Obama Blasts Bush Security Policies - On May 21, 2009, in a long winded major address at the National Archives President Obama continued to blame the Bush administration for employing "harsh interrogation" policies in the "War on terror." "Water boarding and other harsh interrogation methods did not advance our war and counter-terrorism efforts- they undermined them," he said.
Obama then called the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay an inherited "mess" that has weakened American national security by providing a rallying cry for enemies. Really now Mr. President that's a big stretch. The terrorists have been determined to kill as many Americans as they can and proved it on 911. Besides these scumbags are growing fat and lazy in GITMO. They're living better there than at any other time in their lives. Special food, Korans, prayer times, excellent medical care, and planning future terrorists attacks when they're released on the streets of US cities and towns.
And who, besides liberal, socialist Democrats and the ACLU, says water boarding and other interrogation policies haven't worked. Obama released our secret interrogation memos to the media and the rest of the world including terrorists. And would have released photos of so-called abuse of terrorist prisoners if not for the outcry from the military and others in his administration, including CIA Director Leon Panetta. Even his own party in Congress refused to approve funds to close GITMO. They don't want these terrorist scumbags running around in their districts either.
If the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang of losers and traitors wanted to come up with an example of torture why not show the video of terrorists beheading Nicolas Berg. I'll bet Nicolas Berg would have chosen water boarding over beheading with a dull knife while his torturers were crying Allah Akbar!
I believe the best thing we can do with GITMO is to turn it into a real WWII type POW compound. No fancy food, let them eat MREs same as our troops, no Korans or prayer rugs, housed in tents, wearing POW uniforms, outside latrines and showers same as our troops and basic medical support. Barbed wire compounds with machine gun towers. Military tribunals complete with firing squads. Those that aren't shot should be dropped off in the middle of an Iraqi desert with a canteen of water and some rations. Let the Iraqis handle them. If caught again by US troops as terrorists they should be summarily executed by a firing squad.
Terrorists aren't covered by the Geneva Convention in the first place. They are a bunch of cowards who wear no military uniforms or identifiable rank as leaders. They torture and murder indescriminately and recognize no rules of warfare. They should be shot outright when captured while attacking US troops or murdering innocent civilians.
The one thing that Obama hadn't counted on in giving his Muhammad Ali "I Am The Greatest" speech was former VP Dick Cheney. Cheney gave his speech across town at the American Enterprise Institute moments after Obama spoke. He said he supported the controversial policies "when they were made, and without hesitation would do so again in the same circumstances." Way to go former Vice President Dick Cheney!" All real Americans agree with you.
Cheney went on, "The point is not to look backward. A lot rides on our President's understanding of the security policies that preceded him. And whatever choices he makes concerning the defense of this country, those choices should not be based on slogans and campaign rhetoric, but on a truthful telling of history."
Obama said he rejected calls for a "truth commission" about the Bush administrations handling of the war on terror because he has "no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years." That's odd as he bashes Bush every time he gives a speech. I believe that Nancy Pelosi's lies about the CIA interrogation briefings had more to do with changing Obama's mind than investigating Bush's policies ever did.
Obama claimed that GITMO "has weakened American national security" by providing a rallying cry for enemies. What has weakened America's national security has been the defeatist policies of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang. If anything they have encouraged our enemies by portraying America as weak and undecided.
Obama says the paramount responsibility of any president is to keep the American people safe. If he feels that way why in the hell is he bent on closing GITMO and refusing to call the fight against terrorists a war on terror. He even refuses to call them enemy combatants. I wouldn't be surprised if they start calling them "Freedom Fighters."
If Obama were serious he would call for hunting down the terrorists and their cowardly leaders, who have tortured and murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children and beheaded American citizens and our US troops, and put them before a military firing squad. Justice demand no less. Instead he wants to blame the Bush administration and tell the rest of the world what a rotten country America is. Instead of cleaning up a mess Obama is making one. A really big one. He may be a gifted speaker but so far he has been a lousy president.
Cheney clearly "water boarded" Obama's speech in a way that only he could do. "Though, I'm not here to speak for George W. Bush, I am certain that no one wishes the current administration more success in defending the country than we do. What I want to do today is set forth the strategic thinking that drove our policies.," he said.
Cheney went on to say, "Watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can effect how you view your responsibilities. To make certain our nation country never again faced such a day of horror, we developed a comprehensive strategy." Can't be any plainer than that and it kept America safe from another attack for eight years.
Despite the best efforts of the socialist Democrats to demonize and ridicule him, with his speech Cheney became the spokesman for all real Americans who still believe in their country and taking the fight to the enemy in the "War on Terror." Where are the rest of the Republican Party members in all of this? Who among them will take up the cause that Dick Cheney has so ably articulated to the American people?
Samuel Adams said it well, "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." The Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang would do well to heed his warnings.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The First 100 Days
America's First Half Black/White President - Depending on whose side your on, President Obama's first 100 days in office have been either marked by stupendous achievements or stupid mistakes. The liberal establishment, including much of the media and the Pelosi/Reid gang of losers and traitors on the side of the "stupendous achievements" crowd and the rest of us on the side of the "stupid mistakes"crowd.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson says President Obama has revealed his "naivete, ineptitude and arrogance" as he deals with matters of national security. Former Vice President Dick Cheney sees Obama as a weak president who criticizes America on foreign trips and embraces our enemies like Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega. "What I find disturbing is the extent to which he has gone to Europe, for example, and seemed to apologize profusely in, and then to Mexico, and apologize there, and so forth," Cheney said.
On his first foreign trip Obama told the French people,"In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." It was pointed out by a reporter that Obama gave his speech a few hundred miles from the beaches of Normandy where over 2,500 "arrogant" American GIs were killed in less than an hour by German gunners on June 6, 1944.
Cheney has labeled Obama as a weak president. A dangerous president would be a more accurate label. There's little doubt that he has made Americans less safe by many of his reckless actions when it comes to defending the nation. Former President Ronald Reagan said,"Our foreign policy should be based on the principle that we will go anywhere and do anything that has to be done to protect our citizens from unjust treatment. Our national defense policy should back that up with force." Couldn't make it any clearer than that. Too bad Obama has largely ignored the policy.
Aside from apologizing to the world on what a rotten country America is he has stuck a knife in the polices that has kept America safe from terrorist attacks for the past eight years. First, he refuses to recognize the "War on Terror" and instead refers to it as a "Foreign Contingency Operation" which is like calling murder an unfortunate social encounter. Then he calls our interrogation techniques of enemy prisoners "torture" and refuses to rule out prosecuting officials in the former Bush administration for coming up with the polices. To make matters worse he released the Top Secret documentation of our interrogation polices to the public. Which is sure to aid the terrorists who want to kill us and destroy our way of life.
Water boarding terrorist suspects, depriving them of sleep, shoving them against a soft wall, playing loud music and making them wear women panties on their heads sure as hell doesn't sound like torture to most Americans. Cutting off the heads of innocent civilians and American troops after nearly beating them to death as the terrorists have done and continue to do is real torture. Murder is a better word. Instead of prosecuting Americans for applying non-lethal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects we should be hunting down the terrorist leaders and trying them as "War Criminals" before a military tribunal. And if convicted taken out and hanged or shot by a firing squad. I'm sure there are many Americans who believe beheading would be a more appropriate way of dealing with them.
Obama also refuses to refer to terrorists taken prisoner on the battlefield as "enemy combatants." What are they if they aren't the enemy? Lost civilians looking for their villages? Since he has determined that terrorists are no longer enemy combatants he plans to close GITMO the military prisoner facility in Guantanamo and move the whatever they are to prisons in the US and try them in civilian courts as thought they were US citizens. What these scumbag terrorists deserve is to be confined in a WWII style POW camp with barbed wire and machine gun towers and trial by a military court.
