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Author: GI JANE

  • Stark raving lunatic

    Rep. Pete Stark (D.-California) is spewing again. During the recent SCHIP bill debate, which was rightfully vetoed by President Bush, Stark let go with another one of his rants.  In the middle of his diatribe he screeched about funding the ”illegal” war but not spending money on children, and ‘kids’ sent to Iraq to “blow people up” and “get their heads blown off” for President Bush’s “amusement.”

    Said Stark:

    “Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war? You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”

    Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGaNR9dVPM

     

    He also thanked his faithful “constituents” at the DailyKos for their support:

    Thanks!

    Hey folks. I wanted to drop by, say hello, and thank you for your kind words of support.

    We’ve got to provide health care to children — and we’ve got to end this war!

    by Congressman Pete Stark on Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 10:25:58 AM PDT

    Link: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/10/18/12258/878/312#c312

    What’s next? A personal, hand written Valentine to Osama Bin Laden?

    There’s more lunacy where that came from:

    The facts are still in dispute about what happened in last Friday’s committee meeting to mark up pension funds legislation. At the time, Democrats objected to Thomas, R-Calif., whisking through approval by voice vote on a bill Democrats have said they had not had a chance to review. The standoff ended with Thomas calling the police to remove the Democrats from the committee library and Democrats storming to the House floor to offer a resolution disapproving of Thomas’ actions.

    Not in dispute over the events that led up to the House debate that ensued are the heated remarks by Stark, D-Calif., who was left in the committee room to hold down the fort while Democrats strategized on their game plan.

    While no cameras recorded the event, a stenographer took down every word Stark uttered. Republican Rep. Kenny Hulshof recited them back on the House floor.

    “‘You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake,’” Hulshof, R-Mo., read from the unofficial transcript.

    Stark directed the word — considered by some to be a gay slur —- at Republican Rep. Scott McInnis, who is married and by all accounts not gay.

    Republican sources also claim that during the chaotic scene in the committee, Stark fired another gay slur in the direction of Chairman Thomas. The word is too vulgar to print in full, but the last half of it is “sucker.”

    Now, one Republican wants to know where is the outrage at the Democrat for his seemingly intolerant remarks.

    “This isn’t the first time. That’s the problem here. The Democrats fail to recognize this is an ongoing problem,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.

    Stark has a long history of making outrageous remarks. He once called Republican Rep. Nancy Johnson “a whore,” and said former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan is “a disgrace to his race.”

    …..And instead of condemning Stark, Human Rights Campaign (Gay Rights group) seemed to agree.

    A spokesman from the gay activists group, usually quick to condemn hints of slight or slur against the gay community, defended the hot-headed lawmaker, saying he probably used the word to mean McInnis was nutty.

    “I think Congressman Stark’s use of the word, he probably regrets having used it. I think he meant nothing by it, but I think in the 2003 context, it’s probably a poor choice of words. But it’s also important to note that Congressman Stark is one of the gay community’s staunchest allies,” said Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign.

    …..Democrats are still complaining that Thomas acted improperly by calling police to evict them from the library, and have said that the rights of the minority party are being trampled.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92537,00.html

    Yoooohooooo, New York Times, where the hell are you?  No outrage? No righteous gay/lesbian/bi sexual/transgender/politically correct/liberal indignation? All things considered, Barney Frank fits the epithets regurgitated by Stark.

    Pete also shows how much he “supports” the troops:

    When Daniel Dow returned home Thursday evening, he noticed he had a voice mail message. To his great surprise, it was left by his Congressman, Pete Stark (D-CA), in response to a fax he had sent in an hour earlier.

    But to Dow’s even greater surprise, the message was a smarmy smear, one in which Congressman Stark essentially called him stupid and implied that the enlisted man, who had just returned from Kosovo, did not care about enlisted men and women.

    Thursday evening, the House voted on one of its typical resolutions supporting the troops in Iraq, but also condemning the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and calling for a full investigation. 16-term San Francisco liberal Pete “Fortney” Stark was one of 50 Congressmen to oppose the non-controversial resolution.
    Daniel Dow wrote an intelligent, though strongly worded letter expressing his outrage and faxed it to Rep. Stark’s office at 4:30pm PST. Dow stepped out for some errands, and upon returning home, he listened to his voice mail.

