Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Apocalypse sooner I suspect... but for peaceful purposes only of course. I repeat: the "moderate" loser of the recent Iranian ballot-stuffing festival has openly talked about nuking Israel. And did I forget to mention that all of their public references to us begin with "The Great Satan"?
Or perhaps the real demos' votes weren't counted by the mullahs...
(Don't get me wrong Lee, I love most of your work!)
(Don't get me wrong Lee, I love most of your work!)
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Today's (Subliminal) Reuters Headline Review
• Italian, U.K. police interrogate torture little old lady bomb suspects
• Iran says it will resume nuclear work Monday and it's all Chimpy's fault
• That incompetent NASA investigatingpossible almost certainly disastrous shuttle problem -- why are we wasting all this money on space when it could better be used to create more dependency and Democratic votes?
• Bush seen lagging on second term goals D'oh
• Ex-chief of European Central Bank found dead Probably knocked off by the evil McHitler stooge competitor Greenspan
• U.S. Army studying lead-free 'green' bullet which turns out not to be an improvement but we don't want anyone to know and readers are too stoopid to read beyond the headlines anyway...
• Boggs, Sandberg enter Baseball Hall of Fame What's baseball?
• Iran says it will resume nuclear work Monday and it's all Chimpy's fault
• That incompetent NASA investigating
• Bush seen lagging on second term goals D'oh
• Ex-chief of European Central Bank found dead Probably knocked off by the evil McHitler stooge competitor Greenspan
• U.S. Army studying lead-free 'green' bullet which turns out not to be an improvement but we don't want anyone to know and readers are too stoopid to read beyond the headlines anyway...
• Boggs, Sandberg enter Baseball Hall of Fame What's baseball?
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Just Making Sure...
... that this is what the lefties call neanderthal backward hateful conservatism:

Yeah, right... Umm ... well ... maybe ... not ... exactly ...
Folks. This is not unusual for perhaps THE lynchpin of the "right" blogosphere.
The. Left. Is. Filled. With. Rocket. Scientists.
NOT.
Yeah, right... Umm ... well ... maybe ... not ... exactly ...
Folks. This is not unusual for perhaps THE lynchpin of the "right" blogosphere.
The. Left. Is. Filled. With. Rocket. Scientists.
NOT.
Overdue
For a VDH update:
When some tried to explain that Wars 1-3 (1947, 1956, 1967) had nothing to do with the West Bank, such bothersome details fell on deaf ears.But then everyone knows all this -- right? Oh yeah. Not.
When it was pointed out that Germans were not blowing up Poles to get back lost parts of East Prussia nor were Tibetans sending suicide bombers into Chinese cities to recover their country, such analogies were caricatured.
When the call for a “Right of Return” was making the rounds, few cared to listen that over a half-million forgotten Jews had been cleansed from Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, and lost billions in property.
When the U.N. and the EU talked about “refugee camps,” none asked why for a half-century the Arab world could not build decent housing for its victimized brethren, or why 1 million Arabs voted in Israel, but not one freely in any Arab country.
The security fence became “The Wall,” and evoked slurs that it was analogous to barriers in Korea or Berlin that more often kept people in than out. Few wondered why Arabs who wished to destroy Israel would mind not being able to live or visit Israel.
Tinfoil Update
The race between apocalypse and reformation. The former is winning of course.
It all started when we violated the Prime Directive and gave tons of money -- by sheer bad luck -- to the most backward and repressive elements in Islam. That would be the Saudis.
Now we head for the "Tinfoil Apocalypse". More and more technology leaking into the hands of ignorant, tribal nihilists.
Did I forget to mention that the "moderate" (loser!) of the recent Iranian "election" has publicly called for Israel's nuclear destruction?
It all started when we violated the Prime Directive and gave tons of money -- by sheer bad luck -- to the most backward and repressive elements in Islam. That would be the Saudis.
Now we head for the "Tinfoil Apocalypse". More and more technology leaking into the hands of ignorant, tribal nihilists.
Did I forget to mention that the "moderate" (loser!) of the recent Iranian "election" has publicly called for Israel's nuclear destruction?
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Sunday, July 24, 2005
The Muslim Association of Britain Speaks And It's ...
