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This from Captain’s Quarters, Ya see I told y’all BEFORE Obama entered the race that he was a blithering idiot, but Nooooooo, nobody listens to ole Snoop, I’m just a crazy Negro, LOL!

The primary campaign has turned into a very long dance for Barack Obama, who seems determined to prove at every opportunity that he has two left feet. In New Hampshire, Obama told a crowd that the US military effort consists mainly of “air raiding villages and killing civilians” — which his tone-deaf campaign confirmed moments later to reporters (via The Corner):

Obama defended his push to prosecute a tougher military effort to root out al-Qaida on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which drew criticism from primary rivals for sounding too bellicose.“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there,’’ Obama said.

Campaign spokesman Reid Cherlin said Obama was not endorsing the current Bush policy, which consists solely of air raids and bombing of civilians.

The NATO troops in Afghanistan would beg to differ. They don’t have a policy of bombing civilians, and the ground troops play a very important role in defending Afghanistan’s villages from the depravities of Taliban control. Perhaps Obama can explain his analysis of military strategy and tactics to the ground troops that get wounded in these battles — or to the families of the dead soldiers who died holding ground against the radical Islamists.

There is more…

Here is the video:

Another must read - ‘This Is The News The World Doesn’t Hear’

Der Spiegel has reflected and led overwhelming German opposition to the war in Iraq practically from the moment of the invasion in 2003. They have often featured George Bush on their cover in unflattering pictures and with negative headlines such as “Power and Lies”, an issue last year in which they declared Iraq lost. However, they finally sent their own reporter for an in-depth tour of Iraq, and the magazine realizes that the world media has missed the story (via Medienkritik):

Since June, Ramadi residents have only known the war from televison. Indeed, US military officials at the Baghdad headquarters of Operation Iraqi Freedom often have trouble believing their eyes when they read the reports coming in from their units in Ramadi these days. Exploded car bombs: zero. Detonated roadside bombs: zero. Rocket fire: zero. Grenade fire: zero. Shots from rifles and pistols: zero. Weapons caches discovered: dozens. Terrorists arrested: many.

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From Red State

Freshman Rep. Nancy Boyda (D.-Kan.), one of the GOP’s top targets in 2008, couldn’t stomach hearing about progress in Iraq during House Armed Services Committee testimony last month. Frustrated and agitated by the remarks of retired Gen. Jack Keane,  Boyda walked out of the hearing room only to return 10 minutes later to ridicule the architect of the surge strategy.Judging from Boyda’s behavior at last month’s hearing, she just might blow a gasket today if she reads the article in USA Today about the 50% decline in major attacks since the troop surge strategy began. (Linked by Pejman Yousefzadeh earlier this afternoon.)

Keane, the man Boyda berated in July, is quoted in the article, saying that U.S. forces have gained momentum from the enemy. Yet don’t expect Boyda to acknowledge the progress. Her spokeswoman said last month after the fiasco that she’s “frustrated with how the administration is handling the war.”

I suspect the real reason you won’t hear Democrats acknowledge progress in Iraq is that any good news is bad news for them. Their political success at home depends on failure in Iraq. That’s why Boyda didn’t want to hear about it in July and why she probably won’t acknowledge it now.

Boyda defends decision to step out of Iraq hearing

Good News Is Bad News

This is a crappy video, but worth posting.
Further illustrates just how dumbfounding it is that Raul is taken seriously by people as a presidential candidate.
Now if dude wants to run for deputy sheriff of Mayberry cool, but a presidential candidate? Hardly.

His answer for Iraq, “oh just tell them to come home” I swear I can’t take him seriously.

As Dodge City’s Deputy Marshal, Festus is the pride of the Haggen family, a clan of no-account hillbillies who may have less than 32 teeth among them. Although illiterate and often incoherent, the dog-eared Deputy has earned the respect of Dodge’s townspeople as a capable lawman. And he is easily the most colorful resident of this frontier town. Festus is fiercely loyal to Matt Dillon and counts Matt as one of his two best friends—the other is his mule. His meager salary as a deputy forces him to do odd jobs to make ends meet, so when he’s not covering Marshal Dillon’s back, he’s most likely painting a barn or digging a well to earn extra income.
Festus is a bachelor, which should come as no surprise given his educational background and lack of personal hygiene. In his spare time, he can be found at the Long Branch Saloon, waiting for someone to buy him a drink.

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SINGAPORE (AP) - Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded by some of the world’s largest carbon polluters, former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday.”There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community,” Gore said at a forum in Singapore. “In actuality, there is very little disagreement.”

Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the appearance of scientific debate on smoking’s harmful effects.

“This is one of the strongest of scientific consensus views in the history of science,” Gore said. “We live in a world where what used to be called propaganda now has a major role to play in shaping public opinion.”

After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the world’s top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned that the cause of global warming is “very likely” man-made, “the deniers offered a bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published somewhere,” Gore said.

