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  • Kos excludes information on Kirk

    As I was writing about Mark Kirk and Tim Walz yesterday, Kos was writing more about Kirk’s supposed deception;

    So I checked Kos’ source which is this page at National Defense Magazine. The paragraphs before the one Kos quoted reads;

    Mark Kirk, of Illinois, holds the rank of Navy lieutenant commander in a naval reserve officer aviator unit called the Star Warriors, which flies the EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft, based at Andrews Air Force Base.

    In December 2000, just after he had been elected to Congress, Kirk was called back to reserve duty to patrol the no-fly zone in Northern Iraq, as part of Operation Northern Watch. Kirk also was called to combat in Yugoslavia, during Operation Allied Force in 1999, and served as the Joint Chiefs of Staffs’ senior force analyst during Operation Sharp Guard over Bosnia in 1995. He served as an analyst at the office of the chief of naval operations during Operation Support Democracy in Haiti in 1994.

    Well, that’s a little bit more than Kos portrays of Kirk’s career.

    Kos continues whining that the Army showed good sense by not letting him near a shooting war;

    I was in the Army during Desert Storm, but am not a veteran of that war. Why? Because I was stationed in Germany and never deployed to Kuwait or Iraq. Kirk might argue that his efforts aided the war effort. Well, so did mine. I spent weeks shuttling supplies from depots in Germany to Frankfurt, where they were loaded onto transport planes to the Gulf. I lugged around everything from ammo to toilet paper (no joke). I spent weeks more working on my base’s post office, helping the small office handle the crush of letters and care packages being sent to deployed soldiers by their families. Seems trite, and it kind of is (and tedious as shit), but there’s little more important to a soldier than mail call. Trust me on that.

    Funny how the guys that ship toilet paper whine the loudest. Since Kirk flew Northern Watch, I guess he could argue that he’s more of a Desert Storm veteran than Kos. Enough so that Kos chose to leave that right out of his attack on Kirk.

    I don’t know what Democrats are trying to pull, but if they’re going to exclude information from their charges, it’s going to bite them in the ass. Kos should know better, but then he’s never let the facts get in his way before. I’ve seen him use that toiletpaper repairman line as some sort of excuse to make him an expert on military affairs – as much an expert as Gordon Duff.

  • News from Bizzaro World

    Harry Reid posted this message to his website and 1stCavRVN11B sent us the link;

    “Hundreds of Nevada families know all too well the sacrifice of sending a loved one into battle to defend America. And when we ask those troops and those families to give so much to our country, we have a solemn obligation to do everything possible to support them. That’s why it was so important for us to pass this supplemental bill that ensures that the additional 30,000 troops we’re sending into Afghanistan have everything they need to be successful in their mission.

    The same Harry Reid who tried to defund the troops during the Bush presidency four times, declared Iraq lost, then declared the surge a failure before it began is suddenly concerned about how the troops are equipped.

    Sometimes blogging is easy.

  • Blumenthal emails apology

    When Richard Blumenthal, CT’s AG had a chance to face the voters and apologize to them for lying countless times to their faces last week, he instead used the opportunity to chastise them for doubting him in the face of mounting evidence against him. Now a weekend later, the cringing coward emails his apology to the Hartford Courant.

    “At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,” Blumenthal said in a statement emailed to the Courant late Sunday by his spokeswoman, Maura Downes. “I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility for my words.

    “I have made mistakes and I am sorry. I truly regret offending anyone,” Blumenthal said. “I will always champion the cause of Connecticut’s and our nation’s veterans.”

    How brave! How courageous! Lie to m face and email an apology behind my back. I guess we can all figure out why he avoided service in Vietnam – he’s a coward to the bone.

    State Republican Chairman Chris Healy criticized Blumenthal for making his apology by email, calling it an “electronic mumble.”

    “Maybe he can’t look the Vets or people in the eye and really admit it,” Healy wrote on his Facebook page.

    How can he even consider running for the Senate now? Do the people of Connecticut really want this mealy-mouthed coward representing them in the Senate? Seriously.

  • The double standard

    TSO and I were having an email conversation about this so I thought I’d share

    Let’s pretend for a minute that Richard Blumenthal didn’t lie to Connecticut about his military service in Vietnam. He got five deferments from the draft while he was in college – not that there’s anything wrong with that. I’ve always said on this blog that deferments were common in the era of the draft – five deferments is about right for someone to attend college. And in an era when all military service was disparaged, Blumenthal joined

    But let’s look at how the Democrats have traditionally addressed deferments and service in the Reserves, shall we?. Dick Cheney had five deferments and we heard about for eight years. Blumenthal’s deferments were 1965 to 1970 – while we had combat troops in Vietnam. Cheney’s deferments were all before 1965, while there were no ground combat forces in Vietnam.

