IRAQ ON SCHEDULE

"In a speech to the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta, the president said that beginning next month, the more than seven-year-old conflict will change from a primarily military enterprise to a diplomatic one." From the Washington Post. More HERE .

According to the President, the war in Iraq is ending "on schedule."

I'm sure all the grunts still there will be happy to hear this, and I'm reaaaaallly sure the Iraqis we're gonna leave there will be ecstatic.

What effin' schedule?

Jesus Christ. Did we learn absolutely nothing from Nam?

We left there after turning the place over to the locals and the North — and, fair play, they won and could do what they wanted — killed or imprisoned anyone who worked with us who couldn't get out (I went back in '95 ... no Yards around).

Charlie Wilson said the same about Afghanistan the first time when we helped drive the Russians out (a grudge match if ever there was one).

We just don't learn shit, do we?

Nooooo. We just get grunts maimed and killed and say, "Okay guys, it's over. I got an election to win."

Oh well. If you joined the military for any other reason than to participate in the Ultimate Extreme Sport (war, for the uninitiated), guess what happens? You get shot, killed, or get medals and everyone drinks to your death for about five years and then ...hey, you're history. I ain't knocking joining ... I am knocking joining for any other reason that to give combat a shot.

Ah, shit.

INTERESTING AND HONEST

Well, here's something refreshing. An interesting and intellectually honest look at the present administration's policies versus the last administration's. Succinct, too. From a writer named Clive Crook in The Atlantic

"Critics in his own party and Republican opponents are attacking Barack Obama's emerging stance on national security with equal ferocity. Many Democrats are furious that the president has broken his promise to abandon the Bush administration's war-powers approach to fighting terrorism. Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, and other conservatives attack him for doing the opposite - for keeping his promise and emasculating the US anti-terror effort.

"The left's complaints make far more sense than Mr Cheney's. Mr Obama is adjusting the Bush administration's policies here and there and seeks to put them on a sounder legal footing. This recalibration is significant and wise, but it is by no means the entirely new approach that he led everybody to expect.

"Mr Obama is in the right, in my view, but he owes his supporters an apology for misleading them. He also owes George W. Bush an apology for saying that the last administration's thinking was an affront to US values, whereas his own policies would be entirely consonant with them. In office he has found that the issue is more complicated. If he was surprised, he should not have been."

NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM? — BULLSHIT

While I understand that not all muslims in the world are Ludittic 5th century-mentality assholes, having our newest C-i-C tell them we're "not at war with Islam," does nothing to help the situation in which we find ourselves; i.e., the global war on terror (another phrase our erstwhile leader abhors and will no longer use).

If President Obama, really intended to represent this country and the people who die protecting it, he would have said "we're not at war with your religion, just the idiots in it who have hi-jacked it, and those among you who have allowed this hi-jacking."

Those would be the words of a man — and a President — I could respect.

But alas ... he's just another chicken-shit, out-for-personal-power, socialist liberal shit,just like the far right portrays him.

I think I'll quote a true believer of Islam on this, Salmon Rushdie.

"If this isn't about Islam, why the worldwide Muslim demonstrations in support of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda? Why did [those] 10,000 men armed with swords and axes mass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, answering some mullah's call to jihad?"

Read the rest of Rushdie's comments HERE

President Barrack Hussein Obama ... what a joke.

SIX YEARS AGO

Tomorrow marks the sixth anniversary of our incursion (via specops and big effin' bombs) into Iraq. That is to say, our second incursion into Iraq.

Here's a salute to all those who participated, any of those lost, all those wounded, and all those still pounding the ground. No matter your branch, no matter your job, no matter the assholes back in the states.

You done good ... and continue to do so.

Keep your heads down, and shoot first.