“They’re trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools,” he said.

There is more, but why bother, His global warming jihad is beginning to run out of steam. Even Oprah is showing a rerun of his 2006 interview with her shortly after the release of his propaganda hoax flick “A convenient lie.”
If you missed this award wining propaganda performance, I’ll have up on my RepubBlackCon You Tube profile tomorrow sometime.
Oprah gives a great performance too, by pretending that she is “amazed” at the information he presents, knowing damm well his is full of shit.

Heck while we is talkin about Mr. Gore, why don’t I recycle this You Tube clip again in case some of y’all missed it.
Gore criticizes Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism

This from: The Uncooperative Blogger

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as well as two previous “Baghdad Diarist” columns–signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods–fabrications containing only “a smidgen of truth,” in the words of our source.Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:

An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.

According to the military source, Beauchamp’s recantation was volunteered on the first day of the Military’s investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July 26, in which Beauchamp said, “I’m willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name.”

Anti-war people and those on the Left are always willing to believe the worst of our troops, not I. If people had any sense this would be the end of the New Republic, because we need to get back to the OLD Republic that our founding fathers gave us before it is too late. I for one am tired of the hate America crowd.

Also check out his post: US Bridge Safety & Illegal Aliens

“a subcontractor providing rebar installation for major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee used illegal aliens who did not have valid welding certifications. Are these welding jobs the jobs Americans won’t do that the pro-illegal immigrationists are always mentioning?Talk about public safety! I just wonder what other possible areas there are unqualified illegal aliens working on infrastructure projects?”

This from Hot Air

In fairness, by “us” he seems to be referring to the House Democratic leadership, not the left as a whole. For the left a good progress report is no problem at all; they’ll shrug it off, dismiss Petraeus as a Bush stooge who’s probably racist and secretly gay, and go right on pounding on about withdrawal. For the leadership, a good report is a headache: it might encourage the Blue Dogs to side with the GOP to continue the mission, thereby leaving Pelosi with a howling anti-war base and no way to placate them.

Obviously this dude does not have a copy of  “The Democrat Liars Guide: Spinning the Media Properly.”
We all know that the worst nightmare for Democrats is good news from Iraq, but this idiot ass has a brain fart and actually says it on camera!

Go here to view the rest and the video

From the blog Ankle Biting Pundits

As you may know, Iraq isn’t going quite as badly as our friends on the Left would like it to. Most of them would just as soon up and quit the war and cede that region to the terrorists.But freshman Rep. Nancy Bodya (D-KS) is leading her colleagues by example. According to the transcript of the July 27th House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Bodya just up and walked out of the committee room because retired Army General Jack Keane was allowed to profile some of the positive stories coming out of that long-suffering part of the world.

And I just will make some statements more for the record based on what I heard from — mainly from General Keane. As many of us — there was only so much that you could take until we in fact had to leave the room for a while. So I think I am back and maybe can articulate some things — after so much of the frustration of having to listen to what we listened to.But let me first just say that the description of Iraq as in some way or another that it’s a place that I might take the family for a vacation — things are going so well — those kinds of comments will in fact show up in the media and further divide this country instead of saying, here’s the reality of the problem. And people, we have to come together and deal with the reality of this issue.

I would like to know who the other walk-outs were.

I hope our brave fighting men and women know that Rep. Bodya does not speak for the vast majority of Americans who would never walk out on them.

By Thomas Sowell - Townhall.com

“Moral paralysis” is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them.It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times.

Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing — and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him.

Instead, they turned to what is still the magic mantra today — “negotiations.”

No leader of a democratic nation was ever more popular than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain — wildly cheered in the House of Commons by opposition parties as well as his own — when he returned from negotiations in Munich in 1938, waving an agreement and declaring that it meant “peace in our time.”

We know now how short that time was. Less than a year later, World War II began in Europe and spread across the planet, killing tens of millions of people and reducing many cities to rubble in Europe and Asia.

Looking back after that war, Winston Churchill said, “There was never a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action.” The earlier it was done, the less it would have cost.

At one point, Hitler could have been stopped in his tracks “without the firing of a single shot,” Churchill said.

That point came in 1936 — three years before World War II began — when Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, in violation of two international treaties.

At that point, France alone was so much more powerful than Germany that the German generals had secret orders to retreat immediately at the first sign of French intervention.

As Hitler himself confided, the Germans would have had to retreat “with our tail between our legs,” because they did not yet have enough military force to put up even a token resistance.

Why did the French not act and spare themselves and the world the years of horror that Hitler’s aggressions would bring? The French had the means but not the will.

“Moral paralysis” came from many things. The death of a million French soldiers in the First World War and disillusionment with the peace that followed cast a pall over a whole generation.

Pacifism became vogue among the intelligentsia and spread into educational institutions. As early as 1932, Winston Churchill said: “France, though armed to the teeth, is pacifist to the core.”

It was morally paralyzed.

