Category Archives: The War

Adios al Q

Posted on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Adios al Q

Those bad boyz just can’t get any rest in Iraq. The USAF F-16s are always dropping by without notice.

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Honored to fight in Iraq

Posted on October 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Honored to fight in Iraq

Former Marine, winner of the Navy Cross and author Marco Martinez is the sort of troop you’re not likely to meet in the MSM. He isn’t bitter, homeless or haunted. He felt honored to fight in Iraq.

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Bush hits a homer

Posted on October 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Bush hits a homer

In getting North Korea to agree to let Americans dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Of course, the MSM isn’t spinning it as a victory, just W allegedly following that foreign policy genuis John Kerry.

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Surging patriotism

Posted on October 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Surging patriotism

"The army recruiting effort is unprecedented for wartime. Never in American history has a war this long, been sustained with only volunteers."

Despite all the pressures from the pols, the MSM and Hollywood, the volunteers keep coming. Thus the Army once again met its recruiting goal of 80,000 newbies for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The Marines continued to exceed their goals.

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More heroes, please, and fewer sad sacks

Posted on October 4, 2007 | Comments Off on More heroes, please, and fewer sad sacks
"I’m weary of seeing news stories about wounded soldiers and assertions of ‘support’ for the troops mixed with suggestions of the futility of our military efforts in Iraq."
 
MSM reporters–and their editors–think they’re being coy when they do this. Their opinions, in fact, are made clear in the choice of subject. No one who passed reading comprehension can miss the point.

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Budding success in Iraq

Posted on October 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Budding success in Iraq

"The country is whole. It has embraced the ballot box. It has created a fair and popular constitution. It has avoided all-out civil war. It has not been taken over by Iran. It has put an end to Kurdish and marsh Arab genocide, and anti-Shia apartheid. It has rejected mass revenge against the Sunnis. As shown in the great national votes of 2005 and the noisy celebrations of the Iraq football team’s success in July, Iraq survived the Saddam Hussein era with a sense of national unity…"

A hopeful, longish look at Iraq, well beyond the political squabbling in Washington, and from a center-left magazine, no less. For that reason, alone, it is well worth the read. 

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Don’t join, don’t fight

Posted on October 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Don’t join, don’t fight

More and more I’m of the opinion that no American man or woman should be advised to join the military under any circumstances, certainly not to actually go into combat arms and fight for their country.

If the career politicians aren’t accusing you and your comrades of war crimes, then the news media prefers to publicize the sad sacks among you as the norm.

If that isn’t enough, elite universities like Columbia (which you likely couldn’t get into) are only too happy to give a podium to one of the leaders of the murderous regimes killing your comrades.

Finally, the icing on the cake arrives in your local movie theater for the edification of your family and neighbors: Hollywood has produced yet another epic showing that you and your comrades are not only war criminals and sad sacks but obviously mentally and morally deficient for not knowing in advance that war is always bad and never justified–especially when Americans are fighting it.

Since there’s no way to come out of it with any pride (and the VA benefits suck), why bother?

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