I once signed a petition with Firedog Lake, those foul-mouthed perverts on the other side of the political spectrum. I agreed with their stance on the Obama Healthcare Bill for different reasons, but I figured I’d get heard if I ran with them on the issue. Anyway, it got me on their mailing list. So, not knowing who I am, they just now sent me an alert to save Dan Choi from that evil Obama dude;
Yeah, my check’s in the mail. I sent it with the check for my Free Naser Abdo T-shirt.
I hope they seize all of his shit, including his collection of feather boas and his Bradley Manning-signed Lady Gaga posters.
Nothing would make me happier than Choi paying the American taxpayer back for cheating them out of a world-class education…unless it’d be the thought of him rotting in a filthy jail cell for besmirching my uniform by chaining it to the White House fence. Six months is an easy sentence for a man of his character. It’d be the first time Choi was held accountable for his behavior.
And I thought Choi said that he had PTSD because the Army wouldn’t let him eat trouser trout in PT Formation. Now FDL is blaming his duty in Iraq as the Brigade Headquarters Company XO. Yeah, taste-testing the brigade’s chow must’ve been harrowing. There’s a reason he was a 1LT for six years.
Another of those non-veterans writing at Veterans Today is Sibel Edmonds who apparently has never had anything to do with veterans according to her biography – only marginally less-qualified than senior editor Gordon Duff. Yet, like Duff, the 18-month E-3 TOC Rat, suddenly she’s an expert on military affairs.
Today she wonders how many actual al Qaeda terrorists we’re fighting in Afghanistan. of course, she gives the Taliban a pass, because their numbers would screw up her contention that we’re only battling a few al Qaeda operatives.
Currently we have less than 200 detainees at Guantanamo most of whom have not been proven guilty of being ‘Al Qaeda terrorists.’ Let’s be even more generous and count in those detained in other US military prisons like Bagram. Again, we are looking at 500 or so prisoners none of whom having ever been charged; none of whom legally found to be an Al Qaeda terrorist.
The key phrase here is “legally found to be an Al Qaeda” because, again, if we were to recognize that without a trial, nothing is certain, she sounds like she has a valid point.
Then she compares our military expenditures during the Cold War to the wars we’re currently fighting in the middle east. Of course, we also can’t count the war in Iraq as a war against al Qaeda, or the war we’re fighting in Pakistan – even though we were and are actually battling al Qaeda in both of those countries, but for Edmonds’ math to work out, we can’t count fighting al Qaeda outside of Afghanistan.
OK, let’s accept all of Edmonds’ restrictions to arrive at her total of al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan. Well, she never mentions an actual number, that would require a little more than just empty blathering. But here’s my question to Sibel; how many do they need? It only took 19 al Qaeda members to inflict more damage and kill more American people than the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor.
I think it would be more appropriate for Sibel to investigate how many actual veterans work at the web magazine called Veterans Today.
There were some questions in the post about Dan Choi so I looked up when (.pdf) wearing the uniform is prohibited and the regs for retired personnel wearing the uniform from the much loved Army Regulation 670-1.
In the prohibited category, Choi seems to have hit all of the main prohibitions up to and including the headgear requirement.
Even though Choi is not retired, I included the restrictions for retirees.
So not only did he manage to hit all of the prohibitions, he hit none of the authorized events. So, any LEOs out there who happen to be at an event where Choi shows up in his “moral authority” clothing, feel free to recite these regs to him.
DoD Policy Directive 1344.10 (.pdf) dated February 19, 2008 states specifically;
4.1.4. Subject to any other restrictions in law, a member of the Armed Forces not on active duty may take the actions or participate in the activities permitted in subparagraph 4.1.1., and may take the actions and participate in the activities prohibited in subparagraph 4.1.2, provided the member is not in uniform and does not otherwise act in a manner that could reasonably give rise to the inference or appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or endorsement.
Emphasis is mine.
Gordon Duff, the perpetually nutty senior editor at Veterans Today has seized upon the latest tragedy of the helicopter crash in Afghanistan to posit another conspiracy theory – this one to cover up details of the bin Laden assassination, even though it’s been reported that no one killed in the shoot-down yesterday participated in that raid.
