Iran held elections last week. The election was supposed to be close between the mad Mullah’s man and the challenger. After the election was held, the results were announced. The mad Mullah’s said that their mad had received 66.7% of the vote. The people that voted knew that result was wrong, so rioting started. The mad Mullah’s cracked down with violence. The situation is volatile. It could go either way. The Mullah’s will most likely prevail because they have the army. But if the rioters convince the army that they are right, the Mullah’s could be in trouble.

An interesting development has taken place in the last 24 hours; the mad Mullah’s have announced that they will review the results of the election. That is the first time that they have reversed themselves since taking power in 1979. That is a big development. Their air of infallibility has been snapped. That could be a sign of better things to come. Or it could just be a minor blip on the radar.

Iran is important because they have enormous amounts of oil. Nobody is getting their oil because of the embargo that was put on after the Mullah’s took over in 1979. The Mullah’s are also seeking to get nuclear power. They say it is so they can have nuclear power plants. Since they have more oil than almost anywhere else in the world, which would be a rather thin argument. Their real goal is undoubtedly to produce nuclear weapons. They are probably close to doing just that.

Iran has pledged to wipe Israel off of the map, if they get a chance. Since they do not border Israel their opportunity is rather limited. They cannot wage a land war as they would have to travel across other countries. That would be detected by those countries and/or Israel and stopped. An air war would be impractical as their air force is far below Israel’s in capability. Their only chance to wipe Israel off of the map would be to drop a nuclear bomb on Israel. They have the missiles to deliver the bomb. All they need is the bomb to deliver and they can make good on their promise. That is why Iran is important to the world. Bombing Israel would start a world war that could have a devastating impact.

Our illustrious President is busy pretending that nothing is happening in the Middle East. He goes to Cairo and talks to moderate Muslims. Moderate Muslims might exist in large numbers, but they are ineffective as a group. They are easily intimidated and ruled by small numbers of Islamo-Fascists. That means that even though there may be large numbers of moderate Muslims, they effectively are radical Muslims when taken as groups in their countries. There are no Muslim Democracies, except for Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq and Afghanistan are Democracies only because we imposed democratic rule. The other countries are despotic at best.

The people rioting in Iran need the support of America. Barack Obama needs to speak out in their support. So far, he has remained silent. The entire administration has said nothing about Iran. It would seem that Iran does not exist as far as our administration is concerned. I am not sure that even with our support the rioters could pull off the overthrow of the Mullah’s, but we have to try. If we can get Iran in the hands of someone who actually cares if he lives or dies would be a real plus. Right now, the Mullah’s do not care whether the world ends or not. That makes them truly scary. Hitler and Stalin were scary people, but they both did not want to die. These Mullah’s do not care and that makes them truly scary.

America needs to support those who seek to achieve the goal of independence from tyranny. Unfortunately, our country is sprinting down the path toward tyranny faster than I ever thought possible. Pretty soon, we may be the ones rioting and hoping that some other country sees our plight. Let’s not lose sight of the goal of independence from tyranny. That is what our Founders did and that is what we should also do. I support that goal from the bottom of my heart and with every fiber of my being. I support freedom wherever I find it.

Barack Obama is in the Middle East on his latest apology tour. This will be a huge disaster for the United States. Muslim fanatics respect only one thing and that is strength. If you apologize, that is a sign of weakness. That makes this tour a sign of weakness from the United States. The leaders of the Muslim fanatic groups have been telling their followers that the Americans are paper tigers. We will fight hard for a time, and then give up. We have been fighting for a time. Now we are appearing to give up with this latest Obama apology tour.

Since taking office, Barack Obama has gone to South America and Europe to apologize for past American behavior. He has also apologized for any American wrongs that the South Americans and Europeans may have thought happened. If he pulls that stunt with the Muslims, we are likely to get our head handed to us on a plate.

My ancestors, including my father, fought for this country to keep it free. Barack Obama in five months has apologized for the actions of my ancestors in trying to keep us free. I take exception to that. I believe that the actions of my ancestors were honorable. They fought in every war up to and including World War II. I would have fought in Vietnam, except I flunked the physical.

Muslims believe that we are at war with Islam. What Barack Obama should say to the Muslims is that we have taken five separate occasions where we sent in our military to bail out Muslims from oppressive regimes, thereby freeing millions of Muslims from oppression and murder. He should also say that even though the Muslim population is low in the United States, there have been few reports of any harassment of Muslims. They should look at themselves and say what would happen to Christians if Christians killed 3,000 Muslims. Then they should look at what America has done. That will tell them the truth. Unfortunately, fanatical Muslims are not looking for the truth; they are looking for Muslim domination of the world.