    This is what he heard:

    “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Stark then informs the enlisted man, “So if you care about enlisted people, you wouldn’t have voted for that thing, either.”

    “Probably somebody put you up to this, and I’m not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in the letter and somebody wrote it for you. So I don’t pay too much attention to it.”

    …..“But I’ll call you back later.” …..to let you tell me why you think you’re such a great, god-damned hero.”

    Stark did not call back.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={608B6175-D29C-4580-AB37-0D70956442A3

    Luckily, Dow kept the message and passed it on to KSFO, a talk radio station in San Fransisco.

    Pete Stark is a certifiable asshat. His imbecilic rant rates right down there with Murtha and Durbin’s usual acrimonious speech.  Like many of his unhinged Democratic colleagues, he moved the line and crossed it, without so much as a peep from the Fifth Column.

    Jonn added: Gateway Pundit catches “Crooks and Liars” living up to their name while defending Stark’s comments.

  • Abatement of violence equals bad news for Iraqi grave diggers

    And you thought the Democrats were depressed:

    NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.

    A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that’s cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

    Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq .

    “I always think of the increasing and decreasing of the dead,” said Sameer Shaaban, 23, one of more than 100 workers who specialize in ceremonially washing the corpses. “People want more and more money, and I am one of them, but most of the workers in this field don’t talk frankly, because they wish for more coffins, to earn more and more.”

    The Islamofascists, on the other hand, are filling up holes like crazy:

    On a recent day, after the ritual washing, four male relatives carried a coffin containing the scorched and torn body of Mohammed Hazim , 33. Three women trailed, weeping.

    Hazim, a member of the radical Mahdi Army militia, had been killed in a U.S. attack in Diyala province, his brother, Ali , said.

    “Death to infidel America and the agent Iraqi government,” the family chanted again and again.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071016/wl_mcclatchy/20071016bcusiraqcemetery_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop

    Well, if they don’t mind, I say let’s give em’ all the al Qaeda, Iranian, and Syrian business they can handle….courtesy of the Infidels.

  • More of Gore’s hot air

    A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al’s Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to “alarmism and exaggeration” and identified nine major factual errors.For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m “in the near future”. “The Armageddon scenario he predicts,” declared Burton, “is not in line with the scientific consensus.” 

    I’ll say. The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere between 15cm and 60cm, with about 30cm being most likely. An Inconvenient Truth insouciantly adds a zero to the worst-case scenario.

    And nobody minds. His Honour was examining the vice-president’s acclaimed crockumentary because the British Government, in its wisdom, has decided to force-feed it to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren. It would be nice to think it would have to be preceded by a warning that any resemblance between this film and any actual planet living or dead is entirely coincidental, but it seems more likely that the Nobel Peace imprimatur will completely insulate the picture from even the most modest quibbles.

    A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore’s movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

    Link: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22584694-7583,00.html

    Wow, talk about socialist-style indoctrination. 

    When it comes to practicing double standards, no group of individuals performs better than the legion of paranoid doomsday theorists, who find cataclysm behind every door, or in this case, Fahrenheit.  This time around, their leader is Al Gore, who keeps getting ridiculous extensions on his 15 minutes.  “Weatherman” Al’s Godzilla-sized carbon footprint, by the way, is large enough to squash Los Angeles:

    Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES) In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

    http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367  
    Some dissenters of the Gospel according to Algore have even received death threats:

    Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change. One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming. “Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,” said the professor. “I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.”

    Last week, Professor Ball appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a Channel 4 documentary in which several scientists claimed the theory of man-made global warming had become a “religion”, forcing alternative explanations to be ignored. Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – who also appeared on the documentary – recently claimed: “Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labeled as industry stooges.” “Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen211.xml

    The truth really is inconvienient.

  • Last letter from Al Qaida Chief: “We’re desperate”

    Quick! Someone send a copy to Harry “the war is lost” Reid: 

    BAGHDAD — The U.S. military is eliminating Al Qaida’s chain of command in Iraq. Officials said several leading aides to Al Qaida network chief Abu Ayoub Al Masri have been killed by the U.S.-led coalition. They said two out of the four foreign aides of Al Masri remain alive.

