Here we are today, some seven years later, and the much-hyped War on Terror has become anything but.  President Ken Doll Bush is more concerned with fellating Mexico’s president than he is with maintaining national security.  Having failed to learn the lesson of Vietnam, we are making the same mistakes that cost us that war so long ago.  That lesson is as simple as it is true: you don’t win a war by being the nice guy; you win a war by making the enemy wish he never pissed you off in the first place.

There is only one kind of effective warfare, and that is Total War.  General George Patton understood this, which is why his enemies feared him.  The Islamists of today also understand this, but somehow in the years between WWII and today, America, along with the rest of the so-called civilized world, has forgotten this fundamental truth. 

As a result of President Ken Doll Bush’s lack of testicular fortitude and the Democratic Congress doing everything they can to provide moral support for a murderous ideology, we may end up facing the same disgrace we faced when we withdrew from Vietnam.

Personally, I think it’s well past time to remind the world of the latin phrase Sic Semper Evello Mortem Tyrannus – “Thus death always comes to tyrants.”

Members of the World-reknowned Religion of Peace™ took it upon themselves to prove that a tree in Indonesia doesn’t have mystical powers.

Yeah, that’ll show the tree who’s boss.

Wait. I thought Bush was Hitler? Or am I getting my Hitlers mixed up?

Pope remark offends Muslim leaders.

No surprise here. People don’t like it when you tell the unvarnished truth about them, now do they? The money shot for this puff-piece is in the very first sentence:

Pope Benedict’s comments about Islam could hurt religious harmony, government and religious leaders in the world’s most populous Muslim countries, Indonesia and Pakistan, said on Friday.

Notice it’s the Pope’s remarks which harm religious harmony with Muslims, and not the systematic slaughter of innocent civilians. Or the blowing up of busses full of school children. Or the flying of planes into buildings. Or the “honor killing” of “shamed” women. Or the routine beheading of civilian hostages. Or the merciless execution of homosexuals in Islamic countries. Ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Nope. It’s all Papa Bennie’s fault.

Let’s look at more.

A growing chorus of Muslim leaders have called on the Pope to apologize for the remarks he made in a speech in Germany on Tuesday when he used the terms “jihad” and “holy war.”

Pakistan’s National Assembly, parliament’s lower house, unanimously passed a resolution on Friday condemning the Pope’s comments.

Yes. Bob forbid that Ol’ Bennie 16 use the exact same words used by the very Muslims who are condemning him for not buying the “Religion of Peace” nonsense.

“This statement has hurt sentiments of the Muslims,” the resolution said. “This is also against the charter of the United Nations. This house demands the Pope retract his remarks in the interest of harmony among different religions of the world.”

Oh, boo-effin-hoo. The hypocrisy of this comment is positively stunning. How anyone who follows a religion that tells its followers, in absolutely no uncertain terms, that it is their Allah-given duty to butcher all non-Muslims who are unwilling to convert, and then turn around and say that the Pope is affecting the “interest of harmony among different religions of the world”, and then expect anyone to actually take them seriously is beyond my mortal ability to comprehend.

Naturally, they’re quick to mention that criticism of Islam is against the charter of the UN, unlike, say, advocating the absolute destruction of another nation and the slaughter of all that nation’s occupants.

The Vatican issued a statement to say the Pope had never meant to offend Islam.

The backpedaling begins. No wonder the Islamic world sees the West as a bunch of noodle-spined pansies.

Syamsuddin said the remarks could hurt “harmonious” relations between Muslims and Catholics and urged Muslims against reacting excessively.

“Whether the Pope apologizes or not, the Islamic community should show that Islam is a religion of compassion,” he told Reuters.

The Islamic community can start the process of showing that Islam is a “religion of compassion” by condemning Islamic terrorists instead of acting as their cheerleaders.

You can read more of this saccharin-sweet puff-piece here, as long as you have a strong stomach, and do not suffer from diabetes.

Of course, he now has a bullseye painted on his forehead. I figure it’s only a matter of time before a car bomb goes off right next to the Vatican.

Annan: Israeli raid violates cease-fire

I notice, of course, that Annan says nothing at all about Hezbullah refusing to disarm, and that Lebanon made absolutely no real effort to make the terrorist organization, which receives funding from the Lebanese, Iranian, and Syrian governments, to comply with the UN-imposed reload opportunity cease-fire.

However, among the more left-leaning crowds, the blame for all this falls squarely upon, you guessed it, George Bush, Karl Rove, and Tony Blair rather than upon the terrorists themselves. PJ-Comix at DUmmie FUnnies takes the Bush-blamers to task for their rampant conspriacy theorizing.