History may be interesting but it is the present and the future that pose the crucial question: Is America today the France of yesterday?

We know that Iran is moving swiftly toward nuclear weapons while the United Nations is moving slowly — or not at all — toward doing anything to stop them.

It is a sign of our irresponsible Utopianism that anyone would even expect the UN to do anything that would make any real difference.

Not only the history of the UN, but the history of the League of Nations before it, demonstrates again and again that going to such places is a way for weak-kneed leaders of democracies to look like they are doing something when in fact they are doing nothing.

The Iranian leaders are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And, like Hitler, they don’t think we have the guts to stop them.

Incidentally, Hitler made some of the best anti-war statements of the 1930s. He knew that this was what the Western democracies wanted to hear — and that it would keep them morally paralyzed while he continued building up his military machine to attack them.

Iranian leaders today make only the most token and transparent claims that they are building “peaceful” nuclear facilities — in one of the biggest oil-producing countries in the world, which has no need for nuclear power to generate electricity.

Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran and its international terrorist allies will be a worst threat than Hitler ever was. But, before that happens, the big question is: Are we France? Are we morally paralyzed, perhaps fatally?

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Some reflections on some recent polls, in FrontPage today (news links in the original):

A new Newsweek Poll on American attitudes toward Muslims and Islam has found that 46 percent of Americans believe that the United States is taking in too many Muslim immigrants. 32 percent think that Muslims in America are less loyal to the United States than they are to Islam. 28 percent believe that the Qur’an condones violence, and 41 percent hold that Islamic culture “glorifies suicide.” 54 percent are either “somewhat worried” or “very worried” about Islamic jihadists in this country, and 52 percent support FBI surveillance of mosques, with the same percentage rejecting the claim of American Muslim advocacy groups that Muslims are being singled out by investigators and police.

What are we to make of these figures? Do they mean that American Muslim advocacy groups have to do more to combat “Islamophobia”? That is the likely response: watch now for the follow-up stories about “Islamophobia,” in which the onus for all the attitudes displayed in this poll is placed firmly and solely upon non-Muslim Americans, as if Muslims were an entirely innocent, passive group that was doing nothing whatsoever to make anyone suspicious or angry at all. Newsweek itself led this off by asserting in another article published along with the poll that Muslims in America are “vulnerable as never before.” That story began with an account of a Muslim in Cleveland asking George W. Bush: “What are we doing with public diplomacy to change the hearts and minds of a billion and a half Muslims around the world?” The unspoken assumption behind this question is that Muslim fury at the West stems entirely from the actions of the United States and other Western countries, and not from anything within the Islamic world itself. Daud Abdullah, the Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), expressed another aspect of this view after the recent jihad plots were discovered in London and Glasgow, when he suggested that the religion of the attackers was incidental to their plots: “Let’s not create a hypothetical problem…it can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews or Buddhists.”

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Clinton and YouTube win South Carolina debate

(edited slightly) by Frank James - Chicago Tribune

Will we look back in months on the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate from South Carolina and see it as a turning point in the race?

Doubtful. While the novel use of the YouTube video gave the debate some flavor it wouldn’t have had if it had used the traditional journalistic panel pitching the questions, the debate was another encounter of the candidates that didn’t scramble the Democratic race’s dynamics.

Sen. Hillary Clinton did nothing to hurt herself and indeed put in another strong performance. She was smooth, informed, unflappable and with a touch of humor. Anytime the leader in the polls comes out of a debate unscathed, she or he is the winner by definition.

One of her best moments came at Sen. Barack Obama’s expense. Stephen Sorta of Diamond Bar, Calif. asked the candidates if they’d be willing in their first year in office to talk with the leaders who, from the viewpoint of U.S. policymakers, are considered the world’s troublemakers, including presidents Fidel Castro of Cuba, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Obama answered first and said he would hold such meetings. He didn’t qualify his answer. Big mistake.

SEN. OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this: That the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration, is ridiculous. (Applause.) Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to the Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire. And the reason is because they understood that we may not trust them, they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we have the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward.And I think that it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them.

We’ve been talking about Iraq. One of the first things that I would do in terms of moving a diplomatic effort in the region forward is to send a signal that we need to talk to Iran and Syria, because they’re going to have responsibilities if Iraq collapses. They have been acting irresponsibly up until this point. But if we tell them that we are not going to be a permanent occupying force, we are in a position to say that they are going to have to carry some weight in terms of stabilizing the region.

Amazing answer, clearly dude is either way out of touch with reality or he is simply an idiot, pick one!

Anderson Cooper, the CNN star who served as debate moderator, turned to Sorta who just happened to be in the audience there at the Citadel and asked him what he thought.

If Sorta were a paid member of Clinton’s staff, he could not have tossed her a bigger softball. He said he wanted to hear her position. And, of course, Clinton gave a nuanced answer that was exactly right, downright presidential.

