I Dreamed Of Iraq Being Abandoned!

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Many of you know I have been feeling the effects of a cold for the past week. They are never pleasant to contend with, and the single best cure seems to be plenty of rest, which doesn’t always come easily.
After the past weeks events, when the traiterous leftard congress critters sent a message that they were prepared to abandon the mission in Iraq, for their political advantage, and no other benefit, it was unsettling to many Americans. Many of you also know of my participation in the evacuation of Saigon, just before it fell to the communist, and the feeling of betrayal to the wonderful people of South Vietnam I, and many others, have felt for the past three decades.
So it shouldn’t be any surprise that I have strong reservations against what the Defeatocrats are attempting, based on historical events. Which brings me to a disturbing dream I had, during a feverish sleep on Sunday.
I dreamed I was standing in a sprawling neighborhood in Iraq, possibly in Baghdad, and the cut and run policies of the Defeatocrats had already been implemented. I was not a participant, just an observer, watching all that was taking place. The last of the troops had just left in their vehicles, and the Iraqi people were scrambling around, gathering up what belongings they could carry. The men weren’t present, just women and children, all screaming in fear and panic. Mothers with their children, young girls, pre and post adoldescents, in a cacophony of terror, which now included the sounds of the mufsidun, Sunni or Shiia, it didn’t matter, and the sound was that of a pack of wolves. I stood and watched, as the women ran from the street, down an embankment and attempted to flee. I watched with horror, a young Iraqi girl, perhaps twelve, attempt to join the fleeing women, when an enormous wolf pounced on her, turning his head sideways so as to wrap his giant muzzle around the young girls waist. As he did, she was screaming without sound, and the blood from her body was sprayed all over the people that ran by, as the wolf took his time devouring the girl. I only watched this for a moment, and looked around and saw wolves circling, attacking , and killing every person in sight, and when one person might appear to make it to the other embankment, another enormous wolf would appear and destroy them as well. This scene faded to black, and my horrific dream was over…thankfully.
I don’t often remember my dreams, as they mostly seem innocuous, or of a nature that I would not feel comfortable posting on my friends blog. This dream, however, was poignant, and is not the future I wish for the Iraqi people, or for any, not even the disgustingly immoral leftards in this country that refuse to see how important the fight in Iraq is, and how much the majority of Iraqis want us there, and want our help. The mufsidun are the wolf pack, and they are at their best when the weakest and most vulnerable are present, and when the hunters are gone.
Let me close with a brief email from my Kurdish bud. This is the last email I got from him, and this was 20 Jan. I would have heard if anything had happened to him, I think he is very busy, as he is a translator with the U.S. military, and is involved in the new Baghdad security plan.

Dear (n2l) Hi,
Thank you for understanding the whole picture, it is very danger if we free world people stop aiding Iraqi people in this battle, it will affect the whole world in a very near future, this battle between good and bad , there is to much hate in the heart of these fanatic against the western country all together, if they could they will destroy us all in a Minuit, I wish all American understand this,

I am not known as a clairvoyant, and I sincerely hope this was just a bad dream, induced by an elevated body temperature.

Addendum:Iraq War Attitudes.

32 Responses to “I Dreamed Of Iraq Being Abandoned!”

  1. An elevated body temperature and the “advantage” of seeing the results of abandoning an ally up close years ago?

    I hope, as well, that it was only an evil dream and not a portent of the future.

    Or perhaps you were just catching a glimpse of Hillary’s morning beauty ritual.

  2. Her Royal Thighness?
    Hmmm…don’t remember a psychotic Hippopotamus in this particular dream. Gee, thanks Swamps, for setting me up for another restless night.

  3. My bad. Now that I study the picture, those teeth look kinda like they belong to the speaker of the house….

  4. Even though you don’t post your dreams that might be considered, shall we say, NSFW, you never fail to deliver the videos. Hehhee.
    This is a great post n2l. Thanks.

  5. I really did have this dream. It has troubled me since Sunday, and only today could I put it in a perspective that allowed me to relate what I saw, and what it meant to me.
    Thanx, nuke.

