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Sunday, 15 April 2007

Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Gathering of Eagles

The following article was written by Henry J. Cook III, Senior Vice Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. It was intended for use in their organizational publication. In light of certain parties claiming that they had convinced MOPH to drop their support, Mr. Cook asked that it be posted on the GOE blog as a reaffirmation of MOPH’s support for the Gathering of Eagles. Thank you William "1stCav" Page for bringing it to my attention.

The Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Gathering of Eagles
Henry J. Cook, III

More than one year ago the international A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition began planning two major anti-war rallies in Washington, D.C. The first was held in January of 2007. From their rally point the various anti-war, anti-American groups marched on our nation’s Capitol. Upon arrival at the Capitol they proceeded to spray paint their slogans and anti-American sentiments on the Capitol steps. Apparently the Capitol police felt it was better to allow them to do their mischief and clean it up later than confront them physically to stop their actions. Some of the groups went to the U. S. Navy memorial and desecrated the Lonely Sailor memorial.

Who were these people ? A.N.S.W.E.R. , purely an arm of the communist party of the United States , joined by Code Pink, the National Council of Arab Americans, the Muslim American Society, the 9-11 Truth Movement (They claim 9-11 was a hoax.) a number of Palestinian and Lebanese support groups, pro-Castro and Che Gueverra groups, the Viet Nam Veterans against the war, at least one Anarchist group and a number of hippie-throwbacks, all receiving encouragement by Hanoi Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, Sean Penn, Ed Asner with Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and the newest anti-war poster child, Cindy Sheehan.

After their performance in January, A.N.S.W.E R. let it be know that their next rally and parade was to begin with a rally at the Viet Nam Wall on March 17, 2007 and would end at the Pentagon. ...

Read the whole thing.

Contributed by Bill Faith on April 15, 2007 at 08:30 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 14 April 2007

A country gone mad?

From Media Lies:

I've been searching for two days....

....for a way to express what I'm feeling right now. I think almost half the country has gone completely mad, and if Steven [sic] is right, the Kennedy assassination is the touchstone of that insanity. In the past few days I have read some of the most insane "reasoning" you can possibly imagine.

I'll confess. For a long time I believed in the possibility that a conspiracy was behind Kennedy's assassination. For many years that thought lingered in the back of my mind, never consuming my thoughts but festering nonetheless. That all changed, however, when I watched the PBS special that aired on the 40^th anniversary of that tragic event. Once the facts were presented, there was no question in my mind that Oswald acted alone. The facts were too overwhelming to leave any doubt.

For many people, however, the Kennedy assassination (and the subsequent assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King) shattered their faith in government forever. Now they are willing to believe any wild story that comes along. So much so that the fact that they actually watched planes fly into the World Trade Center buildings doesn't deter for one second their willingness to believe that the government blew the buildings up as a pretext for war. ...

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SEEING THE UNSEEN, Part 2
Bill Whittle

Occam’s Razor is the idea that when confronted with competing theories that explain certain data equally well, the simplest one is usually correct. It’s called Occam’s Razor, and not Occam’s Hypothesis, or Occam’s Theorem, or Occam’s Bit of Useful Advice, because it is a razor – it cuts cleanly and with great efficiency.

And though it pains me to say so, this culture is in desperate need of a shave.

IT’S A CONSPIRACY!

I want to forgo the niceties of the hot towel and go straight for the jugular on this one. My goal here is not to bust any of these four conspiracy theories; that has all been done much more effictively elsewhere. What I am trying to do here is to build a chain of evidence to show a progressively deteriorating epidemic of world-wide insanity, of truly diseased thinking -- not just a misunderstanding or difference of opinion but real, diagnosable mental illness.

I want to get to that disease in a minute -- and the cause of it too – but first let’s examine what some people claim to believe in and the mountains of sand one has to carry in order to bury one’s head so deep. ...

9/11 and The Birth of a Notion

Of course, all of this is just the soup for the main course.

Recently, Rosie O’Donnell said on national television that she believes 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government.

