Category Archives: Iraq

Islam’s latest contributions to peace

Posted on January 20, 2015 | 2 comments
2015.01.19 (Karachi, Pakistan) – A guard loses his life when Islamists attack a polio team.
2015.01.18 (Potiskum, Nigeria) – A female suicide bomber detonates at a bus station, claiming four kills.
2015.01.17 (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) – A Shiite lawyer and his two nephews are sprayed with automatic weapons fire by dedicated Sunnis.
2015.01.17 (Sabaa al-Bour, Iraq) – Five Shiites at a market are reduced to pulp by Sunni bombers.
2015.01.17 (Kulgam, India) – Muslim radicals shoot a local cop to death.
2015.01.16 (Baqubah, Iraq) – A child is taken out by a suicide bomber.

And don’t forget the ISIS slayings of two accused homosexuals in Mosul, Iraq. Thrown from a tall building to the pavement below. And a stoning and a crucifixtion. As you can see, Paris was not an aberration.

Via The Religion of Peace.

UPDATE:  The Islamic Holocaust continues.

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Mark 1 Plumbing Gun Truck

Posted on December 24, 2014 | 3 comments

Might be a good idea to paint out your company logo before selling that old truck for a new one. You could wind up seeing it in news reports about ISIS from Syria or Iraq.

Like Texas City plumber Mark Oberholtzer did. And getting lots of threats back.

Via Regular Right Guy.

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New combat veterans deserve the attention

Posted on November 28, 2014 | 3 comments

J.D. over at Mouth of the Brazos and I traded comments not long ago about how the whole Vietnam War, combat veterans like us, refugees and all, finally are on the shelf. It’s all mothballed news at best now.

I see it in the pitiful sales of my two books on the subject, which seem to have peaked at 164 for the Vietnam War short stories and 26 for the novel. Both have been outpaced by my Civil War novel (194) alone. And this year’s new Civil War history, now at 51 sales, has outrun the Vietnam novel and is on pace to eclipse the short stories as well. Not that my work is the best indicator of a trend, but it is one.

Neither J.D. or I created the political one-year combat tour of the Vietnam War. But neither of us would have liked to be in the position of the all-volunteer combat veterans now. Many of them already have served three or four years in combat assignments and the rise of ISIS suggests they have many more ahead of them. They already match the World War II generation which served for the duration.

All that occurred to me reading this WaPo piece about the 101st Airborne Division emplaning near their barracks at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for a recent flight to Afghanistan. The pundits are still trying to figure out what Wormtongue’s secretive administration intends to do with them. Whether they will guard facilities or patrol. If he even knows himself. He isn’t much of a planner.

It also occurred to me that nowadays when some sergeant addresses a group of soldiers as “ladies and gentlemen,” he’s not trying to be cute, as he was in our day when few women served and none were in combat. He means it quite literally. And both the ladies and the gentlemen deserve all of our attention now.

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Waiting for the new war in Iraq

Posted on September 14, 2014 | 5 comments

Wormtongue’s attempt to whip ISIS with airstrikes is doomed to failure. Even World War II couldn’t be won from the air—except in Japan with nukes, which presumably even the mendacious Democrats aren’t craven enough to employ in Syria-Iraq.

So the ground troops the Progressives are avoiding sending back to Iraq (at least until after the November elections) are going to have to go back eventually. If ISIS only chose to burrow into urban areas (like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Beruit) they could live through bombardment to fight another day.

Let’s just hope that, while we’re waiting for the tanks and troops to be sent back to the Iraq they should never have left in the first place, ISIS doesn’t acquire the weaponry to start shooting down our fighter-bombers and beheading a captured pilot or two.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, in Britland, the delusion goes on: “Cameron described ISIS as ‘monsters’ and not Muslims because Islam is a religion of peace…” Oh, right. Sure doesn’t look that way in northern Syria just over the Iraqi border.

MORE: Meanwhile, ISIS seems to be using chemical weapons in Iraq—you know, some of those WMDs that weren’t there.

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Israel: Defender of the West

Posted on July 19, 2014 | Comments Off on Israel: Defender of the West

“Obama, Kerry and the rest of the flaccid moral narcissists who govern our country or the creepy disingenuous bureaucrats who represent ‘the international community’ obviously don’t have the gumption to do it – or even the inclination…[to fight] a rapidly metastasizing global phenomenon, replete with beheadings and crucifixions, that is unlikely to end and may only be at its beginning unless someone puts a genuine stop to it.”

So far only the Israelis are working on it, starting with the bloodthirsty religious fanatics of Hamas, but probably soon also to be engaged with the even more vicious and fanatical ISIS, when the latter finishes converting or killing the few remaining Iraqi Christians.

UPDATE:  The defenders are taking casualties, as defenders tend to do. As the IDF, in the words of the Times of Israel, “pours infantry into Gaza.”

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Iraq: another wasted campaign

Posted on June 20, 2014 | 2 comments

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We sure know how to lose ’em, eh?

Via Dr. Boli.

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Obamalot golfs, Iraq burns

Posted on June 15, 2014 | 4 comments

But, hey, Joey Hairplugs is on the case. And if the second banana can’t solve the bungling, the Obamalots are already blaming Bush. The Iraqi “army,” meanwhile, is throwing down their American arms and beating feet in the face of 3,000 guys in pickup trucks.

There are a few things the Dems still could do, but…

“After more than five years, we’ve come to know we should expect no such leadership or strategic ambition from this President. Meantime, somebody needs to start thinking about evacuating U.S. personnel from our Embassy in Baghdad. Maybe the helicopter is already on the roof.”

There better be more than one: “If the embassy is evacuated, it will leave what is perhaps one of the most lavish and expensive diplomatic facilit[ies] in history in the hands of al-Qaeda.”

While our adolescent cretin of a president golfs the rest of us should go celebrate the D-Day anniversary again. It was, after all, the last war we won—almost 60 years ago. And, wouldn’t you know it, we’ve still got troops in Germany. The Pentagon finds the living much better there, no doubt.

UPDATE:  As always when things don’t go his way, Wormtongue and his cronies blame Bush. But, when it comes to the fall of Iraq, the Worm owns it.

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