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We stand at 94; domestic communists threaten our future

Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipient Leonard “Len” Keller, 62,  died at Sunday afternoon in after being critically injured in a motorcycle accident only minutes after being honored at the U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association in Pensacola Florida.

Sergeant Keller was cited for heroic action in May, 1967 when his unit was assaulted by superior enemy forces near Ap Bac, South Vietnam.

Police reports indicate that Keller was thrown from his three-wheeled Harley Davidson after leaving the association’s parking lot.

A two-tour Army veteran, Keller had recently retired after a 28-year career as a civilian in the supply unit at Pensacola Naval Air Station.

Navy Captain Bill Reavey, commanding officer of Pensacola NAS, called Keller's death "a national loss."

Funeral arraignments are pending.

We stand at 94.

Read more here.

                                  

It’s been hard to grab traction since back from Indian Territory.

As far as I can see after a few days away is the commander-in-chief continues to dither and stall on reinforcements to Af-Pak, and I fear that a coordinated and widespread, Tet Offensive-like attack is being formulated by the Taliban.

Because we have done nothing to head the coup that will eventually destroy us, federal funding for ACORN has resumed, the “government option” is back in Obamacare (as if it was ever out), and our enemies as so brazen that another ObaMaoist has blithely and publically said:

“As we've tried to learn about this world, we have evolved some views....
”Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

“We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults only no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.”   Video.

The latest self-proclaimed Maoist is Ron Bloom, “manufacturing czar”; he began as “car czar”, came up with “Cash for Clunkers”, and with that rousing success, he’s now in charge of all manufacturing.

… as Henry Ford revolves in his grave.

Bloom is a Harvard grad… no surprise there, considering that Harvard has produced more enemies of America than any other institution of “higher” learning in the nation world.

More importantly, he is a decades-long operative of SEIU—ACORN’s next door neighbors; he has represented the United Steel Workers (USW) before his halcyon days “under the hood.“

He also saw to it that the United Auto Workers (UAW), ended up owning most of General Motors in sweetheart deal enforced by the Obama regime.

It disgusts me to mention these scumbags in the same space as Len Keller; I agree with Zell Miller… I wished we lived in a time when things were settled with duels.

If when that happens…. I have a list; oh trust me, I have a list.

Before I turn this off for Monday Night Thug Ball, raise a glass to Len Keller’s memory and say “God speed”, I’ll just hit a few trip wires that confront us…. how many commies in the White House does it take until we remember the lessons of our Founding Fathers and overthrow our oppressors?

Another One of Obama's Czars Caught on Tape Praising Mao Tse-Tung....

President not yet sure on timing of troop decision...

“President Barack Obama has not yet determined whether he will make a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the November 7 election runoff, a US official said Tuesday.”

• Because he’s whistling while we burn….

NATO "a corpse," fumes former Canada military boss

Canada????

Defense Secretary Gates Breaking Ranks? Says Obama Can't Wait For New Afghan Elections to Make a Decision on Sending More Troops...

Screw chain-of-command… if the theater commander yells help, and the SecDef chimes in… it’s time to remove the commander-in-chief.

Nice salute, dipwad….. nice tie.

NY Times Forced to Admit, Military Ranks Growing Increasingly Frustrated With Obama.....

Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Now Says Teach Respect for Homosexuality in Kindergarten-

And where would we be without this guy?

GOP Rep. Gregg Harper: "We Hunt Liberal, Tree-Hugging Democrats, Although it Does Seem Like a Waste of Good Ammunition".....

And THIS GUY?

Rush to CNN's Carol Costello: 'Go sit on a fire hydrant and improve your day'

Today’s “Day by Day” from Chris Muir:

Oklahoma City…. 14 years on, Part I

Back yesterday from Indian Territory… a great time on many levels and a few surprises.

I’ll be back to One Man’s War Against the Obama Coup tomorrow, but I have to write the below piece to feel better; but in the meantime… do your part to make GOP Benedict Arnold Sen. Olympia Snowe miserable:

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        DC Fax: (202) 224-1946

I have her on my cell speed dial and through the day I call often (along with thousands of others) so that her phone system melts and the interns quit to save their sanity.It was cold and rainy in the aftermath of a storm front that rumbled through Oklahoma City the previous two days.

I had promised myself that I would visit more than a decade ago, but as I arrived Sunday morning, I was unprepared for the emotional impact of The Chairs.

First….. you notice the absolute quiet and stillness.

The dead of the attack on the Murrah Federal Building are represented by 168 hand-crafted chairs of bronze and stone atop frosted glass cubes which are individually illuminated at night. On the front of each cube is etched the name of one of the KIAs.

When it comes to the casualties of terrorism, I refer to them as one should the war dead… they are not “victims”, they are the killed-in-action.

Likewise, the survivors are not “injured”, they are the wounded; in and near the Murrah Building there were 800 WIAs.

I came to pay my respects to all KIAs and WIAs, but especially to Capt. Randolph L. Guzman, XO of the OKC Recruiting Station, left, and one of his Marines, Sgt. Benjamin L. Davis, below.

The recovery of Capt. Guzman’s body stands as one of the great stories in the history of the greatest fraternity in the world… the United States Marine Corps.

Below, I defer to a Marine who was on deck at the time and acted in the finest tradition of the Marine Corps and the Naval Service. His story, below, was reported by CWO CWO Robert C. Jenks, Headquarters Marine Corps--1995.

Michael S. Curtin, a New York City police officer, and Marine reserve first sergeant activated under the Federal Emergency Management Agency Task Force 1, was part of the search and rescue effort in the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building:

For the first 40 hours there was no rest. Sometime the morning of April 21, Curtin, almost spent of energy and only using adrenaline to keep moving and save lives, came upon a familiar sight.

