WAR Just one example why the Cultural Left savagely resisted our war in Iraq.

http://northshorejournal.org/kentucky-fried-chicken-sizzles-in-fallujah

Only a short time ago the city of Fallujah served as stronghold for insurgents. Daily skirmishes, improvised explosive device detonations and public unease made operating a business in the city very difficult.

Today, with improved security throughout the region, the low price of 4,000 dinar, or $3.50, will purchase a full meal at the recently established Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Hey Al Dubat area of the city.

The KFC is the first to open for business in the city. Before improved conditions in the city, insurgents threatened business owners, demanding money to support acts of terrorism.

After a quick visit to the Fallujah Business Center during routine operations July 16, Marines with Regimental Combat Team 1’s Security Platoon and with Information Operations, talked with employees at the franchise to evaluate its success.

“We stopped to check up on the KFC to see how things were going,” said 1st Lt. Michael C. Bryant, platoon commander with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, RCT 1. ”You can tell that the area is returning to normal, especially when you see fast food places in the area doing so well.”

The restaurant has several employees, and three that work full time. Employees there serve an average 25 customers per day.

The Marines often take time to assess economic progress and gauge community activities during missions in the city.

After several short conversations with employees and patrons, the Marines ordered food to take back to Camp Fallujah for lunch.

“I think it is awesome to see a business doing so well in Fallujah, and not have to worry about safety or corruption,” said Bryant, a 25-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo.

Security over the past several years has reached an all-time high in Fallujah and many of the surrounding areas. The increase can be accredited to coalition forces conducting patrols and security missions, as well as Iraqi police and Iraqi army retaking control of a majority of the Anbar region.

“I remember when I was here last in July 2004 and things were much different than they are now,” said Sgt. Steve J. Arnoux, a 25-year-old vehicle commander from Browning, Mont. “When we would go out on convoys in the city, the attitude was a lot different. It seemed like we were just waiting to get ambushed. Now we stop at KFC.”

Citizens of the area can now work steady jobs, where as prior conditions kept many from even coming to work on a daily basis.

“I love the work here, because we have the opportunity to go to work every day,” said a KFC employee.

The Cultural Left will support ( or at least not oppose) any entity that can stop the spread of KFC, McDonalds or any other evidence of American Cultural Imperialism.

The Cultural Left will support ( or at least not oppose) any entity that can stop the spread of KFC, McDonalds or any other evidence of American Cultural Imperialism.

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That has got to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
So there was no support for the war because the left didn't want KFC or McDonalds in Iraq! I suppose that was what got OBL panties in a wad too.

OK, Troke, which do you own .... a KFC or a McDonalds franchise?

The US Armed Forces ..... making the world safer for fast food franchises! And more profitable for Halliburton!

July 22, 2008
Fallujah Braces for Another Assault

by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
FALLUJAH - U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror," residents and officials say.

In the face of U.S. military claims of improved security, violence has been rising by the day this month. The city has now been placed under tight curfew while U.S. and Iraqi military forces prepare for a new offensive, according to the local Azzaman daily.

Iraqi security forces have established new checkpoints around the city and are forbidding movement of people and traffic. Pickup trucks are roaming the city warning residents that al-Qaeda has once again infiltrated Fallujah.
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July 17, 2008
Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again

by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
FALLUJAH - Security has collapsed again in Fallujah, despite US military claims. Local militias supported by US forces claim to have "cleansed" the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city's chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba'i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest.

Authorities may have controlled the media better than the violence.

"Assassinations never stopped in Fallujah, but the media seems unwilling to cover the actual situation here," a human rights activist in Fallujah, speaking on terms of anonymity given the tense situation, told IPS. "The two bomb blasts that killed six policemen earlier this month and another two that killed three on the weekend seem to have terminated the silence."

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• Over four thousand of our soldiers killed,
• Close to 50,000 now wounded.
• Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis murdered for no damned reason at all.
• Four and a half million Iraqis displaced or homeless.
• By years end nearly $1.2 Trillion poured down a rat hole (with much more to come), and
• The ungratefull vermin still won't let us steal their oil!