This apology tour will do nothing to heal differences between us and Muslims. It will do wonders to the ranks of fanatical Muslims. They can claim, with some validity, that they are winning. Even though the casualty lists show that more terrorists are killed than Americans, they will make that claim. The same was true in Vietnam. We killed more Viet Cong and North Vietnamese than they did of our troops and the South Vietnamese, yet we lost because we lost the will to fight. That appears to be happening now with Barack Obama in the White House.

Israel is being told to commit suicide or not get American help. Israel can see the writing on the wall. They know that at this time, they are completely on their own. If they want Iran stopped, they have to do the stopping. America will do nothing as long as Barack Obama is in the White House. With Barack Obama and the advisors he has that hate all Israel stands for; Israel has no support within the administration. Israel has enormous support in the country, but none in the administration. That means Obama has to appear to support Israel while not supporting Israel. That is a tricky road to walk on.

I look for many bad things to happen because of this tour to the Middle East. They will happen slowly so that nobody will really notice that they happen. We are being left open to attack. Israel is being left open to attack. Soon, there will be an attack upon Israel or America that will kill a lot of people. That might get the attention of the Obama administration, or not. Barack Obama is more concerned with destroying capitalism and delivering universal government health care to be worried about such things as terrorist attacks.

The House and Senate have approved the Obama Youth Corps. Of course, it is not called the Obama Youth Corps. That would be too close to the Hitler Youth or the Stalin Youth or the Castro Youth, which it is patterned after. It is supposed to be a mandatory voluntary youth program that expands what is already on the books. What its goals are remain a mystery and what the paid volunteers are supposed to do remain a mystery. We do know that when a Republican Congresswoman proposed an amendment that would have stopped these mandatory volunteer youths from participating in partisan politics, there were cries of pain from the left. I believe that her amendment was defeated.

The architect of the Obama Youth Corps is Rahm Emanuel. He supposedly modeled his Obama Youth Corps after the Israeli pattern of mandatory military training. In Israel, it is essential that everyone know how to respond to an emergency as a militarily trained person. The training in Israel is essential for their survival as a nation. Here, the Obama Youth Corps will not receive any military training, but will be a paramilitary organization that has the same funding as the military.

The little we know about this Obama Youth Corps the more it sounds like the SA in Germany before Hitler was elected to office. The SA was a paramilitary force of disaffected youths that enforced the socialist agenda of the Nazi party. Yes, the Nazi’s were socialists. They nationalized the banks and other private businesses just like any other socialist government. We have not been taught that they were socialists because that would conflict with the idea that socialism is good. We all know that Nazi’s were bad. But, leftists believe that socialism is good. That is why the socialist ideals of the Nazi party are always put in the background. The SA’s made sure that the socialist agenda of the Nazi party was followed. After the Nazi party was elected to power, the SA leaders were no longer needed so they were killed.

The Hitler Youth was so successful in making “good” Germans that Stalin copied the idea and made a Stalin Youth. The Stalin Youth was to make good communists out of the Youth of Russia. After Castro came to power in Cuba, he copied the Stalin Youth program. His Castro Youth turns out good little communists that do not give the government any trouble.

The Hitler/Stalin/Castro Youth would take children as young as elementary age and start them doing projects that help them understand how good the government is. The Obama Youth will take children as young as elementary age and put them to work doing projects that teach them how good it is to have a government that cares about the people. The goals of the two seem to me to be the same. There are differences of time and place of course. There are also some differences in the goals of the organizations. The Hitler Youth taught them to hate the Jews. None of the other Youth organizations had that as a goal. The Stalin and Castro Youth were teaching communism. The Hitler Youth taught socialism. I am not sure what the Obama Youth will teach as the goals are not set, but based on the actions of Barack Obama, I am sure that they will be taught the wonders of socialism.

I did not bring children or grandchildren into this world to become Obama Youth robots. I brought them into the world to become individuals to become what they can individually be. I cannot find a list of who voted for the bill, but it passed the Senate 78-20. I would assume that all the no votes were Republican. But there were still a lot of Republicans that voted to set this boondoggle up. The Democrats must be extremely happy with how they pulled a fast one over on the Republicans. Now for the next 40 years they will have a government paid group that will work to elect Democrats and Democrat programs. Any Republican who voted for this bill should be defeated in the next election as too stupid to be a Republican.

The conflict in Gaza is having a major effect on Hamas. They are being shown to be ineffective at defending the people. Many citizens in the Gaza area are turning in Hamas followers to the Israeli military. This is making the job of the Israeli military easier and the job of Hamas harder.

