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The reason I don’t like democrats…. they’ll get me killed

Now that the dimwit-Senate appears to lack the votes to pass Obamacare, Real America—conservative blogs and talk radio, must force our communist President, the cowed intel community and even the United States military to defend us.

As anyone with an IQ half the number of Bawney Fwank’s anonymous sex partners knew immediately when shouts ran out at Fort Hood… it was Muslim terrorism.

There is no need for further evidence regarding the waste-of-skin traitor Hasan.

He must be hanged for his crime by the military, he must not allowed access to civil courts.

In addition, I want the heads of  Fort Hood Commander LtGen. Robert W. Cone and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey on stakes.

How can they fight a war when they can’t even keep terrorists out of the ranks?

And to think that a number of high ranking officers were cashiered because of some grab ass at the Tail Hook convention.

Gentlemen… if your dog tags say “Muslim”, please step over to that line.”

Next, any Muslim who tries to enlist must undergo the most stringent security check in America… and I don’t mean the “move along, nothing to see here” vetting process the Obama used to slip communists into the highest levels of government for the next phase of the coup.

All the casualties last week were aboard a military base, so most of America will just shrug it off as “another terrible tragedy” and a “gun crime”… more on that aspect below.

No…. it was the worst Muslim terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.

Let me repeated for emphasis….. the worst murderous attack by committed Muslim jihadists in the eight years since the mass murder of 3,000 in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and on United Flight 93 by committed Muslim suicide bombers.

My friends, clearly the CIA, the FBI, Army CID and the Army itself is part of a conspiracy to sacrifice American service members and civilians on the altar of hard-core left-wing politics.

“Political correctness”? 

No, we passed that years ago… there is something terribly, systemically wrong when our courts, our law enforcement agencies, our various levels of government, our intelligence community, our military and even the president of the United States refuse to defend America and protect her citizens.

I can cite 100 cases of traitorous, unconstitutional inaction and/or malfeasance on the part of each of the institutions I just listed.

When will the people rise up and take control of this situation… do your own children or grandchildren have to die before we take matters into our own hands?

Oh stop your squirming like a little girl with twisted panties… if we don’t do it, who will? If not now, when?

When are we going to start acting like patriots born of revolutionary forefathers instead of sheep being lead to slaughter?

This terror attack just happened to have occurred at Fort Bragg…. you convince me why the next time it won’t be at the Mall of America… or in your Wal-Mart?

I wrote extensive about the Muslim Beslan Russia school massacre, thinking the lesson was obvious about the vulnerability of our own schools… I learned quickly that no one in the massive government school, union-controlled industry cares.

Every conscientious conservative blog I’m aware of has warned of this as long as blogs have existed.

What price are we willing to pay for our inaction?

Am I advocating armed rebellion?

No… not hardly; we can’t even keep communists from indoctrinating of children in government schools. How are we going to shift into a hard-core revolutionary cadre? Get real.

What I am advocating is the following:

If a million tea-partying 9/12’ers can clog the street of D.C. for a day, five million can shut down the government for as many days as we need to… like Martin Luther… nail our demands to the doors of Congress.

Luther, a monk, was personally fed up. He had had it with Roman Catholic Church, and literally nailed a collections of indictments on the door of the  Schlosskirche (castle church) in Wittenberg

Among his rhetorical accusations was this one:

"Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?"

By changing only a couple of words, isn’t Martin Luther’s clarity just as apt today as it was around this time of year in 1517.

Luther, one man, one motivated individual, thus began the Protestant Reformation and changed the world.

If Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer (left) can’t get to work for a week, it will be the best thing that has happened to our republic since we bombed Japan. 

And is they were forced to resign and special elections held, the slimy politicians would quickly learn that if they want to keep their jobs for another year or so, they do what we say.

In the meantime we begin from the ground up, a take over of our government.

Only those who believe and will protect the originalist view of the Constitution need apply.

I don’t want a democrat or republic merry-go-round government changing masks every 2-4 years; I want a Constitutional Movement that will once and for all relegate the excesses of this bloated federal government and this society to the dung heap of history.

Absolute term limitations… one four-year term in the House, one six-year term in the Senate; one five-year term for president.

We simply take away the political pay offs, graft, corruption, luxuries, high pay… make being a “public servant” not so attractive.

This way, no one “runs’ for re-election as soon as they’re sworn in; they are in long enough to work effectively, but not long enough to do any great damage. Besides, in Real America, impeachment is only a Constitutional violation away… for anyone.