Well, that’s why we went through the steps above. If you believe that the government lied about the moon landing, you can believe they lied about killing JFK. If they lied about JFK, then they can lie about chemtrails. And if they are willing to poison the entire population with aerial spraying, what are a few thousand people in four airliners and a couple of buildings?

Rosie O’ Donnell making such a claim on a major network is a national disgrace. The fact that much of the audience cheered and applauded is nothing less than a national catastrophe.

To her, and to her audience, it is taken as granted that the government is capable of such things. As if “the government” was operated by cyborgs grown in Haliburton vats, rather than by well-meaning and patriotic people that love this country.

"This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel," she said. This is a statement of such pristine and perfect idiocy that it surely must be emblazoned in stone across the entrance to the Physics Imbecile wing of the Moron Museum of Natural History. But mastery of physics and engineering requires some intelligence, some perseverance and some discipline: none of which are in evidence in this buffoon. Everything is a conspiracy to a mind this far gone. The 15 British sailors kidnapped at sea? All a plan by our evil (but incompetent!) government to get the next war it so desperately needs. “Gulf of Tonkin! Google It, people!” she said on national TV.

And I will, Rosie. I promise. As soon as I finish googling MAD COW DISEASE.

I will make the point yet again because I believe it is the crux of the issue: what kind of moral universe do you have to inhabit to be able to believe that your own people – airline personnel, demolition experts, police and security forces, faked witnesses and all the rest – are capable of such a thing? How much hate for your own society do you have to carry in order to live in such a desolate and ridiculous mental hell? What psychoses must a mind be riddled with in order to negate what was perfectly obvious and instead believe a theory of such monumental fantasy? How much pure constant hatred does that take?

What, in short, is the miserable black hole of self-loathing that drives a person like Rosie O’Donnell and millions like her?

You know who I blame for this pathetic state of affairs? I blame Leonard Nimoy. ...

[Read the whole thing.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on April 14, 2007 at 07:49 PM in Moonbat Madness, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 07 April 2007

Anti-gun zealots oppose Navy SEAL memorial statue

SEAL statue frightens parents
Greyhawk

Navy SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz Jr., fell in action in Afghanistan in 2005:
Petty Officer Dietz, 25, was awarded the Navy Cross, the service's second-highest award for valor after the Medal of Honor, for fighting off an ambush by insurgents in Afghanistan despite being mortally wounded. His actions were credited with helping a fellow Navy SEAL escape.
Littleton, Colorado, plans to honor his sacrifice with a statue:
Plans for the memorial began last summer when the city started working with Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, and the Dietz family. The family raised $42,000 to cover the costs, with no public funding involved.
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A bronze sculpture of Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz Jr. showing him cradling his rifle across his chest is scheduled to be unveiled July 4 at Berry Park here, where he grew up and attended school. The statue was modeled after a photo of the young serviceman.
Some of the locals are, of course, protesting:...

See also: Doubleplusungood!

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 16, 2007 at 02:00 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 10 March 2007

American Vietnam Vets Ending 40 Years in the Wilderness

R J Del Vecchio emails:

Great summary on the war and the upcoming mass reunion of Vietvets at The Wall next week. I'm getting more and more up for this.

Del

http://www.ronaldwinterbooks.com/blog/2007/02/american-vietnam-vets-ending-40-years.htm

American Vietnam Vets Ending 40 Years in the Wilderness
Ron Winter

It has been 40 years, on average, since most Americans served in Vietnam, and for most American Vietnam veterans the last 40 years have constituted our own version of wandering in the wilderness.

Starting with the fighting in Korea, the so-called "Forgotten War," escalating to a fever pitch during Vietnam, and continuing right up through those currently fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's veterans have been relegated by many in our country to something far less than second-class citizen status.

Vietnam vets especially have been dealing with a country that never knew or understood the magnitude of our victories there. Our politicians cut our legs out from under us and our allies from South Vietnam, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand repeatedly, until ultimately the communists were able to take advantage of the political and military vacuum created by our Congress and overthrow the democratic south in 1975.

