Category Archives: Iraq

Our uni-uniform Army

Posted on April 11, 2014 | 1 comment

I have no patience with the fools who pass themselves off as Army generals these days. If they were at all competent there wouldn’t have been two (and counting) Fort Hood massacres.

The massacres likely occurred because some general or other refuses to have gate guards wand everyone who passes through. Ties up traffic you know. But it may also have something to do with the way everyone in the Army now dresses alike—laced desert boots and all.

Used to be you could tell the riflemen (not to mention the Airborne) from the clerks and the bottle washers.

Today there’s no obvious difference and you’d best believe the pogies (the c&bw boys and girls) like it just fine that way. Must give the military police pause, wondering who they’re dealing with.

My cousin-in-law, an Army dentist (he’s moved on to private practice now) really liked the way civilians in the groceries deferred to him as if he were a combat veteran of Iraq and/or Afghanistan. He looked like one. He did, mercifully, reconstruct the jaws of some of the ones who were seriously wounded over there, but he sure as hell didn’t fight with them.

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Inspired by the latest Fort Hood massacre

Posted on April 3, 2014 | 2 comments

You go climb every mountain.

Via Phase Line Birnam Wood

UPDATE:  The killer was a 34-year-old Spec 4. That’s a lot of years for such a low rank. He either joined late, never deserved promotion or got busted along the way.

And, no, I don’t think allowing non-police soldiers to carry loaded weapons on post is a good idea. Investing in a few metal-detector wands for every person and car that passes through the gates would be a better one.

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History rhymes

Posted on February 28, 2014 | 6 comments

Bush Jr.’s assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 made perfect sense after their sanctuaried client Al Queda’s murderous work in Lower Manhattan a few months before.

Likewise our 2003 invasion of Iraq where dictator Saddam Hussein had the means, the motive and the opportunity to aid Al Q as well, though our leftist federal bureaucrats never could seem to find the proof of it.

More than a decade of largely-feckless political and military operations later, Bush’s leftist successor cut and ran from Iraq and is hobbling what’s left of the American military in Afghanistan.

As pathetic as it all is, as Darkwater shows, this history actually rhymes—with Rudyard Kipling’s 1917 poem Mesopotamia. Kipling even called our aftermath as the leftist federal bureaucrats, their president and lifelong pols like Hillary Clinton continue their lucrative careers:

“Our dead shall not return to us while Day and Night divide –
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?”

You betcha. Their leftist media pals who likewise don’t believe in military service will continue to cover for them and the American dead of Iraq and Afghanistan will be forgotten by all but their families. Some of the crippled ones can even look forward to being assaulted on American streets.

I hope the volunteers of 2001 and 2003 and subsequently will impart the lesson they learned to a new generation of would-be warriors: our government cannot be trusted and joining the micro-managed American military—for any reason other than to repel a direct attack on the homeland—is only slow-motion suicide.

Via Darkwater at Phase Line Birnam Wood.

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Losing Fallujah

Posted on January 16, 2014 | 2 comments

You could blame B. Hussein and the Democrats for withdrawing from Iraq. You could blame Bush-the-Younger and the neocons for sending American troops there in the first place.

You certainly could blame the Iraqis for handing the town back to the Jihadis. But maybe they really like living in the 7th century CE.

The Marines who fought there, of course, are anguished. As undoubtedly are the Army soldiers who fought there, too, although to much less publicity. As were a lot of combat veterans of Vietnam when the feckless pols withdrew from there, leaving the American dead to have died for nothing.

Well, not for nothing. They died for the Marines, for the Army, for their comrades-in-arms. That might not be enough for their survivors. But, in the end, it’s about all there ever is in war.

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Obumbles: all tricks, no treat

Posted on October 31, 2013 | 2 comments

PJMedia’s Richard Fernandez does nice summaries sometimes and this one on our suspected-but-highly-unlikely Muslim president is a gem:

“The man has single handedly trashed the entire Arab world. Consider. The Muslim Brotherhood is hunted in Egypt, which is about to starve.. Libya is a Mad Max state. People are killing each other for all they are worth in Syria. Jordan and Lebanon are overrun by refugees. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are on the brink. Iraq has slid back into chaos. Afghanistan is due to be handed back to the Taliban. With any luck there will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel.”

Except for that last sentence, of course. Tel Aviv for Tehran is a trade no one needs. But it would be in keeping with this Halloween Horror Story.

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The most common lie of the Vietnam wannabee

Posted on July 4, 2013 | Comments Off on The most common lie of the Vietnam wannabee

These weenies and scumbags, mostly Democrat politicians, university academics (uniformly Democrats), and white-haired streetcorner panhandlers, were mostly draft dodgers in the 60s and 70s who now crave special status in our pathetic victim culture.

So they cover themselves in the flag and pseudo-camo glory with bizarre tales of special operations, etc. And they come out of the woodwork like cockroaches on patriotic holidays like today’s Fourth of July.

They’ve done us immeasurable harm with their lies about their “service” and subsequent “remorse” and “rejection,” both mostly nonsense, though not entirely so for those of us who earned the label of Vietnam combat veteran.

The wannabees still outnumber us real Vietnam veterans by about 20 to 1, but they’re being exposed pretty regularly. Can you guess their most common lie? Find it here. Henceforth ye shall know them by their mendacity.

As they age and die off, I expect they’ll be replaced by Iraq and Afghanistan wannabees. Cockroaches multiple, you know.

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The Battle Continues

Posted on June 25, 2013 | Comments Off on The Battle Continues

Sudip Bose, friend of a friend, served in Iraq as an Army surgeon. Last time I spoke to him he was trying to get a book published about his experiences. But the book was too positive for the usual suspects of traditional publishing.

Then, Sudip was an ER doc in Midland. He may still be that. But now he’s also author of this interesting Web site, a public speaker and a conduit for efforts to help the American survivors of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, especially the wounded, walking and otherwise. Visit the site, watch his video, and please consider a donation.

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