A Good but Scary Read on Iraq But it IS the truth

Here is an article I just received, so I will paste it for all to read and absorb:

Middle East Imperative     
by: James Cash, Brigadier General, USAF,  Retired


I wrote recently about the war in  Iraq  and the larger war against radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let  me try and put this conflict in proper perspective.

Understand; the current battle we are  engaged in is much bigger than just  Iraq . What happens in the next year will  affect this country and how our kids and grand kids live throughout their  lifetime, and beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the  seventh century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the  point of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be totally  defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world rates, that in  time they recover and attempt to dominate again.

There are eight  terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand threat to the West.  Two ,   Saudi Arabia and Pakistan just need firm pressure from the West to make major  reforms. They need to decide who they are really going to support and commit  to that support.

That answer is simple. They both will  support who they think will hang in there until the end, and  win.

We are not sending very good signals in  that direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.

The other six,   Afghanistan ,  Iraq ,  Iran ,  Syria ,  North Korea and  Libya will require regime  change or a major policy shift. Now, let's look more closely.
Afghanistan and   Iraq have both had regime changes, but are being fueled by outsiders from   Syria and  Iran . We have scared Gaddafi's pants off, and he has given up his  quest for nuclear weapons, so I don't think  Libya is now a  threat.

North Korea (the non-Islamic threat)  can be handled diplomatically by buying them off. They are starving. That  leaves  Syria and  Iran .  Syria is like a frightened puppy. Without the support  of  Iran they will join the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner,  or later, we are going to be forced to confront  Iran , and it better be before  they gain nuclear capability.

In 1989 I served as a Command Director  inside the  Cheyenne  Mountain complex located in  Colorado Springs , Colorado for  almost three years. My job there was to observe (through classified means)  every missile shot anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the   US or  Canada . If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only minutes  to advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond.

I watched  Iran and  Iraq shoot missiles  at each other every day, and all day long, for months. They killed hundreds of  thousands of their people. Know why? They were fighting for control of the   Middle East and that enormous oil supply.

At that time,  they were preoccupied with their internal problems and could care less about  toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly stable and we could not see an  immediate threat.

Well, the worst part of what we have  done as a nation in  Iraq is to do away with the military capability of one of  those nations. Now,  Iran has a clear field to dominate the Middle East, since   Iraq is no longer a threat to them.

They have turned  their attention to the only other threat to their dominance, they are  convinced they will win, because the  US is so divided, and the Democrats (who  now control Congress and may control the Presidency in 2008) have openly said  we are pulling out.

Do you have any idea what will happen  if the entire Middle East turns their support to  Iran , which they will  obviously do if we pull out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry  about. Oil WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price.. I personally  would vote for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the space  program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy  independence in a decade.

Yes, it is about oil. The economy in  this country will totally die if that  Middle East supply is cut off right now.  It will not be a recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look  like the 'good-old-days'. The bottom line here is simple. If  Iran is forced to  fall in line, the fighting in  Iraq will end over night, and the nightmare will  be over.

One way or another,  Iran must be forced  to join modern times and the global community. It may mean a real war---if so,  now is the time, before we face a nuclear  Iran with the capacity to destroy   Israel and begin a new ice age.

I urge you to  read the book 'END GAME' by two of our best  Middle East experts, true American  patriots and retired military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney . They  are our finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the   Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the book go  directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served the country  during the war on terror. You can find that book by going to the Internet  through Stand-up America at.

On the other hand, we have several very  angry retired generals today, who evidently have not achieved their lofty  goals, and insist on ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and  doing the country great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use  them as experts to back their anti-war claims.

You may be one  of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible enough to support our  going to war. If that is the case I should stop here, as that level of  thinking approaches mental disability in this day and age. It is right up  there with alien abductions and high altitude seeding through government  aircraft contrails. I helped produce those contrails for almost 30 years, and  I can assure you we were not seeding the atmosphere. The human race is a  war-like population, and if a country is not willing to protect itself, it  deserves the consequences.

'Enough - said!'

Now, my last comments will get to the  nerve. They will be on politics.