Since when did limited foreign entanglements, a distate for wars, useless, fraudulent or otherwise, and limited, accountable government become part of the culture of the left?

Ha! I was once out with a member of the CL and during munchies he remarked about all the money spent on armies, how much better it would be if there was no animosity between cultures and thus a free interchange etc.

And I said that if there were completely open borders, every village and hamlet from Irtursk to Johannesburg would have a KFC and a McDonalds. He actually blanched! And I was astounded until I gave it some thought.

You folks just DGI. We live in the most powerful culture the world has ever seen because it comes from the Lesser Classes. (All the others came from above, Empire, Victorian, Edwardian) And the Lesser Classes everywhere promptly identify with it. Thus in St. Petersburg, Russia, right outside the McDonalds, you will see teenagers in low baggy pants and baseball caps on backwards. And at least one Russian mother complained to me that her daughter refuses to eat borscht, she wants a Big Mac.

And the CL vomits at the thought. Because they know if that Joe 6-pac culture takes root everywhere, there will be no place for them. So they will support, or at least not oppose, any culture that can stop it. Why do you think they cozyed up to Stalin, Mao, Uncle Ho, even Pol Pot for a while, and Fidel? Even when the corpses stacked so high that even the most dull had to wonder. Quite simple. No KFC's, baggy pants and baseball caps on backwards. No Joe 6-pac rearing up in the back row to ask; "If you are so damned smart, how come you ain't rich?"

KFC's in Iraq shows me that the Joe 6-pac culture is creeping in. How far it will go, time will tell.

I don't think the guy blanched because of feeling he will be left out of a future with baggy pants, beer, and Big Macs.

I'm guessing it was because he was thinking of us exporting the wave of obesity and resulting health problems to the rest of the world.

"...I'm guessing it was because he was thinking of us exporting the wave of obesity and resulting health problems to the rest of the world..."

Gee, you claiming that the masses do not have an inalienable right to eat themselves to death?

As it happens, the conversation took place some 30 yrs ago when getting fat had not hit the PC level. But his reaction got me to thinking. I had always suspected that the reason for the Stalinist support amongst the American CL had something to do with culture clash. But he pretty well confirmed my earlier thoughts. Given a choice between our culture and any other culture. they would hesitate.

Today, they wouldn't. Our culture is now considered to be the Cancer of the Western World and has to be expunged as quickly as possible.

The Lesser Classes will live frugally.

The "cultural left" protested the war in Iraq because it was an unnecessary war that did nothing to benefit America.

The Iraq War was planned by Bush before he took office. He seized on September 11th, and its surge of patriotism and anger, as an excuse to run with it.

Osama Bin Laden, the orchestrator of Sept 11, was running away while Bush was running with his worthless Iraq War. OBL, a proven threat to U.S. security, was allowed to continue running so that Bush could pursue Iraq, which was never a threat to the USA.

Lest we forget: Iraq never attacked the USA. Never. Ever. Not once.

Iraq attacked Kuwait in Gulf War I. The USA attacked Iraq in GWII.

And all the while, OBL is on the loose.

The left does indeed have "culture"...and culture is for intellectuals. Intelligent people.

"...The left does indeed have "culture"...and culture is for intellectuals. Intelligent people..."

Absolutely correct. And the dullards (that is everybody else) will know their place.

"...The "cultural left" protested the war in Iraq because it was an unnecessary war that did nothing to benefit America..."

Sounds good. Except if you check the literature of the day, the CL was demanding military action to throw out the racist gov of So. Africa. Saddam Hussain didn't let KFC's into Iraq so the CL saw no reason to overthrow him although he was a murderer of the first order. So. Africa did let KFC into the country and furthermore, they were white racist which ranks very high as a no-no in the PC world of the CL. You are going to see a lot of that in the current election.

And finally So. Africa was not an enemy of the US. So three strikes against it.