Category Archives: The War

Valour IT Project

Posted on October 31, 2006 | Comments Off on Valour IT Project

Join the outrage over Kerry’s remarks, or better yet, join the donors of the Valour IT project to provide voice-activated laptops for injured and wounded troops, for which Instapundit has provided a graphic with donor buttons here showing the amounts collected thus far for four services. Don’t see Coast Guard there. Can’t say why they spell valor with a French u.       

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Flying his true colors

Posted on October 31, 2006 | Comments Off on Flying his true colors

Look who’s slandering the troops, again, as if he didn’t do a good enough job on us in the 1970s.

Sen. John Effing Kerry, D-Mass. 

"’You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,’ he said, to a mixture of laughter and gasps."

Right, if you don’t study, you’ll have to serve your country, along with the rest of the ignorant soldiers. But if you do study, you can be a lying phony like John Effing Kerry, marry rich, get elected by people too dumb to know better, run for president on the peace party ticket as a "war hero" (with the able assistance of the draft-dodging, prevaricating news media), and never have to work again.

UPDATE  Response from office of Sen. John McCain: "Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education."

Well, they are deficient in duplicity and dishonesty, subjects in which Kerry scores very high. 

Via Instapundit 

Entertaining commentary on the subject at, where else, Black Five.                                                                  

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Norks & Iran: almost ready for you

Posted on October 29, 2006 | Comments Off on Norks & Iran: almost ready for you

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More than two decades in the making, ridiculed as "Star Wars" when proposed during the Reagan Administration, the Airborne Laser finally will be equipped with its laser, in 2007, at Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then move on to aerial tests in 2008. "When finished, ABL will be capable of destroying a ballistic missile during its boost phase, while it is still climbing in the Earth’s atmosphere and before it can deploy its warheads."

Even if it has only one, primitive North Korean warhead. 

Via Security Watchtower 

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Liberal media? Uh uh

Posted on October 28, 2006 | Comments Off on Liberal media? Uh uh

Roger L. Simon is getting wound up about CNN, but he makes a good point the MSM detractors often overlook.

"Of course, Blitzer is only a typical representative of his class. Nothing special or exceptional in any way, except for his success and longevity. Now some people call this class the ‘liberal media.’ I reject that idea and terminology entirely. There is nothing liberal about them at all. They are a rich, privileged class much like the bourgeoisie in a Bunuel movie (or Moliere, of course). What is ‘liberal’ is only a talking point to preserve their perquisites. Perhaps these values were there at some point, but that was decades ago in another universe. Now the real issues are good tailoring and homes in the country. Nothing should disturb that."

UPDATE  On the other hand, as Mark Halprin, political director of ABC News, tells Hugh Hewitt, there is no question of liberal political bias in the news media.

HH: …the media hates the military, has a deep suspicion of it. Do you agree with that?

MH: I totally agree. It’s one of the huge biases, along with gays, guns, abortion, and many other things….

MH: First of all, I never say MSM, because I don’t believe the old media is mainstream. They’re out of the mainstream on most of the issues I’ve been referring to. So I don’t use that phrase. I believe that as I’ve said several times, happy to say again, that anyone who’s conservative in this country has every justification to be skeptical about anything, an internal memo, or product that goes on the air, from the old media, because of a forty year or more history of liberal bias on a range of issues. And after what CBS News did in 2004, regarding the President’s National Guard record, I would be…I am thankful that any conservative looks to us ever for news and information, given how outrageous what they did was.

Transcript here worth reading. Via Powerline.

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Mookie’s ticket needs punching

Posted on October 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Mookie’s ticket needs punching

Uncle Jimbo at Black Five tears Muqtada al-Sadr a brand new one. But UJ admits that death, slow or quick, would be better.

"Mookie is the idiot son of a family that can trace its lineage directly to Mohammed but he has failed to distinguish himself at any religious scholarship. He excels at gathering groups of thugs together, getting them jacked up on old time religion, and collecting satchels of Mullah money."

Meanwhile Iraqi PM Maliki owes his parliamentary coalition–the votes that keep him prime minister–to Mookie’s voters. But Mookie’s thugs may have been involved in the recent kidnapping of an American soldier, certainly have killed others, and been instrumental in keeping up the level of violence in Baghdad. Something’s got to give.

Ralph Peters agrees.

"I lost faith in our engagement in Iraq last week. I can pinpoint the moment. It came when I heard that Maliki had demanded–successfully–that our military release a just-captured deputy of Muqtada al-Sadr who was running death squads."

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Set-recs

Posted on October 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Set-recs

Set-recs, for "set the record straight" is what the old time newspapermen called corrections, which were always plentiful although frowned upon.  After five years of pummeling from the not-always-accurate MSM’s preferred war narrative, it’s about time the defense department entered the set-rec business, here.

They’re also into argument for their side of the issue, even when rebuffed.

"Second, the issue is not Newsweek’s position versus the ‘government position.’ The issue is that your readers were given a one-sided, opinion-laced article on Afghanistan based on falsehoods—which is something that journalists and editors are usually concerned about. Your dismissive reply is disappointing, to say the least.”

More, please. 

Via Op-For 

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Paris burning?

Posted on October 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Paris burning?

Not yet, but the French cops are getting ready for it just in case.

UPDATE  "A year ago this Friday, the poor, predominantly Muslim housing projects that ring France’s large cities went up in flames. Just this past weekend, as if to mark the anniversary, a group of about 30 "youths" in a Paris suburb (banlieue) attacked a packed bus in broad daylight, forcing the passengers off, torching the bus itself and stoning the firefighters who arrived on the scene. In recent weeks, similar sorts of gangs have set upon police patrols in the banlieues, throwing stones and wielding metal bars. Plus ça change, indeed."

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