NOT. LOOKING. PROMISING. (HT Power Line)
And Mr. Saeed may want to look at a rather different example of how the "oppression" of a billion people by the Anglosphere turned out before any more moralizing.
Let's see. Ghandi's non-violent resistance? Or psychopathically blood-soaked serial beheadings and nihilistic mockery of the the Geneva Conventions held as a point worthy of appeasement?
I recall some rather clear commentary on that topic lately.
And Mr. Saeed may want to look at a rather different example of how the "oppression" of a billion people by the Anglosphere turned out before any more moralizing.
Let's see. Ghandi's non-violent resistance? Or psychopathically blood-soaked serial beheadings and nihilistic mockery of the the Geneva Conventions held as a point worthy of appeasement?
I recall some rather clear commentary on that topic lately.
"THE LEFT LIED AND LONDONERS DIED!" Before you accuse me of rhetorical excess, I suggest you follow the link and read carefully... (HT Glenn)
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Pajama Time!
"What really sticks in the craw of conventional journalists is that although individual blogs have no warrant of accuracy, the blogosphere as a whole has a better error-correction machinery than the conventional media do..."
Roundup
The MSMemoryHole update for today.
What Ansar al Islam?
And Wretchard weighs in...
And is Zarqawi really a Jordanian?
I bet you didn't go read John Howard yet did you?
What Ansar al Islam?
And Wretchard weighs in...
And is Zarqawi really a Jordanian?
I bet you didn't go read John Howard yet did you?
Friday, July 22, 2005
I never watch the Apprentice unless forced to in a social setting. But the Donald has this just spot on.
"We live in a sad time." Yep, that's right. The homosexuals actually vote in droves for these untethered slimebags. Stunning.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Another reprise for the latest MSMemoryHole -- I'm suspecting we'll be entertained by more of their puerile deceptions on this topic soon since they're not likely to dig up anything on Roberts...
Lee on the ACLU's Jesus problem. They're too dim, manipulative -- or both -- to admit it of course...
"... Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not recall Jews lined up every morning on the borders of 1939 Germany, clamoring to get in for construction jobs and medical care.
All this nonsense usually comes, of course, from people who cherish their democratic right of vocal and public dissent, who like to live in a country where you can be openly gay or atheist or flaunt your belly-button ring. Try that anywhere in the Middle East except Israel; see how long you last.... "
Read the whole thing -- and watch for the next helping...
All this nonsense usually comes, of course, from people who cherish their democratic right of vocal and public dissent, who like to live in a country where you can be openly gay or atheist or flaunt your belly-button ring. Try that anywhere in the Middle East except Israel; see how long you last.... "
Read the whole thing -- and watch for the next helping...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Wretchard Finds ...
... the real left criticizing the fake left. Hitch rocks of course:
Association with this statement and with many of its fellow-signatories involves two commitments. The first is the elementary duty of solidarity with true and authentic resistance movements within the Muslim world, such as the Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, who were fighting against Ba'athism and Talibanism (and the latent alliance between the two) long before any American or British government had woken up to the threat. It should go without saying that, though the suffering of their peoples was intense, neither Jalal Talabani nor Ahmed Shah Masoud ever considered letting off explosive devices at random in foreign capitals. I have my political and ideological differences with both groups, but these differences are between me and them, and are not mediated through acts of nihilistic murder.But we find the Grand Mufti is in for a rough time as well from Marko Hoare:
My second commitment is equally elementary. The foreign policy of a democracy should be determined only at election times or by votes in Congress or Parliament. It is one hundred per cent unacceptable even to imply, let alone to assert, that a suicide-murderer or his apologists can by these means acquire the right to any say in how matters are decided.
Both of these observations, and indeed this very statement, would be redundant if it were not for the widespread cultural presence of a pseudo-Left, and an isolationist Right, both of whom have degenerated to the point where they regard jihadism as some form of "liberation theology". The old slogans are often the best, and "Death to Fascism" is life-affirming in these conditions.
I sign this statement as a supporter of the legitimate struggle for freedom and independence of the Palestinians, Chechens and other enslaved Muslim peoples caught between the Scylla of colonial oppression and the Charybdis of Islamofascism.WOW. RTWT.
