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9月11日 More Far-Left InsanityMORE FAR-LEFT INSANITY
by Jim Cash, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
Posted 070911
I normally will not indulge myself by bowing to the temptation to climb into the ditch with far-left liberals on a personal basis, but sometimes there must be an exception to the rule. This letter is a cleaned up version directed at a local left-wingnut, who repeatedly attacks our military, and those who serve, through the “Guest Opinion” section of our local newspaper. From this point on I will simply refer to him as Mr. Lefty. I would like to begin with a few generalizations followed by specifics. It is well known that the far-left has created despise for our military system, and its members, that has been allowed to enter the mainstream of the Democratic Party. Have you ever noticed how the far-left starts a paragraph when referring to the military? “While honoring the service of---I must disagree with”.
My friends, that is just another cheap shot. The far-left honors nothing that the military does, or has done. I hold that type comment in total contempt.
The following points that I will try and make are not from a book, newspaper or magazine. They are life lessons that I have personally observed over a long period of time, and I can honestly say to you that all my adult life has been devoted to serving this great nation.
First, let me say that in my 35+ years of military service, taken in total, the most well educated, common sensed and patriotic group of Americans that I have observed came from our US Military. [Whereas] John Kerry [along with like-minded leftists] is truly a foolish man.
To become an Officer in the US Air Force required a college degree, and to even be considered to command a Fighter Squadron required a Masters Degree. Most Colonels and all Generals in the US Air Force have attended three Military Service Schools, and War College.
From the beginning, a key point made over-and-over to all emphasizes the importance of civilian control over the military. That is the major difference between the United States and the dictator infested, third world countries in South America who experience a military coup every year or so. No one supports this concept more than our senior military, so the US Military leadership does not need the likes of Lefty to talk down to them about their obligation to service.
Second, no one dislikes the idea of going to war more than the soldier. He is the guy being shot at. I have never met a senior military officer who actually wanted to employ force. It is the military’s job to tell congress what the cost is to carry out their mandate, budget for the mandate, then carry out that mandate when the President so orders---nothing more. Lefty’s comment concerning “the natural tendency of military leaders to rely almost exclusively on the projection of force” borders on the insane.
Third, Big Military, defined by lefty as “those who Lord over us and defy any democratic reform whatsoever”, are you, me and our kids who serve and have served. Who does he think runs the Pentagon? It is the great guys and girls that you and I raised, educated, and saw leave the nest to go out and make the world a better place. It is the same young people who fight and sometimes die giving the far-left the opportunity to come back and impugn their integrity with cheap articles like his without loosing his head.
Fourth, our military is doing a great job in Iraq. Even hard core liberal journalists are taunting the success of the surge. Lefty’s comment that “they have completely failed to dismantle the nerve center of radical jihad” is absurd. Does he even understand what a nerve center is? I think not, because there is none in this instance.
The key to solving the Middle-East issue is Iran. Iran with a nuke is not the answer. But they, Mr. Lefty and his far-left cohorts, probably can fix that problem by simply talking to the Iranian leaders. I’m sure they will understand and stop training, equipping and providing explosive devices to the insurgents that slip through Syria bent on killing those awful GIs who make up the awful US combat forces. And, with their persuasive Democratic personalities, I am sure they will persuade Iran to give up their quest for the nuke, embrace Israel, and have Hamas give back the West Bank. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
Fifth, while on active duty, I served under Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush. Without doubt, the most asinine statement Lefty made in this article was ‘This bunch of Republicans has done more to harm our military than any Democratic Congress, or President, in history”.
Lyndon Johnson put 500,000 troops in Vietnam, tied both hands behind their backs and refused to let them fight the war. I know. I was there flying F-4s when Johnson and McNamara were picking targets from the White House, and we were not allowed to hit Mig Aircraft until they were airborne. The Army was put in defensive enclaves, and Generals were replaced for going too far in protecting their resources.
I was there as a F-15 Squadron Commander when Jimmy Carter cut spare parts procurement for all military systems to include the new F-15 fighter, and less than 33% of the birds were flyable any given day.
I was there as an F-16 Wing Commander when Ronald Reagan fixed the parts problem and over 85% of our birds were flyable every day. And, I observed with dismay as pardoned felon, Bill Clinton cut the military to the point that we are suffering 15 month tours for our Army personnel in Iraq today.
