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Remember what Ben Franklin said:
"We must
hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang
separately."
Read the story here: We need a lot more of this! Where is the outrage? Where is the anger over American citizens seeing their professions destroyed locust like by illegal immigration? This is Terry’s story….
BAGHDAD – According to military sources the American death toll in Iraq is at its lowest point in over 8 months. The outcry from Democrats was immediate and strong: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) said, “This decline of casualties shouldn’t give anyone the idea we’re not losing, and bad.” Harry Reid (D-Nev) said, “Who cares how many soldiers live or die, the war’s lost, it doesn’t make any difference.” How right you are, Senator.
Positive Report On Iraq War Could Split Dems
WASHINGTON DC – House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party’s efforts to press for a timetable to end the war. “We’re nude, screwed, and tattooed if that report doesn’t say we’re losing,” said a frustrated Clyburn.
Democrats are already reeling from news that U.S. causalities are at an eight-month low, and the possibility that the Petraeus report may indicate progress in the war is apparently causing many lead Democrats to despair. When asked what she would do if the report reflects good news, Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said, “There are plenty of other problems with this country we can revel in. Meanwhile, we’ll hope things in Iraq turn around.” Joe Biden (D-Del) added, “We will not be deterred by this unexpected setback, and continue to have complete faith in our military’s ability to lose this war.”
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Today’s news is about the trip to the Mideast by President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice.
Today’s Golden Oldie is from thirty years ago. Back then the American President had sent his Secretary of State (Cyrus Vance) searching for peace by trying to force Israel to open the gates to the PLO terrorists. Back then I gave Carter the benefit of the doubt and cast him as an idealist rather than as an enemy. So we had Jimmy as Don Quixote and Cyrus Vance as Sancho Vanza (Quixote’s servant Sancho Panza).
Back then, when I did a full-page cartoon, I always added a Doobie strip at the bottom. It gave the little fellow a chance to respond to the page by speaking the cold, hard, and cynical truth. Interesting to note that today, the situation haschanged! the Arabs and Israel are facing a foreign enemy force… and we didn’t have to call for Cuban mercenaries!
We’ve got Iran!
[The more I see how history repeats itself, the more I think we may be able to 'predict' the future just by going back and reviewing the past. ---GOM]
FSM Editors
Author: The Editors
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: July 30, 2007
The oil-soaked emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thanithe, pictured to the left, was not a happy camper on a British Airways flight when three princesses in his entourage were seated next to men who were not their relatives. What does this sort of thing mean for the free Western world?
Shades of Things to Come?
FSM Editors
We read recently, with not a lot of surprise, a news report from theDaily Mail UK that described the following. Three Arab princesses, as well as others among their traveling coterie, were removed from a British Airways flight after a day’s shopping in trendy, fashion-conscious Milan. Why? They were sitting on the plane next to men who were not their relatives.
Without any apparent acknowledgement of the incompatibility of blending 13th century beliefs with a very 21st century city and world (except it would appear for when it comes to shopping at Versace), the royal family was insistent that other passengers move their own seats to accommodate the women, who were all relatives of the oil-soaked emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thanithe, pictured above.
SAN DIEGO – Marine Cpl. Gareth Hawkins extended his enlistment to go on a third deployment to Iraq so his battalion would not be left in the hands of rookies.
Twenty days after he arrived in Iraq for the third time, a roadside bomb exploded beneath his 7-ton truck, leaving Hawkins dazed and his heel shattered.
Minutes later, his pain held at bay by morphine, the 23-year-old asked to complete one piece of unfinished business before being rushed via ambulance to undergo surgery at the hospital at the Marine air base in Taqaddum.
He wanted to reenlist for another four-year hitch.
A photographer was nearby and took a picture of the ad hoc ceremony: Hawkins on a stretcher with his right hand in the air as officers administered the reenlistment oath.
The photograph has made the rounds of military and political opinion websites and publications, including the conservative National Review.
With both the Army and Marine Corps laboring to persuade combat veterans to stay in the service, the picture may be assuming iconic status.
