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So John … why is it you are redeploying away from your opinion on Marines and the War?? Does ChickenS**t or the fact that you try to put yourself first ahead of Patriotism?

“Congressional Democrats are reporting a striking change in districts across the country: Voters are shifting their attention away from the Iraq war.

(Translation they realize what Morons these Democrats are … so they are whistling and walking away cause they don’t want to look like cowards too … the reality that these chumps haven’t figgured out is Americans don’t want to lose.)

Rep. Jim Cooper, a moderate Democrat from Tennessee, said not a single constituent has asked about the war during his nearly two-week long Thanksgiving recess. Rep. Michael E. Capuano, an anti-war Democrat from Massachusetts, said only three of 64 callers on a town hall teleconference asked about Iraq, a reflection that the war may be losing power as a hot-button issue in his strongly Democratic district.

(And you know that broke his “ME ME ME” heart)

First-term Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.) — echoing a view shared by many of her colleagues — said illegal immigration and economic unease have trumped the Iraq war as the top-ranking concerns of her constituents.

(Nancy wants Moveon.Moron dollars but she wants to keep her job too)

In an interview with Politico, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) attributed the change to a recent reduction of violence and media coverage of the conflict, saying there is scant evidence that more fundamental problems with the Bush administration’s policy are improving. Even so, he agreed voters are certainly talking less about the war. “People are not as engaged daily with the reality of Iraq,” Hoyer said.

(Yea they are.. you  Moron … they know the reality the surge is working your junk isn’t. Your Bush Derangement Syndrome has blinded you.)

The change in mood perceived by Democratic lawmakers comes as one of Congress’ most vocal war critics, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), returned from a trip to Iraq and told reporters Thursday that “the surge is working” to improve security, even though the central government in Baghdad remains “dysfunctional.”

(Johnnie doesn’t want to have to learn Career.com either, he is about to lose a lawsuit and he needs the money.)

Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), who traveled to Iraq with Murtha over the Thanksgiving break, also agrees the surge is working, adding another high-profile Democrat to the list of lawmakers who believe there has been improvement. Like Murtha, though, Dicks still favors troop withdrawal and points out that political reconciliation in Iraq has been a failure.

(That’s good Dicks … you idiot …. translation “We are winning … now … let’s run)

“There is a sense of normalcy you didn’t see before. In that sense, the surge is being successful,” Dicks said in an interview with the Seattle Times. “But there is no success on political reconciliation. From that standpoint, it’s not working.” 

End of article quotes:

Obviously, there is no requirement to be a Patriot to run for Congress. There is also no minimum IQ.  God willing these Morons will wear their conduct during this war around their necks lie an Albatross.

Let me first set the stage by sharing with you what Murtha says now:

“‘I think the ’surge’ is working,’ the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president’s decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis “have got to take care of themselves.”

Violence has dropped significantly in recent months, but Mr. Murtha said he was most encouraged by changes in the once-volatile Anbar province, where locals have started working closely with U.S. forces to isolate insurgents linked to Al Qaeda…

Mr. Murtha’s four day-trip took him to a Thanksgiving dinner with troops in Kuwait last Thursday, and he then made stops in Iraq, Turkey and Belgium.”

End of Quote:

Now let me tell you what that means… as if you can’t guess:

John Murtha the self righteous gasbag has come to understand just how far he is hanging out. He will be opposed by a retired Army officer next election. The lawsuit by those Marines he slandered, and the repeated 2X4’s across the head have caused him to worry about his job.

It is a fact that Moveon.Moonbat is no good to you if you are a former Congressman. They only buy influence.

Mrs Murtha’s little boy Johnny is now worried for his job in a way he has not been up to now.

