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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Bold admission that Iran going nuclear is bad..
Israel has had nuclear weapons now for a few decades, and short of the usual nutjob demanding the Jews be pushed into the sea and the land reclaimed, non of its Arab nations have ever felt the need to build nukes to protect themselves. As anyone that hasn’t been living under a rock knows, that sentiment has not been extended to Iran, a fellow traveler and the nation vying for the title of top Jew hater, which has nuclear ambitions. In fact, Iran’s Arab neighbors are all either contemplating nuclear programs of their own - something they never felt compelled to do to keep up with Israel, or flat out pointing out that only idiots think anything short of force will deter Iran at this point.
ASPEN, Colo. | The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that the benefits of bombing Iran’s nuclear program outweigh the short-term costs such an attack would impose. In unusually blunt remarks, Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba publicly endorsed the use of the military option for countering Iran’s nuclear program, if sanctions fail to stop the country’s quest for nuclear weapons. “I think it’s a cost-benefit analysis,” Mr. al-Otaiba said. “I think despite the large amount of trade we do with Iran, which is close to $12 billion … there will be consequences, there will be a backlash and there will be problems with people protesting and rioting and very unhappy that there is an outside force attacking a Muslim country; that is going to happen no matter what.”
“If you are asking me, ‘Am I willing to live with that versus living with a nuclear Iran?,’ my answer is still the same: ‘We cannot live with a nuclear Iran.’ I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of the security of the U.A.E.” Mr. al-Otaiba made his comments in response to a question after a public interview session with the Atlantic magazine at the Aspen Ideas Festival here. They echo those of some Arab diplomats who have said similar things in private to their American counterparts but never this bluntly in public. The remarks surprised many in the audience.
Emphasis mine on that last bit. See, the only people surprised by this are the morons that also still believe talk can make a difference. That the problem here isn’t that Iran is run by destructive madmen, but that we (meaning that aggressive America of the Bush age) are the evil ones. This Ambassador has basically admitted that at least his country, the UAE, knows that nothing short of force will deter Iran at this point, and that Iran’s terror supporting/enabling leadership is pursuing these weapons so it can use the shield it will provide them, to escalate that support. And he has done it in public. He knows Iran will cause mayhem in this region if they go nuclear. Don’t take my word for this:
The ambassador also said that “talk of containment and deterrence really concerns me and makes me very nervous.” He said Iran has not been deterred from supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah now, when it doesn’t have a nuclear arsenal. So why, he asked rhetorically, would Iran be more cautious in its support for terrorism if it did.
Exactly! Why does Iran need nukes if it has gotten away with this stuff already? The only thing that makes any kind of sense is that Iran plans to escalate, not reduce its efforts and the problems that its proxies are causing, and it thinks that nuclear umbrella will protect it from what happened to Saddam in Iraq or the Taliban in Afghanistan when they pushed us too hard. Does anyone doubt we would have handled these situations differently if we had to deal with a nuclear armed enemy? Thank Israel that Saddam didn’t have nukes. We might be thanking them too for Iran not having them sooner than later.
Of course, I am sure the usual leftards will now chime in that a nuclear enemy might have prevented Bush’s cowboy adventurism, and thus justify why we should let Iran go nuclear, but before you actually think these morons have a valid point, consider the following statement by the UAE ambassador:
Mr. al-Otaiba said that his country would be the last Arab country to cut a deal with Iran, if Tehran were to go nuclear. But he predicted other wealthy Arab states in the Gulf would dump their alliances with the U.S. in favor of ties with Tehran if President Obama does not stop the Islamic republic’s quest to become a nuclear power. “There are many countries in the region that if they lack assurance that the U.S. is willing to confront Iran, they will start running for cover with Iran,” he said. “Small, rich, vulnerable countries do not want to stick their finger in the big boy’s eye if they do not have the backing of the United States.”
Anyone thinking that this will result in more stability or lead to a better world is not just a moron, they are delusional. As I have often said, at a minimum you will get this:
Mr. al-Otaiba also said that an Iranian acquisition would set off a nuclear arms race in the region, predicting that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey would all start nuclear programs if Iran acquired such weapons.