American and allied troops had left that country years before, after twice driving the communists to the edge of surrender, and twice seeing them bailed out by American politicians.

As a result, the communists gleefully signed a weak and unenforceable "Peace" agreement in 1973 that was negotiated by Henry Kissinger and approved by the US Congress. That travesty and the slaughter of some 4 million Southeast Asians by the communists in the years that followed have been falsely labeled a military defeat ever since by the media and the very politicians who caused it.

Those same politicians and the media also falsely claim the American military was not up to the level of previous generations, even though we were the best educated, best led and most effective ever and never lost a single major engagement.

As a result, many Vietnam vets labored for years in an atmosphere of distrust, misunderstanding and outright hostility from the very country we fought to preserve.

But that could all change on March 17, at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. ...

We have wandered in the wilderness for far too long. It is time to come home. And home, the land of milk and honey, will be represented on March 17 by a tiny piece of land in our nation's Capitol where a black granite wall and two statues bear witness to the honor and sacrifice of more than 58,000 of our brothers and sisters.

We should stand shoulder to shoulder around those memorials to preserve the honor and dignity of our brothers and sisters, just as they stood shoulder to shoulder with us, 40 years ago.

[Original timestamp 2007.03.10.13.36]

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 10, 2007 at 01:36 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 07 March 2007

"Bring Some Paint"

Just read it. It's too short to excerpt and I'm too pissed to even try. (Hat tip: Michelle)

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Confederate Yankee has more here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 7, 2007 at 12:37 AM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 01 March 2007

The Silenced Majority
Contributed by The Gray Dog

Gray Dog’s Note: This article is a continuation of thoughts inspired by Rurik’s essay titled “Veterans as an Ethnic Minority,” originally posted at Old War Dogs in September 2006, and more recently holding its own page of honor at Veteran-American Voices. Actually, this article might be more appropriately deemed a variation on a theme or themes, as it also addresses Rurik’s sentiments in his post titled, “A Gathering of Eagles Against a Gathering of Vultures.” In either case, I hope that Rurik’s inspiration has been duly noted and appropriately attributed.

If history is written by the victors, then image is assigned by the vocal. On February 22, 2007, Richard "Dick" Becker attended a press conference for "A Gathering of Eagles." Becker, the brother of Brian Becker, National Coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition, characterized past Conservative and veteran’s counter-protests of ANSWER rallies, as "pathetic." On March 17, 2007 we have both the opportunity and the obligation to dispel that charge. It is the moment to rise above the damning legacy of a “Silenced Majority.” In so doing, we will fulfill the obligation to ourselves and our fallen brothers and sisters to reclaim the honor the “Beckers” of this world would take from us.

For too long, our silence has allowed our foes to establish a national agenda without opposition. We have ceded control of the media and allowed the socialist liberal enemies of America to mold an image of her defenders as the ignoble and ignorant peasantry of our society. We allow them to deny us the respect we deserve, because they tell us it is their right as Americans to do so. And, when a few of us speak or act in opposition to these pretend Americans, whose grandiose marches and displays of hatred and disdain for the very beliefs and institutions for which we have shed our blood, they call us pathetic.

Continue reading, "The Silenced Majority"

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 1, 2007 at 04:11 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 28 February 2007

New Surrendercrat Strategy: Betray The Troops -- Update 15

See previous:

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The Dems Try Again
John Hinderaker

House Democrats have now retreated from Jack Murtha's "slow bleed" strategy (aptly named, as we now know, by John Harris) to bring about failure in Iraq, and are casting about for a new approach. The latest trial balloon, being discussed by the Democrats behind closed doors, is described here by the Associated Press.

It isn't described very clearly, however:
House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq while requiring President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

The tactic is more likely to embarrass Bush politically than force his hand on the war. He would have to sign repeated waivers for units and report to Congress those units with equipment shortfalls and other problems.
It sounds as though the idea is that there would be no funding cuts, but Congress would require the President to "report" to it on equipment shortfalls--whatever that means--and sign waivers to allow troops to be sent to Iraq even though their "equipment" has ostensibly "fallen short."