I just hope Reid, Pelosi and Moore feel that heat soon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marines plan to buy fewer bomb-resistant vehicles than planned despite pressure from lawmakers … despite pressure from lawmakers … despite pressure from lawmakers …who are determined to spend billions of dollars on the vehicles. The Marine Corps’ requirement for mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles would drop from the planned 3,700 to about 2,400, the Associated Press has learned. The Marines would not comment on the decision, but defense officials confirmed the cut. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced. About a month ago, Marine Commandant Gen. T. James Conway signaled the possibility of a new examination of the commitment to the vehicles, saying he was concerned his force was getting too heavy. “I’m a little bit concerned about us keeping our expeditionary flavor,” he said. “

Ahem …. let me say this again …”despite pressure from lawmakers … despite pressure from lawmakers …who are determined to spend billions of dollars on the vehicles. “

Lawmakers want what?????? You mean lawmakers like Harry (Hale Bopp) Reid, Dennis (Chicken S**t) Moore, Nancy (MoonBaby) Pelosi … lawmakers like that want the Marines to spend a bunch on what??? Those maggots are the ones who have yet to fund the troops. Those maggots are the ones who are trying to legislate defeat.

Soon job termination notices will go out to 100,000 DOD civilian employees … Merry Christmas guys and girls … a present from Harry Reid.

Harry … Nancy … Denny you Barking Moonbats it’s called unintended consequences … it’s also called a direct result of your actions.

You guys own this!

It Was No Misunderstanding, Says China
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
November 30, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - China made it clear Thursday that its recent decision to deny three U.S. Navy ships entry to the Hong Kong port was not a “misunderstanding” — as the White House said earlier this week — but retaliation for American policies. (Why is it that the White House continues to make excuses for Chinese Communists?)

A day after White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had told President Bush the decisions to deny entry to the ships were a “misunderstanding,” China’s foreign ministry flatly contradicted her.

“Reports that Foreign Minister Yang said in the United States that it was a misunderstanding do not accord with the facts,” said ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.

“On the issue of port visits, China acts in accordance with the principles of its sovereignty and approves specific visits on a case-by-case basis,” Liu said.

He implied that the decision was linked to U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, and the recent high-profile visit to the U.S. by Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama, who Beijing reviles as a “separatist.”

China seems to think they can do this kind of thing with no consequence. China seems to think they can use lead paint and other poisons in toys and products. China seems to think that they can use prison labor to compete. China always keeps two sets of books.

Chinese products are unsafe. It is hellishly hard to buy stuff not made in China. Make the effort. They would eagerly run over us just like they ran over all those monks who have disappeared for demonstrating against Chinese oppression.

Avoid Chinese Communist products.

And I like dogs:

Thought For The Day:
 
Handle every situation like a dog.
 
If you can’t Eat it or Chew it.
Pee on it and Walk Away.

“Scientists have found a new threat to the planet: Canadian beer drinkers.

The government-commissioned study says the old, inefficient “beer fridges” that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt’s contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity.

University of Alberta researcher Denise Young, who led the study, suggests that provincial authorities hold beer-fridge buy-backs or round-ups to eliminate the threat — methods that Americans use to get guns off the streets.”

Well yanno what can you say about a bunch of guys who drink beer named “MooseHead.”

Or actually what can you say about so called scientists who have nothing better to do than blame beer for inefficient frig’s. I guess the eggs and bacon aren’t a threat to world environment … even though they are stored right next to the 6 Pak.

By the way if Canadians eat Canadian Bacon … what do they call “Ham?”

Thanks to my friend the Welder for passing this on to me:

Six Boys

Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation’s capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall’s trip was especially memorable.

On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history — that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.

Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, “Where are you guys from?”

I told him that we were from Wisconsin “Hey, I’m a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.” (James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and recieved his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington , D.C., but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)

When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak.
(Here are his words that night.)

“My name is James Bradley and I’m from Antigo, Wisconsin My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called “Flags of Our Fathers” which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.

“Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game: A gam e called “War.” But it didn’t turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don’t say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.

(He pointed to the statue) “You see this next guy? That’s Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene’s helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph… a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men.

“The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the “old man” because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn’t say, ‘Let’s go kill some Japanese’ or ‘Let’s die for our country.’ He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, ‘You do what I say, and I’ll get you home to your mothers.’

“The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona. Ira Hayes w as one who walked off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, ‘You’re a hero.’ He told reporters, ‘How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?’ So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32. (ten years after this picture was taken).

