Saturday - March 13, 2010
‘I’m proud of using waterboarding to break terrorists,’ says Karl Rove
I missed taking my blood pressure meds this morning. Everything has me PO’d. I wanted to start and end today with my usual wkend ladies when I ran across a couple of things that had me seeing my usual color (RED) which isn’t even my favorite color. I am so damn tired of reading and hearing about how my country has it wrong and how we have become barbaric all because of water boarding and Gitmo etc. Then one columnist wrote about how maybe the Brit’s American cousins aren’t really that after all. Hey fuckin hey. I have very close friends among Brits and ain’t one of em a cousin. I’m tired of that phrase too. What god damn cousin? Who made us that? Did we ever ask to be your cousins? If so, I’m not aware of it. Oh and btw freeken way I HATE one professional liberal phony cousin I haven’t seen since a funeral 30 yrs ago. I wouldn’t know the other three if I fell over em.
Below are two comments posted with regard to the Rove article that started things this morning. Naturally enough I side with Mr. Rove. I have no problem with whatever our people had to do, to get information from terrorist scum. It pisses me off greatly that our critics simply take for granted that we are in the wrong.
It’s done without question. It’s automatic we’re all Nazi killers who enjoy our work and all for oil or heaven knows what the hell else.
A jackass named Peter Oborne (?whoever the hell he is?) yesterday wrote about our ‘special relationship’ being broken yadda,yadda. He went on to term the USA as “immoral” while all those empty headed lefty umin rights jerks went on about torture as well.
Why is the way in which we defend our country the business of anyone outside our country anyway? And how can they be certain that the information gathered won’t save their lives as well? In his column Oborne says, For years I’ve been a passionate admirer of the U.S. But recent events force me to ask: is it time to ditch our strongest ally? Here’s some more.
For evidence is growing that the U.S. can no longer be regarded as a loyal or trustworthy friend of Britain.
Even more worryingly, it’s no longer clear that Barack Obama’s administration represents the decent and humane values of which Britain has long been so proud.
As a result, standing by the traditional transatlantic alliance is beginning to be damaging to our reputation overseas and to our national interest.
For example, consider the appalling revelations contained in this week’s speech to the House of Lords by the former MI5 spy chief Elizabeth Manningham-Buller.
Dame Elizabeth shockingly disclosed that U.S. officials had deceived Britain over their use of torture following their capture of the Al Qaeda commander Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003.
She said that when she asked why he was talking so freely to his captors, she was cynically told he was boasting because he was proud of what he’d done.
So that gives you some background on the column he wrote. You get the drift. And the grand dame Liz was shocked about our treatment of one of the masterminds of 9/11. Well fuck her and I’m sorry nobody in her family or Obornes was in either of those towers. And I am sick and fuckin tired of our country having demands made upon it, that we live UP to whatever standards some other country finds favor with. Demands we alter how we do things in our country to fall in line with how things are done elsewhere. Hey Mr. Assborne, when were you elected to office in my country? Fuck off! Don’t visit. We don’t need you or your opinions. And Dame Lizzy can go back to her kitchen and do other things.
These comments below were made following the article on Karl Rove. We do have our defenders but alas the feeling I have is that they are not in a majority.
Pity that the American goverment didn’t back up the British Army in its fight against Republican terrorists, instead we were forced by American pressure into accepting these terrorists into government.
I don’t trust these internationalist neo-cons one iota, men like Karl Rove care nothing about the British national interest, all he cares about, is forwarding the dollar empire, the New World Order of global capitalism and anarchic social agendas both of which destroy Nation States.
- Stephen Glover, Manchester, 12/3/2010 14:58
Now there is a man with guts and determination, not like our own lot, whimps. These terrorists have no consciences, they just kill for the sake of it and love it. Even so, they are cunning enough to use the human rights shield of protection, and the stupid human rights bigots are fooled by it too. The victims of murder and disablement have nobody to protect them like these terrorists do. Now will somebody tell us who is sane or insane in all of this. Treat the terrorists in the same way they treat their victims, an eye for an eye simple, Well done that man..
- DANNYBOY, LINCOLN UK FOR NOW, 12/3/2010 14:51
‘I’m proud of using waterboarding to break terrorists,’ declares Bush’s top political adviser
By DAILY MAIL REPORTERGeorge W Bush’s top political adviser has said he was ‘proud’ of controversial techniques such as waterboarding, which he claimed broke the will of terrorist.
