This is a really "Paul Harvey" type of story about Gen Petraeus
http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010448
10 August 2007
How the media promote false pessimism about the economy.
Fair but Unbalanced
How the media promote false pessimism about the economy.
{ Of course this is what happens when the stupidest kids in college find their way to "Journalism". I would be willing to bet that your average Junior Acheivement kid could outperform these dolts when it come to understanding business }
How the media promote false pessimism about the economy.
{ Of course this is what happens when the stupidest kids in college find their way to "Journalism". I would be willing to bet that your average Junior Acheivement kid could outperform these dolts when it come to understanding business }
NARCO-INSURRECTION
NARCO-INSURRECTION
By RALPH PETERS
August 9, 2007 -- IMAGINE if our country were so ravaged by drug cartels that the president sent the military into a third of the states to break the terror.
That's where Mexico is today. We all pay the price.
Home Searched In Probe of Wiretap Leak
Under the files of "It's about freakin' time"
Report: Home Searched In Probe of Wiretap Leak
Under every leak to sabotage our national security you'll find a liberal bureaucrat/lawyer doing what socialists always do - weaken our Nation.
Report: Home Searched In Probe of Wiretap Leak
Under every leak to sabotage our national security you'll find a liberal bureaucrat/lawyer doing what socialists always do - weaken our Nation.
Jan Mickelson vs. Mitt Romney video
Watch Jan Mickelson bait Mitt Romney - telling him "off the air" when there was a video camera running with full audio. Romney for someone not knowing he was being recorded conducted himself quite well. Mickelson is somone who is full of crap but makes rational arguements, but nonetheless he is still full of crap.
It goes on for 20 minutes but worth it.
It goes on for 20 minutes but worth it.
Rational Optimism on Iraq
Rational Optimism on Iraq
Max Boot - 8.7.2007 - 4:06PM
The evidence of gains being made on the ground in Iraq continues to pile up.
That doesn’t mean it’s prudent to wash our hands of Iraq, or give up on the surge. Cordesman’s report, making the case for "strategic patience," has it right. But even the most ardent backers of General Petraeus should not let their hopes run out of control. Given how bad the situation was by the time Petraeus took over, there is still a possibility he could do everything right and fail.
Max Boot - 8.7.2007 - 4:06PM
The evidence of gains being made on the ground in Iraq continues to pile up.
That doesn’t mean it’s prudent to wash our hands of Iraq, or give up on the surge. Cordesman’s report, making the case for "strategic patience," has it right. But even the most ardent backers of General Petraeus should not let their hopes run out of control. Given how bad the situation was by the time Petraeus took over, there is still a possibility he could do everything right and fail.
GRAY LADY HEDGES
GRAY LADY HEDGES
By RAPLH PETERS
August 1, 2007 -- SOMETIMES where a thing is said is bigger news than what was said. That happened on Monday, when The New York Times ran a guest op-ed detailing the progress in Iraq.
By RAPLH PETERS
August 1, 2007 -- SOMETIMES where a thing is said is bigger news than what was said. That happened on Monday, when The New York Times ran a guest op-ed detailing the progress in Iraq.
The hinge of fate in Iraq
The hinge of fate in Iraq
By Tony Blankley -
On June 25 the following resolution was tabled in the House: "That this House, while paying tribute to the heroism and endurance of the Armed Forces... in circumstances of exceptional difficulty, has no confidence in the central direction of the war." That would be June 25, 1942. The House would be the House of Commons in London, England. And the government in which no confidence was expressed was that of Winston Churchill.
By Tony Blankley -
On June 25 the following resolution was tabled in the House: "That this House, while paying tribute to the heroism and endurance of the Armed Forces... in circumstances of exceptional difficulty, has no confidence in the central direction of the war." That would be June 25, 1942. The House would be the House of Commons in London, England. And the government in which no confidence was expressed was that of Winston Churchill.
02 August 2007
"What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!"
- General Giap, North Vietnam (memoirs)
24 July 2007
The Blood Boiling Link of the Year
Here's the blood boiling link of the year ( That is saying a lot) respected Pentagon correspondant Rowan Scarborogh's new book about the CIA's treachery in overtly sabotaging our war effort. The links to the book exerpts are worth reading.
