Sacrifice

US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.

"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.

Wow, he quit playing... What sacrifice. It brings a tear to the eye thinking of how he went without.

UPDATE: Not that this will surprise anyone, but Bush says he quit in August of 2003 because "of the troops [sniff, sniff]", except he kept playing until at least October (lying prick), and then had to quit because of an injury. What a loser

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Billonaire Thomas Friedman Gets Pied

No-one knows why Brown University invited Thomas Friedman to be the keynote speaker at their Earth Day event, but he gets his just desserts.

Ah Ha... Look at how pissed he gets. Poor baby. What a pompous prick. I always figured Friedman had money, but recently I read he is the wife of a billionaire. Her family made billions making strip malls in the U.S. His "estate" in New York is like 7 million acres or some shit. Why do incredibly rich people write columns for the NY Times? How many of you would work if you had billions?

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Kill Them All

I had never seen this video that Atrios had posted up of Thomas Friedman. I love these guys who earn the Combat Infantry Badges from behind a pundit's desk. Friedman sounds like a lunatic.



It reminded me of the email forwarded to me yesterday from a wingnut I used to serve with:

Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ?

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was 'desecrated' when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for chopping off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide .

I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

It goes on and on and on like this, (why are these people so long winded?)

It seems to me that both Friedman and whatever dullard wrote the above jingoistic tripe, shat their pants on 9/11. That single event so defines them that it drives all their other emotions. Blinding them from seeing some very simple truths. Firstly, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Killing the entire Muslim world isn't going to solve the Global Terrorism problem, beside the fact that there are like 9 billion muslims and we aren't 12 year olds. You fight terrorism in a certain way. The strategies that allowed us to break up the Regional Terrorism in the 70's and 80's still work today.

You certainly don't do it by invading England when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. If we were serious about fighting Global Sunni Terrorism, and I mean really serious, we would have not replaced Saddam with chaos central, the worlds terrorist training ground. We would have bought his help. He was no friend to Al Qaeda.

Not to mention instead of fantasizing about attacking Iran, which is no more than a pipe dream, unless we want to lose a entire army and a bunch of really big boats. Don't forget they fielded 3,000,000 in the Iraq-Iran war and, of course, we have no reason to attack Iran. It's clear the Iraqi's are more than capable of making, all on their own, what amounts to a copper hubcab, regardless of whatever pops into Dick Cheney's fevered mind at any point in time. They are no more involved in the fighting in Iraq than the Saudi's, perhaps less so.

No, if the Bush administration gave a damn about Global Terrorism we would go into Pakistan not Iran. We would find Bin Laden. Remember him? How come they care less about the sovereignty of Iraq or Iran than they do about Pakistan?

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Rightwing Pajamas Media Clueless about Military

The rightwing media has been all over Obama for a story he told.

You know, I've heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon -- supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon," he said. "Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition, they didn't have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.

Jake Tapper cut to the chase and actually called the unit in question, and of course found out, that's exactly what is happening. It's not surprising that this collection of oxygen thieves don't know a platoon from a poltroon. These are the same chuckleheads who beat up a gold star father at their Gathering of Kleagles event in D.C..

A platoon is almost never up to strength in a combat unit and in some units they are over strengthened. When I was in the 82nd Airborne, we had a platoon with 56 guys in it. We also had a platoon with 8 guys. Any grunt knows this. It's laughable that none of these chickenhawk mama's boys have ANY IDEA about what is basic knowledge in the military. Basic, as in being able to breath. There are military wives who understand this shit better. What a joke. That a rifle platoon is short men these days is equivalent to saying "my recruiter lied to me". Not that any of these lowlife cowards ever saw a recruiter let alone allowed one to lie to them...

If any of these fucks gave a damn about "the troops"© the might have been involved with Adopt a Platoon as I have over the past couple of years. Every unit I have supported by sending things too has been light. Every single one. Oh, and here is a clue for these jacked-asses. One of the units I supported was from the 10th Mtn out of Fort Drum. Some of the platoon I was supporting in Afghanistan was not present with the unit deployed there. BECAUSE THE OTHER HALF OF THE PLATOON WERE DEPLOYED TO IRAQ. This was early last year. So this has been going on for some time.