Obama also thinks the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allows the National Security Agency to listen to communications between the US and al-Qaida a bad policy. Makes you wonder whose side Obama is on.
During the campaign Obama promised to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden as a top priority of his administration. Really. It's been over a 100 days since he was sworn in as president and I haven't heard that OBL has been killed or captured. Maybe plans to prosecute Americans as torturers of terrorists has put plans to capture the real torturer on hold.
Not only does he want to treat terrorists, who are trying their damnest to kill us, as just another class of US citizens he wants to scuttle much of our military defenses. Reduction of our nuclear defenses, cutback on new weapons systems, aircraft and ships. Defense Secretary Bob Gates (SecDef in the Bush administration) kept on in the Obama administration was thought by most Republicans to be a good move has gone along with a sharp reduction in new fighter aircraft and other so-called cost cutting measures. Gates has proven that he is one of them and to hell with a strong military.
Americans are scratching their heads and wondering what Obama means by a "civilian security force" as large as and as well funded as the military. That's a rather large number when you consider that the the US military, including reserves, totals 2.5 million members. Just what the mission of this "civilian security force" is has never been made clear. They will wear some type of a uniform. Black maybe with armbands? Will they be armed? There was an elected leader in Germany in the 1930s by the name of Adolf Hitler who came up with a similar plan.
Obama doesn't think Americans should be well armed and neither does his Attorney General Eric Holder and the Pelosi/Reid gang of traitors, losers and gun grabbers. If they have their way American gun owners will be reduced to carrying slingshots and throwing rocks. Besides the Obama/Pelosi/Redi gang believes the Second Amendment is all about state militias and duck hunting. To hell with the US Supreme Court ruling that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual, fundamental right.
When it comes to the slump in economy Obama and the Democrats believe that more government is the solution to the problem. And they are more than willing to spend American taxpayers dollars to prove it. So far Obama has spent 2 trillion dollars (and plans to spend more) to jump start the economy by bailing out failing banks and the auto industry who they say are just too big to let fail. Not to worry - the feds are printing truckloads of new 100 dollar bills to pay for this. Most folks have no idea how far in the sky a stack of trillion dollars worth of 100 dollar bills reaches. Click on your computers and find out. Despite all this government help with our tax dollars unemployment continues to climb as more businesses that aren't too big to fail close their doors.
I don't recall reading in history where the government bailed out the stagecoach lines when the railroads came along. The pony express didn't last long and they didn't get a bailout. The government didn't bat an eye when Pan Am Airlines went bottom up and disappeared.
The sad facts are that the ones most responsible for the "Great Ripoff" of the American taxpayers are the Democrats in charge in the US Congress. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Charlie Rangel, "Porky Pig" Murtha, "Dingy" Harry reid, Nancy "Birdbrain" Pelosi, Dick "Turban" Durbin, John "Swift Boat" Kerry and the list goes on. Now this same bunch wants to run the private sector and tell us how big and what kind of a vehicle we should be allowed to buy. And what bank we can do business with. There's a name for this effort to destroy capitalism and let the government run things - Socialism.
And that's where America is headed. A Socialist/Communist/Muslim state. And a dumb bunch of American voters put them in power. The Democrats now control the White House and both Houses of Congress. Now that Arlen "Benedict" Specter the RINO jumped ship and joined the Democrats and Al Franken is probably going to steal Ron Coleman's senate seat they'll have a 60 vote Democrat Senate. The Republicans will be sent to the closets and hallways of Congress and Obama will have his way with the peasants in the new United Socialist Muslim States of Amerika. Can't happen. Don't bet your life on it.
Maybe some of you will remember Obama on the campaign trail where he refused to recognize the playing of the National Anthem or to wear the US Flag lapel pin. What about his close association with Bill Ayers the terrorist and the Reverend Jeremiah "G--D America" Wright. The convicted felon Tony Rezko connection. The nagging question of his birthplace. The fact that he is a politician that came from the most corrupt political machine in the US. Chigcago, run for the past 20 years by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Barack Hussein Obama is a "Flimflam" man who bluffed his way into the White House. Unfortunately, we're stuck with him for the next four or, God forbid, eight years. For those of you out there in the villages that like big government Obama is your man. For the rest of us we're looking for a new leader. I know one is out there somewhere who will set things right again. The clock is ticking, ticking, ticking.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson says President Obama has revealed his "naivete, ineptitude and arrogance" as he deals with matters of national security. Former Vice President Dick Cheney sees Obama as a weak president who criticizes America on foreign trips and embraces our enemies like Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega. "What I find disturbing is the extent to which he has gone to Europe, for example, and seemed to apologize profusely in, and then to Mexico, and apologize there, and so forth," Cheney said.
On his first foreign trip Obama told the French people,"In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." It was pointed out by a reporter that Obama gave his speech a few hundred miles from the beaches of Normandy where over 2,500 "arrogant" American GIs were killed in less than an hour by German gunners on June 6, 1944.
Cheney has labeled Obama as a weak president. A dangerous president would be a more accurate label. There's little doubt that he has made Americans less safe by many of his reckless actions when it comes to defending the nation. Former President Ronald Reagan said,"Our foreign policy should be based on the principle that we will go anywhere and do anything that has to be done to protect our citizens from unjust treatment. Our national defense policy should back that up with force." Couldn't make it any clearer than that. Too bad Obama has largely ignored the policy.
Aside from apologizing to the world on what a rotten country America is he has stuck a knife in the polices that has kept America safe from terrorist attacks for the past eight years. First, he refuses to recognize the "War on Terror" and instead refers to it as a "Foreign Contingency Operation" which is like calling murder an unfortunate social encounter. Then he calls our interrogation techniques of enemy prisoners "torture" and refuses to rule out prosecuting officials in the former Bush administration for coming up with the polices. To make matters worse he released the Top Secret documentation of our interrogation polices to the public. Which is sure to aid the terrorists who want to kill us and destroy our way of life.
Water boarding terrorist suspects, depriving them of sleep, shoving them against a soft wall, playing loud music and making them wear women panties on their heads sure as hell doesn't sound like torture to most Americans. Cutting off the heads of innocent civilians and American troops after nearly beating them to death as the terrorists have done and continue to do is real torture. Murder is a better word. Instead of prosecuting Americans for applying non-lethal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects we should be hunting down the terrorist leaders and trying them as "War Criminals" before a military tribunal. And if convicted taken out and hanged or shot by a firing squad. I'm sure there are many Americans who believe beheading would be a more appropriate way of dealing with them.
Obama also refuses to refer to terrorists taken prisoner on the battlefield as "enemy combatants." What are they if they aren't the enemy? Lost civilians looking for their villages? Since he has determined that terrorists are no longer enemy combatants he plans to close GITMO the military prisoner facility in Guantanamo and move the whatever they are to prisons in the US and try them in civilian courts as thought they were US citizens. What these scumbag terrorists deserve is to be confined in a WWII style POW camp with barbed wire and machine gun towers and trial by a military court.
Obama also thinks the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allows the National Security Agency to listen to communications between the US and al-Qaida a bad policy. Makes you wonder whose side Obama is on.
During the campaign Obama promised to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden as a top priority of his administration. Really. It's been over a 100 days since he was sworn in as president and I haven't heard that OBL has been killed or captured. Maybe plans to prosecute Americans as torturers of terrorists has put plans to capture the real torturer on hold.