To every genuine national-liberation movement, sectarian hatred and pogroms of civilians are as alien as the foreign occupier. In German-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II, the anti-Nazi Partisans preached brotherhood and unity between Muslims, Christians and Jews; they were known to execute their own officers and soldiers if they so much as stole chickens from local peasants, let alone massacred civilians. Al-Qaeda?s Islamofascist network - targeting Jews, Kurds, Shiites, women, homosexuals, moderate Sunnis and ordinary civilians everywhere - represents, by contrast, the very antithesis of a genuine liberation movement.
Everywhere, Islamic extremists have aided and abetted the oppressors of Muslims. In World War II, the Islamofascist Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini helped incite an anti-British revolt in Iraq; he subsequently visited Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to mobilise Bosnian Muslims to fight in the SS. Islamist terrorism in Daghestan in1999 provided Russia with the pretext for its genocidal reconquest of Chechnya. Elements in the Turkish and Israeli security services encouraged Islamic extremism as a means of dividing and weakening secular Kurdish and Palestinian nationalism respectively, helping to create a Frankenstein's monster that is claiming the lives of Turks and Kurds, Jews and Arabs alike.
There can be no freedom for Muslim peoples without the defeat of the Islamofascists and everything they stand for; and there can be no defeat of the Islamofascists without liberty for all Muslim peoples.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Gerecht Again
"In Europe as elsewhere, Westernization is the key to the growth and virulence of hard-core Islamic radicalism. The most frightening, certainly the most effective, adherents of bin Ladenism are those who are culturally and intellectually most like us. The process of Westernization liberates a Muslim from the customary sanctions and loyalties that normally corralled the dark side of the human soul. Respect for one's father, an appreciation for the human need to have fun, a toleration of eccentricity and naughty personal behavior, the love of art and folk music--all are characteristics of traditional mainstream Muslim society wiped away by the arrival of modernity and the simultaneous spread of sterile, esthetically empty, angry, Saudi-financed Wahhabi thought. In this sense, bin Ladenism is the Muslim equivalent of Western totalitarianism. This cleaning of the slate, this break with the past, is probably more profound in the Muslim enclaves in Europe--what Gilles Kepel called les banlieues de l'Islam--than it is in the urban sprawl of Cairo, where traditional mores, though under siege and badly battered by modernity, nevertheless retain considerable force. Cairo gave us Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's great intellectual; it's not unreasonable to fear that London or Paris or Berlin will give us his successor."
Welcome To (The Upcoming Apocalypse On) Planet Zongo
Glenn points out this excerpt from Steyn's latest mini-opus:
Mull on this next:
But in the real world there's only one scandal in this whole wretched business -- that the CIA, as part of its institutional obstruction of the administration, set up a pathetic 'fact-finding mission' that would be considered a joke by any serious intelligence agency and compounded it by sending, at the behest of his wife, a shrill politically motivated poseur who, for the sake of 15 minutes' celebrity on the cable gabfest circuit, misled the nation about what he found. . . . What we have here is, in effect, the old standby plot of lame Hollywood conspiracy thrillers: rogue elements within the CIA attempting to destabilize the elected government.But wait! He's only just warming up!
Mull on this next:
Kamel Bourgass and Magdy el-Nashar are real people, not phantoms conjured by those lyin' sonsofbitches Bush and Cheney. And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology. One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood. Here's another story you may have missed this week:Steyn has a way of arranging the apocalypse into context? N'est pas?
''Iran will resume uranium enrichment if the European Union does not recognize its right to do so, two Iranian nuclear negotiators said in an interview published Tuesday.''
Got that? If you don't let us go nuclear, we'll go nuclear. Negotiate that, John Kerry. As with Bourgass and el-Nashar, Hossein Moussavian and Cyrus Nasseri are real Iranian negotiators, not merely the deranged war fantasies of Bush and Cheney.
The British suicide bombers and the Iranian nuke demands are genuine crises. The Valerie Plame game is a pseudo-crisis. If you want to talk about Niger or CIA reform, fine. But if you seriously think the only important aspect of a politically motivated narcissist kook's drive-thru intelligence mission to a critical part of the world is the precise sequence of events by which some White House guy came to mention the kook's wife to some reporter, then you've departed the real world and you're frolicking on the wilder shores of Planet Zongo.