This reminds me of my "Intelligent Observations" list which includes the intelligent observation that only liberals aspire to work for the government. Anyone else wants to do well in the private sector, but Liberals crave being the Cardinals and Arch Bishops of the Government at any level.
This reminds me of my "Intelligent Observations" list which includes the intelligent observation that only liberals aspire to work for the government. Anyone else wants to do well in the private sector, but Liberals crave being the Cardinals and Arch Bishops of the Government at any level.
Solider surprises his son at school
I dare you not to tear up watching this, thank God for our Military and their families
This little boy has more moral courage than 95% of Congress
This little boy has more moral courage than 95% of Congress
The Surge Succeeds
{Great breakdown of what has happened in a very short amount of time}
The Surge Succeeds
By J.R. Dunn
The Surge Succeeds
By J.R. Dunn
Opening passage:
"God looks after children, drunkards, and the United States of America" - Otto von Bismarck
It's now quite clear how the results of the surge will be dealt with by domestic opponents of the Iraq war.
They're going to be ignored.
The 9/11 Generation - Better than the Boomers
The 9/11 Generation - Better than the Boomers
{Anyone who signs up / re-ups since 9-11 knew what they were getting into that is why they are to be roundly commended. If this is the future of our country then we will e in good hands. Think about it, these kids are bombarded constantly by every form of media and academia with negative messages and publicity and they sign up anyway. }
{Anyone who signs up / re-ups since 9-11 knew what they were getting into that is why they are to be roundly commended. If this is the future of our country then we will e in good hands. Think about it, these kids are bombarded constantly by every form of media and academia with negative messages and publicity and they sign up anyway. }
Look who's holding hostages again..
The indespensible Mark Steyn with reality right between the eyes
Opening passage:
How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?
No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.
What? You haven't heard about them?
Odd that, isn't it? But they're there. For example, for two months now, Haleh Esfandiari has been detained in Evin prison in Tehran. Esfandiari is a U.S. citizen and had traveled to Iran to visit her sick mother. She is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which is the kind of gig that would impress your fellow guests at a Washington dinner party. Unfortunately, the mullahs say it's an obvious cover for a Bush spy.
Opening passage:
How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?
No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.
What? You haven't heard about them?
Odd that, isn't it? But they're there. For example, for two months now, Haleh Esfandiari has been detained in Evin prison in Tehran. Esfandiari is a U.S. citizen and had traveled to Iran to visit her sick mother. She is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which is the kind of gig that would impress your fellow guests at a Washington dinner party. Unfortunately, the mullahs say it's an obvious cover for a Bush spy.
Don't play the Vietnam card with me, John Kerry.
Old article from 2004 with great relevance today.
A Shameful Past - Don't play the Vietnam card with me, John Kerry.
A Shameful Past - Don't play the Vietnam card with me, John Kerry.
13 July 2007
Diane Sawyer's brush with reality
Thursday's edition of Good Morning America featured a Diane Sawyer anecdote that revealed the low opinion Americans have of journalists. After wrapping up a 7:30am segment on people who avoid jury duty, the ABC co-host laughingly recounted the "hurtful" experience she had in a courtroom: "You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."
The New York Times Surrenders
Historian Victor Davis Hanson puts a beat down on the idiotic pull out yesterday editorial
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-07-12vdh.html
12 July 2007
Al-Qaeda Barbarism in Iraq Ignored
Great Rush monologue asking (and answering) why Al-Qaeda barbarism in Iraq Ignored
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070907/content/01125110.guest.html
Check out Victory Caucus and the Al Qaeda assistance act of 2007
Great resource for Patriots right now- http://www.victorycaucus.com/
Click for story about HR 2956 which wants to begin withdrawal in four months (AKA: the Al Qaeda assistance act of 2007)
HR 2956 is being introduced "To require the Secretary of Defense to commence the reduction of the number of United States Armed Forces in Iraq to a limited presence by April 1, 2008" --- in other words, to mandate a cut-and-run strategy.
Worse than the April 1 deadline, the bill requires that "The Secretary of Defense shall commence the reduction of the number of Armed Forces in Iraq beginning not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act." So less than five months after the Surge has truly been implemented, we'll be giving up -- regardless of the facts on the ground.