Not only does he want to treat terrorists, who are trying their damnest to kill us, as just another class of US citizens he wants to scuttle much of our military defenses. Reduction of our nuclear defenses, cutback on new weapons systems, aircraft and ships. Defense Secretary Bob Gates (SecDef in the Bush administration) kept on in the Obama administration was thought by most Republicans to be a good move has gone along with a sharp reduction in new fighter aircraft and other so-called cost cutting measures. Gates has proven that he is one of them and to hell with a strong military.
Americans are scratching their heads and wondering what Obama means by a "civilian security force" as large as and as well funded as the military. That's a rather large number when you consider that the the US military, including reserves, totals 2.5 million members. Just what the mission of this "civilian security force" is has never been made clear. They will wear some type of a uniform. Black maybe with armbands? Will they be armed? There was an elected leader in Germany in the 1930s by the name of Adolf Hitler who came up with a similar plan.
Obama doesn't think Americans should be well armed and neither does his Attorney General Eric Holder and the Pelosi/Reid gang of traitors, losers and gun grabbers. If they have their way American gun owners will be reduced to carrying slingshots and throwing rocks. Besides the Obama/Pelosi/Redi gang believes the Second Amendment is all about state militias and duck hunting. To hell with the US Supreme Court ruling that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual, fundamental right.
When it comes to the slump in economy Obama and the Democrats believe that more government is the solution to the problem. And they are more than willing to spend American taxpayers dollars to prove it. So far Obama has spent 2 trillion dollars (and plans to spend more) to jump start the economy by bailing out failing banks and the auto industry who they say are just too big to let fail. Not to worry - the feds are printing truckloads of new 100 dollar bills to pay for this. Most folks have no idea how far in the sky a stack of trillion dollars worth of 100 dollar bills reaches. Click on your computers and find out. Despite all this government help with our tax dollars unemployment continues to climb as more businesses that aren't too big to fail close their doors.
I don't recall reading in history where the government bailed out the stagecoach lines when the railroads came along. The pony express didn't last long and they didn't get a bailout. The government didn't bat an eye when Pan Am Airlines went bottom up and disappeared.
The sad facts are that the ones most responsible for the "Great Ripoff" of the American taxpayers are the Democrats in charge in the US Congress. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Charlie Rangel, "Porky Pig" Murtha, "Dingy" Harry reid, Nancy "Birdbrain" Pelosi, Dick "Turban" Durbin, John "Swift Boat" Kerry and the list goes on. Now this same bunch wants to run the private sector and tell us how big and what kind of a vehicle we should be allowed to buy. And what bank we can do business with. There's a name for this effort to destroy capitalism and let the government run things - Socialism.
And that's where America is headed. A Socialist/Communist/Muslim state. And a dumb bunch of American voters put them in power. The Democrats now control the White House and both Houses of Congress. Now that Arlen "Benedict" Specter the RINO jumped ship and joined the Democrats and Al Franken is probably going to steal Ron Coleman's senate seat they'll have a 60 vote Democrat Senate. The Republicans will be sent to the closets and hallways of Congress and Obama will have his way with the peasants in the new United Socialist Muslim States of Amerika. Can't happen. Don't bet your life on it.
Maybe some of you will remember Obama on the campaign trail where he refused to recognize the playing of the National Anthem or to wear the US Flag lapel pin. What about his close association with Bill Ayers the terrorist and the Reverend Jeremiah "G--D America" Wright. The convicted felon Tony Rezko connection. The nagging question of his birthplace. The fact that he is a politician that came from the most corrupt political machine in the US. Chigcago, run for the past 20 years by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Barack Hussein Obama is a "Flimflam" man who bluffed his way into the White House. Unfortunately, we're stuck with him for the next four or, God forbid, eight years. For those of you out there in the villages that like big government Obama is your man. For the rest of us we're looking for a new leader. I know one is out there somewhere who will set things right again. The clock is ticking, ticking, ticking.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Terrorist Swine Flu Attack
New Threat From Mexico - America's open borders have resulted in millions of illegal immigrants invading the country from Mexico and all points south. The Mexican drug cartels have flooded the US with illegal drugs and control the borders with heavily armed gangs who routinely gun down anyone standing in their way. Mexican gangs have infiltrated most major cities of the US and organize and control prison gangs in many US prisons. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, recently referred to illegal immigrants as "Patriots." Meanwhile illegal drugs and immigrants continue to stream across the border.
No one, least of all the Obama administration and the Democrat controlled Congress, seems to know what if any connection there may be with possible terrorist organizations and the Mexican drug cartels and other renegade elements.
What if the terrorists have decided to try their hand at "Germ" warfare and start a "Swine Flu" attack against the US? What a better place to plant the virus than Mexico where it could easily spread across the border into the US. Health standards in Mexico are greatly inferior to that of the US. Tuberculosis has already made a big comeback in the US as a result of illegal immigrants infected with the disease. Al Qaida and old, Osama Bin Hidden could care less about killing Mexican or American citizens who are viewed as infidels. After all they have shown that they are more than willing to kill themselves to kill us.
Congressional Democrats who have opposed securing our borders from illegal drugs and immigrants in the past are now calling to secure the border against the Swine Flu outbreak. Congress to the rescue. Hey, we're talking about a possible pandemic that could kill millions here and around the world. Even the idiots in Congress and the White House see the danger and realize that their exulted status doesn't protect them from the Swine Flu bug.
So far the White House and the media have tried to downplay the threat. But it has grabbed the headlines and rumors are beginning to run a little wild. Across the nation schools have been closed, businesses have told employees to stay home if they feel ill and many scheduled events have been postponed. Although there have there have been reports of people falling ill, there have been no reported deaths from the Swine Flu outbreak in the US to date.
There have been over a hundred deaths so far in Mexico attributed to Swine Flu and over 1,500 have fallen ill. Given the apologist mentality of the Obama administration and the Pelosi/Reid crowd don't be surprised if America takes the blame for the Swine Flu outbreak.
Obama has already said the Swine Flu outbreak underlines the need for "socialized" health care. As Obama's chief of staff Ron Emanual has said, "Never let a crisis go to waste."
While the politicians are wondering what in the hell to do and world health organizations are trying to cope with the threat, illegal immigrants are pouring across our southern borders by the thousands. How many are bringing the Swine Flu bug with them?
What are our intell types coming up with? Have the terrorist switched from suicide bombings to "Germ" warfare? Who knows? Time will tell.
No one, least of all the Obama administration and the Democrat controlled Congress, seems to know what if any connection there may be with possible terrorist organizations and the Mexican drug cartels and other renegade elements.
What if the terrorists have decided to try their hand at "Germ" warfare and start a "Swine Flu" attack against the US? What a better place to plant the virus than Mexico where it could easily spread across the border into the US. Health standards in Mexico are greatly inferior to that of the US. Tuberculosis has already made a big comeback in the US as a result of illegal immigrants infected with the disease. Al Qaida and old, Osama Bin Hidden could care less about killing Mexican or American citizens who are viewed as infidels. After all they have shown that they are more than willing to kill themselves to kill us.
Congressional Democrats who have opposed securing our borders from illegal drugs and immigrants in the past are now calling to secure the border against the Swine Flu outbreak. Congress to the rescue. Hey, we're talking about a possible pandemic that could kill millions here and around the world. Even the idiots in Congress and the White House see the danger and realize that their exulted status doesn't protect them from the Swine Flu bug.
So far the White House and the media have tried to downplay the threat. But it has grabbed the headlines and rumors are beginning to run a little wild. Across the nation schools have been closed, businesses have told employees to stay home if they feel ill and many scheduled events have been postponed. Although there have there have been reports of people falling ill, there have been no reported deaths from the Swine Flu outbreak in the US to date.