Mr. Lefty, how can you make such absurd statements? As military people and leaders, we all suffered when the Democrats were in control, and we hung in there until finally a Republican came along and fixed it. Anyone who thinks that the Democratic Party cares more for this country's military people than the Republicans is a hardcore fool!!!
Sixth, the question, “can a Democratic government afford to wait another 500 days” is very interesting. I know the far-left hates George Bush, but is possible that Lefty is advocating overthrow of the US Government? Obviously, although at times misguided, the President has done nothing even approaching a level deserving Impeachment, as Bill Clinton did. I can see no other meaning to that statement.
Seventh (and finally), my friends, this article is a classic example of the American People being bam-boozled by the far-left into thinking that there is no Islamic threat, we can talk to them and make friends, and we need to get out of Iraq. What is happening in the world right now is far bigger than just Iraq, and only our military stands between maintaining the American way of life and its total destruction.
It does not bother me at all to be belittled by the far-left personally. In fact, I enjoy knowing that I have succeeded in some small way. However, to Mr. Lefty and his ilk, I think I can safely say---Your timing is very bad. The American People are a smart lot. They can see through the far-left and their socialist leanings, and THEY LOVE THEIR MILITARY PEOPLE. Their military is family.
The Democratic Party will pay a high price in the long run for degrading our men and woman in uniform once again, as they did in Vietnam. America is tired of the war, but they will never tire of the patriotism shown by our military, both its leadership and its warriors.
8月29日 Our Friends, The Chinese Commies
7月7日 The War is here. Are you ready?Exclusive: The War is Here – Are You Ready? The warnings and the facts are all around us…the war against civilian populations in the West has begun and America is in the crosshairs. FSM Contributing Editors Renee and Mark Taylor revisit some of the clear warnings and ask if we are ready to heed them at last. The War is Here – Are You Ready? By Mark R. And Renee E. Taylor
In a style reminiscent of the vehicle born incendiary explosive devices (VBIED) used in Iraq and by terrorists worldwide, two Mercedes were found in London this weekend packed with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. The bombs were to be exploded using cell phones as remote detonators, another favorite tactic of those terrorists who do not wish to die themselves. Had the plan been successful, potentially hundreds of innocent civilians would have been brutally murdered either by the explosions or by the deadly projectiles that the nails would have become. London was saved by alert citizens who noticed something was amiss and took swift action.
The United States, because of lax border security and an inability to enforce its own immigration laws, will be next. Over the past few months, our news has been consumed with debate on an amnesty bill that would give legal status to millions of illegal aliens who have crossed the US/Mexico border. A red-faced, shrill Ted Kennedy would have us believe that these illegals are all here to pick lettuce. President Bush, who was adamant after September 11, 2001, that he would do all he could do to keep Americans safe, attempted to feed the American public the same false bill of goods.
With the focus on the senorita cleaning motel rooms or the senor waiting outside Home Depot for a day labor job, Washington has forgotten that we are at war. We are at war with a sly, evasive enemy who preys on our unwillingness to secure our homeland. It should come as no surprise that the enemy is among us, waiting to strike. You have been warned.
On October 19, 2001, J. Zane Walley reported for World Net Daily “Arabs have been reported crossing the Arizona border for an unknown period. Border rancher George Morgan encounters thousands of illegals crossing his ranch on a well-used trail. He relates a holiday event: ‘It was Thanksgiving 1998, and I stepped outside my house and there were over a hundred 'crossers' in my yard. Damnedest bunch of illegals I ever saw. All of them were wearing black pants, white shirts and string ties. Maybe they were hoping to blend in,’ he chuckled. ‘They took off, I called the Border Patrol, and a while later, an agent, Dan Green, let me know that they had caught them. He said that they were all Iranians.’
“According to Border Patrol spokesperson Rob Daniels, ‘Ten Egyptians were arrested recently near Douglas, Arizona. Each had paid $7,000 to be brought from Guatemala into Mexico and then across the border.’
“According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, hours after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an anonymous caller led Mexican immigration agents to 41 undocumented Iraqis waiting to cross into the United States.“
On March 22, 2005, The Christian Science Monitor reported, “in a Feb. 16 Senate hearing, Mr. Mueller cited the case of Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who paid to be smuggled across the US-Mexico border in 2001. He pleaded guilty on March 1 to providing material support to Hezbollah and was sentenced to no more than five years in prison.”
