28
Feb
ABCNews featured an opinion piece by the world reknowned and highly respected Andy Ostroy. On this blog that ABC describes as:
He has a hand full of articles, basically all belaboring one central theme. That theme is how Al Gore is manipulating the 2008 Presidential Race. In the two years this highly respected blogger that ABC feels compelled to quote and publish, he has about 500,000 hits. That is about 1/3 the hits Moonage Webdream has writing about every conceivable issue I can possibly think of. So, I gotta wonder, what compelled ABC to seek out this small potato of blogdom? I came to the conclusion Andy must be saying what ABC wants to hear. They’re not going to give people like me the same airplay who think Gore’s an idiot and abusing the global warming issue to as a way to prop up his reputation as a bumbling idiot.
How much you wanna bet ABC ignores me ( et al )?
Meanwhile, since ABC is stating Gore is getting ready for a run via Andy Ostroy, let’s see how that might pan out, shall we?
And, more importantly:
For those who have forgotten, following the attacks of 9/11/01, a commission was formed to investigate how it happened and what could be done to prevent another one. Jamie Gorelick, who was tantamount to the problem of obvious clues being ignored that an attack was being planned, as a member of Janet Reno’s staff, for some inexplicable reason, was put on that commission. Subsequently, the commission totally ignored the OBVIOUS breakdowns, and focused on a bunch of bogus recommendations that in large part totally ignored the imposed breakdown of our federal investigative capabilities that were in large part the result of policies put in place by Jamie Gorelick. I felt then that the measures they recommended would do the country little good because it was based on totally flawed logic due in large part to the interference of Jamie Goerelick on that commission. It totally ignored information from another breaking issue at the time, Able Danger, which totally contradicted a LOT of what was used as evidence the comission used to come to its conclusion. So, for the last few years, most of the recommendations have been ignored in Congress. That was a good thing to me. However, what I really wanted was another commission to look at 9/11 from a totally different perspective, and without any members with a conflict of interest. That never happened. Then, in 2007, the Democrats took over. NOW, we’ve got Senate Bill 4, “Improving America’s Security by Implementing Unfinished Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007″. The Senate closed discussion on it today, I imagine it’ll pass. It will enforce flawed recommendations made by a panel with obvious conflicts of interest. What frustrates me is no one is calling attention to it.
I’ve got a BUNCH of other stuff on this blatant cover-up by Gorelick:
- Mother of all Connections
- Supporting the Gorelick Commission
- Welden rejects the 9/11 commission claims
- Able Danger
- 9/11 Commission revisited
27
Feb
"I probably would have written several more books had it not been for the NFL on Sunday." – Condi Rice.
Her priorities are PERFECT.
26
Feb
I received this via email, but think everyone should see it:
My name is Joseph Williams, and my son, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Jason Williams, died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Michael believed in the mission and he believed in the goodness and decency of America.
I wanted to explain to you why it is that I decided to join Move America Forward’s "THESE COLORS DON’T RUN" national patriotic caravan from March 8th – March 17th and why I hope you will do what you can to support this important effort in conjunction with the "Gathering of Eagles" event in Washington, D.C.
My son and I shared a strong admiration for the United States Armed Forces. I am a Vietnam Vet, having served in the United States Navy from February 1961 – June 1966. I saw a lot of good men fight valiantly for their nation and the cause of freedom over communism, who came home to be spit upon, dishonored and disgraced by the anti-war movement here in America.
I cannot sit back and let this kind of behavior happen again to this generation’s heroes.
The men and women of the United States military answer the call for freedom, knowing that they risk their own lives and safety. They are separated from their families and endure often grueling, miserable conditions because they believe in service, honor and duty.
Some of them come home in coffins because they believe it is better for them to risk their lives defending this nation than for innocent American civilians here at home to die.
So now that you know how I feel, imagine the reaction I had when I was told that people like Cindy Sheehan and Jane Fonda were planning a giant anti-war rally near the Vietnam Memorial to mark the 4th Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Was I to sit back and let filth like Jane Fonda do to our men and women today what she did to my brothers and I a generation ago?
Please, help me do something positive and patriotic to counter the disgraceful actions against our troops undertaken by Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan. We owe it to our troops to stand up and defend their honor and salute their patriotism and service.