Further:

• Government housing for federal officials will be provided on military bases in the previous enlisted quarters; new quarters will be constructed for active duty member and families and a livable per diem will be paid to military members who must live on the local economy.
• Better yet, the military buys existing apartment buildings to house troops.

This is all stream-of consciousness, I have a million ideas,

But the question we must answer is when do we quit bleating about the systematic destruction of our great nation, get off our asses and do something?

As promised:

The spin is already grinding away to use the Fort Hood Muslim terrorism attack as “proof” we need more anti-gun laws.

And the new villain is—drum-roll, please…..

The 5.7 mm FN Herstal Five-seveN, 10-round semi-auto handgun.

It is already nick-named the “cop-killer”… as if all the other pistols used to gun down law enforcement officers weren’t “cop-killers”.

It is only a matter of time until it is also dubbed an “assault pistol”.

If it was pink, liberals wouldn’t even notice. 

The following is already included in the Wikipedia entry on the FN Herstal.

On Nov.5, 2009, the weapon was again the target of controversy when, investigators believe, the Five-Seven was used by U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan in the shooting at Fort Hood military base, where 13 were killed and 30 were wounded.

Move along citizens… it wasn’t terrorism; just another terrible gun tragedy. We must have more “reasonable” gun laws… this weapon is not used for hunting, it’s just used to kill people.

If the government is really worried about Muslims, they had better keep them in line.

In the end, when all the cards are played, Americans will not go down without a fight.

Our PC Generals undermine troop morale

To our nation’s detriment the time of boot-knife carrying, profane, shaved headed, alpha male, with killing-on-their-minds generals in the U.S. military is over.

I cannot remember the last time I heard a rousing, blood-pumping comment from someone with stars on his shoulders. The more stars, the more they sound like a senior senator from Pennsylvania…. no disrespect to Pennsylvania.

Nowadays generals “in country” walk around without covers and don’t even carry sidearms, thus giving the impression of USO entertainers in borrowed military gear.

I know that such dashing command presence would just fill me great confidence as I prepares to break wire.

General McChrystal is the absolute worst about this….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And… I don’t believe that it is appropriate or dignified for professional soldiers to mourn their dead in weepy candlelight ceremonies especially with civilians present.

 

 

 

 

 

Many years ago, as Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Douglas MacArthur chafed at the thought that FDR's socialist New Deal would be funded through cuts to the military.

He told Roosevelt:

"When we lose the next war and an American boy is writhing in pain in the mud with a Jap bayonet in his belly, I want the last words that he spits out in the form of a curse to be not against Douglas MacArthur but against Franklin Roosevelt." FDR was enraged, and he said, "Never speak to the President of the United States that way."

MacArthur immediately offered to resign, but Roosevelt brightened and said, "No, no, Douglas, we must get together on this."

The man who now holds McArthur’s job—Gen. George Casey—is typical of the politically-correct, “diversity-at-all-costs” mentality that has poisoned the upper ranks of our military; perhaps all ranks. 

As the highest commander, the blood of 40 Fort Hood soldiers is on his hands; it was on his watch that an anti-American Muslim zealot who openly praised suicide bombers was catered to, educated at tax payer expense and then murdered 13 young real Americans.

What was Casey’s response?  

• “I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that.” Casey on CNN and any other number of left-wing Sunday TV shows he could slither onto.
• "I wouldn't say I fear (a backlash against Muslims), but one of the reasons I told our leaders to keep their people informed and not rush to judgment or speculate until the investigation comes out, is I do worry slightly about a potential backlash, and we have to be concerned about that."
• “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Somewhere in America 40 families had to hear their son’s or daughter’s top general say that a dent in our “diversity”—whatever the goddamned hell that is—is more important that the lives and bodies of their loved ones.

Perhaps Casey is best know for using specific troop numbers in his public discussion of a possible drawdown of US Troops in Iraq in 2005. He said the then current troop level of 138,000 could be reduced by 30,000 in the early months of 2006 as Iraqi security forces took on a greater role. President Bush publicly called the talk "speculation" and rebuked the general.

Obviously an opponent of vigorous war-fighting, in January 2007, Casey implied his opposition to a troop surge in Iraq.

"The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And the other thing is that they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term."^[3]

Not long after, Bush kicked Casey upstairs to make way for a real general… David Petraeus, who seems to have been very very quiet since Obama bluffed his way into commanding our troops.

Over the last two hard days of photo ops Obama-appointed Secretary of the Army John McHugh could muster little more than repeating the Army’s pathetic, Madison Avenue motto when discussing the Fort Hood massacre:

"This is a time for the Army family to stand together, this is a time for 'Army Strong' to mean what it says -- and this is a time to know that we are working every moment to ensure that their safety and security is met to the highest possible degree."

