the brilliant speech Kerry gave to kick off his campaign had ol' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quaking in his khussas. If not the line about Terayza personifying American ideals, then certainly the part where Kerry slammed Bush's reckless and ineffective foreign policies. If Chimpy had any sense at all, he would've mailed a copy of that speech to Ariel Sharon and every other nuclear power that threatens our national security and World Peace. But Bush had better things to do. He was too busy launching his pointless war in Iraq, a war that has proven to be a total waste of time.
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Three cheers for brave Georgia !
Fuck the Russians. This was such a scam operation that it boggles the mind.
First the Russians generate passports for 2/3's of the population of an area whose total number of people wouldn't fill the resort town I live in. Then the Russians send in special op type people to attack ethnic Georgians in this enclave. When the Georgians respond, Russa sends in the only combat ready brigade in the entire country...which by magic just happened to be sitting on the border.
Fuck the Russians.
My question is: how did the intelligence pukes miss the Russian buildup?
In Dallas...At the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport
I'll have to visit it on my trip to Dallas in September.
I'll have to visit it on my trip to Dallas in September.
The Execution of Britain | The Brussels Journal
In May 2008, 18 year-old Ben Smith was stopped in a routine check. The police officer noticed an English flag on the parcel shelf and ordered him to remove it because it was "racist towards immigrants." One of the first things foreign powers usually do when they invade a country is to ban its national symbols. According to newspaper columnist Leo McKinstry, the English are being turned into second-class citizens in their own country: "England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population." In a survey published in April 2008, one in three medical doctors in Britain said that elderly patients should not be given free treatment if it were unlikely to do them good for long. At the same time, Muslim men with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits. The "welfare state" now means that the natives should watch grandma die because she's getting old anyway and we need the money to pay Muslims with multiple wives and numerous children so that they can feel comfortable while colonizing the country. Bryan Cork, 49, was jailed for six months for "racist slurs" after he had shouted insults at Muslim worshippers outside a Cumbria mosque, including "proud to be British" and "go back to where you came from." This was after the London Jihadist bombings in 2005. Even children face this kind of ideological intimidation. Codie Stott, a teenage British schoolgirl, was forced to spend hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers for "racism." She had objected, in the mildest possible terms, to being placed during class with a group of South Asian immigrants who talked among themselves in a language she didn't understand. For this, she was dragged to the local police station and had her fingerprints and photograph taken. 18-year-old Jamie who has Down's syndrome and the mental age of a five-year-old was charged with "racism" after an argument with an immigrant. Meanwhile, the UK is being brought to its knees in an epidemic of violent crime and white native girls get raped by immigrants in spectacular numbers, just like all over Western Europe.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
Every time there's a SEAL that passes away, this is on a plaque that goes on his grave
Tehran, 19 March (AKI) - In its first session since last week's general elections, the new Iranian parliament is expected to discuss a law that will condemn to death anyone who decides to leave the Muslim faith and convert to other religions.
Tehran, 19 March (AKI) - In its first session since last week's general elections, the new Iranian parliament is expected to discuss a law that will condemn to death anyone who decides to leave the Muslim faith and convert to other religions.
The parliament, also known as the Majlis, will debate the new law which has been presented by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Under the proposed law, anyone who is born to Muslim parents and decides to convert to another faith, will face the death penalty.
Currently converts, particularly those who have decided to leave the Muslim faith for Evangelical churches, are arrested and then released after some years of detention.
The new legislation, which has caused concern in Iran and abroad, was proposed mainly because of fears of proselytising activities by Evangelical churches particularly through the use of satellite channels.
There has also been concern over fact that many young people in Iran have abandoned Islam because they're tired of the many restrictions imposed by the faith.
According to unofficial sources, in the past five years, one million Iranians, particularly young people and women, have abandoned Islam and joined Evangelical churches.
This phenomenon has surprised even the missionaries who carry out their activities in secret in Iran.
An Evangelical priest and former Muslim in Iran told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the conversions were "interesting, enthusiastic but very dangerous".
"The high number of conversions is the reason that the government has decided to make the repression of Christians official with this new law," said the priest on condition of anonymity.
"Often we get to know about a new community that has been formed, after a lot of time, given that the people gather in homes to pray and often with rituals that they invent without any real spiritual guide," he told AKI.
"We find ourselves facing what is more than a conversion to the Christian faith," he said. "It's a mass exodus from Islam."
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, at least eight Christians have been killed for their faith.
Seven of them were found stabbed to death after they were kidnapped while only one, Seyyed Hossein Soudmand was condemned to death.
Tehran, 19 March (AKI) - In its first session since last week's general elections, the new Iranian parliament is expected to discuss a law that will condemn to death anyone who decides to leave the Muslim faith and convert to other religions.
The parliament, also known as the Majlis, will debate the new law which has been presented by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Under the proposed law, anyone who is born to Muslim parents and decides to convert to another faith, will face the death penalty.
Currently converts, particularly those who have decided to leave the Muslim faith for Evangelical churches, are arrested and then released after some years of detention.
The new legislation, which has caused concern in Iran and abroad, was proposed mainly because of fears of proselytising activities by Evangelical churches particularly through the use of satellite channels.
There has also been concern over fact that many young people in Iran have abandoned Islam because they're tired of the many restrictions imposed by the faith.
According to unofficial sources, in the past five years, one million Iranians, particularly young people and women, have abandoned Islam and joined Evangelical churches.
This phenomenon has surprised even the missionaries who carry out their activities in secret in Iran.
An Evangelical priest and former Muslim in Iran told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the conversions were "interesting, enthusiastic but very dangerous".
"The high number of conversions is the reason that the government has decided to make the repression of Christians official with this new law," said the priest on condition of anonymity.