The photograph is in the office of Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent, the Marine Corps’ top enlisted leader, who may use it as he tries to persuade other young Marines to stay on.
Hawkins, a machine-gunner by training, is recuperating from surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego after previous surgeries at military hospitals in Iraq and Germany.
More surgery and months of therapy lie ahead before he can shed his wheelchair.
Still, the naturalized U.S. citizen, who was born in Hong Kong of British parents, said he was eager to get back to his squad in the 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment. He’s thinking of applying to become an officer.
He brushes off the popularity of the photograph.
“My wife says I’m famous, but I don’t really think so,” he said.
Like most Marines who have served in Iraq, Hawkins had been in other convoys that were hit by roadside bombs.
But the blast on June 29 in Karma, north of Baghdad, was the first to explode directly below his vehicle.
The mission was routine: taking water, food and supplies to Marines at an outpost. The route had been heavily traveled previously without incident.
“I heard the blast and suddenly everything went black,” Hawkins said. “Both of my feet went numb. The side of the 7-ton was annihilated; and when we rolled to a stop, everybody was yelling, ‘Are you OK?’ “
July 30, 2007After winning the Asia Cup, Younis Mahmoud, captain of Iraq’s victorious football team, said he would not return to his home country because he fears being killed: “Those crazy carpet-kissers would gut me like a fish,” he said. When asked where he would go and what he would do, he replied, “The usual – move to Detroit and drive a cab.”
Commenting on the situation in Iraq, he said, “I want America to go out. I wish the American people didn’t invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon.” When reminded of the fact that Uday Hussein used to be in charge of the team and regularly used to torture players and rape their wives and girlfriends, Mahmoud said, “Oh yeah, I forgot about that. USA number one.”
Readers have asked for more “Mr. History” cartoons, so here you are!
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According to the British newspaper the Sunday Express:
“Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis.The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on terror” is to be dropped.
The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair.“
[Hey Kiddies, Since Great "Lesser" Britain is AFRAID to use the words "Muslim Terrorists" and "War On Terror" I am going to use these terms as often as I can to make up for those "Spine Donor" Politicians in the UK.
I am making a concerted effort to use these descriptive words whenever possible. I URGE YOU to do the Same in your Blogs, Websites and emails.
An interesting side note: Saudi Arabia is now officially calling the Suicide Bombings Terrorism in all their media and by their officials! ---GOM]
As I was flying through the sky, instead of being in a blackout as I should be, my mind was a perfectly focused computer: I realized that Conley had stepped directly onto a bomb, I realized he was dead, and I hoped as I landed that my wounds would not be so bad, and that I indeed might even survive. And somehow, I was able to wonder why I was completely free of the shock that 95% of the others told me they experienced. I wondered why I was so locked into the reality of what was happening.
I lived in a four story mansion with a beautiful wrought iron elevator that shot through the middle. I thought it was an extravagance at first, but after just one two story climb up the winding staircase I appreciated it as a necessity. This is what it’s like being rich – an elevator in your house can be a practical necessity, free of all pretenses. It had been a long a ride from the welfare and food stamps of my early grammar school years. Dad was a dead drunk by the second grade, Mom had fled with us from the immigrant concrete caves of New York to the endless sun and sea promise of Los Angeles.
By age 40 I was a Hollywood pimp with a seven figure income and Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh as my flagship client. I had made and spent millions. My mansion was in the hills just a click west of the Hollywood sign. As I took a shit every morning I watched planes land at LAX. They say the best view in L.A. is at a Japanese restaurant called Yamashiro’s. It sat a good distance below me. From Burbank to Long Beach to Santa Monica, my view was much better.
Photo of actual Humvee Pat Dollard was blow up in and badly wounded that night. He was sitting in the back left seat.