Deliriously scrambling across and through the wreckage of the Federal building, Curtin (left) saw a body covered by the rubble. He recognized the material of the trousers.

The trousers were deep blue with a broad red strip -- the Corps calls it a “blood stripe.”

He was a Marine.

Officer Curtin knew immediately. He, too, is a Marine. A Marine reserve first sergeant.

"It was like I was driven," said Curtin, who has been a Marine reservist for five years after serving on active duty for 14 years.

"I knew what I had to do." he said.

 After the first sergeant found the dress blue trousers, he cut away part of the fabric and saw that the man was white. He knew then that it had to be Capt. Randolph L. Guzman, the recruiting station executive officer. The other Marine who was still unaccounted for was Sgt. Benjamin L. Davis, and Davis was known to have been of Asian heritage and had darker skin.

Marines are always on duty; and so it was with the Skipper…. once the rubble was carefully cleared, Capt. Guzman was found seated behind his desk.

"When I found the Captain, I started asking around to see who among the rescuers was a Marine," Curtin said. "I found three former Marines who were part of the rescue effort."

Curtin located Manny Hernandez and Juan Garcia, both New York City cops; he needed one more; Ray Bonner, a paramedic, stepped forward;

First Sergeant Curtin now had his fire team.

Curtin approached the FEMA chain of command and told them he and a team of former Marines were taking a special interest in the recovery of Guzman's remains. Permission was granted to the Marines to accomplish this special mission, but they only had a four-hour window of time to work.

"It was something I had to do," Hernandez, a Vietnam veteran who has been a police officer for 22 years. "I had a squad under me in 'Nam and whenever we lost a Marine, he was never left. We have this tradition. We take care of our own."

The excavation took five hours and according to situation reports, involved a great deal of risk. The team was operating on the sub-ground level, with a lot of concrete and steel debris. There were apparently two major structural columns, one vertical and one horizontal, which were the primary obstacles to their recovery. However, removal was not possible because the beams were the only support for the heavy debris above and around the Marines. "We had to use an electric jackhammer to chip the concrete away from the captain," Curtin said. During this effort, the columns dangerously shifted twice before they were able to get Guzman free.

Kneeling beside the captain, former Cpl. Hernandez covered Guzman's face with his hand.

"I closed his eyes," said Hernandez. "For the glory of God and the glory of the Corps. It was just a little thing. We had to keep the tradition alive. The captain deserved the honor and respect -- like all Marines."

After placing Guzman's remains in a body bag, the word spread throughout downtown Oklahoma City the Marines were bringing out one of their own.

With the help of Dennis O'Connor, also a New York police officer; Peter Conlin, whose father served as a Marine in World War II; and Steve Smalls, a structural engineer from New York City, the Marines prepared to take Guzman home.

An unidentified Air Force colonel, upon hearing of the Marines' mission, found an American flag and sent it into the building.

"Before we lifted Guzman up and away from the rubble and carried him out, we draped the flag over him," said Curtin. "When we came out of the building I couldn't believe what I saw."

"Everything had stopped," he said. "You could have heard a pin drop."

"Cranes had stopped. It was completely quiet. Rescuers stopped and looked; people had lined the street outside the building. Everyone was watching in silence as we brought our Marine out."

"We were in a highly visible location ... engines were turned off ... people removed their covers ... bowed their heads ... covered their hearts. You could tell the veterans," Curtin said. "They were the ones saluting with tears in their eyes."

For Curtin, Garcia, Hernandez and Bonner, the scene filled them with pride, but was almost too much for them to emotionally handle.

"When we came out with the flag-draped captain, I saw why I was a Marine once. It is because I know I wouldn't expect anything else from any other Marine if it were me in that body bag," Hernandez said. "It revalidated the esprit and brotherhood that I remember taught to me in boot camp years ago. It lifted me up."

"It was overwhelming. We are a Band of Brothers," he said.

Once Guzman's remains were carried from the building, two long lines of rescue workers and bystanders formed, without any order or direction, that made a corridor leading to the recovery vehicles that was taking remains to the makeshift morgue. "It was one of the most emotional experiences of my life," said Curtin. "People had taken their hard hats off and were offering respect anyway they knew how."

"It was symbolic of all the emotion that everyone was feeling, whether they were a Marine or not, we were all involved. The compassion for all the lost just seemed to surface all at once."

I asked one of the U.S. Park Rangers if he could show me the chairs for Guzman and Davis. He explained that he could not since there was some electrical work going on under the turf that surrounded the 168 chairs—it was open only to family members—but would point out their location.

He walked to the middle of the chairs and I took a shot; he said, “how long do you need?”

Twenty seconds, I said.

He motioned me to hallowed ground. I knelt and placed two of our Medal of Honor Host City Program lapel pins on the seat of each chair. I said “Semper Fi” to each and asked the Good Lord to bless them.

“Thanks… it’s important for Marines,” I said to the Ranger.

“No problem,” he said. “ I’ll take the heat if there is any. Thanks for your service.”

“Thanks for your service…. you’re a good man,“ I said.

On the outside perimeter of the memorial, there is a section of the original fence on which visitors left remembrances.

I searched for 30 minutes; I knew something would be there. And it was…. a USMC sticker and a faded and tattered photo of Capt. Guzman.

Curtin, who retired at the rank of sergeant major, was a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, served with the New York City Police Department for 13 years; he served with Emergency Services Unit Truck 2.

Curtain was killed in action September 11, 2001, along with 71 other law enforcement officers, many of them Marines, from eight local, state or federal agencies by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.  Read both stories of Capt. Guzman and SgtMaj. Curtain here.

