Category: War

Memo to Speak Nancy Pelosi: Will you please STFU?

 You know, I always thought this Closet Lesbian woman was a feckless Bitch, and now I know it!

The Article: We Need a New Direction in Iraq, But Petraeus and Crocker Offered Many More Years of the Same (via The Gavel, Speaker Pelosi’s Blog)

 

Quote:

The Iraqi people government is not worthy of the sacrifice of our troops or the cost that the war is having on our readiness and our economy. We need a New Direction in Iraq, but what General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker offered today was many more years of the same.

 

……and Just what the hell is Worthy, Speaker? What is?

 

A War started by YOUR Party?

 

Funding for your Aids carrying Homosexuals, that YOU represent?

 

This crap right here, is the reason why I refuse to align myself with that party!

 

Why didn’t she just say that the Iraqi PEOPLE weren’t worth the sacrifice?!?!?! 

 

I’m sorry, but Democrats hate America man… I’m really wondering now, who I am going to vote for.

 

Sure, I know Bush put us into this War, I know this, But is it so wrong to want to fix what we broke? Is it so wrong to want to exercise some personal responsibility? Angry

 

But then again, we are talking about the feckless Liberals, like the Government we have here in Michigan.

 

Others: BLACKFIVE

 

A good Book:

No end in sight…

Hmmmmm… I guess that movie was correct.

The Article: Frustrated Senators See No Exit Signs (via washingtonpost.com)

 

Asked repeatedly yesterday what "conditions" he is looking for to begin substantial U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after this summer’s scheduled drawdown, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said he will know them when he sees them. For frustrated lawmakers, it was not enough.

"A year ago, the president said we couldn’t withdraw because there was too much violence," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). "Now he says we can’t afford to withdraw because violence is down." Asked Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.): "Where do we go from here?"

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said: "I think people want a sense of what the end is going to look like."

But the bottom line was that there was no bottom line. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker echoed what they said seven months ago in their last update to Congress — often using similar words. Iraq’s armed forces continue to improve, overall levels of violence are lower than they were last year, and political reconciliation is happening, albeit still more slowly than they would like.

That’s because with this Presidential Administration, there is no exit sign!

 

That’s the way his Neo-Conservative planners wanted it. To keep us in that war forever! That’s because Neo-Conservatives believe in perpetual war! Even at the expense of the Nation’s Military.

 

That’s Neo-Con Game, and we’re playing it…. At our Tax Expense.

 

A good Movie:

 

 

Buy the Movie:

 

Others: Washington Wire, Slate, Times of London, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, Real Clear Politics, New York Times, SWJ Blog, Sister Toldjah, New York Post, Connecting.the.Dots and Intel Dump and more via Memeornadum

My obligatory Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker Congress briefing Post

I really didn’t want to Blog about this, because everyone else and their uncle is. plus, there’s so, much partisan nonsense involved with this.

I just don’t think this issue should be treated Politically, Liberal or Conservative.

Having said that, go read the stories from various news agencies and Bloggers.

White House does John Conlee?

Seems so…

Via Think Progress:

During today’s White House press briefing, deputy spokesman Tony Fratto admitted that the White House has, at least up until recently, been looking at Iraq through “rose-colored glasses.” Responding to a question about the rising violence in Iraq, Fratto said, “I think we have thrown out all of the rose-colored glasses in how we look at Iraq and try to look at it through clear lenses as to what is going on in the country.” Fratto later added: “Like I said, we threw out the rose-colored glasses. I think we have a clear-eyed view of what’s happening in Baghdad.”

Think Progress has the video.

Cue John Conlee:

 

But then again, hasn’t George W. Bush’s Presidency been served by looking through those glasses? 

Others: Salon and The Carpetbagger Report

US Military to recruit Bloggers to spread Pro-War Propaganda

That is the report from "Danger Room", A National Security Blog at Wired.com.

Quote:

A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent Bloggers." 

Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs — and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops’ time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.

This report does not surprise me, nor is a huge revelation. I believe that US Military in Iraq, at some point, when the Iraq War began to turn sour, began to instruct some of it’s Military personnel to sign up for Blogs, say on Blogspot and WordPress, under false Iraqi names, like Omar and Mohammad, and to begin to preach the good values of this War and the Bush Administration.

One of these blogs already exists. It is called "Iraq, The Model"; it has been in existence since November of 2003. It is "supposedly" run by someone in Iraq.