"Often we get to know about a new community that has been formed, after a lot of time, given that the people gather in homes to pray and often with rituals that they invent without any real spiritual guide," he told AKI.
"We find ourselves facing what is more than a conversion to the Christian faith," he said. "It's a mass exodus from Islam."
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, at least eight Christians have been killed for their faith.
Seven of them were found stabbed to death after they were kidnapped while only one, Seyyed Hossein Soudmand was condemned to death.
I can think of two ex-Muslims they'll have to go thru me to get at...
Fuck Hippies.
In April of 2003, I wrote of some men to watch who were seeking power in post-war Iraq. Let's see how they did...The Mustaches, the Beards, and the Clean-Shaven.
General Najib Al Salhi, leader of the Free Officers Movement, with "friends" at the Penagon
Iraqi Politician - Now leader of the Liberal Officers Movement
General Nizar Al Khazraji, 64, Sunni, former Chief of Staff supported by Saudi Arabia and Egypt
Hiding out, possibly in the UAE, under investigation for possible involvement in the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in the 1980s.
General Mustafa Al Naqib, 70, former Deputy Chief of Staff
New governor of the province of Salahuddin in Iraq.
Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer Hakim Tabatabai, Islamic Revolution in Iraq, backed by Iran
Murdered August 2003
Ayatollah Mohammed Bahr Al Olum, Dawa, backed by Syria and some Iranian clergy
Member of the Iraq Governing Council
Grand Ayatollah Ali Mohammed Sistani, the leading Shiite theologian
Abandoned politics in 2006...An plot to assassinate Sistani was foiled on January_29, 2007
Ahmad Chalabi
Chalabi currently serves as the head of a government services committee
General Najib Al Salhi, leader of the Free Officers Movement, with "friends" at the Penagon
Iraqi Politician - Now leader of the Liberal Officers Movement
General Nizar Al Khazraji, 64, Sunni, former Chief of Staff supported by Saudi Arabia and Egypt
Hiding out, possibly in the UAE, under investigation for possible involvement in the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in the 1980s.
General Mustafa Al Naqib, 70, former Deputy Chief of Staff
New governor of the province of Salahuddin in Iraq.
Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer Hakim Tabatabai, Islamic Revolution in Iraq, backed by Iran
Murdered August 2003
Ayatollah Mohammed Bahr Al Olum, Dawa, backed by Syria and some Iranian clergy
Member of the Iraq Governing Council
Grand Ayatollah Ali Mohammed Sistani, the leading Shiite theologian
Abandoned politics in 2006...An plot to assassinate Sistani was foiled on January_29, 2007
Ahmad Chalabi
Chalabi currently serves as the head of a government services committee
Not exactly what I would call movers and shakers, most of them.
From Roger Simon
Who would you like to be in the White House if Pakistan fell to al Qaeda and the Islamists gained control of its nuclear arsenal?
Who would you like to be in the White House if Pakistan fell to al Qaeda and the Islamists gained control of its nuclear arsenal?
A plausible interpretation of last weekend’s incident is that it was some type of test run for the Iranian attack plan. The exact purposes of Iran’s actions remain unclear, but Strategic Intelligence Estimates.com believes the threatening maneuvers were possibly designed to accomplish some of these following purposes:
1) to conduct a dry run of a suicide bombing against US ships
2) to calibrate the reaction time and defensive techniques of the US Navy
3) to feint an attack in order to identify the specific maneuvers of the naval ships, so that these reactionary maneuvers could be exploited
4) to prepare some form of military deception, in which the naval ships are distracted by a diversionary attack that sets up a more devastating primary attack possibly involving: a) the longer-range land-to-sea missiles they are known to possess; or b) an IRG submarine that is carrying out a conventional torpedo attack, an underwater suicide bombing, or an insertion of an underwater demolition unit.
5) to provoke a US attack that could be exploited for propaganda purposes
The Persians are a proud people with a long history but isolated as heretics in the ME. They also think locally first. This little incident was probably as much a macho stunt as it was for intelligence gathering. The oil/China suggestion was also a good one...Iran, amazingly enough, imports gasoline and needs currency.
I don't think they want to close the Straits. All of their oil ports are inside it and the new oil pipeline they are building ends there also.
It also appears, by US reaction, that this was expected. The military games out more than Global Thermonuclear War...especially with weak players.If they have any kind of intel-gathering capabilities, the Iranians have probably decided how close they can get without being made into fish food. They also know we would pick up survivors, if any.
We played this game of chicken with the Ruskies for decades
Iran's nuclear ambitions on hold, U.S. agencies conclude
Senior U.S. intelligence officials said that Bush and Cheney were briefed on the intelligence estimate on Iran Wednesday, but declined to say when they were informed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons work.
Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons designs and ended covert efforts to produce highly enriched uranium suitable for use in a bomb, the report says.
"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program," the report concludes.
...and from the Satire Site, Blame Bush
Senior U.S. intelligence officials said that Bush and Cheney were briefed on the intelligence estimate on Iran Wednesday, but declined to say when they were informed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons work.
Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons designs and ended covert efforts to produce highly enriched uranium suitable for use in a bomb, the report says.
"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program," the report concludes.
Like the intelligence agencies have a great track record.
The moonbats are already screamin 'Bush' Lied.
Seein' there was no change in sanctions against Iran from 2000 to 2006, I figure Iran (and Libya if you remember) noticed a couple of hundred thousand yanks kicking the crap out of Saddam in 2003 for the 'hint' of WMDs and decided it wasn't worth it.
If you can trust the intelligence.
