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Category: VoteVets

  • Draft dodger can’t see the irony of his own words

    Harry Reid (a draft dodger if you use the same standard the Left uses for Dick Cheney) rejected the latest Republican proposal to prevent the government shutdown for another week. The proposal would have paid the Department of Defense for the entire year and funded government for another week. Politico quotes Reid;

    “Instead of solving the crisis the way we should, instead of saying ‘yes’ .. what they’re going to do is pass what they’ll call another short-term stop-gap measure,” Reid said of the Republicans. “They’ll say it’s short-term but what that really means is it’s a short-cut around doing our jobs. Instead of solving problems, they’re stalling. They’re procrastinating. That’s not just bad policy, it’s a fantasy.”

    And Reid should know since his Senate hasn’t passed a budget in more than two years. In fact, since Reid took charge of the Senate in 2007, that body has only passed two budgets.

    “We want to avoid a shutdown and the terrible consequences that would follow. The only thing Republicans are trying to avoid is making tough choices,” Reid said on the floor.

    Tough choices. Like the Republican plan to cut $40 billion from the budget instead of the meager $33 billion Democrats want to cut.

    And of course, dicksmith at VoteVets blames Republicans;

    It shouldn’t be. The new majority are slaves to the radical tea party wing of their party. Although I don’t like the guy, I’ve got to think that Speaker Boehner is at least sane enough to know that troops who are in harms way deserve to get payed so their families back home aren’t getting evicted and having their cars repossessed. But then there is the new dominant influence in their caucus. The one made up of war criminals and reality TV stars. These are the lowlifes that actually want a shutdown and aren’t real concerned with whether or not a Soldier can put food in his kids’ mouths.

    Who is actually responsible for not paying the troops? The Republicans have proposed at least two measures that would continue paying military families – both were rejected by the Democrat Senate and the President. But I guess I can’t expect reality to disturb that “non-partisan” cloud that envelopes the post-Jon Soltz VoteVets.

  • Melvin Bledsoe vs. VoteVets

    Unsurprisingly, VoteVets has released a statement condemning the hearings being conducted in the House of Representatives into extremist Muslims in the United States.Also unsurprisingly, Votevets misses the whole point;

    Rep. King is doing our troops no favors, as he specifically targets Muslims, and only Muslims, in his hearings on domestic terrorism. A key part of the work of our troops abroad is winning the hearts and minds of the people in any country we operate, and as of right now, most of them are Muslims. When they hear that the American government considers Islam a threat, and is investigating American Muslims, it only bolsters the message of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups that we are in a war with Islam. Every wrong signal can be exploited, as we are in this important fight, and we must be extra-vigilant in ensuring that nothing we do aids the underlying message of our enemies, as they seek to recruit.

    Of course, everything we do “aids the underlying message of our enemies, as they seek to recruit” according to the Left. Which is how Hasan was able to shoot scores of people at Fort Hood despite exuding warning signs. That’s why Carlos Bledsoe was still running around and was able to shoot two soldiers outside of a recruiting station in Arkansas despite training in Yemen with a Somali passport and being questioned by the FBI.

    Bledsoe’s father was at the hearings yesterday and according to Arkansas Online had this warning for America;

    Melvin Bledsoe spoke as part of a panel before the House Homeland Security Committee, telling the members that Muhammad had a perfectly normal childhood before something changed when he went to college in Nashville, Tenn.

    Bledsoe said his son converted to Islam while at school and later went to Yemen, where he was “manipulated and lied to” as he took part in a training camp run by terrorists.

    “This is a big elephant in the room,” said Bledsoe, who opened his remarks expressing sympathy for the shooting victims and their families. “Our society continues not to see it … We are losing American babies. This country must stand up and do something about the problem.”

    That statement from someone who has witnessed the radicalization of an American citizen stands in stark contrast to the statement from VoteVets. Of course, VoteVets relates everything to the welfare of the troops from our energy policy to getting draft dodger Harry Reid elected. But this is just ridiculous on it’s face.

    They say “only Muslims” like there’s no war going on at all any where in the world involving radical Muslims. That there have been no attempts on American lives in our own country by radical Muslims.

    If Representative King was truly concerned about the threat of domestic terrorism, his hearings would cast a wide net, and examine every threat, regardless of heritage or religion. That would not only help us better understand threats within the United States, but would also make clear to the larger world that we do not target Muslims because of their religion

    Yeah, you fucking ignorant dumbasses, it has nothing to do with their religion, and everything to do with their intentions.

  • Kayla Williams on Fox News for Women in Combat

    Yeah, I kinda figured Fox would turn to some bubble head to discuss the “women in combat” issue that made the late night news cycle yesterday, and I was right. Somehow they figured that Kayla Williams from VoteVets was a good interview. Of course they started off the discussion with Williams educating us on how tough women are in combat, all of their medals and accolades.

    Looking at her rat-like face, I couldn’t help but remember her book which I reviewed last year.