“The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from; Hilltop, Kentucky. A fun-lovin’ hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, ‘Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn’t get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.’ Yes, he was a fun-lovin’ hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother’s farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away

“The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad , John Bradley from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite’s producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say “No, I’m sorry, sir, my dad’s not here He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don’t know when he is coming back.” My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell’s soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn’t want to talk to the press.

“You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn’t see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, ’cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.

“When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, ‘I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.’

“So that’s the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.”

Suddenly, the monument wasn’t just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.

We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice.

Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom.

Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the world.

God Bless You and God Bless America

REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it’s going to be a great day.

Former Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) died early Thursday morning in a Chicago-area hospital, according to congressional sources. He was 83.

Hyde underwent open-heart surgery back in July and never completely recovered from the procedure, said a source close to Hyde.

God Bless.

… I tend to run my mouth here.

Although I am a registered Democrat, I tend to think of myself as a GDI (Gosh Danged Independent). My congressional representative is a guy named Dennis Moore. He loves Moveon.Moonbat, and is only too eager to sell out the American Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine … by providing aid and comfort to terrorists by voting repeatedly to cut off aid to the deployed troops in Iraq. He supports Nancy (San Francisco Peace and Love Chick-in-Charge) Pelosi as her lap dog in all her stupidass attempts at legislating defeat.

So what has it gotten me? An invitation to attend a meeting with the guy running against Dennis Moore, and the Vice President of the United States.

I almost feel compelled to attend. However, I know I am nobody and nothing, and they probably just want me to write a check. The danged thing is on a work day and I would have to take the day off to stand in line and let the Secret Service scan me for whatever. Not my idea of fun.

Then there is the possibility that this guy doesn’t disagree with Moore on any of the issues that I believe in. It just seems like I am called to put up or shut up.

…. course I will never shut up.

What is that?

Here is the latest on the Marine LtCol who is a victim of the Haditha incident in Iraq in 2005. ”

Marine Leader Charged Over Haditha Is Innocent, Legal Group Says U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani was arraigned Nov. 17 at Camp Pendleton on charges of dereliction of duty and violation of a lawful order for allegedly failing to investigate the conduct of four Marines under his command after a Nov. 19, 2005 house-to-house battle in Haditha.

In that battle, 24 Iraqis were killed, 15 of whom allegedly were noncombatant civilians. (See Haditha Investigation Timeline) The Thomas More Law Center, a conservative group, is joining Chessani’s military legal defense team for his trial, which starts in April 2008. Chessani is the highest ranking official charged in the case.

The law center plans to make motions to dismiss the charges against Chessani on grounds of “unlawful command influence,” because high-ranking government officials pressed the case early before all the facts were in, said Brian Rooney, a spokesman for the group.

The center announced its involvement in the case as a leaked government report seemed to indicate weaknesses in the prosecution’s case.

Military prosecutors have tried to make the case that the soldiers - supposedly motivated by revenge - intended to kill the civilians after a roadside bomb killed one Marine and injured two others. However, according to a 37-page military assessment recently obtained by Newsweek , the Haditha case is unraveling. The report, by investigator Lt. Col. Paul Ware, said, “The evidence is contradictory, the forensic analysis is limited, and almost all the witnesses have an obvious bias or prejudice.”

While civilians were killed in Haditha, insurgent fighters in Iraq have frequently hidden among civilians and used them as shields, which makes the case for a revenge killing difficult to prove.”

Haditha is the case that A**Hat John Murtha publicly proclaimed all Marines were guilty in. This before they were charged. This because he wanted to blame Bush for it. This because he is throwing a tantrum because the President won’t let him cut and run.

I would not doubt that he .. John Murtha exerted pressure (undo pressure) to bring these Marines to trial. John the A**hat Murtha is being sued over it and I hope those Marines have him for lunch.

 For an idea what Unlawful Command Influence is …. I recommend you watch the movie “Rules of Engagement” which is a movie made in 2000. Although this is a fiction, it demonstrates what happens when government officials exert pressure “for a conviction” on a non crime to “save face” across the globe.

Guys like Murtha are totally capable of this style of attack.

For the record I am not suggesting that the government destroyed evidence in the Hatitha Incident, like in the movie. I am suggesting that the whole trial was a set-up and some are not above forcing this kind of “career ending” legal action for personal reasons.