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This lays it all out: How the Left Betrayed My Country – Iraq.
The article by a native Iraqi details how the Liberals view things in Iraq.

…Soon afterwards, I met a Dutch woman on Mutinabi Street, where booksellers lay out their wares on Friday morning. I asked her how long she’d been in Iraq and, through a translator, she answered, “Three months.”
“So you were here during the war?”
“Yes!” she said. “To see the crimes of the Americans!”
I was stunned. After a moment, I replied, “What about the crimes of the regime? It killed millions of Iraqis. Do you know that if the regime was still in power, the conversation we’re having now would result in our torture or death?”
Her face turned red and she angrily responded, “Soon will come the day that the Americans will do worse.” She then went on to accuse me of not knowing what the true facts were in Iraq—and that she could see the situation better than me!

It turns out that the Liberals are in fact giving aid and comfort to our enemies in this time of war.

It’s worth noting, as well, that the general attitude of peace activists I met was tension and anger. They were impossible to reason with. This was because, on one hand, the sometimes considerable risks they took to oppose the war made them unable to accept the fact that their cause was not as noble as they believed. Then, too, their dogmatic anti-American attitudes naturally drew them to guides, translators, drivers and Iraqi acquaintances who were themselves supporters of the regime. These Iraqis, in turn, affected the peace activists until they came to share almost the same judgments and opinions as the terrorists and defenders of Saddam.

It’s really pitiful when the “peace” activists actually support the people who kill and torture innocent people to keep themselves in power.

Here you go. In a related story, The Need For Common Ground documents the different paradigms between Liberals and Conservatives.
I must apologize for the lack of declarative words in these quotes. They aren’t in the original text, so I have to add them to make the quotes make sense.

To the right, the Constitution is a simple, ingenuous document. In general, it dictates that most government decisions should be at the state and local level.
To the left, the Constitution is a wondrous mystery, a living breathing document that produce[s]… new rights or classifications of rights anytime someone is imaginative [enough] to find them. The Constitution is written to make society more accommodating and to grant rights to those who are oppressed.
The right pictures the Constitution as a neutral arbiter, allowing us to be governed by those closest to us. The left pictures it as an overbearing advocate forcing us to recognize the rights of all citizens to do whatever they want.

Ugh. It makes my stomach turn over. “[A] living breathing document that produce[s]… new rights or classifications of rights anytime someone is imaginative [enough] to find them.“? No wonder they act the way they do.
Here’s more of the disparity between Left and Right:

According to the right, America was founded by a group of decent, God-fearing men who wanted to set up a limited government where the individual’s rights and liberties would be guaranteed. The Founding Fathers were men of faith and courage who left us a legacy in a constitution that secured our liberties.
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According to the left, America was founded by a group of amoral deists who were the hippies of their day (after all the men wore ponytails). Alternatively, they were evil slave owners which is another reason to view the Constitution as a living document. Who cares what a bunch of dead white, slaveholders [think] though?

The problem seems insurmountable. How do you talk to people who think like this? How can you reason with a paradigm like this?

This story, The Army We Need, let’s us know just what kind of shape we are in militarily.

The nation mourns the men and women in uniform who are killed or wounded in Iraq, one by one. But the public needs to be aware, and be worried, about the larger picture too. Our military and our military readiness have been strained and risk real, permanent damage.
Twenty-five years ago, America’s Army was a lot larger and had a lot less to do. Now, a substantially smaller force is struggling to cope with the demands placed on it by Iraq, where boots on the ground are in chronically short supply. For much of the past two years, the bulk of America’s frontline ground forces have been tied down in an open-ended counterinsurgency war they were not expected, or given the resources, to fight. These soldiers and marines, active-duty and Reserve, have shown courage and determination, despite shortages of armor and other equipment, involuntarily extended enlistments and accelerated rotations back into combat.

The Clintons have always laid claim to “we shrunk the size of Government,” and by looking at the raw numbers there were less Federal employees at the end of their reign than at the beginning. But when you look at the actual numbers, it turns out almost all of the shrinkage came from the military. The Clintons eviscerated troop strength. I don’t have the numbers handy, but they are there, let me promise you.
So now we are left holding the bag today. And the bag is overstuffed, leaking and ready to burst. We are losing our junior officers and NCOs because of the over deployment, short rotation times and so on.
The situation will rapidly cascade into even worse times if something isn’t done and quickly. Luckily, the Pentagon is doing just that, led by a strong leader in the White House that is committed to national security through military might.

In this day and age, where most of our Federal budget is enmeshed in transfer payments, the words of Mr. Bunce, a friend of Davy Crockett, ring true.
It was for the matter of some $20,000 for which Congress had allocated for the rebuilding of Georgetown after a fire. I’ll let Mr. Bunce bring it up from there. From “Not Yours to Give:”

” ‘It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any thing and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the suffers by contributing each one week’s pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditable; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution. So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch it’s power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you..’

“It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle.”
Very powerful words. This country was founded upon rugged individualism, where the freedom to starve was the primary motivator to get people to produce.
Today we have a government engaged with the notion that they must support every non-producer. A safety net to catch you when you fall has turned into a safety hammock from which there is no escape.
I myself am one of those caught in the web. I am on disability, and that goes to support my family, while I squeak by on what I can make part time. I can’t make any more than what I am making, because I would lose my disability. And I am not well enough to take over the care of my family, so I am stuck.
I don’t like it, but I have no choice. My family is suffering because I cannot support them.
But this is something that the Federal government should not be into. We need to return to the times of individualism and severely restrict these transfer payments. It is killing us and our economy.
Start investing in yourself and growing your own retirement plan. Get yourself some long term disability insurance so you don’t have to go on the dole like I am when something happens to you.
Don’t depend on the Government. It will ruin you if you do.