    On Sept. 25, the U.S. military killed an Al Qaida chief deemed responsible for transporting foreign operatives to Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported. The Al Qaida commander, identified as Abu Osama Al Tunisi, was killed in a U.S. air strike as he met his colleagues in Musayib, about 60 kilometers south of Baghdad.

    Shortly before he died, Al Tunisi wrote a letter that warned of a threat to Al Qaida operations in Karkh. The lettter, found by the U.S. military, sought guidance from Al Qaida leaders amid coalition operations that hampered Al Tunisi’s network. “We are so desperate for your help,” the letter read.

    “This was a dangerous terrorist who is no longer a part of Al Qaida in Iraq,” U.S. Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson, chief of staff of the Multinational Corps Iraq, said. “His death deals a significant blow to their operation. Abu Osama Al Tunisi was one of the most senior leaders within Al Qaida in Iraq.”

    Anderson said Al Tunisi and two other Al Qaida operatives were killed in the U.S. Air Force bombing mission. The brigadier told a Sept. 28 briefing that an F-16 multi-role fighter leveled the building where Al Tunisi had been meeting Al Qaida operatives.

    Al Tunisi was said to have been a leading adviser to Al Masri, officials said. They said Al Tunisi, a Tunisian national, might have been designated Al Masri’s successor.

    “The inner circle of leadership with Abu Ayoub Al Masri consists of foreigners, and Al Tunisi was in this top tier of leadership,” Anderson said.

    This was the second leading aide of Al Masri killed in less than a month. On Aug. 31, another member of Al Masri’s inner circle, Abou Yaakoub Al Masri, was killed near Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad. Anderson said the two remaining foreign leaders of Al Masri’s inner circle remain at large.

    Al Tunisi was termed the emir, or commander, of foreign operatives in Iraq. Anderson said Al Tunisi was responsible for the arrival of Al Qaida recruits into Iraq and their placement in operational cells.

    Officials said more than 80 percent of suicide bombings have been by foreign operatives. They said most of the Al Qaida recruits arrive in Syria by air and continue overland into Iraq.

    http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_iraq_09_30.asp

    Desperation aside, those borders have to be secured to cut off the ingress points of the Islamic terrorist scumbags traipsing across. Better yet, just bomb Damascus. Maybe then, Assad will get the point.

  • U.S. lifts Palestinian embargo

    Remember when the PA was a terrorist group?:

    Excerpt:
    U.S. lifts Palestinian embargo
    By Joseph Curl
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    June 19, 2007

    The Bush administration yesterday lifted economic sanctions and a diplomatic embargo against the Palestinian Authority after its expulsion of the Islamist group Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip last week.
    Seeking to strengthen President Mahmoud Abbas by resuming direct U.S. aid, the administration moved swiftly after Mr. Abbas ousted Hamas from his national security council, installed an emergency Cabinet and outlawed the terrorist militia, which calls for the destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews worldwide.
    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that she told new Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the decision to end the 15-month-old embargo in a telephone call.
    “I told him the United States would resume full assistance to the Palestinian government and normal government-to-government contacts,” she told reporters at the State Department.
    “We intend to lift our financial restrictions on the Palestinian government, which has accepted previous agreements with Israel and rejects the path of violence. This will enable the American people and American financial institutions to resume normal economic and commercial ties with the Palestinian government,” Miss Rice said.
    In another major boost to Mr. Abbas, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana announced yesterday in Luxembourg that the 27-nation bloc would resume direct financial aid — hundreds of millions of dollars — to the Palestinian Authority now that Hamas is no longer part of the government.
    Mr. Abbas’ Information Minister Riyad al-Malki told reporters after the new government met in the West Bank city of Ramallah that “the government will pursue its jurisdiction over all parts of the homeland, regardless of what happened in Gaza.”
    In the past week, Hamas has seized control of Gaza by force, winning a series of battles with Mr. Abbas’ Fatah movement and executing its members.

    http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070619-121826-6342r”>http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20070619-121826-6342r

    The last time I checked, they still were.  When Israel relinquished control of the Gaza strip and hastily withdrew from Lebanon, warring terrorist factions duked it out.  In Gaza, the extremist bad guy with the most toys won– Hamas, that is–and Hezbollah promptly set up shop in Lebanon, thereby creating yet another threat to security. The icing on the cake is our re-newed diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, because Mahmoud Abbas kicked out a political rival?  Any stability in the Middle East would be a welcome sight but the problem is, every inch given to extremist combatants, results in a mile.