SEN. CLINTON: While I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these during my first year, I will promise a very vigorous diplomatic effort, because I think it is not that you promise a meeting at that high a level before you know what the intentions are. I don’t want to be used for propaganda purposes. I don’t want to make a situation even worse.

But I certainly agree that we need to get back to diplomacy, which has been turned into a bad word by this administration. And I will pursue very vigorous diplomacy, and I will use a lot of high-level presidential envoys to test the waters, to feel the way.But certainly we’re not going to just have our president meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and, you know, the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be. (Applause.)

She had just taken Obama to school and he had to know it. If they had been playing tennis, she would have just scored on him with a passing shot that caught him moving in the wrong direction

It showed off her White House chops and his lack of them. Curiously, after the debate, CNN said some focus group in New Hampshire gave the debate to Obama. It was enough to make one wonder what debate they were watching.

Obama didn’t really have a comeback moment that made him grow in gravitas in comparison with Clinton. He needs such an occasion during a debate if he is to close the deal with many voters who still have trouble seeing him in the Oval Office because of his short resume in national politics. But it wasn’t forthcoming Monday night.

This is a segment from last nights Factor. I was interested in the one dude in the clip Peter Beinart.
He has this book out called “The Good Fight - Why liberals and only liberals can win the war on terror.
Now even before the segment starts I’m trying to process the utter nonsense at how any liberal can make the ridiculous assertion that liberals/Democrats actually have an answer in winning the war on terror.
None of the current crop of Democrats has an answer, other than to say now that “Bush has failed.”

I found an old article of his and he has been trying to play snake oil salesman in trying to convince people that Democrats are not the spineless weasel types all of us Americans know they are.

“if you look at all presidential elections since the Vietnam War, the disturbing reality is the Democratic Party has only won in those moments when the country turned inward. Carter won in 1976, when the country turned inward after Vietnam. It was the first election since 1948 when national security was not the issue that people told pollsters they were most concerned about. Then Clinton won in 1992, in the aftermath of the Cold War.

The truth is this: Unless the Democratic Party can change its image on national security, its only realistic hope of winning the White House is the hope that the war on terrorism is a passing phenomenon that will be over in a few years. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t believe that. Most experts don’t believe that. Most people see this as a generational struggle. And yet, you have to go back pre-Vietnam to find a precedent for how the Democratic Party can respond in a way that will win the country’s trust.”

From his article: Tough Liberalism - October 2005 - Link

This clip is not revealing anything specific, other than to illustrate how liberal Democrats don’t have a true and logical answer to solving the war on terror problem and Iraq. O’Reilly has a former Clinton administration National security “expert” and Beinart, and asks them specifically what would they do in Iraq and they can’t come up with an answer.

First the Democrats failed to get us out of Iraq, oops they did not have the votes, so now they will run the “Bush has failed in Iraq” bullshit.
Do these people think folks are not paying attention to this spin? Well unfortunately most folks are not.

This was posted by Paul over at Wizbang

I really should not be surprised by the lack of critical thinking skills by the folks on the left. But for whatever reason I keep being shocked by its absence.

Our friends over a Wizbang Blue link a video that has all the liberal children giggling with glee…

You know the video is a loser by who links it (Wizbang Blue and Andrew Sullivan) and that fact is further confirmed when the video opens with that well known political scientist Jon Stewart.

What is sad when you watch the video however is how it appeals to the lower end of the IQ scale. If you’d like to save the 7 minutes, it comes down to Bush “lied” about weapons of mass destruction because we did not find them.

Of course the whole thing is predictably devoid of any reason or thought. No mention of the various times Bill Clinton and a plethora of Democrats said Saddam had WMD… No mention that the governments of France, Israel, Russia, Australia and the U.N. itself all said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Of course no mention Saddam himself said he had weapons of mass destruction but then later said he didn’t. And certainly no mention Saddam had weapons of mass destruction at one point and even used them on his own people.

Perhaps what is most disturbing however, is the perpetuation of logic a 3rd grader would reject. If someone said something that later turned out to be incorrect then they had to be lying. The intelligence couldn’t have been simply wrong. Of course Bush knew -better than the combined intelligence services of the entire planet- that Saddam had no weapons but he lied. We know because we have a poorly cut video.

There is no other way to say it. It’s sad these people are just so damn stupid.

DITTO!******

Since Democrats and liberals like that dumbass Raven can’t come clean intellectually you have to keep reminding them that all of the media and blog misrepresentation of the history behind Iraq cannot be swept under the rug.
You certainly can choose to ignore it, but thanks to You Tube the words and deeds of these dishonest liberal Democrats can be played back over and over.

Frankly all of the Democrats candidates for president are as dishonest as they can be.
Let me make this real simple WE ARE NEVER LEAVING IRAQ, any talk of troop withdrawal and leaving Iraq is a bunch of bullshit and even if Mrs. Bill Clinton is elected president she more than anybody on the Democrat side knows how our military presence in Iraq (with that moronic dictator in Iran) is crucial to our security and national interest.