There have been over a hundred deaths so far in Mexico attributed to Swine Flu and over 1,500 have fallen ill. Given the apologist mentality of the Obama administration and the Pelosi/Reid crowd don't be surprised if America takes the blame for the Swine Flu outbreak.
Obama has already said the Swine Flu outbreak underlines the need for "socialized" health care. As Obama's chief of staff Ron Emanual has said, "Never let a crisis go to waste."
While the politicians are wondering what in the hell to do and world health organizations are trying to cope with the threat, illegal immigrants are pouring across our southern borders by the thousands. How many are bringing the Swine Flu bug with them?
What are our intell types coming up with? Have the terrorist switched from suicide bombings to "Germ" warfare? Who knows? Time will tell.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Navy Seals takeout Somali pirates
When we first heard about the Somali pirates holding American freighter Capt. Richard Phillips hostage in a small boat my wife angrily exclaimed, "A bunch of pirates forces America on it's knees! Where are Special Forces or Navy Seals?"
I thought at the time she summed it up well. America appeared to be on its knees and where in the hell were our special ops? As a retired Green Beret I knew that somewhere in or near the immediate area off the coast of Somalia the US Military was standing by to rescue the good captain. Standing by for orders from the new president.
This was a test for President Obama and his administration. Would he order a rescue attempt? Authorize the use of military force? The world was watching. He had just made his first foreign visit telling world leaders what an arrogant country America was and bashing his own country in the process. When asked about the incident by reporters Obama said he was discussing housing and dismissed them with a wave of his hand. So much for looking out for an American being held hostage by a bunch of armed, Somali thugs.
I though President Reagen gave the best definition of foreign policy and national defense when he said, "Our foreign policy should be based on the principle that we will go anywhere and do anything that has to be done to protect our citizens from unjust treatment. Our national defense policy should back that up with force." Can't be any plainer and to the point than that.
Although it seems that just about everyone in the Obama administration is either a buffoon or a tax cheat he must have a few top level advisers with common sense. I'm sure someone, a military type, advised the president that it was time to quit pussyfooting around and authorize the use of military force in dealing with the pirates. A voice whispered in his ear, "Now is the time to appear Reagen like Mr President. Give the order and let the military carry it out, Sir."
"Dingy" Harry Reid and Nancy "Birdbrain" Pelosi and their gang of losers and traitors, including the smartest woman in the world Hillary Clinton, probably reacted to the use of force with an "OMG I can't believe he authorized the Navy to kill those poor, unfortunate pirates. How terrible. What will the world think?"
Who gives a rat's butt what the rest of the world thinks. You can bet the scumbag, Somali pirates will think twice before attacking one of our ships on the high seas again.
Regardless of world opinion, US Navy Seals deserve medals for taking out three Somali scumbags with three well placed sniper shots and wounding a fourth in the successful rescue of Captain Phillips. Way to go Navy Seals!
President Obama, finally in authorizing the use of military force, acted like a Commander In Chief. And it works every time it's used if the president issues the order and then let's the military do its job without undue interference from the White House. It worked when Reagen sent the US military into Grenada to rescue US students in Grenada in 1983. And it worked when President Bush one sent US troops into Panama and toppled Noriega and again in Desert Storm One to oust the Iraqi military out of Kuwait. And its been working in Iraq and Afghanistan in spite of the "cut and run" policies of congressional Democrats.
The Korean War, 1950-53, was our first "no win war" where it was okay to fight and die but not win because it might start a bigger war. Truman fired Gen. MacArthur for insisting on winning a war. In Vietnam we just "cut and run" after winning all the battles. President Johnson bragged to reporters that the Air Force "can't bomb an out house in North Vietnam without my approval." As a result of micro managing the Korean and Vietnam Wars from the White House we now have a nut case in North Korea threatening to nuke everyone and a bunch of armed, communist thugs running things in Vietnam. The Carter administration made the same mistake in the failed operation to rescue US hostages in Iran. Give the order then get the hell out of the way is a winning policy.
The failure of the US military operation in the Mogadishu, Somalia under the Clinton administration (Black Hawk Down) is another stark example of failed leadership from the White House. In October, 1993, a 440 man US Delta force launched an operation against Somali Warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid and his rebel force. Outnumbered and refused reinforcements the Delta force suffered heavy casualties in a seventeen hour battle that resulted in eighteen killed and eighty-four wounded. The bodies of dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and seen on TV around the world. Clinton responded by withdrawing US troops from Somalia. Another "cut and run" debacle.
The next move for the Obama administration, now that the Somali riffraff has threatened to start killing hostages in retaliation for the deaths of the three pirates, is to order military air strikes on Somali targets including pirate vessels. The only thing these scumbags understand is military force. Every time they hijack a ship we strike a target in Somalia.
The Obama administration should request, in no uncertain terms, other nations join the US in conducting joint military operations against Somali pirates and their bases in Somalia. Speak softly but carry a big stick policy worked well for Teddy Roosevelt. However, in the end it will be up to the US to lead the charge.
The time has also come for merchant shipping to start arming their crews or hire armed security. The US Navy has shown that shooting and killing pirates has a dampening effect on hijacking ships and taking hostages, especially when its a US ship.
The Obama defense team has a chance to institute a "talk softly but carry a big stick" policy in dealing with Somalia and its bunch of pirates. A douse of superior US military firepower would definitely send the right message.
Let's hope the new president is listening.
I thought at the time she summed it up well. America appeared to be on its knees and where in the hell were our special ops? As a retired Green Beret I knew that somewhere in or near the immediate area off the coast of Somalia the US Military was standing by to rescue the good captain. Standing by for orders from the new president.
This was a test for President Obama and his administration. Would he order a rescue attempt? Authorize the use of military force? The world was watching. He had just made his first foreign visit telling world leaders what an arrogant country America was and bashing his own country in the process. When asked about the incident by reporters Obama said he was discussing housing and dismissed them with a wave of his hand. So much for looking out for an American being held hostage by a bunch of armed, Somali thugs.
I though President Reagen gave the best definition of foreign policy and national defense when he said, "Our foreign policy should be based on the principle that we will go anywhere and do anything that has to be done to protect our citizens from unjust treatment. Our national defense policy should back that up with force." Can't be any plainer and to the point than that.
Although it seems that just about everyone in the Obama administration is either a buffoon or a tax cheat he must have a few top level advisers with common sense. I'm sure someone, a military type, advised the president that it was time to quit pussyfooting around and authorize the use of military force in dealing with the pirates. A voice whispered in his ear, "Now is the time to appear Reagen like Mr President. Give the order and let the military carry it out, Sir."
"Dingy" Harry Reid and Nancy "Birdbrain" Pelosi and their gang of losers and traitors, including the smartest woman in the world Hillary Clinton, probably reacted to the use of force with an "OMG I can't believe he authorized the Navy to kill those poor, unfortunate pirates. How terrible. What will the world think?"
Who gives a rat's butt what the rest of the world thinks. You can bet the scumbag, Somali pirates will think twice before attacking one of our ships on the high seas again.
Regardless of world opinion, US Navy Seals deserve medals for taking out three Somali scumbags with three well placed sniper shots and wounding a fourth in the successful rescue of Captain Phillips. Way to go Navy Seals!
President Obama, finally in authorizing the use of military force, acted like a Commander In Chief. And it works every time it's used if the president issues the order and then let's the military do its job without undue interference from the White House. It worked when Reagen sent the US military into Grenada to rescue US students in Grenada in 1983. And it worked when President Bush one sent US troops into Panama and toppled Noriega and again in Desert Storm One to oust the Iraqi military out of Kuwait. And its been working in Iraq and Afghanistan in spite of the "cut and run" policies of congressional Democrats.