  6. Let’s pray that never happens. But wow n2l, how vivid. I believe the experience of SYM, and a real love of country has a lot to do with it.

  7. It was most vivid.
    IMAX vivid.
    Love of country, most assuredly. Also the Sheepdog in me.

  8. We do need a few more Sheepdogs around. Everywhere.

  9. Fo’sho’, Robert D.

  10. Damn straight. Now get yo’ self out there and round up them sheep.

  11. Wish I could.
    I now serve in a supervisory role, for the young sheepdogs, right here from my office on the front porch.

  12. hiya n2l..thanks for sharing…your dreams seem to reveal how deeply you care for righteousness and freedom..trust me I have a cold and sore throat too..but some pple just dream about cake and ice cream…Good on u!..and Keep the faith!.. :)

  13. Hi N2L - screaming with no sound is a really chilling image - screaming is a message and no sound means (among other things) no-one will hear or care.

    As I see it America (but I am willing to be corrected by someone who knows more about these things) has been forced by it’s ill-infomed (MSM) public opinion to withdraw once too often, (and you were there to witness it). The West in general if not total, is increasingly gutless and unwilling to find anything worth persevering for.

    There are still those whose mantra is “Peace! Peace! when there is no peace.”

    Heartfelt post i’m sure, thanks.

  14. Nuke: As you participated in the end to Saigon you know better than most that when America decides it is time to be selfish; otheras are soon to suffer and die.

    We would urge people to become better aware of the issue of Iraqi refugees. Theree are plenty now and bound to be more as America cuts out at the whim of the Democrats….

    http://johnib.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/making-progress-on-iraqi-refugees/

  15. Vimto, there are those that peace means not fighting for what they deem unworthy.

    But Rabbi Aryeh Spero says that liberals are “morally inferior, given their lack of heartache over what grieves normal people – the actual torture of our soldiers, the real beheadings, the tearing of Israelis limb by limb, and the burning and dragging of American, British, and Israeli half-dead. Their silence shows their amorality; their selectivity proves their concern is not with human dignity but tarnishing their country’s image.” He calls this thinking “a psychological aberration.”

    Even if one believes we shouldn’t have gone into Iraq in the first place, that should not prevent one from understanding we are there now. To leave before the Iraqi government has had a chance to function with adequate security, would doom an untold number of people in Iraq first, then an even greater number later, when the hirabah has the state and the oil wealth of Iraq as a base of operations, instead of a poor country like Afghanistan.

  16. Angel, thanx for the comment. It was a spooky dream. I knew what it meant as it was happening, but the images were so profound and disturbing, I had to process it for a few days.
    I always keep the faith, and when I’m in it, I’m in it to win it!

  17. Did it end with the Democrats standing up and taking responsibility for the human carnage that resulted from their forced redeployment plan?

    Or it that too far-fetched a scenario for even a dream?

  18. Have the Democrats ever stood up and taken responsibility for anything either personally or collectively in recent memory? What we get are things like “Gee, sorry you misinterpreted what I said”, “I voted for it because Bush liiiiiiied to me in an eeeevil way even though I knew about the same intelligence for several years under a Democratic administration but that doesn’t count because everybody knows I don’t talk to my husband” and “We cannot possibly succeed without more troops even though we’re not authorizing any since we cut the size of the military and it is Bush’s fault that we won’t succeed” and then “What? More Troops? It’s a quagmire and I’m going to vote against it, what is Bush thinking!” and not “Sorry, I’m a real dumbass and I was wrong”.

  19. And then, of course, there’s the guy running for President who is empathizing with the poor people from his new 28,000 square foot house that he built with the money redistributed from people that actually work and people allegedly injured by such who feels that possibly the greatest short-term threat to world peace is the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities whereas the threat to world peace by Israel getting nuked apparently doesn’t cause any concern whatsoever.

  20. Well, it would be nice if the media would stick a camera in their face now and ask them “If you vote to cut funds for the war, and force the troops home, and that results in a genocide of biblical proportions on the streets of Iraq….How much responsibility for that will you personally bear”?

