OF COURSE THERE WEREN'T ANY WMDs IN IRAQ

"The chemical (found at the UN yesterday) believed to be phosgene, an old-generation nerve-gas component used extensively in the later stages of World War I and in Iraqi attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s, was discovered in a steel box last Friday by personnel cleaning out files and old boxes in a weapons inspection agency that is to be closed soon, said Ewen Buchanan, a spokesman for the agency."

Okay, so ... there were no WMDs in Iraq. Saddam Hussein wasn't a genocidal killer. We don't belong in Iraq because they "never" had anything to do with terrorism. The Taliban were just a bunch of Middle Eastern sort of quaint Amish folks. Oh ... and let's not forget we're in Iraq for the oil.

Are their any other fictions you liberal schmucks want to insist on perpetuating?

Bottom line? You're just chickenshits, and would rather blame your own country and government for anything than admit that the rest of the world is filled with lunatics who want to do you harm.

If you admit that, you might be called cowards for not doing anything about it.

Oh ... and screw the idiotic residents of city below sea level who didn't have the sense to get out of town. Are you all happy now that we overpaid them by a half-billion dollars?

Nuke Iran

STRANGERS ON MY FLIGHT

Listen to the Chairman of the Board and his take on things aerial.

THE COST OF HISTORICAL AMNESIA

I suggest that you read THIS for an unbiased look at the "non" war we "aren't" fighting with the people who "don't want us" dead.

It's from something I haven't had the pleasure to see/read before, appears to be apolitical, and is logical and intelligent. It's called the Global Politician.

Those of you who will find the article the antithesis of your ludicrous "The world's a village" philosophy can pooh-pooh it, but if you'd bother to read it, you might come away surprised.

Then again, I'll come away surprised if you do, but ...

Read it.

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WELL, THIS OUGHTA' SEAL IT

Fidel Castro, who is becoming a reverse sort of Francisco Franco of the 21st Century as rumors of impending death constantly surface (`Okay, I guess I ought to explain that to some of you. Saturday Night Live, in its early days, always included a "Francisco Franco is still dead" report in their weekly news segment. Franco was the former Spanish dictator who ... hmmmm? I guess if I have to explain it I shouldn't use it. Never mind.)

Anyway ... Castro calls a Clinton-Obama ticket "invincible."

I'm sure liberals think that's great, but before you get too ecstatic about it, I think you ought to wait until the Cuban people can openly voice their own opinions about the worth of the opinion of their supreme leader. I mean he's made Cuba such a friggin' economic powerhouse, hasn't he?

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( An August 30 add on: You might notice that the news item about this disappeared from the face of the earth - GPJ)

MY HERO ... ER, HEROINE

What a gal! Photo from the UK's Daily Mail

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER ASSAILS DEMOCRATIC CRITICS

The above is the headline the NYT went with in the Middle East section report on the Prime Minister of Iraq telling two Democrats ( Clinton and Levin) to - essentially - mind their own business since Iraq isn't a state but a sovreign country. You have to read to paragraph two before you find St. Hillary of the Bleeding Heart's name mentioned.

Now, how much ya' wanna' bet had Maliki (the PM) been talking to George Bush about the same thing, the headline - and it wouldn't have been the lead in the Middle East section either - would have trumpeted "Iraqi Prime Minister Assails Bush."

That's just more of what passes for objectivity in today's op-ed-alism. I may be beating a dead horse, but ...

FWIW: By the time I finished entering this, it already disappeared from the Google news page.

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AIN'T WAR GRAND?

And HERE'S the reason why.

Seven minutes and 27 seconds of video that explain why I thought combat was the best on my first go round.

Maybe it wasn't so much fun the second and third time, but that first time ...

And watch for the live fire hostage rescue practice with a real "hostage." Now, that man has a pair of cojones.

AND ANOTHER THING ...

In one of my other guises I write a lot about boats, boating and things marine. One of my pet peeves in the marine industry (and one that crosses over to the land-based side of things) is our governments insistence on (thanks largely to some reallllly bad science perpetrated by agenda-driven folks who want to pass a law about everything you do) furthering the ethanol agenda.

(I won't get into the low sulphur diesel/biodiesel debate, mainly because there is some merit to the stuff, although not the way/timing/marekting in which it was foisted on us.)