{Congress to Al Qaeda: "Don't give up- help is on the way"}
Bin Laden search frustrates officials
{ What phenomenal insight from the " CIA Director for Intelligence" John Kringen "his agency thinks bin Laden is alive and "probably in the tribal areas of Pakistan." Thank goodness they are on top of it- I feel better. I realize there is immense calculus here with Pakistan having nukes and thinking Musharraff is better than the alternative, but I have to think sending in teams to hunt/kill these maniacs would win us more respect/fear from them then playing this State Dept balance of power geo-political academic exercises - they don't fear us and that emboldens them. There is no price to pay for shielding Bin Laden I know there are some Wild Bill Donovans still out there, but obviously not in decision making }
11 July 2007
Dubya's end
DUBYA'S END
By JOHN PODHORETZ
June 29, 2007 -- PRESIDENT Bush's disastrous second term has not been without its moments. Unfortunately for him, these moments have come primarily when members of his own party have risen up against him to defy his wishes.
Listen to what the armed forces have to say about Iraq.
Soldiers’ Voices Listen to what the armed forces have to say about Iraq.
Money quote:
"The troops’ number-one frustration has consistently been the media reporting. The way the press mishandled Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo had a tremendous negative effect on us. It inflamed the Iraqis at a time when we were making great progress in their support and willingness to help.”——Major Eric Egland, U.S. Air Force
Money quote:
"The troops’ number-one frustration has consistently been the media reporting. The way the press mishandled Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo had a tremendous negative effect on us. It inflamed the Iraqis at a time when we were making great progress in their support and willingness to help.”——Major Eric Egland, U.S. Air Force
Britain's war against . . . well, you know
Britain's war against . . . well, you know
Terrorists targeting the West populate a virulent strain of Islam. Skirting that unfortunate truth — as the new prime minister seems apt to do — will only prolong the battle and embolden the enemy.
By Melanie Phillips
Congress to Terrorists: "Don't lose heart, we'll save you!"
THE 'QUIT IRAQ' CAUCUS: By RALPH PETERS
July 11, 2007 -- 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!"
Tony Blankley editorial calls out the traitors in Congress
Tony Blankley editorial calls out the traitors in Congress
The Senate: chamber of shame
Key Passage:
"But the debate today in Washington is about none of these strategic concerns. It is exclusively about Washington's political timetable and when the president will bend to such political necessity. For self-admitted politics — rather than national security — to be driving decision making in wartime Washington is not only an unpatriotic disgrace — it is a national menace. "
09 July 2007
An unspeakable tragedy
The tragic consequences of the unhinged left. A better man killed for serving his country. What has become of these people. Words don't do justice
From LGF and Michelle Malkin
You won't read the truth anywhere else.
From LGF and Michelle Malkin
You won't read the truth anywhere else.
07 July 2007
Happy Birthday America! from San Fran-sicko
4th of July - San Francisco style! (warning: graphic images/language- of course)
Meet Joe Biden's hairline
It doesn't matter how long you grow it in the back, we all know what's happening up top (and in the back).
Aging Hippie Liberal
Look up aging hippie liberal in wikipedia and this guy should be there. Makes me want to join Team Obama. (yes, there is a pony tail in the back, no picture though- I was trying to keep my kids from making eye-contact)
05 July 2007
Meet the Artic Monkeys
{I don’t know what they sound like, but based on their comments alone I am a fan }
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070705025637.vyh5u7g0&show_article=1
Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists. "It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.
"Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.
Large parts of the band's hometown of Sheffield were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed.
But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change.
"Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it's like 'who cares what we think about what's happening'?" added Helders.
"There's more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we're in a band?"
03 July 2007
"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor"
A must read before the 4th of July
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/folder/american_who_risked_everything_1.guest.html
02 July 2007
Jumping the Fence by Mark Steyn
Hilarious rendition of what transpired in the Senate last week. You can't help but think it was a significant turning point in American politics.
http://www.nysun.com/article/57664
The New Strategy in Iraq
Great analysis of past successes and failures and what Gen Petraeus is putting to work
The New Strategy in Iraq
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=28987
Latest Michael Yon post
If you have never heard of Michael Yon, you owe it to yourself to read his dispatches from Iraq. This guy is a one-man show living with our guys in Iraq and reporting what is happening warts and all. Here is his latest.
http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
I first heard of Michael Yon from a dispatch where he assisted Soldiers from 2-4 Cav in taking out the enemy by firing a weapon- something that could've had him booted out of the theater. He is not a "trained" journalist, he's former SF that started blogging and made his way to Iraq to cover the war out of his own funds.
