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"...yet another grim milestone for coalition forces in Iraq today as the U.S. death toll climbed significantly after the military reported Sunday that six more troops had died in the deadliest day in two years for American forces since the second to last deadliest day was eclipsed only by the one-day death toll that came after the third highest daily casualty count for U.S. forces since the war began when the deadliest most deadly day of death among U.S. forces who have died while braving death rose to a level never before witnessed since the day before yesterday when three more soldiers died..." (Any of this sounding familiar?)
Hemingway said courage is grace under pressure, meaning that when the going gets tough, the tough don't argue endlessly about how best to retreat. They leave that to the spartisan 300 whose only resolve is to continue feeding at the public trough while insisting that war is an anachronism."Spartisans! There is where they fight! Here is where we lie!"
Read the whole shebang HERE.
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials said Saturday they had arrested a top Al Qaeda official, but that he was not the terror mastermind Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, as they had identified him a day earlier.Still no word on the other Abu Omar al-Baghdadi they captured a few days earlier, though.
There are two sorts of congressional representatives in America - those who've visited Walter Reed, and those who haven't.
Both sorts are now rightfully screwed.
That wacko isn't one of us - he's never at the meetings.
- Seamus O'Greyhawk
One of the unfortunate side effects of paranoia is a tendency to display inappropriate agressive behavior. To the individual suffering from paranoia, the behavior is entirely appropriate.
One of the side effects of wars where significant portions of the population are subjected to the brutality of war is that significant portions of the population end up suffering from a reality induced paranoia.
Some of the folks over at Lunatic-EarthAlien-Earth are backing the guys story up.
Duncan is legitimate, and I can say this people, those who want to ridicule a guy who goes out on a limb for everyone else's sake, should be ridiculed. What should we all do, hide the truth so we dont get ridiculed, oh yah, thats what the government does when you report a UFO, guess those hundreds of millions of reports are hogwash as well hey?
For those wondering what happened to Super Soldiers teeth in his own words -
My teeth? Radation damage.
In one corner, the United States is taking part in a conference of Iraqi neighbors which included Syria and Iran. I think this is a fairly big deal considering our government hasn’t talked to Iran in decades. If you think about it, I’m surprised that our government is ran by men considering it’s usually a woman who can hold a grudge better (no this isn’t sexist!). We’re known for not talking to governments for years because at some spat in the past they blackened our eye somehow. That’s something a woman would do, most guys would get over it and be drinking beer together by the next weekend.
Hey, didn't you know that the Celts and Native Americans are the two races most prone to "paranormal abilities?" And that the US gov't has been recruiting them for years and turning them into half-man, half-machine cyborg super warriors?
STOP DENYING THE TRUTH!!!
73 minutes of pure, unadulterated crazy.
There's much more at "Project Camelot" including:
– His mission to “terminate” the very drunk, future President of the United States... George W Bush;
– His dizzying enhanced physical and psychic abilities... including the abilities to hurl someone across the room with his mind, and walk through a solid wall;
– How he and 11 other children were flown to Cambodia to deliver a targeted death blow to all the surrounding Khmer Rouge troops... using only the combined power of their minds;
– How his right arm is “hardwired” and is capable of astonishing speed and strength;
– His struggle to regain his memory, aided by a car accident which led to the discovery of a cranial implant uncovered by an MRI machine... deactivating the implant and causing the MRI machine to catch fire;
– His role as a programmed assassin, targeting Americans under the command of an undisclosed agency;
– The selection, torture, and brutal training process that he endured... and which children are undergoing to this day;
I've found heaven.
BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The Iranian envoy at an Iraq conference called on Saturday for U.S. troops to withdraw from the country
In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic deputies attached their proposal ....requires that all U.S. forces leave Iraq no later than the end of 2008, and possibly sooner
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Iraqi insurgent group threatened to kill a German woman and her son kidnapped in Iraq unless Germany withdrew its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days
A Rockville man has pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy charges in connection with a plot to steer contracts at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to his companies.Story here.According to federal court records, Leon Krachyna has admitted conspiring with an associate to bribe a civilian contract specialist. Federal prosecutors say that between June of 1999 and March of 2002, Krachyna and his associate were awarded more than $1 million dollars in contracts for services provided at Walter Reed facilities.