At least he expressed some concern about soldiers being assassinated inside their own bases.

A career politician, McHugh, like so many of my fellow Baby-Boomers, graduated from high school in 1966… college four years later; but just couldn't find time to join us in South Vietnam.

But I know you’ll be reassured to learn that McHugh was voted one of the “50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill” by The Hill magazine.^[10]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the boss of the entire Army.

Is justice being pursued?

Asked whether he thought the Army “dropped the ball” in not responding to warning signs that the major was increasingly radical, General Casey replied that he was encouraging soldiers to provide information to criminal investigators.

But he added that the Army needs to be careful not to jump to conclusions based on early tidbits of information.

In other words… do not talk about ragheads…. and it’s a “criminal matter” for the FBI and the courts… not a failure of Casey and his Army.

It was left to Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, get it right; he promised that his committee would investigate Hasan’s suspected motives and whether the Army “missed warning signs that should have led them to essentially discharge him.”

In closing…. The San Antonio Express-News has reported that fellow classmates of Hasan in a graduate military medical program heard him justify suicide bombings and make radical and anti-American statements.

But investigators have said that “Major Hasan” might have suffered from emotional problems that were aggravated by the strain of working with veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and by the knowledge that he might soon be deployed to those theaters as well.

Got that….? the spin is that Hasan who has never served outside the United States and probably fired a rifle but once, may have Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It’s all mapped out for any other sleeper jihadist in the military…. kill as many as you can and then claim to be insane based on hearing combat stories of actual heroes.

Hundreds of ACLU operators are standing by.

Greater security scrutiny needed for Muslims in US military

Hellava day… being trying to post this since 10 a.m.; some things might be dated.

With the following, I’m guilty of “burying the lead” (as it’s called in the news business) on the Fort Hood mass-casualty shooting.

I want everyone to know about their commander-in-chief and his compulsive need to make everything about him…. even the shooting of 43 people.

The world waited breathlessly yesterday waiting for the TV mutts to breathlessly report what WWOS… “What Would Obama Say?”.

Knowing he was about to speak of the execution-style, close range killings of at least 13 soldiers and civilian police at Fort Hood were slaughtered and over 30 others wounded, by U.S. Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a Muslim, he…:

• He spent the first two minutes of the four-and-a-half minute address in a light-hearted discussion of the “Tribal Nations Conference” on Native American rights he was attending. (I’ll pass on any speculation about how he should be using his POTUS time).

(OBAMA): “Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.”

“I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner (sic). It's good to see you.”

Is there anything more dignified than the President of the United States sounding like he’s presenting the MTV award for best thug-rapper? 

• Once again you stupid son of a bitch, no one “wins” the Medal of Honor…it’s not a game;
• and, there is no such thing as the Congressional Medal of Honor;
• and, Dr. Medicine Crow has never been awarded the Medal of Honor. But he was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom”… you should at least get that right… you gave him the damned thing a few months ago.
• And… since you have also had the singular honor of presenting the Medal of Honor to the grieving parents of Army Sergeant First Class Jared Monti less than three weeks ago, is it too much to act that you at least know what you’re talking about? 

Michelle Malkin reports: “When he finally got around to the purpose for his public appearance, he gave an uninspired and rambling dissertation on the (Fort Hood) tragedy. Even then, he could not keep the topic focused on sympathy for the pain of others:

“I want all of you to know that as Commander in Chief, that there’s no greater honor, but no greater responsibility for me (emphasis his) than to make sure that the extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for…”

And now, back to Religion of Peace News:

Starting now there must be a complete and exhaustive investigation of the Army (and not by the Army) on one simple issue: why was Hasan allowed to remain in the Army, let alone have contact with soldiers needing competent psychological care, let alone not be charged with several violations of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. (Hasan shown left as a young lieutenant.

We all know the reason already, and it has cost 13 lives—probably more—and the severe wounding of dozens more.

• It should outrage all Americans that almost immediately there was an obvious attempt to portray Hasan, an active-duty Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, as anything but what he is… an angry, Muslim-centric mass-killer who supported suicide bombers—equating them with Medal of Honor Recipients—and their killing of US troops.   

Further evidence of the Army’s negligence, and criminal misconduct by allowing a Muslim fifth-columnist to remain in the military in any capacity:

23 March, 2003, Camp Pennsylvania Kuwait:

Muslim Army Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar (formerly: Mark Fidel Kools) at a rear base camp before the invasion of Iraq. In a premeditated attack, Akbar threw hand grenades into a tent before sunrise when most troops were still sleeping. He fired his rifle into the ensuing chaos. 