    I couldn’t help but think about the time that she actually wrote about the terror of sand in her vagina. I couldn’t help but remember the cat-fight relationship she had with her female sergeant – the female sergeant who cried because Williams didn’t like her. I couldn’t help but remember her complaints about the men who constantly hit on her. I couldn’t help but remember how she complained about how tough her life as an interpreter was so tough.

    But here she was on Fox News telling us that women can do the same job in combat arms duty assignments as men. That the new “Combat Readiness Test” will prove her correct. Yeah, except the “Combat Readiness Test” will be graded at different standards for men and women, so it won’t prove anything except how easily the Army can make liberals think that women equal men in combat.

    They might as well interview Nancy Pelosi on the subject – I’m sure Pelosi could hit all of the baseless talking points that Williams repeated.

    Thankfully, I didn’t have to listen Williams tell Gretchen Carlson what great tits Williams has like she repeated on every page in her book.

  • VoteVets spits on the Wisconsin National Guard

    You can always count on dicksmith and VoteVets to get things exactly wrong. They’ve decided to speak out about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s threat to quell violent protest in the streets of Madison, WI with the National Guard. So dicksmith writes under the title “Vets: Troops are not WI Governor’s Personal Goon Squad”. Even though the NGs are not a goon squad (nice way to describe service members, by the way, dickie), they are the Governor’s personal army to defend the rights of everyone else in Wisconsin who aren’t making a nuisance of themselves.

    “The Guard is to be used in case of true emergencies and disasters, to help the people of Wisconsin, not to bully political opponents. Considering many veterans and Guard members are union members, it’s even more inappropriate to use the Guard in this way. This is a very dangerous line the governor is about to cross.”

    I think the bullies here are the teachers’ unions and the SEIU who are trying to make a political point in the streets instead of in the halls of the legislature. Since when is thuggish behavior acceptable?

    Dicksmith sez;

    Unquestionably, what the Governor is doing is wrong. The National Guard serves to protect the state from emergencies and natural disasters, as well as deploying overseas when federalized. They are not Governor Walker’s personnel band of political thugs. What he is threatening to do is simply unacceptable.

    Unquestionably? Maybe from your hippie/Leftist POV, but the rest of us, who think rationally, don’t like thugs in the streets bullying the legislature to support a minority opinion. What the governor is threatening to do is remove an unruly element from the streets so people can return to work and children can return to their studies.

    And the implication that the troops in the Wisconsin National Guard would engage in something illegal and morally wrong is mighty despicable and not something that I’d expect from a “100,000-strong organization of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their supporters”.

  • So where are the apologies?

    I read yesterday about the admission by “Curveball”, actually Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, our main source on Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, admitted that his information was all bullshit. Of course, dicksmith pounces on this tidbit like a dung beetle on a turd;

    Well, there you have it folks. The source of the intel that got us into Iraq, a conflict that has killed over 4,400 American troops, says it was all bullshit. Those weren’t just empty faces in camo sacks. Those were someones father or mother, someone’s son, someone husband, someone’s wife, someone’s daughter. And they all died, each and every one of them, over deliberate lies.

    I’m not surprised. We’ve known this for years. But there is something about hearing from the hourses [sic] mouth that makes me extra angry.

    First of all, it’s probably pretty important to determine whether al-Janabi was lying then, or if he’s lying now. I mean when a liar admits he’s lying, you should figure when he’s lying, right?

    Secondly, IF the Bush Administration was victim of a lie, that pretty much absolves them of any responsibility for sending troops into Iraq. All of those “Bush lied” placards were wrong, since lying is different from being misinformed by intelligence sources.

    Thirdly, weapons of mass destruction were just ONE reason we went to war in Iraq. There were other things like Hussein massing his troops on the Kuwaiti border to rattle sabers for more than ten years. There were all of the potshots he took at our service members patrolling the skies over the No-Fly zone. There was the misuse of of the “oil for Food” program. There was the failure to cooperate with UN inspectors on an annual basis. Not to mention the 500 tons of uranium he had stored which we shipped to Canada a few years after the war began.

    But since the anti-war doofuses have chosen to ignore all of the other reasons we went into Iraq and cling pathetically to the WMD issue (while ignoring the WMDs we actually discovered in Iraq), it seems they owe the Bush Administration an apology for accusing them of lying.

    If dicksmith wants an investigation at this point, he should conduct one at VoteVets about all of things VoteVets has flatly lied about over the years since it’s founding. I wait patiently with unabated breath.

  • VetVoice and the veterans’ jobless rate

    So Congress has been in session for, what, three weeks and they haven’t reduced the jobless rate among veterans yet sez dicksmith? WTF?

    Basically, the House majority has been engaging in political theater, instead of working on a jobs bill, as Veteran unemployment has increased to the highest rate in five years:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 15 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were unemployed in January, far higher than the national jobless rate and the highest since the government began collecting data on veterans in 2005, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday.