What a bunch of fools.

This continues sounding like pure bullshit, no matter what the guy says or how credible Tapper claims to find him. Milbloggers say the platoon is the basic organic unit of the army, and troops are never picked out of a platoon to serve elsewhere -- if more troops are needed elsewhere, a whole platoon goes, not just Ronny, Bobby, Ricky and Mike.

I'm not in the military -- Ace, from "Ace of Spades HQ"*

If these guys were not so blinded by their partisan hatred of Democrats, they would realize that, of course these units are being deployed undermanned. The military is stretched DANGEROUSLY THIN. But, I guess those thoughts might led them to the understanding that the Army needs recruits. Not for nothing, who the hell are "Ronny, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike"? Sounds like a bunch of frat boys. Do you mean, Garcia, Johnson, Slopek, Fernandez and Sgt. Green? Geez, these guys really don't have any clue whatsoever. "Ricky", and how about Sandy and Mary!

Next month at my VFW meeting, after the meeting itself, me and the other guys, over a couple of beers are going to laugh long and hard at these morons. Long and hard. "But Sarge! I can't go with 2nd Platoon, a Platoon is a organic unit!"

UPDATE:

Great! Now these dumbasses are going to get this Captain in a shitload of trouble. Because the idiots at redstate are raising a stink about this, in spite of their lack of knowledge about the military, they are causing the Pentagon brass to come down on this officer.

As a former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the timing of the situation you describe quite likely occurred during the period of my Chairmanship.

There are specific military regulations governing the use by U.S. forces of weapons other than of U.S. manufacture, and, likewise, regulations covering the deployment into combat zones of military units at manning levels below an optimum level.

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What I need from you are the essential facts of when- the dates- the unit was deployed, to which brigade combat team, or other unit it was assigned, the name and current location of the captain, or other military personnel who shared the alleged facts with you, so that committee staff can debrief them.

Here is what the numbskulls at Redstate are saying:

He is so mind-blowingly ignorant of the military and its status in the GWOT that he either heard this story and believed it, or thought that nobody less mind-numbingly vacuous and stupid than him would see through it.

Holy Christmas, It's you morons who are mind-blowingly ignorant. Now that you have been pantsed about the platoon issue you are trying to make this about using enemy weapons. I have used a AK-47, it's a pretty good weapon. If I was short on 556 ammo you are damn straight I would pick up a AK. There is plenty of ammo, just pick it off a dead badguy. What in holy hell is so hard to believe? Are you so blinded by your Democrat Derangement Syndrome that you don't care if you ruin this young captain's career? You sorry bastards...

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CPAC! Sadly, No

Mister Leonard Pierce from SadlyNo.com has boldly gone where no man has gone before. He has infiltrated that symposium of morans, CPAC. Where Coulter just called John Edwards a girl again, but as funny as that dumbassed cracker here Mister Leonard Pierce chats up a "stockbroker" in the lobby of the hotel:

Why is Tony so mad?

“That fuck-stick Romney dropped out. That just leaves us with McCain.”

You don’t have any affinity for the Senator, then?

“He’s a weak sister. He won’t have the guts to invade Iran.”

Iran must be ripe for invasion. It seems like we’ve been waiting forever. But what of Iraq?

“Iraq is over. Iraq is somebody else’s problem now.”

The problem of the Iraqis, I would guess.

“Whatever. It doesn’t matter. Iran is the issue. Iran has the Islamic bomb.”

A bomb that follows a religious ideology is a terrifying concept indeed; but what about Pakistan?

“Pakistan is our ally. But even if they weren’t, Iran is the destination.”

Not according to my travel agent. But what makes you say that?

“Iran is where the money is.”

What money?

“Look, Iraq has been good to us. Everybody knows that. Construction, defense, telecoms, it’s a whole new market.”