Your average ignorant moron would argue that there is nothing wrong with these countries going nuclear too, I am sure. After all, Pakistan and India did it. And we are even living with the Norks being a nuclear nation. Let me point out what this ambassador had to say about that…
The ambassador in the end stressed that his country would not tolerate a nuclear Iran. “The United States may be able to live with it,” he said. “We can’t.”
I think the US would not be able to live with it either, but then again, the people that think this way are also the ones that believed the USSR should have been the one to win the Cold War, America isn’t fit to be the world’s leader because it is the root of all evil, China would do a better job than the US if it was top dog, and that they are able to use talk to keep a nuclear armed Iran in line. No matter how this plays out, it is going to be ugly. The thing is, as this ambassador has pointed out, that a nuclear armed Iran will be much more costly than whatever crap we get if we prevent it by force.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Obama’s new non-nuclear and non-anti-Islamic radicalism policies..
I heard about Obama’s new nuclear policy a day or two ago, but decided to get more details before commenting on it. I should have gone with my first instincts and just pointed out then that this idiotic new policy was madness masquerading as progress. When even the usual MSM DNC talking point outlets like the NYT are asking if the new policy disarms America, you can bet that’s the end result, if not the end goal and plan, in the first place. Think about it. The people that have now decided America will literally take forever to decide on a response and get the options from lawyers, if they can respond to any WMD attacks in kind at all. These people and this new policy are completely undermining the MAD (mutually assured destruction) philosophy that have prevented a nuclear exchange by the powers that be, first during the Cold War with the USSR, and then in the new world that came after their inevitable fall. These are the same people that have vehemently objected to any and all US efforts to create some kind of missile defense, and have argued that it was because they firmly believe that if we got such a defensive system, it would undermine the MAD principle and lead to bad choices if not another arms race. But what they are pushing for is disarmament – that’s what the end game is, and Obama has made no bones about it – and whether they admit it or not, this policy has now have literally done away with the concept of MAD. WTF? In order to deter the use of WMDs from others - only stupid liberals live with the idiotic angst that it will be the evil US that will start Armageddon - we will now make our response to a WMD attack to not only be even more unclear, but now also limited? Again, WTF? Bye, bye MAD. No changes for defense, but changes that make us not just weaker, but invite attack, that’s progress!
And I almost broke out laughing when I read the part about how the new Obama policy, in response to a WMD attack, relies on an army of lawyers which will first go over the suspected nation that attacked us’ IAEA nuclear non-proliferation report, and then based on that report and their nuclear efforts & ambitions, decide if a nuclear reply was allowed. I don’t know if you caught the meaning of this move, but have no doubt that Obama’s new brainfart indirectly gave the UN control over not just our nuclear arsenal – which he is also hard at work obsoleting, but that’s a different story for a different day – but over our decisions to use them! All the IAEA has to do is whitewash their reports, and the US literally can’t use nuclear weapons on anyone. What’s the plan then? You are not going to try to make the case that the left will push for a conventional response to any WMD attack, are you? Look at their stances on Afghanistan and Iraq, and you will see that their first inclination, after they blame us for the attack, will be to urge “restraint”. These are the morons that tell you they believe violence never solved anything! Well, to be honest they don’t believe violence against anyone other than those that don’t share their ideology and hate of this country’s exceptionalism solves anything, because in my experience they tend to be the most violent people in defense of their twisted ideology. Can you think of anything more insane than these people now being in charge of life and death decisions and our security? What about the mindset that this policy puts those that would want to use WMDs against us, then? If you say this shift will do anything but encourage them more, you are a fool. We have just been made even more unsafe.
