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Category: Usual Suspects

  • Org Wars

    We here at This Ain’t Hell, because we’re a military blog of sorts, tend to focus on the disingenuous organizations like IAVA and VoteVets and their slavish adherence to Democrat policy. Well it seems that some of the other organizations of the Left are beginning to notice that their fellow orgs are suffering the same malady;

    I guess these guys are beginning to believe that they’ve been manipulated by MoveOn. Of course, they might have noticed how the Democrats didn’t bother to end the war when they took office after the 2006 midterms. Or how they didn’t bother to impeach President Bush – that the anti-war crowd were just held at arm’s length. They were even convinced to stop their public antics during the electoral process.

    I’d add here that VoteVets falls under the direction of MoveOn.org. John Bruhn, the former Army sergeant turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets a few years back because they seemed to be more pro-Democrat than they were anti-war. I’m just sayin’.

    This David Swanson who wrote the above piece, is a pretty radically Left guy;

    Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace, a convenor of the legislative working group of United for Peace and Justice, and chair of the accountability and prosecution working group of United for Peace and Justice.

    I guess he’s just plain fed up with watching donor money going down the tubes at MoveOn and merely supporting a Democrat continuation of Republican foreign policy.

    Swanson was also an advisor for the Kucinich campaign in 2004. And do you remember the proposal for a Department of Peace? Well, Kucinich has submitted a bill (HR 808) to force Obama to create the depatment. You can find the text of the proposed bill at Thomas.LOC.gov, but here’s some pretty wild stuff;
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  • Conyers to investigate ACORN?

    The Washington Times reporter S.A. Miller writes this morning that far-Left Congressman John Conyers is contemplating investigating charges that “community activist group” ACORN engaged in voter fraud in the last election;

    Opponents of the liberal activist group ACORN have found an unlikely champion in House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., who is clashing with his own party to pursue hearings on accusations that the group has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.

    “I still want to do it and I probably will,” Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, told The Washington Times on Tuesday.

    He dismissed the argument made by fellow Democrats that accusations of voter fraud and other crimes should be explored by prosecutors and decided in court, not by lawmakers in Congress.

    “That’s our jurisdiction, the Department of Justice,” Mr. Conyers said. “That’s what we handle – voter fraud. Unless that’s been taken out of my jurisdiction and I didn’t know it.”

    Of course, this is the same John Conyers who promised his far-Left constituency that he’d pursue impeachment charges against George Bush and strung them along for more than two years.

    Jerrold Nadler, often referred to here often as The Waddler, is against any probe, but says he’ll go along with Conyers;

    “It’s not our business to say ACORN is terrible or ACORN is wonderful. That’s not a congressional job,” Mr. Nadler said. “The evidence – I’ve listened to it – I think most of it is nonsense. If it’s true, it’s a law enforcement matter.”

    Of course, I think this is just Conyer’s way of burying the truth and preventing a Justice Department investigation. It’s also pretty odd that when a Republican wins an election, there are charges and investigation of electoral fraud, but when Democrats win, suddenly the process is fair and equitable. I wonder why it always turns out that way?

  • Terrorists threaten man-created disaster

    See how easily I adapt to the new administration’s lexicon? The Associated Press reports that they got a phone call the other day to warn us that we’re going to be in the midst of a man-created disaster (you can call them terrorist attacks if you want to be a gun-clinging wingnut. Me? I’m enlightened);

    Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S., said Monday’s attack outside the eastern city of Lahore was in retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against militants along the Afghan border.

    “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world,” Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone. He provided no details.

    I don’t understand how this can happen. The North Koreans are getting ready to launch rockets, the Mahdi army and al Qaeda in Iraq are staging a comeback, Hugo Chavez is trying to undermine the dollar with a proposal for an oil-based currency and calls Obama an ignoramus. We’re still trying to figure out how to fight piracy. Russia is planning on stationing bombers in Cuba and Venezuela.And, oh, did I mention that Iran thinks it has a role in determining our troops strength in Afghanistan? British police arrested five under the Terrorist Act.

    Shouldn’t all of this stuff ended on Inauguration Day? Or is it just beginning now that we’ve had a change in the government that indicates to all of the thugs that we’re soft and weak? And where’s my damn unicorn?

  • Global War on Terror ends

    I wrote last week that the Obama Administration intended on dropping the “Global War on Terror” label in it’s efforts to keep us safe from the language. The Pentagon denied that there was any conscious effort to avoid the term, while admitting there was a conscious effort to avoid the term.

    Well, Hillary the Clinton confirms that there is indeed a conscious effort to avoid using the Global War on Terrorism term to describe the global war on terror;

    “The (Obama) administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself. Obviously,” Clinton told reporters traveling with her to The Hague for a conference on Afghanistan, which Bush called part of his “global war on terror.”

    Obviously? What is so obvious about it?

    Why change the term? Well, because George Bush called the Global War on Terror a global war on terror – that’s their only reason. In a childish shift, reminiscent of Eric Shinseki issuing black berets to improve the Army’s combat readiness, the Obama Administration has decided to change the name.

    So let me get this straight – Obama’s Hope and Change in the war on terror means to do everything that Bush was doing, just change the name of it? That’s why the hippies and ne’er-do-wells voted for him?

    I feel safer – how about you?

  • What the Hell…?

    The Washington Post and the Washington Times are both reporting that the Obama Administration used federal bailout money to coherce the CEO of General Motors to resign. First the Post;

    The Obama administration has forced the longtime head of General Motors to resign and said yesterday that it would withhold additional federal aid to the auto industry unless the ailing companies undertake changes they so far have been unwilling or unable to make.

