Interesting...

(Dad - you'll like this one... and Mom, if he gets riled up - sorry...)

Go on over yonder to SWWBO's place to read about Phill Kline's challenger for Attorney General Paul Morrison.

Why yes, I would like a scumbag for AG. /sarcasm off/ Ick...

"On The Virtues of Killing Children"

Go over to Blackfive and read Grim's post on children and war.

It's powerful, heartbreaking and, unfortunately, accurate.

In the words of Golda Meir:

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

and

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

One Awesome Marine & A Bunch of Deluded Fools

I saw this story first at Blackfive & then again at IMAO where FrankJ linked to a DemocraticUnderground thread.

The story is about a 21-year-old Marine who is his team's designated marksman. Let's just say the man is good at his job & I for one am thankful that he is. The number of lives he has saved, both American & Iraqi... just wow. Go read the whole thing.

Anyway, the DU fruit-loops would prefer that this soldier be locked up when he returns from his TDY. They call him a brainwashed, bloodthirsty sociopath, a killing machine, a souless killbot and a disgrace to the uniform who should be jailed. Those are just a few of the comments. Don't bother going over there to read the rest unless you wish to rot your brain (see what I do for you people - I'm killing my brain!) They also turn it into a racism thing & say he's going to go crazy down the road & kill his family.

Those DUmmies make me sick. This man is fighting to give the Iraqis the opportunity to have the same freedoms we have here, heck the freedom to live, & they do this to him? They claim to support the troops, but that's a big stinkin' load of bull. They need to take a little "vacation", go over there & have a nice little chat with the side they do support. Their sweet little "insurgents" won't be interested in talking. They're more the torture you, hack off your head & booby trap your body after they dump it in the desert types.

That's my 2 cents. Sorry if it's a little incoherent, I just get really ticked off at these idiots sometimes.

(Anybody know where I can get a full body transplant? I wanna join up & go kick some terrorist butt too. Dang medical restrictions...)

Whoa...

This says it all.

This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage... but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat.

Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute I saw that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a ceasefire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today.

Enough is enough. Yes, it's terrible that Lebanese civilians are getting killed in all of this, but how many Israelis have been murdered by suicide bombers & sneak attacks throughout the years? If they didn't want this, they shouldn't have voted a terrorist organization into power. Smash 'em, get it over with & let the rest of the terrorist nations see that messing with the good guys will get you obliterated.

In other words, nuke the moon, boys.

Found through the Castle.

More Perversion From The ACLU

More 'protection' for the innocents from the Anti-American Communist Lawyers Union.

INDIANAPOLIS - Six sex offenders sued the city Wednesday to block a new ordinance that bars them from venturing within 1,000 feet of parks, pools and playgrounds when children are present.
The six, who include convicted child molesters and rapists, are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana

But then, what else should we expect from the people who want to allow imprisoned sex offenders to be visited by minors and who refuse to accept funds from companies that require receipients not engage in activities that support terrorists.

Oh, How I Wish...

...this is how it was in the real world. From Blackfive's Uncle Jimbo...

UJ: Good Morning I'm Uncle Jimbo, subbing for Scott McClellan who really just
wasn't cut out for lying to you piranhas. The rules for this daily farce have
been changed to reflect the fact that your organizations are basically
adversaries and active opponents of the elected US Government. Consequently you
will now be treated as representatives of the side you have chosen, the bad
guys. I will tell you the unvarnished truth when it suits the purposes of our
country, and I will bold-faced lie to you when that furthers our cause. That
cause is freedom and the consensus 'round here is that you either don't share
those goals or are too idealistically ignorant to understand how to create it.
So, let the games begin.

Of course, this jewel from Frank J.'s In My World has always been a favorite...

"I think the president welcomes the fact that we are a democracy and people in the United States, unlike Iraq, are free to yadda yadda yadda," Fleischer responded, now staring at the Gameboy quite intensely, apparently fighting a boss monster in the game Metroid Fusion that he was playing.

"You’re not even paying attention to us!" shouted another reporter.

Fleischer then angrily chucked his Gameboy at the reporter, striking him in the head. "There, I paid
you some attention."

"Ow! That hurt!" cried the reporter.

"Ow! That hurt!" Fleischer repeated in a high-pitch, mocking voice.

"You’re the meanest press secretary ever!" the man yelled before running out of the press conference crying.

"Anyone else want to waste my time with one of your idiotic questions?" Fleischer asked angrily.

Feeble Attempts

Michelle Malkin has posted a sampling of the hate mail (warning - very foul language) she has received from presumably "open-minded" and "tolerant" liberals. These emails were in response to another post she did that simply reprinted publicly released information.

Amazing how the left will sling racial slurs as long as they're aimed at a conservative, but then accuse the right of being bigoted.

Remember children, profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcibly.

Hat tip IMAO.