Sorry, I am not buying it. The English is too good. I accused the person that owns this Blog of being a covert American once and he flew into a rage and called me a liar, and then amazingly my comments on the Blog disappeared. As if he did not want to arouse anyone’s suspicions, I suppose.

My question is, does the Bush Administration really believe that the American people are that damned gullible? That we are just going to blindly buy the lie that this war is just going along smoothly and everything is perfect. I mean really!

Coupled with that and continued moving of the Goal posts as to why we should be there! First, it was to topple Saddam, and then it became to fight against Al-Qaeda, and so forth. I mean, somewhere along the line, the American people realized that the Bush Administration was full of crap.

It just cracks me up, that George W. Bush and his Administration actually sit up there, in the White House thinking of ways that they can deceive the American people into believing that this war was even remotely justified. Everyone knows, that actually reads the news, which is good percentage of America, that the whole invasion of Iraq was an abdication of U.S. Intelligence, from the ground up. Does anyone remember, "Slam Dunk"?

Mr. President, in case you have been away or a bit busy, this is not 1941! We do have the thing called the Internet and a thing called Blogs and various other kinds of Alternative news sources! You cannot control the type of news that comes out of Iraq. No matter how hard you try! You would think a man that ended up in the White House would be smart enough to know this sort of a thing. But then again, we are talking about George W. Bush, the former cokehead, the former womanizer, the former Drunk, the guy who walked away from the Military, the Former Black sheep of the Bush Family, are we not?

Of course, upon further reflection, this is the mindset of the Republican Party, the party of the wealthy in our society. The sick and twisted mentality of "They are just stupid common people, they’ll believe anything we tell them.” The sad part is, within the Republican Party, there does exist a certain amount of that sort of Mentality. It is generally made up of the viewers of the Fox News Channel. In fairness, there are liberals like that too. "Believe what you are told and shut up and accept it and get back to work!" is the mentality of the good part of America. Thank God for people like Edward C. Marrow, and Keith Olbermann and many others, including those in the Blogging community, that have stood up and said, "No More!" and have sought to expose this Administration for what it is. Corrupt.  

I am not sure how I feel about this story, angry or sad. Angry because of the Blatant stupidity that it exhibits, or sad for our nation, sad because the American government is having to stoop to the level of hiring professional Bloggers to print lies about this war.  

November 2008 cannot come quick enough for me.

Others: THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Think Progress, Shakesville and Left in the West (via Memeoradum)

Saturday Political Headlines!

It’s the weekend. I am taking it off from writing Political articles. Hey, we all need a break. So….. Here’s the stuff that’s happening in the Political World…:

The Obama/Hillary Primary Saga Continues and Continues….

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is going to hell and a hand-basket.

The Economy is killing the Movie industry.

People want to know what will Fox News do, if a democrat takes the White House, I wonder, "who cares?" I’m sure they’ll have plenty to do, like smearing the President. (anyone remember Bill Clinton????!?!?!)

Obama’s Pastor makes an appearance, conservative media goes ape…..

Obama’s Pastor is also beyond the Pale, so says Philly Mayor. I was thinking Black Nationalist myself.

The Corner Says that the chickens of identity politics are coming home to roost.

How to avoid a Democrat Disater

The latest on the Basra Situation in Iraq

The Defeatist drums just continue to pound.

Students of Virginity?

The Gender wars continue, Dude…. errr Ummm.. Ma’am.

Team Hillary crosses the line……. again?

This is what happens, when you don't fight a war, like we did in World War 2

Go read.

Two Words. Carpet Bomb.

What we should have done, in the first place! 

Now we’re stuck in the middle of faction wars.

Stupid morons. Rolling Eyes

Update: What’s even more stupid than that, is the fact that the now that this increase in violence has occurred, the far lefty liberal Moonbats, are now starting to sing that old tired song….

What song? Oh, "The Surge is not working!" and "Iraq is falling apart!", and on and on it goes. I find it quite interesting that when things were going fine in Iraq, that the Moonbat crowd did not have a THING to say about the surge. In fact, the silence was quite deafening.

But now that the Surge, which I personally think was a stupid term, it should have been called, "What we should have done, in the first place!", is encountering some violence, the liberals are now breaking out of the defeatist hymns and striking up the band.

I just wonder, how long will it be before the Magic Negro and the Closet Lesbo for President will be leading the charge into the politics of defeat again?

Should be interesting…..

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for progressive thought, Unions and the like, but these Liberal Defeatists, like the one I linked to above, don’t speak for me, at all.