I posted a video last week where an NBC news team interviewed some troops who expressed sincere frustration to the growing feeling of betrayal they have concerning America’s lackluster support.
Well William Arkin of the WaPo responded and in essence told them you are lucky to have the people’s respect at all, and you should be thankful for the paycheck we give you, so shut up and quit whining. No that’s not a quote, but it is damn hard not to read this any other way.
If you cannot handle a pissed off vet venting over this, look away now. I may use a bad word or two.
Seriously that it what it amounts to. Hey enemy? Kick back, here is when we will be gone.
Apparently the enemy is too dumb to know how to win, so congress has decided to plan it for them.
Oddly (sarcasm) this round up of defeatism and surrender comes via the self congratulatory Daily Kos and Truth Dig:
S. 121, introduced on January 4th by Sen. Russ Feingold. The bill would give the Pentagon and State Dept. jointly 60 days to submit a plan for redeployment from Iraq, within 180 days from enactment. Cosponsors: Boxer.
S. 233, introduced on January 9th by Sen. Ted Kennedy. The bill would prohibit funds for any U.S. forces above the number of forces already there as of January 9, 2007, without a specific Congressional authorization for such increase. Cosponsors: Boxer, Brown, Harkin, Kerry, Leahy, Menendez, Sanders.
H.R. 353, introduced on January 9th by Rep. Ed Markey. This is the House counterpart to Kennedy’s bill. Cosponsors: Abercrombie, Conyers, DeFazio, Delahunt, DeLauro, Grijalva, Hinchey, Maloney, McDermott, McGovern, Meehan, Olver, Schakowsky, Mike Thompson, Tierney.
JAIL bosses are rebuilding toilets so Muslim inmates don’t have to use them while facing Mecca.
Thousands of pounds of taxpayers money are being spent to ensure lags are not offended.
The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah — the direction of prayer — when they visit the lav.
Muslim lags claimed they have had to sit sideways on prison WCs.
But after pressure from faith leaders the Home Office has agreed to turn the existing toilets 90 degrees at HMP Brixton in London.
The Home Office refused to reveal the cost of the new facilities — part of an “on-going refurbishment”.
One Muslim former inmate said: “The least the Prison Service can do is make sure people can practise their religion correctly in prison.”
But a Brixton jail officer said: “If they didn’t get locked up for committing crime they would not have this problem. Yet we have to sort out their loos. If we weren’t paying for it as taxpayers I’d laugh my socks off.”
Yes they really did spit at (not on, at) him and call him names. Via Hot Air.
Is this how the nutroots peacefully protest? Is this how they Support the Troops, but not the war?
Well this clip below has a familiar face to LSU, that of Joshua Sparling, the soldier I wrote about in 2005 who was recovering at Walter Reed, and recieved a get well card from a child that said:
Dear, Soldier, have a great time in the war and have a great time dieing in the war From migual Gallier ps DIE
I was pretty pissed then. Michelle Malkin had a great write up on it too.
Well, he was at the rally in DC as part of the counter protest, this last weekend and got spit at, flipped off and called names.
But as the video shows, he is fairly level headed and fair about his experience, and even had a surprise for his girl friend.
Congrats and best wishes to you both.
I also include this video, from Hannity and Colmes where he discusses his repeated indignities. In it he does detail the rally a bit more.
I make no secret of my admiration of Pat Benatar. She is easily one of finest singers ever to hit the rock and roll business. Aside from taking the industry by storm in the 70s, she has continued an incredible odyssey of musical invention through the 80s, the 90s and well into the new millennium. Teamed with one on the finest song writers, producers and guitarists in rock and roll, the great Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, there has been pretty much nothing they have not done and cannot do, and do better then anyone.
I saw her in play in Tacoma a few months ago and the only indication of her age and the length of her career, is that she may not be able to hit all the high ones any more. I assure you however, that she suffers no lack in that regard, for she sounds as incredible to me as the first time I heard her sing on some top 20 countdown in High School.
It’s a simple but potent message from the frontliners, the boots on the ground.
While the left may sing themselves to sleep each night comforted by their pseudo support mantra "Support the troops, not the war", the real troops are having none of it.
What the left does not get is that while they do not believe in the war, the troops do. What the troops feel from their "support the troops, bring them home" chants is frustration that their nation does not believe in them and is abandoning support.
Watch the clip and see for yourself how the troops feel.
The question becomes can you support them and their ideals and not give them the support for the mission they are doing? While the left sees no conflict, the troops feel it. How can we support them and not equip them for success? Oh sure, we give them armour, or guns. Do we give them belief? Trust? They also need the emotional support.
Because the war is winnable. They know it. They just wish you did too.
Want to show your opposition to the Republicans in the Senate who plan on siding with the Dems by voting to express their opposition to Bush’s surge plan? Dean Barnett explains exactly how you can do it.
Already aware of the pledge but just haven’t gotten around to signing it? Click here to do just that.
Lots of ’signatures’ on there already, including one from LSU.
Show the craven poll driven politicians that it matters.
Yes that’s right, I will briefly turn my back on politics to address this pop culture shocker.
On the Angus Young Bio at Wikipedia, it is reported that Angus is dead. I heartily suspect it is a hoax, as the reasons and cause of death are somewhat obscene and graphic.
Since I am sure Wiki will remove the entry I can only assume is bogus, I took a snap shot of it (below) for posterity.
NOTE- Already gone
In the larger view this prank is not to serious, but it should be remembered that this is the flaw of a user controlled encyclopedia.
Something I will remember the next time I am tempted to quote Wiki as authoritative.
But in case its true, here is an AC/DC Angus tribite video.
The polls show her running strong out front, and Keith Olbermann’s offers her a fluff interview, but her campaign to be the CIC has some serious challenges ahead of it.
One of the biggest challenges will be Bill. You remember him, the former president? He offers many problems that must be dealt with, and no clear method presents itself.
His history of past sexcapades, rumors of his current ones and his recent (unofficial) diagnosis of sexual addiction remind us that she is married to a man of questionable values, and also raises the questions of what she knew, when she knew it and why she stays with a man who shows no respect for his marriage. The answer pretty much has to be political gain and everyone knows it. Had she divorced him in 2000 I doubt she would have been able to Carpetbag New York as easily as she did.
Every day he appears in public, he is a slap in her face that she will always be second best. He is more charismatic, a better speaker, a better writer and a better politician then she is or ever will be. She rode his coattails to Little Rock, then to Washington DC, and no matter how hard she tries, she is still riding them today.
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