The best thing that could happen in this conflict is for Hamas to be destroyed as a functioning unit. That would strike a major blow against Iran and Syria, the major backers of Hamas. If Iran and Syria could not keep Hamas going after an attack by Israel, what hope would any other organization backed by Syria and Iran have against Israel. That would send a clear message to Hezbollah in Lebanon to clean up their act or suffer the same fate.

This could give Israel and the Palestine Authority some time to complete an agreement guaranteeing Israel’s existence and setting up a recognized Palestine. Both goals would have to be achieved before there could really be any lasting peace. Egypt and Jordan came to that conclusion years ago and maybe the Palestinians will come to the conclusion that Israel has a right to exist. If the Palestinians recognize Israel, then the leaders in Lebanon would be under pressure to also recognize Israel’s right to exist. Then, Israel would have all its neighbors agreeing that it has a right to exist. The Muslim countries that are further away would still not recognize Israel, but at least they would have a buffer.

Having the buffer would not guarantee them any peace. With Iran sending in trained killers, Israel would not be safe. Also, television in Palestinian areas has depicted Jews as not worthy of living. It will take a generation of work to teach Muslims that Jews are people that have every right to live. Right now, most Muslims believe that Jews have no right to live. They are taught from the earliest levels that Jews should be killed whenever they are found. People brought up that way will have a hard time giving up those attitudes. It can be done, but a generation will have to pass before it becomes second nature.

Right now, Israel has to pound it into Hamas that they are the boss. Hamas is sounding defiant to bolster up the troops that are being decimated by Israeli planes and tanks. At some point, the rank and file in Hamas will figure out that it is not to their benefit to fight Israel. They would be better off if they either left Gaza or surrendered. Of course, every country surrounding Gaza has sealed off the border so leaving Gaza would be rather difficult. Hamas is caught between Israel and the sea. As things stand right now, they have to fight or die. As far as Israel is concerned, that is a good option for Hamas to have. Israel would just as soon kill all of Hamas rather than have them as prisoners. As prisoners they could still be problems in later years. As fighters, they will soon be dead and no longer a problem.

Hezbollah has been strangely silent from Lebanon. They lobbed a few rockets into Israel the other day in support of Hamas. But, other than that they have been strangely silent. That tells me that they took a severe beating in Lebanon during their last war with Israel. I read that Israel basically turned south Lebanon into a parking lot and the Lebanese government was upset. The source also said that the Lebanese government also told Hezbollah that the next time they were drawn into a war with Israel; Hezbollah would be kicked out of Lebanon. That would be the actions of an organization that lost the war with Israel, not beat Israel.

My hope is that Israel has the will to keep on until the job is finished. They have a tendency to pull out at the last minute and leave the cancer still there to grow again. They need to completely remove the cancer from Gaza once and for all. If they do so, the world will be a safer place.

CAIR is sending out notices to all radio hosts and other people that contact the public, to get them to support Hamas in the war with Israel. They want the hosts to get their audiences to participate in activities condemning Israel for responding to Hamas shooting rockets into Israel for months. This is rather late on CAIR’s part. They should have had these events when Hamas was starting to shoot the rockets into Israel. Then they could have condemned the real culprit in this scenario, Hamas. But, of course, CAIR would never do something like that because CAIR is really not what they put themselves forward to be.

CAIR is supposed to be improving relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. Non-Muslims would include Jews as I see it. Their propaganda puts forth their agenda as entirely benign and friendly to America. In reality, things are much different.

CAIR was started by Hezbollah and Hamas to distribute propaganda in America. They do that job very well as most Americans do not know the story behind CAIR and its foundation. CAIR has as its members many people that have been prosecuted for terrorist activities. CAIR never, ever acknowledges that Israel is a country or that it has a right to exist. This is in line with the Muslim idea that Israel does not exist and the existing state should be eliminated. Their activities in this latest incident support this position.

CAIR gets a majority of its funds from Muslim countries, notably Saudi Arabia and Iran. It gets a very small percentage of its funding from within the United States by individuals.

Let’s now look at the Palestinians, why have they not had a place to call home in 61 years? Is there something about the Palestinians that has caused the problem? Or is there another agenda by Muslim countries that has caused this problem? The Palestinians are refugees and have been for 61 years for a number of reasons. There are two reasons that the other Muslim countries in the area will not take them in.

First, there is a political reason. The Muslim countries feel it is politically better to have the Palestinians as refugees than as citizens. If they were citizens of another country, there would be no way to claim that they should have a “homeland” within Israel.

The second reason is the Palestinians themselves. The Palestinian people are not one homogeneous people. They are a polyglot of people from many nationalities. None of them are truly Palestinian. There are no true Palestinians because Arabs never lived in Palestine on a regular basis. The only people that ever lived there for extended periods of time were the Jews.