And because Marines never forget and never leave a brother behind, he was accorded the same honors he conducted for Capt. Guzman.

He was posthumously awarded the New York City Police Department's Medal of Honor for heroic action.

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, and brother.

Sergeant Major Curtain, 45, was not alone when he died; the spirits of Capt. Guzman and Sgt. Davis stood with him; there were many Marines coming for him, and legions more who would soon avenge his death.

Semper Fidelis.

 

Tick… tick…tick….

"We need to finish the fight in Afghanistan... George Bush and John McCain have been weak on terrorism. It's time to finish the fight in Afghanistan."

                                                            —Barack Obama 2008 

The longer the man on the left ignores Afghanistan, the more letters the man on the right will have to send grieving parents.

The difference is that the man on the left doesn’t care, and the one on the right will grieve along with the parents.

The U.S. casualty count since Barack Hussein Obama refused Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s emergency request for 40,000 troops in Afghanistan has increased by eight following a coordinated attack by Taliban forces in Kamdesh District of Nuristan Province, a remote mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan. (Map of Afghanistan with Nuristan highlighted below.)

As many as 200 militants assaulted two US/Afghani outposts manned by 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers who were outnumbered nearly three to one during the four-hour firefight that was finally ended by US airpower.

It was the largest loss of life in the theater since nine Americans died in a battle 15 months ago.

And while our young men and their allies were fighting and dying Saturday, their Commander-in-Chief also faced a hard evening.

AP reports:

WASHINGTON — There was no fancy outing as the Obamas celebrated their first wedding anniversary since they moved to the White House.

Instead they kept it simple, with a dinner out Saturday night at an elegant, American-fare restaurant near Georgetown. The evening was balmy and the moon almost full.

President Barack Obama stayed in all day before taking a motorcade with Michelle Obama to the Blue Duck Tavern to mark their 17th wedding anniversary.

The anniversary dinner came after a whirlwind week that saw the Obamas fly to Copenhagen to make an unsuccessful pitch for their hometown of Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics.

Lyrical and lovely, no?

YLSIL: That’s not fair, GA; you shouldn't criticize POTUS for celebrating with his family.

GA:  Oh that’s right; there’s a no-bitch zone surround BHO. Funny, I remember President Bush who ate and slept the war against terror Overseas Contingency Operation in Iraq and Afghanistan being laughed at and ridiculed for stating he would no longer play golf out of respect for the troops in time of war.

But enough of that; this CnC spends more time talking about everything from volunteerism, nutrition, thermostats, electric cars to college basket playoffs on TV than he does commanding the OCO in the Middle East.

McChrystal is hardly alone in his concern; the British Chief of the Chief General Staff, Gen. Sir David J. Richards, has issued a wake-up call to the public by warning of the "terrifying prospect" of a defeat in Afghanistan.

In an unprecedented comment, Gen. Richards described the conflict as "this generation's war" and added that failure by NATO would have an "intoxicating effect" on militant Islam.

By and large, McChrystal must feel like Col. Travis at the Alamo or Maj. James Devereaux on Wake Island; he calls for backup, because the situation may well be in doubt without reinforcements.

But when the red phone rings at the White House, the military is instructed to leave a message.     

Talk on the Tarmac

So convinced of his own importance and driven by his arrogance, Obama had a photo op aboard with Gen. McChrystal aboard Air Farce One so he could say that he’s met with his commander at least twice during his 10 months in office.

‘Course you know what the 25 minutes consisted of…. it was Truman/MacArthur in reverse. Obama telling his lead general to keep his mouth shut. According to sources close to the administration, Gen. McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.

That’s why Barry ordered him for some tarmac talk while he was micro-managing the Olympics in Denmark; he was not serving his Constitutional duties, but his handlers and cronies.

So where is Gen. David “Surge” Petraeus in all this?

Unfortunately, the successful Iraq commander who made our left-wing enemies in this country (and Congress, including Obama) eat crow, is ducking for cover.

From the NYT:

General Petraeus’s aides now privately call him “Dave the Dull,” and say he has largely muzzled himself from the fierce public debate about the war to avoid antagonizing the White House, which does not want pressure from military superstars and is wary of the general’s ambitions in particular.

Why?

Because despite being responsibility for a two-front war, Obama is more concerned about Petraeus as a potential political adversary in 2012 than the war.

I think that’s obscene, but I’m not a petty, insecure, narcissistic coward who is uncomfortable with “victory” as is the President of the United States. Sadly, quashing the successful commander stills an importance voice for our troops and the much needed surge.

If not McChrystal or Petraeus, who is POTUS listening to?

There are two it seems. First, it’s former Marine Commandant and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. James L. Jones (Ret.)—Obama’s National Security Advisor —in all this?

It’s speculated that Jones' record suggests he is "someone who, unencumbered by strong ideological leanings, can evaluate ideas dispassionately whether they come from the left or the right. This is probably why Obama picked him."

He is also known for this quote:

Speaking to Marines in July 1999, shortly after assuming the post of commandant:

It’s OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We’re human.

Not exactly Chesty Puller is it?

Second is JCS Chief Adm. Michael Mullen.

Faithful readers will recall my post regarding Mullen:

“Chairman of the JCS Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said he was ‘shocked’ by the piracy of a Saudi Arabian supertanker 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya in the Arabian Sea.

“’I'm stunned by the range of it, less so than I am of the size,’ he said. 

“I can't express how Mullen's admission fills me, as an American in my post-9/11 world, with rage and disbelief.

“If I were George Bush I’d immediately sack Mullen and get someone, anyone who doesn't sound like a whimpering goddamned civilian.”

I imagine Mullen is exactly the kinda guy Barry likes in charge… “shocked and stunned” just like he is. 