Before I landed I remember being horrified at the realization that a young boy like Conley was dead, and that the motherfuckers had planned for one of us to get out, and had buried the bomb to kill whoever did – and that Conley had made a bad decision. I was waiting to die. Time plays by such weird rules when you’re blown up. It’s impossible that so much went through my head, but it did, as I waited to lose pieces of myself, to be opened, to die. I really wanted none of this to happen, to fight through it all if any of it did or if they kept trying to kill me, which is why I was so focused. It must be the only reason. Or maybe because by now, I was a human camera, an anthropomorphized document. Maybe I was just doing my job.
I had about 15 employees, a wife, a daughter, and no one believed I was going to lock horns with Al Qaeda, especially because my only motivations were to keep more American civilians from dying, and to honor those who were already risking their lives for that very reason. Who does such a thing? But go I did, and like Kurtz, when I got back from the first three months, I sold the house, sold the kids, sold the car. Well, not the car. I love my H2. But I got out of the Hollywood agenting game, at a cost of about $10,000,000.00 in future income. And I had no savings. But I had to go back, to finish the work, to finish the story. There was nothing in the civilian world that provided the same sense of purpose. There was never a time when I felt like my life had much of a purpose, other than making money and indulging myself. Except for parenting. But some of us find jobs to be done that demand we not be home. I did.
When I crashed I realized I had all my limbs, although my leg felt clearly broken, and as I crawled forward in the midnight blackness, my throbbing left palm was soaking wet, and I figured it for split open and bleeding. I had to get back into what might be left of the Humvee. We were being ambushed. The air has no armor. A Humvee does. There were likely many more IEDs around me, I heard of all the others shredded, made legless, wiped out, by the IEDs set like little traps to blow on those escaping a struck vehicle. Never get out of the vehicle. I had been blown out – I had to get back in…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Gun battles and grenade attacks killed two soldiers and two civilians on Sunday in Mogadishu, where the government is struggling to contain a violent insurgency, witnesses said.Men with pistols ambushed the government soldiers while they patrolled a market.
“Three masked men shot the soldiers at close range and escaped in the melee of gunfire from other troops nearby,” said Harun Omar Mohamed, a shop owner who witnessed the battle. He said two civilians were wounded.
Gunmen lobbed four hand grenades into another market, Bakara, which until recently housed the city’s notorious open-air arms dealership. Two civilians were killed, said Muse Haji Aden, a store keeper in the market.
Mogadishu has seen little peace since Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia’s fragile government drove out a radical Islamic group in December. Roadside bombs, attacks on government installations, assassination attempts and gunbattles have become common. Civilians often are caught in the crossfire.
Insurgents linked to the Islamic movement have vowed to carry out an Iraq-style guerrilla war until the country becomes an Islamic state. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the violence in the capital.
The government was formed in 2004 with the help of the United Nations, but has struggled to assert any real control.
This is the Iraq War you won’t see on the evening news.
Former Marine and television news producer JD Johannes traveled to Iraq with his old Marine Corps unit to produce syndicated TV news reports for local stations.
From those reports comes a view of the war that only the grunts who operate outside the wire experience.
From a dust-up with Al Qaida outside Abu Ghriab, to a night raid on the home of an insurgent leader, you will see what the Marines saw and hear the story in their own words of why they joined, volunteered for the deployment, why they fight and what it is like to go outside the wire and into combat.
Saudi Arabia’s Anti-Jihad Campaign:
The last time Ahmed al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, being treated for severe burns from the truck bomb he had driven into the Iraqi capital on Christmas Day, 2004.
Today, he says, he has changed his mind about waging jihad, or holy war, and wants other young Muslims to know it. He wants them to see his disfigured face and fingerless hands, to hear how he was tricked into driving the truck on a fatal mission, to believe his contrition over having put his family through the agony of believing he was dead.
At 22, the new Ahmed Al-Shayea is the product of a concerted Saudi government effort to counter the ideology that nurtured the 9/11 hijackers and that has lured Saudis in droves to the Iraq insurgency. The deprogramming, similar to efforts carried out in Egypt and Yemen, is built on reason, enticements and lengthy talks with psychiatrists, Muslim clerics and sociologists.