The other reason that Muslim countries would not take the Palestinians in is the fact that whenever Palestinians live in an area there are crime waves. Palestinians come from many populations and are generally not from the best parts of those populations. A lot of Palestinian families have a history of crime and corruption that go back for generations. So, when Palestinian people arrive in an area crime and corruption soon follow.

The Palestinians are so loved by other Muslims that the Egyptians have closed off their border to Gaza to prevent people from leaving Gaza and fleeing to Egypt. This says a lot about what other Muslim populations think about Palestinians and the people in Gaza in particular.

Some Palestinians decided to live in Israel and have a homeland; Israel. They are happy. They have voting rights. They get to participate in Israeli political events and any other Israeli event they wish to participate in. They do not feel like second class citizens. The question is: why are these Palestinians happy and the ones that are refugees not happy? They are happy because they do not have to worry about persecution and corruption. They have jobs and security. They even belong to the Israeli army. The refugees are not wanted by anyone and know it. They are jealous of those that have more than they do. They just want to have a place to call their own and live in peace. Their leaders and the puppet masters in Syria and Iran do not want that. They want the “refugees” to hate the Israelis so they preach hate to them all of the time. It is no wonder that Palestinians hate Israel. They only hear how terrible the Jews are. If they ever heard the truth, they would not hate. That would take a generation or more to make a change.

This fighting between Israel and Hamas has really been going on longer than the 10 days that the press is reporting. Hamas has been lobbing rockets into Israel for months, almost since Israel gave up the Gaza strip to the Palestine Authority. These rockets land anywhere and kill civilians. Of course, there was no outcry from the Muslim countries over these atrocities. There was no outcry from the rest of the world over the atrocities. Even the Palestine Authority got tired of the rockets and asked Israel to attack Hamas over a month ago. Of course, when Israel attacked the Palestine Authority had to denounce Israel.

Who is right and who is wrong in this conflict is clear. Israel is a sovereign nation. They have a border that is officially recognized by the United Nations and most of the civilized world. Muslim countries do not recognize Israel or their right to exist. Israel has a right to be able to protect their citizens in their homes. They should not be subject to terrorist attacks of any kind. Israel has the right to search out and destroy any and all ability to commit terror inside Israel.

Hamas knows that it does not have the full support of the people in Gaza. To keep the people under their control, they have captured and tortured people that they suspect are not supporters. Hamas has shot the captured people in the legs and broken arms, hands and legs. This terror campaign keeps the population from turning on Hamas as long as Hamas is considered a power in the area. Once they are taken out of power by any means, the retribution will be swift and just as hard. These are Muslims we are dealing with. They believe that if you broke my arm, you should lose yours. If Israel is successful in getting Hamas out of power in areas, they will have many informants who will turn in Hamas people.

Israel started their ground campaign on Sunday and I have not heard much on what is happening. I have heard Hamas complaining about civilians being killed. Those reports are exactly what Hamas wants reported. They hide their ammunition in civilian houses and Mosques. They fire their rockets from civilian areas. By doing that, it makes it less likely that Israel will strike back for fear of killing civilians. Once Israel decided that they were going to rid Gaza of Hamas, civilian causalities were certain. Hamas is counting on that to stop Israel from finishing off Hamas.

In all wars, there are civilian causalities. Soldiers are trained to not kill civilians. That is real difficult when the enemy they are fighting dresses like civilians and hides in civilian areas. In that case, civilians are sometimes killed in error. If you have shots coming at you from building A, you fire back into building A to stop those shots from coming. If the people firing the shots have civilians as hostages, the hostages could very easily be killed. Also, if the leaders of Hamas hold a meeting, they do it in civilian areas. That way if they get bombed, civilians will be killed. If civilians get killed Hamas can claim that Israel targeted civilians. They can even bring in television cameras and show the civilians, after cleaning out the Hamas information. This has been successful in Iraq, why not in Gaza as well. The news people want to believe the worst about America and Israel, so Hamas and Al Qaeda gives them what they want. The news media laps it up and serves it to the American and Israeli public to sway the public against the military. That strategy is working in America against our soldiers in Iraq, just like it did against our soldiers in Vietnam. The media hopes to pull it off again in Israel. Their problem is Gaza is so much smaller than Iraq or Vietnam; the time frame is so much shorter for them to be successful. Also, Israeli public opinion for the Army is so much higher than in America. They may not be successful this time.

Our new fearless leader has, in his usual bold manner, taken a decisive stand not to stand anywhere. My biggest fear is what will happen when Obama takes over on January 20? Where does Obama stand? Does he stand with freedom and liberty or with thugs? Only time will tell on that one.