Independent correspondent Michael Yon on Bush’s major achievement with little to no Dem help:
"I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I’m with haven’t fired their weapons on this tour and they’ve been here eight months. And the place we’re at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq. And now there’s nothing going on."
Glad to see our troops did it before Barry and Hairplugs Joe could foul it up. The Afghan campaign will be enough for them.
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Obamalot, The War, Troops
Tagged Bush's Legacy, Iraq is won
Turns out the chairman of the Democrat Party in New Hampshire may be another phony Vietnam War wannabee. Hey, there are more than thirteen million of them, according to the 2000 census. But why are so many of them Dumbocrats? Oh, right, now I remember. They protested or shirked at the time. But this guy, Ray Buckley, doesn’t have that excuse. He was only twelve years old in 1972. Guess he’s just another guy who would rather lie than try.
Via Black Five.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged New Hampshire Democrat Party chairman Ray Buckley, phony soldier, Stolen Valor, Vietnam War wannabee
No surprise here. If you were on active duty would you want to be commanded by a guy (Barry) who pointedly never served, and was seconded by (Biden) a Vietnam War draft-dodger? I’m reminded of scifi writer Robert Heinlein’s conception: only veterans should be allowed to vote and only mothers should be eligible for office. Works for me.
Via BlackFive.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged American troops want McCain, Biden, Obama
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October 6, 2008 in Afghanistan, The War, Troops
Tagged Afghanistan, Military Vision
Sarah, in her capacity as governor of Alaska, sends off the "Arctic Wolves," of the Alaska National Guard, including her 19-year-old son, to duty with the Stryker Brigade in Iraq. She’ll speak in Vienna, Ohio, tomorrow. More positive stuff on her here. The negative is easy to find as the "save Barry" news frenzy continues.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Arctic Wolves, Gov. Sarah Palin
It wasn’t as good as Palin’s, alas. Thank goodness she’s on the same ticket, which is more than enough for some previous Mac doubters. Because, after all, she wouldn’t be there without Mac’s vision and wisdom.
But I enjoyed watching and hearing him. The establishment media covers him so rarely–and never his wealthy wife, a genuinely interesting and admirable person. The POW stuff, which the big-whoop media meisters are bound to complain about, as they always do (it must make them nervous since few of them have served) was powerful and he has the right to use it. It was a good exemplar of the fundamental difference between him and his opponent, and of his brand of patriotism. It also demonstrates, as he suggested, why he is not at all the war-monger the Dems like to paint him. At the same time it shows why our enemies will have to be wary of his resolve, making him much less likely to have to widen the war we’re already in.
UPDATE: It seems that Mac’s speech outdrew Baby Barry’s on teevee viewers. Good for him. And reading the speech, at the link above, I’ve changed my mind. It was better than Palin’s. He knows more. How could it not have been? A young independent more or less agrees.
Chet Richards, one of the guardians of the theories and memory of the late, great Air Force fighter-pilot and military strategist John Boyd questions this contention of Charlie Martin’s in American Thinker re Mac’s choice of Sarah Palin for veep. Martin uses the term too loosely, suggests CR who says it’s too early to tell. CR’s claim that the pick was predictable, however, is probably unique. No one else I know of expected Mac to pick a woman. I think the old Navy fighter pilot, indeed, has generally been inside Baby Barry’s OODA Loop for some time now with his sharp, quickly-produced teevee ads. Whether he can stay there remains to be seen.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged Chet Richards, John Boyd, McCain, Obama, OODA Loop
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