The Korean War, 1950-53, was our first "no win war" where it was okay to fight and die but not win because it might start a bigger war. Truman fired Gen. MacArthur for insisting on winning a war. In Vietnam we just "cut and run" after winning all the battles. President Johnson bragged to reporters that the Air Force "can't bomb an out house in North Vietnam without my approval." As a result of micro managing the Korean and Vietnam Wars from the White House we now have a nut case in North Korea threatening to nuke everyone and a bunch of armed, communist thugs running things in Vietnam. The Carter administration made the same mistake in the failed operation to rescue US hostages in Iran. Give the order then get the hell out of the way is a winning policy.
The failure of the US military operation in the Mogadishu, Somalia under the Clinton administration (Black Hawk Down) is another stark example of failed leadership from the White House. In October, 1993, a 440 man US Delta force launched an operation against Somali Warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid and his rebel force. Outnumbered and refused reinforcements the Delta force suffered heavy casualties in a seventeen hour battle that resulted in eighteen killed and eighty-four wounded. The bodies of dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and seen on TV around the world. Clinton responded by withdrawing US troops from Somalia. Another "cut and run" debacle.
The next move for the Obama administration, now that the Somali riffraff has threatened to start killing hostages in retaliation for the deaths of the three pirates, is to order military air strikes on Somali targets including pirate vessels. The only thing these scumbags understand is military force. Every time they hijack a ship we strike a target in Somalia.
The Obama administration should request, in no uncertain terms, other nations join the US in conducting joint military operations against Somali pirates and their bases in Somalia. Speak softly but carry a big stick policy worked well for Teddy Roosevelt. However, in the end it will be up to the US to lead the charge.
The time has also come for merchant shipping to start arming their crews or hire armed security. The US Navy has shown that shooting and killing pirates has a dampening effect on hijacking ships and taking hostages, especially when its a US ship.
The Obama defense team has a chance to institute a "talk softly but carry a big stick" policy in dealing with Somalia and its bunch of pirates. A douse of superior US military firepower would definitely send the right message.
Let's hope the new president is listening.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
RINOS side with Dems on "Porkulus" Bill
Thanks to three turncoat Republican senators know as RINOS (Republicans In Name only), the Senate approved the $838 billion stimulus plan dubbed the "Porkulus" bill, by Rush Limbaugh, 61-37. The Democrats only control 58 seats and 60 votes were needed to pass the bill.
Who are the RINO turncoats who sold out to the Democrats? Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. Without their support the Porkulus bill would have gone down in flames. The three RINOS claimed they were able to trim all sorts of "fat" from the bill. Baloney. The bill is so full of pork it should be sold in the bacon section at the local meat market.
Let's hope the voters remember these turncoat RINOS in the next election. Specter is up for re-election in 2010. He should appear on "Turncoat" posters throughout Pennsylvania along with Collins and Snowe in Maine. We now know that Specter received $6.5 billion for a pet medical project that had nothing to do with creating jobs. Eventually, we'll find out what kind of a payoff Collins and Snowe worked out for their stabbing the GOP in the back.
According to Tim Phillips, President, Americans for Prosperity, the Porkulus bill will cost every American household $6,700 of new debt to be paid by their children and grandchildren. He said it will also lead to government-mandated rationing of health care and tramples the right to medical privacy. In a word the failed "Universal Health Care" scam championed by the new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang censored and ignored any public input in what has become the largest pork and welfare ripoff in history. Except for the three turncoats, Republicans in Congress were cut out of any debate on the bill.
Regardless of public outcry and Republican opposition to the so-called "stimulus plan" it will eventually pass and be signed by Obama. So much for bi-partisanship and reaching out to Republicans by the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang.
Obama has been beating the drum and calling for quick passage of the plan to avoid a "catastrophe." What the Democrats want to do is to ram the bill through Congress with little or no debate. They want to destroy capitalism and usher in socialism. According to Obama only the government can solve the economic crisis. The American people are just too dumb and incapable of helping themselves in this crisis. It's up to the government to save all of us poor peasants. Never mind that it was the government that got us into the mess in the first place. Anyone ever hear of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae the government sponsored outfits that went bankrupt forcing banking and credit institutions to make unsecured, faulty home loans?
Has anyone noticed that high gas prices and the economic slump happened during the the past two years of the Democrats running Congress? It was the Democrat leadership that said Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were in great shape when in fact they were riddled with corruption and on the brink of going broke. It may have happened on Bush's watch but it was the Democrat controlled Congress that blocked any efforts to take action against the two failing outfits.
Even when it was revealed that senators Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer and Rep. Barney Frank and other Democrats had profited from shady and questionable dealings with Freddie and Fannie and knew they were both failing no action was taken. Nada, nothing, zip. The liberal media didn't care and the Democrats weren't about to admit their involvement in the cover up.
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means committee is in trouble for not paying taxes. Former Sen. Tom Dachle was forced to withdraw his nomination as Health Secretary due to tax problems. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed despite having tax problems. Rangle and Geithner will play major parts when it comes to implementing the "Porkulus" plan. Hey, so they're tax cheats. So what - it doesn't amount to a "hiccup" according to Sen. "Dingy" Harry Reid.
According to Robert Rector,a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, the welfare state is about to raise it's ugly head again after being defeated by the Republicans during the presidency of "Slick Willy."
Rector points out that federal welfare will explode to more than 20 percent from $491 billion in FY 2008 to $601 billion in FY 2009. Once the hidden welfare is counted the total 10-year fiscal burden will not be $816 billion but $1.34 billion. This amounts to $17,400 for each household paying income tax according to Rector.
Rector compares the stimulus plan to a "Trojan Horse" to conceal massive permanent increases in the welfare system. The goal, he adds, is 'spreading the wealth,' not reviving the economy. What it amounts to is socialism.
The three RINO turncoats (idiots) Specter, Collins and Snowe have been dancing in the halls of Congress and telling us what a great tax break deal for us peasants they bargained for with the Democrats. I don't think anyone should hold their breaths in anticipation of receiving a large tax refund check from Uncle Sucker. Unless your an illegal alien you'll be lucky to get a dime. And I wouldn't count on Specter sharing any of his $6.5 million sweetheart deal with any of the peasants in his state.
Before it's all over the Barak Hussein Obama administration is going to make the disastrous Jimmy Carter administration look like a winner. Betcha! Can we say United Socialist States of Amerika?
Who are the RINO turncoats who sold out to the Democrats? Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. Without their support the Porkulus bill would have gone down in flames. The three RINOS claimed they were able to trim all sorts of "fat" from the bill. Baloney. The bill is so full of pork it should be sold in the bacon section at the local meat market.
Let's hope the voters remember these turncoat RINOS in the next election. Specter is up for re-election in 2010. He should appear on "Turncoat" posters throughout Pennsylvania along with Collins and Snowe in Maine. We now know that Specter received $6.5 billion for a pet medical project that had nothing to do with creating jobs. Eventually, we'll find out what kind of a payoff Collins and Snowe worked out for their stabbing the GOP in the back.
According to Tim Phillips, President, Americans for Prosperity, the Porkulus bill will cost every American household $6,700 of new debt to be paid by their children and grandchildren. He said it will also lead to government-mandated rationing of health care and tramples the right to medical privacy. In a word the failed "Universal Health Care" scam championed by the new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang censored and ignored any public input in what has become the largest pork and welfare ripoff in history. Except for the three turncoats, Republicans in Congress were cut out of any debate on the bill.