He was convicted of the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone. His first appeal review is now in process; if he loses his faces death by lethal injection. Read more here.

Not to fear, my Muslim enemies… the military hasn’t executed anyone since 1961. It is my belief that Akbar will eventually be released, just like the POWs at Gitmo. ‘Course I know you’re pissed too, if he’s “martyred” he’s a more valuable propaganda tool.

10 September, 2003, Guantanamo Bay:

One, Army Capt. Yusuf Yee (James Yee), a chaplain who converted to Islam after he came in contact with Saudi clerics during an Army tour in that country in 1991.

“Came into contact with Saudi clerics”?

American traitor Lee, a Muslim, is shown right with his parents, insisting he was the victim of… .racial and religious discrimination.

Given his background should Lee have been assigned to work with hard-corps enemies of America imprisoned in Gitmo?

Of course, you bitter, gun and Bible-clingers…. we would rather have our soldiers and civilians die than to take the steps to prevent Muslim zealots from infiltrating of our military.

Yee was caught red-handed with secret material and charged with sedition,aiding the enemy, spying espionage, and failure to obey a general order. However, all charges were later reduced to a single charge of “mishandling classified information” by prosecutors who cited “national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence.”

But Yee was alone… he was the leader of a spy ring.

Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. Halabi (at left in photo), an Arabic translator, was arrested at Gitmo, and civilian translator Ahmed F. Mehalba, arrested at Boston's Logan International Airport as he returned from a trip to Egypt with a computer disc of classified US military information.

Read more here.

Eventually Halabi was found guilty of possessing and transporting classified information, violating a general regulation, and lying to investigators. In September 2004, he was sentenced at Travis AFB a bad conduct discharge, 295 days confinement (essentially time served), and reduction to E-1 rank.

You may ask, well, where is Ahmad I. Halabi today…. well, why don’t you check in on his Linked in Page…. in which he brazenly lists his Air Force experience, omitting just one detail. He appears to be successful “Senior Executive - Customer Business at Dubai Properties” in the U.A.E.

Click here for his profile… perhaps you can leave him a message.

Also:

• Muslim US soldier Hasan Abujihaad was convicted last year of espionage and supporting terrorism in connection with his service aboard the USS Benfold. He provided classified material with al Qaeda financiers which included movements of US ships just six months after al Qaeda operatives had killed 17 Americans aboard the USS Cole in Yemen. Helmet tip: MichelleMalkin.com
• Convicted Beltway sniper and Muslim John Muhammad is scheduled to be executed next week. He was discharged from the U.S. Army at the rank of sergeant in 1994, following the Gulf War.

At right is a frame grab from a Killeen, Texas, convenience store security video that shows Nadal Malik Hasan in early Thursday morning, Nov. 5, 2009. Hasan  shot and killed 14 people at Fort Hood in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base

Hasan’s terroristic past:

This much, beyond the state-controlled media’s attempt at white-wash, is known:

--At least six months ago Fort Hood killer Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.

--Hasan had made “outlandish comments” about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US involvement in them and that “Muslims had a right to rise up and attack Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

--His name appeared on radical Internet postings.

--A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required disciplinary counseling as a medical student because of problems he had with his patients.

(BTW: Hasan’s medical school education was paid for by you, the American taxpayer.)

But before the smoke had cleared yesterday, civilian and military authorities were in lock-step insistence that there was no terrorism involved in the mass-killings.

Did the attack create terror? Was that along with killing as many as possible, the intent?

Then what else should it be called?

One of the great weakness of our nation is the knee-jerk, bending over backwards of our political correct society (even in the military) to whitewash our enemies as just part of the rich fabric of our so-called “diversity”.

Associated Press turned in its usual hard-hitting story:

Officials at the post hospital where Hasan worked said they weren't aware of any problems with his job performance.

"Up to this point I would consider him an asset," said Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of base clinical services.

She described Hasan as "a quiet man who wouldn't seek the limelight."

An imam from a mosque Hasan regularly attended said Hasan, a lifelong Muslim, was a committed soldier, gave no sign of extremist beliefs and regularly wore his uniform at prayers.

An unnamed source… a Muslim imam… said that someone, anyone, was a committed solider and held no radical beliefs? Even in the same story, AP knew this was far from the truth.

I’ll guarantee you that this impression of Hasan will not hold up for another 24 hours as the blogosphere, Glenn Beck, Rush, and a few newspapers try to get to the truth.