    Look, the very idea of a “moderate Palestinian” is an oxymoron.  Every group over there has a long, bloody, brutal history with a reputation for being just as bad, if not worse than the ones they replace.   One way to look at it is as a survival mechanism, much like a gang.  Any one of them giving the appearance of cooperation with Israel or the U.S. is met with retaliation, both politically and militarily.  Even if they wanted to, the Palestinian Authority doesn’t have the clout to pull off a full-fledged independent state, capable of stability and prosperity.  Founded by the late Yasser Arafat, it still harbors and supports terrorist cells; only cracking down when it’s convenient.

    President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are backing Mahmoud Abbas in his fight against Hamas, pinning their hopes on “a reasonable voice amongst the extremists.”

    The last ‘reasonable voice’ among the Arabs was Anwar Sadat.  Remember what happened to him?

  • “Learning and Labor”

    Oberlin Ohio is located about 35 miles south of Cleveland and its college namesake has all the ambiance of Berkeley. Yeah, like the one in California.  In that vein, the Class of 2007 wore “non traditional” attire, as demonstrated by one young lady dressed like a sixties flower child. 

    Commencement Speaker Connie Shultz, journalist and wife of Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, made the gratuitous Democratic gesture of a “moment of silence” for veterans, then proceeded to get down to the business of injecting anti-war politics into her speech.  Said she to the graduates: “You’re entering a world which we’ve royally screwed up for you, and I’m sorry for that.  But because I know you are better than you think you are, I am filled with hope.”  She did the perfunctory PR about the plight of the middle and working class while decrying U.S. policy in the war against Islamic terrorism.

    Ok, first of all, who’s “we” and why the pessimistic reference about the world?  This planet has never been a hospitable place 100% percent of the time.  If she wants to take the blame for a “screwed up world”, be my guest. But I can tell her this: the reason she and her fellow anti-war mates are able to stand before a graduating class of like-minded leftist ditto heads, is because the veterans she so briefly honored stand between freedom and tyrants who want to take it away and replace it with something not conducive to their way of life.

    If Ms. Schultz thinks that this new generation is “better than they think they are”, let’s see what they do for their families, their communities and their country before we get our hopes up.  Every successive group of graduates has a sense of enthusiasm and hope tempered by a bit of trepidation. From what I’ve seen on my almost 50 years on this earth, we Americans have it pretty good.  Our standard of living is among the world’s best and even the poorest among us has a tax-payer working-class funded government dole.

    And speaking of “royally screwed”, this particular crop of Congressional and Senatorial Democrats are some of the most mentally and emotionally unstable politicians, ever. Once known as the ‘loyal opposition’, they have morphed into a gang of disloyal collaborators. Their distain for George W. Bush and the war against Islamic despots overrides any possibility of a unified, bi-partisan effort for the defense of the United States. 

    Domestically, they are elitist poufs who manipulate the unionized working class, the poor, and minorities into believing that in spite of the stark contrast between their lifestyles and their constituents, they really care. (wink,wink)

    Now that the Democrats run amok, we shall see how the “cut and run” strategy, sympathy for terrorists, and lax attitude toward illegals and national security pans out.

    As long as there are American citizens and Soldiers guarding this country from despicable enemies, Schultz should keep her mea culpas to herself. 