So what were they “murdered for? To keep them quiet that they murdered bin Laden’s long-dead frozen corpse. And because it’s Duff, you just knew that it had to do with Rupert Murdoch and the Jooos;
After the bond collapse and credit disaster yesterday, anything threatening President Obama’s reelection is seen, by some, as a threat to America’s financial survival. This debt crisis is a bigger threat to the US than a Japanese invasion in 1942 would have been.
You may not see it that way and you certainly cant get out your hunting rifle to fix it. (Don’t be a sap, kill a Jap!)
Someone had gotten to someone. My best guess and this is a guess…an expose’ by the mainstream media, perhaps Murdoch, another guess, conjecture I admit, regarding the farce at Abbottabad, information possibly gotten through spying, bribery and blackmail, threatened to take down Obama.
With Murdoch’s good friend and “monkeyboy,” Netanyahu ‘on the ropes,” with crowds marching in Israel’s streets demanding his ouster, we have more timing to factor in.
The bin Laden killing, the third rate drama of capturing an unarmed frozen dead guy and throwing him into the ocean had probably become an albatross around certain high ranking necks.
Norway was no accident, it was a warning too. It has been containerized, just as the Murdoch espionage issue is now “poor Rupert and the pie thrower.”
These Americans are casualties in a game, one like 9/11, sacrificial pawns, like Britain’s 7/7, all lies, all theatre, all evil.
Yeah, as regular readers know, I’m no fan of Obama, but I don’t think he’d murder troops to cover up and deflect attention from his ineptness. But of course, it’s Duff, to whom nothing is as it seems and his trade, such as it is, is in lies and manufactured evidence. he still thinks that Rangers killed Pat Tillman,one of their own in orders from the President.
Thanks to melony for the link.
One of my ninjas sent this screen shot from Dahlia Wasfi, the scary-smart (according to her friends who come here to defend her) anti-war Iraqi;
Now understand that Dahlia Wasfi is barely Iraqi. Her family fled Saddam Hussein’s regime when she was very young so she’s mostly American as far as her education and pampered life style living in a trendy New York City apartment. She was also a very active friend of Naser Abdo on his Facebook page until he was arrested for plotting to bomb a restaurant near Fort Hood, Texas last week. Need I also add that she was a supporter of Carl Webb when he was being tossed from IVAW for advocating the murder and injuring of US troops in Iraq.
So Dahlia; Get out of my country and carry your ingrate ass back to rebuild your own. And STFU in the interim.
Not only didn’t Army Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson not get the ceremony that most Purple Heart recipients get, he also got a $21 bill for postage according to links sent to us by ToothlessDawg and VTWoody.
Dickerson, who was seriously wounded in a rocket blast while serving in Iraq in 2007, finally got his Purple Heart in the mail, four years late, and on top of it all was billed over $21.00 for postage. He couldn’t believe it.
“This is not a matter of money, this is a matter of principle,” Dickerson said.
Dickerson says because of a snafu with paperwork, he never got his Purple Heart when he should have. He has spent the last two years trying to prove to the Army he was injured in combat.
Not only did Dickerson get the bill for postage, when the Army reimbursed him for the mistake, the check they sent was made out with a misspelling of his name. How much more disrespectful can those puzzle palace princes get? I guess they could have drove by his house and thrown the medal out on his lawn, I suppose.
“I don’t want you to think I’m whining and complaining, because I’m not, I really don’t want this to happen to another soldier or any service member of the United States, it’s degrading,” Dickerson said.
Well, you’ve earned the right to whine if you want, Sergeant Major. Lord knows the Army has given you good reason in this case.
In New Haven, CT, Brandon Kruse, really didn’t think he needed a CCW license, but he got one anyway, just so he could buy guns without a hassle. The other night, when he went out for sushi, Kruse was glad he had it;
At State and Wall, three young men walked toward him. He stepped to the left. One of the young men punched him in the head; the two others surrounded him.
The initial attacker punched him again with a closed fist.
Kruse was able to push him back. Then Kruse reached for his waistband. He pointed the gun at them. He didn’t speak.
“I just pulled the gun. They all scattered,” Kruse said in an interview Monday.
When two of the men returned to retrieve their shopping bags which they’d dropped at the sight of the handgun, Kruse detained them until police arrived.
Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.