When the going gets tough, the tough go to Copenhagen

This must have been the way Custer felt…. “which e’ffing way do I shoot?”

Do I sight in on the fifth or is it the 17th video of our children being brainwashed into “pledging allegiance” to the new Leader of the World?

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

Or do I hit the Faux President for being AWOL 80% of the time?

On Thursday Obama will be in Copenhagen drinking lattes and schlepping along behind The Predator as her clean-up hitter with the International Olympic Community sales pitch as the First Couple pimps the O-lympics… get it,  “O”?

Americans are right to be outraged with Obama’s refusal to earn his paycheck by carrying out the duties expected of a president considering we need a troop surge in Afghanistan, decisions on Iran’s latest new secret nuke site, sky-high unemployment and an economy imperiled.

Another 700 words on such dereliction duty while America circles the drain?

I could, but the people who see the outrage, feel it, don’t need convincing that Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama is the “Manchurian Candidate”. (“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.”) The useful idiots like your liberal sister-in-law will never understand, and that’s why Lenin called dubbed them; their idiocy is their usefulness.

And our out and out enemies—socialists and communists, the far left, most liberals, fifth-columnists and dimocrats—must be stopped in their tracks… now; they have a 40-year head start on the million+ people you saw at the March on DC two weeks ago. 

I’ve written frequently about the machine which brought the unknown Barry Obama to the forefront of national politics seemingly overnight, except it wasn’t overnight, but a decades-long program which needed to be entrenched and working before just the right Raymond Shaw could be found.

None of what you’ve witnessed in this coup is by chance or coincidence; Obama is the test tube baby of the radical left’s affirmative action program.

Every step of the way since childhood he has received a helping hand, a helping left hand, over every obstacle faced by anyone.

The only thing he lacked, being the half-Nigerian child of two PhDs, raised by a doting, white grandmother who was a bank vice president in middle class Hawaii, was even the slightest connection to African-American authenticity; in short, anything associated with being black in America.

He added to his thin resume in college by intentionally seeking out friends from whom he could steal “street cred”.  This is confirmed in his autobiography, “Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”: 

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

“We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.

“We were alienated.”

You can curse Barry all you want, but he told us up front he was a communist… but actually he’s a fascist out to gather power for himself and nothing more. His only concern is that the trains run on time.

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

The Obama ascendency is as likely as a Single-A pitcher with no curveball playing in the World Series at the end of his first year as a pro. Such a phenom gets there by himself? Hardly. And this guy plays for the Black Sox.   

There are so many places to dig I haven’t even bothered with Michelle Obama’s patient-dumping scheme back in Chi-town. Nor have I written yet about Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings… and homo activist who encourages the victims of pedophilia to relax and enjoy the ride.

Fox News reports:

“President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.”

At left is Kevin Jennings, Obama's director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, who is being opposed but those who believe he is “too radical” for the job.

Too radical ??? He’s an e’ffing degenerate! In a nation of 300 million, Barry comes up with this perv?

Whoa, caught myself… back to images, to get that last image ‘outcher mind.

Symbols have meaning, that’s why we call them symbols.

I say “Golden Arches” and you say,….? “Monday Night……”?

The symbolism and imagery employed by those who have run the Obama machine from well before he entered local politics in Chicago takes its cue from Leni Riefenstahl, right, chief propagandist of the Third Reich.

As a candidate he succeeded in portraying himself as the incumbent, even though his real political experience as a “community organizer” was far less than that of  Gov. Sarah Plain who in a normal election year would not have been within a 81mm mortar from the second spot on a national ticket.

The Obama onslaught in 2008 will stand as the greatest sleight of hand in the history of US electoral politics; the candidate with the barest resume in US history won by running as the incumbent.

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

The Obama campaign was masterful; his motorcade was almost always comprised of big, black, heavily-window tinted Suburbans and limos; his “O” symbol was not-so-subtly switched with the usual red white and blue livery.

His campaign planes looked presidential.. the media even contributed, calling his 737 “O-Force One.”  

Of course the duplicity of the U.S. news media was virtually 100% in the Obama campaign which reinforced the imagery and symbolism thousands of times a day.

And the Presidential Seal morphed into this: 

He tried to emulate every president he could think of  from Lincoln to JFK  to FDR.

He campaigned in Germany, the first time a candidate has sought votes for president in a foreign country, let alone in the nation that gave us two world wars and Nazism.

This is not leadership, this is embarrassment, and he is leading us to Armageddon. 

“We’re pinned down!!”

"We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.

Four of Williams’ Special Operations Command Marines lay dead near a fortress-like Afghan village Tuesday—as their comrades fought on, their ammo running low.

America, your sons are being slaughtered—intentionally sacrificed—because Commander-in-Chief Obama and his top commanders want to limit possible civilian casualties in the war-torn country… buying Afghani lives for Americans.

With sniper rounds impacting old inches away, Maj. Williams persisted in his demands for gunships, air strikes, arty… anything that would keep the dug-in rags’ heads down so his people could pull back to a better defensive position.

In early June the new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal ordered new operational standards, including a directive to refrain from firing on structures where insurgents may have taken refuge among civilians unless their own troops are in imminent danger. Officials hoped the change in ROE (rules of engagement) will reduce tensions between U.S. forces and Afghan citizens, and build a "civilian surge" to improve reconstruction and governance.

But thousands of miles from the air conditioned Oval Office, the four Marines were placed in body bags along with eight Afghan troops and an Afghan interpreter who were killed in the ambush and battle that raged from dawn until 2 p.m. in eastern Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border.

Embedded reporter Jonathan S. Landay, right: 

"This is unbelievable. We have a platoon (of Afghan army) out there and we've got no Hotel Echo," (Army Capt.) Swenson shouted above the din of gunfire, using the military acronym for high explosive artillery shells. "We're pinned down."