  • Edwards wants to “honor” Memorial Day with protests

    I came across this little gem while viewing the VFW website today:

    Edwards’ Call to Protest Dishonors Memorial Day

    WASHINGTON, May 17, 2007

    A (http://www.supportthetroopsendthewar.com/) plea by presidential candidate John Edwards to encourage war protests at Memorial Day events across the country has drawn the anger of the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. “Memorial Day is a solemn occasion to remember the service and sacrifice of more than one million American servicemen and women who gave their lives to create our nation, to save our Union, and to help free the world from tyranny,” said Gary Kurpius, who leads the 2.4 million-member VFW, the nation’s oldest major veterans’ organization and its largest organization of combat veterans.
    “Memorial Day is not a time to call people to protest the war in Iraq under the guise of supporting the troops,” he said. “To do so dishonors those who served, those who continue to serve, and to the families who grieve.” The candidate’s message is a link from his main website to another site that lists 10 things people can do over the Memorial Day weekend to “support” the troops while calling for an end to the war. “My generation went to war with a divided country and Congress, and our nation does not need to relive that experience ever again,” said Kurpius, a Vietnam veteran from Anchorage, Alaska.
    “Calling for protests for political gain is not how you support the troops. You support them by ensuring they are fully trained, equipped and funded, and you ensure they and their families are taken care of every step of the way,” he explained. “To support the troops is to support what it is they do,” he said, adding that U.S. troops in harms way believe the new diplomatic, economic and military strategy has a chance of succeeding. “And if they have faith, then we, as Americans, must have faith and patience, too.”

    A () plea by presidential candidate John Edwards to encourage war protests at Memorial Day events across the country has drawn the anger of the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. “Memorial Day is a solemn occasion to remember the service and sacrifice of more than one million American servicemen and women who gave their lives to create our nation, to save our Union, and to help free the world from tyranny,” said Gary Kurpius, who leads the 2.4 million-member VFW, the nation’s oldest major veterans’ organization and its largest organization of combat veterans.“Memorial Day is not a time to call people to protest the war in Iraq under the guise of supporting the troops,” he said. “To do so dishonors those who served, those who continue to serve, and to the families who grieve.” The candidate’s message is a link from his main website to another site that lists 10 things people can do over the Memorial Day weekend to “support” the troops while calling for an end to the war. “My generation went to war with a divided country and Congress, and our nation does not need to relive that experience ever again,” said Kurpius, a Vietnam veteran from Anchorage, Alaska.“Calling for protests for political gain is not how you support the troops. You support them by ensuring they are fully trained, equipped and funded, and you ensure they and their families are taken care of every step of the way,” he explained. “To support the troops is to support what it is they do,” he said, adding that U.S. troops in harms way believe the new diplomatic, economic and military strategy has a chance of succeeding. “And if they have faith, then we, as Americans, must have faith and patience, too.”Link:  http://www.vfw.org/

    Newsflash for John Edwards: The typical Democrat double speak of “supporting the troops” without also supporting the mission, is some of the most incongruous crap I’ve ever heard. The two are not mutually exclusive.

    The Democrat’s idea of “support” is an “exit strategy” that involves cut and run as well as handing the al Qaeda a withdrawal date on a silver platter.

    I don’t blame President Bush for vetoing a funding bill with a cut and run tactic attached. I would have gone to the floor of the Senate and ripped it up right in front of you.

    Tell me John, are you a “peace at any price” pacifist, or is there actually a point where you would grow a set of balls and say yep, we should not just fight back, but eradicate them and finish the job while we’re at it?

    Another ploy by the Left is to assign the “Vietnam” mantra to every war it disagrees with. No matter how badly they want it to be another “Vietnam” it isn’t happening, and their historical amnesia kicks in every time this war is debated.

    Here’s an easy scenario:
    In spite of ominous indicators, and turmoil that was contained on someone else’s turf, we remained complacent.
    An enemy sends planes to bomb and crash into U.S. territory. The attack kills roughly 3000 Americans.
    War is declared and retaliation begins against the perpetrators and their allies.
    Sound familiar?
    It happened 7 December 1941.

    There’s your comparison, Mr. Edwards.

    It’s simple: We were attacked by Islamic thugs supported not only by Iraq and Afghanistan but throughout the Middle East and they are two good places to start retaliation. Just ask Hussein, Uday, Qusay, Zarqawi, and al Masri how they feel….oh that’s right, they’re not available for comment.

    You didn’t expect them to be very happy at the fact that we brought the war they started, back to them, did you? Of course they’re going to be pissed. Of course they’re going to fight back, not just with weapons but through media exploitation. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century and all you leftist blockheads are capable of is spouting nonsense and being al Qaeda apologists.