    Dan Quayle got hammered during the GHW Bush years because his Vietnam Era time was spent in the Reserves like Blumenthal. GW Bush was a pilot in the Texas National Guard and we heard about it for eight years.

    More recently, I wrote about Gordon Duff’s attack on SC Congressman Joe Wilson who had five deferments and served in the Guard and Reserves.

    Now the Washington Post is reporting that the national Democrats are lining up behind Blumenthal;

    Yet national Dems think he’ll survive this, because he has also repeatedly been accurate in representing his record. They hope this will persuade people to see his previous quotes as screw ups, rather than deliberate attempts to mislead. Indeed, don’t be surprised if more examples of him accurately discussing his record surface before long

    Like I said, I don’t care about deferments or Reserve service, but looking at recent history, Democrats do….so why are they standing behind this guy?

  • Reading is Fundamental

    The letter that many Milbloggers signed on to today and we posted below has hit the internet and it’s been immediately characterized by the illiterate press as a call from Milbloggers to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Although some of the signatories may hold that opinion, that’s not what the letter says.

    It urges Congress to wait on repealing the law until the service chiefs finish their study of the impact changing the law will have on the force. It’s right there in the letter in the third paragraph, for Pete’s sake.

    We ask Congress to withhold action until this is finished, but no longer. We urge Congress to listen to the service chiefs and act in accordance with the recommendations of that study.

    But that doesn’t stop Huffington Post and Politico from pushing whatever intellectually vacant agenda they’re engaged in.

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    Illiterate fucks.

  • Mojave Veterans’ Cross stolen

    Apparently, sometime Sunday, thieves made their way into the Mojave Desert and stole the 7-foot cross that was at the center of a partially-settled SUpreme Court case, according to CBS2;

    The National Park Service says someone cut the metal bolts holding the metal-pipe cross to the top of Sunrise Rock and made off with it Sunday night or before dawn on Monday.

    Veterans groups say they’re outraged at what they consider the desecration of a symbol that was erected in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to honor World War I dead.

    So, I guess that’s how the Left will act every time they don’t get their way in the Age of Obama.

  • Picking battles

    I nearly choked on my lunch reading the comments on a Yahoo story from Huffington Post about Visa cutting debit card swipe fees in Europe while raising them in the US. First the story;

    Despite a recent study that found swipe fees are stalling the creation of nearly a quarter million U.S. jobs, Visa raised its debit card interchange rate for American retailers to .95 percent plus $.20 per transaction in April, according to the Retail Industry Leaders Association. In contrast, Visa Europe announced Monday that it would be capping transaction fees at 0.2 percent for the next four years.

    A spokesperson for Visa, Inc. said the average Visa Debit transaction fee rose by less than 4 percent.

    “Most of Visa’s U.S. debit rates have not changed,” she said. “Visa, Inc., did recently make a variety of program and interchange modifications to make digital currency even more convenient for consumers and merchants and to facilitate continued growth for Visa and its clients.”

    A 4% increase. Terrible right? OK, so why aren’t Americans getting upset that low income earners are going to pay 50%-100% more in income taxes next year just by the President and Democrats doing nothing to extend the Bush tax cuts? If a 4% increase in the fee they pay at ATMs that don’t belong to their bank gets their panties wadded up, why aren’t more of them marching in the streets to extend the Bush tax cuts?

    Well, here are some of the first comments on the article;
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  • Not enough troops in Afghanistan

    Running up to the 2008 election, we read about how Bush had neglected Afghanistan and how the war there was under-resourced. Critics, of course, rightly blamed the Bush Administration, consistently and loudly every time a report emerged which bolstered their pre-conceived notions. So what should we do with this report;

    Despite the addition of more than 50,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the past year, there still aren’t enough forces to conduct operations in the majority of key areas, according to a congressionally mandated report released Wednesday on progress in Afghanistan.

    Coalition forces have decided to focus their efforts on 121 key districts in Afghanistan, but right now, NATO has enough forces to operate in only 48 of those districts, the report said.

    So where is that consistent and loud criticism these days? I guess it’s better used to beat down enforcement of our immigration laws, or to complain about the folks who invest our money in a market we don’t understand. Or to complain about banks which foreclose on our houses when we don’t pay the mortgage for months or years.

    I guess it really doesn’t matter anymore that General McChrystal asked for more troops than he got;

    “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in the document, according to the Post.

    The President and Congress sought a political compromise in a no-compromise situation. Political decisions made by amateurs have no place in the all-too-real world of fighting wars. When our foreign policy is written in the front room of the Code Pink House, we really can’t expect a different outcome than we have now.