Category Archives: Troops

Checkpoint value

Posted on May 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Checkpoint value

To hear the media tell it, Israel’s checkpoints don’t do much more than harrass the long-suffering Palestinians. The Palis are always trying to get the "peace process" to eliminate the security checkpoints. They usually fail because every so often, another suicide bomber tries to get through, like the 20-year-old Arab man wearing five pipe bombs who was shot and killed by the IDF at a Samaria checkpoint last night.

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Moore the bore

Posted on May 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Moore the bore

Fatso Michael Moore, the unethical cretin who ripped off a classic science fiction novel for the title of his fictional political screed on President Bush, is ripping off Michael Yon’s classic Iraq photo for Moore’s latest pathetic whatever. Yon’s lawyer is on the case. Go get ’em!

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The military disability

Posted on May 17, 2008 | Comments Off on The military disability

Harken to the tortured cry of the lying looney-bird, explaining why McCain should not be president:

[Iowa Democrat Tom] Harkin said that "it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up."

Apparently this is why we need the Weightless Man in the White House whose inexperience includes no military service or tradition thereof. Insane. Harkin has trouble with heroes because he was only a phony one himself, several times over, in fact. Quite the liar, this particular Dumbocrat.

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Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Posted on May 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Afterall, he’s getting away with murder in Iraq, and the Bush administration and Congress ain’t doing nothin’, while Barry talks about a sit-down to understand Mahmoud’s pain.

UPDATE: So, when Bush does the only thing he ever does about this matter, i.e. talk, he manages to enrage Barry, Hilarity, Nancy, etc. For why? Because they won’t do anything, either, and don’t like to be reminded. Such unanimity.

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Moment of Truth in Iraq

Posted on May 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Moment of Truth in Iraq

I was waiting for a good moment to buy Michael Yon’s book about Iraq, and Michael Totten’s revealing review is the one. The fact that the book is already in its second printing and currently No. 167 on Amazon’s bestseller list also is encouraging.

MORE: Cobb has an interesting take on it, from quotes from Yon’s changed-his-mind-on-Iraq publisher, to Cobb’s angry responses to some commenters. As he says: lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. 

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The 9/11 generation keeps it up

Posted on May 13, 2008 | Comments Off on The 9/11 generation keeps it up

Good news from the recruiters: "All military services met or exceeded their monthly recruiting goals in April, with the Marine Corps signing 142 percent of the number it was looking for, the Pentagon said."

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Tankers

Posted on May 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Tankers

Neat video look at the M-1 Abrams tank and its armament and electronics. Looks roomier inside than the M-60A1 I trained on many moons ago (circa 1968-69). Actually, I got to sit in an M-1 at Fort Hood back in the early 1980s when the Army was first showing them off, so I know they’re lots roomier.

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