Regardless of public outcry and Republican opposition to the so-called "stimulus plan" it will eventually pass and be signed by Obama. So much for bi-partisanship and reaching out to Republicans by the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang.
Obama has been beating the drum and calling for quick passage of the plan to avoid a "catastrophe." What the Democrats want to do is to ram the bill through Congress with little or no debate. They want to destroy capitalism and usher in socialism. According to Obama only the government can solve the economic crisis. The American people are just too dumb and incapable of helping themselves in this crisis. It's up to the government to save all of us poor peasants. Never mind that it was the government that got us into the mess in the first place. Anyone ever hear of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae the government sponsored outfits that went bankrupt forcing banking and credit institutions to make unsecured, faulty home loans?
Has anyone noticed that high gas prices and the economic slump happened during the the past two years of the Democrats running Congress? It was the Democrat leadership that said Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were in great shape when in fact they were riddled with corruption and on the brink of going broke. It may have happened on Bush's watch but it was the Democrat controlled Congress that blocked any efforts to take action against the two failing outfits.
Even when it was revealed that senators Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer and Rep. Barney Frank and other Democrats had profited from shady and questionable dealings with Freddie and Fannie and knew they were both failing no action was taken. Nada, nothing, zip. The liberal media didn't care and the Democrats weren't about to admit their involvement in the cover up.
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means committee is in trouble for not paying taxes. Former Sen. Tom Dachle was forced to withdraw his nomination as Health Secretary due to tax problems. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed despite having tax problems. Rangle and Geithner will play major parts when it comes to implementing the "Porkulus" plan. Hey, so they're tax cheats. So what - it doesn't amount to a "hiccup" according to Sen. "Dingy" Harry Reid.
According to Robert Rector,a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, the welfare state is about to raise it's ugly head again after being defeated by the Republicans during the presidency of "Slick Willy."
Rector points out that federal welfare will explode to more than 20 percent from $491 billion in FY 2008 to $601 billion in FY 2009. Once the hidden welfare is counted the total 10-year fiscal burden will not be $816 billion but $1.34 billion. This amounts to $17,400 for each household paying income tax according to Rector.
Rector compares the stimulus plan to a "Trojan Horse" to conceal massive permanent increases in the welfare system. The goal, he adds, is 'spreading the wealth,' not reviving the economy. What it amounts to is socialism.
The three RINO turncoats (idiots) Specter, Collins and Snowe have been dancing in the halls of Congress and telling us what a great tax break deal for us peasants they bargained for with the Democrats. I don't think anyone should hold their breaths in anticipation of receiving a large tax refund check from Uncle Sucker. Unless your an illegal alien you'll be lucky to get a dime. And I wouldn't count on Specter sharing any of his $6.5 million sweetheart deal with any of the peasants in his state.
Before it's all over the Barak Hussein Obama administration is going to make the disastrous Jimmy Carter administration look like a winner. Betcha! Can we say United Socialist States of Amerika?
Monday, January 26, 2009
War with Mexico
According to a recent report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, Mexico is in danger of a "rapid and sudden collapse" due to criminal gangs and drug cartels.
Before packing his bags and leaving DC, ex-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. has a plan if violence from the bad guys spills across the border.
The U.S. military would be sent to hot spots along the southern border (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) to backup the Border Patrol and local law enforcement.
Not a bad idea. The scumbag Mexican drug smugglers and "coyotes" funneling illegal aliens and drugs across the border might have second thoughts when they run up against a couple of U.S. combat divisions backed up by main battle tanks and attack helicopters.
This all sounds good but with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid OPR gang in charge it's doubtful that such action would ever be taken. Besides, the OPR gang wants to grant blanket amnesty to illegal aliens and scrap plans to secure the border. The Bush administration was also pushing for "comprehensive" immigration reform but failed to get it past Congress. Sen. McCain was a fan of the plan but backed off after an outcry from the public.
Many Americans believe Mexico "collapsed" several years ago. Mexico has to be one of the most corrupt places on the planet. The billions of taxpayers dollars sent to the Mexican government over the years might just as well have been poured down a rat hole for all the good it has done.
According to the report over 5,300 Mexican citizens, including law enforcement officials have been gunned down, many beheaded, by the bad guys in the past year alone. That's more than the U.S. has lost in the Iraq/Afghanistan War in over five years of fighting. Sure sounds like a war to me.
The last time a couple of Border Patrol officers tried to stop a Mexican drug smuggler they wound up in prison with long prison terms. BP Officers Ramos and Compean shot a fleeing drug smuggler in the rear end and US Attorney Johnny Sutton railroaded them into prison based on the drug smugglers testimony. Fortunately, Bush commuted their sentence in his final day in office. They should have been pardoned. At least Sutton has probably lost his job now that the OPR gang is in charge.
I wonder what would happen if an American GI shot a heavily armed member of the Mexican drug cartel smuggling drugs across the border. I can see the headlines now: GI charged with murder for shooting a poor, defenseless, Mexican drug smuggler. Those nasty, old American soldiers killing those poor Mexicans.
Let's face it, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has failed to wrest control from the drug cartels and restore some semblance of law and order in the country. Much of the violence is right on the U.S. Mexican border and becoming more frequent on the U.S. side. As "Dingy" Harry Reid would say "the war is lost."
Most of the liberal U.S. media blames the flow of firearms into Mexico from the United States as the cause for the takeover by the drug cartels. In other words it's the U.S. that is at fault for the problems in Mexico. That's baloney. The bad guys in Mexico can buy military weaponry from any number of sources, including Red China and other rogue nations. Military weapons are routinely stolen from the Mexican military and law enforcement or bought from them.
Aside from a totally corrupt Mexican government, the demand for drugs, not firearms, is what has fueled the Mexican drug trade and led to a breakdown of law and order.
Sadly, America is awash in illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are in our schools, colleges, every level of government from small towns and major major cities to the nation's prisons. Kids, some as young a five, are experimenting with drugs.
The military conducts routine drug test as does law enforcement agencies. A few years ago the DEA agent of the year was caught with a $300,000 payoff from the Mexican drug cartel. Sport figures, Hollywood stars, government bureaucrats and elected officials are frequently involved in illegal drug use.
The demand for illegal drugs is one facet of the "Drug War" that the media and the government largely ignore. The number of lives ruined and lost as a result of illegal drugs smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico is any ones guess. Until that part of the war is addressed we can look forward to an increase of violence spilling across our southern border.
Should the "Mexican Drug War" result in the U.S. military being sent to the border regions the demand for illegal drugs would still be present. If the border was secured by the military and the drug smuggling significantly curtailed the demand for drugs would be even greater.
The continuing controversy over legalizing drugs is sure to be a hot topic in the new Obama administration. After all Obama admitted that he had used hard drugs before becoming the "Messiah."
In the meantime Uncle Sucker just gave Calderon another $400 million to squander. Obama met with Calderon a few days ago and promised to fight the illegal flow of U.S. weapons across the border into Mexico.
The subject of stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. was not brought up. It's not drugs stupid - it's those damn guns being smuggled into Mexico from the nasty, old United States that's causing all the problems. It's all Americas fault.
Before packing his bags and leaving DC, ex-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. has a plan if violence from the bad guys spills across the border.
The U.S. military would be sent to hot spots along the southern border (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) to backup the Border Patrol and local law enforcement.
Not a bad idea. The scumbag Mexican drug smugglers and "coyotes" funneling illegal aliens and drugs across the border might have second thoughts when they run up against a couple of U.S. combat divisions backed up by main battle tanks and attack helicopters.