I could go on for ever about why the ethanol/gasoline thing is a scam involving more wasted energy and more pollution to produce than it saves in greenhouse gas emissions (actually I have in other printed forms), but you'd probably consider it some sort of genocidal rant that I dare point anything scientifically provable out. So ... here's what Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review had to say - very succinctly - about the topic.

“Ethanol is to Iowans what marijuana is to Rastafarians: a substance that is considered quasi-holy, but only because it delivers really good times.”

Ah well ... I thought it was hysterical. It wins Best Line of the Week.

DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' FACTS

An ABC news headline: "Bush Rationale for the Iraq War: Viet Nam"

What an absolute shower of shitheads.

If they ever have to tell the truth I think it's going to be like Jim Carrey as the truth-telling-because-of-a-wish lawyer in the movie Liar, Liar. They'll all be in traction the next day from beating themselves to death.

Nuke ABC and do us all a favor.

DAMN RACIST WHITE PEOPLE

Apparently the fact that Atlanta Falcon's quaterback Michael Vick sponsored dogfighting, brutally killed losers and otherwise acted like an all-out Cro-magnon idiot (my pardon to all the Geico cavemen out there) doesn't mean doo-doo. He's black and we're rascist.

The head of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, R. L. White, (ah-ha) said Wednesday that Vick has made mistakes but that they should not cost him his football career with the NFL.

"In some instances, I believe Michael Vick has received more negative press than if he would've killed a human being," White said. "The way he is being persecuted, he wouldn't have been persecuted that much had he killed somebody."

There's nothing worse than a race baiter. Can someone please fire this idiot?

Michael Vick is being prosecuted because he's rich, not black, and has absolutely NO excuse for what he did.

Hey, I've eaten dog on more than a few ocassions, but even I think what Vick and anyone like him did borders on irrationally uncivilized.

Maybe instead of jail, Vick would like to get into a fighting pit with one of the dogs. See how fast he is on his feet then.

Racism. Mr. White, you're an asshole.

YA MEAN GEORGE DIDN'T DO IT?

George Tenet, head of the CIA admitted in an in-house review that the CIA approved President George Bush's speech in which Iraq was said to have been trying to opurchase enriched uranium, even though the text was incorrect.

Well, at least Tenet, appointed by the left's favorite "he didn't do anything wrong" President, Bill Clinton, had the cojones to say the buck stopped at his desk.

I wonder what the rest of the liberals, Dems and MSM will have to say? I'm sure it'll be along the lines of, "George did it anyway."

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WE'RE WRONG. SUICIDE BOMBING IS OKAY

Well, at least according to the front page of The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. Here is the the front cover verbatim:

"We in the West find
it incomprehensible that
the minds of men, stirring
up messianic passions that can
leave societies in ruin.
We had assumed that this was
no longer possible, that
human beings had learned
to separate religious questions
from political ones, that
political theology died in
16th-century Europe. We were
wrong. It's we who are the
fragile exception."

The writer's name is Mark Lilla, who then goes on a literary adventure and apologia in an endless amount of virtually unreadable philosophizing.

I just KNEW someone would come up with a rationale concluding the West and its various religions is wrong and the animals who practice that medieval excuse for a ethical philosophy were actually "okay dudes."

How silly of me to think otherwise.

When Islam, as an ostensible "religion," declares the excommunication of the troglodytes who purport to be worshippers of the great Allah, en masse, I'll stop calling them animals and lumping them all together. Until then ...

Charlatans, thieves, rapists and murderers. Now there's a 21st-century religion that's admirably relevant.

Nuke 'em all.

HILL WATCH

Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, plans to propose an increase in the federal gas tax from 18.4 cents per gallon to 23.4 cents. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will see Oberstar’s five-cent increase and raise him by 49 cents for a 72 cents-per-gallon tax ... 50 cents of which would be in direct federal taxes, with a separate carbon-emissions tax adding an additional 22 cents.

Well, that should certainly help with prices at the pump.

Jeez!

Is anybody out there paying attention to this stuff?

HOW TO KIDNAP AMERICANS

This Web host pulled the site ... but it WAS there and I guarantee it WILL be back. Any of you who STILL don't understand we're in a war ... well, I hope you're happy never leaving home.

"The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, hosted by RealWebHost in Texas, U.S., recently posted an anonymously written document from 2003 titled "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Kidnapping Americans." The 60-page guide describes each stage of the kidnapping, explaining how to select the target and then how to follow him, seize him, transport him to a safe location, and hold him there, as well as how to conduct negotiations. The guide also explains how to execute the hostage should negotiations fail."