    Can we just get one jobs bill, Mr. Speaker? Or at least start work on one? Before the already catastrophic rate of Veteran homelessness begins to increase exponentially?

    Yeah, the problem just happened a few weeks ago, right? VoteVets has been pushing the Unicorn Shit Energy Solution with millions of dollars spent on uselss ads. They spent threw away millions on ads for Harry Reid, who was a draft dodger, using VoteVets’ own standard for Republicans who went to college instead of Vietnam. And just now they noticed jobless vets?

    And the Reuters article is just plain silly. The highest rate of unemployed vets since 2005? Really? Five whole years? And how many of the five years did Republicans control Congress? Um, one.

    Silly dicksmith, tricks are for prostitutes.

    From another post in the same vein;

    I’m not saying the new majority is responsible for Vets being homeless. But certainly this is a much more worthwhile and urgent cause than the political theater in which they have engaged thus far.

    Political theater? Really? VoteVets, the manufacturers of the “Vietnam-era flak vests” issue wants to talk about political theater?

  • At the intersection of Stupid Street and Lunatic Lane

    TSO sent me a link to a Veterans Today article supporting Iraq Veterans Against the War’s stand that “President Showed He Is out of Touch with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans“. How is he “out of touch”? Well because;

    …the [SOTU] speech showed the president is out of touch with the rough reality facing veterans, and failed to produce a plan to address their needs. Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) represents the voices of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with bold solutions to cut the human and financial costs of war by meeting veterans’ needs that the president ignored.

    President Obama grossly understated the heavy toll that the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are baring on troops and the economy.

    And the troops needs?

    “The president said withdrawal from Afghanistan will start in July, but when will it end? Let’s bring all the troops home immediately and invest in the care they have earned,” said Zach Choate.

    Yup, that’s why we have an armed force, so we can withdraw in the middle of a war…like we’re Spain or something. We need an armed force that is sitting around hospital waiting rooms holding their heads in their palms.

    Of course, that seems perfectly normal for an organization that made of mostly deserters and quitters…led by head quitter Jose Vasquez who served for 14 years and then quit at the very moment he was supposed to deploy. A medic who couldn’t serve in a traditionally conscientious objector job.

    Oh, but IVAW and Veterans Today aren’t the only ones to be disappointed that we don’t just push our helicopters into the Persian Gulf for the cameras. VoteVets official statement on the SOTU address;

    …we still need to hear how the President plans to end counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan. When so many are looking for leadership as it relates to our nation’s fiscal problems, it has become clear than an endless commitment to the conflict is something our country can no longer afford.

    Notice it’s “end counterinsurgency operations” not “win the war in Afghanistan”. Winning the war against terrorism isn’t anyone’s goal these days. It’s about how fast we can just disengage from a war we never started so they can kick the can down the road.

    There’s a lot of talk about saddling our kids with the national debt, but I don’t hear anyone talk about saddling our kids with wars we don’t have the guts to finish. My generation saddled this generation of soldiers with the war in the Middle East because we didn’t have the guts to end the wars there. Apparently this generation lacks the fortitude if you think that IVAW, Veterans Today and VoteVets represent this generation. Or are they just a handful of pussies who can’t think past the jars of urine they store in their refrigerators?

  • VoteVets embraces ideological foe when he agrees with them

    VetsVoice publishes a missive written by retired BG Steven Anderson which supports the President’s energy bill entitled Save Energy, Save our Troops;

    A new energy efficiency policy would not only save lives and cut costs, it would make a powerful statement regarding the Pentagon’s commitment to lowering our dependence on foreign oil. We have the finest troops in history; improving the insulation in their structures would not only keep them more comfortable, it would also go a long way to bringing more of them home safely

    TSO reminds us that General Steven Anderson, a scant three years ago, tore apart every little bit of VoteVets entire stand on the war;

    “There are some signs that our new strategy is working,” Brig. Gen. Anderson said in a teleconference from Baghdad. “It’s going to be a long, hot summer, and it won’t be really until the end of it that we’ll be able to evaluate it. There is plenty of opportunity, and plenty of reason to be cautiously optimistic about what’s going on over there.”

    The 10 myths, as outlined by Brig. Gen. Anderson, are:

    • The war in Iraq is about oil;

    • The U.S. is fighting alone in Iraq;

    • Iraq is engulfed in a full-scale civil war;

    • The Iraqis were better off under Saddam Hussein than under the new government;

    • The Iraqi government is ineffective;

    • Economic development is non-existent in Iraq;

    • Contractors cost the U.S. government too much money;

    • U.S. troops aren’t properly equipped;

    • Morale is low among U.S. troops; and

    • The U.S. has lost in Iraq.

    None of these myths are true, Brig. Gen. Anderson said, and the situation in Iraq is much better than is often reported here [in the US].

    So, like TSO, I’m wondering which of the above points VoteVets is willing to concede to Anderson in return for his support on the energy issue? How can Anderson be absolutely wrong on all of those points, but right on the single point when he writes in VetsVoice? Or vice versa?