This all sounds good but with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid OPR gang in charge it's doubtful that such action would ever be taken. Besides, the OPR gang wants to grant blanket amnesty to illegal aliens and scrap plans to secure the border. The Bush administration was also pushing for "comprehensive" immigration reform but failed to get it past Congress. Sen. McCain was a fan of the plan but backed off after an outcry from the public.
Many Americans believe Mexico "collapsed" several years ago. Mexico has to be one of the most corrupt places on the planet. The billions of taxpayers dollars sent to the Mexican government over the years might just as well have been poured down a rat hole for all the good it has done.
According to the report over 5,300 Mexican citizens, including law enforcement officials have been gunned down, many beheaded, by the bad guys in the past year alone. That's more than the U.S. has lost in the Iraq/Afghanistan War in over five years of fighting. Sure sounds like a war to me.
The last time a couple of Border Patrol officers tried to stop a Mexican drug smuggler they wound up in prison with long prison terms. BP Officers Ramos and Compean shot a fleeing drug smuggler in the rear end and US Attorney Johnny Sutton railroaded them into prison based on the drug smugglers testimony. Fortunately, Bush commuted their sentence in his final day in office. They should have been pardoned. At least Sutton has probably lost his job now that the OPR gang is in charge.
I wonder what would happen if an American GI shot a heavily armed member of the Mexican drug cartel smuggling drugs across the border. I can see the headlines now: GI charged with murder for shooting a poor, defenseless, Mexican drug smuggler. Those nasty, old American soldiers killing those poor Mexicans.
Let's face it, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has failed to wrest control from the drug cartels and restore some semblance of law and order in the country. Much of the violence is right on the U.S. Mexican border and becoming more frequent on the U.S. side. As "Dingy" Harry Reid would say "the war is lost."
Most of the liberal U.S. media blames the flow of firearms into Mexico from the United States as the cause for the takeover by the drug cartels. In other words it's the U.S. that is at fault for the problems in Mexico. That's baloney. The bad guys in Mexico can buy military weaponry from any number of sources, including Red China and other rogue nations. Military weapons are routinely stolen from the Mexican military and law enforcement or bought from them.
Aside from a totally corrupt Mexican government, the demand for drugs, not firearms, is what has fueled the Mexican drug trade and led to a breakdown of law and order.
Sadly, America is awash in illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are in our schools, colleges, every level of government from small towns and major major cities to the nation's prisons. Kids, some as young a five, are experimenting with drugs.
The military conducts routine drug test as does law enforcement agencies. A few years ago the DEA agent of the year was caught with a $300,000 payoff from the Mexican drug cartel. Sport figures, Hollywood stars, government bureaucrats and elected officials are frequently involved in illegal drug use.
The demand for illegal drugs is one facet of the "Drug War" that the media and the government largely ignore. The number of lives ruined and lost as a result of illegal drugs smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico is any ones guess. Until that part of the war is addressed we can look forward to an increase of violence spilling across our southern border.
Should the "Mexican Drug War" result in the U.S. military being sent to the border regions the demand for illegal drugs would still be present. If the border was secured by the military and the drug smuggling significantly curtailed the demand for drugs would be even greater.
The continuing controversy over legalizing drugs is sure to be a hot topic in the new Obama administration. After all Obama admitted that he had used hard drugs before becoming the "Messiah."
In the meantime Uncle Sucker just gave Calderon another $400 million to squander. Obama met with Calderon a few days ago and promised to fight the illegal flow of U.S. weapons across the border into Mexico.
The subject of stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. was not brought up. It's not drugs stupid - it's those damn guns being smuggled into Mexico from the nasty, old United States that's causing all the problems. It's all Americas fault.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERIKA.
The 2008 general elections ushered in a new era for America. The Democrats gained seats in the US Congress and won the White House. Barack Hussein Obama made history as the first black elected as president. Many Americans danced in the streets over the overwhelming Democrat victory while others rushed out to buy guns and ammo before the gun grabbers took over the reins of government.
Abraham Lincoln once said that the reason the term for president is four years is because "one man can't ruin the country in four years." Maybe. Jimmy Carter tried his best and failed. As an ex-president he has continued his international crusade of telling everyone just how rotten America is. Of course the congressional Democrats have spent the past eight years demonizing the Bush administration and labeling it as the worst in recorded history. Never mind that the present economic slump and record setting government bailout of banks and the auto industry took place on their watch.
Aside from an increase in the minimum wage what have the Pelosi /Reid Democrats accomplished in the past two years. Gas prices shot up to over $4.00 @ gallon and they refused to allow new off-shore oil drilling or exploration for oil or building of new refineries or nuclear power plants. They have consistently criticised the military and the war on terror and called for an immediate pullout of Iraq. Sen. Harry Reid said "the war is lost." Sen. Dick Durbin compared US troops to Nazi SS troops; Rep. John Murtha called US Marines cold-blooded killers and Sen. John Kerry accused our troops of "terrorizing women and children in the middle of the night." I'm sure this must have really raised the morale of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Congressional Democrats have conducted endless investigations of the Bush administration during the past two years hoping to bring ludicrous war crime charges against the vice-president, secretary of defense, and other top Bush officials. Their ultimate goal was to try and impeach President Bush as a get even for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid crowd has willing accomplices in the liberal media for their socialist agenda which raises the big question: Will Obama preside over a move to a socialist state?
During the campaign his rhetoric was pretty much a call to socialism. Cut and run in Iraq; unconditional talks with dictators; close GITMO on day one of his presidency; scrap new weapons development; cut back on our nuclear deterrent; tax the rich; universal health care and a refusal to drill for oil in favor of "alternate fuel." He has also favored amnesty for illegal aliens and been wish-washy on the Second Amendment Rights of citizens to "keep and bear arms." Obama played to the crowd.
Obama's ascension to the presidency has been nothing short of remarkable. From an obscure "community activist" in Chicago to the Illinois Senate and the US Senate and at first an almost unknown in the presidential race to winning the nomination was a stunning, political accomplishment. Despite all of his political baggage he whipped them all, including the Clintons.
When it comes to political baggage he has a semi-truck load to deal with. From his close association with the Rev. Jeremiah "G--D America" Wright and the terrorist Bill Ayers to convicted felons like Tony Rezko and impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Bloagojevich he has managed to stay above the fray. Even the charge that he was actually born in Kenya and not a US citizen by birth has been largely ignored. Who cares - he's black and that's all that counts. Unless he drops dead first Obama will become the 44th president of the United States.
Most Americans aren't against a black becoming president. They are concerned with who that black is. Despite all the publicity and accusations we really don't know just who Obama is. Is a Muslim? Was he born in Hawaii or Kenya? What was his relationship with Bill Ayers and other radical, anti-American activists? What are his accomplishments besides being a state senator and a US senator? We do know that he was one of the most liberal members of the US Senate.
Jimmy Carter was not a household name when he ran for president. He showed up at the White House with an empty valise that he carried around. The empty valise was descriptive of his dismal administration. His constant talk of the "malaise" of America and inability to deal with run away inflation and unemployment and a disastrous foreign policy that led to the Iranian hostage crisis typified his presidency. Will Obama be a repeat of Carter? Let's hope not.
Obama has recently waffled on some of his campaign promises. He says he's taking another look at closing GITMO; he's not calling for an immediate pull out of troops in Iraq and he's reconsidering a tax increase for the rich. To his credit he kept Bob Gates as Sec Def and named retired Marine Gen. Jones as National Security Advisor. None of this has pleased his far left base or the Pelosi/Reid crowd. Still Obama preaches that more government is the solution to America's problems. That's a call for "socialism." Former President Ronald Reagan reminded us all that "government wasn't the solution to our problems - government was the problem."
