Don't Surrender Until You See The Enemy!

STUPID TIME WARNER-SHEESH

Good Question

Would Democrats Waterboard Atta?

I bet you, like me, were thinking this same thing.

“ By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY War On Terror: The question above, assuming we had 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta in custody on 9/10, is what those grilling the director of the CIA on interrogation techniques ought to be required to answer. ”

Al-Qaida Harry Speaks

News From Baghdad "There are no al-Qaeda in Iraq" Harry

Coalition forces disrupt al-Qaeda operations; 14 terrorists killed, 12 detained (more)

SDI WARS

Pull!

“ Hours after Congress cut funds that President Bush asked for to build a missile defense system in Europe, the program reached another milestone, successfully hitting its target for the 32nd and 33rd times ... this time hitting not one but two missiles. It was the first time multiple targets had been used. ” The Missile Defense Before It's Too Late editorialist then ponders this question ... “ Is it possible that Democrats are still skeptical that a missile shield will actually work? ” Of course it's possible, but my take is this is more of the eighties when "in Congress and the media. SDI was denounced, in the words of The New York Times, as "a projection of fantasy into policy." [Excerpt from How the East Was Won by Dinesh D'Souza - a great 5 minute read].  Just as they trembled over Gorbchev's threats then,  it is totally in character for democrats to take Putin's side in this most recent manifestation of an evil empire against the interests of a free world.  Speaking of Putin ... well, there's almost too many people that need killing right now, but he's a priority.

Bob Levy - Another Democrat War Hero

Steyn - Vietnam parallels

Finally

Me, and every other schmo on the internet have been pointing at parallels between Vietnam-/Islamo fascist wars for what? Six years?   Today's  protest organizers are the same leftists who undercut us ago.  The current version read from that old script so faithfully that I've been Déjà vu-d nearly to death. Hell, there's even a new Chicago Seven planning to disrupt the Democrat convention in Minneapolis.  But, for some reason the administration  never used this history as a weapon against these anarchists, communists and their mushroom brain followers.  I've got to think that Ed Gillespie felt the same way, because since he took over from Karl Rove, I'm liking what I hear.   But, I can't compete with Mark Steyn.  Here's  the opener to his column on the end-game,  They wait for us to run again. “ George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians, academics and pundits that we could really use anti-trust legislation to protect us from shopworn historical precedents. But, in the absence thereof, the president has determined that we might at least learn the real "lessons of Vietnam." "Then as now, people argued the real problem was America's presence and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end," Bush told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention Aug. 22. "Many argued that if we pulled out there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people … . A columnist for the New York Times wrote in a similar vein in 1975, just as Cambodia and Vietnam were falling to the communists: 'It's difficult to imagine,' he said, 'how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.' A headline on that story, dateline Phnom Penh, summed up the argument: 'Indochina Without Americans: For Most a Better Life.' The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be." ” Thanks to Inspector Hamilton for the heads-up.

Levin: A Clear & Present Danger

Mount Pinatubo, and say his plane crashed.

Lynching by an angry mob works for me too

“ WASHINGTON —  The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee said he was leaving Wednesday for Iraq to tell its leaders that they must accept responsibility for their country. "Folks, if you want a civil war in this country, that's your choice. Count us out of your civil war. We've been here four-and-a-half years," Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan told reporters Wednesday during a stop at Michigan's statehouse. [more] ” Carl Levin has no constitutional authority to take this initiative, and is in fact out of control.  If the President asks me ... Mount Pinatubo, and say his plane crashed.  You're welcome.

The Kerry-MacBeth-Beauchamp phenomenon

Inventing Atrocities

In his National Review article Inventing Atrocities, James S. Robbins takes us from 1944, when a New York Times essay by Arthur Koestler entitled “On Disbelieving Atrocities,” conveyed "his frustration at trying to communicate what he and others had seen taking place in Nazi-dominated Europe," to today where some Americans falsely claim to have personally committed war time atrocities. poorly constructed. F+ Fix it ! “ There has been a spate of these people in this war. Jesse MacBeth claimed to be an Army Ranger, admitted to having executed children while interrogating their parents, shot down rock-throwing protesters, and slaughtered hundreds of worshippers in a mosque. None of that was true. Former Marine Jimmy Massey says he either killed children and civilians personally, witnessed the killings, or heard about them, depending on which story he is telling at the moment. Korean War Veteran Edward Lee Daily came forward in the 1990s claiming to be present at the killings at No Gun Ri, as well as being a lieutenant, a POW, and wounded by shrapnel, all lies. These men are spiritual descendants of the troops interviewed in Mark Lane’s 1970 shocker Conversations with Americans, the book that spurred the “Winter Solider” investigations that brought John Kerry to prominence. It contained a number of confessions by Vietnam veterans who had participated in a variety of gruesome activities, vividly portrayed. The problem was, the confessions were false, and the book was a sham. But it ushered in this new kind of invented atrocity story, aimed not at the enemy but at the United States. The latest entrant is Scott Thomas Beauchamp, whose war stories have been featured in the New Republic. ... ” Robbins of course can only conjecture about motive, but I am in agreement with one suggestion. “ There appears to be no shame in it. In the “victimization” culture individuals are not responsible for what they do; write it off to the “brutalization of war.” The person committing the atrocity is a casualty of the people who sent him to war in the first place. (This line worked much better in the days when we had a draft.) The reward for this act of bravery is fame, travel, maybe a book contract. There is an antiwar industry and politicians out there ready to help, since telling these kinds of stories serves their interests. ” The descriptor "filthy" is a tag made for these people.