    Of course thats like asking the American public if they flip-flopped on support for the war. Polls show they did, but I bet you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that didn’t shift that blame away from themselves.

    Its just so disgusting the way we let internal political bickering dictate our wartime resolve and troop support levels.

    And you know SW, as much as I would like to blame the House Dems themselves for making me embarrassed to be an American this week, the fault ultimately lies with their constituents, my fellow Americans. Thats what so sad about it. I cant hate the House Dems for their acts of sedition, then turn around and feels some kind of nationalistic bond with the people in Murtha’s district. They are the ones that knowingly voted for surrender last November.

    I am really having a hard time lately separating our enemies foreign from the domestic ones. I know there are probably millions of people around the world looking for a way to destroy our cities and our way of life, but only my liberal countrymen are succeeding in that endeavor.

    Makes me wonder why we are wasting bullets overseas when they could be put to so much better use at home.

  21. RT, I just finished reading an interesting article at PJM, an interview with Michael Oren, entitled Power, Faith, and Fantasy in the Middle East.

    Here’s an excerpt:

    MJT: So tell us, Michael, why does America’s involvement in the Middle East 200 years ago matter today? What does it have to do with September 11 and Iraq?

    Oren: Well it matters, Michael, because many of the same issues that Americans are facing today in the Middle East were confronted by America’s founding fathers – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington. For example, they had to confront the issue of state-sponsored terrorism in the Middle East. They had to face a threat to the United States, and decide whether to generate military power and then project that power thousands of miles from the United States. They had to decide whether to involve the United States in an open-ended and rather expensive bloody war in the Middle East. This was, of course, the Barbary War, America’s first overseas military engagement and America’s longest overseas military engagement. It lasted from 1783 to 1815. During the course of this engagement, as my book shows, the United States was confronting a jihadist state-sponsored terrorist network that was taking Americans hostage in the Middle East. It’s very similar to what is going on today.

  22. MJT: When speaking of the Barbary War you used the word “jihad.” I don’t think you used that word in your book, though, did you?

    Oren: No, I didn’t really have to. There was the case in 1785 where Thomas Jefferson is sent to negotiate with the envoy of the Pasha of Tripoli. Jefferson says to him that America only wants peace with the Barbary states. And he says to Jefferson “No, we want war with you. We have a holy book called the Koran which says that we have to conquer and enslave all infidel states. And the United States is an infidel state. And moreover our holy book the Koran tells us that if we are killed in the course of carrying out this war that we’ll go directly to Paradise.” So I didn’t think I even had to put the label jihadist on there. I figured that remarkable report of Jefferson’s at the Continental Congress would suffice to alert contemporary readers what Jefferson was dealing with in the Middle East.

    Nope, nothin’ new here.

  23. Well you know, we won the Barbary Wars by naval bombarding the heck out of their coastal cities without any remorse for the innocents that may have been harmed. When they took Americans hostage WE took more Muslim hostages and used them as bargaining chips for the release of ours.

    Jefferson would have had Murtha arrested and shot.

    But you know effective tactics like that are NEVER going to be an option in Iraq. If / and yes when, this Surge fails to achieve its goals carpet bombing Ramadi and Sadr City will never even be on the table….and thats a bi-Partisan shortcoming. Both sides of the aisle would rather bear the disgrace of losing than break out a can of total war against these ignorant #^%#&s.

  24. Sadly I am afraid that is what will happen. Iraq will be abandoned. It is a dirty shame too!

  25. I don’t think so. America was paying bribes to the tune of 20% of GNP to keep their ships/citizens from being seized, and the Muslims still wanted more. Europe was actually having towns raided and citizens enslaved. Does anybody think that the results will be any different and the world will magically be at peace if America withdraws? (Okay, people aside from John Kerry, that is.)

  26. Well, perhaps everybody should watch Little Red Riding Hood for a moral lesson. Or something.

  27. delivering America’s energy security at the NAM blog is interesting. Some points:

    Among other advances, technology has allowed for more exploration from a smaller footprint — a point most relevant in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (You’ll recall that ANWR is the size of South Carolina and the drilling footprint would be one-fifth the size of Dulles airport.) In 1970, a 20-acre site was required to hit a subsurface area of less than one square mile. Today, by comparison, some 80 square miles can be accessed below the surface from 2-acre drilling footprint.