Of course, if the Democrats really think there is a problem with our troops' equipment, one option would be to vote an increase in the Defense Department's budget to supply the supposedly missing materiel. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on February 28, 2007 at 01:28 PM in Dem Perfidy, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 05 February 2007

"Mercenaries"
Grim Beorn

What does it mean to say that a US soldier is a "mercenary"?

Mercenary isn't just an adjective. In the context of war, it has a specific legal meaning. That meaning is established in the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949:
A mercenary is any person who:

(a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;

(b) Does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;

(c) Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;

(d) Is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;

(e) Is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and

(f) Has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.
So, the first thing to say about Arkin and the Kos kids is that they're just wrong.

The second thing to say is this: the Conventions provide consequences to being a mercenary. A mercenary is a form of unlawful combatant, like a terrorist who fights without uniform.

The consequences are spelled out:
A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.
So, to say that US soldiers are "mercenaries" is to make a moral as well as a legal claim. The moral claim is that they are no better than the terrorists. It is to claim that the insurgent is right simply to shoot a US soldier if he should capture one. It is to claim that our soldiers deserve no better.

"Screw them," more or less.

The legal claim is flatly wrong. The moral claim is worse. ...

Read the whole thing.

Contributed by Bill Faith on February 5, 2007 at 12:50 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 23 January 2007

Enough to piss off a statue of a dead Pope
Updated and bumped -- One less asshole answering emails

Via email from Squareknot,

US retailer shuns sale to US troop in Iraq

Anyone know a couple of Marines who would like to pay a visit to this Retailer and see what other part of the world he would like to do business?

US retailer shuns sale to US troop in Iraq

In January 2007 Sgt. Jason Hess, 1st BCT 1st Cavalry Division, stationed in Iraq wrote an email to www.Discount-Mats.com in West Allis, Wisconsin. He wanted to get some mats for his troops to sleep on over here. In the email he asked them if they would ship to an APO. Here is the response he got:
“Sgt. Hess,

We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.

Bargain Supplier
Discount-Mats.com”
There are many rumors that take on life on the internet that are baseless or exaggerated. Apparently this is not one of them. I checked the veracity of this one at http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/apo.asp

Please feel free to check it out yourself, but either way please pass this on. Discount-Mats has every right to not ship their merchandise to our troops, but we as citizens have every right to exercise our right to protest their decision (and the rude way they chose to express it) by not buying anything from them and encouraging others to do the same.

Jim

Baghdad, Iraq

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FOX News reports that the individual responsible has been fired. That's a good start. Hangin' the dumbass would be better.

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Allah has video of Fox's coverage here. (Hat tip: Michelle)

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I seem to have a knack recently for failing to choose my words appropriately or to realize that some figures of speech might be interpreted differently by different people depending on their backgrounds. In this case I've also been guilty of using a very dated expression which I should have retired years ago. In the quiet little corner of space-time where I spent my childhood, before the days of Polish Popes with gumption enough to help bring down the Soviet Union, The Pope was a recognized icon for calm and serenity. The phrase "enough to piss off The Pope" was not meant as an insult to The Pope or to Catholics in general, but was commonly used then, as I meant it in my post, as an identifier for something extremely disturbing. My apologies to anyone I've offended by using it inappropriately.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 23, 2007 at 02:00 AM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Moonbat Madness, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 09 January 2007

Video: Jabba the (hic!) Hutt says
Iraq is Bush’s ~~Chappaquiddick~~ Vietnam

Sen. Ted Kennedy handed an irresistible sound bite to the media in his speech to the National Press Club this afternoon, some 32 hours before the president announces his new strategy for Iraq. Christopher Hitchens, an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War, has addressed this subject several times, most memorably in 2004:
A war fought with weapons of indiscriminate slaughter, and accompanied by racist rhetoric, with a conscript Army deployed against a highly evolved revolutionary movement is as different as could possibly be from a campaign of precision-guided munitions, with an all-volunteer Army, directed at the overthrow of a hideous and dangerous tyranny, and then taking the form of a drive for free elections and a constitution. If people say that it’s “reminiscent” of Vietnam, it means they don’t remember Vietnam…
Kennedy is promising to introduce a bill that would block funding for a force above the current numbers unless Congress approves Bush’s plan. [Read on.]

