Warriors…In Their Own Words

We have always had warriors, from as far back in history as one can go — warriors are timeless.Warriors have a moral code and are not simply trained killers (as they are all too frequently portrayed).If we did not have warriors, we would undoubtedly be speaking another language, German,Japanese, Chinese, or Russian.Warriors are born, they are not created. Certainly they are trained, but to be a warrior is a calling.[...]With this documentary, photo exhibit and book our aim is to raise funding for and awareness of the men and women warriors that have given so much to protect our freedoms. Freedom is not free.

Did you know there are riots in Egypt? No? Yeah, well, apparently Google news doesn’t either. A quick search brings no accounts of the disturbances. As usual, you have to seek out bloggers.
It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? The media is overly fond of protesters and riots. Why do they have nothing to say about this?

From Rantings of a Sandmonkey…

..allow yourselves to enjoy those brief moments of joy before the get crushed, as they’re going to. If this spreads, then the regime will spare no expense to squash it, especially with the visible absence of the western media and their coverage. Without international cover, this won;t survive, and the government will fuckin air bomb the demonstrators if they truly became a threat to the regime. The point isn’t the overthrow of the government, not yet. It’s a warning shot, letting them know that they can’t get away with this shit much longer, that the corruption must stop, that political liberties must be respected and that the mismanagement of the economy can not continue. That the people won’t just bend over and take it anymore. That they better change or this might breed the revolution you so rightly fear. But that won;t happen today, or next week, so please, quit your whining, worrying and bitching about the protesters, and start fearing for their lives. Those people have almost nothing and are risking what little they have for a chance for a better life.!(all bold mine) (Source)

Very unlike the pathetic protesters in America, these men and women have actual cause to make demands of their government. Unlike their cowardly imitators in the West, they stand to lose their lives.

If this nation is to live true to the principles of our founding fathers, the Maupins of this country will be the Americans who will safeguard our heritage. Simple men and women whom the press denigrates as neanderthals and the Obamas of the world despise as “typical white people.”

Below is a post that I did at the time of Matt Maupin’s capture. Links marked thus ^**, are dead, but, not any of my sentiments.

I’m off to run errands with the grandchildren that Matt died to protect.

Under an American Sky

April 19,2004

Matt Maupin, the soldier being held prisoner in Iraq, grew up under the sky you see in the photo to your left. He hails from about 15 miles from here. He’s probably driven past this marina many times - maybe after a concert at Riverbend he’d jump on 52, heading West towards town, and hit Annies for more music, or Allyns for some Mexican.

I go cold inside when I see the video, his face reflecting the fear being held at bay by a type of courage I’ll never own. He lived under my skies and now he is captive under an alien sky. How vivid a memory is an Ohio sky for Mr. Maupin while in the hands of Islamic terrorists?

I have come to loathe the irresolute will of the American people. I have come to hate what we’ve become. The following passage is eloquent and accurate. from Lowry’s Legacy, pg. 5

” Clinton was a weak person, and so ultimately a weak president. His weakness related to the kind of man he was. If Clinton’s presidency was “post greatness” - on a determinedly minor key - it also was “post masculine”.

Clinton was the new,sensitive man elevated to high office: sentimental and easily moved to tears, undisciplined and self-indulgent, endlessly and thoughtlessly expressive, schooled in the language and attitudes of therapy, fundamentally out of sympathy with that center of another, different kind of masculinity, the military. He was a soft man for a soft age.”

And men like Mr. Maupin are protecting the soft men. And the soft men are us. Under American skies Muslims seek to erect mosque after mosque. Under these skies they are beginning to indoctrinate our children.. I n every sizable American city, Muslims are slowly inserting their will. They are infiltrating^** the schools^**, our government. Their objective is not to participate as American citizens but to gain a political foothold, develop networks, form alliances and propagate utter deception^** - all with the intent , often stated, just as often ignored, that America will,in the end, become theirs^**. Under an American sky, Muslims will soon shrill their mournful dirges to “allah”. Under our skies they build youth camps.

So, tell me again - why, exactly, is Mr. Maupin a prisoner under a foreign sky when under his home sky, we who say we care, fail to guard his back?

Al-Qaida supporters on the Web have unleashed an unprecedented flood of criticism of Afghanistan’s Taliban, once seen by extremists as the model of an Islamic state.