    The administration effectively rejected as untenable the business plans that GM and Chrysler had submitted to restructure their companies, saying that neither had fulfilled the terms of the federal loans the companies received in December.

    The president is expected to announce today that both companies may still win additional federal aid but under stricter terms.

    And the Times;

    The Obama administration has determined that neither Chrysler LLC nor General Motors Corp. can survive without dramatic changes in their businesses, and given them only weeks to completely restructure on a fast schedule that could involve a quick “dip” into bankruptcy, senior administration officials said Sunday.

    The restructuring began right away Sunday, the eve of Mr. Obama’s public layout of his plan for the U.S. auto industry, with the White House asking longtime GM Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner to step down and be replaced by Fritz Henderson, GM’s current chief operating officer.

    While Mr. Obama’s team has judged that GM could become viable with major sacrifices, it decided that Chrysler cannot survive as a stand-alone company, a senior administration official said.

    And the Administration arrived at these decisions how? From the same people who’ve brought us the US Postal Service – arguably a business run by the government that is currently hemorrhaging cash? How many people in the administration have even a modicum of experience running a car company? How many union bosses are they going to force from their positions for corruption and poor judgement?

    I’ll tell ya, if you weren’t worried about this administration before, ya hafta be worried now.

  • Obama angers McCain…finally

    Almost a year ago, John McCain told America that Barack Obama would make a good President. Well, that kind of good will got McCain nothing in the election. So now that the election is over with and it won’t do him a lick of good, McCain gets his hackles up in this Washington Times article;

    Sen. John McCain says President Obama is breaking campaign promises he made to the American people and has passed up numerous opportunities to reach out to Republicans — a pledge the Democrat made repeatedly during their battle for the presidency.

    “There are things that, statements that then-candidate Obama made during the campaign over and over and over again that obviously he’s not staying with,” Mr. McCain told The Washington Times in an hour-long interview with reporters and editors.

    Of course, McCain did mention a few times that Obama couldn’t be trusted, but McCain bowed to pressure from the Obama campaign to tone down that kind of rhetoric. Now that it’s too late, McCain will feign outrage and surprise during our long ride to hell in a handbasket.

  • Today’s shocking headline

    Well, it’s not so shocking as it is completely expected. Not to mention nauseating and completely unnecessary. Jon Soltz spends nearly 600 words telling us what we already knew – he prays at the alter of Barack Obama, loves the smell of Barack Obama’s feet, and wishes he could be Michelle Obama and bear Barack’s children.

    The Motor Pool Queen who dispatched trucks and drivers from the safety of Kuwait to Iraq for four months has the nerve to write;

    For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq….

    Fought what? Gerbil and dung beetle invasions? Boredom? The overwhelming sense of self satisfaction at being an insufferable prick?

    Oh, and to show the types of people who pray at the altar of Jon Soltz, this bonehead, Jim Staro, (a VFP loudmouth, by the way – more evidence of the incestuous relationship between IVAW, VFP, VoteVets, etc…) in the comments quotes one of the biggest military failures of recent history;

    Yes, Lyndon Johnson is in vogue again as a military philosopher. That’s how I got this red mark on my forehead.

    Now, I’m not saying that I disagree with the President, I don’t on this particular issue – I told Kokesh that on video last week. But coming from Soltz – it just sounds like “Duh”.

  • IVAW should confront their future

    I know there are some folks at IVAW who truly believe in what they’re doing – who believe that they can make a difference. But history is not on your side. Take a look at who’ve you’ve associated yourselves with;

    MacPhearson Perry

    Odd Squad

    I snagged these photos from someone’s Flickr account.

    This is your glimpse at your future. These clowns never accomplished anything in their lives. Ward Reilly is the butt of every joke imaginable – he not only never went to Vietnam, he protested the war by going AWOL nearly a year after combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam. Bill Perry admitted to me that his testimony at the first Winter Soldier was BS, that the only reason he told that story was to score some hairy-legged hippie chicks. His last remark to me about his actions in Vietnam was “We really kicked ass that day”.

    Mike MacPhearson is trying to make VFP a Democrat Party organization. He wouldn’t cross President Obama if his life depended on it. The same President Obama who just today announced that there’d be no withdrawal from Afghanistan. That kind of runs counter to your whole message, doesn’t it?

    What have they changed? They were successful in making everyone think that all of the veterans who returned from Vietnam were baby killers, dopers and thugs. They gave Hollywood a whole new class of villains for their idiot movies. They probably ruined more lives than PTSD did after that war. That’s your future. And they did it trying to make themselves sympathetic characters for their own selfish reasons. You know people just like them in IVAW and they’re the ones who are leading you over a cliff.

    Some of you went and did what you were ordered to do, but others, for their own selfish reasons, couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to do the same – and they’re the same people who belittle the job you did. Chiroux calls himself an Afghanistan veteran, and then tells all of you in his secret letter that there are no heroes in this war against terrorism. Don’t you find that a bit hypocritical? Some of you did the right thing – you did your business and then protested. The cowards are protesting so they don’t have to do their business – and they’re hiding behind your service.

    Thirty years from now, you’ll be a punchline like Ward Reilly. If you really care about the troops, if you really want to help, there are so many other things you can do. If you really need help, there are more organizations than IVAW that can give you real help without making you so dependent on the camaraderie of prima donnas who’ll screw you at every turn. I know, because I’ve heard the stories from your membership. I know that it’s like Lord of the Flies sometimes. Join the world of the grown-ups and make lives for yourselves instead of being pawns and propping up the pretty-boys and the geezers who destroyed so many lives of so many others over the last few decades.

    Oh, and to Bill Perry; it was Raoul that had your SUV towed last weekend. That’s funny shit right there.