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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • A 62 year-old timely poem

    Old Trooper sent us this poem which reminds me of something that is occurring at this moment even though it was written in 1949. I won’t vouch for the accompanying story, but it’s still a good poem. I put it below the fold because it’s a fairly large file;
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  • Who could have predicted this?

    Well, besides anyone who didn’t want the United States to lose the war in Iraq because of purely partisan reasons;

    The story is at Stars & Stripes;

    Two bombs and a rocket attack struck the Iraqi capital on Monday, just weeks before the final pullout of American forces from the country.

    The explosions brought to 100 the number of people killed in the capital so far in November, up from 62 in October.

    So maybe a timetable withdrawal wasn’t such a good idea…but we’ve been telling the Leftists that for eight years, haven’t we?

  • NATO Helicopters light up Pak outpost

    It seems that some helicopters lit up the night at a Pakistani outpost near the AFghanistan border killing at least 24 Pakistan troops who were sleeping before the night raid. All of the news sources are calling them “NATO helicopters”, but they look to be US given the responses by the Obama Administration.

    The Obama administration promised a full investigation. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, issued a joint statement saying they had each spoken to their Pakistani counterparts to express their condolences for the loss of life.

    Pakistan was blunt that the killings represented a serious setback for the two countries’ tattered alliance. The prime minister’s office said the foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Clinton on Sunday that the attack was unacceptable, showed complete disregard for human life and had sparked rage within Pakistan.

    Yeah, well, as far as “sparking rage in Pakistan” all it would take is a Zippo. Those folks wake up outraged every morning.

    The Pakistanis claim the attack was unprovoked, nut that’s a little hard to believe.

    Much of the violence in Afghanistan is carried out by insurgents that are based just across the border in Pakistan. Coalition forces are not allowed to cross the frontier to attack the militants. The militants, however, sometimes fire artillery and rockets across the line, reportedly from locations close to Pakistani army posts.

    American officials have repeatedly accused Pakistani forces of supporting — or turning a blind eye — to militants using its territory for cross-border attacks.

    So, Pakistan responds by shutting down the border-crossing points for supplies to our troops and shutting dow a drone base in Pakistan;

    American forces were given 15 days to vacate the remote Shamsi airbase, which was secretly turned over to them after the 9/11 attacks. The decision to order the Americans out followed an emergency meeting of Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership late Saturday to decide how to respond to the deaths of the soldiers.

    Yeah, ya know if Pakistan would take the same measures against the Taliban every time they lost troops in a Taliban attack, the war would be over by now.

  • GQ’s “Least Influential people” list

    According to TVNewser, GQ magazine has released their list of the twenty-five least influential people alive;

    Also on the list: Tia and Tamera Mowry (#4). (Tamera married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley over the summer); also Tina Brown (#17), John Boehner (#24) and Pres. Obama (#25). Topping the list former GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty.

    You know what that means, right? That means I’m more influential than the President…so are you. Seems to me that the President being on the list should lead the story, though, not Ed Schultz. And I wonder where Joe Biden falls on the list – he should be the number one, the retard.

    I wonder how the White House is going to spin this story.

    Thanks to ROS for the link.

  • The cost of the supercommittee’s failure

    Van Jones, that commie puke who almost got into the White House is cheering the super committee’s failures this week in the Huffington Post;

    …the Bush tax cuts will automatically expire at the end of next year and $600 billion of cuts in defense will go into effect automatically [which would be truly historic] in January 2013 if Congress does nothing.

    Yeah, that’s what our adversaries are banking on (Fox News link sent by Old Trooper);

    Russia will deploy new missiles aimed at U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with the planned shield despite Russia’s concerns, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

    Yeah, why should they worry since we’re slashing our military to 1940 levels. You remember 1940, right? Our soldiers were training with two-by-four wooden rifles and jeeps with tank cutouts over them.

    In another link from Old Trooper, on Yahoo/APF, the US will retaliate by not reporting our conventional to Russia;

    The United States said Tuesday it would no longer provide data to Russia on conventional weapons and troops in Europe, citing non-compliance by Moscow with a two-decade old treaty that governed the information exchange.