Obama will inherit a nation that has removed God, bible and prayer from our public schools; made abortion a right; feminized the military; allowed same sex marriage; ignored our immigration laws; refused to recognize English as the official language; allowed the US Flag to be burned as a form of protest; stood by while the media and members of Congress demeaned our troops and called for surrender in the war on terror; continues to support and fund the anti-America United Nations; has allowed the proliferation of Muslim mosques numbering in the thousands to be built across the country; sanctioned the removal of crosses and nativity scenes from public places; discouraged saying Merry Christmas as politically incorrect and the list goes on and on. Our freedoms are slipping away with each passing day.
He has also inherited a badly divided nation with one side seemingly oblivious as to what's happening and the other side fearful as to the rise of socialism and further losses of liberty and freedom. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has become a "me too party" and abandoned many of its conservative principles. Too many congressional members have become RINOs Republicans in name only.
Sen. John McCain, although a military hero and long time member of the Senate, was a poor choice for president. Too liberal, too old, a poor speaker, too supportive of amnesty for illegal aliens and opposed to big oil. Strong on national defense and winning in Iraq but came across as uninformed on the economy. He was more of a RINO than he was a "maverick." His choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate gave the campaign a big boost. Unfortunately, the Wall Street debacle and the resulting government bailout doomed his campaign. Gov. Palin has made her mark and will likely be a contender in future presidential campaigns.
It's unlikely that any Republican could have prevailed against Obama with the slump in the economy blamed largely on the Bush administration and the Republicans. Never mind that congressional Democrats were more responsible than the Bush administration. But it happened on his watch and McCain couldn't distance himself from Bush. Politics is a tough game.
Obama comes across as a savvy politician and could become a successful president. It's his call and Americans and the world, including the terrorists, will be watching. We have not had another major terrorist attack on our nations soil since September 11, 2001. That's to the credit of President Bush.
Abraham Lincoln once said that the reason the term for president is four years is because "one man can't ruin the country in four years." Maybe. Jimmy Carter tried his best and failed. As an ex-president he has continued his international crusade of telling everyone just how rotten America is. Of course the congressional Democrats have spent the past eight years demonizing the Bush administration and labeling it as the worst in recorded history. Never mind that the present economic slump and record setting government bailout of banks and the auto industry took place on their watch.
Aside from an increase in the minimum wage what have the Pelosi /Reid Democrats accomplished in the past two years. Gas prices shot up to over $4.00 @ gallon and they refused to allow new off-shore oil drilling or exploration for oil or building of new refineries or nuclear power plants. They have consistently criticised the military and the war on terror and called for an immediate pullout of Iraq. Sen. Harry Reid said "the war is lost." Sen. Dick Durbin compared US troops to Nazi SS troops; Rep. John Murtha called US Marines cold-blooded killers and Sen. John Kerry accused our troops of "terrorizing women and children in the middle of the night." I'm sure this must have really raised the morale of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Congressional Democrats have conducted endless investigations of the Bush administration during the past two years hoping to bring ludicrous war crime charges against the vice-president, secretary of defense, and other top Bush officials. Their ultimate goal was to try and impeach President Bush as a get even for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid crowd has willing accomplices in the liberal media for their socialist agenda which raises the big question: Will Obama preside over a move to a socialist state?
During the campaign his rhetoric was pretty much a call to socialism. Cut and run in Iraq; unconditional talks with dictators; close GITMO on day one of his presidency; scrap new weapons development; cut back on our nuclear deterrent; tax the rich; universal health care and a refusal to drill for oil in favor of "alternate fuel." He has also favored amnesty for illegal aliens and been wish-washy on the Second Amendment Rights of citizens to "keep and bear arms." Obama played to the crowd.
Obama's ascension to the presidency has been nothing short of remarkable. From an obscure "community activist" in Chicago to the Illinois Senate and the US Senate and at first an almost unknown in the presidential race to winning the nomination was a stunning, political accomplishment. Despite all of his political baggage he whipped them all, including the Clintons.
When it comes to political baggage he has a semi-truck load to deal with. From his close association with the Rev. Jeremiah "G--D America" Wright and the terrorist Bill Ayers to convicted felons like Tony Rezko and impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Bloagojevich he has managed to stay above the fray. Even the charge that he was actually born in Kenya and not a US citizen by birth has been largely ignored. Who cares - he's black and that's all that counts. Unless he drops dead first Obama will become the 44th president of the United States.
Most Americans aren't against a black becoming president. They are concerned with who that black is. Despite all the publicity and accusations we really don't know just who Obama is. Is a Muslim? Was he born in Hawaii or Kenya? What was his relationship with Bill Ayers and other radical, anti-American activists? What are his accomplishments besides being a state senator and a US senator? We do know that he was one of the most liberal members of the US Senate.
Jimmy Carter was not a household name when he ran for president. He showed up at the White House with an empty valise that he carried around. The empty valise was descriptive of his dismal administration. His constant talk of the "malaise" of America and inability to deal with run away inflation and unemployment and a disastrous foreign policy that led to the Iranian hostage crisis typified his presidency. Will Obama be a repeat of Carter? Let's hope not.
Obama has recently waffled on some of his campaign promises. He says he's taking another look at closing GITMO; he's not calling for an immediate pull out of troops in Iraq and he's reconsidering a tax increase for the rich. To his credit he kept Bob Gates as Sec Def and named retired Marine Gen. Jones as National Security Advisor. None of this has pleased his far left base or the Pelosi/Reid crowd. Still Obama preaches that more government is the solution to America's problems. That's a call for "socialism." Former President Ronald Reagan reminded us all that "government wasn't the solution to our problems - government was the problem."
Obama will inherit a nation that has removed God, bible and prayer from our public schools; made abortion a right; feminized the military; allowed same sex marriage; ignored our immigration laws; refused to recognize English as the official language; allowed the US Flag to be burned as a form of protest; stood by while the media and members of Congress demeaned our troops and called for surrender in the war on terror; continues to support and fund the anti-America United Nations; has allowed the proliferation of Muslim mosques numbering in the thousands to be built across the country; sanctioned the removal of crosses and nativity scenes from public places; discouraged saying Merry Christmas as politically incorrect and the list goes on and on. Our freedoms are slipping away with each passing day.
He has also inherited a badly divided nation with one side seemingly oblivious as to what's happening and the other side fearful as to the rise of socialism and further losses of liberty and freedom. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has become a "me too party" and abandoned many of its conservative principles. Too many congressional members have become RINOs Republicans in name only.
Sen. John McCain, although a military hero and long time member of the Senate, was a poor choice for president. Too liberal, too old, a poor speaker, too supportive of amnesty for illegal aliens and opposed to big oil. Strong on national defense and winning in Iraq but came across as uninformed on the economy. He was more of a RINO than he was a "maverick." His choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate gave the campaign a big boost. Unfortunately, the Wall Street debacle and the resulting government bailout doomed his campaign. Gov. Palin has made her mark and will likely be a contender in future presidential campaigns.
It's unlikely that any Republican could have prevailed against Obama with the slump in the economy blamed largely on the Bush administration and the Republicans. Never mind that congressional Democrats were more responsible than the Bush administration. But it happened on his watch and McCain couldn't distance himself from Bush. Politics is a tough game.
Obama comes across as a savvy politician and could become a successful president. It's his call and Americans and the world, including the terrorists, will be watching. We have not had another major terrorist attack on our nations soil since September 11, 2001. That's to the credit of President Bush.
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