Karl Rove - known as the former president’s ‘brain’ - said he did not believe that the interrogation method amounted to torture.
In an interview with the BBC, he claimed that waterboarding - which simulates drowning - had helped prevent terrorist attacks.
‘I’m proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots,’ he said.
‘I am proud that we kept the world safer than it was by the use of these techniques. They are appropriate, they are in conformity with our international requirements and with US law.’
Asked if he believed waterboarding was torture, he said: ‘No, it’s not. People need to read the memos that outline what was permissible and not permissible before they make a judgement about these things.’
‘Every one of the people who were waterboarded had a doctor who had to ascertain that there had been no long-lasting physical or mental damage to the individual,’ he said.
The senior Republican aide and Bush’s deputy chief of staff said in the Newsnight interview that subjects had told they would not drown before they underwent the procedure.
He insisted terror plots had been prevented by the tough interrogation, citing flying planes into Heathrow and London, bringing down aircraft over the Pacific and flying an aircraft into the tallest tower in Los Angeles.
The rest of the article is here at the SOURCE
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Permalink • Sunday - March 07, 2010
RAF helicoptor pilot shot between the eyes by Taliban flies 20 to safety … England expects ….
I am buried today in work and frustration caused by AT&T. Must change over all addresses and make copies of stuff and, yadda,yadda.
It almost seems as though the kids at ATT don’t seem to be aware that there are folks overseas who have (and pay) for their services. With 50 minute wait times and two weeks already spent trying and failing to get anywhere, I guess I’m about to close my ATT account after 10 years. Hate to do that coz generally their tech support for some things can not be faulted. But I guess all good things must come to an end. My worry now is that they’ll continue to charge us and it’ll be just as tough getting through again. You can’t believe the nightmare. For example, their email tells us we had till the end of march. But someone on the phone said oh no. March 8 is the deadline but someone else said .. NO. March 15 is the deadline. Bah. Grumble. I give up! It just isn’t worth it trying to get anywhere with them anymore. And oh yeah, to make thing worse yet, they have incorrect instructions on their migration site that they aren’t even aware of. And no way to inform them. Tried it. And forget emails. What a bad joke that is. I’ve tried writing every place I could find an email for and have received not one reply in two weeks of trying.
I feel pretty stupid complaining about that considering what this awesome RAF pilot has done. OK he didn’t have many choices it’s true but hey. These guys are to be admired and honored. What they are going through is NO WALK IN THE PARK!
I hadn’t intended to post today due to all the above mentioned stuff, but ran across this. This is my only post for today.
An RAF helicopter pilot who was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet still managed to fly all 20 passengers to safety.
The Chinook flown by Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune, 28, was brought in to pick up casualties during a firefight between American and Afghanistan forces and heavily armed rebels near Garmsir in Helmand Province, said a report in The Sun.
The pilot was told it was too dangerous to land and circled the landing area. The Chinook came under fire after eventually landing - which continued as casualties were loaded on board - and Flt Lt Fortune was hit by a Taliban bullet as he took off.
The shot hit the rail on the front of his helmet which is normally used to attach night vision goggles.
It penetrated his helmet hitting him between the eyes and causing severe bleeding.Further bullets hit the helicopter’s’s controls damaging the stabilisation system. Despite this Flt Lt Fortune was able to fly for eight minutes before landing at Camp Bastion.
This was the first time a pilot has been shot while in the air during the Afghanistan war.
Mike Brewer, a television presenter who was on board filming a documentary at the time, said: “The courage and heroism of the pilot was beyond belief.”
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Permalink • Thursday - February 18, 2010
No Kidding
IAEA Report: Iran could be working on nukes!!
Ann Coulter: No shit, Sherlock.
2007 US Intelligence Report: Iran quit trying to make nukes years ago.
Keith Olberdouche: Bush lied!! Waaa waaa waaa!
BMEWS in 2007: Don’t buy this BS. Bomb them now.
BMEWS in 2009: Iran probably already has the bomb. Bomb them now.
BMEWS in 2010: Iran absolutely already has the bomb. Bomb them now.
There ya go. That saved me 10,000 words at the keyboard.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 16, 2010
Wife of trans-Atlantic airlines bomb plotter ‘wanted him to become a martyr’
Hard to tell with face covering but chances are no normal Brit male would have wanted her anyway.
Chances are she probably doesn’t bathe which I understand is how these vermin like their women. They find them in crowds by the scent. lol.