    Yeah, like Russia doesn’t know our strength from reading Stars & STtripes or by driving by the kassernes in their Mercedes. I feel safer already.

    Oh, for the story on the lead picture, go here.

  • VetVoice opposes Hermann Cain

    Yes, I’m surprised, too, that VoteVets opposes a Republican presidential candidate since they’ve supported one Republican in their entire history which proves to them they’re nonpartisan. But it was their last line in dicksmith’s latest screed against the man he calls “The Pizza President”;

    So everyone, if you want to vote for the know-nothing President, Herm is your man. Personally, I’d rather have a Commander-in-Chief that can actually find things on a map and have an iota of knowledge about the most important foreign policy issues of our day.

    That’s funny, because in the last election VoteVets supported a man who didn’t know that there were only 50 states. A guy who thinks that Hawaii, his home state, is in Asia. A guy who thinks “Austrian” is a language. A guy who thought he was in St Louis while he was in Kansas City. A guy who saw “an unbroken line of fallen heroes” in the audience. A guy who counted ten thousand people who died in a tornado that killed twelve people.

    But, yeah, don’t vote for the guy who wants to get his foreign policy from the commanders on the ground instead vote for the guy who formulates his foreign policy from an opinion poll.

  • Senate cuts focuses on personnel and weapons

    The Air Force Times reports that the Senate Armed Services Committee has focused their spending axes on personnel and weapons budget cuts…because, ya know, who needs people or weapons to fight wars when we have such a brainiac in the White House with all of that “smart diplomacy” he’s got goin’ for him.

    A detailed list of savings released by the armed services committee Wednesday morning shows the committee reduced personnel funding by $100.6 million, partly by cutting unspent balances from previous years, and partly from new estimates by the Congressional Budget Office of how much would be saved with a change in hostile fire pay included in the bill.

    The measure, proposed by personnel panel chairman Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., would change hostile fire pay from a monthly rate to a daily rate.

    The revised bill also would trim $330 million from the defense health-care account. The cut may not affect patients, however, because it is based on new assumptions on private-sector health-care expenses, the committee said.

    I wonder if anyone thought that paying hostile fire pay by the day would create an accounting nightmare that might cost more to enforce than the savings? Nothing makes me feel confident about their healthcare cuts for patients when they use the phrase “…based on new assumptions….” Especially since doctors aren’t allowed to make assumptions on their patients.

    Here’s a history lesson for the Senators; In 1950, President Truman decided that he wanted to intervene in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea so he sent the only troops he had available to do the job – the 1/21st Infantry of the 24th Infantry Division, commanded by Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith, which had been on occupation duty in Japan for five years. The Battalion’s understrength manpower of less than 500 Americans faced 4000 North Koreans and their tanks, who despite the infantry battalion’s best efforts, rolled right through the US forces in a few hours.

    The Army had been slashed to shreds after winning the war against Hitler and Tojo. The infantrymen arrived in Korea with their anemic numbers and only nine rounds for their bazookas to fight off a Korean Division.

    The phrase “Task force Smith” has driven our foreign and military policy for over half-a-century, but these clowns think they’re immune to the lessons of history. Who among my readers is willing to be the first to die so Congress can learn this lesson again?

  • Bullets strike White House

    From the Huffington Post is the report that the Secret Service found two bullets outside of the White House, one which had been stopped by “ballistic glass”;

    The discovery follows reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday. Witnesses heard shots and saw two speeding vehicles in the area. An assault rifle was also recovered.

    President Barack Obama, who was headed to a summit in Hawaii, was not at the home at the time of the shooting.

    Yeah, it’s a pretty good bet that anyone shooting at the White House isn’t going to hit the President since he’s so rarely there.

    So is the Department of Homeland Security dusting off it’s report that veterans are the most dangerous people in America? Nope;

    U.S. Park Police have an arrest warrant for Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, who is believed to be connected to the earlier incident. He is described as a 21-year-old Hispanic man, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 160 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and black hair.

    5’11” – he must be easy to spot among the rest of the polarized Hispanic crowds. I’m sure that Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center are disappointed that they can’t point their bony fingers at a veteran.