    Technology also now allows “4D” seismic imaging, with not only length, width and depth but also time able to be projected and tracked.

    Today’s crude oil reserves in the US alone total 112 billion barrels — enough to power 60 million cars for 60 years and heat more than 25 million homes for the same period. Almost all of these reserves have been placed off limits by the US Government.

    US natural gas reserves amount to 656 trillion cubic feet. This would heat 60 million homes for 60 years as well. Almost all of these reserves as well have been placed off limits by the US Government

    As for the myth of “Big Oil,” the total amount of world reserves owned by state-owned companies is 80%. Only 6% is owned by “investor-owned” (i.e., capitalist “for profit” ;) companies.

  28. Hey RT.
    Dhimmicrats accepting responsibility for the carnage after their cut and run policy?
    Dang, it was a very bad dream, not an acid-trip or psychotic episode.

  29. I think they have thought the process through enough to take a political gamble on the surge not achieving its goals, and are prepared to move those goalposts back if it looks like it might be semi-successful, while at the same time throwing a bone to their moonbat base.

    And I dont think Bush is going to abandon the Iraq people to unrestricted sectarian warfare on his watch.

    But eventually the Dems are going to get their wish….we are not going to remain in Iraq very long into the next administration, regardless who wins. Even the Republican candidates consider Iraq “Bush’s War”.

    And lets face it…..there is zero possibility of the Iraqis ever peacefully co-existing in our lifetimes. Time is on our enemy’s side in both Afghanistan and Iraq. They have seen all this before. They know we will withdraw sooner or later and nature will equalize itself again.

    But I dont think the Dems are looking beyond the 2008 election. When we withdraw, and CNN beams back pictures of the carnage of the equalization process…..how are they going to point the finger at anyone with a straight face? Of course being pathological liars they will. And once again their idiot constituents will lap it up.

    But what are they going to do when another major attack on our soil happens on their watch after we withdraw in disgrace?

    Blame it on Bush and not reciprocate?

    Do they think no one will remember their acts of sedition?

    Sanity will come rushing back, if only temporary.

  30. “And lets face it…..there is zero possibility of the Iraqis ever peacefully co-existing in our lifetimes. Time is on our enemy’s side in both Afghanistan and Iraq. They have seen all this before. They know we will withdraw sooner or later and nature will equalize itself again.”

    The whole middle east has never “peacefully co-existed” and we will never be out of there. Germany? Korea? We still stay there, why not Iraq? Oh yeah, the politics. If the politicians would grow some Balls and support Iraq, there’s a very good chance of peace in the region.

  31. The threat a peaceful, secular representative republic poses to all it’s neighbors, is one reason Iraq will continue to be picked on. The monarchies like SA, Jordan, Syria, danged if they want that as a model living next door. The mullahocracy next door d$$ned sure doesn’t want that. If the Iraqi government, given majority support by it’s people, were able to defend it’s borders, and provide internal security, open conflict might be the next step. With Iran and Syria allied on each side, and SA concerned with, and struggling for a buffer with Iranian hegemony, starting to flex it’s muscles to the south, nearly anything is possible. If ever the ME is to be a stable and responsible region for the world community, it has to start some where. There has to be a starting point, and Iraq and Afghanistan are as good a candidate as any. The longer the ME stays stuck in the past, the longer it will be a detriment to the future.
    As for anyone, especially the left and their propagandists in the LameStream media, you know the answer to who they will blame. They will forever blame W, for now and for all time. If the asteroid strikes the Earth in fifty years…yep, Bush’s fault for not doing anything about it. If Chavez gets chopped to death with a machete wielding peasant…yep, Bush’s fault. If the EU implodes, and war breaks out between Lithuania and Estonia, yep, you know who to blame.
    Now, if anything positive happens in any area of human or global import, it will be one of their beloved leftards that gets the credit.

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