They are vermin but you would never know it judging by the way the hand wringers on the left defend them. And the bru-ha-ha going on at this very moment with regard to the evil MI5 and American torturers at GITMO is so overwhelming that it obscures everything else going on with these verminous bastards. They’ve managed to turn the ones being attacked by them into the bad guys.
Says here she lost a baby. GOOD. One less future bomber/breeder.
Too bad there isn’t a way to sterilize them all. Or better yet, just rid the earth of their shadows. Think of them as rats that need exterminating instead of anything human. They aren’t human and shouldn’t be treated or dealt with as such. Their goal is easy to understand because they’ve made no secret of it.
It won’t happen of course, but the west should long ago have stopped trying to use civil rights or human rights in relation to these scum. They only use the system here to further their own ends, which also means the end of the systems in place here in the west. You would necessarily have to track down and put an end to the fifth column in the the UK and USA. That isn’t going to happen either and the enemy knows it. Which is why they may eventually win this limp wristed so called “war on terror.” This may all seem very uncivilized but then, the enemy we face is exactly that, and they will not be beaten with us fighting by
The Marquess of Queensberry rules. Look at these faces. Do they really appear human? Close maybe but no cigar.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali (left), Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain (c) photo PA
The wife of the leader of a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners kept a diary in which she pledged support for his cause and hoped that he became a martyr, a court has heard.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent16 Feb 2010
Cossor Ali wrote about making herself slimmer for his return from Pakistan and added that she was becoming “more and more attached to the cause for which you are striving.”
She added: “I hope and pray Allah grants your wish and gives you the highest level of shahada” – a word which is said to refer to martyrdom.In another entry she said: “I hope that when you attain shahada, I will have at least one small child and will be pregnant with another or at least be pregnant with a healthy baby at the least inshallah [god willing.]”
Mrs Ali, who married her husband in July 2003, gave birth to their first child prematurely nine months later but the baby had died shortly afterwards.
By the time her husband, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, was arrested in August 2006, they had an eight month old baby boy.
Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, told Inner London Crown Court: “It is the prosecution case that she knew her husband intended to commit an act of terrorism that involved his own death.”
She is accused of failing to disclose information that she knew or believed might have been of material assistance in preventing the commission of an act of terrorism between March 2004 and August 2006.
Ali and two other men were convicted in September last year of conspiracy to murder by detonating improvised explosive devices on board passenger aircraft.
The devices were to be disguised in soft drinks bottles and Mrs Ali admitted in a statement to police that her husband had brought bags of a soft drink powder back from Pakistan with him but she thought that he was developing a drink to sell with his friends.
The court heard that Mrs Ali, 28, was born in Britain.
Here’s a photo of the great beauty by their standards. In reality, she a verminous slag.
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Permalink • Monday - February 15, 2010
Death by PC
Troops: Strict war rules slow Afghan offensive
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Some American and Afghan troops say they’re fighting the latest offensive in Afghanistan with a handicap — strict rules that routinely force them to hold their fire.
Although details of the new guidelines are classified to keep insurgents from reading them, U.S. troops say the Taliban are keenly aware of the restrictions.
“I understand the reason behind it, but it’s so hard to fight a war like this,” said Lance Cpl. Travis Anderson, 20, of Altoona, Iowa. “They’re using our rules of engagement against us,” he said, adding that his platoon had repeatedly seen men drop their guns into ditches and walk away to blend in with civilians.
If a man emerges from a Taliban hideout after shooting erupts, U.S. troops say they cannot fire at him if he is not seen carrying a weapon — or if they did not personally watch him drop one.
What this means, some contend, is that a militant can fire at them, then set aside his weapon and walk freely out of a compound, possibly toward a weapons cache in another location. It was unclear how often this has happened. In another example, Marines pinned down by a barrage of insurgent bullets say they can’t count on quick air support because it takes time to positively identify shooters.
“This is difficult,” Lance Cpl. Michael Andrejczuk, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn., said Monday. “We are trained like when we see something, we obliterate it. But here, we have to see them and when we do, they don’t have guns.”
In the microsecond that troops have to make decisions in a firefight, the top brass now wants them to stop and consider this entire list:
• Even if someone has shot in my general direction, am I still in danger?
• Will I make more enemies than I’ll kill by destroying property, or harming innocent civilians?
• What are my other options to resolve this without escalating the violence?
“The aim of the operation is not to kill militants,” he said. “The aim is to protect civilians and bring in development.”
