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Traitor

There is something rotten in Damascus.

No, not just raghead terrorists.... Jimmah Carter--the worst president of the 20th century--is busy butt-kissing anti-Semitic, genocidal murderers and selling out his country.

And only one Republican officials wants to do something about it:

Congressional GOP leader, and only one Republican--Rep. Sue Myrick, N.C.--has called on Sec. State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter's passport in response to his traveling to Syria and Egypt to meet with delegations from the terrorist group Hamas.

Carter is equally anti-Semitic with a long history of condemning Israel while apologizing and ignoring terrorist blood-letting. He unhesitatingly lends what little luster of his former office is left to our enemies for whatever use they may find for it.

And worst of all, Carter is a traitor who at this very moment is giving aid and comfort to the very terrorists who have killed American troops.

That's Carter and his equally duplicitous spouse above, laying a wreath at the tomb Yasser Arafat, murderer of innocents--among them, scores of children.

Read Bernard-Henri Levy's WSJ piece.

And another unnecessary burden in this war for our very existence comes courtesy of Lame Duck George Bush who seems to have forgotten the bull-horn, "They will hear from us!" approach he used on Sept. 12 so very long ago.

Instead of laying waste to any and all of Iran's terrorist training camps and nuke facilities by now, Bush now wants the government to speak nice:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't call them jihadists any more.

And don't call al-Qaida a movement.

The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.

Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.

Why the politically correct orders? Because such words "may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates." Read article.

Uh-huh.

Only in the convoluted world of gray suits and red ties--so very distant from real war-- does there exist fertile ground for such DC-grown nonsense.

One of the new publications being circulated through Homeland Security (boy, there's winning language) is: "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims."  (Emphasis mine).

So in other words, during WWII we should have consulted with The German-American Bund before speaking or writing about Nazis.

Before Iwo Jima, Marine generals should have prepared their young troops to close with "members of the Nipponese Army and Navy" instead of "dirty, yellow Nip bastards."

Gawd forbid we made a mistake in grammar as we liberated the concentration camps. "'Those darned Third Reich leaders sure deserve to be punished,' said Gen. George Patton."

This country is on the verge of a very important change of command... perhaps the most important since 1940, yet we are not a nation at war.

If this does not change, if we don't mount a domestic front worthy of our great military and soon; if we don't get serious about our security and taking the fight to the enemy on all fronts.... we will lose... and we will lose it to illiterate, 14th century sub-humans who aren't the least worried about the nuance of our speech.

undocumented invasion

News Item:  "LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of them unskilled and speaking little English.

"As baby boomers retire, the same pattern will emerge across the country, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Demographers estimate that by 2025 most of the growth in the workforce will be from immigrants."

According to a projection of U.S. Census data, one-third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 percent do not speak English fluently.

And here's the kicker: This week USC will host a conference on "how to train and integrate immigrant workers."

You noticed, no doubt, the missing word... "illegal".

Calimexifornia? The handwriting's not just on the wall, it's graffiti-ed your entire damned house if you live in The Golden State.

Some of best years of my life were in California... high school and college, the Marine Corps, friends... but all that was three decades ago in a land once governed by Ronald Reagan, though now it's hard to believe that "there ever was a Camelot."

The prognosis for Cali has been grim for a very long time now. Great sections of Los Angeles have been invaded and taken over by black and brown enemy troops... just as surely as if they were filming a sequel to "Red Dawn."

The Crips and Bloods and MS 13, and their ilk have carved up South Central into a checkerboard pattern of murder and drugs where even the cops tread lightly if at all.

Meanwhile The Govenator appears in California Chamber of Commerce TV ads urging you to come to "Call-e-foneeah" with a winning veneer smile, his leftist spouse on his arm.

Yep, all is well in the land of dreams.

Sure, you don't have to live in LA or Oakland or Riverside... and there are places like Fort Bragg, Eureka... small towns where isolated pockets of resistance hold out against the democrat state legislature which will eventually tax its brain-dead citizens to death or into another state.

Just like its famous Hollywood movie sets, California is fast becoming a facade which offers the bright promise of the last 50 years, but masks the dark underbelly of a battle already lost to the invaders.

Last gringo to leave, turn out the light......