Bookmark michaelyon-online.com
28 June 2007
Introducing Rage Boy
This guy is deservedly getting ridiculed all over the world. There is something about making fun of the enemy that gives people a great outlet. Make up your own caption, mine is "Freebird"
Understanding General Petraeus's Strategy
Excellent article from Fredrick Kagen who was instrumental in pushing for the surge strategy. This is his testimony to Congress.
In Petraeus we trust
In Petraeus we trust
21 June 2007
TB - brought to you by NAFTA
"The percentage of positive cases is believed to be high because many of the plant's employees come from other countries where the disease may be more prevalent, said agency spokesman Thom Berry."
Let's translate from the Orweillian truthspeak. What "because many of the plant's employees come from other countries where the disease may be more prevalent" actually means is "a new American", no that's not it, maybe an "eventual American working here without all the i's dotted and t's crossed"
Vaclav Klaus in 2008
{Could the Czech President run for the Senate? Let's let him telecommute and participate via C-SPAN?}
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.
WINNING ON OFFENSE
By RALPH PETERS
HALLELUJAH! For the first time since Baghdad fell, our military in Iraq has a comprehensive, integrated plan to defeat our enemies. Until now, our efforts have always been piecemeal, stop-start affairs. Even our success in the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004 went unexploited.
20 June 2007
Bush weighs reaching out to Muslim Brotherhood
FDR weighs reaching out to Nazis (1942)
Bush weighs reaching out to Muslim Brotherhood (2007)
The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood
Bush weighs reaching out to Muslim Brotherhood (2007)
The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood
Father of the Iranian revolution - Jimmy Carter
Author Michael Evans puts Jimmy Carter in proper historical prespective.
Analysis of immigration bill
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1513.cfm
From the conclusion:
"The bill offers alien terrorists new pathways to obtain legal status, which will make it easier for them to carry out deadly attacks against American citizens."
Read it all
19 June 2007
Smugglers set fires at border areas
{Ok, now they have done it - now Al Gore will have to come out in favor of the fence to save the planet.}
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070619-121814-2527r
U.S. Border Patrol agents seeking to secure the nation's border in some of the country's most pristine national forests are being targeted by illegal aliens, who are using intentionally set fires to burn agents out of observation posts and patrol routes.
In the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, with 60 miles of land along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Forest Service firefighters sent in to battle fires or clear wild-land fire areas are required to be escorted by armed law-enforcement officers.
"graduation ceremony"
{Hint- they aren't Methodists. Surprisingly it does not mention what the US has done to make them do this, I am sure the New York Times will cover that angle}
ABC News has a videotape showing the perverted “graduation ceremony” of teams of newly-trained suicide bombers supposedly sent to attack the US and Britain.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25901_ABC-_Suicide_Bomb_Teams_Sent_to_US_Europe&only
Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare
{Just another example of how cheap life is deemed in other countries, it's disgusting, It's moments like these where I know America and the American Military serve a higher purpose}
U.S. Troops Discover And Rescue Orphan Boys Left Starving, Chained To Beds
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/18/eveningnews/main2946007.shtml
18 June 2007
father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey
{Leave it to an 87 year old Climatologists to call it like it is. Where are we going to be when these guys are gone and the hippies are the Professor Emeritus' of the world.}
http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/197613
Key passages:
Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey.
"There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'"
Bryson didn't see Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." "Don't make me throw up," he said. "It is not science. It is not true."
Pace is out - another victory for spineless liberal Democrats over a spineless White House
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070616-121131-5604r
Key passages:
A Vietnam veteran, Gen. Pace indicated in his Norfolk comments that his experience in that war colored his decision not to quit voluntarily.
"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 Second Lieutenant Pace," he said. "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."
Gen. Pace confirmed that Mr. Gates had told him he preferred to keep him as chairman but in mid-May began to see signs of opposition on Capitol Hill.
"This is a man who thinks nothing of himself. He has always put the military first," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "The president was very reluctant to accept the recommendation of the secretary of defense, but he respects [Mr. Gates] and agrees with his assessment."
This is sickening to me, when you give a bum like George Tenant the Medal of Freedom, and go to the mattresses over AG Gonzalez, but at the first sign of anything being "contentious" the White House throws an honorable and decent Man under the bus, a Man that that has served with distinction and honor for 40 years. Notice how the WH spokesgal puts this on SecDef Gates.