The responsibility for this reaches the highest levels of the civil and military leadership of the Army.

We cannot allow it to be whitewashed…. again.

Only about half the murdered Fort Hood soldiers are shown above.

May God rest their souls.

A picture (in Washington D.C.) is worth ten-thousand words

This is the photo America should remember—that of Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin shown with his parents, Gene and Dona Griffin.

Sadly, Sgt. Griffin, killed in action this week in Afghanistan will be remembered (or more accurately, his flag-draped casket will be remember) as a photo prop for his Marxist Commander-in-Chief.

Not since the last democrat president has there been such a disgusting display of monumental cynicism, black-hearted calculation and rage-educing bitterness. 

And this was the political/visual/media pay-off for his stomach-churning manipulation; the AP, which chose to call Griffin a “…college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military” reports:

“… (Griffin) came home in a line of flag-draped coffins saluted in Thursday's pre-dawn darkness by President Barack Obama at Dover Air Force Base.

(Ed. note: Obama did not salute a “line of flag-draped coffins”….. only one, Griffin’s.)

And save me the eye-rolling lecture about a “president doing what he’s supposed to do as commander-in-chief”; haven’t you been paying attention the last two-three years?

Of the 15 military troops and three DEA agents killed last week, only one family—the Griffins—gave its permission for the photo op.

But the still and video images carry a far different message, don’t they?

The assumption by most Americans is that Obama awoke in the “pre-dawn” darkness to honor all his fallen servicemen.

Absolutely not.

Did Obama’s henchmen contact all the grieving families and could only obtain permission from one?  

Did all refuse, but the Griffins gave in? Mr. Griffin is a Mormon bishop from Terre Haute … and he and his wife allowed the TelePrompTer to use their dead son as a prop?

Perhaps the Griffins were placed under a great deal of pressure, or perhaps they even thought it was a great idea; is that likely? I do not know.

And of course, the AP used the faux ceremony to bash President Bush:

“The dramatic image of Obama on the tarmac was a portrait not witnessed in years.”

Compare that with Bush—a very good war-time President, and decent man—who refused to use dead young men to further a political agenda. Without checking all eight years of his daily schedule, not one knows how many grieving families from this war he prayed with and cried with… in private. 

Bush also knew that had he done so publically, he would have been pilloried for doing exactly what Barack Hussein Obama has done and will likely continue to do when the need arises for a little distraction from the truth: that he’s leading our brave young men and women to defeat.

Finally… Obama went to Dover with his usual retinue of news media lackeys. Why? If his gesture was genuine and respectful, he would have closed his appearance to all journalists.

And no one had to teach George Bush how to render a proper salute.

The White House news bureau at MSNBC reported: “The president's trip to Dover, something he has wanted to do for months, came at a pivotal moment for the Afghanistan war.”

No argument there… he didn’t go to Dover until he needed the caskets for political cover.

Barack Hussein Obama has spent more time taking his wife to dinner, more time playing basketball and golf, more time brushing his teeth than talking to his Afghanistan commander with whom he has met once.

What enrages we Real Americans is that Obama has time to generate propaganda, but hasn’t the time to heed his theater commanders and send the 40-80,000 reinforcements which would very likely have saved Griffith’s life.

Barry is trading our sons’ and daughters’ lives to placate the radical left which wants America to surrender to its enemies, and demands that Obama surrender as he promised he would.  

Griffin (shown second from left), died along with six other soldiers and an Afghan interpreter  when their Stryker armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.

Griffin, 29, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.

He died Oct. 27 in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an IED. Also killed were

• Pfc. Brian Bates, 20, New Orleans.
• Staff Sgt. Luis M. Gonzalez, 27, of South Ozone Park, N.Y.
• Sgt. Fernando Delarosa, 24, of Alamo, Texas.
• Sgt. Issac B. Jackson, 27, of Plattsburg, Mo.
• Sgt. Patrick O. Williamson, 24, of Broussard, La.
• Spc. Jared D. Stanker, 22, of Evergreen Park, Ill.

KABUL - Eleven US troops and three US drug enforcement officials were killed in two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan yesterday, the heaviest one-day loss for American forces in more than four years, military officials said.

The crashes involved three copters, two of which collided midair in the south of the country and a third that went down in the wake of a firefight in Afghanistan’s west, according to NATO and US officials.

In a separate air crash in Afghanistan on Monday, seven American soldiers and three U.S. civilians died when their Chinook helicopter went down in western Afghanistan; eleven US service members and one US civilian were injured, as were 14 Afghan troops.

Seven soldiers died Monday in the crash of an MH-47 helicopter in Darreh-ye Bum, Afghanistan.