I am not a  Republican. And, George Bush has made enough mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest of my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they have made me support those farther to the right.


I am a conservative who totally  supports the Constitution of this country. The only difference between the   United States and the South American, third world, dictator infested and  ever-changing South American governments, is our  US Constitution.

This Republic (note I did not say  Democracy) is the longest standing the world has ever known, but it is  vulnerable. It would take so little to change it through economic upheaval.  There was a time when politicians could disagree, but still work together. We  are past that time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our  form of government.

I think that many view Bush-hating as  payback time. The Republicans hated the  Clinton 's and now the Democrats hate  Bush.

So, both parties are putting their hate  toward willingness to do anything for political dominance to include lying and  always taking the opposite stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW  GOOD IS THAT FOR OUR COUNTRY?

In my lifetime, after serving in  uniform for President's Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan , and  Bush I have a pretty good feel for which party supported our military, and  what military life was like under each of their terms. And, let me assure you  that times were best under the Republicans.

Service under  Jimmy Carter was devastating for all branches of the military. And, Ronald  Regan was truly a salvation.

You can choose to listen to enriched  newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha (he is no war hero), Nancy  Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold,  Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and on-and-on to include the true fools in  Hollywood if you like. If you do, your conclusions will be totally  wrong.

The reason that I write, appear on  radio talk shows, and do everything I can to denounce those people is simple.  THEY ARE PUTTING THEIR THIRST FOR POLITICAL POWER AND QUEST FOR VICTORY IN  2008 ABOVE WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. I cannot abide that.

Pelosi clearly defied the Logan Act by  going to Syria , which should have lead to imprisonment of three years and a heavy fine.

Jane Fonda did more to prolong the  Vietnam War than any other human being (as acknowledged by Ho Chi Minh in his writing before he died). She truly should have been indicted for treason,  along with her radical husband, Tom Hayden, and forced to pay the  consequences.

This country has started to soften by  not enforcing its laws, which is another indication of a Republic about to  fall.

All Democrats, along with the Hollywood  elite, are sending us headlong into a total defeat in the Middle East, which  will finally give  Iran total dominance in the region. A lack of oil in the  near future will be the final straw that dooms this Republic.

However, if we refuse to let this  happen and really get serious about an energy self-sufficiency program, this  can be avoided. I am afraid, however, that we are going in the opposite  direction.

If we elect Hillary Clinton and a  Democrat controlled congress, and they carry through with allowing Iran to  take control of the Middle East, continue to refuse development of nuclear  energy, refuse to allow drilling for new oil, and continue to do nothing but  oppose everything Bush, it will be over in terms of what we view as the good  life in the USA.

Now, do I think that all who do not  support the war are un-American--- of course not. They just do not understand  the importance of total victory in that region.

Another failure  of George Bush is his inability to explain to the American people why we are  there, and why we MUST win.

By the way, it is not a war. The war  was won four years ago. It is martial law that is under attack by Iranian and Syrian outside influences, and there is a difference.

So, what do I believe? What is the  bottom line? I will simply say that the Democratic Party has fielded the  foulest, power hungry, anti-country, self absorbed group of individuals that I have observed in my lifetime. Our educational system is partially to blame for  allowing the mass of  America to be taken in by this group. George Bush has  done the best he can with the disabilities that he possesses.

A President must communicate with the  people. And, I would tell you that Desert Storm spoiled the people. Bush  Senior's 100-hour war convinced the people that technology has progressed to  the point that wars could be fought with no casualties and won in very short  periods of time.

I remember feeling at the time, that  this was a tragedy for the  US military. To win wars, you must put boots on the ground. When you put boots on the ground, soldiers are going to die. A  President must make the war decision wisely, and insure that the cause is  right before using his last political option.

HOWEVER,  CONTROLLING  IRAN AND DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ONLY CHOICE IF WE  ARE HELL BENT ON DEPENDING ON THEM FOR OUR FUTURE ENERGY  NEEDS.

Jimmy L. Cash, Brigadier General, USAF,  Retired
Lakeside ,  Montana  59922

'I'll tell you  what war is all about; you've got to kill people, and when you've killed  enough they stop fighting.'
-- General Curtis LeMay