As Sarge would say in "Beetle Bailey" this is a bunch of &$@#%.
Semper Fi
Email the Marines - I am not asking.
Great interview at BlackFive with a Marine Colonel in Anbar province. Worth reading the whole interview here. His major request was that You drop an email to express your support for the Marines. As the Colonel mentioned, they watch the same news we do, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to do what they do and watch this propaganda.
Article link is here:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/06/roundtable_with.html
Email address to the Marines in Anbar is here:
RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil
16 June 2007
From the desk of Gen. Chuck Yeager
From the desk of Gen. Chuck Yeager:
November 20, 2006
To my Fellow Americans,
Congressman Duncan Hunter is the best candidate for President of the United States of America that I know - he has integrity, tenacity, courage, and diplomacy. He is intelligent and thoughtful, does his research, and acts on it.
I have known Congressman Duncan Hunter for over 35 years. Duncan served his country in the Army and is a Vietnam vet. In Vietnam, he served in one of the most dangerous outfits - the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 75th Army Rangers.
Duncan Hunter is the former and very effective Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and I am proud to be the Honorary Chair of the Congressman Duncan Hunter for President Committee.
Chuck Yeager
Please check out more at Duncan Hunter's website
November 20, 2006
To my Fellow Americans,
Congressman Duncan Hunter is the best candidate for President of the United States of America that I know - he has integrity, tenacity, courage, and diplomacy. He is intelligent and thoughtful, does his research, and acts on it.
I have known Congressman Duncan Hunter for over 35 years. Duncan served his country in the Army and is a Vietnam vet. In Vietnam, he served in one of the most dangerous outfits - the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 75th Army Rangers.
Duncan Hunter is the former and very effective Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and I am proud to be the Honorary Chair of the Congressman Duncan Hunter for President Committee.
Chuck Yeager
Please check out more at Duncan Hunter's website
Reid attacks General Petraeus
This loser knows no lows, Harry Reid couldn't carry Gen. Petraueus' jock but yet here he is taking shots at the most important Commander in the war. Reid and his ilk can't wait for the US to lose in Iraq, they are practically salivating over it.
15 June 2007
Huckabee link added
Great resource for those looking at Mike Huckabee. Look for a surge here in Iowa the more he gets around. I predict a big showing at the straw poll in Ames.
http://mikehuckabeepresident2008.blogspot.com/
http://mikehuckabeepresident2008.blogspot.com/
Pakistan's soldiers 'huddling in their bases' in tribal regions
The Pakistani army is paralysed by the growing Taliban threat and some retired officers are covertly aiding the militants, according to a former CIA officer.
Soldiers posted to Waziristan, a tribal area that hosts an estimated 2,000 al-Qaida fighters, are "huddling in their bases, doing nothing", said Art Keller, a CIA case officer who was posted to Pakistan last year.
"Their approach was to pretend that nothing was wrong because any other approach would reveal that they were unwilling and unable to do anything about Talibanisation," said Mr Keller, who has visited Waziristan.
Huckabee looks to break from second-tier pack
Mike Huckabee has been stellar in the debates, he's one of those guys that the more people see of him the better he is going to do. I am a Duncan Hunter man right now, but Huckabee is right there.
Best Quote:
Check out the youtube video of his awesome response to the media ingrate asking him about his stance on evolution. It's a Grand Slam response..
US military prepared for 'worst' with China
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070614/wl_asia_afp/uschinamilitary
Their game since 9-11 is to conduct massive build-ups and grow more aggressive & brazen knowing our attention is focused elsewhere.
Don’t forget the E-3 incident in April 2001?
14 June 2007
Rockford
Bookmark the counterterrorismblog.org - great resource
They have a link to a .pdf about the attempted terrorist attack in Rockford, IL. (remember that one?) You won't if the media has it's way. They've done a great job of 9-11 so far-is there even footage of 9-11 still in existence? , so how would anyone remember Rockford, Seattle, Ft Dix, San Francisco, LAX, JFK, Sears Tower, Salt Lake City, Chapel Hill, NC………...
