Category Archives: The War

McCain in a walk

When you look at the contrast between him and his opposition…

"Some say John McCain’s character was formed in a North Vietnamese prison. I say those people should take a gander at what John chose to do–voluntarily. Being a carrier pilot requires aptitude, intelligence, skill, knowledge, discernment, and courage of a kind rarely found anywhere but in a poem of Homer’s or a half gallon of Dewar’s. I look from John McCain to what the opposition has to offer. There’s Ms. Smarty-Pantsuit, the Bosnia-Under-Sniper-Fire poster gal, former prominent Washington hostess, and now the JV senator from the state that brought you Eliot Spitzer and Bear Stearns. And there’s the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political crèche, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: ‘Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?’"

…you just gotta laugh! Hoot! Snicker.

Hilarity vs McCain

Well, she won Pennsylvania. Democrat Pennsylvania, that is. Not the entire state’s electorate by any means. The MSM, whose practitioners are almost enitrely Democrats, seems to like people to forget that part. I think she would be somewhat harder for McCain to beat than Barry–if she was noiminated–but not that much harder. As usual in the past three presidential races, the Democrats have produced the most colorful nominees. But also the least electable.

MORE: Priceless expose of Barry’s unrepentent, wouldbe terroristic, Leftist pals. The Rev. God damn America is no fluke. Part II of the expose.

Some people ask for the moon

Bill Roggio, embed blogger/journalist in Iraq, for instance: Fair play? From the NYTimes? You’ve got to be kidding.

Via Instapundit 

Setup

Terrorist group Hamas turns Carter away from Gaza’s gate? I think I can tell a setup when I see one.

UPDATE  I figured they’d make a show of letting him in, afterall, but they didn’t. In fact, he got little Israeli coverage, either. Go build houses, Jimmy. At least you look good doing that.

Gen. Petraeus reports

Whatever Nancy Pelosi intended to stop the general from saying, it doesn’t seem to have worked. He poked Iran in the eye several times. Will we do anything more? Remains to be seen, I suppose. It all certainly sounds as complicated as Viet Nam ever was, though, obviously, with more potential immediate impact on our daily lives, and not nearly as out-of-control. Hope and change, it seems, are already in progress–without, of course, Barry and his dictator-loving advisors and their back-to-the-Saddam-era intentions.

Outside The Wire

I got mine. Help this pro-troops documentary look at the Army and Marine Corps in the Iraq campaign beat the anti-war movie sales. Considering how the anti-war movies bombed, so to speak, that shouldn’t be too hard.

Return of the Bone

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Never got to fly in one of these, the only bomber that can do barrel rolls. But I got to sit in one on the ramp at Dyess outside Abilene in the 1980s and interview the crews who even then were calling it the Bone, for B-One. This was when the MSM was chewing on the Air Force over the B-1B’s various avionics problems. Nobody’s carping about them today. They are the premier bombing platform for Afghanistan and Iraq, sending the B-52s and B-2s home to sit and wait for something to do, as David Noland details in the current issue of Air&Space Magazine.

UPDATE: An onboard fire in a B-1B landing at a base in Quatar on April 4 was the fifth aircraft fire in one of the bombers since 1990. This time, the crew escaped unharmed.