMBINED PRESS INFORMATION CENTER
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted 48 security detainees from December 8 to 28, for various crimes including murder, kidnapping, illegal possession of special category weapons, violation of the terrorist laws, failure to renew resident identification, possessing and using a fake ID, use or attempted use of explosives, and illegal border crossing.

If you bother to read the article, and Liberals won't, because they are afraid that truth might shake up their worship of the Propaganda tree, then you notice something, I know I did.

There are a bunch of folks mentioned in the story that aren't Iraqi. They are Saudi, Sudanese, and many other Nationalities.

The trial court found a Syrian man and a Saudi Arabian man guilty of violating Article 4/1 of the Terrorist Law. The defendants were captured June 19 in a targeted raid on Al-Qaeda members. The defendants were found guarding a house containing a hostage and both admitted that they were responsible for guarding the hostage. On Dec. 26 the trial panel considered all the evidence and sentenced the men to death.

The trial court found a Sudanese man guilty of violating Article 4/1 of the Terrorist Law. Iraqi Army Soldiers apprehended the defendant July 7, during a random bus stop. The defendant is a media leader for Al-Qaeda and produced videos and flyers for the organization. The defendant confessed to being a member of Al-Qaeda multiple times to both Iraqi and Multi-National Forces. On Dec. 12 the trial panel considered all the evidence and sentenced him to death.

I wonder, are they Insurgents, if they are Foreigners? What I mean is we are told by the Liberal Elite that it's the Iraqi's who are rising up against us, and to be sure most of the convicted mentioned in the Press Release are Iraqi, but there are a goodly number of other nationalities too.

Insurgent by the way is defined as follows by dictionary.com

1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, esp. a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party.

I don't think that the Foreigners are technically Insurgents, it at least has a flavor of an internal power struggle in a nation. Terrorist is a better word to describe the people in Iraq.

a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

I wonder why the Libs aren't using a more accurate word. Simple, they are trying to frame the discussion as one of our losing, to make their fondest wish come true, American Defeat.

Think about why you haven't been informed of this information in your local paper. Wonder out loud about it to friends, because the only answer that would fit is that the News didn't think the existence of captured, and convicted terrorists in Iraq was newsworthy. However, the deaths of Americans is a big news story, in fact the only story we hear from the Nutroot pandering Media.

3000 is too many, according to the Liberals.

A milestone we have been waiting for, some with baited breath, some with dread. The Liberals already had their stories written, waiting for the moment when they could unleash the thought provoking we have lost pieces on the public.

War can make poets. The British World War I soldier Wilfred Owen had lived as a minor disciple of literary giants until he was thrust into the abattoir of Europe's cataclysmic war to discover the brutal theme of his art. "Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War," he wrote. "My subject is War, and the pity of War." The war invested meaning into his words, giving them a dark significance that still evokes heartbreak.
But can war provide similar meaning to a number? What can now be derived from reaching the grim milestone of 3,000 American dead in Iraq?

Yes, when the news of this milestone broke, he was ready, with an obscure poet reference from World War I. Just happened to be on his desk right? Look man, I was born at night, just not last night.

The Iraq war is too expensive right? With the new milestone of 3000 dead, Michael Moore hopes you will do something about it. What does he hope you will do? Jump on his demented bandwagon towed by lies and declare the war lost.

Michael, since I know you are looking for a good movie plot to work on, how about the death statistics in this nation?

1 in 248 citizens died in 2006 from abortions. How did I get that? Easy, with 298,444,215 people in America, I divided that number with the number of Abortions in the nation. I used 1.2 Million Abortions, which is probably low.

An estimated 4,380 Americans were murdered by Illegal Aliens in 2005. Far more than we have lost in Iraq since 2003 when the invasion started.

An estimated 21,900 Americans have died in Automobile accidents with Illegal Immigrants.

What is Illegal Immigration costing us? Click here for the current numbers on the immigration counter.

There are some 42,000 automobile accident fatalities this last year.

AIDS is set to become the third leading killer, and we still won't treat it like a contagious disease.

It's a shame that the Liberals don't care about those groups. All much larger, and with a much larger impact from action. It's a crying shame that the Liberals are determined to keep innocent Americans at home in real danger from the Illegal Immigrants who continue to victimize all of us every day. It's a tragic situation that AIDS continues to spread in the population, because AIDS isn't treated like the Deadly Contagious Disease it is.

I would bemoan the loss of life to Abortions, but frankly, I hope that the Liberals continue to get abortions, and don't have children. As the Liberal Population continues to decline, in another generation, perhaps two, we will have a massive majority of Conservatives, and that will mean the death of Liberalism.