“The most recent sign, though, that terrorists may be thinking of entering the US from the south came from the mastermind of many of the terror attacks in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Last week, US officials revealed that Mr. Zarqawi may be planning to broaden his campaign to include strikes in the US - and suggested it would be easy to infiltrate the US through the southern border.”
On December 4, 2006, the editors of Family Security Matters did an extensive expose, “Border Security, Terrorism and You”, on the terrorist threat from our southern border. In a comprehensive list of reports of terrorist threats to our country through the porous Mexican border, FSM reports that in 2005, “at least 850 people from countries of “special interest” were apprehended crossing the southern border. How many more successfully crossed is unknown.”
On December 29, 2006, we wrote an article for GreatMindsThinkRight titled “Bolo – Adnan el Shukrijumah”. On the FBI’s Most Wanted List, Shukrijumah’s extended stay in Mexico in 2004 raised some concern. Known for his desire to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States to facilitate his “American Hiroshima”, the Mexican border provides a welcome mat for his comrades to execute his dastardly plans. Shukrijumah was also the subject of Adrian Morgan’s “The Islamists Nuclear Threat to America”, published on Family Security Matters (June 20, 2007). Morgan lays out the threat to our nation that should shock every American into the war footing needed to fight the enemy on all fronts – in the Middle East and most importantly, here at home.
And Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV), as well as others in our government - “leaders” who were elected to protect us - want you to think that illegal immigrants only want to “do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Senator Reid and his clueless colleagues have forgotten to add to the list the illegal immigrants “who will do the terrorist bombings Americans won’t do.” With very good reason, common-sense Americans care far more about the latter than the former.
On June 2007, a plot to blow up the pipelines leading to New York’s JFK Airport was thwarted and the perpetrators arrested. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “The plot was hatched in January 2006 in New York and involved Muslim extremists from Guyana and Trinidad. It was broken up while still in the planning stages with the aid of an informant” and involved a former Evergreen airlines worker.
Three of the infamous “Fort Dix Six”, who hatched a plot to attack Fort Dix, New Jersey, and kill American soldiers, entered the United States illegally through Mexico and, according to World Net Daily, “the three illegal aliens in the group – who came across the Mexican border – were pulled over a total of 19 times by local police for traffic violations but never reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of sanctuary policies.”
Ours is a country in denial – a denial underscored by ill-informed politicians in Washington, the mainstream media and by average citizens who refuse to acknowledge the fact that we are at war. Since the war’s inception, “human rights activists” and other far left groups have demanded civil court trials for the enemy caught on the battlefield and sent to Guantanamo Bay. The civilian population can accept criminal acts – a daily occurrence that is handled admirably by our law enforcement and legal system. Unlike war, this does not disrupt their lives. But by admitting the obvious - that insurgents live and work alongside us – that would force them to make difficult decisions for which our politically correct society has not prepared them. In fact, worse than that, Washington will not build the fence on the US/Mexican border. They will not send armed soldiers to guard the borders, and they imprison Border Patrol agents for protecting this country from drug smugglers.
With this eery and inexplicable denial all around us, Americans must be vigilant just like the heroes who thwarted the bombings in London this weekend. We must get on a much-needed wartime footing and realize the war is already here. The truck bombs are here. The car bombs are here. The enemy is here. Are you ready to do your part?
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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Editor Mark R. Taylor served in Iraq from January 2004 to May 2005 as a civilian convoy commander. His commentary has appeared in Landline Magazine, American Daily and Townhall.com, and he has been interviewed on a variety of radio programs. His website is www.uglypuppy.net.
Renee Taylor is the editor of http://www.greatmindsthinkright.com/, a freelance writer, photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. A former truck driver, she has devoted her time to studying convoy operations and promoting the positive image of the American Trucker in Iraq.
