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Category: Terror War

  • Reactions to McChrystal firing

    The whole world is still digesting what the resignation of General Stanley McCrystal the other day. Newsy sent us a video of a few of world’s reactions;

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    Not that what the world thinks of it is important since their participation is slipping.

    Stars & Stripes asked the troops what they think about it.

    “I think it’s a good thing,” said Sgt. Shannon Grier, 24, of Augusta, Ga., who served in Zabul from August to December last year. “He may not have been a bad guy, but he was taking away things that gave infantrymen success, like night missions.”

    Yeah, SGT Grier, I don’t think things like that’ll change until we get rid of this administration – they’re more interested in fighting the war the way the Karzai administration wants it fought. The DoD leadership said yesterday that not much in Afghanistan will change with McChrystal gone;

    [SecDef Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mullen] stressed that McChrystal’s firing was not a referendum on his campaign plan; the strategy and execution of the war in Afghanistan will not change.

    McChrystal was handpicked by Obama’s defense leadership duo to coordinate the war.

    I guess that means Burger King won’t be back anytime soon, either.

  • Americans sentenced in Pakistan

    Those five “Americans from the DC area” who were picked up a few months back for plotting terror in Pakistan – they got ten years (with five more to be served concurrently). I’ll tell you, that ought to be a deterrent to our “homegrown terrorists” as much as drone air strikes. Ten years in a Pakistani prison makes time in Joe Arpaio’s county jail seem like a day at the fair. From Fox News/Associated Press;

    Prosecutors said they presented evidence such as e-mail records and witness statements proving that the men were plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and conspired to wage war against nations allied with it, a reference to Afghanistan, where the men were alleged to have been traveling.

    The judge handed down two prison terms for each man, one for 10 years and the other for five, which are to be served concurrently, a copy of the decision seen by The Associated Press said.

    The trial was closed to journalists and observers and was heard by a single judge in a special anti-terrorism court. Police deployed extra patrols and barriers around the court in the Punjab province town of Sargodha before the verdict.

    Yeah, those boys don’t look too happy.

    In related news, Gary Faulkner, the guy who was picked up in Pakistan while he began his ersonal hunt for bin Laden is back in Colorado now and apparently he hasn’t lost any of his fire;

    “This is not about me. What this is about is the American people and the world,” he said. “We can’t let people like this scare us. We don’t get scared by people like this, we scare them and that’s what this is about. We’re going to take care of business.”

    I guess the Pakistanis don’t toss people in prison when those people aren’t plotting to kill innocent people.

  • The Taliban on McChrystal

    Newsweek has an article up that talks about what the Taliban thinks about the firing/resignation of McChrystal. Of course you have to factor into the discussion that the article is a combination of thoughts from a bunch of lunatic liars who thrive on falsehoods…and the Taliban;

    “What we are seeing is the mindset of a U.S. general and other commanders who are getting mentally ready for failure, so they criticize and make jokes about the president.”

    [a senior Afghan Taliban official and former cabinet minister in Mullah Mohammed Omar’s defunct government] points to Gen. David Petraeus’s fainting the other day during congressional testimony, the video of which is being featured on a Taliban Web site, and to the McChrystal flap as clear signs that the stress of the war is seriously affecting the U.S. command. “Generals are losing trust in colonels, colonels in majors, and the West is losing trust in [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai.”

    Of course, a lot of that blather is just whistling past the graveyard, but those guys who strap on bomb vests absolutely believe it. This “Taliban official” (who might be the head goat herder for all we know) goes on to mention that, even though the Taliban has been inflicted with higher casualties, they’re convinced they can win the war. The only way to disabuse them of that notion is to take the gloves off and kill them where ever they hide.

    The only way to beat the Taliban and al Qaeda is to kill them in huge quantities until it’s no longer advantaeous for them to exist and if they hide behind civilians, you have to make it costly for the civilians to put themselves in that type of situation.

    Obviously, the politicians are running this war like they did in Vietnam, what with Clinton, Eikenberry, and Biden sticking their noses in where they don’t belong by influencing the Rules of Engagement. If Obama had even a tiny bit of political courage, he’d fire that Eikenberry dick for creating the environment that made McCrystal speak out the way he did. Obama should also put a leash on Joe Bite Me and keep his stupid ass out of policy in Afghanistan since Bite Me has been 100% wrong on American foreign policy during his entire political career. Just because he doesn’t seem to keep his mouth shut about anything, that doesn’t make him an expert.