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

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Dan Riehl writes:

... Video via Hot Air of fat, drunk and dumb with a last name, but who has never accomplished anything on his own, Teddy, the drunken, rapist, murdering, Kennedy calling Iraq Vietnam. How would he know? He was probably stoned throughout the Vietnam era.

Kennedy embodies everything that's wrong with politics today. He's unaccomplished, a failed man who never lived up to half of what his Brothers "might" have been ... and Massachusetts can't stop getting hard for a last name that hasn't meant anything to American history for decades. Grrr... how I loath that fat drunken dirt bag. ...

The reality is this ... Bush has the authority to tell these feckless liberals and democrats to get lost. Send the troops, let's see them cut the funding off then. The weak, ineffectual bastards won't get elected to anything in 2008.

And if they won't defend this country and come to terms with the genuine global threat we face today, including in Iraq, then it's getting close to time to start a war with them. Taken as a whole, they are more dangerous then your average car load of jihadists. They won't even fight for America, the cowards would rather just give it away. ...

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New Wave of Troops Set for Iraq
Stop The ACLU

Gallup says that 61 % of Americans oppose a surge in this war, but its set to happen before the end of the month.
A first wave of additional U.S. troops will go into Iraq before the end of the month under President Bush’s new war plan, a senior defense official said Tuesday. Congressional Democrats kept up their criticism of plans to add soldiers in the unpopular conflict.

Up to 20,000 troops will be put on alert and be prepared to deploy under the president’s plan, but the increase in forces on the ground will be gradual, said the official, who requested anonymity because the plans have not yet been announced.

Details were emerging a day before Bush was to address the nation on his broad initiative to shore up the fragile country after nearly four years of bloodshed. Bush is expected to link the troop increase to moves by the Iraqi government to ease the country’s murderous sectarian tensions, and to increased U.S. economic aid. ...
Ted Kennedy is blowing a gasket and promising to introduce a bill that would block funding for anything above the current level. However, Joe Biden thinks all this talk about stopping the surge is constituionally questionable. There is going to be fighting on the hill and it aint gonna be pretty. I know the public is divided on what to do in Iraq now, but I must say that flexing our muscle like this has got to be better than the Democrat plan of turning tail and waving the white flag all the way home.

Whether you think this is the right strategy or not, its gonna happen so you might as well get behind our troops and start cheering for victory.

John McCain at Powerline: ...

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We Turn the Floor Over to Senator McCain
John Hinderaker

We have disagreed strongly with Senator John McCain on several issues, but have also applauded his unwavering support for a strong national defense and for vigorous prosecution of the global war on terror. When the Senator's staff requested an opportunity for Senator McCain to do a guest post on Iraq, we were delighted to turn the floor over to him. Senator McCain writes:
Debate in recent days has focused on the possibility of “surging” U.S. combat forces in Iraq. Security is the precondition for political progress and economic development, and we need more troops on the ground. But to make a real difference, any surge must be substantial and sustained.

During my recent trip to Iraq, commanders spoke of adding as many as five additional brigades in Baghdad, and one or two additional brigades in Anbar Province. This, I believe, is the minimum we should consider. It would be far better to have too many reinforcements in Iraq than to suffer, once again, the tragic results of insufficient force levels. ...

Increasing U.S. troop levels in Iraq will expose more brave Americans to danger, and increase the number of American casualties. Extending combat tours and accelerating the deployment of additional brigades is a terrible sacrifice to impose on the best patriots among us, and they will understandably be disappointed. Then they will shoulder their weapons, and do everything duty requires to win this war.