Oh yeah, the fact that Obama and his team of geniuses, directly or indirectly, excluded Iran and North Korea from this new policy, should matter a bit. Does anyone think that people like Obama that wanted to sit down and talk to a hostile Iran but threatened our Pakistani ally – I know they are an ally of convenience, but that’s neither here nor there, as much smarter men than I long ago pointed out that when it comes to nations and their interests are allies are just that – with nuclear hellfire, can be trusted to do what’s best for us? These are the same morons that want to lawyer up those gunning to kill us and rammed through a terribly unpopular government healthcare takeover that will hurt us all and bankrupt the country, after all. We are in great hands! The world has suddenly become a better place. I miss that “Cowboy”…
If I was Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, or any other nation that had lived under the promise of protection from the US nuclear umbrella, this new shift towards insanity would be a wake-up call. Don’t be surprised that these nations with North Korea and China in the mix, decide they can no longer trust us and decide to start up their own nuclear program. If anything, I suspect this new policy will not only backfire on us and weaken our security and the confidence of our allies, while emboldening our enemies, but it will lead to exactly the opposite of what these leftist morons are hoping for. Instead of others giving up their nukes or nuclear ambitions, this policy will force countless other nations that rightfully no longer trust us to provide for their security – we can’t even provide for our own – to go nuclear. I mentioned the Asian nations that would feel obliged to go nuclear, but that list is going to extend to many nations in the Middle East – I should point out that these nations were fine with an Israeli bomb and never felt the need for a nuke of their own – and likely also Europe and South America. And I am not even discussing the open door policy this invites on non-nuclear WMDs. If you really want to screw over the US use a bio or chemical weapon, keep the UN in your pocket and their report clean, and then make sure the US knows that any conventional response is going to be nary impossible or super costly, especially with weak spined collectivist twits in charge, resulting in a token use of force at best, and you score. Only people in fantasyland think this isn’t how the new policy will play out.
I also found it telling that this dangerous nuclear policy shift by the Obama Admin came in the same week that the WH has adopted a new policy that literally abandons the use of anti-radicalized Islam terminology. If you can’t define or name your enemy, how do you propose to fight, let alone defeat them? Do these morons think that if they stop pointing out that the terrorists and terror enabling nations at war with us are such, that they will cease and desist? Ostrich much? Or is it so they can broaden the terms to just terrorists and then bran Tea partiers as such as well? After all, the left has clearly shown they see more of a threat, when none really exists I should add, from those that disagree with their policies, than from radical and evil Islamic terrorists hell bent on blanketing the world in Sharia.
There is a pattern here with these drastic changes to things that these people when it is convenient for them claim are weakened when someone is making changes that would strengthen our security, and I am worried about what it says. I see no good coming from these decisions, which ultimately again bring us to the radical America hating left’s obsessive and stupid believe that the problem is the US, and if it just exposed its jugular to the world’s predators, they would all suddenly learn to live in peace with us. This kind of thinking is insanity, and yet these are the people we now put in charge of our security. We can’t call the enemy what it is, and we are bending over backwards to ease the faux concerns of people that would like nothing more than a crack at crippling and destroying us if they but could get away with it. I guess we deserve the consequences of these dumb moves.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Hollyweird under fire
It looks like the movie “Hurt Locker”, yet another anti-military Hollyweird fantasy where the soldiers are all idiots or prone to stupid behavior, while loved by the Hollyweirdos precisely because of the portrayal, doesn’t play well with the troops that have done the real thing, and I am not surprised the troops, and especially those with the ordinance disposal units, laugh at this dumb movie.
Reporting from Baghdad, Los Angeles and Washington - Many film critics—and awards voters—have praised “The Hurt Locker’s” depiction of the U.S. military in Iraq, often singling out the bomb disposal drama for its authenticity. But as the film emerges as a favorite to win the best picture Oscar, a number of active soldiers and veterans say the film is Hollywood hokum, portraying soldiers as renegades while failing to represent details about combat accurately.
Truthfully, my first reaction was to actually wonder how the news this anti-US military movie, which I again am pointing out portrayed our troops negatively to suit the image Hollyweird has of the military, was causing a controversy and getting front page time. I admit that was not the least bit surprised about the movie’s negative portrayal, because that seems to be SOP for the left, which while it claims to have respect for the troops and to support our men and women in harms way, also seem to feel the military is an evil entity used by evil America. That this is being pointed out, and in the lefty rags of all places, is surprising.
