Category Archives: Iraq

The religion of peace is a religion of war

Posted on February 24, 2015 | 4 comments

The ISIS barbarians are not really about the seventh century. Barry and his Muslim-lovin’ chums are lying about that.

“If the United States hadn’t intervened, the Saudis would still openly keep slaves. Islam never became enlightened. It never stopped being ‘medieval’. Whatever enlightenment it received was imposed on it by European colonialism. It’s a second-hand enlightenment that never went under the skin…

“The media reported the burning of the Jordanian pilot as if it were some horrifying and unprecedented aberration. But Muslim heretics, as well as Jews and Christians accused of blasphemy, were burned alive for their crimes against Islam. Numerous accounts of this remain, not from the seventh century, but from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Those who weren’t burned, might be beheaded.”

Muslim raiding and slave-taking continued into the 19th century. Slaves are still prevalent in Pakistan. The Saudis still behead “criminals” frequently. The Democrat news media just doesn’t report any of this and, of course, the Worm never mentions it.

Via Sultan Knish.

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Lyin’ Brian’s suspension could be permanent

Posted on February 13, 2015 | 1 comment

“Williams has claimed since 2011—to David Letterman, among others—that he embedded with SEAL Team 6 multiple times and had developed such a close relationship that one of them gave him a piece of the downed chopper from the famous Osama Bin Laden raid.”

This is reminiscent of Lurch and his magic hat from his improbable riverboat raid into Cambodia. What is it with lefties and lying? Why do they feel the need to embellish their celebrity and, in Bri’s case, multi-million-dollar salary?

Via Bad Blue and Sooper Mexican.

UPDATE:  One reason his cronies came down so hard on Lyin’ Brian is that, in getting caught, he exposed their own mendacity and threatened their already-shaky house of cards.

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VN vet study reaffirms PTSD is chronic

Posted on February 12, 2015 | 2 comments

Latest print issue of VVA Veteran has results of the Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study of 2014, a followup to the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study of 1986. Both were funded by the VA.

The new study confirms the 1986 findings in that a majority of “Vietnam theater veterans,” presumably meaning those who served in-country “are mentally and physically healthy four or more decades after their warzone service.” Their average age is now 67 years old.

But “a significant number [about 14 percent] are suffering from persistent and chronic PTSD symptoms related to their experiences in the war.” And their rates of depression are “more than fifty times greater” than those who do not have PTSD. The PTSD also appears to be episodic, waxing and waning on its own cycle.

The study and its results are expected to be useful in anticipating the long-term needs of veterans of more recent campaigns, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

Via VVA Veteran.

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Great moments in Democrat journalism

Posted on February 9, 2015 | 5 comments

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Via Real Science.

UPDATE:  There’s certainly merit to this argument, but Bri’s too stupid to be satan.

AND:  He’s been suspended w/o pay for six months. Which, in his case, is about $5 million. “By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News.” Ha, ha. Yeah, he’s single-handedly threatening the whole house-of-cards.

This is refreshing: “In a recent Pew Research Center survey, only 27 percent of respondents could correctly identify Williams from his photograph, and only 3 percent could say what he did for a living.” Thank you, Internet!

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The chopper whopper

Posted on February 8, 2015 | 7 comments

The whole hullabaloo about NBC’s just-another-pretty-face talking head is a bit confusing. As a commenter I read somewhere I forget said in response to a post about why Lyin’ Brian would tell whoppers about his supposed war heroics:

“The question is not why he would feel compelled to lie but why he would ever feel compelled to tell the truth, in a business where lies pass for truth every day.”

Works for me. The only other idea I have is that he’s another Democrat wannabee, a fellow who despises the military and would never serve but who nevertheless wants to be thought tough and heroic. And so he phoned it in.

You know, like the Lizard Queen. Another Democrat who was under fire in her own mind, as you may remember.

Williams is what they called in the Civil War “a parlor soldier.” Or the 16th century commedia dell’arte stock type of the Italian theater known as Il Capitano (the braggart soldier). Neither of them were real soldiers. Like Bri.

He’s probably toast now. I mean when even Mad Cow Dowd is joining the pile-on…

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Turning Iraq over to Iran

Posted on February 6, 2015 | 1 comment

“In other words, the Iraqi army is integrating into Amiri’s [Iran-backed] Badr Organization in Diyala as opposed to integrating the militias into the army.”

Wormtongue isn’t satisfied with losing the Iraq campaign, a  move which spawned ISIS. Or with quietly giving Iran billions of American tax dollars. He wants the mullahs to have Iraq’s oil fields as well in his version of blood-for-oil.

What could go wrong?

Via PJMedia’s Michael Ledeen.

UPDATE:  The Worm’s not just helping Iran get Iraq, but the whole neighborhood.

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American Sharpshooter

Posted on January 26, 2015 | 2 comments

In another era, that’s what American Sniper would have been called. Every war has had them on all sides. To pantywaists like Fatso Moore, who never served and never will, they seem like murderers because they don’t fight in the open and take their chances of being killed.

But sharpshooters (or snipers) have been killed in all wars when they shot off more than a few rounds without moving their positions. Especially in the Civil War when black-powder ammunition produced a two-foot flame out the business end of a rifle. Easy to spot, that flame, and then pick off the sharpshooter.

The cool thing about the movie is that its unexpected success shows that Hollyweird’s predictable anti-war movie of the last thirty-plus years, and seemingly endless denigration of American combat veterans, finally may be nearing eclipse. As Sultan Knish puts it, American Sniper treats the Iraq campaign like World War II, with American heroes.

Talk about heresy in progressive media-land. Talk about an overdue relief for veterans and their supporters.

Via Instapundit.

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