We have made many mistakes since 2003, and these will not be easily reversed. But from everything I witnessed on my most recent visit, I believe that success is still possible. Even greater than the costs incurred thus far and in the future are the catastrophic consequences that would ensue from our failure in Iraq. By surging troops and bringing security to Baghdad and other areas, we will give the Iraqis the best possible chance to succeed. Our national security, and that of our friends and allies, compels us to make our best effort to prevail, and to do it now. ...

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Dan Riehl looks at Allah's Gallup numbers and interprets them differently:

Poll: Overwhelming Support For War In Iraq

Despite how they might like to spin it, the case can easily be made that a recent poll shows overwhelming public support for the war in Iraq.

You can see the entire poll through Hot Air. Now focus on the screen cap from the poll below.

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Eighty-four percent of Americans clearly support being in Iraq for a minimum of one more year. Now forget the word surge that has been bandied about. The word in itself means nothing.

Ask yourself this, with a baseline of 84% supporting a continued presence in Iraq for a minimum of a year, what do you suppose they would say if you asked:
Given your support for one more year of war in Iraq, what would you say if military commanders felt a relatively small increase in troops could reduce the commitment to ten months and save American and Iraqi lives?
As Allah points out, Bush wants to transfer the fight to the Iraqis by November. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 9, 2007 at 06:15 PM in Dem Dumbness, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Moonbat Madness, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Sunday, 07 January 2007

The breathtaking superficiality of Joe Biden's thinking ...
Paul Mirengoff

... was on display again today when he opined on Meet the Press that the hanging of Saddam Hussein was "Abu Ghraib all over again." At Abu Ghraib, Iraqi prisoners who may or may not have been been minor criminals were tortured. At the hanging of Saddam, a mass murderer was taunted.

The taunting of Saddam was a bad thing, as I said very shortly after it was reported, mostly because the taunts from influential members of the government invoked the name of Saddam wannabe, Moqtada al Sadr, and thus provided further evidence that the government is headed in the wrong direction. But the taunting has little to do with Abu Ghraib except for the fact that events there were also blown out of proportion by critics of the war.

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Sen. Biden announces intent to seek presidency

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 7, 2007 at 10:42 PM in Dem Dumbness, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Moonbat Madness, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

As We Hibernate...
Contributed by Bobbie (OWB)

Now that Christmas and New Year's celebrations are behind us, most of us are ready for a vacation, or at least a long hibernation. There is much to do to include resting up for the remainder of the year. Some of us will be pouring through seed catalogs, planning summer recreation, preparing for renovations around the homestead, generally waiting for better weather to break so we can take care of all those chores we cannot do during winter.

We are not the only ones waiting and pondering things to do later in the year. If this winter and last fall are any indication, we can expect that the anti-war idiots have been plotting and planning for a couple of years and will be out in force this year. They have been energized by the elections. They are frustrated with so many of us who vocally oppose them. But, they also feel that their message has been resonating with the pubic. And they are correct.

The tactics that they developed during the 60's and 70's are working again. Not as well as they would like, and not without a great deal of effort on their part. They also do not have the full force of draft-eligible young men helping them. So, while they have had many successes, they are feeling the strain of not having a clear road ahead of them for their hate and rhetoric. They also seem to understand that there are many of us who will simply not allow them to demonize our warriors in the same ways that they have done in the past.

This just might be a very good time for those of us who sit behind our computers safely lambasting the idiots who do not support our military in any regard to recommit to some more direct action to neutralize those who would prefer that we lose a war than admit that a strong military is in the best interest of the United States.

Continue reading "As We Hibernate..."

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 7, 2007 at 09:04 PM in Moonbat Madness, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 02 January 2007

Moon Puts Saddam Death Penalty In Perspective

Oh, Give Me A Break
John Hinderaker

CNN Europe reports that Italians are shocked--shocked!--by the cell phone video of Saddam Hussein's execution, and are calling for a United Nations ban on all capital punishment:
Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Tuesday, after graphic images of Saddam Hussein's hanging shocked people around the world.