It’s a real success story.

The "Islamic Bomb"? What the hell is that? Pardon me I have to blow the stupid out of my nose [HONK!]... That's better.

You really have to read all of his reports from rat king central over at SadlyNo website.

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Camp Followers and PTSD Fakers

So, apparently I am faking my PTSD. Apparently the twenty fucking years its taken me to stop figuring out whether the person who is walking past me is going to try and kill and how can I kill them is all fake because my mother breast fed me or something. The years of insomnia and flared tempers to the point of violence is all faked because I am not macho enough. I guess I didnt drink enough tequila, shoot enough people or screw enough prostitutes in central America to be called 'a man' in these keyboard cowards eyes.

Ya know, its not like its not hard enough admitting you have this PTSD shit. You basement dwelling fucks. We don't need you whiny assed momma's boys saying people are faking it. We don't need yet another generation of vets spending their days trying to erase the memories with whiskey or suicide. I am so sick of Malkin, this other military camp skank 'Raven', Limbaugh and all the other packs of flying monkey wingtards. I don't mind they have this fetish for the military that, frankly belongs in some seedy NY S&M club, but quit involving me and my brothers and sisters in your freak show. We're faking it??!?!? Fuck you. Like you have any idea what its like, sacrificing your own psyche, your own sanity, for your country.

The liberal mindset is what causes PTSD. Boys being raised to men without a strong male role model, and having a false sense of what life is about is causing our young men to go to war and come home freaked out.

Kender, there is a lot of truth to what you’ve said. When we consider that the past wars were much gorier and bloodier. My own father saw a lot of gore; he lost many friends. Yet he managed to move on without letting it get to him; he chose to live his life as he wanted and not to succumb to his ghosts, as I call them.

The men of the past are a lost breed. -- Raven

via SadlyNo.com

There's no truth in what he is saying, none. How dare you judge any of us. What the hell do you know about gore? You think watching a movie gives you any idea? That stupid fuck doesn't have any idea what its like. Liberal mindset? Not only did I vote for Reagan, I worked for him.

I am a officer in the local VFW, and ya know what's funny, its really easy to tell the guys who actually were in the shit, versus the guys who meet the requirements to join the VFW. Its all the strange guys, all the broken people. The walking wounded. It doesn't matter what the conflict is either. Be it Iraq War I, the Korean war, or any other conflict. Its perfectly clear to me why my Nam' chopper pilot buddy still gets dead drunk every single weekend and gets into fights with cops, at 59 years old. Its because he learned to bury that shit deep down and he learned that because of dumbasses like you flapping your gums about something you absolutely no idea about. You are the same people who used to step over my brothers on the street on your way to work.

You morons want to pretend this is some kind of 'war' we are having, the left and the right? That's fine. Lets see who outlasts whom. You see, in September, 1979 I swore to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and that's you, the republican camp followers. Bush's lickspittle sycophants.

Me?, I'm fighting the long war and I learned my trade in the jungles of Honduras and the streets of San Salvador and I haven't forgotten a thing.

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What Did You Do In The War, Mommy?

“Which Of These Three Just Doesn't Belong Here?
Tell Me, Can You Guess Which One?”

Been working on a few posts to put up here over the last 48 hours, but something else has leapt to the front of the queue today. Something that has been nagging at me something fierce, but was eloquently brought into sharp focus via this brilliant post by the take-no-prisoners TBogg:

MALKIN: “Like actress Sally Field, I am a mom. Unlike Sally Field, I do not live in La-La Land. We breathe a different brand of oxygen. We hold diametrically opposed worldviews. We have nothing in common but stretch marks.

Contrary to tongue-tied Sally's incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing experiences do not bond all women in a universal sorority of non-confrontation. There are sheep moms. There are lion moms. We know which kind Sally Field is.”

TBOGG: Michelle likes to categorize people. For example there are "good" people (made up of white people ...and Michelle), and there are "evil" people. They are brown. Unlike Michelle.

