Just like the Dems, make a non-veteran chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Like he’d know a lot about it. You bet. Not that the Dems have a lot of veterans, you understand. Sure has a big smile for a guy who pushes airport employees around.
Via Mudville Gazette
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
I don’t get this prosecution of a Virginia reserve Army lieutenant colonel, Saddam’s old jailer, who faces life in prison at Leavenworth for aiding the enemy: i.e. buying the dictator (Ted Koppel’s onetime interlocutor) some cigars to smoke, and some hair dye for his vanity, before his neck was stretched by his betters. The colonel is also alleged to have been indiscrete with a female Iraqi interpreter and to have let "top detainees" use a cell phone, etc. Puny stuff for such a grandiose charge and maximum sentence. It seems the Army can still be as petty as it was in the 1960s. But it’s probable there’s something unspoken going on here, which we just may be lucky enough to find out about before it’s over.
UPDATE: Well, it looks like even the defendant thought he did wrong, though he was acquitted of aid-to-the-enemy. He was convicted of unauthorized possession of classified documents, conduct unbecoming and failure to obey an order. Sentenced to two years, and dismissed from the service after 28 years. But, hopefully, an early parole. A strange case I’d still like to see explained.
Hurricane Katrina supposedly was the clincher in the notion that global warming is caused by nefarious human greed. But, two years later and with nothing like it to have come again, the most famous hurricane-forecasting meteorologist, William Grey, blames the salt content of the oceans. He says Al Gore and the Nobel peace prize committee are doing a disservice to humanity for saying otherwise. Grey believes the climate will swing to global cooling soon enough. It’s been said–I forget by who–that Gore et al are only pushing this phony apocalypse to give the Dems something to run on since, as much as they dislike Bush’s Iraq policy, they know in their hearts that they very likely would have been forced by events to do exactly the same thing–and, for the good of the country, they’d better not interfere with it too much.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Weather/Climate
Tagged Al Gore, Hurricane Katrina, meteorologist, Nobel Peace Prize, William Grey
Those bad boyz just can’t get any rest in Iraq. The USAF F-16s are always dropping by without notice.
Former Marine, winner of the Navy Cross and author Marco Martinez is the sort of troop you’re not likely to meet in the MSM. He isn’t bitter, homeless or haunted. He felt honored to fight in Iraq.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Hard Corps: From Gangster to Marine Hero, Marco Martinez
Why we couldn’t simply replicate the Afghanistan/Taliban approach in democratizing Iraq:
"It is not enough to persuade a Muslim population to reject al Qaeda’s ideology and practice. Someone must also be willing and able to protect that population against the terrorists they had been harboring, something that special forces and long-range missiles alone can’t do."
Read it all.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Afghanistan, al Queda, Iraq, Kagan, Taliban
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