The guide also explains that if it becomes necessary to execute the hostage, this is best done by hanging or poisoning rather than by shooting because soldiers regard death by shooting as honorable and shooting leaves considerable blood at the scene. I asume that goes for beheadings in which someone's head is sawed off (not chopped with a well-honed blade like some bullshit ninja/Sinbad crap).

It's 0130 hours in Baghdad. You're at home watching Friends reruns. If you say a single word against our country and the Long War, you should have the decency to eat a gun.

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BLUE, RED AND THE LONG WAR

This is a policy/tactical discussion of a study concept known as Net Assessment and how it should apply to operations in the Horn of Africa.

It requires some concentration to get through, the notated source material is voluminous, but the article, found HERE is a non-political look at the war we're fighting.

Fascinating stuff.

AND FOR ANOTHER REASON TO BOMB IRAN

This from the folks at MUSICIAN'S FRIENDand their weekly TW3 review of what happened in the music world. (See, I can be as assinine as any MSM reporter!)

This week in ...

"2004, an anthology of Queen’s greatest hits is the first officially-condoned rock recording to be released in Iran…deceased frontman Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent…the cassette release sells for less than one U.S. dollar and includes a brochure explaining that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about a young man who accidentally kills someone, sells his soul to the devil, then on the eve of his execution calls God "Bismillah" in Arabic, thus redeeming his soul from the devil…yeah, that’s pretty much what we always thought that song was about, too…"

DOH!

Ah, What the hell. Nuke 'em twice

COME ON ALL YOU BIG STRONG MEN ...

Uncle Sam needs your help again ...

FromMilitary-dot-Com

Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.

"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

"And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security by one means or another," Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.

President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a "major policy shift" and Bush has made it clear that he doesn't think it's necessary.

For the entire story click HERE.

BUSH ISN'T RUNNING ?!!!?

From yesterday's Patriot Post

“[W]hen you think about it, it’s amazing how similar the 2008 race is to the 2004 race. We have a formidable establishment candidate who originally backed the war, then changed his mind (John Kerry then, Hillary Clinton now); a challenger who has opposed the war all along, and who is clearly out of his depth (Howard Dean, Barack Obama); and a third guy who stands around looking pretty (John Edwards, John Edwards). The biggest difference is that Mike Gravel doesn’t quite have the gravitas of a Carol Moseley Braun. This year, of course, everyone seems to think the Democrats are very likely, even guaranteed, to win. That’s because, unlike in 2004, George W. Bush is very, very unpopular. The biggest danger for the Dems, then, is that their nominee will figure out that Bush is not on the ballot and won’t know what to do.” —James Taranto

REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE OF THE AISLE YOU'RE ON

Good, bad or indifferent, remember those words before you cast your vote.

Thanks to Brett B from Cali for this one.

AH YES ... THE RELIGION OF PEACE. WHAT A JOKE

From Reuters News Service

Muslim lawmakers and protesters attacked feminist author Taslima Nasreen, the exiled Bangladeshi author, at a book launch in Hyderabad on Thursday, incensed by her repeated criticism of Islam and religion in general. Some radical Muslims hate Nasreen for saying Islam and other religions oppress women. An uneasy-looking Nasreen backed into a corner as several middle-aged men threw a leather case, bunches of flowers and other objects at her head, and threatened her with a chair, according to a Reuters witness and television images (nothing alleged about that, is there?). Some of the mob shouted for her death. (HEeart be still!)

And we're supposed to make believe that it's only a few bad apples.

Islam, a religion? My ass. It's simply a medieval cultural disease.

HERE'S AN IOU FOR $265 MILL

You don't hear this one everyday. (Somehow the MSM will make this George's fault, but it's still a good story).

Lockheed-Martin discovered it had "inadvertently" over-billed the US Government to the tune of $265 million on work being done on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

It returned the money to the government with interest!

SPEAKING OF SEARCHES

HERE'S an interesting article from Wired about the high-tech search for Jim Gray (a famous-in-the-Geek-community computer coder who,"...helped make possible such mainstays of modern life as cash machines, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google..." Gray, a sailor, disappeared off the coast of San Francisco six months ago.