What's this really about? It's not difficult. A big chunk of the American elites have decided there is no war; it's all a racket got up by Bush and Cheney. And, even if there is a war somewhere or other, wherever it is, it's not where Bush says it is. Iraq is a ''distraction'' from Afghanistan -- and, if there were no Iraq, Afghanistan would be a distraction from Niger, and Niger's a distraction from Valerie Plame's next photo shoot for Vanity Fair.
The police have found the suicide bomber's head in the rubble of the London bus, and Iran is enriching uranium. The only distraction here is the pitiful parochialism of our political culture. [Emph mine]
Saturday, July 16, 2005
The Latest 100%...
I'm a bit distracted lately so it took me a ridiculously long time to connect this:

to the old Jew.
Eerie isn't it?
to the old Jew.
Eerie isn't it?
After all, didn't we oppress the KKK?
And didn't they have that hood thing going on too?
(Yes, that would be guilty. I need to atone in the Jarvis-linking department...) (HT Glenn)
UPDATED ALREADY: More. Earlier. Or later. Argghh. Just read it.
(Yes, that would be guilty. I need to atone in the Jarvis-linking department...) (HT Glenn)
UPDATED ALREADY: More. Earlier. Or later. Argghh. Just read it.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Whose Garden of Evil?
The British Garden of Evil in Leeds and Basra. Without al-Jadida.
They looked the other way for al Husseini also.
We were righter than we knew about that tea party incident...
They looked the other way for al Husseini also.
We were righter than we knew about that tea party incident...
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Torture Time Warp Redux
Came across this work of art letter to Glenn and realized it's just too good not to savor:
I remain totally amazed at the complete lack of historical understanding that has become de rigeur in the world today. It's even gotten to the point where someone you'd think would have a clue on this topic like John McCain spouts off nonsense about how we should be nice nice to the beheaders so they'll treat special forces or civilian CIA in hostile territory nicely when they capture them.
Well, for the 15 seconds before the nihilists dig out their eyeballs with spoons. LOL
More on this later...
Leave it to a bunch of lawyers to get all tangled up in the Theory of Torture without addressing the facts on the ground. The ONLY previously proscribed interrogation techniques that have been sanctioned at the highest levels of our government post 911 are coercive in nature and specifically not intended to do bodily or psychological harm. Sleep deprivation, loud music, kneeling, withholding blankets. THIS is torture? Nowhere in any of your recent posts or links on the issue do you even qualify the many allegations of torture as being simply about these techniques of creating discomfort. Nor do you nor any of the linked legalists cite any case of actual physical torture. Abu Ghraib was an aberration. If anything, the internal memos produced during the Abu Ghraib “exposes” and erroneously cited as existence of a “smoking gun” showed that Rumsfeld et al were intent on keeping the threshold at the discomfort level. And about that Abu Ghraib “torture”, I can only hope that my Jihadi captors subject me to live sex shows while cloaking my head in a woman’s panties. Then if they would only put in solitary for a few minutes I could work out my frustrations about their horribly coercive techniques in private. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. Margaret Hassan was shot in the head, de-limbed, beheaded and disemboweled (not necessarily in that order). I think our non-Geneva captives can sustain a little Barry Manilow. [Emph mine]On net, Glenn gets a well deserved "I told you so".
I remain totally amazed at the complete lack of historical understanding that has become de rigeur in the world today. It's even gotten to the point where someone you'd think would have a clue on this topic like John McCain spouts off nonsense about how we should be nice nice to the beheaders so they'll treat special forces or civilian CIA in hostile territory nicely when they capture them.
Well, for the 15 seconds before the nihilists dig out their eyeballs with spoons. LOL
More on this later...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Comment of the Day
You don’t understand, we need terrible public schools so that we’ll have low-income workers to vote Democratic.
It’s the circle of life…
Comment by TallDave ? July 13, 2005 @ 9:35 am
POST HERE. (HT Glenn)
It’s the circle of life…
Comment by TallDave ? July 13, 2005 @ 9:35 am
POST HERE. (HT Glenn)
Orange Clown Stuff
Ummm, not looking very orange folks. Though there's lots of intrigue about Orange Judy...
