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Mike H.
Spokane
The last time I looked I was alive.
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And you're singing the same old stale song of a previous decade. Pot meet kettle.
SPIEGEL ONLINE's Final Biased Iraq War Gallery
You guessed it - SPIEGEL ONLINE's post marking the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq contains a fifteen-slide photo gallery with nothing but pictures of evil American invaders, death and destruction and Iraqi suffering. It contains no photos of Iraqi voters with ink-dipped fingers. No photos r...
"He fed the people bullshit and they slurped it up. Why??"
Because life has gotten boring and they hope that he changes it.
Never fear, we'll all be the first to know when he's successful.
Multiple Wives Clubs in Moderate Muslim Malaysia - It empowers women!
Get used to it, ladies. The more Obama sanctions and outreaches the Muslim world, the more their misogyny, suppression and destruction of women will be packaged as a good thing, Any criticism of the vile treatment of women in Islam is an insult. YOU DO NOT INSULT ISLAM. Obama says, respect it...
"The investigators found as many as one-third of the ballots cast for Karzai in the Aug. 20 election had been fraudulent."
Was ACORN involved?
Afghans Libel our Troops: Protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troops
U.S. Service Member Killed in Afghan Blast Burning Obama in effigy. Obama say: Respect dat! This war is pointless if we do not understand the enemy, Islam. If it's jihadis you want to kill, without addressing the ideology, then dispense with the suicidal rules of engagement. Again, what is the...
Mr. Sparkle it may surprise you (or not) that I don't care. They may not have engaged in hostile acts but the MILITARY thought that they were illegal combatants and I'll go with the guys in the field over management personnel of an organization that leaks secret info like a sieve.
Here's hoping that you remain terrified of Addington. Maybe you'll decide to refrain from any acts of your own.
More manufactured Obama outrage
Since the narrative they have created involves racist racism from the neanderthal right, the New Yorker feels free to create it in the absence of the authentic article. The funny thing is that all the themes they focus on are either created by Obama's Democrat opponents or are representations ...
Tantor, "After all, if he witnessed a bloody car accident and photographed mutilated civilians dying within, would he posting those so proudly on his website?"
Yes he would and would say something to the effect that if it bleeds it leads. A rather disgusting indictment of the journalistic profession. There is an oldest profession and then there is a lowest profession, with all due respect to those of quality in that endeavour, he belongs to the latter via the former.
Photojournalist Banned by Marines in Iraq
Zoriah Miller was an embedded blogger. He's a photojournalist who has posted a photo of Marine KIA and has earned the ire of the Marines in Iraq. He blogs at Zoriah.net. From the Ventura County Star: BAGHDAD — It's a disturbing picture. The dead Marine is lying on his back, his face damage...
YS, perhaps you can tell me when 1600 wouldn't be eight bells. Are you trying to say that old man time stands the dog watch too? Also, when I was aboard ship, I was on the wheel and don't remember tacking to the wind so there are probably a number of things that capable mariners do that went out the scupper from the 19th century. One was rope yarn sunday, which when we had it had nothing to do with rebuilding rope or mending clothing or sail.
The Language of the Sea
Via Corporal Seamus and LtCol Brader comes this article (don't know when or where was published) by Colonel Hammond about the language of the US Marine Corps. I really liked it for it's pride and history...enjoy (now, it's 0700 hours and I've got to get to work): Salty Language by Col James W...
BDS is all over the place isn't it?
Mission Accomplished?
Via Seamus, comes this email from a Navy Lieutenant who was aboard the USS Lincoln during the visit from President Bush. Yesterday was the anniversary of President Bush's speech about the end of major combat operations, and it was covered by some the media as the infamous "Mission Accomplished"...
Tomorrow this will all be behind us.
A Difficult Decision
The last few weeks have brought many things into focus for me. I've looked at what I have done in life, what it has cost me, and what it will cost me if I continue on as planned. Blogging has brought me into contact with some truly wonderful people; and, has seen myself and others around me attac...
R. Stanton Scott, God commanded man to go to war a number of times. Why would he require something that he hadn't designed into man. Part of the duty of man is to overcome the natural inclination to combat and find ways to coexist. We have a sexual drive that causes friction. We're instructed by God to keep it in check under normal circumstances and use it for the most good. Attention to duty shows fealty,
On PTSD, or more properly, on Coming Home
Kat from Castle Donovan wanted us to talk seriously about the problem of what is fashionably called "PTSD." No one here needs an introduction to the topic. Kat's concern is that, in knocking down bad numbers on veterans' mental or spiritual health, we might ignore a real problem that needs to ...
It's now traitorous to despise the enemy and his minions? Son, your loopy logic betrays your assertion that you're a vet. Maybe you can go down to the army-navy store and buy your veteran's status. BTW, give those dates back to the guy that you stole them from. You non-hacker.