Now extremists accuse the Taliban of straying from the path of global jihad after its leader Mullah Omar issued a statement saying he seeks good relations with the world and even sympathizes with Shi’ite Iran.

In February, the Taliban announced it wanted to maintain good and “legitimate” relations with neighboring countries. Then, last week online militants were outraged when the movement expressed solidarity with Iran, condemning the latest round of sanctions imposed on Teheran by the UN Security Council over its nuclear enrichment.

The Shi’ite Islamic state of Iran is viewed as anathema by the Sunni militants of the al-Qaida and other extremist movements.

“This is the worst statement I have ever read … the disaster of defending the (Iranian) regime is on par with the Crusaders in Afghanistan and Iraq,” wrote poster Miskeen, whose name translates literally as “the wretched” and who is labeled as one of the more influential writers on an al-Qaida linked Web site.

Culture for All: Al-Queda Jaw dropper !!

H/T:LGF Links

The Midnight Sun is a blog that you will want to bookmark if you haven’t already. Unafraid to tackle the damn difficult issues that threaten Western civilization and with a posse of intelligent commenters, you’ll find a friendly seat in our present theater of war from which to monitor the West’s many enemies..

Aurora has posted a piece that I find rather stunning.

Imagine if America were balkanized; black states, Latino states, white states. Racism is a bad idea. Why would Islamists in the community be promoting it? Divide and conquer perhaps?

The answer to that question can be found in an online forum…

Al-Jawfi wrote: “I suggest that brothers who are fluent in English write
messages, phrasing them skillfully in such a way [that they will seem to be]
written by a black person slandering [the whites] or by a white person
[slandering the blacks]… “

Forum member “Abu Hamed” wrote in response: “… I’d like to suggest a very
simple idea: to quote [inflammatory] stories and sayings from [American]
movies in order to spread civil strife among [blacks and whites]. For
example, there is a movie called *I Am Legend*. According to its plot… the
only person left in the sane world is black, while all the others have been
infected by a virus and have turned into human monsters. We should visit
forums of black Americans and present whites as monsters of this kind [that]
should be exterminated…”

Read it all along with other excellent research at The Midnight Sun: America: Who’s Stirring Up Racial Hatred?

You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.

And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.

You know, Obama, you’d be wrong on that.

The image of bereft and bumbling troops that Obama conjured up, however, probably confirms conclusions that he would prefer to reach. Just like his wife’s deficit in American pride is derivative of a certain mind set, so also is the would-be commander-in-chief’s. I fear Obama -and whatever leftist posse he drags into office with him - will dress the troops in shades of UN Goon Blue and send them traipsing around the world, redistributing America’s wealth, which, he has already promised, you’ll have no choice but to labor for. All for the greater good (but not your grandchildren’s greater good).

Amy Proctor’s husband, currently deployed, is one of hundreds who have responded to Obama’s questionable statements on arming the troops. He “wrote from Iraq that Obama has his facts completely wrong and that his words are a diversion”. Read his email and others weighing in at Amy’s site

Also of interest is ABC’s Jake Tapper’s attempt to fact check Obama’s statements, concluding, in his mind, that Obama was not in error. A perusal of the comments convincingly demonstrates that Mr. Tapper would likely be wrong, too. This one sums up the general consensus pretty well….

Obama said:

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

The captain disavowed the complete last sentence of the anecdote. Obama’s wording in the first part makes it sound like this platoon didn’t have enough basic ammunition as opposed to specialized ammo. And he makes it sound like the platoon was split up, rather than individuals being reassigned to other units that eventually wound up in Iraq.

But the anecdote checks out? Tapper might be a good writer, but he’s not a magician. Obama more than shaded the truth. He didn’t “let the facts get in the way of a good anecdote.”

Well, they’re in the way now, and Tapper’s article, while it softens the blow, does nothing to dissuade objective observers from concluding that Obama is uninformed about military procedure (for example, many military personnel have pointed out that platoons are rarely at 100% strength) and clearly willing to distort the facts for political gain - the precise thing he accuses the current administration of doing.