UPDATE: More here and here.
UPDATED AGAIN: Yeouch!
AND AGAIN: It's just amazing that the Pressocrats get away with foisting this kind of garbage as something anyone would take seriously for more than 2 minutes. But what's really interesting is how utterly incompetent they are for not using it during the campaign. Intellectual midgetry par excellence... (HT Drudge)
CLOWN UPDATE: ""Take Your Daughters to Work Day" gone bad". Hoo haw!
UPDATE: More here and here.
UPDATED AGAIN: Yeouch!
AND AGAIN: It's just amazing that the Pressocrats get away with foisting this kind of garbage as something anyone would take seriously for more than 2 minutes. But what's really interesting is how utterly incompetent they are for not using it during the campaign. Intellectual midgetry par excellence... (HT Drudge)
CLOWN UPDATE: ""Take Your Daughters to Work Day" gone bad". Hoo haw!
Monday, July 11, 2005
Hitch Again
We know very well what the "grievances" of the jihadists are.
The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won't abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.
FOR a few moments yesterday, Londoners received a taste of what life is like for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, whose Muslim faith does not protect them from slaughter at the hands of those who think they are not Muslim enough, or are the wrong Muslim.
It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on "our" values or "our" way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation.
(HT Glenn)
The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won't abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.
FOR a few moments yesterday, Londoners received a taste of what life is like for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, whose Muslim faith does not protect them from slaughter at the hands of those who think they are not Muslim enough, or are the wrong Muslim.
It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on "our" values or "our" way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation.
(HT Glenn)
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Surely ...
Surely you can guess this one:
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.OK then. A huge hint: Who on earth do you think that Wretchard would quote at a time when the Brits need a stiff upper lip?
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
"" Jay Rosen, if you're listening, if you changed the acronym DCCC to NRCC, and "Forest City" to "Halliburton," if Tom Delay had compared Kelo to 'the word of God,' if the family running Halliburton was also involved in legal defense for terrorists, and if the decision had also been heartily endorsed by Fox News, d'ya think I might have read about that in the Washington Post by now? ""
I Can't Remember The Last Time
... I quoted Drudge. But this pants down on the hateful Schumer covers a lot of ground:
Schumer was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!
Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, proudly declared, “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”
Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”
Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.
“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”
By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.
Developing…
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Hugh has the highlights of W's long-overdue speech. The Osama quote is really all you need to know...
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005
If It's Not Projection ...
It's displacement:
Oh my - well here I'll go again and say that it's pretty obvious that Americans are the new Jews. This has been obvious for quite some time now. The fundamental irrationality of anti-Americanism is a dead giveaway that a basic psychodynamic impulse is operative, in this case "displacement", which Wikipedia defines as "an unconscious defence mechanism, whereby the mind redirects emotion from a 'dangerous' object to a 'safe' object."Pay no attention to the beheader with WMD behind the Iraqi curtain...
It's fairly obvious that America is the "safe object". One guess as to who or what the "dangerous object" is.
Me B POed 2
Title: Language & Abuse: A Poem Author: Guest AuthorSend it to your lib friends...
Abuse
by "PO'ed Poet"
in the newspaper: 'nazi', 'gulag'
in the kitchen: 'nuke'
in our minds, the words
overused
broken loose from horror
despair, anguish
gas chambers and crematoria
work details in the snow
shadows on blasted brick
molten light; blindness, burning
starvation
suffering amid ashes
when have you been hungry
seen your body emptied of flesh,
risen in rags to labor shoeless
enslaved, in snow,
found yourself burned blinded sick
calling for your children
when?
when?
and, if you have not lived
with horror sharing your bed
death for your bunk mate
risking murder to pray
how dare you use those words
turn them cheap and trivial
wear down the bone of their meaning
to disparage what is merely bad
how dare you bring us closer to forgetting
what evil is
closer to repeating the past
Meanwhile, the real modern-day Pol Pots get passes from the MSM. Zimbabwe? What Zimbabwe? (HT Glenn)
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Did I Forget To Mention That ...
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT FASCISM IS WRONG. (Added to the Classics links now of course!)
And then there's the small matter of Orwell's view of the fascifists.