It's a shame that the Liberals don't demand a Darfur type of massive action to save the Iraqi's lives, but that would be too much to expect.

UPDATE: I made an error this morning, before I went to bed, I accidentally deleted a paragraph. I am going to re-create it below because it was supposed to be there anyway.

I for one wish that no service members were killed or wounded. However the requirement to place people in harms way is one which this nation has done more than once in our history. When we place troops in harms way, we have a moral obligation to make sure we support those troops, and the mission with our fullest ability. That means we confidently announce to the enemy that we will not surrender, we will destroy them. The war isn't over until there is one of three conditions. The enemy surrenders, the enemy is eliminated. the enemy's ability to make war is eliminated. With an all volunteer military, we owe it to those who join to support them and give them the freedom necessary to be victorious.

Iraq send two captured Iranian Military Commanders home

On Christmas day, I posted a story about how two Iranian Military officers, high ranking officers, were captured in Iraq during a sweep of suspected "insurgents" (you can call them that, it's fairly accurate, however TERRORIST is more accurate don't you think?) with plans and documents on them which were meant to aid terrorists in Iraq. These two officers have been further identified, and HOT Air is where I found this story.

One of the commanders, identified by officials simply as Chizari, was the third-highest-ranking official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds Brigade, the unit most active in aiding, arming and training groups outside Iran, including Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, U.S. officials said. The other commander was described as equally significant to Iran's support of foreign militaries but not as high-ranking.
American military forces nabbed the two men in raids last week. Their capture, U.S. officials said, represents the strongest evidence yet that Tehran's Shiite theocracy is meddling in Iraq's affairs and strengthening its relationship with the government in Baghdad.
U.S. defense officials familiar with the raids said the captured Iranians had detailed weapons lists, documents pertaining to shipments of weapons into Iraq, organizational charts, telephone records and maps, among other sensitive intelligence information. Officials were particularly concerned by the fact that the Iranians had information about importing modern, specially shaped explosive charges into Iraq, weapons that have been used in roadside bombs to target U.S. military armored vehicles.

Of course, the State Department types which recognizes Diplomatic Immunity to be sacrosanct, has decided that overall this is a good thing.

Despite their frustration at the release of the Iranians, U.S. officials said a strong message has been sent to Iran that its operatives will be tracked down and that it will be held accountable for its activities in Iraq.
"Iranians have been pushing the envelope in Iraq and elsewhere, and it's a good thing they learn there are consequences," a U.S. official said, on condition of anonymity.

Yes, apparently the consequences for assisting a Terrorist Organization is two people with diplomatic immunity are sent home. I bet the State Department even recommended a time out for the bad boys.

It is called being PNG'd, or Persona Non Grata. That is Diplomatic Speak, or Diplospeak, for Go Home NOW. Usually within 24 hours. As you can guess, being told to leave someone else's house isn't exactly a big punishment. I mean, being told to go home isn't exactly an insult is it? Of course, that is the Diplomatic manner in which the game is played. Of course, the Diplomatic Status is one of those things we demand be recognized, and it's been abused since it was first put into practice. Always has been, probably always will be abused by all the nations who use it.

I'm going to point out that Hot Air is giving credit to a blog that is new to me, Uncommon Misconceptions. I have read a few of his articles, and like it so far.

Perhaps we can ask Ethiopia for help in Iraq

According to Hot Air which is quoting Bill Roggio of the Fourth Rail, Ethiopia has whipped the Taliban-esque ruling body in Somalia. The ruling body, the Islamic Courts Union, has resigned and now calls on loyal supporters to blend into the population, in an insurgency.

However Ethiopia isn't playing by the United Nations approved, NATO Standardized, US Government policy on how to fight a war to lose. It seems that they aren't giving much if any quarter to fighters. They are actually killing the enemy. Perhaps a study group from the War College can go and discuss the issue with them. It may be that Ethiopia has discovered a secret means of winning a war.

From the Hot Air article.

There should be no allowance for any cease-fire talks until the Islamists are well and truly crushed. Keep the UN and the Arab League as far from this fight as possible until it’s truly finished. The Ethiopians and the transitional Somali government forces, fighting together against the Islamists in spite of a history of war between Ethiopia and Somalia, should not make the same mistake Israel and the US have made in Lebanon and Iraq and Afghanistan. They should win the fight outright and dictate terms to the surviving Islamists. Foreign fighters should either be imprisoned and tried for their crimes or, well, imprisoned and tried for their crimes. Anything less, and the Islamists will go to ground and come back with an insurgency in a few months or a year.