In fact, it seems like only last week that Michelle was discussing the difference between 9/10 people and 9/12 people:

MALKIN: But remembrance without resistance to jihad and its enablers is a recipe for another 9/11. This is what fueled my first two books, on immigration enforcement and profiling. This is what fuels much of the work on this blog and at Hot Air. Not every American wears a military uniform. But every American has a role to play in protecting our homeland–not just from Muslim terrorists, but from their financiers, their public relations machine, their sharia-pimping activists, the anti-war goons, the civil liberties absolutists, and the academic apologists for our enemies.

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As the most infamous of all Internet leftists once said: Screw them.


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There are 9/10 people and there are 9/12 people.

TBOGG: As an example of a 9/10 person, Malkin presents Cindy Sheehan, ...a woman who lost her son in a needless war in the wrong country. A war designed to give people like Michelle Malkin the warm fuzzies by making them believe that if we invade their countries and kill enough of them over there, they won't be killing us over here. 9/10 person Cindy Sheehan is a tragic example of what the loss of a child and the ensuing grief can do to a person.

Then there is Michelle Malkin, she is a 9/12 person. Strong. Resolute. She will not submit.

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She's not like Cindy Sheehan; she hasn't got time for sorrow.

Sometimes, the world stops
By Michelle Malkin • September 10, 2007 09:38 AM

I got a late start this busy Monday morning. Lots of news breaking and we’ll get to all of it. But none of it was more important this morning than my son’s very first day of preschool.

Right now, I’m just a misty-eyed momma.

TBOGG: It seems that there is a little 9/10 in Michelle Malkin too.

The only difference is that 9/10 Michelle Malkin's little boy will be coming home to his mother at the end of the day.

9/10 Cindy Sheehan's son will not.

It's an amazing read, replete with supporting photos that help hammer the point home. When you're done here, Go. Read. It.

Because it calls attention to something we're seeing more clearly than ever before, as this sillyfuck, opiate-conceived war sucks the wingers down the shitter and moves them along the sewer pipes of long-term minority status.

That point being that these people, who bleat and cry and wail till their vocal cords are the consistency lye-splashed spaghetti, are doing so while having actually felt very little pain themselves. The glycerin tears of John Boehner, the president's alleged end-of-“Breakfast at Tiffany's”-moments when he thinks of the troops he's sent off to die in a grandiose stroke of life-wasting egomania who've died in Iraq, the “outrage” of Rudy Giuliani over the MoveOn ad for its “undermining” of the troops, while he himself ducked out of Vietnam, and his 21-year old, prime Iraq war-aged son pursues a career...as a pro golfer—those things and much, much more, embarrassingly show wingnuts as the runny shit-talking cowards they actually are. Oh, the boys are soooooo tough!

But as Kool and The Gang sang, “It's Ladies Night!”, and it's there I want to swing the focus to, as the wingnuts are using them as a shield to attack from.

Time to hammer that fucker to pieces.

Malkin's rips on Sally Field for her statements at the Emmys, and more disgustingly, her attacks on Cindy Sheehan prompt one simple question.

What the fuck has she and her peroxide-ed co-horts sacrificed or given up to warrant her venom?

Claiming to be some sort of fearsome “lion mom”? Ooooooh, can't hardly wait for her turn in the Straight-to-DVD “Panic Room II: The Reckoning”. What was her grand sacrifice—her moment of “Wow! She's really putting it on the line”, that allows for her to so denigrate someone else as less tough than she? Her dog-and-pony trip to Iraq, so peril-protected that it made Couric's visit look like Ernie-fucking-Pyle? Walked to the same Potemkin markets as McCain and Graham, visiting pre-cleared Green Zone streets in a futile search for The Treasure of The Hopefully Non-Existent Jamil Hussein? All the while surrounded by mercs and military bodyguards who whack it to screen grabs from her “Defeatocrats” cheer.

Tough? Please.