Join the Move America Forward team and me in our national patriotic caravan. If you can only drive with us part of the way or the entire way to Washington, D.C. that’s fine, but I’m hoping that many of you will find a way to join us.
We have a complete list of our route, stops and itinerary available for you to figure out how to join up with us online at: www.MoveAmericaForward.org
Since this event will be very costly and since we are a grassroots operation, we wouldn’t mind if you could throw a few bucks our way to help pay for this national effort.
P.S. When we get to Washington, D.C. we’ll be joining the "Gathering of Eagles" patriotic event being organized by veterans groups and pro-troop organizations (including Move America Forward). One of the things we’re going to do is to create a giant "Flag City" of American Flags that we collect at rally stops from all over the country. So please bring a flag (or several flags) to one of the stops we have planned along the way, and we’ll display it in D.C. Afterwards all the flags will be sent with a note indicating who donated them to our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You can also mail in a flag or a contribution to support the effort to:
Move America Forward
770 L Street
Suite #1400
Sacramento, CA 95814
God Bless you and God Bless America!
Joseph Williams
United States Navy, 1961 – 1966
Just to let you know that Hollywood’s not the only voice allowed to speak on this and other issues.
25
Feb
In keeping with their long, proud history of surrendering BEFORE anyone else can, France has surrendered this time to that mighty military machine of the Middle East, Palestine.
Of course, in surrendering to the not-quite-a-country that is Palestine, they refused to give up any money. Which was all Abbas was actually looking for. Just curious, has a country ever surrendered when no one was asking them to?
25
Feb
I forgot to make a post announcing Tom Vilsack was running for President. That seemed to be a problem Tom had with most of the country. As such, Tom dropped out a couple of days ago. He’s a good guy. I like his style, but ’08 just didn’t have his name on it. He pretty much stated it was a money thing. I think it was a lot deeper than that. It’s hard to raise money when pretty much no one even knows you’re running. And, it’s hard this year to get people to know you’re running when all media is fixated on Obama and Clinton. Shame too, I really don’t think Clinton or Obama can appeal accross the board, accross the country. Vilsack could.
Read this today:
Now, if polio had been transmitted sexually, would we have not required kids to get vaccinated like we did and pretty much wipe polio off the face of the Earth? It’s disappointing to me that people will over-react to something purely because it has sexual connotations to it. All our kids are going to have sex eventually. As parents, I know we don’t like to think about that. However, cervical cancer is deadly.
John McCain was the moderate Republican in the past. This race, he’s tossing all his marbles. First, he announced Roe V Wade should be over-turned. Now, he’s attacking Donald Rumsfeld. Pandering to the conservative base AND the anti-war voters.
What he has done is completely lose my potential vote. I’m looking for a moderate who’s not scared to death of being so. We had the heady liberal eight years of Clinton and the disciplinarian style of Bush for the last eight. I’m looking for something in the middle for the next eight. I think if McCain had stuck to his core values of races past, he might have had a shot. Given he doesn’t have the conservative record of a Romney, Tancredo, Hunter, or Brownback, nor the moderate image of Giuliani NOW, I think he’s established himself in the middle of the race.
Approximately one month ago, I went after Joe Biden on his complete ignorance of a major chunk of United States’ history. Given the first opportunity she had, Hillary Clinton displayed the exact same indifference to US history in order to pander black voters and political correctness. Namely, she wants to whitewash the slavery issue by attacking South Carolina’s state flag, which was the symbol of the Confederate army during the US Civil War. Her logic? Get this:
That statement pretty much sums up Hillary’s career on a federal level: complete disregard and disrespect for states’ rights. Which is pretty ironic considering the fact the reason South Carolina seceded in the first place was their fear of a loss of, you guessed it, states’ rights.
Hillary went on to say she didn’t think she could win in South Carolina because it was a strong Republican state. Irony there as well. It was a strong Democrat state until the Democrats took away their states’ rights.
History forgotten is lessons never learned.