Finally, more than an hour after the ambush was sprung, a string of dense smoke, white phosphorus artillery rounds was used to shield the unit’s retreat to better cover.

Of his new policy, Gen. McChrystal has said his measure of effectiveness will be the “number of Afghans shielded from violence” — not the number of militants killed, adding that is our troops taking fire from and they can remove themselves from the area safely, without any undue danger to the forces, then that’s the option they should take.”

During the firefight, Afghan women and children inside the village compound were observed resupplying the Taliban fighters with ammunition.

It’s been a very long time, but America used to be a country of winners, a nation that had the ability to unleash overwhelming, full-on, titanic, and therefore short, low-casualty wars.

Apparently we left all that in the locker after WWII.

Since then untold tens of thousands of American lives have been sacrificed on the alter of politics presided over by superiors unworthy of our troops’ trust.

Korea—only five years after WWII—was fought in exactly this manner. Gone was “go big or don’t go at all”, the unofficial motto of vastly superior armies, and in its’ place Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson would later be personally picking bombing targets in North Vietnam. 

The first choice of today’s limp-wristed, metro-sexual politicians is to not fight at all, become an equal-partner world government via the United Nations…. I call that surrendering without firing a shot.

Barack Hussein Obama is only a little lighter in the loafers…. scared of his own shadow, apologizing for this own country, and hoping that our enemies will eat us last;  you know… the guy that doesn’t like the sound of the word “surrender”; what’s his alternative….? “Yankee, you die!!”, “banzi!!, or perhaps, “do you want a blindfold?”

We can’t fight back, we can’t yell: get the f**k outta that damned mosque! We’re vaporizing it in an hour”; we can’t use certain ammunition, we can’t use our superior firepower.

But what about intel gathering which prevents or reduces loss of life on both sides? Not just “no”, but “Hell no!!!”

such as:

• no shouting, pushing, or taking his library card 
• tell him he’s facing east when he’s really pointed north.
• telling him his mum died.
• Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner.
• Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes.
• Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain.
• Waterboarding.
• Using military working dogs.
• Conducting mock executions.
• Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water or medical care.
• Threats to turn the individual over to others to be abused.
• Certain humiliating or degrading treatment.
• Implying harm to the individual or his property.
• Threatening to separate parents from their children.

“Good evening, Mr. Iwishi Hadanaudi. Let me tell you about tonight’s specials here at Club Gitmo.”

So what all this means is that without intel from newly-captured POWs/captives, an important—if not the most important—weapon, is neutralized.

As one jarhead observed last month: “The Iraqis (on the battlefield) already know the game. They know how to play us. Unless you catch the Iraqis in the act, it is very hard to pin anything on anyone; we can’t even use basic police interrogation tactics.”

So……. right now, right this very moment Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Hailey, Idaho, has been missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30.

On July 3, officials declared him "missing-captured."

He has been ID’ed in this photo released by the Taliban.

Bergdahl is a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and I assure you that he now lives in terror every moment of his young life.

And….. I’ll guarantee you that America will let him die—probably by a slow and crude beheading, because we won't peel back someone’s fingernail(s) to find out where in the goddamedhell he is.

His father would, his mom would, his grandma would, my friends would, I would.

America won’t.

Goodnight, Pfc. Berghdahl, you acquitted yourself with dignity, but your nation failed you.

Rest in Peace.

Freaky Deaky Friday

While Barry O and his wife, The Predator, embarrass themselves on a daily basis overseas, the 44th POTUS repeatedly reveals that he has all the class of, well, Bill Clinton.

Not just once, but twice:

 

 

 

 

BTW, the young lady at right is 16.

Note how Sarkozy is amused by his counterpart’s less-than-subtle methodology.

Touted for her fashion sense, The Predator embraces all the style savvy of well, Big Bird on a bad day. If you are a woman of size and capable of bucking up against Shaq in the paint, and a back porch you could Shakespeare from, perhaps canary yellow isn’t a good color choice… I’m just sayin’.

 

And while It is my policy not to pick on public figures’ children, I do stand up for them; below is a clear case of child pimping by the First Lady and what’s his name.

(An aside: since “firsts” in First Families are so all-fired important, it is clear that Michelle Obama is and will forever be “The Most Gigantic First Lady in History.”)

While Obama struggles to reinvigorate the G8 summit in Italy, his elder daughter, Malia, has apparently launched her own campaign to educate the planet about nukes; given the sartorial scrutiny the First Family is always under, it seems unlikely that the T-shirt was paraded around the streets by accident.

The kid looks like Euro-trash, not a member of America’s First Family.

Plus I’m starting to see the first indications that the young lady is entering that lovely age parents detest…. The Wise-Ass, Petulant Spoiled Kid Age. I know it, I recognize it, I lived it.

Here’s a funny, ironic and also serious decision on the part of the federal government…. bitch-slapping Barry Obama, his Marxist philosophy and his writing.

Supermax Prison Says Obama's Book Objectionable, Won't Let Prisoners Read Them....

McLEAN, Va. — The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

The fed’s decision is quite sound and based on the most glaring and objective evidence; I don’t want them ready Das Kapital and Mein Kampf either.

Can’t Resist: Just in from GatewayPundit.com:

Friday, July 10, 2009

Who Died, Michelle O?

This is weird.
So who died, Morticia?                   ------------------------------------------------------

Pelosi's Mouse Gets $16.1 Million In Stimulus Money

The tiny rodent is the symbol of wasteful spending in the $787 billion Porkulus bill has returned to needle  Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Good. As much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay Area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (left).
”Mickey” was one of Pelosi’s pet project was an "invisible earmark" about which   House Minority Leader John A. Boehner bellowed  "Lo and behold, the government has announced that the mouse is getting its money after all; Pelosi must be so proud."