Way to go Ethiopia, it's nice to see someone ignores the Liberals moaning and whining about how awful it is to win a war. I wonder how Bill Clinton feels knowing that his Administration's position was we couldn't win in Somalia, yet the Eithiopians seem to have the WILL TO WIN.

What does this mean in relation to the Iraq Surrender Report?

The famous Iraqi Study (Surrender Monkeys) Group report leaned heavily on the idea of negotiating with Terrorist Supporting States (nations) including Syria and Iran.

Iran which has been identified as the nation which is manufacturing a number of Explosive devices which have been used against United States and Allied troops. However despite this action by Iran, the Iraq Surrender Group suggested that we negotiate with the Terrorist supporting nation state. The apparent motive of this negotiation would be to reduce the effect of terrorism and attacks by Shiite groups. Groups in Iraq that are using these munitions provided by Iran to kill allies and innocent Iraqi civilians.

However this weekend, for some reason, as part of the holiday weekend news dump, which means that the information won't get the attention it deserves, it was reported that Iranian senior military personnel and two diplomats were captured during a sweep of suspected insurgents.

The Diplomats were released, but the senior military Officers were detained, as they did not have diplomatic papers.

The United States is now holding, apparently for the first time, Iranians who it suspects of planning attacks. One senior administration official said, “This is going to be a tense but clarifying moment.”
“It’s our position that the
Iraqis have to seize this opportunity to sort out with the Iranians just what kind of behavior they are going to tolerate,” the official said, declining to speak on the record because the details of the raid and investigation were not yet public. “They are going to have to confront the evidence that the Iranians are deeply involved in some of the acts of violence.”

In short, the Iraqi's need to ask Iran how long the Iranian Military Officers are going to be working in Iraq as Terrorists.

American and Iraqi officials have long accused Iran of interfering in this country’s internal affairs, but have rarely produced evidence. The administration presented last week’s arrests as a potential confirmation of the link. Mr. Johndroe said, “We suspect this event validates our claims about Iranian meddling, but we want to finish our investigation of the detained Iranians before characterizing their activities.” He added: “We will be better able to explain what this means about the larger picture after we finish our investigation.”
In the raids, the Americans also detained a number of Iraqis. Western and Iraqi officials said that following normal protocol, the two Iranian diplomats were turned over to the Iraqi government after being questioned. The Iraqis, in turn, released them to the Iranian Embassy. An Iraqi official said his government had strained to keep the affair out of the public eye to avoid scuttling the talks with Iran that were now under way.

Why of course, we wouldn't want to endanger the peace talks just because the other party at the table is not only lying but is working to overthrow the elected government of Iraq. That might mess up the implementation of the Iraq Surrender plan that has been embraced by the moronic left.

Democrats decide Darfur needs help

My Friends, you have to wonder about Liberals, and if they realize how hypocritical they are every day and night.

Democrats.com, home of some of the weirdest liberals you can imagine, are busy with two calls for action.

1) They want you to pressure Congress to impeach President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and any other administration official who is a Republican, for the war in Iraq. A war where we ended two decades of murders, rapes, and abuses on a grand scale. A war authorized by the Congress, and by numerous UN Resolutions over 10 years. Yet, that war where we ended the reign of a madman who raped, murdered, and tortured his own people is an impeachable offense to Liberals, because Haliburton might make some money doing what they do anyway.

2) The Liberals want you to demand that President Bush take action to end the Rapes, Murders, and torture in Darfur. I wish I was kidding.

From a Democrats.com email.

Dear Max,
As you may have read in the news, the violence in Darfur is spreading into the neighboring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic.
I hope you'll take a moment to sign the petition to President Bush and the UN Secretary-General.
Bob Fertik

Wow, the audacity of some people. Demand impeachment in one breath, and demand the very same action you want to impeach him for in the next.

Perhaps we should try diplomacy, perhaps we should consult with Iran, after all they are one of the first nations named by Liberals when they demand Diplomacy in Iraq aren't they?

Perhaps we can consult with Syria, another of the nations that Liberals love to claim we should consult. How do Syria and Iraq feel about the Darfur situation. Are we certain the "Great Satan" will be welcomed in Darfur? I would really hate it if Darfur was turned into a Viet-Nam like quagmire for us wouldn't you?

I think that there is really no way for us to take action in Darfur, because if we did, it would be viewed as unilateral, and may upset our notional allies the French. Perhaps if the Liberals have some information about Osama bin Laden being in Darfur, but no, even then the Diplomatic Solution is probably best.

I have assurances from a friend that Sudan isn't starving the refugees, it seems that the individuals in question are fasting for world peace.