They were identified as:

• Staff Sgt. Shawn H. McNabb, 24, of Terrell, Tx.
• Chief Warrant Officer Michael P. Montgomery, 36, of Savannah, Ga.
• Chief Warrant Officer Niall Lyons, 40, of Spokane, Wash.;
• Sgt. Josue E. Hernandez Chavez, 23, of Reno, Nev.;
• Sgt. Nikolas A. Mueller, 26, of Little Chute, Wisc.;
• Sgt. 1st Class David E. Metzger, 32, of San Diego., and
• Staff Sgt. Keith R. Bishop, 28, of Medford, N.Y.

McNabb, Montgomery, Lyons, Chavez and Mueller were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Regiment (Airborne), based at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.: Metzger and Bishop were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), from Fort Bragg, N.C.

Air disaster

Capt. Kyle R. VanDeGiesen, a Marine Super Cobra pilot, was 29 years old. He was one of 14 Americans killed in Afghanistan today on two flights - the deadliest day for U.S. forces in that war since June 28, 2005, when 19 troops were lost.

Captain VanDeGiesen and his wife Megan are shown here on their wedding day.

VanDeGiesen and his widow Megan have a daughter, Avery; the couple is expecting their first son.

Survivors include his parents, Ruth Ann and Calvin VanDeGiesen, two brothers, Ryan and Christian, and a sister, Caitlin.

A UH-1N “Huey” carrying Cpl. Gregory M.W. Fleury, 23, and Capt. Eric Jones, 29, below, crashed into a the Cobra piloted by Capt. David Mitchell, 30, and Capt. Van De Giesen, in Helmand Province. 

The combined 14 deaths from the loss of the three aircraft made it the deadliest day for U.S. personnel in the Islamic republic since 2005.

These are the faces and names of our finest who have been killed as a result of 68 million voters casting a ballot for a Communist Manchurian Candidate intent on destroying this military, our society and our nation.

I wonder how they sleep?

May God comfort the families, and welcome America’s best and brightest to his embrace.

And Semper Fi.

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:

In Obama's America…. there are no coincidences

Joseph Ashby of the American Thinker—not the NYT or WaPo or CBS—reports:

“The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director Maurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.”

Obviously out to torpedo Limbaugh’s bid to join the ownership of the St. Louis Rams, Smith sent an e-mail to the union's executive committee last Saturday which stated:

I've spoken to the Commissioner [Roger Goodell] and I understand that this (Limbaugh’s) ownership consideration is in the early stages. But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred.

As I posted yesterday, “… if this can happen to Limbaugh, considering he is the proverbial 600-pound gorilla of broadcasting and has…. well, Rush dollars, it can happen to any of us.”

Make no mistake, this was a political hit.

If you don’t think that the Administration’s ballerina, Rahm Emmanuel, picked up the phone and call Obama’s house boy, Eric Holder the Attorney General, and told him to call Smith to play the players’ race card, well, I don’t have time to go through it again. 

YLSIL: But GA, that’s just big time politics; (wait for left-wing default response)….. everyone does it.

GA: I’ll defer to Ashby’s Thinker piece:

“… never in American history has someone had so much power to pummel his political opponents as President Obama. With control over banks, insurance companies, car companies, media (sports media included) and unions (like the NFL players union), Obama tentacles seem to penetrate into nearly every corner of the nation.

It is, after all, the Chicago way.

While Real America fights the enemies here at home, our troops carry the battle to the enemy in Afghanistan, one arm behind their back.

Obama’s had some “meetings” about strategy over the last several days, despite saying six months ago he had his Af-Pak  strategy in place. 

Taliban militants have now killed more Americans and other troops deployed by NATO this year than in any of the previous years since President Bush ordered the invasion in 2001.

And Gen. McChrystal’s 40,000+ troop request goes unheeded in the White House where the president votes “present”.  Four more of our troops were killed by an IED today, while their Commander-in-chief holds a fund-raiser in Cali and speaks in my state, to "engage the nation" in ironically….. volunteerism.

 Either or 

"In 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year," said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats.

The Senate has siphoned off $2.6 billion from DoD accounts that literally pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And used for what instead?

Well, there’s the $20 million stolen to to launch an educational institute to be named after Sen. Ted Kennedy.

In what was called "a worthy investment", the cash was taken from the support and training accounts by Sen. Dan Inouye (a Medal of Honor Recipient) and Sen. John Kerry, who I understand was in Vietnam. 