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/06/nefa_series_target_america_the.php
Military officers now targets on Hill (aka Liberals hate the military)
Unfortunately this is what happens when:
1. The administration cedes leadership and self neuters themselves - I would think Gen Pace deserves a more rigorous defense than AG Gonzalez is receiving
2. Political correctness is applied to national security
3. Liberals show themselves for their true feelings of uniform personnel
4. Democrats are elected
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070614/D8POHGRO0.html
Military Officers Now Targets on Hill
Key passages:
- On Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made the stunning announcement that he would not recommend Pace to serve a second two-year term as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Marine Corps four-star general had not been a target previously of Democrats' ire on the war, but Gates said lawmakers made it clear the confirmation process would be ugly.
- Tauscher, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Pace lost standing among members in March when he said homosexual acts were immoral and that the military should not condone the behavior by allowing gays to serve openly. He later apologized, including in a personal letter to Tauscher, for expressing what he said were his personnel views.
- Tauscher said his comments on gays "showed his ignorance" and "had to be deeply discounted because they came from a man who had presided over a war that we got into on a lie and what I consider to be a serious dereliction of duty in having our troops and our readiness so destroyed by the policies of this administration."
Freedom, not climate, is at risk By Vaclav Klaus
{ The President of Czech Republic has been the only world leader other than John Howard of Australia that has shown any backbone about this snake-oil hysteria of man-made global warming. It's rare, but it's enjoyable to read something from a leader with courage and simple common sense}
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
By Vaclav Klaus
Published: June 13 2007 17:44 | Last updated: June 13 2007 17:44
We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.
In the past year, Al Gore’s so-called “documentary” film was shown in cinemas worldwide, Britain’s – more or less Tony Blair’s – Stern report was published, the fourth report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was put together and the Group of Eight summit announced ambitions to do something about the weather. Rational and freedom-loving people have to respond. The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced.
The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: “the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem. It requires courage to oppose the “established” truth, although a lot of people – including top-class scientists – see the issue of climate change entirely differently. They protest against the arrogance of those who advocate the global warming hypothesis and relate it to human activities.
As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.
The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment. They are Malthusian pessimists.
The scientists should help us and take into consideration the political effects of their scientific opinions. They have an obligation to declare their political and value assumptions and how much they have affected their selection and interpretation of scientific evidence.
Does it make any sense to speak about warming of the Earth when we see it in the context of the evolution of our planet over hundreds of millions of years? Every child is taught at school about temperature variations, about the ice ages, about the much warmer climate in the Middle Ages. All of us have noticed that even during our life-time temperature changes occur (in both directions).
Due to advances in technology, increases in disposable wealth, the rationality of institutions and the ability of countries to organise themselves, the adaptability of human society has been radically increased. It will continue to increase and will solve any potential consequences of mild climate changes.
I agree with Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who said: “future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age”.
The issue of global warming is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature.
As a witness to today’s worldwide debate on climate change, I suggest the following:
■Small climate changes do not demand far-reaching restrictive measures
■Any suppression of freedom and democracy should be avoided
■Instead of organising people from above, let us allow everyone to live as he wants
■Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term “scientific consensus”, which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority
■Instead of speaking about “the environment”, let us be attentive to it in our personal behaviour
■Let us be humble but confident in the spontaneous evolution of human society. Let us trust its rationality and not try to slow it down or divert it in any direction
■Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives.
The writer is President of the Czech Republic
13 June 2007
When lawyers run wars.....
I trust these lawyers volunteer their time to assist the Men who have lost limbs and families of those who have lost lives because of their decsion.
In 2004, CIA operatives in Iraq believed that they had identified the signatures of 11 bomb makers. They proposed a diabolical -- but potentially effective -- sabotage program that would have flooded Iraq with booby-trapped detonators designed to explode in the bomb makers' hands. But the CIA general counsel's office said no. The lawyers claimed that the agency lacked authority for such an operation.
In 2004, CIA operatives in Iraq believed that they had identified the signatures of 11 bomb makers. They proposed a diabolical -- but potentially effective -- sabotage program that would have flooded Iraq with booby-trapped detonators designed to explode in the bomb makers' hands. But the CIA general counsel's office said no. The lawyers claimed that the agency lacked authority for such an operation.
09 June 2007
Police, FBI Plan To Examine Iran Links in JFK Plot
Police, FBI Plan To Examine Iran Links in JFK Plot and now back to Paris Hilton coverage......
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