...and from the Satire Site, Blame Bush
Iran Harmless as a Kitten, Pentagon Admits
After months of trying to justify a pre-planned rush to war with Iran, the Bush Junta is now scrambling to put its own spin on a leaked Pentagon memo which reveals that the Iranian regimescrapped it's nuclear weapons program way back in 2003. Coincidentally, that was the same year Libya's Moammar Khadaffi announced plans to dismantle his own WMD's and comply fully with UN resolutions. But something else occured in 2003, something that makes you wonder if it all really is just a silly coincidence. You see, 2003 was the year that a certain political figure decided to do a certain something that a majority of Americans were strongly against, something that drew sharp criticism and widespread ridicule at the time. Yes, 2003 was the year that John Kerry officially announced he was running for President. Wonderful news to you and I, but the very thought of a decorated war hero thrice wounded on the battlefields of Vietnam serving as our Commander-in-Chief must've scared the bejeebers out of our enemies in a fashion reminiscent of Jingus Khan. I'm sure
Iran halting weapons flow, general says
BAGHDAD - Iran appears to be honoring an informal pledge to halt the smuggling of explosives and other weapons into Iraq, contributing to a drop of bombings by nearly a half since March, a senior US general said yesterday.
"We have not seen any recent evidence that weapons continue to come across the border into Iraq," Major General James Simmons said. "We believe that the initiatives and the commitments that the Iranians have made appear to be holding up."
One wonders? Three carrier battle groups off shore. Moving all the Marines to Afghanistan on Iran's eastern border. The absolute inability of Iran's useful idiots in the Congress to stop us from winning in Iraq.
I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from 'Chosen' Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John's, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. 'Thank you, thank you,' the people were saying. One man said, 'Thank you for peace.' Another man, a Muslim, said 'All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.' The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers." - Michael Yon
Link from Indi
In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden's followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda's electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites.
Our government pussies won't let me personally throw a few JDAMs, but the targeted IP bomb is within my power.
I expect the raghead hackers'll have to get in line behind the Chinese.
OK, I will admit to Israel.
I will admit to a reservist with his AR.
I will admit to a Halloween Party.
...but can you imagine the look on the face of a 'splodian if this guy was shooting at him?
Ride Fast and Shoot Straight...
The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden's first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.
But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda's internal security division that the organization's Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. This network of Web sites serves not only as the distribution system for the videos produced by Al Qaeda's production company, As-Sahab, but also as the equivalent of a corporate intranet, dealing with such mundane matters as expense reporting and clerical memos to mid- and lower-level Qaeda operatives throughout the world.
...has reposted his Liberian Infantry Tactics Review
Hilarious...
We still remember.
We are still angry.
We will still fight.
Alone if necessary.
...and to the rest of you - history will lump you together as those who could
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
...and how do the moonbats see this day?
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was. -Keith Olbermann, News Anchor, MSNBC
The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations
All of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting in a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations
No to spilling red blood for black oil
It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations
Among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic (or war in Iraq) and on the manfacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky
You should liberate yourself from the deception, shackles and attraction of the capitalist system
I invite you to embrace Islam.
There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent.
Sounds to me that there's a spot in the Senate for this guy...from Mass. or California. Except for the taxes that is, and embracing Islam...the Libs hate any mention of God.
True in Ancient Times, Still in Effect
Around the middle of the 7th century the Sassanid Empire of Persia, devastated by defeat at the hands of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (an event referred to in the Koran as a "victory for believers", because the Romans were Christians, and thus believing 'People of the Book'), was overrun by invading Islamic Arab armies.
According to Muslim custom prior to declaring war the leader of the Islamic Caliphate, the Caliph Umar, sent a letter to the Persians inviting them to Islam (or else). Here's the letter and the reply of the leader of the Zoroastrian Persians, Shah Yazdgerd III
Note how the centuries old ultimatum below is almost EXACTLY what the Islamic Jihadists are saying to the Western world today. Pre-Islamic Iranian History has a lot to teach us about how Islam Operates.
[Text of the ultimatum from Omar Ibn-Khat'tab the Calif of Islam to the Iranian Sovereign Yazdgerd III (Pre-Islmaic King of Persian Empire]
Bism-ellah Ar'rahman Ar'rhim
To the Shah of the Parsi (Persian)
Do not foresee a good future for you and your nation without your acceptance of my terms and your submission to me.
There was a time when your country ruled half the world, but see how now your sun has set.
On all fronts your armies have been defeated and your nation is condemned to extinction.
I point out to you the path whereby you might escape this fate. Namely, that you begin worshipping the one god, the unique deity, the only god who created all that is. I bring you his message.
Order your nation to cease the false worship of fire and to join us, that they may join the truth. Worship Allah the creator of the world.
Worship Allah and accept Islam as the path of salvation. End now your polytheistic ways and become Muslims that you may accept Allah-u-Akbar as your saviour. This is the only way of securing your own survival and the peace of your Persians.
You will do this if you know what is good for you and for your Persians. Submission is your only option.
Allah u Akbar
The Calif of Muslims Omar Ibn-Khat'tab
(What follows is response of the Persian King.)
In the name of Ahuramazda the Creator of Life and Wisdom.
From the Shahan-Shah of Iran, Yazdgerd. (King of Persian Empire)
To Omar Ibn Khat'tab, the Arab Calif.
In your letter you summon us Iranians to your god whom you call "Allah-u-Akbar"; and because of your barbarity and ignorance, and without knowing who we are and Whom we worship, you demand that we seek out your god and become worshipers of "Allah-u-Akbar".
How strange that you occupy the seat of the Arab Calif but are as ignorant as any desert roaming Arab!
You admonish me to become monotheistic in faith.
Ignorant man, for thousands of years we Aryans have, in this land of culture and art, been monotheists and five times a day have we offered prayers to God's Throne of Oneness.
