The Ponderosa: Uh ... this has been the "non-existent" plan all along ...

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Uh ... this has been the "non-existent" plan all along ...

Rumsfeld Announces Iraq Troop Cutbacks

BAGHDAD -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today announced a modest reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq following successes in blocking insurgents from crossing the Syrian border as well as expanding Iraq's nascent security forces.

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Exactly why the MSM continues to proffer this story is clear: they want to make it appear that pressure from domestic enemies like former hero Murtha and current dingbat Pelosi affected Administration policy.

But this has been the plan -- for those who could be bothered to PAY ATTENTION -- all along.

The Ponderosa

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Uh ... this has been the "non-existent" plan all along ...

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