Another Reason To Stay In Iraq

NewsMax has a small piece advising that we look to Kosovo as an example of why we should stay in Iraq for a while longer.

Bloomberg: Kosovo Offers Iraq Lesson

Those calling on the U.S. to cut and run in Iraq might look to another
conflict-ridden region, Kosovo, opines Bloomberg.com columnist Amity
Shlaes.

The southern enclave of the old Yugoslavia was a battleground between
Albanian Muslims and Christian Serbs in the late 1990s, when Serbian leader
Slobodan Milosevic launched an effort at ethnic cleansing.

NATO intervened with a bombing campaign against the Serbian capital,
Belgrade. Milosevic relented, and both NATO and the United Nations sent in
troops to keep the peace. Around 1,600 American troops remain there among the
more than 15,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo.

The results, more than six years later, suggest that President Bush's
plan to remain in Iraq through his second term might prove a wise one, according
to Shlaes.

"Many Americans are coming to believe that posting soldiers to spend
years defending a beleaguered Muslim population in some dangerous backwater is a
suicide mission," Shlaes writes from the region's capital, Pristina.

"This week I am visiting a place that may disprove all those ideas --
and in the end provide a powerful precedent for Bush's Iraq plan."

Everyone in Kosovo wants the Americans to stay, Shlaes says.

"Sometimes they don't ask. They insist. "

'There will be no more war in the Balkans,' Ardian Gjini, a cabinet member
in Kosovo's provisionary government, said in a meeting this week in Pristina.
'The U.S. presence is why.'"

When asked how long the U.S. must stay in Kosovo, a Serbian official
told Shlaes: "At least 10 or 15 years."

A member of Shlaes' group in Pristina asked an official if Europeans
soldiers might replace Americans in Kosovo.

"Europeans are good fellows," the official replied. "They operate in
two speeds. Slow and slower."

Shlaes concludes: "The former Yugoslavia is worth looking at twice.

"People in the U.S. just now may doubt the value of flying the flag in
these places. But in Kosovo and Belgrade, they don't."

Here We Go Again

I’m finally making myself sit down and redo my reply to all of the commenters on this post since Blogger ate the first one.

UPDATE: I found the original archived somewhere and so am re-posting it here. I also have it saved so that if it goes bye-bye again, it's not a problem.

This is my response to the filepile.org-ers who have been visiting and the few that have been leaving comments on the Don't Close Your Blinds post. This is all the "arguing" I am going to bother with due to the fact that I have learned from my job that it does no good to argue with someone who is determined to believe whatever they want. So, unless someone has something particulary good or I feel like responding to something, this is all she wrote.

First of all, that piece is not satire. I don't see how anyone could possibly get that impression. As far as being "blinded by ideology" goes, the road runs both ways honey. When someone refuses to accept the truth as fact merely because they hate the "spokesperson" that promotes said truth, as the left often does, well... I'd consider that being "blinded by ideology".

Secondly, alex p. claimed the neighbor was actually having a barbeque. Here's your barbeque. You forgot to mention that the wife and kids were the main course.

As for the accusations that Saddam didn't have weapons, or WMDs, I suggest that you go read Who Is Lying About Iraq by Norman Podhoretz.

Just for the record it isn't the regular citizen in Iraq that wants us out now, it is the terrorists (mainly from other countries) who want to control Iraq. These people are not "freedom-fighters". They plant IEDs and use car-bombs, uncaring of the fact that they kill innocent Iraqis in their attempts to get our soldiers. They kidnap and behead citizens. If they were truly "freedom-fighters", you'd think they would have a care for the people they were fighting to "free".

In regards to my first comment to anonymous, I apologise. I shouldn't have been so sarcastic. The meaning would be the same, just not the method.

Originally posted 2.4.06 at 7.47am

One addition:
tongodeon’s claim that out boys and girls over there are doing more damage than Saddam – get real. If you want to know what is really going on over there – pull off the tinfoil hat and do a little research on your own instead of blindly swallowing the crap the goons on the TV feed you. Read the CENTCOM updates. That’s the truth, no leftist propaganda.

The Religion Of Peace?

From Michelle Malkin - "Followers..." and "In Their Own Words".

Rather telling, don't ya think...

Hat tip caltechgirl.

Rampaging Muslims

Neal Boortz has a quite valid point concerning the Muslims' outrage over the Mohammed cartoons.

A small sample:

Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and
nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.

A very interesting run-down.

The Financial Cost Of The War

From National Review Online

Iraq War Not Breaking the Bank.

Seems the war in Iraq is costing a mere 2% of our GDP, which is a whole heck of a lot less than any other we have fought with the exception of the first Gulf War.

Who'd'a thunk it, after all the hootin' and hollerin' from the moonbats and "un-baised" media...

