Category Archives: The War

1LT Thomas Michael Martin, R.I.P.

Posted on October 19, 2007 | Comments Off on 1LT Thomas Michael Martin, R.I.P.

His father and mother (who live in San Antonio), and his fiance (re-deploying to Iraq as a medevac pilot)–are all Army. He left behind a web site, and a lot of friends.

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Veterans Affairs chairman never served

Posted on October 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Veterans Affairs chairman never served

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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Hitler’s offspring

Posted on October 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Hitler’s offspring

More on the Nazi connection to the Muslim Brotherhood and its anti-Semitic agenda, found today in the Hamas charter, from the Volokh Conspiracy:

"The Brotherhood’s campaign used not only Nazi-like patterns of action and slogans but also German funding. As the historian Brynjar Lia recounts in his monograph on the Brotherhood, ‘Documents seized in the flat of Wilhelm Stellbogen, the Director of the German News Agency affiliated to the German Legation in Cairo, show that prior to October 1939 the Muslim Brothers received subsidies from this organization. Stellbogen was instrumental in transferring these funds to the Brothers…coordinated by Hajj Amin al-Husseini and some of his Palestinian contacts in Cairo.’"

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Aiding the enemy

Posted on October 16, 2007 | Comments Off on Aiding the enemy

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.

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Bad Gorbot

Posted on October 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Bad Gorbot

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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What the MSM left out

Posted on October 13, 2007 | Comments Off on What the MSM left out

The credibility of the agenda-driven news media gets thinner every day, but never more so than when they are caught hiding their own dirty laundry. Such as these and the many similar words of native Texan and retired Army Lieut. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (the caps are from the transcript of his speech, not me shouting):

"WHAT IS CLEAR TO ME IS THAT YOU ARE PERPETUATING THE CORROSIVE PARTISAN POLITICS THAT IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY AND KILLING OUR SERVICEMEMBERS WHO ARE AT WAR."

Tough stuff, and wholly unreported by the WaPo and the AP–not to mention the BBC–whose work the rest depend on. I suppose they rationalized leaving it out because it was said in a professional, non-public setting. But that’s not much of an excuse. Note Sanchez’s Old Testament Bible quote at the end, which you can bet galled the Leftists.

Via Powerline, where you might start before reading the transcript . And Ace of Spades, which shows the speech was cherry-picked almost entirely for its Bush-bashing. No surprise. The Democrat political agenda rules, even as circulation, advertising and credibility crater. At least they’re making the Columbia Journalism Review happy.

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Warriors for the right

Posted on October 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Warriors for the right

"Whatever one’s views on the war are, it seems to me morally reprehensible that anyone would slander an American soldier, whether comparing them to terrorists or their General to a betrayer. We have a very rare precious resource in today’s military that really does represent the moral upper crust of American society, and as long as it is engaged, we need to support it."

I don’t think you’d find many American veterans who disagree with that and you should read the rest of this analysis by military historian Victor Davis Hanson, who recently returned from Iraq.

UPDATE: Part II of VDH’s report, with a third to come. Here’s Part III.

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