My guess is that it is attributable to the fact that the CinC now has a (D) next to his name and his WH, despite the facts to the contrary, is now claiming Iraq as their victory. I have already pointed out that I expect much historical whitewashing and fudging to go on about the Iraqi conflict now that we have literally made all the idiots that said a military victory was impossible eat their own words. I am admitting that I didn’t expect it this soon.
I suspect that over the next decade many will rewrite the facts to create the illusion that the left wasn’t just violently opposed to us winning, but actively took measures to force us to lose in Iraq, just like was done after the fall of the USSR to hide the role the mostly pro-Soviet left played there and then. Today we have the majority of these people that were calling Reagan a warmongering nut that would start WW3, all saying that they were right there with Reagan, pushing for the military arms race and the line in the sand that finally broke the evil empire and ended the 70 plus year suffering of millions at the hand of the first collectivist paradise. That is when they don’t try to tell you Reagan’s role in the whole thing was minimal, and the lion share of the credit should go to Gorbachev, or some such other nonsense.
Anyway, I should also mention that it isn’t a coincidence that a movie that inaccurately and negatively portrays our military, like the Hurt Locker does, is up for so many movie awards. Hollyweird loves
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Monday, February 15, 2010
How much more humane!
Liberals were up in arms about the “evils” of the Bush administration, especially in regards to the efforts tied to GWoT. Evil American troops were ordered by Darth Vader to capture those downtrodden guys that are mad at capitalist America - explains why so many on the left empathizes with these guys, huh? – and stick them in those nasty “torture camps” like Club Gitmo. But because they were so successful at selling that idiotic meme, they painted themselves into a corner. Reversing course now brings with it the risk of looking like the idiots they actually are. Admitting that the holding facilities, while not a perfect solution, were the best option where no good one existed, simply is too painful. So instead of capturing them, since now that the leftists are in charge they can’t simply demand we “cut & run” because when the next attack happens we will all know to blame them and their idiocy for it, we are only left with the option of killing more terrorists. Case in point:
When a window of opportunity opened to strike the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa last September, U.S. Special Operations forces prepared several options. They could obliterate his vehicle with an airstrike as he drove through southern Somalia. Or they could fire from helicopters that could land at the scene to confirm the kill. Or they could try to take him alive.
The White House authorized the second option. On the morning of Sept. 14, helicopters flying from a U.S. ship off the Somali coast blew up a car carrying Saleh Ali Nabhan. While several hovered overhead, one set down long enough for troops to scoop up enough of the remains for DNA verification. Moments later, the helicopters were headed back to the ship.
Now don’t get me wrong: most, if not all, of these bastards need a good killing. There are no compromises to be reached with them. It is us or them. They are not going to sit down with us and talk it out. Using drones to pop them when we can is a necessary step in curtailing their operations. But the largely unspoken fact is that since we aren’t willing to just wipe out everyone that lives in the swamps where these cockroaches are bred – thankfully so – we remain limited in our capability and responses. Our most important weapon, believe it or not, is intelligence. If we know what they are doing, hopefully, we can work against them. Thwart their efforts. Difficult under the best of circumstances, and even harder when you have these idiots in charge as the panty bomber proved. Sure Big Sis Napoletano will tell you the system worked, but we all know we got lucky there.
There is a big problem with this intelligence gathering strategy, as the article itself points out. No, it isn’t that we make more terrorists when we are aggressive and kill terrorists like the leftist idiots would like you to believe: it is that we are not gathering as much intel as we could because we are trying to avoid capturing terrorists. All because back when Bush was in charge, their BDS didn’t let these leftist tools see the difficult choices and options, leading them to denounce any and everything that was done by that administrations as not just bad but criminal. That stupidity has literally left them with no options of where to put prisoners now that they are in charge. Not unless they want to show how farcical and stupid their objections were in the first place. Nobody wants these bastards because they are real dangerous. They demonized Gitmo and are now looking like they were talking out of their rear ends when the promise to close it by went bye, and they are now left with no end in sight. So we are left with no options. If we are in the dark about what the enemy is doing, it makes it easier for them to do it.
So now, not only have we been forced to be more brutal – we now just kill – we are leaving a big intelligence gap that will come back to bite us in the wake of this all. But Bush was the cowboy moron….
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Circus comes to New York..