Harry Reid tends to over-state almost everything he’s trying to discuss. In the process, he almost always just proves how little he actually knows about anything. His latest folly is stating:
Several people have immediately taken Reid to task. Each pretty much having their own opinion of the US worst foreign policy blunder. Here’s a few:
- JFK’s Bay of Pigs ( Directly led to the Cuban Missile Crisis which in turn led to added financial support from Russia. )
- Carter supporting the Shah of Iran ( led to the hostage crisis, which has led to no relations with Iran since. We are dealing with that now. )
- Carter cutting off Ethiopia to support Somalia. Everyone complains about not doing anything for Mogadishu, Mogadishu was Carter’s creation. When he switched sides, the US went from supporting the country being attacked to the country doing the attacking, and subsequently losing. When Somalia fell into eternal civil war a decade later, Mogadishu became a calling card for activists screaming for US intervention due to the genocide that has occurred since 1978. Millions have died as the result of the US support for a ruthless dictator. Subsequently, in 2006, Ethiopia again teamed up with the US to attempt to weed out terrorists in Somalia that have thrived in the political and governmental void left behind by Carter’s decision.
- Clinton shooting a $2 million dollar rocket at a $10 tent and hitting a camel’s butt. During the height of the Lewinski Scandal, Clinton inexplicably fired a missile into Afghanistan ( a sort of ally at the time ) and Sudan, in an attempt to kill Osama Bin Laden, who had been associated with attacks in Kenya and Tanzania. Clinton’s staff went to the airwaves to explain that there would be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. After the missile strikes in 1998, nothing would be done about Bin Laden by Clinton again. September 11, 2001, Bin Laden struck back. The Taliban , who protested the missile strikes of 1998, refused to do anything about Bin Laden. We’ve been at war since 2001.
- Clinton attacks Iraq. In 1998, Clinton’s operation Desert Fox directly engages Hussein’s Elite Guard in order to enforce the UN weapons inspections. Iraq would subsequently repeatedly provoke the US by shooting missiles at US Air Force. In 2002, Bush would authorize forces to remove Hussein. We’ve been stuck there since.
- JFK orders more troops to Vietnam. Troop levels increased from 900 to 16000+ under Kennedy.
- Johnson orders bombing halt. During the height of armed conflict in Vietnam, Johnson orders a bombing halt against North Vietnam in order to find a non-militaristic solution. Five years later, the US withdraws and loses it’s first war. The subsequent collapse of Cambodia and Laos led to the genocide of an estimated 3 million people. In 2006, Jack Murtha, among others, wants to halt military activities in Iraq to find a non-militaristic solution.
- Of course, none of this would be an issue today if it weren’t for the biggest foreign policy blunder under the direction of Harry S. Truman who in 1948, agreed with the UN to establish the state of Israel. Thereby, setting in motion all of the events leading up to Harry Reid’s proclamation of last week. If Truman and the UN had decided to put Israel anywhere but the Middle East, we wouldn’t have been repeatedly attacked by extremist Muslims and reacting accordingly now would we?
So, one has to wonder what Harry Reid’s version of history truly is. The last time we cut and ran, millions of people died. It can be argued that was the worst single foreign policy blunder we’ve made. Now, you can question whether I’m referring to Somalia or Vietnam. It really doesn’t matter does it? Cutting and running, which is what Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha are pushing now, has left millions dead both times in my lifetime. That’s what they want now. And, in order to prove their point, they’re willing to turn history upside down and dare you to check it. Sure, we’ve got another Vietnam or Somalia on our hands now. But, history has proven in both cases leaving a massive leadership void by cutting and running only makes things profoundly worse. And, in the case of Vietnam, it was the bizarre cessation of aggression in 1968 that prolonged the War and led to it’s eventual collapse and subsequent death of millions.
That is exactly what Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha are doing again.
That, would be yet another item on the long chain of events that have been the the worst foreign policy mistakes in the history of this country.
Two notes:
- I do NOT consider creating Israel a mistake. SOME people have made the claim and there has been a lot of blood shed over that decision. So, in the annals of history, both sides have to be considered.
- There have been plenty of other foreign policy mistakes. Listing them all here individually would be overwhelming and a distraction from the main point. So, posting other mistakes as comments is not necessary and may not be tolerated. I am simply putting Reid’s comment in perspective of history and why I think his political agenda is dangerous. That’s all.