I’m tired of our spineless government wasting our blood and treasure to fight the most minimal possible conflict. Fuck that. Blow the living shit out of everything and anything until there are no more enemies. Then come home. If this is how this “necessary war” is to be fought, tuck in your ties and bring our guys home. The 5000 years it will take to achieve any semblance of victory this way is not worth the price we will be forced to pay. Somebody has sold our side out. And that somebody is probably also a radical leftist.
So it’s no surprise at all what’s happening. The surge there has been brought to it’s knees, and our troops can’t have confidence that the enemy isn’t running around behind them.
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters stepped up counterattacks Monday against Marines and Afghan soldiers in the militant stronghold of Marjah, slowing the allied advance to a crawl despite Afghan government claims that the insurgents are broken and on the run.
Taliban fighters appeared to be slipping under cover of darkness into compounds already deemed free of weapons and explosives, then opening fire on the Marines from behind U.S. lines.
Troops complained that strict rules to protect civilians made it difficult to use enough firepower to stop the attacks.
“I understand the reason behind it, but it’s so hard to fight a war like this,” said Lance Corp. Travis Anderson, 20, from Altoona, Iowa. “They’re using our rules of engagement against us,” he said, adding that his platoon had repeatedly seen men dropping their guns into ditches before walking away to melt among civilians.
The absolutely worst approach to asymmetrical warfare is to treat each non-uniformed individual as a civilian until they are within your sight with a weapon and actively shooting in your direction. No. Anyone and everyone is assumed your enemy until they have proven otherwise multiple time. And don’t really trust them then. Bribe the locals with food and blankets to rat out the Talis. Draw a line in the sand, so to speak, and let the locals know that the area on this side is under our protection. And that severe consequences will attend anyone who is, or shelters, a Tali fighter. Doing anything other is just setting yourself up for failure.
Afghanistan is another shit hole like Somalia. The world would not give one small fart if the entire population disappeared tomorrow. You can not civilize or modernize the people living in either area. At best you can buy them off temporarily. So stop wasting lives, time, and money on this futile effort. Fight to win with no holds barred, or go the hell home.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 14, 2010
Al Qaida Airlines
Terrorists have been running their own airline back and forth between South America and West Africa. Cocaine comes east. Who knows what or whom goes west? You can pack so damn much cocaine on a 727 that you can write off the cost of the airliner, and just set it on fire out in the bush, as was recently done in Mali. And these jet liners fly all over South America, dropping off and picking up. And then fly east from Hugo’s house, where he sends up his air force to dissuade our P3 radar surveillance airplanes from tracking them.
The aircraft hopscotch across South American countries, picking up tons of cocaine and jet fuel, officials say. They then soar across the Atlantic to West Africa and the Sahel, where the drugs are funneled across the Sahara Desert and into Europe.
Didn’t we have this big discussion a few years ago about the terrorist/cartel link down around the 3 Corners border area down in Brazil? By that big waterfall? Anti-terrorist efforts in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even in Australia and Indonesia. So where are the terrorists getting their money from? South America.
And they laughed at Bush’s folks who said that the War On Terror WAS the War On Drugs.
LOTS MORE at the link. I have to hit the hay now.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C3E820100113
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 05, 2010
D’oh!
Irish authorities say a Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awry.
The 49-year-old electrician was arrested Tuesday, but released without charge after Slovak security officials alerted their Dublin counterparts to the screw-up.
Officials had surreptitiously placed different bomb components in the check-in luggage of nine passengers to see if security screeners would spot the contraband. The bag containing 90 hidden grams (3 ounces) of plastic explosive got through—and then wasn’t stopped from traveling to Dublin.
Irish Army explosives experts stressed the explosive posed no threat to passengers because it was stable and not connected to other essential bomb parts.
Yeah, but still. Is it un-PC to tell Slovak jokes? It seems they write themselves!
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Permalink • LIKE RATS DURING THE PLAGUE AND JUST AS FILTHY, AND THEY’RE LIVING AMONG US. AND MORE COMING.
Actually started putting this together about five hours ago. One interruption after another, helped friend gather logs for his fireplace, then browser trouble again.
Took a short time to get used to FireFox but once I did, I kissed IE goodbye. Then FF had an upgrade of some kind and things have been wonky since.
So now using Chrome which I find generally is faster. Hey, whatever works and right now Chrome does. But I wish FF did.
Started snowing just after I posted last and it still is. But lightly.