Stay Alert

"Everything normal here Chief"

Seething out of control

Today's Sniping

Oops .. almost forgot Murtha

This is all Drudge stuff that you've more than likely spotted, but I think it's noteworthy. As news - somehow- is spreading that Bush's surge policy in Iraq is bearing fruit, Democrats are getting very testy about almost everything. Consider. Heir to Chicago's Jackson crime family, Rep. Jesse Jr ... . , said during a contentious floor debate, that Republicans can't be trusted. Republican Terry responded by telling Jackson to "shut up," then walked over to add that he had found the Illinois lawmaker's comment inappropriate. Terry said Jackson let loose a profanity-filled tirade. "I'm not going to turn with my tail between my legs," Terry said, "so I just stood there." Then Jackson asked Terry if he'd care to step outside. I've bemoaned the outlawing of the duel before. Think about the opportunity Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry might have had in happier times. Rep.Jackson's assertion that "Republicans can't be trusted" is almost as precious as John Edwards saying that Fox News Channel has a right- wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company [News Corp]. That, while demanding that Hillary return $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials. But wait! We learn that Edwards himself took $800,000 from Murdoch. Anyway,back to the bidness at hand. Democrat self-destruction. Just a few days ago ... “ North Dakota’s U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy calls President Bush a “clown” and says he “can’t stand” him in a new video posted on the Internet. ” Okay, not as inclusive as DNC Chairman Howard Dean's declaration that "I hate Republicans, and everything they stand for," but then Pomeroy doesn't lead the democrat Party. Lotta Hate going on in that party, eh wot? I think it's time for a flashback. But first, this news, that didn't happen. House erupts in chaos

He's better at quoting Marx

Where a left-winger attempts a history lesson

It's always fun when Liberals take to deciphering the founding fathers intent, as  Adam Cohen does here in today's New York Times. “ The nation is heading toward a constitutional showdown over the Iraq war. Congress is moving closer to passing a bill to limit or end the war, but President Bush insists Congress doesn’t have the power to do it. “I don’t think Congress ought to be running the war,” he said at a recent press conference. “I think they ought to be funding the troops.” He added magnanimously: “I’m certainly interested in their opinion.”  [Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War] ” Let's go to chapter one. “ After the United States won its independence in the treaty of 1783, it had to protect its own commerce against dangers such as the Barbary pirates. As early as 1784 Congress followed the tradition of the European shipping powers and appropriated $80,000 as tribute to the Barbary states, directing its ministers in Europe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, to begin negotiations with them.... ... Thomas Jefferson, United States minister to France, opposed the payment of tribute ... Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued ... Jefferson's plan for an international coalition foundered on the shoals of indifference and a belief that it was cheaper to pay the tribute than fight a war. ... When Jefferson became president in 1801 he refused to accede to Tripoli's demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 ... President Jefferson dispatched a squadron of naval vessels to the Mediterranean As he declared in his first annual message to Congress: ..."I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean. . . ." ” Who is Bush in that scenario?  Which are Clinton and his leftist minions?  Who is revered today?  Who is entirely forgotten, if not despised?

Harry Asshat

The Trouble With Harry

It's been awhile since I tempered the vitriol I display for democrats on this blog.  It seems like most of the people I know are democrats, and liberal 'crats at that!. A lot of that is because Maryland 's only real industry anymore is government, and servicing it.  Anyway, all of these people are warm, caring people.  I mean that.   However, blend that with the smug sense of moral superiority and entitlement that ALL liberals have, and you have a problem in some situations, one of which is dealing with national security.   This morning's Las Vegas Sun  [Reid's obligation] paints a grand picture of senate warrior Harry Reid.  If we are to believe him, and we have every reason not to, here's why Harry is so determined to cut funding for the war against Islamo fascists in Iraq. “ Reid spoke about what has become known as his Walter Reed moment - a visit in March to the Washington, D.C., military hospital when he was so moved by injured soldiers that he dramatically shifted his own position and called for cuts in war funding. ” Isn't that nice.  If you're a freaking Carmelite nun!  Oh, did I mention that liberals have a moral imperative to lie through their asses if it advances the cause?  Because Harry was calling for withdrawal a long time before his Walter Reed epiphany. Couple that with Bill Richardson's plans for "rebuilding shattered ties to the Muslim world," and you have a good sense of what we face with these people running things.  Annihilation.