    Soldiers are going to die in war. They go into harms way for good reasons, and I can’t think of a better one than protecting Western Civilization from being subjugated by Sharia Law.
    In case you still don’t get it, they want to kill us. They made that pretty clear on 11 September 2001.
    If you don’t understand that, maybe they didn’t hit close enough to your own back yard.

    The Left loves to wallow in body counts and pervert the sacrifice of U.S. troops into an anti-war statement, but they never praise, appreciate, or really support the military.  Dick Durbin calls us “Nazi’s”, Harry (”white flag”) Reid announced that he thinks the war is “lost”, John Murtha calls us “murderers”, and the rest of the Democrat obliviots never hesitate to add their two cents. What a wonderful way for the Democratic Party to show its true colors. (Hint: it ain’t Red, White, and Blue)

    Tell you what Senator, if you really support the military, then get your butt on the first plane smoking to the war zone, and speak with the troops. You will find that they do not want to leave without finishing the job and they want all of the resources and weapons necessary to accomplish that….if you really “support” them, that is.

    GI JANE

    sfcmac@wordpress.com

  • Jimmy Carter: Portrait of an abject failure

    There’s an old saying that goes: “Let your life serve as a warning to others”.  In Jimmy Carter’s case, that’s an understatement.  In the “worst president in history” category, it’s a tie between Jimmy Carter and Bubba Clinton. Neither was keen on national security, and both were dismal failures at foreign policy. They were however, adept at smooth-talking minorities and poor into believing that age-old myth of the “Democratic party being for the “working class”.  All one needs to do is study the history of the Unions in this country to see the result of that lie.
    The former Georgia peanut farmer never met a dictator he didn’t like.  His approach to foreign dictators is stomach-turning.
    Of Saddam Hussein, Carter said: “Even if his effort is successful [Colin Powell addressing the U.N. Security Council] and lies and trickery by Saddam Hussein are exposed, this will not indicate any real or proximate threat by Iraq to the United States or to our allies.”  Instead, Carter wanted a “a sustained and enlarged inspection team, deployed as a permanent entity until the United States and other members of the U.N. Security Council determine that its presence is no longer needed”.
    Evidently, 12 years of Hussein’s nose-thumbing trickery wasn’t convincing.
    During his disastrous administration he declared that Yugoslavia’s Marshall Tito was someone “Who believes in human rights”, and told Nicolae Ceausescu that “Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics”.
    Thanks to hapless foreign policy decisions which resulted in the abandonment of the Shah, mishandling of the Iranian hostage crisis, and botched rescue attempt, this myopic simpleton was responsible for thousands of deaths, and left the door wide open for a succession of Iranian Ayatollahs and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
    His antics with the former Soviets weren’t much better.  During Leonid Brezhnev’s tenure, the Soviet Union expanded militarily and engaged in several coups funded by the Kremlin. Carter’s reputation as a foreign policy wimp encouraged the Russians to install Communist regimes in Vietnam, Angola, Somalia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Grenada, Nicaragua, and South Yemen.  All the while, the American military was underequipped, underfunded, and underpaid.
    As if Carter’s bumbling as President weren’t enough, it pales in comparison to his post-Oval Office behavior.  He cuddled up with Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista regime, wrote letters to members of the United Nations opposing any interference with Iraq’s aggression in Kuwait, traveled to Pyongyang and praised Kim Il-Sung, announcing that that Pyongyang was a “bustling city where shoppers pack the department stores”.  That’s great news of the rest of North Korea; since they have virtually no electricity and a diet consisting of grass soup.
    Included on Carter’s past and present A-list list of friends:  Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Syria’s late Hafez al-Assad, Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu Haile Mariam, and former Haitian butcher and junta leader Raul Cédras.  It reads like a who’s who of global despots.
    He refuses to let go of the office he was kicked out of in 1980.  His free-lance anti-American diplomacy is an embarrassment and a disgrace.  His arrogance and stupidity doesn’t just affect himself. The problem is that he gives aid and comfort to America’s enemies and there is a segment of like-minded sycophants who endorse his grotesque behavior.
    Do us all a favor, Jimmy.  Stick to building “Crack houses for humanity”.
          

    GI JANE

    sfcmac@wordpress.com