OK, this is a follow up to yesterday wherein I posted about some rat droppings (muzzies) who are planning another protest re. the awful crusade that the west has launched against islam. Oh, only if. The guy organizing same is a former lawyer, and he plans to carry empty coffins thru the town where so many fallen Brits are carried. He is scum and so are those around him. They pull this sort of crap here and sure as hell if they tried similar in their own damn countries, they’d lose their heads. They come to the west where they have more freedom without any responsibility, and carry signs damning their host countries. I will not call em stupid cos rats are smart as we know. Devious, cunning, sneaky and deadly and not to be trusted. However ...
THEY HAVE RIGHTS HERE THEY’D NEVER HAVE AT HOME. Including the right to march anywhere they want to and provoke outrage.
This is all quite interesting to me because I know that folks who’ve had their feelings hurt have sued successfully and the person doing the hurt has actually been prosecuted. So then ... with so many families who have lost kin, surely their feelings must be raw watching and hearing walking, talking rats denigrate thier military and those who’ve fallen. But that law I think only applies to certain ppl. Namely, easy targets and not usually members of favored groups.
So then this is where Brits are today and this is what they are facing.
Court hears Muslims calling British soldiers ‘rapists’, ‘cowards’ and ‘scum’By LUCY BALLINGER and MARK DUELL
Shocking films of a group of Muslim protestors shouting ‘rapists’, ‘scum’ and ‘burn in hell’ at soldiers on a homecoming parade were played to a court today.
The mob of Muslim anti-war protesters screamed hostile chants including ‘baby killers and murderers all of you’ and ‘British army murderers’ at 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment - which had lost 12 soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
Holding signs made from cardboard boxes denouncing soldiers as ‘Butchers of Basra’ and ‘war criminals’, the group of men jeered ‘murderers’ as they marched past.
What should have been a joyful homecoming spilled over into violence as angry members of the public there to give the soldiers a heroes’ welcome shouted insults back at the protestors, Luton Magistrates Court heard.
The court saw video footage of the protestors being circled and protected by police. They were later joined by a group of 20 women dressed in full hijab coverings, as well as children and babies in buggies.
A Muslim woman, clad from head to toe in black, carried a placard that read ‘Muslims rise against British oppression’.
MEANWHILE .... This is a continuation of yesterday and has caused much angst. Which is fine as long as nobody insults or causes hurt to these life forms.
Top officer says Muslim hate preacher ‘DOES have right to march’ as 400,000 join Facebook group against Wootton Bassett protest
By IAN DRURY
Last updated at 6:04 PM on 05th January 2010A senior police officer has called for a provocative march by Islamic extremists through Wootton Bassett, the town renowned for honouring Britain’s war dead, not to be banned amid fears it could further inflame tensions.
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson yesterday reacted to mounting public anger at hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s plan to stage the stunt, by saying he would support any request to ban the march.
Gordon Brown had earlier declared that he was ‘completely disgusted’ at the ‘abhorrent’ protest proposed by the firebrand cleric.
But Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said he would be ‘surprised’ if senior officers in Wiltshire block the protest.
IN HIS COLUMN TODAY, Richard Littlejohn had this to say.
THE NAME’S CHOUDHARY ... RAM JAM CHOUDHARY
I fell about laughing when I saw Ram Jam Choudhary on Sky News justifying his plans for a Muslim march through Wootton Bassett in the name of British ‘freedom and democracy’.
This is a man who heads an organisation dedicated to destroying freedom and democracy, not just in Britain but around the world.Remember those ‘Free Speech Go To Hell’ and ‘Behead All Those Who Insult Islam’ banners carried by Ram Jam and his disciples on the anti-war march in Trafalgar Square?
What astonishes me is that we are expected to pay him to troll round Britain preaching holy war.
On what grounds does he receive unemployment and welfare benefits, which allow him to live in a £350,000 house in North London?
He is 42 years old, apparently fit and healthy, and a trained lawyer. Even in these difficult times, he ought to be able to find a job. There may not be a lot of call for a full-time jihadist, even in Haringey, but surely a little light conveyancing shouldn’t be beyond him. Maybe the Wicked Witch could sub-contract him a bit of yuman rites work. If all else fails, he could always get a job as a security guard at the Home Office. They don’t seem fussy, judging by the number of illegal immigrants they employ.
Some people ask why he’s still at large, given that he spends most of his time stirring up hatred. His legal training tends to keep him just the right side of the incitement laws.