Well it looks like Holder has decided to bring the terrorists behind the 9-11 attack to justice in a US courtand people already are pointing out the politics and stupidity of this move. I watched Holder get lobbed a bunch of softball questions while working out at the gym this AM and simply could not believe the crap he was saying. First off, I was baffled how he talked about bringing them to justice and having a fair and impartial trial, only to then assure the mouthpieces playing at reporting that expressed the concern that trying war criminals (my words not theirs) in a civilian court could see them getting off, that he was certain they would be found guilty.
Of course Holder avoided answering what they would be tried for and kept mouthing off that he was going to ask for the death penalty. But in the end there was no clear charges mentioned, and that was obviously on purpose. And the obvious thing to me here is that this is all a meaningless but dangerous political act of contrition intended to appease the left, and it shows. Obama, have no doubt that even though Holder is doing the talking that Obama is pulling the strings, is going to give the left that circus to paint America as the bad guy he promised. I wonder if they no longer feel this sort of stuff makes terrorists like they used to tell us back when Bush was in charge and we tried to fight these terrorists.
Also, what nobody also asked was how long this Kabuki dance would take to play out. Considering the back and forth that is sure to follow between the lawyers defending these scumbags and the Justice Department, it could take a decade or more before these trails happen. In the mean time Obama and Holder are not just (hopefully) likely to be long gone, but they score cheap political points by claiming they brought these terrorists to trail even if they are going to be locked away for another decade or more, put us all at in danger. Remember that Bin Laden pointed out the reason he chose the Twin Towers was that he wanted to amongst other things punish us for trying the other bearded camel humper that tried to blow the place up in 1993. I wonder if these Ivy league geniuses know that or simply don’t care?
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Told ya so…
Looks like that promise by the Russians to take Iranian Uranium and thus limit their enrichment capabilities and thus the collection of material needed to build a nuke the left was so proud to get, is just more smoke up our arses. How does that saying go again? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. This is episode/blunder 462 for the Obama team dealing with the Iranians. Only idiots think diplomacy works when one side, despite all its might is unable to act if the others are not willing to meet them in the middle, and the other has no interest in any kind of compromise. What’s the definition of insanity again? Do the same thing over and over, and expect a different result. And before you start saying this is just incidental and not yet official policy, think how hard I am going to rag on you when that excuse too falls short.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Kharma
Talk about having the country with the greatest support for terrorism getting a little of their own medicine. In an act that I am sure is Ironic to most of us but likely got missed by the Iranian monsters oppressing the people of Iran, we get this tid-bit:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and 23 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks on Iran’s most powerful military institution. The attack, in the country’s turbulent southeast, came as Iranian officials were to meet Western counterparts for a second round of negotiations in Vienna on Monday intended to help resolve a standoff with the West about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
State media said a local rebel group called Jundollah (God’s soldiers) claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on the elite Revolutionary Guards in recent years, which also wounded another 28 people at a meeting of tribal chiefs. “Rigi’s terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack,” said state television, referring to Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundollah which is linked by some analysts to the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan. The Guards themselves accused “foreign elements” linked to the United States of involvement. Tehran accuses the United States of backing Jundollah to create instability in the country, a charge that Washington denies.
What’s hilarious is that the blame the current panty-waste do nothing cowards in DC for the attack, be it directly or indirectly, after these crooks in DC removed all aid for Iranian dissidents in the hopes of kissing up to these evil men! If anything these Sunnis are going to be backed by Saudi Arabia, where Sunnis are in the majority, but Iran is not ready to blame them yet it looks like.
I guess the mullocracy is still brutally oppressing, but the people are using some of the mullah’s own tactics against them now.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
About that help from Russia…
A couple of weeks back all the libs were pointing out how diplomacy and talk had finally made stuff happened - the US gave up efforts in putting a missile defense shield in place to shoot down Iranian missiles to please the Russians in return for them backing us up on the initiative to confront Iran with the knowledge of their new illicit nuclear processing plant - and pointing out how the Obama WH was finally going to get though on Iran. Most of us that live in the real world laughed at this ridiculous notion and pointed out Obama was likely scammed. Well, here is the proof:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was “premature”. Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia’s paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Moscow for two days of talks. “There is no need to frighten the Iranians,” Putin told reporters in Beijing after a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. “We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see.”
