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This week several hundred thousand protestors are expected to do all they can to disrupt the Republican National Convention being held in New York City.

We’ve prepared an ad entitled “We’re Proud” that will be broadcast throughout the nation to counter the message and tactics of the protestors (and what will surely be ample coverage from the news media - sympathetic to their cause).

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We devote a lot of our focus at Move America Forward to our heroes in the military who are fighting to ensure America never suffers an attack like 9/11 again.

This story that appeared online at the “Navy Newstand” reminds us that our troops need support when they return home as well.  A program called “Courage to Care” helps our troops to reintegrate back into their families after surviving the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the article notes:

Whether it’s taking care of a soldier who’s lost his legs or whether it’s taking care of a child with chronic diabetes, we forget what it means and how much of a family’s energy goes to those activities,” said the retired Air Force colonel. “It requires their courage to face it every day in order to manage those types of health problems.”

CLICK HERE to read about the “Courage to Care” Program

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The Washington Times published an intriguing OpEd by Sylvain Charat.

What’s particularly compelling about this opinion piece is that the author was chief of staff for Alain Madelin, former secretary of finance for French President Jacques Chirac.

I thought that having someone who used to work in the Chirac Administration supporting the War in Iraq warranted your attention.

“Indeed, there is no room for balancing, nor for regrets. In the light of the above facts, President Bush’s decision was responsible and legitimate. International law was not despised, it merely showed its limits and should be reconsidered and even rebuilt in the light of warfare changes. And at least now, there’s hope for democracy in Iraq, even if the fight for it will be hard. But it is worth fighting.”

CLICK HERE to READ THE OP ED

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I found this essay by Amir Taheri interesting.  He does a good job of defining what is at stake in post-war Iraq and he deftly casts aside the side-arguments by some with agendas of blocking progress for the Iraqi people.

Here’s an excerpt:

A COUNTRY, NOT A CAUSE

By AMIR TAHERI


What is the real issue in Iraq today? It is to create a new government whose legitimacy is based on free elections. Opponents of the democratic option, however, constantly try to shift the focus to other issues.

For example, they say the Arabs are humiliated because non-Arab armies changed an Arab regime. Well, the reason that that happened is simple: Saddam created a regime that could not be overthrown by the Iraqi people alone, and there were no Arab armies to come to the rescue. So the Americans led a coalition that liberated the people of Iraq from their oppressor.

Does that amount to a political version of the original sin? Should the Iraqis be forced to live under another despotic regime simply to cure the Arabs of their supposed humiliation?

The U.S.-led Coalition was able to enter Iraq because Iraq had been denied normal, not to say democratic, politics for half a century. The only way to get the Coalition out of Iraq is to allow that country to have normal democratic politics. Car bombs, throat-cutting, hostage-taking and hiding in shrines will not drive the Coalition out. Only a freely elected government can ask it to withdraw in accordance with the latest resolution by the U.N. Security Council.

By opposing democratization, Sadr, Saddam and Zarqawi are, in fact, prolonging the country’s occupation. Free elections in Iraq would not only spell the end of occupation but could also end all three careers.

The Iraqi people should do all they can to prevent their country from becoming a “cause” for pan-Arabists and Islamists. Iraqis want a country in which they could live as normal human beings. They don’t want a cause for which they die while other Arabs nurse their humiliation.

CLICK HERE to read the entire column.

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Be sure to check out this wire report on Al Qaida’s efforts to recruit supporters in Latin America and exploit our poorly enforced southern border as a means to enter our nation.

CLICK HERE to read the report from AP.