Italian politicians of all political parties expressed disgust at Hussein's execution, with even former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi calling it a "political and historic error."

Pressured by a week-long hunger strike by a 76-year-old campaigner against Hussein's execution and the death penalty in general, Prodi said Italy would push the U.N. for a "universal moratorium" on capital punishment.
Iraq's government made the obvious rejoinder: ...

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Moon Puts Saddam Death Penalty In Perspective
Ed Morrissey

This change promises a return to common sense at Turtle Bay, and will likely drive Kofi Annan fans up the nearest wall. Newly-inducted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon defended Iraq's imposition of the death penalty as a question of sovereignty and reminded protestors around the world about the nature of the man whose death they lament:
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Tuesday that Iraq and other countries have the right to impose the death penalty, adding that the world should never forget Saddam Hussein's "heinous crimes."

Ban's first public reaction to Hussein's execution signaled a sharp break from his predecessor, Kofi Annan, ...
I'm no fan of the death penalty, but I am a proponent of national sovereignty over governance through the UN. This statement from Moon suggests that he has the same outlook, and it should serve as a reversal of thought among Turtle Bay power elites. For too long, the UN bureaucracy and leadership have taken for granted the notion that the UN represents some sort of supergovernment ...

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Video: New UN SecGen hints Saddam got what he deserved

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Iraqi Official Arrested Over Saddam Execution Video

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein's execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq's prime minister said.

The adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, did not identify the person. But he said it was "an official who supervised the execution" and who is "now under investigation."

"In the past few hours, the government has arrested the person who made the video of Saddam's execution," the adviser said.

Iraqi state television broadcast an official video of Saturday's hanging, which had no audio and never showed Saddam's actual death. But the leaked cell phone video showed the deposed leader being taunted in his final moments, with witnesses shouting "Go to hell!" before he dropped through the gallows floor and died. ...

Allahpundit has more here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 2, 2007 at 11:52 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 07 November 2006

Lest you forget ...

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Thursday, 19 October 2006

Liberals gone wild
Michelle Malkin

John Hinderaker notes Victor Davis Hanson channeling Unhinged:
The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years, and they've occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26 years. The left's current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating others for a more elemental frustration - that they can't gain a national majority based on their core beliefs. More entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, gay marriage, de facto quotas in affirmative action, open borders, abortion on demand, and radical secularism - these liberal issues don't tend to resonate with most Americans.

To compensate, leftist pundits, billionaire philanthropists and politicians, from current officeholders to ex-presidents, work to ensure that isolated moments of Republican ineptness (George Bush strutting on a carrier deck in his flight suit) and wrongdoing (repulsive e-mails from a perverted Congressman Mark Foley) blare out as the only issues of the day. This distracting drumbeat, not their own agenda, is the only strategy for success in the next election.

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Yep.

Contributed by Bill Faith on October 19, 2006 at 09:13 PM in Dem Dumbness, Politics, The Lunatic Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 14 October 2006

AZ Memorial Designers Inspired by Chomsky

Where did the inspiration for that appalling leftist Arizona 9/11 memorial come from?
Noam Chomsky. Yep, the way-left loon’s slim volume 9/11 was one of six books listed in the bibliography of research notes from which the memorial’s designers cribbed statements to etch into the Funyun.

Mere mention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist and American foreign policy critic sends rightists into convulsive spit-fits along the lines of those induced by George Soros and Bill Clinton. Chomsky’s slim, 128-page pamphlet is a fine example why. In it Chomsky alleges the United States is a “terrorist state,” while simultaneously condemning the 9/11 attacks on America.

The fact that Chomsky’s book is in the bibliography of these research notes, compiled by ASU historian Nancy Dallett on behalf of the commission, will be enough for Republigoober Len Munsil and fellow conservatives to conclude that the Funyun’s phraseology is the fruit of fuzzy-headed liberalism. ....

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