Other pork included:

• $20 million for the Maui Space Surveillance System in Hawaii, requested by Inouye.
• Inouye inserted 35 “earmarks” worth more than $206 million, but was out-stolen by ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Thad Cochran, with 48 pet projects totaling $216 million.

Beyond the creative accounting, the bill includes $2.5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes that the military says it does not need, and $1.7 billion for an extra DDG-51 destroyer not requested in the Pentagon's budget proposal.

An analysis of the fiscal raiding party points out that "Air Force and Navy combat pilots training to deploy are getting about half of the flying hours they got at the end of the Vietnam War."

"Army tank crews get less in tank training today than they did during the low-readiness Clinton years,” the report said.

To its possible credit, the White House Office of Management and Budget has called on lawmakers to reverse the cuts.

But I suspect the “call” was muted at best and issued only to provide the administration with national defense cover.

Let us not forget--Obama is the Big Satan, but Congress is the Little Satan.

“I will not leave you behind….. “

It has been this way since time began; a fierce warrior spirit blended with deep compassion and an unquestioning willingness to die for the man beside you.

It was true of The Immortal 300 at Thermopylae, through the Battle of Hastings, Iwo Jima, the Ia Drang Valley, Mogadishu and it was true at two embattled outposts 10 miles from the Afghan-Pak border, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains.

While America slept safe and sound Saturday, an estimated 200-300 fighters poured out of a village near Camp Keating which until that moment had not suffered any casualties from hostile fire in the three years since it was established.

Opening the battle with a heavy machine gun, then small arms, RPGs and grenades, the attackers hit the first of two compounds, killing or capturing its Afghani troops and police. The fighters then swept up the rugged terrain to Keating, defended by the 4th Brigade Combat Team’s Task Force Mountain Warrior, (4th Infantry Division) based at Fort Carson Colorado.

Amid the chaos and confusion, the Sturm und Drang of combat, scores of individual acts of heroism—most of which we’ll never learn of—were performed in what is termed “above and beyond the call of duty” in military citations.

But on the battlefield, it’s simply, “just doing my job.”

What is known at this point is that as the attack raged around them, many of our wounded soldiers refused to be medevaced, choosing instead to stand and fight with their comrades. 

The battle was pitched and sustained. The next morning Col. Randy George, the area commander, said: "This was a complex attack in a difficult area. Both the US and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."

That’s political/war speak, but the truth is Afghan forces are not reaching the independent levels of operation they should have by now; and, there is the ever-present question in all asymmetrical, counterinsurgency war…. despite the uniform, whose side are these guys really on?   

Many of the fighters obviously massed in and poured into the killing field from a mosque in a nearby village.

R.O.E.

Faithful readers will recall my Sept. 9 post—”We’re pinned down!!”—about the restrictive “rules of engagement” pressed upon our troops in Afghanistan and one Marines units inability to get air support led to four KIAs; the Marines almost ran out of ammo:

"’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.”

“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.”

I assume that the mosque adjacent to Camp Keating, full or hundreds of sub-human hajis, was ignored as per the ROE—“rules of engagement” last Saturday.

As the battle raged at Keating, a fire swept through outpost forcing troops back and depriving them of adequate cover.

Though she was only on the ground for five minutes, Karen Russo’s dispatch for ABC captures well our magnificent troops:

As we were flying into the attack space, the MEDEVAC team with one medic and a doctor were preparing for the oncoming patients, setting up IV's, pulling out medical equipment and making other last minute preparations.

Apache helicopter gunships escorted us as we neared the combat zone to ensure our safety as we hovered at 10,000 feet awaiting word to descend. When word came, we plummeted in a corkscrew manner, making the descent in a matter of seconds, landing in a valley at the bottom of steep mountains. It felt very vulnerable to attack.

One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

The area smelled of burned out pine trees something one solider described as "death and hell."

Some of the injured refused to be medevaced out of the combat zone and continued to fight despite their wounds, according to soldiers at the base. Soldiers told the crew that troops were donating blood during the battle, so it could be transfused into wounded comrades.  Doctors wore night vision goggles, but still found it difficult to see.

One doctor said it was like working by touch. One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

Aftermath

Over 100 Taliban fighters were killed in a weekend clash that left eight US soldiers dead, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Tuesday, the wounded were estimated at 24.

News sources have confirmed that a New Jersey soldier, Specialist Michael Scusa, was one of the eight U.S. soldiers killed in the attack that claimed the largest loss of human life since July of 2008.

According to his Myspace page, 23-year-old Scusa, a Lower Cape May Regional High School graduate, made his last entry on May 26th, posting that he missed his wife and son.