    Obama doesn’t have to convince America that we’re winning this war, he has to convince our enemies that they’re losing.

  • Waiting on the McChrystal verdict (UPDATED)

    The way this story has sucked all of the oxygen out of the news coverage, I can’t help but think that the Obama Administration wants to keep the story going to get our minds off of their failures to manage the oil spill.

    VoteVets‘ updates on the story today are up to number 6 and equate to “Nothing new”, which mirrors the cable TV half-hourly reports.

    Meanwhile, if you’re still interested in the McChrystal subject, there is unequaled analysis from The Armorer at Castle Argghhh!, Grim, up there in the big leagues at Blackfive and Greyhawk.

    The word is that Obama is going to announce to the press what his decision is on McChrystal in the Rose Garden at 1330 hrs. Sucking up as much oxygen in the news cycle as he can manage.

    I’m sticking with my twin dickhead (Eikenberry/Kerry) prediction. It’s as valid as any of the other guesses – and the absolutely worst-case scenario which is what we’ve come to expect from this administration. I guaren-damn-tee you that if Joe Bite Me was in the room, it was considered. As well as stepping up ninja zombie robot attacks.

    UPDATE: McCrystal is out and Petreaus will replace according to Major Garrett on Fox News

  • Nine month deployments?

    Some of you may have seen that story in the Army Times about a planned reduction from twelve to nine and have at least two years dwell time. The proposed plan would go into effect in two years.

    “We know 12 months is too long to sustain repeatedly, and we know that six months is too short for the operational environment,” he said, adding “so once we get demand down to about 10 brigade combat teams, we’re looking to revert to nine-month deployments,” Casey said.

    I wonder is this possible with the fact the it took a extension of three months to have the number of troops needed for Iraq. Even with the draw down in Iraq, would we be able to maintain a nine month deployment cycle for such combat zones like Afghanistan?

    It seems like a good idea on paper with any people going on multiple tours with dwell time being a year or shorter before going again.

    “We’re not going to get there, I don’t think, in the next two years, but shortly after that I think we’d be able to do something,” Casey said. “Right now, the volume of the deployments is just too fast, too much.”

    But that is the whole point of a reduce deployment cycle is to be used to reduce the stress from a multiple deployments. So if the face that we cannot do it with the high level of deployments now what is going to change in two years if the tempo is the same.

    I mean over all a nice thought, but I do not think that is is possible. I mean for a while the twelve months was not enough. So expect this policy to not last very long or being postponed all together.

  • 7 AWOL Afghan student pilots accounted for

    If you haven’t heard yet, the military has suddenly accounted for seven of the missing Afghanistan student pilots leaving ten roaming around loose reports Fox News.

    Sources said that as of November 2009, one of the deserters was in Canada, one is now a lawful permanent resident in the U.S., one has left the country and another four are in federal custody and in removal proceedings. The other 10 remain unaccounted for.

    On Wednesday night, the BOLO bulletin listing all 17 deserters was distributed to local and federal law enforcement officials and joint terrorism task force members across the country.

    I wonder if the one in Canada has hooked up with some of our IVAW cowards up there. Now if they knew all of this shit before they released the bulletin, why’d authorities include them?

    Who is running this place these days? Roseanne Rosanadana?

  • 17 Missing Afghan student pilots

    Lackland Air Force Base officials admit that 17 Afghanistan military student pilots are in the wind with their security badges (Fox News);

    The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches English to military pilot candidates and other air force prospects from foreign countries allied with the U.S.

    “I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute,” said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland AFB. “They disappeared over the course of the last two years, and none in the last three months.”

    So 17 guys have been wandering around the US with their security badges, some for two years, and this is the first we’re hearing about it?

    If you notice a guy in an Air Force uniform herding goats near a military base, you’re urged to contact the military.

  • Logic Fail

    Logic Fail

    Yea, found this on Face-book and could not resist commenting on it. So this post is a full reply to a response that I got back. This is insulting beyond words. I am not sure about the rest of those that went but I made sure that I helped the people there when I could. Also it does not take into account that there are many photos like the one below.

    But we are the one’s without humanity because we are on guard due to the fact that the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda sending women, children and the infeasible to the slaughter as human bombs/shields?