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"STOP THE WAR" RALLY--IDIOTS
They're at it again. Out in North Hollywood they're holding an anti-war rally, and they're using the same old stupidity, that we're "in it for the oil."

26 Million Afghans were set free from the oppressive Taliban regime. More than 3 million Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan, home where they belonged, and they are no longer homeless and hopeless, living in tents high in the mountains, kids freezing and dying of disease, lack of food and medicine, at the mercy of both the elements and their own religios zealots.

23 Million Iraqis were set free from the oppressive regime of Saddam Hussein. Millions of Iraqis did not flee the country, because they trusted the Americans; the refugee camps on the border of Iraq were never needed. They want their freedom and they're happy that Saddam has been removed from power.

Doesn't this make any sense to these jokers? Don't they see and understand that the wisdom of our move into the Middle-east has had a stabilizing influence upon the area? Were it not for the remnants of the Taliban and the Saddam loyalists, plus some Muslim clerics who do not want to see the area stabilized, we could easily get them to form a central government and move towards Democracy.

So, in two countries 50 Million men, women and children are now free who were living under tyrannical regimes, who had no individual rights or freedoms. Yet, it required some sacrifices on our part, sad but true. Yes, we had losses, sad but true. But both countries are now better off without some lousy dictator controlling every aspect of their lives. Those who disagreed were tortured and/or killed. Women, for example, who supposedly violated some religious law, would be buried up to their necks and then stoned by family, friends and neighbors, until they were dead. What an amazing act of cruelty! What kind of religion keeps people living in the Stone Age, with the acceptance of barbaritic acts of this nature inculcated into children at an early age, and continuing throughout their lives?

Our main accomplishment though was that Osama has lost his main base of operations and this has certainly thwarted his ability to launch other attacks again us and our citizens.

Don't they teach a thing about Patriotism in College today? I guess not. How can they when so much of the staff at many colleges is overloaded with Leftists, Communists, and those who condemn America for just about everything she has done throughout her short history? They do everything they can to thwart the hiring of those who do not agree with their thinking, thinking that is subversive in nature to say the very least.

There is no doubt that we've saved tens of thousands of lives just through our accomplishments so far! Screw these Protestors. If they'd spent a year or two in Siberia, or a Taliban prison, they'd have different opinions, or if their wife or daughter had been raped and killed by one of Saddam's sons, or they had suffered torture by Saddam's sadists, they'd think a lot differently today. Believe me, they would.

Are we the Savior's of the World? I wish I could answer that question, but I cannot. I can say, however, that things that happen in countries half way around the world can have a devastating effect upon our own country. Look what the destruction of the Trade Towers has done? The losses are incalculable. They were financially much more costly than those at Pearl Harbor, believe me. Keeping Osama on the run until he can be killed is important to us, no matter who is at the helm when this country enters the year 2005.

CUBA, CUBA, CUBA. I NEVER FORGET IT.
For 45 years I have followed the situation in Cuba. I personally felt from the very beginning that Fidel Castro was both a liar and a communist (which he denied). All the signs were there. I published the first anti-Castro poster, anywhere, I am certain. I argued with the President of one of the chapters of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, while he denied vehemently that Castro was a Leftist.

I'm sure that Cubans here in the U.S., and the children of Cubans, are always wary of outsiders, and even fellow Cubans, that they may be spies for Fidel. After all, the highest official in the U.S. Government dealing with the Castro situation was finally unmasked as a spy for Havana, an undercover spy for many years. Now, wasn't that something? Damn. I'm outspoken. I've talked to too many people who fled the European communist countries, and I, myself, was in the USSR during WWII, and experienced and learned about some of the effects of living under a totalitarian system.

Therefore, I have a bit of a working knowledge of the communist system, and from my reading over the years, more of an understanding (and dislike) of it than 99% of the people in the U.S. I've spoken with people who have been in communist prisons, who suffered in the Gulag, who attempted to flee their native countries and were caught and spent time in jail, and so, I believe that I have a bit better understanding than most, other than those who lived through it and succeeded in escaping.

I'd hate to see Fidel Castro die a normal death. I think that he deserves to be tried by a fully democratic Cuban government, free of communism, and sentenced to the firing squad. He has committed enough crimes against his own people that nothing less would satisfy them, I am sure.

No one else writes such things. Why? Because there is always the suspicion that some Cuban agent could exact retribution. If there is anything Castro and Communism fears, it is a free press. However, if enough Cubans, or Americans, of every persuasion, called for his execution, no one would have a thing to fear. There are thousands of Cubans here in the U.S. who can write and demand his removal and execution. There are millions of anti-Communists in this country, veterans of our military, who can also make such statements, and they should be doing so. They should be swaying world opinion! They should demand changes in the attitude of the United Nations, demand that we withdraw our membership unless there is a condemnation by the U.N. of this illegal, corrupt, vicious and tyrannical regime.

We're free to condemn it. We're free to demand it. We're free to write about it, talk about it, make speeches against it, send letters and Faxes and emails demanding an end to it. We're free to make our voices heard. Is he a President? Hell, no! Is he a Prime Minister? Hell, no! Has he been elected to office? Hell, no! Is he a murderous tyrant? Hell, yes! Then, to my way of thinking, everything written by any Cuban about the situation in Cuba should include a demand that this cockroach be tossed out.

You talk about him with respect, if you want. Me? I say he is La Maxima Cucaracha. Now, if my Spanish is incorrect, then let me know. I'll rephrase it in the best Spanish possible, but it will still mean The Great Cockroach!