The contracts were for landscaping services and the transportation of furniture and hospital records.
Krachyna has admitted paying a public official between $10,000 and $30,000 in return for confidential bidding information and other assistance designed to steer business to his companies.
More heads should certainly roll. But elsewhere others will bemoan the "outsourcing" - perhaps in the belief that the troops at Reed should do their own damn landscaping and furniture moving.
Another appearance by David Obey, who "isn't waiting on the upcoming farm bill to extend income subsidies aimed at small dairy farms. Obey's 13-month extension would cost $283 million." Part of the Dems' Iraq war "plan", of course.
A small part: Already, money in the bill not directly related to the war exceeds $20 billion.
Sone people may wonder if the "anti-war" protestors are actually working for the other side...
Demonstrators included Olympia City Councilman T.J. Johnson, and New York civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart, who has been convicted of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, according to stories on CNN’s Web site.
Lynne Stewart, the veteran civil rights lawyer who was found guilty of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients
Not just any jailed client....but one of Osama's closest associates (according to Osama himself)
Stewart blamed the conviction on evidence that included videotape of Osama bin Laden urging support for her client. Stewart was the lawyer for Omar Abdel-Rahman, a sheik sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for conspiring to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and destroy several New York landmarks , including the U.N. building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
Since everybody seems to be listening to Milblogs lately, let me just say that ArmyLawyer totally deserves a top-block OER this month.
*crickets*
Anyone?
Eh, worth a shot.
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There are only a few hotel rooms at the discounted rate still available. If you haven't made your room reservation, better hurry. Once our reserved block of rooms are sold out, there is no guarantee that you will receive the discounted rate.
... he's back.
The video in the first link will prove a fine tonic for those who've tired of intelligent conversation and informed opinions on Iraq.
Note how quickly the son with PTSD is forgotten in the encounter.
Update: Then there's this video:
I need to stress my non-partisanship here - just because I'm posting a video of members of only one political party doesn't mean I'm endorsing that party. If anyone has a similar video of Republicans I'll link it too.
And for something a bit more current, here's the post-fall-of-Baghdad Pelosi:
This week, Pelosi said it is "difficult to understand" why the weapons can't be found. Yet she did not seem concerned about whether any are found. "I am sort of agnostic on it; that is to say, maybe they are there," Pelosi said. "I salute the president for the goal of removing weapons of mass destruction."For the record, I never thought WMD would be found in Iraq, but didn't much care.
Mayor Nagin emphasized the need to invest in the police department to reduce attrition and increase the number of officers on the street.
/future vision on
President Pelosi stated that as New Orleans "stands up"...the National Guard will stand down.
Vice President Murtha demanded that the National Guard be redeployed to someplace safe...like Baghdad or Fallujah
Missippi Governor Haley Barber bemoaned the refugee crisis the still non-functioning Louisiana Government was creating.
Senator Kerry blamed the administration for failing to involve the UN.
Jacque Chirac reiterated that all sales were final, but offered to send 10,000 angry Morrocans to help the crisis in exchange for 100,000 barrels of Gulf Oil.
/future vision off
A National Guardsman shot and killed a man who threw a piece of broken glass at a National Guard patrol and later pointed what guardsmen and police thought was a rifle at them early Thursday, police said.
Fugitive Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said his forces had ended cooperation with the Taliban and suggested that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai.Everybody wants on the winning team.In a video response to questions submitted by the Associated Press, Hekmatyar said that his group contacted Taliban leaders in 2003 and agreed to wage a joint jihad, or holy war, against American troops.
"The jihad went into high gear, but later it gradually went down as certain elements among the Taliban rejected the idea of a joint struggle against the aggressor," Hekmatyar said in the video, which was received yesterday. He wore glasses and a black turban as he spoke in front of a plain white wall at an undisclosed location.
He offered no details of the split or its timing but said his forces were mounting only restricted operations, partly because of a lack of resources.
"It was not a good move by the Taliban to disassociate themselves from the joint struggle," he said. "Presently we have no contact with the Taliban."
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