His body will return to Dover Air Force Base Tuesday morning.

His Commander-in-Chief won’t be there, but today he did visit the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday and met with Congressional leaders about the ongoing review of the strategy in the Afghan war.

Given his total opposition to committing to war, or even the United States even defending herself, more and more body bags will be filled while the son-of-a-bitch in the White House favors the word “surrender” over that uncomfortable word---“victory”.

He obviously prefers this:

“I will not leave you behind….. “

It has been this way since time began; a fierce warrior spirit blended with deep compassion and an unquestioning willingness to die for the man beside you.

It was true of The Immortal 300 at Thermopylae, through the Battle of Hastings, Iwo Jima, the Ia Drang Valley, Mogadishu and it was true at two embattled outposts 10 miles from the Afghan-Pak border, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains.

While America slept safe and sound Saturday, an estimated 200-300 fighters poured out of a village near Camp Keating which until that moment had not suffered no casualties from hostile fire in the three years since it was established.

Opening the battle with a heavy machine gun, then small arms, RPGs and grenades, the attackers hit the first of two compounds, killing or capturing its Afghani troops and police. The fighters then swept up the rugged terrain to Keating, defended by the 4th Brigade Combat Team’s Task Force Mountain Warrior, (4th Infantry Division) based at Fort Carson Colorado.

Amid the chaos and confusion, the Sturm und Drang of combat, scores of individual acts of heroism—most of which we’ll never learn of—were performed in what is termed “above and beyond the call of duty” in military citations.

But on the battlefield, it’s simply, “just doing my job.”

What is known at this point is that as the attack raged around them, many of our wounded soldiers refused to be medevaced, choosing instead to stand and fight with their comrades. 

The battle was pitched and sustained. The next morning Col. Randy George, the area commander, said: "This was a complex attack in a difficult area. Both the US and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."

That’s political/war speak, but the truth is Afghan forces are not reaching the independent levels of operation they should have by now; and, there is the ever-present question in all asymmetrical, counterinsurgency war…. despite the uniform, whose side are these guys really on?   (killed two sleeping)

Many of the fighters obviously massed in and poured into the killing field from a mosque in a nearby village.

R.O.E.

Faithful readers will recall my Sept. 9 post—”We’re pinned down!!”—about the restrictive “rules of engagement” pressed upon our troops in Afghanistan and one Marines units inability to get air support lead to four KIAs; the Marines almost ran out of ammo.    :

"’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.”

“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.”

I assume that the mosque adjacent to Camp Keating, full or hundreds of sub-human hajis, was ignored as per the ROE—“rules of engagement” last Saturday.

As the battle raged at Keating, a fire swept through outpost forcing troops back and depriving them of adequate cover.

Though she was only on the ground for five minutes, Karen Russo’s dispatch for ABC captures well our magnificent troops:

As we were flying into the attack space, the MEDEVAC team with one medic and a doctor were preparing for the oncoming patients, setting up IV's, pulling out medical equipment and making other last minute preparations.

Apache helicopter gunships escorted us as we neared the combat zone to ensure our safety as we hovered at 10,000 feet awaiting word to descend. When word came, we plummeted in a corkscrew manner, making the descent in a matter of seconds, landing in a valley at the bottom of steep mountains. It felt very vulnerable to attack.

One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

The area smelled of burned out pine trees something one solider described as "death and hell."

Some of the injured refused to be medevaced out of the combat zone and continued to fight despite their wounds, according to soldiers at the base. Soldiers told the crew that troops were donating blood during the battle, so it could be transfused into wounded comrades.  Doctors wore night vision goggles, but still found it difficult to see.

One doctor said it was like working by touch. One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

Aftermath

Over 100 Taliban fighters were killed in a weekend clash that left eight US soldiers dead, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Tuesday, the wounded were estimated at 24.

News sources have confirmed that a New Jersey soldier, Specialist Michael Scusa, was one of the eight U.S. soldiers killed in the attack that claimed the largest loss of human life since July of 2008.

According to his Myspace page, 23-year-old Scusa, a Lower Cape May Regional High School graduate, made his last entry on May 26th, posting that he missed his wife and son.

His body will return to Dover Air Force Base Tuesday morning.

His Commander-in-Chief won’t be there, but today he did visit the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday and met with Congressional leaders about the ongoing review of the strategy in the Afghan war.

Given his total opposition to committing to war, or even the United States even defending herself, more and more body bags will be filled while the son-of-a-bitch in the White House favors the word “surrender” over that uncomfortable word---“victory”.

He obviously prefers this:

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. 

“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.