Supporting the Troops

Janes Webb

Today's MFCS

Leftwing Defense System

Military Diversity in America

Schumer's Sissies

A War We CANNOT Lose

Bad People

“ Even as our troops make serious progress against al-Qaeda-in-Iraq and other extremists, Congress - including Republican members - is sending the terrorists a message: "Don't lose heart, we'll save you!" Iraq's a mess. Got it. The Bush administration has made so many mistakes I stopped counting a year ago. But we've finally got a general in Baghdad - Dave Petraeus - who's doing things right. Iraqi politicians are still disgracing themselves, but our troops are killing America's enemies - with the help of our former enemies. Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is suffering a humiliating defeat, as fellow Sunni Muslims turn against the fanatics and help them find the martyrdom they advertise. Yet for purely political reasons - next year's elections - cowards on Capitol Hill are spurning the courage of our troops on the ground. [Ralph Peters continued] ”

Let's Hang Harry - All in favor?

A man with honor v. A man with none

Pace v. Reid

The Field of Honor I recently found out that the reason my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize has been tabled is my oft expressed desire to put a noose around several of my countryman's necks.  Sigh. These crapulent commentaries are not my fault.  No person with even a modicum of love for country could overlook the wretched behavior of people like Harry Reid, a man who legitimately deserves to be "Mussolinied Pelosi to the Right "  To wit. “ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported. Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview. This is but the latest example of how Reid, under pressure from liberal activists to do more to stop the war, is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders in anticipation of a September showdown to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, according to Democratic senators and aides. [Captains Quarters] ” My fantasy is that General Pace will call Reid out to the field of honor, another tradition which, like "men only "clubs, was done away with by churlish women and other girlymen with no honor, and no stones. This is the man that Reid, who sells his vote to the highest bidder, had the gall to cast aspersion upon. “ Gen. Peter Pace Speaks   [W. Thomas Smith Jr.] Last night, during a Q&A following remarks by Gen. Peter Pace at The Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, the general was asked the following question: My question is about what many folks at the reception tonight viewed as the very disappointing news about your replacement as chairman. I wonder why you believe that is happening, and what are your thoughts about the process by which we choose the nation’s top military uniformed officer? General Pace responds: I will tell you the truth as I know it, and that is around the middle of May, within a day or two of the Secretary learning from certain members of Congress that there may be a problem to renominate me, he brought me in the office and sat me down and said “Pete, this is what’s happening. I want to renominate you. I want you to know that this is what I’m beginning to hear, this is what I’m going to go do, this is how I’m going to go do it." He went out and did exactly what he said on television, and exactly what he’s been saying in his interviews, which is he went out and pulsed various members of Congress and he heard back from them the things that he said that he heard. He and I sat down, and I said “I’m a Marine…If you want me to go forward with the confirmation process, I’m all for it.” I also told him that what he needed to do, in my opinion, was what was best for the institution, and whatever he and the president decided was going to be best for the institution was what Pete Pace was going to do. Oh and by the way, I can read the Constitution, which says the president gets to nominate and the Senate gets to confirm, or not, and neither one of those two things is going to happen, therefore I’m not staying. One thing that was discussed was whether or not I should just voluntarily retire and take the issue off the table. I said I could not do that for one very fundamental reason and that is that PFC Pace in Baghdad should not think – ever – that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield. That is unacceptable as a leadership thing in my mind. So I elected not to submit my request for retirement until after it was publicly known that I was no longer going to be renominated. That is very important to me. The other part that is important to me is personal. The first piece holds true for anybody in this position – anybody. The other piece for me personally was that some 40 years ago I left some guys on the battlefield in Vietnam who lost their lives following 2nd Lt. Pace. And I promised myself then that I will serve this country until I was no longer needed — that it’s not my decision. I need to be told that I’m done. I’ve been told I’m done. I will run through the finish line on 1 October, and when I run through the finish line I will have met the mission I set for myself. ” Gen Pace interview via Marc Miller

Kathleen Sebelius pulls a Blanco

Kansas Gov Kathleen Sebelius - "I lied, but I had to."

Pelosi is a Killer

DEMOCRATS MURDER

If you check the time of my first post today you'll see it was made at 5:13 AM.  Couldn't sleep after reading this bedtime story. “     Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say. ” It doesn't matter whether the Globe story is wrong on some of the details, it is the Globe after all. It doesn't matter because the story didn't have to be written; we know full well that our enemy is leveraging the disgraceful actions of congressional democrats against President Bush's resolve to  beat Islamo terrorists.  Here's what the story does do, or should.  It makes it manifestly clear that coming American deaths in Iraq are squarely the responsibility of  Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.  Americans will be killed, and not for the first time BTW, because Democrats have used them as barter.    Frankly, if my loved one fell victim to these filthy people this summer, I'd make them pay for it, or die trying. Sorry, but I mean this in the good way."

Jesse Macbeth

Thirty Five Years of Jesse Macbeths

The Big Lie

Yeah, I misspelled the prick's name. Sorry.

Jack Hamilton