Hat tip The CUG

Don't Close Your Blinds

Saw this over at The Gunn Nutt's. Read it. I have yet to see a better way to explain what is going on today with Iraq.

I was made aware of this piece on AnySoldier.com as part of a post by Maj. Mitchell "Taco" Bell, USMC. It has apparently been around for a while. I found a post here from Sept. 2004. So if you've already seen it, well ... read it again!

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war.....My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window. He said "Son, stand there and tell me what you see."

"I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied. "Ok, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and that you are President Bush." Our son giggled and said "OK"

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this, son....what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do son?"

"I'd call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then son?"

"Dad.....but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.

"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."

"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor see's what is happening and refused to get involved as well. He refused to open the door and help you stop him." my husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself !!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and then ....he kills her. He turns around and see you standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

"Daddy..."

'WHAT DO YOU DO?" Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the blinds, Daddy.
My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him. "Why?"

"Because Daddy....the police are supposed to help people who need them...and they won't help.....You always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop him....I'm afraid...I can't do it by myself Daddy....I can't look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and..do nothing ....so .... I'm just going to close the blinds...so I can't see what he's doing.....and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."

I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and he says....

"Son"

"Yes, Daddy"

"Open the blinds because that man....he's at your front door...."WHAT DO YOU DO?"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without hesitation he says:

"I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER,DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!.

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his chest and hugs him tight, and says..."It's too late to fight him, he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son...you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across the way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before its too late." My husband whispers.

That scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is the greatest atrocity in the world.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT !! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE !" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS !! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."

Italy Used Wiretaps To Uncover Terrorist Plots

From NewsMax.com: Major Terror Plot Against U.S. Ignored

Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S.

Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the planned attacks would have targeted stadiums, ships and railway stations, and the terrorists' goal, he said, was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11.

...

The Associated Press version of the story did not disclose that the men planned to target the U.S. Nor did it report that the evidence against the suspects was gathered via a wiretapping surveillance operation.

Furthermore, only one American newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is known to have published the story that the AP distributed. It ran on page A-6 under the headline "Italy Charges 3 Algerians.” The Inquirer report also made no mention of the plot to target the U.S. - although foreign publications included this information in the headlines and lead sentences of their stories. Nor did it advise readers that domestic wiretaps played a key role in nabbing the suspected terrorists.

Sad when the media in the targeted country will ignore a finding such as this for politics.

A Sobering Look At The Future

Go read It's The Demography, Stupid at The New Criterion. A couple of quotes from the article:

"Terror groups persist because of a lack of confidence on the part of their targets: the IRA, for example, calculated correctly that the British had the capability to smash them totally but not the will. So they knew that while they could never win militarily, they also could never be defeated. The Islamists have figured similarly. The only difference is that most terrorist wars are highly localized. We now have the first truly global terrorist insurgency because the Islamists view the whole world the way the IRA view the bogs of Fermanagh: they want it and they’ve calculated that our entire civilization lacks the will to see them off."

"What’s worrying is that we spend so much time worrying about things that
aren’t worth worrying about that we don’t worry about the things we should be
worrying about. For thirty years, we’ve had endless wake-up calls for things
that aren’t worth waking up for. But for the very real, remorseless shifts in
our society—the ones truly jeopardizing our future—we’re sound asleep."

Hat tip IMAO

A Good Democrat

Remember John Murtha's widely publicized comments about how we should bring the troops home?

Yes? Okay.

Do you remember John Lieberman's op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal about how well the war is going and why we should stay?

No?

Huh. Fancy that.

One Congressman and one Senator, both Democrats, both putting out major statements on the war in Iraq at about the same time and guess which one gets all the press?

Did you say the anti-war pansy*?

Ding ding ding! You're a winner!

Seriously though, go read Senator Lieberman's article.

*I really shouldn't call him a pansy seeing as how he served honorably and courageously himself. It just seems that he has lost his backbone and grip on reality since he's been in the big House.

What If The Leftys Were At The Nativity?

Great story from TigerHawk.

Kickin' Some Liberal Butt

Ma Deuce Gunner, back from Iraq, has something to say to the anti-war crowd. There is also a transcript of an interview with several Iraqi brothers who were interpreters for MDG's company.

And, link courtesy of Harvey, comes a lovely little article, complete with sources, about who is really lying about Iraq.

Thunder Run

Stumbled across this old post at The Mudville Gazette, link courtesy of Cox & Forkum. It is about the MSM's accusation that the US military targets journalists. There is an excerpt of "Thunder Run" by David Zucchino, LA Times correspondent. It is a little lengthy but it is definately worth the time.

World Without Zionism Conference

Want to know the Arabs' plans for the future? Look right here -

http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-havent-we-seen-this.html

That is why we need to kick some serious butt over there, send those 'martyrs' on to their reward - also known as Hell - and give Israel all the support we can. Screw the Palestinians.