While we laid the foundations of philanthropy and righteousness and kindness in this world and held high the ensign of "Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds", you and your ancestors were desert wanderers, who . . . buried your innocent daughters alive. How dare you Arabs who have no regard for God's creatures, who mercilessly put people to the sword, who mistreat your women and bury your
daughters alive, who attack caravans and are highway robbers, who commit murder, who kidnap women and spouses, presume to preach the worship of God to us, who are above these evils?
You tell me to cease the worship of fire and to worship "Allah-u-Akbar" instead! We Iranians are by the light of fire reminded of the Light of God.
The radiance and the sun-like warmth of fire exuberates our hearts, and the pleasant warmth of it brings our hearts and spirits closer together, that we may be philanthropic, kind and considerate; that gentleness and forgiveness may become our way of life,and that thereby the Light of God may shine on in our hearts.
Our God is the Great Ahuramazda. . . .We are nothing like you.
We, in the name of Ahuramazda, practice compassion and love and goodness and righteousness and forgiveness, and care for the dispossessed and the unfortunate.
But you, in the name of your "Allah-u-Akbar" commit murder, create misery and subject people to suffering! Tell me truly who is to blame for your misdeeds?
Your "Allah-u-Akbar" who orders genocide, plunder and destruction, or you who do these things in his name? Or both?
You, who have spent all your days in brutality and barbarity, have now come out of your desolate deserts resolved to impose, by the blade and by conquest, the worship of "Allah-u-Akbar" on a people who have for thousands of years been civilizedand have relied on culture and knowledge and art as mighty supports.
What have you, in the name of your "Allah-u-Akbar", taught these armies of Islam besides destruction and pillage and murder that you now presume to summon others to your "Allah-u-Akbar"?
Today, my people's fortunes have changed. Their armies, who were subjects of Ahuramazada, have now been defeated by the Arab armies of "Allah-u-Akbar".
And they are being forced, at the point of the sword, to convert to the god by the name of"Allah-u-Akbar" and offer him prayers in Arabic since your Arabic god only understands Arabic.
I advise you to return to your lizard infested deserts. Do not let loose upon our cities your cruel barbarous Arabs who are like rabid animals.
Refrain from the murder of my people.Refrain from pillaging my people.
Refrain from kidnapping our daughters in the name of your "Allah-u-Akbar".
Refrain from these crimes and evils.
We Aryans are a forgiving people, a kind and well-meaning people. Wherever we go, we sow the seeds of goodness, amity and righteousness. And this is why we have the capacity to overlook the crimes and the misdeeds of your Arabs.
Stay in your desert with your "Allah-u-Akbar", and do not approach our cities; for horrid is your belief and brutish is your conduct.
Yazdgerd Saasaani
(King of Persian Empire)
The Persians were not able to resist a second assault
AWESOME! I'm glad New Jersey lets me own any weapon used by the military. I'm gonna start saving my money.
A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects told yesterday how he booted one of them in the privates. Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.
You gotta love anyone who kicks a terrorist in the wedding tackle while the fucker is still ON FIRE!
Of course this is still the nanny state of Scotland, so the cops confiscated the cabbie's shoes and fined him $60 for illegal parking. I can't help thinking that, given the weakness of our elected leaders, it'll be regular people doing the real work.
More:
He said: "I noticed a 4x4 sitting in the middle of the road. Then, as my passenger was paying and getting out, the Jeep rammed into the airport entrance right next to us."I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The guy in the passenger seat was wearing a white T-shirt. He got out carrying what looked like a petrol bomb and seconds later the Jeep was in flames.
"Then he kicked and punched a man to the ground before punching a policeman square in the face. That's when I saw red. That sort of thing just isn't on.
"I told my passenger to run for her life, then I went for the man in the T-shirt and managed to skelp him in the face. I followed it up by booting him twice.
"By that time some other people had joined in and it seemed like the T-shirt guy was trying to get back into the Jeep. Then the driver got out of the car. He was already in flames. It was obvious he was the real psycho of the pair.
"Someone was hosing him down but the flames seemed to jump up again just as it looked like they had gone out. It was obvious the driver wanted into the boot of the Jeep for something and I was worried about what it was. I thought it must be a gun.
"He was going crazy, just lashing out at everyone and babbling p*sh in a foreign language the whole time. I've heard people say since that he was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of c**p to me.
"I ran for the guy and punched him twice in the face with pretty good right hooks.
"Then I kicked him with full force right in the balls but he didn't go down. He just kept on babbling his rubbish.
"I couldn't believe that he was still standing. I know I would have been floored by that kind of kick."
Alex continued to take on the man, who was lashing out with his fists. He recalled: "He was a big guy and I'm not really a fighter, but his punches were wild and I managed to dodge them and make some good strikes myself.
"Luckily, more people joined in and we managed to beat the guy down. The police apparently caught the other man. I don't think the policeman I saw at the scene drew his baton during the whole thing. He should have given it to me - I'd have leathered those guys with it."
All your balls are belong to us.
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As these incidents escalate, common people will see the political class for what it is...out-of-touch elites with no other desire than to hold power.
Some things can only be given credibility by intellectuals, normal people are not that stupid. (with apologies to George Orwell)
In every western country you look at, you see it happening...the slow but sure realization that the individuals we have elected to govern us are worthless when the chips are down. Daily the major media is shown to have their own agenda...and that agenda as more to do with politics than it does with giving complete and honest information. Sixty years of relative peace is the culprit.
Thank the muzzies for waking up the world.
Leaders will emerge as they always do. It's happening faster and faster.