The follwoing is a serious topic… just another indication of the lies the State Run Media poisons our society with; contrary to what they want you to believe, more U.S. service members committed suicide in the Clinton Years—190—(when there was no war) than during President Bush’s tenure—160—during which wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And guess what? To this point in The Golden Obama Years there are 88 suspected suicides, compared to the first six months of Bush’s first term—67.

And… the last six months have seen combat drop to near zero in Iraq.

But we won’t hear much about all this will we?
And my last graphic for this Friday (also from Gateway Pundit):

Shocker!... BILLIONS In Stimulus Aid Went to Obama Supporting Counties

Shocker!... DC's Alinskyite Regime Spreads Spoils Among Supporters.
Billions of dollars in federal aid has gone to those counties that supported Dear Leader Obama in the last election.

        Obama Supporting Counties-- $69 per person
        McCain Supporting Counties-- $34 per person

And a palate cleanser…

Afghanistan February 2005 – Priority Apache dustoff from the roof of a small building. Minus 8 degrees, wind chill from the rotor wash takes it well below zero. Due to his injuries the wounded solider cannot ride the hoist up.

Chances are the team leader on the building guiding the chopper into a precarious perch on the roof is an E-4 in his early 20s, the chopper AC is probably a warrant, not much older.

We are the best there is; we are the best there ever was.

And a big Hooah to the Army.

Video here.

But for my money…. this CH-47 offering a helping hand in Afghanistan around the same time is even better:

Realities

Reality finds a way to present itself.

Yesterday I was testing a new telephoto lens about 70-80 meters off I-35 outside my town.

By rapidly taking shots of the passing 65-mph traffic, I was  judging the the lens’ “quickness.”

My attention was quickly drawn to this old veteran in cammo, bearing the outward signs of long and arduous service.

After I got home and started running my shots through my photo software I was surprised to learn that this up-armored six-by (although The Ninja reports: “We just called 'em five tons.  I guess they could pull five tons or something. Globalsecurity.org calls 'em M939s.”) had seen its share of recent combat and as a result was headed to destinations unknown.

There were two closely-spaced, large-caliber hits obviously directed at the driver.

Neither of the shots appeared to have penetrated the bullet-resistant windshield,and there were other battle damage on the frame and hood.

Thanks to the free market and American ingenuity, 42-pound multilayered glass and polymer laminate barriers are installed as side window kits on the workhorse military transports, which requires four per vehicle. Humvee windshield sections, for example, weighing 260 pounds each. 

This type of increased protection has saved an untold number of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So… even on a quiet, hot, muggy morning in North Texas there are reminders of the sacrifices of our servicemen and women now in harm’s way… most of them unknown, unheralded and sadly, largely unappreciated.  

Take just a moment to study the photos, remember, and give thanks for those who stand between us and death and slavery.

And now, back to the madness which we join still (unfortunately) in progress.

Today I’m reminded of the man twirling the plates on sticks…. most often seen on the Ed Sullivan Show or a circus.

Barack Obama is that man; he is obviously out of his depth and experience, yet he maintains a flurry of activity that is “all hat and no cattle” as they say down here in Texas. He insists on twirling an enormous number of foreign and domestic plates and 90% of them are wobbling, yet in response, he adds more plates or one of our foreign enemies throws another at us.

The disaster is obvious and near upon us.

Where are the results from the near-$800 billion stimulus which to not just important, but critical to our very economic survival?

Better yet, where is the damned money…?

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.

The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama.

 

Governor Palin sounds off in the current Time mag:

“President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to "put America on the right track" economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of dollars that we're passing on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn't even make economic sense. So his growth of government agenda needs to be ratcheted back, and it's going to take good people who have the guts to stand up to him, stand up to him and debate policy, not personalities, not partisan politics, but policy to effect the change that we need there.”

Where are the Republicans—especially male GOPers—when it comes to calling a spade a spade…?

Clearly, the best man in the Republican Party is a woman.

And here are Jackson Five who actually deserve our respect: 

By Columnist Chuck Goudie…

“The cause of Mr. Jackson's death was obvious to anyone who saw him.

Really, no autopsy was necessary.

It was cardiac arrest. Caused by a roadside bomb.

I'm not talking about Michael Jackson, the supposedly drug-addled entertainer whose death has dominated every waking moment these past few days.

Instead, as we head toward Independence Day, I found a few other Jacksons whose deaths didn't receive the attention they should have….”

Read the rest here:  They died for us: A Jackson Five you never knew

May God bless them and their families.

Beyond the Palin….

First… a few comments about Gov. Palin’s resignation.

Even as someone who is near-inured to the bottomless slime pit which produces leftists and hard core liberals in the country, even I was outraged anew by the round the clock attacks on Sarah Plain, her husband and her children… at the attacks on her baby son who was born with Down’s Syndrome.

… and not aborted immediately like the Left would have wanted and perhaps even given Palin’s some eugenics props.    

HuffPo celebrated her announced resignation last Friday as Alaska’s governor (effective July 26) with the headline: ‘Palin will run in ‘12 on more retardation platform’, and there was something about her being in favor of “lead paint chips” for children:

Previous attacks on Mrs. Plain and her family were of this ilk (screen shot and quotes thanks to Gateway Pundit):

HuffPo contributor Michael Seitzman wrote a sick hit piece earlier: "I want to have sex with Palin on my Barack Obama sheets"
This was just the latest attack on Sarah Palin and her children. Most of the attacks, of course, were ignored by the state-run media. But, when David Letterman cracked rape jokes about her 14 year-old daughter the poor media was forced to report on it. The Left was finally able to drive Sarah Palin out of office. Let's pray they will leave her and her family alone for awhile now.