I love recycling these clips, unless Democrats can successfully blow up You Tube headquarters where these video reside, they can’t run from them, they can’t explain them away.

Bush Lied

Gore criticizes Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism

Democrats Hypocrisy Over The Iraq War

Democrat Hypocrisy on Iraq

Article Link - WASHINGTON - When senators from opposing parties call each other “friend” and pat each other as they talk, there’s a fighting chance they’re angling to wring each other’s neck.

So it appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina testily exchanged views on President Bush’s Iraq policy and troop welfare. An impromptu troop surge debate turned into a temper surge.

“Just wash your hands of Iraq,” an animated Graham said to the war critics, including the Democrat seated to his immediate right. “History will judge us, my friend.”

“It’s been a hard month, Lindsey,” Webb commiserated, wearing a tight smile. “You need to calm down, my friend.”

“Lindsey’s had a hard month,” Webb repeated.

“It ain’t about Lindsey having a hard month,” Graham snapped.

The Democrat, a Vietnam veteran, lost an effort in the Senate last week to require specified periods of home time for troops deployed in the war, his bill winning majority support but falling short of the 60 votes needed to proceed. He took sharp objection when Graham asserted that high re-enlistment numbers are a vote of confidence in the Iraq policy by the troops.

“This is one thing I really take objection to — may I speak? — is politicians who try to put their political views into the mouths of soldiers,” Webb said over his opponent’s interruptions. He placed his hand briefly on Graham’s back, then jerked his thumb in the Republican’s direction.

“Have you been to Iraq?” Graham demanded.

“I’ve covered two wars as a correspondent,” Webb said. “I have been to Afghanistan as a journalist.”

Graham: “Have you been to Iraq and talked to the soldiers?”

Webb: “You know, you’ve never been to Iraq, Lindsey.”

The Republican pointed out he’s been there seven times.

“You know,” Webb said dismissively, “you can see the dog and pony shows. That’s what congressman do.

“Why don’t you go look at the polls, Lindsey, instead of the seven or eight people that are put in front of you when you make your congressional visit?”

Graham tried to ease the tension. It didn’t work.

“Let’s — something we can agree on,” he said, placing his hand on Webb’s arm. “We both admire the men and the women in uniform. “

“Don’t put political words in their mouth,” Webb interrupted.

The exchange ended with Graham praising the troops: “God bless them and let’s make sure they can win because they can.”

And Webb getting the final, combative word:

“I’ll let them judge what you said.”

From the Sun - UK

IRANIAN forces are being choppered over the Iraqi border to bomb Our Boys, intelligence chiefs say.

Military experts claim this worrying move means we are at WAR with Iran in all but name.

Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran — but nobody has officially declared it.

“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us.

“It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.”

Our Boys picked up the Iranian helicopters on radar crossing into empty desert.

The sightings have been confirmed to The Sun by very senior military sources.

At least two Brit squaddies are thought to have been killed by bombs planted during these incursions into Maysan province — Corporal Ben Leaning, 24, and Trooper Kristen Turton, 27.

A further 44 British deaths have also been linked to the highly advanced bombs, rockets and mortars which originated in Iran.

Coming so swiftly after the kidnap of 15 Royal Navy sailors in the Gulf, our revelation will send strained relations between London and Tehran plummeting further.

Until now, secret units from Iran’s fanatical RGC have restricted themselves to just training and arming Shia rebels in Iraq.

They include the al Quds Brigade — a secretive force tasked to spread Islamic revolution abroad who are the main backers for Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and are also active in Palestine and northern Iraq.

An MoD spokeswoman said: “There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran.

“Any Iranian link to armed militias in Iraq either through weapons supply, training or funding are unacceptable.

From Moonbattery, Although I’m not surprised when I hear Democrats say really stupid shit anymore you think the people in Murtha’s inner circle would tell him “dude, shut the fuck up!, seriously just shut the hell up, not only for yourself but the party as well”

Are politicians like Murtha really that out of touch with reality, or is he seriously losing his fucken mind?
 

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It may no longer be possible for Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) to hit new lows. But that’s no reason for him to stop trying. Now he’s blaming the plot to blow up JFK Airport not on the Islamic jihad against Western Civilization, but on America’s efforts to defend democracy from terrorists in Iraq. Bellowed Abscam Jack:

Our presence in Iraq, our occupation of Iraq gives these people the inspiration.

Terrorism is inspired by resistance to terrorism. That’s why Murtha is “absolutely convinced the first step to stability in Iraq is redeployment” — i.e., retreating and ceding Iraq to the terrorists.

He’s right of course; if we just give up instead of defending civilization, eventually there won’t be any more terrorism — just a whole lot of severed heads and women shuffling around in burkas… and not only in Iraq.

That vermin like Murtha continue to be elected regrettably indicates that al-Qaeda’s low opinion of us has some justification.