"It is too early to speculate who might be responsible, and we are keeping an entirely open mind." - Scotland Yard
"The car bomb you are dialing is not available. Please try again later." - Seen on the Web
Recall the 15 Brits taken hostage by the Iranians???
It wasn't the first time Iran tried that little scam...
When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt.
It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".
The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".
The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters. - BBC News security correspondent
I'll tell you what rule we applied Sir, we applied Rule .303 .
We caught them and we shot them under Rule .303 !
Breaker Morant
Four Muslim men were foiled from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods,
The arrests mark the latest in a series of alleged homegrown terrorism plots targeting high-profile American landmarks.
A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and other buildings.
A month later, authorities broke up a plot to bomb underwater New York City train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan.
And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.
...but no, we're not at war with radical Islam. It's our own fault for bothering to track them down after the 1st World Trade Center bombing. We shouldn't have gotten upset that 3,750 Americans have been killed by Islamists in 61 separate incidents going back to Feb 21, 1970 up to the WTC bombing on 911. Go back to sleep, sheeple...the New York Times and liberal Democrats want you to.
Close the borders.
"Let's be honest, we have lost the battle for Jerusalem," admitted a Fatah legislator from the city. "The Palestinian Authority hasn't done anything to preserve the Arab and Islamic character of Jerusalem. The Arabs in Jerusalem have lost confidence in the Palestinian leadership and that's why most of them prefer to live under Israeli control. Frankly, when I see what's happening in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, I can understand why."
Maybe they just want to sit out the s'Plodian Civil War that is heating up...not that the media would mention anything about it.The media will just wait until Israel gets tired again of the daily-dozen of rockets fired from Gaza and attacks again. Then at last the daily intra-slaughters of Hamas and Fatah can be blamed on Israel.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Six nationals of the former Yugoslavia were arrested early Tuesday on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," federal authorities said.
The six were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, he said.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because documents in the case remain sealed, said the men were arrested as part of a joint federal and local investigation.
The officials said the attack was stopped in the planning stages.
Interesting. I wonder if they were planning to attack Range 14...I can be found there now and then. That would probably not be a good idea...or at least not a survivable one.
On Tuesday, May 2, 2007, a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. federal court in St. Louis naming eight Islamic men as defendants in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives.
In the case of ABUELAWI and the other seven defendants, the men met at gas stations located in north St. Louis between August 2006 and January 2007 to buy or transfer automatic weapons and explosives. In the original documents charging Abuelawi, Sumad is quoted in a meeting with ABUELAWI and a government informer as saying that "he wants to buy as many explosives as possible because, 'we're going to war.'"
Depending on where they go, they might find the Streets of America coming for Jihad.
As Rick said to Major Strasser...
Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
I am reminded that our European friends think we are blood-thirsty barbarians, armed to the teeth, and a hair-trigger away from mayhem and murder at all times. This might be an opportunity to prove them right for once.
Mark Twain had this to say about the media, even back then.
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
--Mark Twain
Comment by Bob on a thread on Black Five discussing the this latest Media salute by the troops in Iraq...there have been others.
CASABLANCA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up after police shot dead another overnight during a chase in a Casablanca slum, Moroccan police sources and witnesses said on Tuesday.
I wonder what the clue was?
The Brits were released for reasons we will not know for a while. These reasons were probably as internally generated in Iran as externally generated on the waters of the Persian Gulf.
The Iranians were seemingly getting good press in the only area of the world they care about, and making the West look weak to boot. They could have held the longer without reprisal.
Sending another carrier to putt around in the Gulf wouldn't work unless Iran had credible evidence that it would be used. The Iranians didn't get back 5 'consular officers' caught in Iraq, at least we haven't heard of it yet. One was released, and there are rumors of a deal to allow Iran to talk to the rest.
Persian bloggers and commenter's think the entire incident was something of an 'ego trip' by a portion of the government. They note correctly - "Where else in the world does the head of state show up to release a couple of detainees?" One portion of the government needed a boost, but eventually lost out to another. They think this just points out fractures in a government requiring an 'external threat' to patch them over.
I don't know how much this means, but the Persians note that the government seemed a bit confused and non-plussed that there was a woman among the hostages...they didn't quite know what to do and it seemed obvious (to the bloggers anyway) that the government wasn't ready for her...clothes, accommodation's, etc., were not as prepared as they were for the men. One noted on Kamangir's site that she was dressed as a 'steel worker'.
The only advantage I see to this is an examination by Britain, not so much why it happened (we know the ROE), but of how it spiraled out of control, and especially how they let the propaganda value get away from them.
The disadvantage the exact same examination.
I know there are still stout bulldogs in Britain, I correspond with several of them, but the general British public seems to feel this fiasco was simply a natural result of the Anglosphere's failed attempt to stabilize Iraq...the fault of the US primarily of course, and then Britain.
I know how my correspondents feel about this but the general leftist bent of Britain, and the overwhelming number of comments I have read, is troubling.
If I had to bet, I see a retreat and retrenchment for Britain. They will make light of it, they will make some cosmetic changes, they will try and repair the morale of the troops, and they will tell us all that the captives were following orders. They may even redouble their efforts in the 'good' war - Afghanistan.
...but they will spend most of their effort trying to make sure this doesn't happen again. The best way to do that is to make sure that there aren't bodies around where they can be taken by players that can tweak the lion without fear of reprisal.
Britain isn't toast yet, but after having troops taken hostage by a non-belligerent twice in 3 years, with exactly the same results, and an increasingly hostile socialist population electing an increasingly progressive nanny-state government, you have to wonder just how cooked they are.
With apologies to Rudyard...
The Houses (1898)
Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad,
In thy house or my house is half the world's hoard;
By my house and thy house hangs all the world's fate,
On thy house and my house lies half the world's hate.