Palin was (and sadly will continue to be) the litmus test and punching bag for all manner of things political and psychological to GOP moderates and RINOS as well as the dems and the hard-left.

Think not? Three words: Dan. Quaye. Potato.

It’s quicker to list the accurate statements made about the governor than the lies and distortions.

But she was despised for the following reasons, in no particular order:

• She is a woman.
• She is a Christian.
• She is an unbowed and unrepentant conservative.
• She is an attractive conservative, Christian woman.
• She is an attractive, conservative, Christian, woman with five children.
• and, she is hated because she didn’t sacrifice Trig to Roe v Wade. 

Contrary to the Goebbels tactics mounted against her, she has a good sense of humor and is quite self-effacing, she is very intelligent and politically savvy and still has far more executive experience than your president who, because of his ineptitude and Marxist philosophy, has near-doomed this great nation.

Because of her lack of big league experience, I was opposed to her as the VP nomine in 2008. But due to the party insistence on nominating Socialist Lite to run against The Socialists, she was the only bright spot in one of the most inept national campaigns on record.

Running her when they did was desperation considering McCain could never move the country, let alone bring his party together. By running her national before she was ready they wasted her talent early, and what might have been is only that.

And she was/is not the answer for 2012, but she is an effective rallying point for The People to regain control of the Republican party and the Congress. With a well-organized bully pulpit, she can monkey wrench the socialists while a long-needed right-wing coup regains control of the GOP.

I plan on sending Gov. Palin a letter of congratulations for (I hope) finally washing her hands of politics. She is just the latest casualty among those well-intentioned patriots who still see public service as just that.

And this is what politics (especially if you are politics' minority’s minority—conservatives) does to you… Clarence Thomas, Judge Bork, John Bolton and on, ad museum.   

There are far better people in science and industry, health care, the military, and in my small town, that those who “represent” us on the state and national level. 

Her future….? I hope it includes a wonderful life with her family and friends and, like Johnny Carson when he decided it was time to leave, just steps into the shadows. 

And now on the Joe Bupkis front (courtesy of Gateway Pundit):

The man is dangerous...
Obama Administration foreign policy guru and chief idiot Joe Biden just gave the terrorists in Iraq the glimmer of hope they so desperately needed.
Prairie Pundit reported on this from The Washington Post:

Vice President Biden warned Iraqi officials Friday that the American commitment to Iraq could end if the country again descended into ethnic and sectarian violence.
Biden delivered the warning during a three-day visit to Iraq that began Thursday, just a few days after the United States formally withdrew most combat troops from Iraqi cities under a security agreement reached last year. It was the vice president's first visit since President Obama asked him to take the lead on Iraq policy.

Biden who pushed a disastrous plan to partition Iraq was tapped by Obama this past week to be the White House point of contact on Iraq.

Ahh, the Peter Principal remains with us. Does anyone remember the Vice President of the United States congratulating our troops of their hard-won success in Iraq. Get back to me when you can.

Bombiran….

The Times of London (via HotAir) that “… the Saudis have agreed to tacitly allow Israelis to transit their airspace to attack Iran and end its nuclear program.  The Mossad has worked with the Saudis for several years as the Iranian threat in the region grew, and the Saudis — and other Arab states — would be privately relieved to have Tehran’s nuclear ambitions curtailed.  But is now the right time, while the mullahs teeter in Iran?”

I think now is exactly the right time… the Iranian people are standing up and the CIA operatives there would certainly convey to them our support in overthrowing the concernment…. oh, wait, I’m sorry, I thought I was back in the 1980s and we were running the Commies out of Nicaragua by arming the Contras.

And this just in:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former D.C. mayor, now Washington councilman, Marion Barry has been arrested again.

On July 4, the U.S. Park Police arrested Barry and charged him with misdemeanor stalking.

About 8:45 p.m. in Anacostia Park, a Washington woman flagged down a Park Police officer on patrol and pointed to Barry, who was in another car. The woman said Barry was stalking her, Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said.

Barry was taken into custody, processed and released, but he must make a court appearance for the charge. A court date has not been set.

This is what happens when large numbers of socialists gather in large population centers…. crack-head, stalking mayors, poverty, high crime, high taxes, rampant unemployment, schools unworthy of the utility bills paid to keep them open and the eventual jailing of the top democrats.

It’s America’s… learn to love it… or leave it.

Iranians whacked, Obama snacked

The young man at the right is a patriot. He would rather die fighting than live on his knees.

His courage in the face of the IslamoNazi subhumans who rule his country has cost him dearly, but every revolution must have a Patrick Henry. 

"Nine years ago, Ahmad Betebi appeared on the cover of The Economist.This photo during the student demonstrations made Batebi famous. It also made him a target of the regime.

"Ahmad Betebi was sentenced to death by the evil regime in Iran after the student protests of 1999. He was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through a free Iraq to Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC." (Read and view in-depth interview via Gateway Pundit.com.

Here's what the new generation of Iranian freedom fighters think of Dear Leader's cowardice in the face wholesale murder in the street of Tehran. 

"His (Obama) lack of response will not be regarded lightly. We will watch for how much his response will help the people or the regime. We will know more this week... Obama can hold talks with the regime in Iran if he wants.

Is it morally correct for Obama to support the regime? Does he actually believe the people of Iran will appreciate that? The social movement requires support. If the world really wants the advent of terrorism to disappear in the Middle East, if they want peace with the Palestinians and Israel, if they want nuclear technology to be developed for peaceful things and not nuclear weapons... They only need to support the people of Iran right now. This regime has the most dangerous of ideologies.