Looks like we lost again. We gave up something for nothing, and Iran is still going to build its nukes. I can not believe that the idiots in the WH have not already figured out Russia has weighed the risks of a nuclear armed Iran vs. the benefits of a nuclear armed Iran and decided the later works just fine for them. A nuclear armed Iran would drastically alter not just the composition and balance of power in the ME, but it would also drastically reduce US influence, and open the door, at least in their eyes, for Moscow to come in and fill in the vacuum. A nuclear armed Iran will also immediately affect the price and availability of oil: the price will go up drastically, and actions by Iran, hiding behind its new found security and nuclear umbrella, would/could disrupt the flow as well. Russia will make a lot more money when that happens. We are talking the potential for trillions of dollars more. And in the end, Moscow is not as reluctant to nuke iran first if they feel there are risks.
The Russians, stealing a page out of the Bush doctrine preemptively book, have taken the whole concept to a new level and now want everyone to know that they have the right to use nukes preemptively. I am sure the left will now call Putin the next coming of Hitler, fill the news 24/7 with the arrogance and lunacy of this escalation of a doctrine they didn’t agree with before, and break off all attempts to talk to the Russians, like they did with Bush. They will suddenly realize Iran is our problem and deal with it too. Ok, I was being facetious. But the point is that the Russians want everyone to know – and especially Iran – that they are not worried about a nuclear armed Iran at all. In fact, logic points to the fact that they welcome it.
In the mean time the WH response is to grab their ankles and spread even wider.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Great…
I am sure cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in the Guard, was misquoted. And since it was not A-jad saying this and the Iranians are just responding to aggression by anyone trying to stop them from getting a nuke, I am sure the usual suspects will tell us we can not point out that these people are dangerous and not to be trusted. Especially with a nuke. I wonder if they are talking about all those Iranian rockets in the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas? Don’t worry though! We are in good hands!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Vultures lose interest in dead soldiers..
Since the election of Barack Obama many things have changed in this country. Practically all of them for the worse in my opinion. But amongst the most blatant changes is the way the media has been treating and reporting the wars we are engaged in and fighting. Iraq, where we won despite the left’s efforts to incur a loss, has been all but forgotten. Air strikes against terrorists now focus on killing terrorists instead of accusing the US of killing civilians. Even more telling is the fact that al-Qaeda and the Taliban are now real bad guys instead of freedom fighters. And now we are no longer making that many excuses for Iran, and actually reporting that they are trying to build nukes, even if we ignore the fact Obama has known about this since he became president and continues to treat them as if they where gold buddies. And Afghanistan, the only war the left felt was justified because of Bin Laden, has now lost its just cause. Obama, whom promised to get us out of Iraq and to commit troops to Afghanistan to “get” Bin Laden has treated it and its new commander like a leper. The calls of quagmire are not too distant. But one of the most telling things is how suddenly the media’s fascination with showing dead soldiers has become passé.
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President Bush of trying to hide the terrible human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.”
In April of this year, the Obama administration lifted the press ban, which had been in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Media outlets rushed to cover the first arrival of a fallen U.S. serviceman, and many photographers came back for the second arrival, and then the third.
But after that, the impassioned advocates of showing the true human cost of war grew tired of the story. Fewer and fewer photographers showed up. “It’s really fallen off,” says Lt. Joe Winter, spokesman for the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where all war dead are received. “The flurry of interest has subsided.”
Since now they would have to point out Obama is the CinC, and blaming Bush would be too obvious of a ruse, the interest has died. Change indeed…
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Terrorists win again.
Oh, joy. Looks like we are helping the bad guys and making it easy for them to get us. WTF? Do these people really think this was some kind of moral victory or reversal of an injustice? Seriously, what are they thinking? Our constitution was not a suicide pact as far as I remember. Anyway:
Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur” if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today,” he predicted, “then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.”
On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner—Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the “Shoe Bomber”—were being allowed to expire. SAMs are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when “there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury” to others.