And then there's the small matter of Orwell's view of the fascifists.
The Great Surprise -- Not
D'UOH: "Just look at how the decision broke down: Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer--the Court's liberals--voted to uphold the taking, while O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas dissented. I don't see how the ideological lineup could be clearer; if you care about property rights, vote for conservatives."
Glenn has his analysis here and has a quick link survey indicating that the leftist minions like those at Kos -- not Kos himself of course -- will line up with most conservatives (repeat after me: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas dissented).
I think they're cynically anti-BusHitler enough that they'll change their tune as soon as they come down off their drugs enough to understand who they're really standing next to...
Glenn has his analysis here and has a quick link survey indicating that the leftist minions like those at Kos -- not Kos himself of course -- will line up with most conservatives (repeat after me: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas dissented).
I think they're cynically anti-BusHitler enough that they'll change their tune as soon as they come down off their drugs enough to understand who they're really standing next to...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
And Take Another!
YEEOUCH!:
As a recent veteran of Guantanamo Bay, I've been troubled by the willingness of some (namely this editorial page) to make uninformed inflammatory statements about the detention operations at GTMO. I believe that if any one of them had the opportunity to visit GTMO and witness the operation first hand, they would change their tone, if not their minds altogether.Go Peter!
Not only are the detainees treated humanely (top-notch medical care, hearty meals, recreational facilities, full access to religious observance, etc..) but I personally witnessed instances when detainees did not want to leave. It was not uncommon for my platoon to guard an airfield for hours in preparation for sending a detainee home, only to turn around and bring him back to the detention facility – because he refused to leave! These detainees are not stupid—they know that real torture and inhumane treatment await them at home. And while I know they’re not happy to be in GTMO, they rest assured that they will be treated well because Americans play by the rules.
I feel sheepish even having to defend this issue. While our servicemen (and innocent Iraqi citizens) are being blown-up and tortured overseas, the media obsesses over a handful of “mishandled” Korans and excessive air conditioning. (It’s also worth noting that these so-called instances of “abuse” at GTMO were all uncovered by internal Army investigations! It’s not as if the Army is torturing people and covering it up. On the contrary, the minute the Army gets wind of minor misconduct it swiftly removes and prosecutes those involved. This is an institution upholding the highest moral traditions of our country.) Would the terrorists do the same? No, I think they’d just wink at us…and then cut our heads off.
LT Peter Hegseth
Forest Lake, MN
U.S. Army National Guard, Infantry
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
VERY INTERESTING: "Since the media tilt heavily left, people on the right wanted alternative media. Since Republicans are better at grassroots organization, people on the left wanted grassroots organization. People on the left now have more political communities, while people on the right now have more freestanding pundits and alt-news sources."
Hugh Has The Guest To Follow-Up The Letter Of The Day
Check this out:
The left would disband our penitentiary system system too if they could...
Pete: I tell you one thing, Hugh. I had a soldier in my platoon who spoke fluent Arabic, and so I'd go up in a tower and he'd interpret for me, and I am telling you, these guys are talking about, you know, how much they hate America and how much they would love to kill somebody if they could get their hands on them. These are not friendly guys, and given the opportunity, as I think someone put it, to spend the night at it with a few members of the editorial pages of the Star Tribune, I think that maybe they would take their statements back.RTWT.
The left would disband our penitentiary system system too if they could...
Letter Of The Day
Check this out:
Your editorial "Durbin's Message/US Must End Prisoner Abuse" proves beyond any doubt that the Star Tribune Editorial Staff has no idea of who we are fighting and why! As a soldier in Iraq, I was highly insulted by the comments of Senator Durbin and his pathetic excuse of being "misunderstood." So I offer a suggestion. Let's divide up these victims of "the hellhole America's military has created" at Guantanamo and allow them to spend a weekend at the homes of the Star Tribune Editorial Staff and Senator Durbin. America's military will anxiously await the report on the impression they will make on you and your families.What? No takers???
Joseph Repya
LTC, Aviation
MNC-I LNO
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Camp Victory South
Baghdad, Iraq
Why I Call Them Dhimmi-crats
UPDATE: Did I forget to mention that these are the same people who sneer out the other side of their mouth that "everything is relative"?
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