Found this clip on the blog Wake Up Black America

Found on Wizbang , but remember John Edwards says “there is no global war on terror”, Bush is making it up, so no doubt liberals will say his passion and tears are as fake as a three dollar bill.
Rosie says “we” are the terrorists, Ron Paul and his friends say “it’s all blowback!”

Boehner spoke passionately on the floor of the House about the Iraq war supplemental and the government’s duty to protect the American people from the al Qaeda terrorists that hit us on 9/11. Hot Air has the video from C-Span. Here’s part of what Boehner said, from CNN:

“I didn’t come here to be a congressman — I came here to do something,” the Ohio Republican said as he choked up with tears in his eyes on the House floor. “And I think at the top of our list is providing for the safety and security of the American people. That’s at the top of our list. After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on? When are we going to defeat them?”"Ladies and gentlemen, if we don’t do it now, if we don’t have the courage to defeat the enemy, we will long, long regret it,” he added

“Oh Allah, strike the apostate rulers,
Oh Allah, kill them one after the other,
sparing none.”
Abu Musab al Zarqawi January 7, 2004

ignore that silly talk….

From Right Wing News

The press is, once again, deliberately trying to help America’s enemies and undermine the war on terror. This time, it’s Brian Ross and Richard Esposito over at ABC News,

“The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert “black” operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a “nonlethal presidential finding” that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran’s currency and international financial transactions.

…The sources say the CIA developed the covert plan over the last year and received approval from White House officials and other officials in the intelligence community.

Officials say the covert plan is designed to pressure Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment program and end aid to insurgents in Iraq.”

…Under the law, the CIA needs an official presidential finding to carry out such covert actions. The CIA is permitted to mount covert “collection” operations without a presidential finding.

“Presidential findings” are kept secret but reported to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other key congressional leaders.

The “nonlethal” aspect of the presidential finding means CIA officers may not use deadly force in carrying out the secret operations against Iran.

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Found on the blog Moonbattery 

Democrats who don’t side with the bad guys are on the endangered species list, but they aren’t extinct quite yet, as former Senator Bob Kerrey proves in a compelling WSJ editorial. Highlights:

Let me restate the case for this Iraq war from the U.S. point of view. The U.S. led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein because Iraq was rightly seen as a threat following Sept. 11, 2001. […]

No matter how incompetent the Bush administration and no matter how poorly they chose their words to describe themselves and their political opponents, Iraq was a larger national security risk after Sept. 11 than it was before. And no matter how much we might want to turn the clock back and either avoid the invasion itself or the blunders that followed, we cannot. The war to overthrow Saddam Hussein is over. What remains is a war to overthrow the government of Iraq. […]

Suppose we had not invaded Iraq and Hussein had been overthrown by Shiite and Kurdish insurgents. Suppose al Qaeda then undermined their new democracy and inflamed sectarian tensions to the same level of violence we are seeing today. Wouldn’t you expect the same people who are urging a unilateral and immediate withdrawal to be urging military intervention to end this carnage? I would.

American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it. Al Qaeda in particular has targeted for abduction and murder those who are essential to a functioning democracy: school teachers, aid workers, private contractors working to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure, police officers and anyone who cooperates with the Iraqi government. Much of Iraq’s middle class has fled the country in fear.

With these facts on the scales, what does your conscience tell you to do? If the answer is nothing, that it is not our responsibility or that this is all about oil, then no wonder today we Democrats are not trusted with the reins of power. American lawmakers who are watching public opinion tell them to move away from Iraq as quickly as possible should remember this: Concessions will not work with either al Qaeda or other foreign fighters who will not rest until they have killed or driven into exile the last remaining Iraqi who favors democracy.

The key question for Congress is whether or not Iraq has become the primary battleground against the same radical Islamists who declared war on the U.S. in the 1990s and who have carried out a series of terrorist operations including 9/11. The answer is emphatically “yes.”

This does not mean that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11; he was not. Nor does it mean that the war to overthrow him was justified—though I believe it was. It only means that a unilateral withdrawal from Iraq would hand Osama bin Laden a substantial psychological victory.

The victory wouldn’t only be psychological, but tactical and strategic as well.

Good thing for Kerrey that being president of the New School, he doesn’t have to run for office as a Democrat again any time soon. Imagine the money the Soros machine would spend to defeat him. He would have to run as an independent like Joe Lieberman, bypassing the corrupt Democrat Party and going straight to the voters.

Call this “blowback” part 3

I’m recycling this post from December of 2006. I’m glad I found so I don’t have to peck at the keyboard for the next hour.

Wrong on this matter, hardly; from my childhood experiences growing up in the capital of the liberal world, the San Francisco Bay Area, but also from my military experiences directly attributed to the type of work I use to do in the Air Force.