For my house and thy house no help shall we find
Save thy house and my house - kin cleaving to kind;
If my house be taken, thine tumbleth anon.
If thy house be forfeit, mine followeth soon.
Twixt my house and thy house what talk can there be
Of headship or lordship, or service or fee?
Since my house to thy house no greater can send
Than thy house to my house, friend comforting friend.
Our house will always be there for your house. Friends and Allies since December 24th, 1814. That little incident in the Vancouver Pig War of 1859 with (then) Capt. George Pickett doesn't count.
Yet here from Tony Blair via Samizdata comes a statement - you must really read the last sentence....this has to be satire. He didn't really say this, did he?
"I am sure that I speak for everyone when I say how delighted I am that the Iranian goverment has released our 15 naval service personnel. This has obviously been a traumatic ordeal for all of them and their families and an extremely trying and difficult time for everyone else in involved in this unfortunate episode. Thankfully, common sense and cooler heads have prevailed. I must, however, make it categorically clear that we did not, nor would we ever, make any concessions, strike any bargains or agree any deals in order to secure their release. It is the unwavering policy of Her Majesty's government to stand firm in the face of threats and to strenuously resist any attempts at blackmail or intimidation of any kind. That said, all that remains for me to do is join in with the rest of the nation in offering up our prayers and thanks to merciful Allah and his last prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him. Thank you."
Update: This email from Perry de Havilland of Samizdata
Yes, the last bit was indeed satire. However the fact so many people did not pick up on that is very telling of just how low expectations of the UK government have sunk.
...and the rest of the Iranian bloggosphere (via Kamangir)...Haji Kensington asks why the compassion did not apply to the detained [Iranian] activists. Jomhour finds Ahmadinejad's remark embarrassing when he responded to the question whether the sailors were traded for an Iranian diplomat (who was released yesterday) by saying "if we were to trade, we should have traded them for a hundred thousand people". Maryam asks what the final outcome of all this has been for Iran. She uses the title "Fifteen-one for the UK". Mahjad feels pity for the people who protested in front of the British Embassy, asking for a harsh fate for the sailors. He writes "this proved that we do not bow to what we do not like unless it is too strong". To him, it was all "a silly soap opera" Yaghi goes further and asks if this has not been a British plot to boost Blair's popularity. Omid asks where on earth the highest administration figure shows up to say goodbye to a few detainees. Behrang compares this with the hostage-taking of the Americans about thirty years ago. He asks why what formerly was called "lack of dignity" is now addressed as "Islamic compassion". Malakut finds Ahmadinejad's comments silly, especially when he asked the British Government to not to prosecute the sailors for "admitting the truth". Keyvan thinks what has happened is solely Ahmadinejad finding the chance to show up in front of cameras and journalists. Elnaz writes "when Ahmadinejad complained that a British mother has been sent to the front, the camera rolled on a female journalist's face and she was smiling sarcastically".
The conclusion is, the arrest of the British sailors brought about many results. Inside Iran, for many, the obvious outcome was feeling ashamed because of having such a president.
Theo Spark's summary:
'15 sailors captured for straying into Iranian waters. 14 men and 1 woman.
It doesn't take a genius to work out who was reading the fucking map, does it!'
I know the Bulldogs who care are crazed about this. They just got stiffed by the UN opting for a 'gentler' note of disapproval to Iran than England wanted to see.
Note.Of.Disapproval
While I am a tentative fan of soft power, knowing as I do that it's better in the long run for everyone, soft power doesn't work unless you've got some nasty boys to back it up.
The credible threat of a Fuel Air Bomb over their only gasoline refinery for instance.
Iran delays Navy woman's release due to UK's 'incorrect attitude'
The release of kidnapped British sailor Faye Turney is on hold after Iran accused Britain of having an "incorrect attitude".
The hostage crisis also took a sinister new turn as a hate mob in Tehran demanded that the 15 captured British Navy personnel be hanged.
Protesters waved placards demanding "15 British aggressors must be executed" outside the foreign ministry.
Some comments I have gotten on this on another forum...Which reminds me of these thoughts on the preparation of civilians for war. Notice the headscarf the Iranians required the female sailor to wear (against Geneva accords)...
Nappy - if they do execute them, it is more likely US will have an ally in their next away match
MikGof - If they do then it is WAR. Plain and simple. America is free to join us if it likes. In fact I don't think that it could possibly get that far. In any conflict we would win once the velvet gloves are taken off. And if any of our service men and woman are killed they would be taken off. Our leaders couldn't do anything else. To do otherwise would mean the immediate end of their political careers.
IBF -No risk taking in the modern EU navy. No guts, no daring, no flair. If you just turned the small craft around and headed back to your own ship, what's the Iranians gonna do, machine gun them all? Bollocks. If you quickly clambered back onto the merchant ship and barricaded yourself in the bowels while radioing for assistance from Cornwell, mere 5 minutes away, would the Iranians have gone after them in a blaze of bullets? Bollocks again.
Hopefully this will end satisfactorily. In 2004 the Iranians paraded captured Brits blindfolded on their TV before releasing them after 3 days. All the same actors are present, but Iran seems a bit more truculent this time.
Once upon a time, when a fair chunk of the earth's surface was coloured pink, lay your hands on a stout bulldog & at very least, a flying column under the command of Colonel Bufton-Tufton would be dispatched to wreck vengeance upon the transgressors. Instead, we have Mr Blah ...
Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said. UK officials are waiting to be granted access to the HMS Cornwall staff, who were seized on Friday, and have not been told where the group are held. Hardline students close to Iran's president have called for the sailors to be put on trial. Iran says they were trespassing in its waters, but speaking at an EU summit, Mr Blair denied this was the case. "It simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us," Mr Blair said.