So now the lawyers for the terrorists got Obama’s justice department – wonder if they will try to blame Bush for this too – to let their clients get together and plot their next moves huh? How great. Can’t wait for them to close Club Gitmo, bring the lot of these hardcore and brutal murderers to the US, stick them in prisons where their lawyers will make sure they get to not only talk, but actually recruit from the population, and then have these morons tell us it is not their fault that they perpetrated another mass murder attack on us.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Say it ain’t so!
Don’t mean to come off as an a$$, well I do want to rub it in, but I told you so. All the “Hope & Change” has not succeeded in getting the WH to engage the monsters running Iran. This despite their best efforts, which included siding with the thugs killing the Iranian people protesting the rigged election, and attempts to kiss thug arse, for some reason didn’t work. All that bluster about how they were the ones smart enough to finally get Iran to talk and abandon their nuclear weapons program seems to have gone up in smoke.
July 16 (Bloomberg)—Iranian leaders are turning inward and rejecting engagement with the West as they blame outsiders for street protests, even as President Barack Obama’s administration pushes for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.
I am sure the WH is thinking that had they been even more forceful in their efforts to kiss the rear-ends of the thugs running Iran that just maybe things would have worked out. That’s proof positive of how stupid or duplicitous these people were when they demonized those of us pointing out that over 7 years of talk with Iran, by the EU and us, had resulted in absolutely nothing, and that their efforts would be met with the same. If it was not feigned anger at Obama’s platitudes, it would have been some other feigned insult that would have kept the Iranians from talking anyway. They are stringing everyone along, and doing a great job of it. So with these new revelations, this lesson learned, do you think the WH has wised up?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded yesterday that direct talks remain “the best vehicle” for presenting Iranian leaders with a choice of limiting their nuclear ambitions or continuing “down a path to further isolation.”
Yeah, I am sure Iran is horribly worried about how “isolated” they will be. It worked when the EU used that to stop their full speed march to build a bomb, and it worked when some other nations didn’t act as craven as our WH did and told the Iranians their response to the protests of the rigged elections was barbaric too. Oh, wait a second. No it didn’t work. What’s the definition of insanity again? Trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, right?
The regime is increasingly isolated since the election and more determined than ever to reject international demands that it give up uranium enrichment, a prelude to developing a nuclear weapon, said Fitzpatrick, who was deputy assistant secretary of State for non-proliferation until 2005.
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Khamenei on July 6 warned that the Islamic republic would show an “iron fist” toward countries it regarded as “enemies.” Ahmadinejad said on June 14 that Iran would not tolerate outside pressure. “Our nation is not afraid of threats,” he told a news conference in Tehran. “It will stand up to those who want to prevent its progress.”
I wonder why? Don’t they know Obama wants to work things out? I have said this before and will repeat it again: there are only a hand full of options to stop the Iranian thugs from their pursuit of the bomb, and the current crop of idiots in charge has already made it clear that they think all of them will be off the table. It will be up to Israel, again, to spare the world the calamity coming our way, and they will, of course, be demonized for it.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Oh no you don’t!
I think we sane people need to get ahead of the latest liberal myth – another rewrite of history – and squash it fast. What myth am I talking about? Well the one that the libs and the WH are now touting, after they horribly bungled and totally mangled their response to the current revolution in Iran. The left is already claiming that the revolution in Iran is either indirectly, and very likely, directly tied to Obama and his election. The meme, as a couple of libs I heard spreading this dastardly cover-up are preaching, is that Obama’s election was but 6 months ago and we are already seeing more resistance in Iran than ever in the past 30 years. When asked for clarification the roundabout explanation was that the election of Obama and his new direction for the US made the Iranians decide it was time for a change. Obama performs another miracle!