Was Ron Paul totally WRONG, of course not, actions has consequences, duh but for him, a “so-called” presidential candidate to make such a generic statement by saying they are bombing us because “WE ARE OVER THERE” is simply ludicrous.
That statement was made just to score some TV air time and nothing more.

Let’s listen to what Paul said again, then my little childhood story.

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The other day Mrs. Snoop reminded me of one of my childhood tales. She recently told her father about this incident.

I went to high school part of the time in Oakland California. My school Skyline High was “high” in the Oakland hills tucked neatly away from the barbarians in the flatlands.

If anybody has seen a baseball or football game in the Oakland Coliseum the press box looks almost directly where I lived in the Oakland hills.
Skyline High school is over that ridge.

Skyline just like any other school allows so many kids from outside the school district to attend. So city busses ran special routes to bring the kids to the school.

One morning, beautiful bright day the busses entering the circle drive were greeted by chanting Iranian students, waving the Iranian flag and also burning the American flag. 

There were about 12-15 of them. As people would depart the bus they were met by taunting anti-American chants.

Keep in mind this was shortly after the Americans were taken hostage in Iran, led by the current Iranian president.

Most of the kids on this particular bus were black. There were a few of my white homies, that I hung with, and we all rode together.  This was also one of the last busses to make the trip to the hills.

This was pretty much the party bus. Most of us had gym first period, so we usually played the music a little louder, and the bus filled with the aroma of burning plants, (wink, wink).

But as we turned into the school I remember seeing the strangest thing.  As we rounded the corner going up into the school we saw this shit going on.   We all got silent, the music turned off and we all just stared. The bus driver, slowed to a crawl as he approached the Pro-Iran students picketing and raising hell out front.
 
I remember saying to myself initially “fuck this” and turned to my buddy and said “lets stomp these mutherfuckers ass”.
 
Before we departed the bus in mass we told the bus driver to hold on, we kept our books and personal items on the bus.

We stormed off the bus, grabbed the Iranian flag from several of the Iranian dudes and started to burn it. As one of the Iranian dudes grabbed another participant as he tried to light the other end of the flag we all just started to pound on the bastard. Then all hell broke lose.

Several tried to get away as they ran down the hill trying the leave the school. However, they were caught and taken care of as well.

After about 10 to 12 fever pitched minutes, it was over. The bus driver had pulled over off the main driveway and we got our books, we gave each other hand slaps and went to class.

I remember the bus driver as we got back on the bus to get our stuff with this huge grin and shaking his head in approval.

The other funny thing was that no school officials came out to break up the mess during the ruckus nor did they say anything to any of us afterwards. The main office window was directly in front of the school.

I know some who may read this might think, “you were a bunch of thugs, what was so special about what you did?” Nothing, not a damm thing.

“What about their right to free speech?” you may ask, well I say fuck free speech in that case. We were a bunch of kids making our point.

It’s insulting to have these bastards come to this country, live high on the hog (Oklahoma lingo there), get an education, become successful by using the wonderful tools only available in our country, and then at the same time spit on and malign this nation.  You can’t have it both ways, in my book. 

To understand part of my anger that sparked this incident. Many years earlier while in grade school I met a kid Hagope Hagopian (SP? Iranian kid), who was from Bagdad.

His parents were big time surgeons at one of the main hospitals in Oakland.

He said he had a brother who was an officer in the Iranian army.

I use to listen to him talk all kinds of shit about America, that American kids were stupid, American is evil and all kinds of weird propaganda crap.

Great example here, who knew!

Hell, I was a kid and my biggest worry was where the next pick-up football game was being played. But I remember listening to him rant all the damm time. 

Why do you think he was like that? Because he was being taught to hate America and Americans, by his parents and Arabic friends/family. All while they were in the country and getting rich(er) because of it! 

I think back to Glen Beck’s special where he showed clips of Muslim kids chanting anti Israel and anti Jew crap. Hagope was one of these kids.
His vocabulary and knowledge of the world was way ahead of mind.
He felt comfortable talking to me because he once told me that his “fellow” Iranians felt sorry for American blacks because white people still treat them like slaves and that blacks should become Muslims and fight against white superiority.

That shit did not mean anything to me because we lived on one of the nicest neighborhoods in Oakland, mom and dad made good money, my life was good and secure.  But this kid, my age, was already being taught to
hate me and those like me. Simply because we are/were Americans!  

After I graduated from 7th grade  I never saw Hagope again.  I wonder if he ever went back to the land he so loved. I hope so. I would hate to think he’s still here, hating us but using us. 

As I am now in my 40’s and the current state of the world I wonder where dude is today.

So for those of you who read this blog and get a sense of my anger and disdain for what I call terrorist pimps and other assorted anti American “sand niggas” my past plays an obvious role in shaping my current views.
 I’m not prejudiced based upon what I was taught in the abstract. I’ve had at least two real world experiences, up close and personal, with the
hatred of Arabs, felt towards all Americans. I know what that kind of hate looks like, and it is not pretty!