... which is all a right load of old 'bull' when the correct message to the sending to the Iranians is written in chalk of the noses of a bevy of Tomahawk missiles. After all, we had no compunction about carpet bombing the box'eads - surely not to afford the same treatment to Tehran is errrrr racist
As Democrats hold more silly hearings to embarrass Republicans, the FBI is warning local police to be alert for Muslim extremists hijacking school buses. Reality check, please.
What can a rational person say about this? The possibility is unthinkable, but surely on every parents mind since Beslan.
What I find hard to stomach is that the left's reaction to this has been that 'wingers' are just paranoid, and it's just a plot to get us ready for war. Well, I've talked about that battle for our minds before, and I haven't changed my opinion.
While vigilance would be singling out Hadjis for extra-thorough security checks at the airport....stupidity is singling out 75 year old American-born, Christian grandmothers for extra-thorough security checks at the airport. Paranoia has nothing to do with it...Islamists have been killing westerners for 40 years.
The Islamists best weapon in their war of hate is the illiberal PC we are being subjected to.
...on the recent attacks in Iran.
Fars: An authority in the IR security produced a picture of the American ammunition confiscated from the terrorists who committed the recent attacks. The picture reportedly is taken from equipment seized in a terrorists' safe house captured by the police. The terrorists have confessed that they have been trained by individuals who spoke English. The conversation has been carried out through translation performed by MKO members. The reason for the attacks is reported to be "because the US became very angry when Sunnis participated in 22 Bahman rallies."
In another news, one of the individuals arrested after the first explosion was tried today. He claimed to have been a member of Jundullah for only 45 days. He expressed regret and mentioned his motive to have been "because of money".
The Archer has noted that one of the early media centers reporting on this, BAZTAB, has been shut down by the government for some reason. This media outlet is normally associated with the Revolutionary Guards and is considered a conservative government outlet. No one knows why it was shut down.
The Archer's site is in excellent English, but many of his links are not. It's a good site to check out Iranian stuff, especially now. He is fortunately in Canada, and should not be affected by any direct Iranian Internet bans.
Update: Note that the above picture is apparently photoshopped (according to LGF). Also the Archer is reporting that American ammo is widely available on the black market in parts of the country.
I'm not sure if the photo-shopping really matters. Propaganda is for local consumption anyway. This is still better dizinformatizon than we see out of Paliwood in Gaza and Lebanon. It doesn't have to be real, it just has to be believable.
And the one guy they caught has been hung already. Here in Persian but more pictures.
From Defense Tech...
Existing sniper-finding systems rely on radar or acoustic sensors. And they can be heavy, bulky, and are one more piece of kit to carry. Nova Sensors device (known as VAST) can be integrated into a thermal imager, devices which are small enough for personal use.
Effectively, it could turn every round into a tracer bullet. Anyone firing at you would give themselves away immediately, even if the muzzle flash is hidden.
Video
A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died under mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.
According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour's death emerged
on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as "gas
poisoning". The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was
poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference
on nuclear safety.
Note that before the Israeli 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear facility at Osirak, 4 Iraqi nuclear scientists died under similar mysterious circumstances.
I am reading Ship of Ghosts by James D. Hornfischer. This is the story of America's Asia Fleet in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor, and the fate of the USS Houston in the aftermath.Japan was the only important nation in the world in the twentieth century which combined modern industrial power and a first-class military establishment with religious and social ideas inherited from the primitive ages of mankind, which exalted the military profession and regarded war and conquest as the highest good.
The Japanese Imperial Army, which by 1931 had become the dominant voice in Japanese government, adopted the ancient ambition of Japan's mythical founder, Emperor Jimmu: The principle of bakku ichiu, "bringing the eight corners of the earth under one roof" - Samuel Eliot Morison
...and from the author:
Americans watched but did not seem to appreciate the fervor with which Japan was seizing control of the Asian mainland. Weary of war, some believed that messy foreign entanglements could be avoided, saving their suspicions for their own military or for Wall Street financiers and arms traders who they thought had profiteered during the Great War.
In June 1940 the U.S. Army's total enlistment stood at 268,000 men. It was inconvenient to contemplate that during the first six weeks of the Rape of Nanking, nearly half that number of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war, as well as some American civilians, had been slaughtered by the Japanese Army.
Sound a bit familiar. Replace Japan with militant Islamic fascism try it again.
It appears that the Taliban is serious about training up.
Theo Sparks has the inside scoop.
Try not to piss yourself laughing.
It had been at least since 911 that I had seen this 30 year old broadcast by Canadian Gordon Sinclair. I ran across it following links deep into at least 3 blogs and landing eventually at Wake Up America. It is a bit dated, but still has power.
Gordon Sinclair
Radio Station CFBR 1010
2 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. Thats who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there. I saw that.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
Now,I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on now... you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are right here on our streets in Toronto, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
You know, all this saber rattling going on over there might not all be pointed at the US. There is much in the inter-relation of Shiia and Sunni that is coming to a head because of Iraq.
Forget about all of the militias for a moment and who is supporting who. Forget that Saddam was a Sunni and had his foot on the necks of the Shiia for 3 decades. Forget for a moment, if you can, that everybody and their camels are shooting at the Americans.
Take the Americans out of the picture and what happens to the Iraqi Sunnis? Bound to be payback for how they treated the Shiia...we're seeing plenty of it now with the Americans still in town.
Iran and Iraq are majority Shiia nations. The Sunni are minorities in Iraq. The primary insurgents in Iraq are also Sunni. They are pretty much getting their asses kicked by everybody and their camels.
