This headline caught my eye while I was checking my email;
Why do you think President Bush called them part of the axis of evil? What do you think they’ve been doing the last several years? Capturing British sailors, supplying the insurgency against US troops in Iraq? Are we supposed to believe it just started this weekend?
The guy who sat next to me in the turret of our Bradley through the Gulf War sent me this article from Fox News;
Iran can develop a nuclear weapon within a year and has ready access to enough fissile material to produce up to 50 nuclear weapons, according to a panel of current and former U.S. officials advising the Obama administration.
William Schneider, Jr., chairman of the Defense Science Board and a former under secretary of state in the Reagan administration, offered those estimates Wednesday during a news conference announcing the release of a new “Presidential Task Force” report on Iran by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
So are we going to continue to subordinate our foreign policy to the whims of those hags at Code Pink and IVAW? Or are we going to act like grown ups?
Those of you who keep up with us on Facebook noticed that I did an interview with USAToday in regards to the “IRR Mom” who showed up at Fort Benning Monday with her two kids in tow for her IRR call up. It was a fifteen minute interview with Marisol Bello and they boiled it all down to a single sentence in the resulting article (it’s the last paragraph at this link). Here’s the screen capture in case they cut it out later;
Apparently, This Ain’t Hell bloggers are the “go-to guys” for all of the military’s miscreants these days.
What they left out was the same point I made on Sunday when I first wrote about it; both the Army and Mrs. Pagan had a year to rectify the problem before Monday and neither took advantage of it – the only party who is going to come out ahead is Associated Press (they first wrote about the situation).
Pagan had a year to come up with a family care plan, and the Army had an opportunity to discharge her during her previous attempts to dodge her duties. If the Army wanted to take a stand, they’ve had other opportunities to take a stand with Matthis Chiroux and countless others who’ve dodged their responsibilities without the benefit of toddlers as props for the media.
I also told her that if the Army lets her off with out at least a wrist-slap, they’re opening themselves up to millions of problems from millions of parents in the military.
Meet Joshua Casteel, just another disingenuous IVAW member. Here’s his profile at IVAW;
He’s also been to the Vatican to convince the Pope to urge soldiers to become conscientious objectors;
In his profile at IVAW, he tries to make you think he’s an officer with this line;
Joshua Casteel first enlisted in the US Army Reserves at the age of 17, received an appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point at 18, but at 25 was honorably discharged from Active Duty as a conscientious objector.
Like a dog with a bone, the mainstream Left, is still clinging to the Bush impeachment imprisonment farce. The call went out yesterday from that centrist organization After Downing Street for AG Eric Holder to name a Special Prosecutor for the perfectly reasonable investigation;
We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial [sic] investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration.
Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the former president and the former vice president have confessed to authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or “truth” commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation should begin immediately.
I like the last paragraph best. They “see no need for…lengthy or costly” prosecutions – “Awright, boys, let’s string ’em up!” Oh, and the “groups” that endorse this message look like America (below the jump);
TSO sent a link to Uncle Jimbo from Blackfive who now posts at Ace of Spades as well. We figured Jimbo would be able to do a better job with the link than we could, so stop by AoSHQ and read what IAVA and IVAW mean by “fully funding the VA”. And, oh, stop by and say hello to these fellas for us.
I’ll tell you, this is the stupidest video ever created. Mostly, it’s about military recruiting through the use of the Junior ROTC program.
The intro on the YouTube video reads;
14-year-olds are recruited into the Army through the JROTC with the hopes of college money and a career. But when our soldiers come back from war, they face a back-logged Veterans Affairs Department, and can’t get the health care and other help they need. This documentary take a look at the U.S. war machine through the eyes of Veterans and JROTC cadets. It also looks at how veterans of past wars are forced to compete for services with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
So the military is recruiting 14-year-olds now? Just like Nazi Germany in the final months, I suppose. I’m pretty sure the military is only recruiting 18-year-olds. But let’s look at all of the pretzel logic you have to believe before you can believe that recruiters are evil.
One expert they interview is a homeless “veteran” who advises youngsters that his service didn’t advance his own goals in life – on Veterans Day he “earned” only about $15 from panhandling. “They don’t care if you’re a veteran”, he tells the interviewer.
Since most of us veterans are homeless panhandlers, we can probably give youngsters the same advice. He does make the point that cops do give him a break when they’re clearing the streets of hobos, though – so you see, there’s a veteran benefit right there.
Another group of “experts” are the IVAW members who testified at Winter Soldier II that socialized healthcare provided by the military and the VA sucks – their solution is to throw more money at it, of course. Yet the entire Left thinks the answer to our national “healthcare crisis” is to force the system on the entire country. I’ll never be able to figure that one out.
Another interviewee, a high school-aged student described how recruiters “pressured” him by offering him job opportunities. Since he didn’t join, I guess they couldn’t have pressured him too much.
A teacher makes the claim that recruiters offer illegal green cards to “undocumented” students. Now, why would they do that? I mean, honestly. Why would a careerist jeopardize his future by offering a youngster, a youngster who has already broken faith by illegally occupying a space in a classroom funded by taxpayers, an illegal document just to make numbers for a month?
Other experts they interview are young teenagers who seem eager to advance their lives through the benefits the military offer inner city kids. The youngsters also seem anxious to defend their country, and they have unrealistic expectations of the glory of going to war. How uncharacteristic of teenagers to not understand the gravity of war.
They also show a clip of Phil Donahue, the king of sleazy television, advocating for the stream of flag draped coffins across out TV screens nightly. The same guy who an hour interviewing a former guy who went through a sex change operation only to discover he was a lesbian. Yeah, he knows what makes good TV.
Seein’s how, by the video’s producers’ own admission, only 30-50% of JROTC students go on to join the military, I guess the military isn’t doing a good job of brainwashing and arm-twisting.
The other day I wrote about Brandon Neeley, a former guard at Guantanamo and currently the President of the Houston chapter of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (probably because he ate the previous president) who has come out to tell us how he’s ashamed of his conduct and what he was forced to do at the tropical resort we built for terrorists in retirement.
Like I wrote before, nothing in his testimony rises to the level of an atrocity in any shape of form. But that didn’t stop Rachel Maddow from interviewing him on her absolute waste of a cable show. I found a video of that show but I have to warn you – out of a nine minute video, you have to sit through 3 minutes of MadCow’s blather and BDS. The six minutes that follow are of Neeley describing two events at Guantanamo. One story was of him slamming a prisoner to the concrete floor when he tried to resist when Neeley removed his cuffs. The story leaves the viewer wondering what the problem was.
The second story is of a medic trying to force feed a can of Ensure to a detainee and then punching him in the face. I can’t imagine any medic doing that, but even if it did happen, so what? And why didn’t Neeley report the incident when it happened instead of half-a-decade later when the cameras are turned on?
MadCow then tries to get Neeley to blame the Bush Administration for not giving the troops in Guantanamo adequate training and Neeley agrees with her. I’m pretty sure some of our commenters who were there will dispute that.
I can’t think of a worse venue for the Veterans for Peace latest protest than the Daytona 500 – yet there they were;
In the blog post about the event, they raved about the resounding success of their presence. You can tell from these pictures, race fans weren’t much interested in the smelly hippies.
It might have had something to do with the truther message and the worn out “war for oil” cliche.