To be honest, I’ve always assumed that Ram Jam is an MI5 double agent, recruited by the Funnies while he was still at university, where he was known as ‘Andy’ and was partial to birds, booze and the odd spliff.
If you were looking for someone to discredit the cause of militant Islam, you couldn’t make him up.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 02, 2010
AN UNHEEDED WARNING. HOW MANY MORE. HERE’S SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A very short post and for more by this columnist go to:
UNHEEDED WARNINGSpare a thought, if you have any left this morning, for Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the former chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, and the father of the man who tried to blow up an aircraft over Detroit.
Repeatedly, he tried to warn the US authorities that his son might be involved in something dodgy. Repeatedly, they ignored him. And I think we all know why. I bet his first approach was by e-mail. “Dear SURNAME,” he may have written, following the apparent custom of his countrymen. “I am MR MUTALLAB, the former CHAIRMAN of the FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA and I write to inform you that . . .” Click. Straight into the CIA spam bin.
Pity that modern Cassandra, the Nigerian banker who actually has something important to say. Maybe there are hundreds of them. Screaming into cyberspace via Hotmail. Forever ignored.
Hugo Rifkind
The Times, London.
Jan. 1, 2010
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 29, 2009
Detroit Air Bombing Blame Bush?
Now, isn’t this just soooo effing special??
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.
Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.
More here.
Stop taking prisoners. Well, stop taking them off to jail. Catch them, suck their brains clean, then shoot them. Next?
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Permalink • Thursday - December 17, 2009
UK CARTOONS …
Cartoonists view of things from here, no comments from me except to say that the last one is a favorite.
take a look.
Based on what I’m reading, seems there’s a bit less of that now, and that’s among his supporters.
Now this one wins First Prize. What’s the west gonna do about this guy? Does it need to do anything? What and when? Specially when.
Source is:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
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Permalink • Sunday - December 13, 2009
A Different Christmas Poem
Some of you might recall that I’ve joined a Toastmasters club that is affiliated with the local Republican Party. This was sent to us by… frankly, I forget her title, not chairwoman, but maybe executive secretary of the local GOP? I can’t remember. She does show up occasionally to update us, and ask for speakers to support this-or-that local campaign.
I don’t know who wrote it. Maybe it’s the LCDR who appears at the end of the poem. The picture was also included in the email. I don’t know who it is, or even if it is the LCDR. But it made nice copy.
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
“Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!”
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
Then he sighed and he said “Its really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”
“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ‘ Pearl on a day in December,”
Then he sighed, “That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘ Nam ‘,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall..”“ So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
“Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.”Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”
Followed up with this request:
PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq
Yeah, a good reminder that we are indeed fighting a war on two fronts—on the battlefield, and at home against our own potential Reids, Pelosis, Obamas Quislings. Let’s resolve to do our best to fight FOR our troops against the Democrat enemy.
Posted by Christopher
on 12/13/2009 at 05:43 PM
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Permalink • Saturday - December 05, 2009
Monday is an important anniversary…
Monday will be December 7th, 2009.
68 years ago the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This caused the United States to enter World War Two.
Now, we are once again involved in a world war. Western Civilization vs. Islam. If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on Islam. The West is led by beta-males like Barack Obama, who bows to all and sundry. He’s never even served his country in uniform. If, in fact, the United States IS his country… where’s the birth certificate?
Never again will I vote for any male candidate for President who hasn’t served in the armed forces. The one time I did I ended up with ‘Slick Willy’. (yes, I voted against George H. W. Bush. Apparently he couldn’t ‘read’ his own ‘lips’. RINOs should take note.)
Having said all of that, in honor of the upcoming ‘Pearl Harbor Day’, I submit this speech by Gen. George Patton.
Posted by Christopher
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Does this need any text to go with it? Didn’t think so either. Comments always welcome.
This Garland fellow is very talented, his illustrations often are right on target. Except for those many times he annoys me and where I don’t agree.
Then he somehow becomes less brilliant. Anyway ... this should be shared on it’s own and so I am.
It appeared in the morning Telegraph today.
I am not 100% certain this is sharp on everyone else’s monitor. The blue nato flag on the left behind barbed wire is a bit blurry on mine. So I hope you folks can see it better. Says it all, huh?
The lead headline in the morning paper says: TALIBAN FACE KNOCK-OUT BLOW
Does anyone believe that? I’d like to but the evidence of centuries seems to say that there really are ppl in this world who prefer living in squalor and ignorance. And they will kill to keeps things that way.
Posted by peiper
on 12/02/2009 at 05:47 AM
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