Run boy, run!
The Surge Isn't working! There is no light at the end of the tunnel! The War is Lost!!
Well, that may be a bit of a fib... BAGHDAD: Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday. Fighters of the Islamic Army in Ira...
Giving me the period of your service isn't isn't a guarantor of your possession of a spine Jeff. Beauchamp managed to make it through basic, look what he turned out to be.
The lessons that you should have learned in the performance of your duties evidently didn't take hold and the entire time that you supposedly spent in the service was a waste. Think about it, you go into an organization that is based on the fact that you might be called on to end someone's life or have him end yours. Your training not only teaches you how to accomplish your mission but it teaches you how to identify your enemy and provides you with previous examples of his actions. From this you deduce the fallacious idea that you can reason with him? He's going to kill you or you're going to kill him, you start reasoning and he kills you, ipso, a total waste of any training that you've received. You've managed to make it all the way through training and service and missed it, completely.
Then we turn to the other lessons that you were supposed to learn and we have to wonder who the hell it was that taught you that this country wasn't worth living in and why you even bothered to go in to the service. It's not an adventure, it's a job?
I would like to wish you a happy veterans day but it seems that I would be remiss were I to even wish you a happy Guy Fawkes day.
The Surge Isn't working! There is no light at the end of the tunnel! The War is Lost!!
Well, that may be a bit of a fib... BAGHDAD: Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday. Fighters of the Islamic Army in Ira...
Ya know Jeffy I don't think that you're a Coast Guardsman, most Coast Guardsmen that I knew when I was a Squid, had a backbone. They needed to have one due to the nature of their job. That job BTW, included going to foreign places and fighting just wars. In fact I saw a couple on swiftboats before the swiftboats were transferred into the Brownwater Navy.
Oh, and vet66@05:55pm "Close but no cigar! The MSM has no soul!" does that mean that Gomorrah will be repossessed? Poor MSM.
DD-808 'Nam 65-67
The Surge Isn't working! There is no light at the end of the tunnel! The War is Lost!!
Well, that may be a bit of a fib... BAGHDAD: Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday. Fighters of the Islamic Army in Ira...
Are we talkin' Long John Sliver here?
More Surge Success
Greyhawk really sums it up well when he writes: ...For what it's worth, I don't know or care if anything like that background conversation is ongoing or not. As I said, we've won. Lt. Gen. Odierno is absolutely right to note: "it only takes three people" to construct and detonate a suicide car ...
Are we talkin' Long John Sliver here?
More Surge Success
Greyhawk really sums it up well when he writes: ...For what it's worth, I don't know or care if anything like that background conversation is ongoing or not. As I said, we've won. Lt. Gen. Odierno is absolutely right to note: "it only takes three people" to construct and detonate a suicide car ...
Are we talkin' Long John Sliver here?
More Surge Success
Greyhawk really sums it up well when he writes: ...For what it's worth, I don't know or care if anything like that background conversation is ongoing or not. As I said, we've won. Lt. Gen. Odierno is absolutely right to note: "it only takes three people" to construct and detonate a suicide car ...
Just out of curiosity, if we don't seem to be able to handle the situation in Iraq, why the hell would we line up on any other border and extend the war to another area? If we're tired of playing in Iraq why would we decide to go off and engage hizb'allah? Do we half do something in Iraq then half do something in Syria then half do something in Jordan saving Iran for last so we can half do something for the entire middle east?
We need more troops, good, then we can tuck every swinging ____ into bed at night. It's a good thing that we don't want any sweat equity for the house that we're building for them. By God we should do what we did when I was in the Corps while we were trying to rebuild the outfit after the intense accolades we received from 'Nam, if a Pvt can't be held responsible then make a Pfc the responsible party, if a Lcpl is needed then give it to him and if we work it right we can have a SSgt responsible for checking out the vacuum cleaner when we get done. The same program can be done to the Iraqis. Why make them responsible for their own future when we can pass the buck up the chain in our own outfit.
82nd ABN NCOs in the NY Times
First go read Grim's piece below, as always he lays out a much more coherent and detailed look at specifics than I do. From the NY Times, a piece written by junior NCOs of the 82nd ABN. VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surrea...
James you're obviously not a "Poster Girl (from the wrong side of the world)."
Get off the Aussies
We don't have many good friends in the world. The left would have you believe that it's because we are evil imperialists who everyone hates for our attempts to dominate the globe. The truth has a lot more to do with envy, competition and ignorance, but regardless. Perhaps our truest ally is the ...
"what type of Islam is being practiced in the U.S." Bob
Taqiyya
The Irrational Core
Sophisticated, urbane, typically liberal and secular, modern man has done a masterful job of convincing himself that he lives a life based on rationality and has no need for the irrational belief system known as religion. He may have some passing belief in the existence of God, but his God take...
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