Good stuff. (Personally, I'll bet the old lady's involved with it somehow, but then I always suspect the spouse until proven otherwise ... and have been right about 80 percent of the time, if I do say so myself).

It's a long piece but an eye-opening look at what high-tech can do these days (and "these days" is six months ago).

Anyway ... if you believe in The Black Helicopters, this article will convince you you're not just paranoid!

NAVY DIVERS AT BRIDGE COLLAPSE

The image above is of Navy Diver 1st Class Josuha Harsh of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Va. He is surfacing after completing a salvage dive in the Mississippi River as the vehicle he and his team rigged is lifted from the water. MDSU-2 is assisting other federal, state, and local authorities managing disaster and recovery efforts at the site. U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Andrew McKaskle.

For a look at several more images go HERE

OOOOOOOOOH. TSK, TSK

Lead article in a media newsletter — mind you the world is still spinning on its axis — had to do with the band Pearl Jam accusing AT&T of censoring their lyrics during a Webcast. Apparently, they sang “George Bush, leave this world alone,” which certainly sounds like a paraphrasing of a line in a song that Pearl Jam didn’t write, but, nonetheless this media watch newsletter figured it was important enough to run as the lead story.

Ooooooooooooh.

Admittedly there wasn’t much going on inside the MSM today, but they coulda’ led with the “Nobody really cares what Barry Bonds does” story, which actually sounded interesting. But then again, you couldn’t tie the President into it (although I’m sure they did).

The guys who report on the guys who report ... are non-objective assholes too.

BEST LINE LAST WEEK

From today's Evans-Noval Political Report, regarding the last week's Des Moines debates

The best line of the night was Romney's quip that Sen. Barack Obama, by expressing his willingness to use U.S. troops in Pakistan without Pakistani permission, had "gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week."

As anyone with any kind of foreign policy brain can surmise, it would have to be a nuclear winter in hell for the US to attack another nuclear power, much less, one with a regime that is working with us against the islamicists. Obama's naivete and puppy-dog desire to please is showing.

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!

This is absolutely hysterical. It starts with an advertisement for Gold Bond Powder that is funny, and then goes to THIS

Hysterical !!!

HERE’S a piece from the UK’s The Guardian about how pissed off some muslims are at the musical. Apparently a sense of humor is not a requisite for believing in allah.

And HERE’S the Website for the production.

This is great stuff and I can only hope it pisses off the islamscists as badly as those Danish cartoons did. Of course, you won’t find any MSM outlets in America with the balls enough to touch or mention this, but feel free to pass this around.

AND ON TONIGHT’S “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH” NEWSCAST

But of course the left wing media isn’t traitorous, isn’t partially responsible for the death of our troops, and isn’t partially responsible for prolonging the war. Of course not … it’s all the right’s fault. Especially that guy Bush.

Dirtbag traitors.

From the Worldwidestandard.com

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns — signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods — fabrications containing only “a smidgen of truth,” in the words of our source.

For the full story go HERE

BIG BILL BURNS 'EM

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Bill O'Reilly, but I do listen to him on occasion and he is — even at his extremes — a legitimate, vocal, sane alternative to the malfeasant subjectivity of most of the liberal press.

Was at a rock show last weekend called Hippiefest. [Some outstanding performances by both the Zombies and Mountain. The Zombies absolutely rocked the place, and Mountain was Mountain and did a version of "Blowin' in the Wind" which West dedicated to O'Reilly, that was one of the most unique and best renditions I've ever heard. Flo and Eddie and the Turtles were there and had the crowd in hysterics as well as singing along, and Mitch Ryder rocked with "Devil With a Blue Dress."]

Music critique aside ...

Turned out O'Reilly was sitting front row in the open-air theater and got razzed by "Country" Joe MacDonald, he of Woodstock's [My Woodstock story. Home after first tour. Girl says, "Wanna go to a concert upstate this weekend." Me: "I can't. I get a six hour malaria attack every night." Couldn't go to the VA or they wouldn't let me go back. Dumb ass!] "Gimme an F" and "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" (which, apparently, Joe never figured out, was sort of a "The Ride of the Valkyries" kinda tune for all of us going into combat ... seems he still thinks we sang it because we were anti-war. Oh well.)

Anyway ...

Joe claims he doesn't know what O'Reilly looks like and rags on him about being conservative, stupid, arrogant and whatnot, due to something O'Reilly said on his show about Joe, and then did the usual raving lefty anti-Bush, etc., crappola.