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6月20日 Anti-defense radical want to shelve missle defenseJune 19, 2007 | By Nathaniel Ward | Read online Liberals plan to cut missile defenseLiberals in Congress are proposing a defense bill that would undermine efforts to expand America’s missile defense capability, leaving America’s citizens and armed forces exposed. Heritage defense expert Baker Spring explains that two provisions in the bill would put a damper on missile defense development. “The first eliminates funding for a test bed for missile defense systems in space, and the second establishes operational testing requirements in order to continue development of the missile defense system.” Take our poll: Is it in America’s interests to fully develop a ballistic missile shield? Read Spring’s debunking of liberal distortions about missile defense. Go to www.Heritage.org for additional information 5月30日 STOP THE TRASHING OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY!If you thought that Ted Kennedy and John McCain simply wanted to give Amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens... then you haven't heard -- as Paul Harvey would say -- "the rest of the story." According to a report by WorldNetDaily.com, this amnesty bill ALSO legitimizes the eventual formation of a North American Union -- and with it the construction of a "North American Superhighway" -- a plan that until now, our elected officials told us was an urban legend... a myth... a fairy tale. WorldNetDaily.com claims its right there in black-and-white: "WASHINGTON -- The controversial 'Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007,' which would grant millions of illegal aliens the right to stay in the U.S. under certain conditions, contains provisions for the acceleration of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a plan for North American economic and defense integration, WND has learned." "The bill, as worked out by Senate and White House negotiators, cites the SPP agreement signed by President Bush and his counterparts in Mexico and Canada March 23, 2005 -- an agreement that has been criticized as a blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America." "'It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico, which will lead to reduced migration,' the draft legislation states on page 211 on the version time-stamped May 18, 2007 11:58 p.m." So, it would appear that Democrats and Republicans -- have come up with a final solution to the millions of illegal aliens who are in this country. Forget about sealing the border. Instead, effectively merge the United States, Mexico and Canada and build a Superhighway ABOUT FOUR FOOTBALL FIELDS WIDE, running from Mexico through the U.S. heartland and into Canada. Pave the way for an invasion of 18-wheel trucks coming from Mexico -- carrying God knows what -- with no checkpoint at the border.
When conservative congressmen asked the Department of Transportation about the scheme to build this Superhighway, Jeffrey N. Shane, Undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation, testified that before Congress that it was "an urban legend" -- i.e., a lie!
And now, this Amnesty bill actually calls for the United States to "accelerate the implementation" of what we were told, until now, was an urban legend!
Is the granting of Amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens an end or is it a means to an end? GO TO https://www.grasstopsusa.com/amnestyxxxii.html for the rest of the story -- and what YOU can do to thwart the trashing of U.S. sovereignty by George Bush and the Congress. 5月20日 Sandy Burglar Gets a PassMost criminals who steal classified national documents receive vacations at Fort Leavenworth. Miscreants and criminals from the Clinton Administration are/were pardoned or receive petty punishments. Here's proof:
From NewsMax.com, May 20, 2007 Clinton Aide Forfeits Law License Clinton White House National Security Adviser Samuel Berger, who was convicted of taking classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, has agreed to surrender his license to practice law. In a written statement issued by his attorney, Larry Breuer, Berger, 61, said: “I have decided to voluntarily relinquish my license. While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession. I am very sorry for what I did, and I deeply apologize.” Berger, national security adviser from 1997 to 2001, was convicted of removing documents from the Archives in 2005 while preparing to testify before the 9/11 Commission. He was fined $50,000 and sentenced to 100 hours of community service, the Washington Times reported. The documents taken by Berger pertained to a terrorist assessment from 2000, before George W. Bush was sworn in as president. Specifically, they dealt with a report detailing the Clinton administration's response to so-called millennium terrorist threats — a highly secret assessment that was, according to some reports, less than stellar. The report was compiled by Richard Clarke, the same counterterrorism czar under Clinton and President Bush who criticized the latter's handling of intelligence prior to 9/11. Byron York, White House correspondent for the National Review, wrote: "Clarke apparently concluded that the millennium plot was foiled by luck — a border agent in Washington state who happened to notice a nervous, sweating man who turned out to have explosives in his car — and not by the Clinton administration's savvy anti-terrorism work." By giving up his law license, Berger avoids being cross-examined by the Board on Bar Counsel and possibly disclosing further details of his theft. 4月27日 Admiral Harry ReidHarry Reid: Traitor orLatter-Day Copperhead?From WSJ 4/30/07 "I believe . . . that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week."--Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, April 19, 2007 "Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States."--1864 Democratic platform General Harry ReidFor Reid there's no substitute for defeat == by David Reinhard==
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