... por favor

Silence is golden

Quiet, dignified and beautifully maintained, the Texas State Cemetery in Austin is the final resting place for scores of the state's most accomplished and legendary citizens since it was established in 1851.

Its centerpiece is the Medal of Honor Monument dedicated to the 83 native-born or adopted Texans who have earned the nation's highest award for valor.

Last Saturday Don and I were guests at the dedication of the cemetery's first Vietnam Veterans' Monument which joins monuments to WWII veterans, 9/11, Purple Heart Recipients and Gold Star Mothers, among others.

The gray and black granite monument serves as a pedestal for a trio of bronze American soldiers in advance formation by sculptor Gilbert Beall.

Four Recipients, David McNerney, Bob O'Malley, Clarence Sasser and Mike Thornton--all Vietnam veterans--attended as did Gov. Rick Perry.

The program was four or five speakers too long when you have a Marine Honor Guard at attention for well over an hour in the 80-degree heat. The Texas State Cemetery Committee members must have forgotten what it's like to wear a tight-collared dress uniform in the beating sunshine.

For me the event produced mixed feelings, which were reinforced today as I read the on-line coverage by The Austin American-Statesman. The article didn't even mention the presence of the four Recipients, and instead fell back on the tired, cliched, left-wing Vietnam veteran stereotype:

"Back then they called us baby killers and murderers," said (Harold) Brent, who recalled having dog excrement thrown at him when he came home to Texas in 1966 after serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam."

I say cliched because once again we are portrayed as victims; yeah, I suppose it's a bit better than drug-crazed, homeless dip-wads living under a bridge... but not much.

And just what place "dog excrement" has in a story about honoring thousands of young Texans who died in America's longest war.... I do not know.

For most of us the war is 40 years gone... more dignity, less whining is called for; we received the "welcome" we received and now it's become obligatory for public figures to thank us for our service.

If it's all the same to y'all... I needed a pat on the back when I was a young veteran returning home.

Now... not so much.

In fact, most veterans I know aren't interested in their countrymen using them to work through their "Vietnam guilt" about what was done and what wasn't done back then. We've moved beyond Vietnam, and we find it amusing and often time annoying that some so-called Baby Boomers who didn't serve, have not.

My point is that America has always had a miserable record of "welcoming" its veterans home after war. Revolutionary War veterans threatened to simply quit and go home because the rebel government couldn't get them supplies, food or even pitifully small and infrequent pay; meanwhile their families suffered without a  head of household.

World War I Bonus marchers were driven from the National Mall at bayonet point by Army troops after they gathered to redress their grievances... the small amount of money owed them for serving in France.

World War II? Rent the ironically titled "Best Years of Our Lives" and get back to me.

Vietnam... already covered.

Today it's probably better... but there does exist inadequate care and housing at some military rehab centers, and a terrible backlog at the VA for treatment and rehabilitation of veterans with PTSD and catastrophic physical injuries.

Hollywood slanders Iraq vets routinely with big-budget movies; and they too have been called "murders" and "baby killers" and pathetic losers with no life options except to enlist.... even by members of congress.

And you may ask why soldiers returning home join and continue to form veterans' organization?... in self defense, that's why.

War veterans I know and served with have great dignity and modesty... they don't want pity or to keep going over the some old ground.

If aging hippies feel they must give someone a parade or say "welcome home"... it isn't hard to find the young people who deserve and need it.

We've made our peace with all that and we just want to sit quietly and from time to time, recall our war among ourselves.

Back at the cemetery--as if to add a last touch to my mixed emotions, the final honors to the Vietnam fallen--the traditional somber playing of "Taps"--produced a few bitter smiles when the electronic trumpet designed to play a recording of the mournful tune failed.

Despite all attempts by the embarrassed and increasingly panicked young Navy "trumpeter", the gizmo remained mute.

But after many long moments, a member of the Army band seated nearby rose and played perfectly the closing notes.

Pictures (click to enlarge), from top to bottom are:    

The Vietnam Veteran Monument statue close-up

O'Malley, Sasser and McNerney

Two steel girders from the World Trade Center -- the central element of the 9/11 Monument

Barbara and Bob O'Malley reflected on the monument's granite panel symbolizing the moment the first heroes of this war... the passengers of United Flight 93... sacrificed their lives to save their fellow citizens by attacking and overwhelming the enemy, knowing it sealed their fate.