Posted by: Me | Feb 22, 2008 6:00:43 PM

We had the Anbar Awakening after a long, long time of brutal attacks by Al Quaida, now after a long time of head in sand posture it seems that Europe has the glimmerings of an awakening. A few straws in the wind, first Sarkozy was elected in France of all places, he was already awakened, the Danish newspapers are re-publishing the cartoons as an in your face gesture to the Muslim fanatics and now from Britain comes this report by The Royal United Services Institute.

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a body of the country’s leading military and diplomatic figures, says the loss of British values and national identity caused by “flabby and bogus” Government thinking has made the country vulnerable to attack from Islamic extremists.

Gordon Brown, who is due to unveil his national security policy next week, has described the think-tank as “leading the debate about homeland security and global terrorism”.

Read it all as they say, it’s very encouraging that those not of the stupid lefty persuasion are ready to speak up and tell the people the truth. [Most people who live with the results of governmental, media and academic idiocy do already know.]

It is extremely gratifying to know that Islamists died with the knowledge that an American woman brought then down. Very, very sweet. Put that in your pipe and smoke it MoHAMmad.

As the hailstorm of munitions continued, Dostum grabbed his walkie-talkie, switched to the Taliban’s unsecured frequency and relayed to them the sound of Black’s chatter coming through Army radio.

He used the female pilot’s voice to taunt them as they bled.

“He said, ‘America is so determined, they bring their women to kill the Taliban. You’re so pathetic,’” Black said. “‘It’s the angel of death raining fire upon you.’” After circling the safe house environs many times — striking militants after they’d regroup in threes and fours — the Spectre had just enough fuel to return to Uzbekistan. The crew had expended all of its ammunition: 400 rounds of 40mm cannon shot and 100 rounds of 105mm Howitzer rounds. Black contacted an incoming gunship sent to finish off the remaining militants with a fresh load of ammo.

In those few hours, Black had become the first female AC-130H navigator to shoot in combat. Six years later, she’s a combat-medal-wearing mother to two sons, ages 6 months and 2 years, and she expects to return to Afghanistan in early 2008. She estimates the total number of human targets eliminated on that first tour at more than 250 enemies.

Female airmen deadly in Iraq, Afghanistan - Air Force Times

H/T:Latterdays

This just turns my stomach. Damn my soul for being asleep these many decades, unaware of the perfidies perpetuated by ravenous and greedy politicians craving power. Be they Clinton or Bush or Johnson, Carter or Kennedy, over these many decades they have all poisoned the soul of America , squandering honor and treasure.

Not like any of us could have done anything about it. Who, in the end, can prevail against powerful men who have nary a principle or a scruple left to their names. As one friend remarked, the sums quoted by the writer quoted below are only the tip of the iceberg.

From the Iconoclast, where you can read it in it’s entirety…

Selig Harrison, a close student of Pakistan, almost a year ago calculated the actual aid to Pakistan up to that time as amounting to (if one includes, as of course one should, the cancellation of Pakistani debts to the United States) at $27.5 billion. Since then many millions more have been added. Members of the Press, and others, before repeating the claim that Pakistan has received “$10 billion” should read Harrison’s article, and come to their own conclusions. My view is that the correct formulation would be that since 2001 Pakistan has received $30 billion dollars from the United States. It has become, during that time it was receiving such colossal amounts of aid, and has remained, the sanctuary of Bin Laden and of Ayman al-Zawahiri. It has remained the chief sanctuary and supporter of a revived Taliban. It has remained the chief incubator of Islamic nuclear ambitions, with weapons which, we are supposed to believe, are being “secured” by “Pakistani”(!) forces. It has remained, and will remain, a malevolent supporter of terrorism and aggression against Kashmir, and the rest of India.
But what is $30 billion wasted, compared to the $60 billion wasted on malevolent meretricious Egypt? And what is $30 billion wasted on Pakistan, to do what it never would do, to become what it never will become (a real “ally” in the “war on terror” — god, we are run by fools, and other fools listen to them and do not question them), compared to the one trillion dollars, and counting, spent on Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations Iraq

The Iconoclast - New English Review

But please, do tell me where are the protests of those who impugn America’s support for Israel when it comes to objecting to the egregiously obscene amounts that we hand out to our enemies? At least Israel and the Jews have gifted this world with centuries of genius and invention, while the Arabs and the Egyptians and the Islamists are as locusts, devouring the fruit of the West, raping her bounty and defiling her soul.

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