I thought only evil Americans did this, liberals will say Bush planted these…

American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged “death trap,” the U.S. military said Thursday.
The plot at the Huda Girls’ school in Tarmiya was a “sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims,” military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said.
The military suspects the plot was the work of al Qaeda, because of its nature and sophistication, Caldwell said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
The plot was uncovered Saturday, when troopers in the Salaheddin province found detonating wire across the street from the school. They picked up the wire and followed its trail, which led to the school. Once inside, they found an explosive-filled propane tank buried beneath the floor. There were artillery shells built into the ceiling and floor, and another propane tank was found, the military said.

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Ya know while reading this I laughed because one of my young friends asked me some time ago when I thought we were going to get out of Iraq and I told him NEVER and he had this really jacked up look on his face, as most liberals would.

The thing that irritates me is the Democrats know that is the case as well as Bush does.
The security and economic implications of the U.S. pulling out of Iraq would be huge.
However we still have these meth sniffing hippie liberals marching and calling for us to get out of Iraq. Get a clue people.

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Bortz: So now that CNN “experts” say that pulling out of Iraq is a bad idea. I wonder what their first clue was.

Sorry about the sarcasm … but why does it take so long for some people to realize the obvious? For years the Commander in Chief of our armed forces has been telling us that pulling out of Iraq would invite disaster; bloodshed on an unimaginable scale. Now it takes a panel of CNN “experts” repeating what George Bush has been saying all along to make it a fact.

Here’s a paragraph from the story:

“Sectarian violence could erupt on a scale never seen before in Iraq if coalition troops leave before Iraq’s security forces are ready. Supporters of al Qaeda could develop an international hub of terror from which to threaten the West. And the likely civil war could draw countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran into a broader conflict.”

Now what part of that scenario sounds good to you Democrats? Remember .. this is the course of action preferred by your party! Your heroes, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha and the rest of the Defeatocrat caucus have been working for just this scenario! What is it about sectarian violence on a massive scale, an Al Qaeda base for terror in oil-rich Iraq and a broader Middle East conflict that makes them so happy?

It’s clear: Iraqis still need our help to build the country they have been denied for so long. Pulling out now would undermine the legacy of every soldier and civilian life lost in Iraq. Defeatocrats are basically saying that those who died serving in Iraq did it for nothing, there will be no resolution worth dedicating to their sacrifice. Nice, real nice. Let’s just spit in the eye of every person serving in Iraq. Liberals love this stuff. Me? Not so much.

We can all admit that this could have been handled better, but what’s done is done. Can we put aside the partisan bullshit (I won’t be able to say that on the air … sad) and just come together to get the job done over there? Pulling out — surrendering, if you like — is the path to disaster. Accomplishing our stated goals can lead to huge dividends for peace.

From Little Green Footballs  

The man who saw his fellow US citizens burned alive, torn apart by a mob, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, and responded by writing “Screw Them,” is now claiming to be the messenger of truth to the citizens of the US: Daily Kos: You can’t veto the truth.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military charged a senior officer on Thursday with aiding the enemy and fraternising with the daughter of an inmate in a US-run prison camp, in the latest scandal to hit the military in Iraq.
And in Washington, US General David Petraeus, head of the coalition forces in Iraq, accused Iran’s secretive Quds Force of helping an armed network that killed five US soldiers in January in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala.

The US military accused Lieutenant Colonel William Steele, who commanded Camp Cropper on the outskirts of Baghdad, of aiding the “enemy by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees.”

He was also accused of having unauthorised possession of classified information, maintaining an improper relationship with an Iraqi interpreter, failing to obey an order and possessing pornographic videos.

The charge sheet also accuses him of “wilfully failing to fulfil obligations as an approving authority” in the expenditure of funds and of having improper contacts with the daughter of a prisoner.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)—Rep. Duncan Hunter called Wednesday for Sen. Harry Reid to resign his post as Senate majority leader over remarks that the senator made last week that the war in Iraq “is lost” if the United States continues on its current policy.

Hunter, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.

“In my opinion Sen. Reid, having made that statement, which can only have a demoralizing effect on our troops and an effect of encouragement of the adversary, I think it would be appropriate for Sen. Reid to resign his position as the leader of the United States Senate,” he said.

Good stuff, but Reid isn’t about to resign because Republicans demand it. What Hunter and the rest of the GOP should be doing is encouraging Lieberman to take a principled stand and cross over to the Republicans, thus making Harry Reid a member of the minority party.

From Michelle Malkin

Joe Lieberman spanked Harry Reid over the weekend. Will any other Democrat do the same? The NRSC calls on Sen. Mary Landrieu to disavow Sen. Reid’s defeatist comments regarding the war in Iraq:

Found on the blog Wizbang

A.J.Strata has something to say about Democrats avoiding briefings on Iraq. Read it all.

This is nothing new. Earlier this month Senator Levin was the lone Democrat to attend a briefing by