Baathists & Amuqtada al-Sadr's fanatics' "Tet Offensive" meets The Ted Offensive a.k.a. The Offensive Ted; Tactical combat operations resume in Iraq in Falujah; Ted Kennedy impersonates Peter Arnett.

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Baathists & Amuqtada al-Sadr's fanatics' "Tet Offensive" meets The Ted Offensive a.k.a. The Offensive Ted; Tactical combat operations resume in Iraq in Falujah; Ted Kennedy impersonates Peter Arnett.·

Listening to Kennedy give speeches requires the kind of self-discipline needed to endure dental work without Novocain, but listening to speeches by Kerry is akin to receiving Novocain. Perhaps the solution is to arrange for the two of them to always speak simultaneously.

John Kerry describes the Vietnam War as "Mr. Nixon's War" rather than Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson's War. Ted Kennedy compares Iraq to the Vietnam War and, like Kerry, tries to imply the Vietnam War was "Nixon's War" rather than "Johnson's War." Kennedy, no great student of history (no great student at all, for that matter, since he was kicked out of Harvard for cheating) also tries to compare George Bush to Richard Nixon by claiming that on the issue of war, Bush, "like Nixon" suffers a "credibility gap." He either conveniently forgets or simply lacks the knowledge that the term "credibility gap" was coined to apply to Lyndon B. Johnson. He conveniently ignores the fact that the infamous "Pentagon Papers" declassified over Nixon's assertion of secrecy normally applicable to such documents were papers revealing duplicity not by Nixon but by his Democratic predecessor, Johnson, who had escalated the war from the modest involvement under John F. Kennedy's policy before his being assassinated.

Ironically, "The Ted Offensive" by "The Offensive Ted" coincides with unprecedented collaboration in Iraq among die-hard Baathists, a virulently fanatical minority of the Shiite majority, and foreign Islamic fanatics conducting what they hope to be a middle-east version of the "Tet Offensive" to demoralize Americans' support for Operation Iraqi Freedom. However, just as Peter Arnett was so far from the mark nearly a year ago when he arrogantly predicted the American military plan had "fallen apart," this current "offensive" will be the Battle of the Bulge for the pro-tyranny alliance rather than the "Tet Defensive" for the Coalition. This is the time for those who know Operation Iraqi Freedom to be a morally just war for freedom over tyranny and civilization over barbarism to be steadfast.

The "Tet Offensive" meets The Ted Offensive a.k.a. The Offensive Ted.

No doubt what barbarians "dread"
when "Tet" type offensives they've led
are tools in our quiver
that most make 'em shiver:
a verbal Offensive of Ted.

Will this "Battle of the Bulge" attack by the Baathists and Islamic fanatics in Iraq ultimately succeed? Of course it won't. Are the non-fanatical Iraqis still hedging their bets out of fear that we might abandon them? Probably. Will speeches such as those by Ted Kennedy stiffen or weaken their spines? Isn't the answer obvious? Won't Kennedy, who glories in claiming Bush started the war to enlarge the profits of his financial supporters, nevertheless try to characterize these kinds of questions raised about his judgment as "attacks" on his "patriotism"? Of course he will.

Does the fact that die-hard Baathists and Islamic fanatics are able and willing to launch a Battle of the Bulge effort to drive the anti-tyranny forces from tyranny's stronghold undermine the validity of the moral imperative for such stronghold to be destroyed? Of course not. This won't be the last temporary setback we suffer in what will be a long twilight struggle between the forces of liberty and tyranny, between civilization and barbarism. Should our public utterances now focus on setbacks or support for the troops? The latter, of course. The former are in the process of being reversed.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.

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