But then ...

As soon as ol' Joe took a breath, so many people ran down to O'Reilly for autographs and to have their pictures taken with him, that they had to get security down to keep things orderly. This went on well into the third hour of the four-hour show at every break.

Ol' Country Joe, who was supposed to be emceeing, became decidedly scarce and was no where to be seen pretty much from then on.

Best — and most accurate — comment about O'Reilly, however, was by Mountain frontman Leslie West who said (paraphrased), "I don't agree with what you say, but you sure do ask the right questions."

West also had the best line of the entire evening when he spoke to the crowd about his 40-year relationship with drummer Corky Laing. "If I'd have shot him in the head when I should have 40 years ago ... hell, I'd be out of jail already."

HEY JOE, WHERE YOU GOING WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND

From Yesterday's Patriot Post

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has taken the fight over Iraq to his once-fellow Democrats, telling The Hill this week, “There is a very strong group within the party that I think doesn’t take the threat of Islamist terrorism seriously enough.” He didn’t mention names, but Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Kennedy, Biden, Feinstein, Feingold (et al., ad nauseam) leap to mind. Lieberman went on to add that the Democrats are more motivated to act against anything President Bush does than think about the consequences of their actions.

Well, at least the honorable senator from Connecticut gets it. Unfortunately he's one of the few on either side of the aisle who does get it.

And, of course, his comments went unreported.

HEY, I DIDN'T SAY IT

“That would be a real big problem for us, no question about that.” — Rep. James Clyburn on how good news regarding the surge in Iraq would be bad for Democrats.

TW3 ... IN THE MUSIC WORLD

1972, Derek & The Dominos reach #10 on the charts with "Layla" … their only hit, it qualifies Eric Clapton (in his guise as Derek) as a bonafide member of the One Hit Wonders club … co-written by Clapton, "Layla" is one of the all-time classic rock favorites and features the slide guitar playing of Duane Allman and a wonderful piano-led coda written by Dominos drummer Jim Gordon … the group was ill-fated: Clapton slides into heroin addiction, bassist Carl Radle dies from a drug overdose, and Gordon is serving a life prison sentence for murdering his mother … keyboardist/vocalist Bobby Whitlock came through relatively unscathed, although he had to watch a terrific group fall apart while recording an unfinished second album …

For more neat-to-read stuff go to the MUSICIAN'S FRIEND Website.

43rd ANNIVERSARY FOR NAM VETS

Of what, you may ask? Welllllll ... today was the day in 1964 the destroyer USS Maddox (DD 731) and three North Vietnamese patrol boats slugged it out (well, that's overstating the action a wee bit! The Maddox did have one 14.5 mm bullet hole in it.) in the Tonkin Gulf, thereby starting the Third Southeast Asian War Games in which we won the trophy for second place.

The Maddox, in international waters, was on an intelligence gathering ops (called a DeSoto Patrol. Why, I have no idea) and was supporting ARVN raiders as well.

I assume you know the rest of the story ... if not here's an official -- and belatedly "oops, sorry 'bout that" version.

"Maddox was soon ordered to resume her patrol, this time accompanied by the larger and newer destroyer Turner Joy. On 3 August, the South Vietnamese conducted another coastal raid. Intelligence indicated that the North Vietnamese were planning to again attack the U.S. ships operating off their shores, although this intrepretation was incorrect. During the night of 4 August, while they were underway in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf, Maddox and Turner Joy detected speedy craft closing in. For some two hours the ships fired on radar targets and maneuvered vigorously amid electronic and visual reports of torpedoes.

Though information obtained well after the fact indicates that there was actually no North Vietnamese attack that night, [bold face mine — GPJ] U.S. authorities were convinced at the time that one had taken place, and reacted by sending planes from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation to hit North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases and fuel facilites. A few days later (August 10), the U.S. Congess passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which gave the Government authorization for what eventually became ..." ta-dah ... the full scale war we all recall with such fondness.

NEW BLOG SITE FOR YOUR PERUSAL

Brigitte Gabriel's American Congress for Truth has a new blog up-and-running.

Go HERE to get check it out.

OH SURE ... YOU'RE JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE YOU WERE ACTUALLY THERE

“Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily ‘victory’ but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.” —Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution and no fans of President Bush, recently returned from Iraq and writing in The New York Times
HERE's the entire piece.