Sep

1

The Most Telling Line From Obama’s Iraq Speech

Filed Under Politics, War | 6 Comments

President Obama’s Iraq speech last night (transcript here) was predictable. Obama didn’t “take credit” for it as much as I thought he might, and made it clear that he disagreed with the war from the beginning, so I’ll give him credit for a certain measure of honesty.
But it was this line that grabbed my attention [...]

Jul

9

New Centcom Chief: Champion of Women’s Rights, Anti Domestic Violence Crusader

Filed Under Nat'l Security, War, World News | 3 Comments

This Washington Post story says the new Centcom chief was “President Obama’s pick,” but as Zip commented, this has to be Secretary Gates’ choice, because there’s no way Obama would have chosen this guy on his own:
President Obama’s pick to lead military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the Middle East is an experienced ground [...]

Jun

26

Cross-Dressing Taliban Leader Killed; 72 Virgins Fighting Over Who Gets His Clothes

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Another supremely “brave” Taliban jihadist not only hiding behind women and children, but blending in with them as best he could, has gone on to his eternal reward as the inspiration for a Middle-East remake of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar.
From the AFP:
A SENIOR Taliban commander disguised in women’s clothes was killed [...]

Jun

24

That Was Fast: MoveOn.org Takes Down ‘General Betray Us’ Ad

Filed Under Politics, War | 5 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a post about General Petraeus being brought in to run the operations in Afghanistan.
A simple Google search led me to the MoveOn.org website where they still had the following ad from 2007 displayed:

The exact same page where I got that image is here, and you’ll notice it’s been removed after having stayed [...]

Jun

24

Obama Media Talking Point of the Day: Brilliant!

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Nice to see that most of the media outlets got their “firing of McChrystal” talking points memo and dutifully ran with it:

I’m only assuming the “brilliant” talking point was sent out by Obama’s people — we certainly know it wasn’t sent out by the office of the Secretary of Defense.
(h/t Newsbusters)

Jun

23

Obama Chooses Man His Secretary of State Called a Liar to Replace Gen. McChrystal (Obama Used to be a Petraeus Skeptic Too)

Filed Under Nat'l Security, Politics, War | 2 Comments

President Obama has accepted General McChrystal’s resignation, and Obama’s choice of a replacement for McChrystal is sure to further anger a left-wing in America who is in the throes of realizing that many of Obama’s promises to turn the nation away from Bush’s policies weren’t worth the paper Hopenchange was written on.
General Petraeus, Obama’s choice [...]

Jun

22

‘Have You Plugged McChrystal’s Piehole Yet, Daddy?’

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A Rolling Stone writer visited Afghanistan, and it turns out that the military brass running the US operations there expressed frustrations with Obama and others at the top. Now General McChrystal has been “summoned” to the White House:
McChrystal has been instructed to fly from Kabul to Washington today to attend Obama’s regular monthly security team [...]

Jun

7

Who’s to Blame for the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Deaths? You Guessed it

Filed Under Politics, Religion, War | 1 Comment

George W. Bush is a real multi-tasker — while he was busy ending the marriage of Al and Tipper Gore and causing the Gulf oil spill, he was also causing Israeli commandos to kill some terrorist blockade-runners (aka “peace activists”).
From Newsbusters:
But that didn’t stop CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, also the editor of Newsweek International. On his [...]

May

31

Happy Memorial Day

Filed Under History, War | 1 Comment

We’re off soon to our local Memorial Day parade, but I wanted to send some words of appreciation to those who serve, have served, and especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may remain free.
I have a new post at Michelle’s site, partly about my cousin who was killed in Vietnam, [...]

May

25

Safety Patrol Invades Naval Academy

Filed Under PC, War | 3 Comments

Heaven forbid that people who could somebody be sent to fight in a war slip down an obelisk and dislocate a toe during a ritual that’s been going on since about 1940, so fortunately the Safety Patrol has arrived on site at our military academies:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – As they have for 70 years, students at [...]

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