The surrounding Arab countries are making unhappy noises about how they would react if the non-insurgent Sunni minority in Iraq saw some of the same treatment those Sunnis dished out to the Shiia majority for those 30 years. These surrounding Arab countries are arming up.
Iran is not an Arab country. Not only do Sunnis think little of Shiia, but the whole area doesn't think much of Iran...a double whammy.
I'm just wondering if a lot of what is going on is Iran telling the rest of the Arab world that it wouldn't stand by and let the Shiia in Iraq come under threat by the rest of the Sunni countries in the Middle East.
Oh, and death to Israel, of course. Mustn't forget that...street cred and all that.
The Litvinenko investigation is getting weird. More and more it looks like it wasn't an assassination attempt by Putin, but sloppy handling of hijacked Russian manufacture Polonium-210. Litvinenko had multiple exposures over time corresponding to meetings he had with Russian businessmen and Chechen sympathizers. The material turns out to be weapons grade rather than assassination grade. Interesting reading, but Litvinenko was no saint.
Let’s assume the sources of the Po-210 were Russian facilities. Russia claims all their material is accounted for. They export all of it so that ‘accountability’ ends at the destination overseas. So who could get their hands on exported Russian Po-210? Someone with lots of money and contacts all over the world - Boris Berezovsky. What if Litvinenko was the source of material? All the airliner contamination points from London to Moscow - not the other way around. Lugovoi returned from London the same day Kovtun left for Hamburg. Did Lugovoi contaminate Kovtun before he departed Moscow, setting the stage for the trail through Hamburg? Did the transporters who received the divvied up P0-210 use more conventional transport (trains and ferries) to move the material to the continent and onto their final destinations?
Top Democrats Oppose More Troops in Iraq
By DAVID STOUT (New York Times)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- As President Bush prepares to present his new strategy on Iraq to the American people, Democratic Congressional leaders said today they will fight any approach that calls for deploying more United States troops there.
“We want to do everything we can to help Iraq succeed in the future but, like many of our senior military leaders, we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, wrote to Mr. Bush.
“Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain,” the Democrats’ letter said.
Also reiterating his deep opposition to any troop increases was Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. “The administration refuses to acknowledge the devastating impact that keeping our brave troops in Iraq is having on our national security, and now the president is considering sending even more troops,” Mr. Feingold said in a statement.
“We should be bringing our troops out of Iraq, not the other way around,” he said. “The American people’s message at the ballot box was loud and clear, and it is past time that the administration listened.”
These pin-headed turds are looking to do exactly what they did in the early 70s in Vietnam...pull the troops out then cut off the funds. I have more respect for honest crooks than I do for these self-righteous traitors. The Congress is in the hands of people that are a waste of skin.Good job you pussy roll-over-and-play-dead wingers - this is what you get for being pork hungry worthless shits and forgetting what you were sent to Washington for. Fuck you all.
The straight party-line vote received little attention Thursday as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, was elected speaker of the House. But Republican leaders and conservative tax-cut advocates said it opened up a huge loophole in a Republican-imposed rule drawn from the Republicans' 1994 Contract with America, which requires a supermajority, or three-fifths vote, to raise taxes.
Democrats unanimously voted down a motion offered by Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio that would have prevented them from waiving the rule, a move that tax-cutters said signaled the Democrats' intention to raise taxes between now and the 2008 elections.
And...
Referring to money needed to expand troop levels in Iraq, she said, “If the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions,” on today’s Face The Nation.
Continue reading Worthless Pussy Wankers....
Victor Davis Hanson - Winning in Iraq...
At some point it would be stunning for a US military official to step forward, and assure victory. No more acrimony over what should have, could have or might have been. No more retired generals talking to reporters at midnight “off the record”, or appearing as “unnamed senior military official” in the footnotes of the latest journalistic expose about Iraq. No more complaints about had Paul Bremmer not, had Donald Rumsfeld not, had Tommy Franks not, but rather something instead like: “Here is how we are going to defeat the jihadists”.
Most Americans do not want to hear any more suggestions from the Iraqi Study Group, anymore meae culpae from John Kerry or Hillary Clinton about how they were brainwashed by faulty intelligence, or any more assessments of the war from moralists and geniuses like Donald Trump and Bill Maher.
Instead, we need to hear from the very top echelon of the American military, that despite all the roadblocks put in their way, and the difficulty of the present task (it isn’t easy to secure a democracy in the heart of the ancient caliphate surrounded by Khomeinist Iran, Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, and Baathist Syria), that they will defeat these insurgents—and here’s how they plan to do it.
Somewhere in the US military right now is a Grant, Sherman, Patton, Ridgeway, or Abrams, who has been shouting and we haven’t been listening. Now is the time to let them come forward—as they have always arisen from obscurity in past American wars when their nation’s hour of need has come.
I wonder what they'll do with his body?
Personally responsible for killing an estimated 3 million of his own people and those in Iran and Kuwait. Personally ordering the execution of hundreds of women and children after a botched assassination attempt. Personally ordering the deaths of thousands by nerve gas in Kurdish villages. Personally ordered the use of biologicals and nerve agents in his war with Iran. Personally ordered the destruction of ecosystem to ruin a tribe of his own country. Personally ordered the burning of the Kuwaiti oil wells.
Personally paid the price.
Special Ops | 81% | ||
Combat Infantry | 81% | ||
Officer | 69% | ||
Support Gunner | 63% | ||
Medic | 56% | ||
Engineer | 56% | ||
Artillery/Armor | 56% | ||
Civilian | 0% |
Which soldier type are you?
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You scored as Special Ops. You're sneaky, tactful, and a loner. You prefer to do your jobs alone, working where you don't come into contact with people. But every once in a while you hit it big and are noticed and given fame. You're given the more sensitive problems. You get things done, and do what has to be done.