What the fuck have the Malkins, and Morgans, and Ingrahams, and Coulters given up or done to claim the mantle of “Baddest Bitch”? These clowns are the ones that Pam Grier would effortlessly slap her way past to get to the “Boss Man” behind the double doors.

They have laughably wailed about Shar'ia law coming to Maple Street. They have caterwauled about how stars should “shut up and sing”—unless they silently agree with their genocidal ideas. They have flipped their blond manes (“Neeeeeeiiiiiiggggh!”) and screeched 'faggy-fag!”, and ripped widows who actually lost loved ones on 9-11.

Then...then, there is the woman who made the “ultimate sacrifice”, abusing internet video's ease of production and putting herself up for eternal ridicule with embarrassing “War on Terra” propaganda pieces that featured rapping so bad that it made Karl Rove's mic-rockin' “flow” sound like vintage Rakim.

And worst of all, or best, if you're into watching Gomez Addams quality train wrecks, her infamous actual cheerleading video ripping Harry Reid for daring to consider cutting funding for the Iraq clusterfuck war.

That's it? That's what they've done for the war? It can now be said. “Rosie the Riveter”, you can rest easy. “Michelle the Bullshitter” and her ilk are nothing to worry about insofar as usurping your place as an icon of homefront dirty work in “the war effort”.

The GOP's hapless deployment of their long-developed “Fembot Farm-Team” as defenders of the homeland, post-September 11th—skirts the fellas can hide behind as the ladies spit venom by proxy, is a bed shit. An unadulterated bed shit when you look at the body of work these no-talent, pre-fab “security moms” have produced in their “fight”, compared to the ultimate hell that Cindy Sheehan and Mary Tillman have lived through during Bush's war.

“What did you do in the war, Mommy?”

CINDY SHEEHAN: “I gave the country my child and he'll never draw breath again.”

MARY TILLMAN: “And I gave the country my child and he'll never draw breath again.”

MICHELLE MALKIN: “That's nothing! I went down to Costume Hut at the Dulles Town Center Mall, bought me a cheerleader outfit and spastically shook my narrow ass for the camera!

Save the cheerleader, and screw the world.

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Bullshit Moose and Squirrel

The chickenhawks at the unaptley named TrumanProject.org are asking progressive veterans to help attack MoveOn.org for calling out David Petraeus.

YOU CAN HELP! Those of you who are bloggers can blog to push back against Move On's ad--whatever your view of Iraq and Petraeus' view, claiming that the ad does not reflect all progressive or Democrats' beliefs--and standing up for a depoliticized military from both sides of the aisle.

If you are a veteran, help by writing into the military journal of your choice to share your experience that not all Democrats have such tin-ears.

Yes, because thats exactly what we should do Rachel, start up the circular firing squad all over military journal op-ed pages. Stupid limousine liberals. Can't they go back to debating Chomsky?

My 'military response' wasn't sent to the op-eds though. My response was directly to Marshall 'Bullshit Moose' Whitman and Rachel Kleinfeld, and was short. Go Fuck Yourself. I am sure my old Team Sgt. would have been more creative, but I'm a simple man and i prefer the classics.

Oh and in case you missed it here is what we 'troops' think of Davey Petraeus. Troops say MoveOn was Right

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Generation Chickenhawk

The baby Jesus loves Max Blumenthal, er, uhm... wait..., the baby Moses, maybe?

Max Blumenthal

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Chickenhawk Help

Here is Master Chickenhawk Chris Vucovich of Alabama harrasing the mother of a dead soldier. 31 and never served, but he has time to join the Montgomery Alabama's republican club. What a shitbag.

Now, here is my question. Was it wrong of me to submit his information to the United States Army in the interest of recruiting him? I mean, on the tape he says he would if they needed him. Well they do!

The U.S. Army fell short of its active-duty recruiting goal for June by about 15 percent, defense officials said yesterday. It is the second consecutive month the service's enlistment effort has faltered amid the American public's growing discontent over the war in Iraq.

I might have broken some blogger ethics rule, or 2. I cant help it, I'm just a good samaritan

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