Of course I pointed out the sheer stupidity of this kind of thinking. The left actually wants to make people believe that we have the Iranian people risking their lives and standing up against their brutal dictators because after 8 years of that warmongering criminal Bush talking about “destroying” Iran, Obama now talks peace. Let me break this down for you so you can see how stupid this sounds. The mullahs tell the world they are building a bomb and plan to use it (on Israel and then the great Satan). The US, nay the world, tells them to rethink that. Sanctions and much useless talking follow, as the Iranian leadership hunkers down, ignores the impact on their people of the sanctions, and push on with their plans to go nuclear. In the mean time Iran’s two neighbors are cleaned up, and the Iranian people get to watch both the Iraqis and the Afghanis democratically elect their leaders, because of evil warmongering Bush-McHitler. While this is going on, the thugs in charge of Iran refuse to change course, putting the Iranian people at risk of a massive strike campaign, or even a possible nuclear retaliatory strike, because of their pursuit of the bomb. Yet, the Iranian people, at serious risk, never fear for their lives, and revolt. Now some guy, Obama for you true believers, gets elected to the presidency of the US – the one country that has stood in opposition of the thugocracy that practically all of the Iranian people have despised and wanted to get rid off for over a decade - and that new guy wants to cozy up to the brutal and evil thugs holding them prisoner. Mend things. Chat without conditions. Be friends! Peace and all that jazz. And suddenly the Iranian people decide that they need to risk their lives to get rid of the thugs! Are these leftists living in the real world or the Twilight Zone?
See, if you want to link what is happening in Iran to Obama, the real and logical flow of things would indicate a much different chain of events. More likely, what has really happened is that the Iranian people have realized the current US president was going to establish and normalize relations with the monsters running their country, legitimizing the regime in the process, and make it even harder for them to get out from under its oppressive yoke. Thus the Iranian people decided to act before that took place. Once the US had legitimized the thugs in charge, getting rid of them would be that much harder. The Iranian people will remember that the WH’s response to their uprising was to try and play nice with the mullahs, and not to condemn them. Even after a brutal show of indiscriminate force. I guess this is the second democrat to seriously screw things up when it comes to Iran. No wonder that the people that really get what Obama is doing are now saying that he is making Jimmy Carter look wise. No wonder the that the left feels the need to rewrite history.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
On this day that we are honoring those that died for our freedom…
President Obama tells us that North Korea is a threat to world peace. Now where have I heard that before? Who could have said the same thing? Who was called a warmonger for saying this? I know it has not been that long since the left told us that warmonger made the whole North Korean thing up. Wonder if they will accuse Obama of the same. After all, we were told that if we elected Obama the world would love us and all that trouble caused by Bush-Hitler would go away. And yet, here we have the NKs testing nukes. Everyone, and especially our close allies in Asia, are condemning this action. I bet they are all also wishing that warmonger Bush was still in charge because they know Obama will do nothing but talk. In fact they are already saying that he is, in the best-case scenario, another Carter. They are right too. We will get a lot of this useless crap, and nothing of real consequence. How well did those angry threats by Hans Brix work out huh? Wonder how Obama decided to observe memorial day? He might soon need those evil troops the left loves to hate. In the mean time Iran’s thugocracy tells the world they want the nukes.They have also told us they plan to use them. The Iranians also love Obama and I guess they want to talk too. SHYA! That’s got to be why he send these six targets.. erm I mean warships to sea. He knows Obama will do squat.
Some of use remember what today was about. We know who has kept us free so far. It has not been the politicians, lawyers, or other such types whom usually pretend like they are on the frontline, but our troops. Honor them. Remember them. Thank them. Looks like in today’s crappy world we will need them, and need them badly. Even if the guy now in charge of them doesn’t have a clue. A heartfelt thanks for your sacrifices and your service from me and mine. We know whom we owe our freedoms to.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
This will sure work…
Well, talking though, as I predicted, has not worked worth squat. So now the talking heads have decided that they will kiss ass more and hope for the best. I mean, this stuff works so much better with thug governments! Look at how well talking nice to the North Koreans has worked out for us! It is no coincidence these dangerous rogue nations are doing this on a democrats watch. It is the same reason they where rooting for democrats to win big in the last election.
At this point I am convinced that the mad men running Iran will only be stopped by an Israeli attack. Short of that they will get a nuke, blackmail the flow of oil for a while, and make a killing while plunging the world into an even deeper economic hole, then actually use it. But the democrats will make sure Bush is blamed....
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