"They're killing the opposition."

Meanwhile, despite Iran, the NoKor weapons ship, an economy fast resembling that of the Weimer Republic, unemployment beyond 12% and a well-planned fiscal suicide.... Obama sets up a propagandist's photo op with his kids; proving the adage, that when the going gets tough, the tough buy ice cream.

As HotAir reported:

Obama Snacked, Iranians Got Whacked

Below is a graphing video of the murder of a young woman dubbed Neda ("The Voice") gunned down by Iranian security forces. Now a decade later, this Iranian uprising for freedom has its own martyr.

She went to the rally with her father and died instantly of a bullet to the base of her throat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be a pinnacle moment for the world's oldest true constitutional republic to stand side-by-side with those who face the guns of an oppressive government, just as we did 230 years ago.

It is in our DNA.

All people in the world striving to be free look to America.... the students in Tiananmen Square erected a State of Liberty before it and they were crushed under the treads of communist tanks.

We could once again provide hope for an oppressed people, but we won't because we have a weak and incompetent leader incapable of doing anything but stroking his own ego.

If we actively backed regime change in Iran, make and fulfill our promise of support to the opposition movement and topple the present government of, half the world's terrorist activity or more, would grind to a halt.

But that would take common sense, vision and courage... both political and moral.

Barack Hussein Obama lacks all three, unmoved by people young an old, male and female, facing down automatic weapons with sticks and rocks and guts.

He is a moral and physical coward.

Not long ago I suggested to some folks that "68 million people were responsible for this" meaning the current domestic and foreign tar babies Obama has created in only six months.

Some were actually offended when I suggested that just as words have meanings, votes have consequences.

Lastly, this is the way the current CnC proposes to ferret out the subhumans in Afghanistan and kill them in their numbers:

Shades of Vietnam? New US Rules of Engagement Says Troops Must Disengage if Taliban Enter Homes....

KABUL – The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.

No army ever won a war by giving sanctuary of any kind to the enemy, or by placing concern for civilian casualties above its soldiers' lives. 

Now, courtesy of the cyber patriots at ApacheClips.com (via The Big Zip over at Weaselzipper.com) here's his Monday Morning War Porn which is fast gaining popularity with LM31 faithful readers.... which means soon you will all end up on a fed list of some kind; I've been on it for some time and was getting lonely. 

This would seem to indicate that the remotely-flown UAV involved here might just be better shooter than pilots and gunners on choppers and A-10s which is total logic. And these are the kids who were "wasting their lives playing video games" 15 years ago.

Hell... we're best at everything.

Allah Snackbar!

Talk softly and from your knees…

America’s record as the undisputed world power since the 1940s is remarkable…. as much for what it hasn’t done as for what t has done:

• 1. Saved the world from Nazism, Communism, Fascism.
• Saved more people and liberated more countries that any nation in world history.
• Given more money, forgiven more loans and taken more backstabbing for our trouble than any other people in world history; we’ve never learned that “no good turn goes unpunished.”

Ours is the only flag the rest of the world hopes to see marching into view when things are dark and hopeless, but here’s where we have also failed miserably in modern times…

• 1956---Hungary. The Hungarian Revolution against the the Soviet puppet national government and its Soviet-imposed policies lasted only three weeks. Over 2,500 Hungarians were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. President Eisenhower refused to act immediately and forcefully; he requested one of the UN’s infamous “strongly worded resolutions” with predictable results were predictable. This while our Radio Free Europe encouraged Hungarians to fight the Soviet forces; we misled the Hungarian people that NATO or United Nations would intervene if the citizens continued to resist.
• 1961--Bay of Pigs. We all know what happened there; JKF told the Brigade that U.S. air cover would protect the invasion… he lied; they died. Cuba is still a communist hell-hole, 90 miles off our six.
• 1972-75—South Vietnam. We supported and fought beside the Vietnamese people over four decades and in the end, we left them to be slaughtered, imprisoned, and tortured. The Khmer Rouge genocidal policy killed over one-fifth of all Cambodians. The Pathet Lao overthrew the government of Laos in 1975.  More than 200,000 were South Viet government officials, military officers, and soldiers were sent to “reeducation camps” to face execution, torture, disease and malnutrition.

When it was finished…. millions died because we did not fulfill our promise. And the left still denies and scoffs at Southeast Asia's “domino effect”.

• 1991—Gulf War I. Rather than take Baghdad after a mere 100-hour war and put a bullet in the brains of Hussein and his psychotic spawn, George Bush and Colin Powell (no surprise), turned their backs on the Kurds after telling them to rise up against the dictatorship. Thousands were murdered; there is ample blood on our hands.

Why all this? Because Barack Hussein Obama, who bows to our enemies, embraces dictators and hates our military is repeating this shameful cowardice by not standing by the Iranians who are rising up against the the Muslim subhumans and a stolen election.

It took Obama three days to come up with even this flaccid response which makes JFK, Ike, Bush, Nixon and Ford sound like Patrick Henry.

“It's not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling. I do believe that something has happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonistic postures towards the international community.

“I have said before that I have deep concerns about the election. And I think that the world has deep concerns about the election.

"You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.

“I think it's important to recognize is that the easiest way for reactionary forces inside Iran to crush reformers is to say it's the US that is encouraging those reformers."

If the Iranian protesters do not receive some iron-fisted rhetorical support from Obama and soon, it will give the subhumans a tactic green flag to bring heavy machine guns into the pubic square… and end the rebellion.

I‘m taking all bets that our Fifth Column Commander-in-Chief will not oppose the will of the Islamic butchers with whom he prefers to rub shoulders.