The kingdom still has a way to go in cracking the jihadist mind-set. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and Saudis make up nearly half of the foreign detainees held in Iraq, according to Mouwaffak al- Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser. They number hundreds, he said this month following a visit to Saudi Arabia. Dozens more are fighting alongside al-Qaida-inspired militants at a Palestinian camp in Lebanon.
Several hundred prisoners, as well as returnees from Guantanamo, are thought to have passed through the rehabilitation program.
Al-Shayea says his change of heart began when he was visited by a cleric at al-Ha’ir Prison in Riyadh following his repatriation from Iraq.
He says he put two questions to the cleric:
Was the jihad for which he traveled to Iraq religiously sanctioned?
And were the edicts inciting such action correct in saying the militants should not inform their parents or government of their intentions?
No and no, came the reply.
“I realized that all along I was wrong,” al-Shayea told The Associated Press in a two-hour interview at a Riyadh hotel before returning to an Interior Ministry compound that serves as a sort of halfway house for ex-jihadists rejoining Saudi society.
“There is no jihad. We are just instruments of death,” he said.
Saudi Arabia’s campaign against terrorism began in earnest after al- Qaida-linked militants struck three residential expatriate compounds in Riyadh in May 2003, killing 26 people.
[Why didn't this start after 9/11 with 3000+ deaths??? Better late than never, I guess. ---GOM]
The government says it cracked down on charities suspected of using donations to finance terrorism, banned mosques from holding unlicensed religious sessions and warned preachers against inciting youths to jihad. Officials as well as the government-guided media began to clearly and unequivocally refer to suicide bombings as terrorism.
The Interior Ministry sponsored programs on government-run TV stations showing repentant jihadists warning youths against joining al-Qaida and clergymen trying to correct misconceptions about jihad and dealing with non-Muslims. Al-Shayea has appeared on Al-Majd, a Saudi religious TV channel.
Three years ago it set up the prison program.
“The aim is to reform the youths, to listen to them and talk to them,” said Ahmed Jailan, one of the clerics. “We also try to instill a sense of hope in them by telling them they still have the chance to make up for what they lost if they follow true Islam.” …
[If this is true, and not a Media Spin, then this is good news indeed! ---GOM]
Little Green Footballs:It’s now officially a mindcrime in the United States to violate Islamic law. At Pace University, a man has been arrested and will face “hate crime” charges for throwing a Koran into a toilet, after the university caved in to demands from Muslim students: Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University.
NEW YORK (AP) _ A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said.
Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate crimes, police said. It was unclear if he was a student at the school. A message left at the Shmulevich home was not immediately returned.
The Islamic holy book was found in a toilet at Pace’s lower Manhattan campus by a teacher on Oct. 13. A student discovered another book in a toilet on Nov. 21, police said.
Muslim activists had called on Pace University to crack down on hate crimes after the incidents. As a result, the university said it would offer sensitivity training to its students.
[While I agree that it is wrong to desecrate any religions holy books, I'm wondering what the official reaction would be if it were the Christian Bible or Jewish Scriptures? ---GOM]
Alright readers, it’s time to become PatDollard.com Vloggers. This is a new Contest Feature encouraging everyone to participate actively as a creative contributor to the PatDollard.com community. I’d like anyone and everyone who has something to express, in words, pictures, music, whatever…to make a video, upload it to youtube and pop me a notifying email. I’ll check it out for posting here on the front page. I will hold a vote on the last two days of the month, and the winner will receive $100.00 and a Jihadikiller t-shirt.
The town of Hazleton, PA is one of the many small towns throughout America that are under siege from illegal immigrants. We have posted before about these small towns (like Farmers Branch, TX- ) and how the lives of hardworking American Citizens have been turned upside down. I am from the Philadelphia area, so this one is pretty close to home.
First, a little background. After having serious issues with crime from illegal immigrants and seeing the town’s population grow by over 50%, Mayor Lou Barletta drafted the Illegal Immigration Reform Act. To give you just a basic understanding of the bill, its goal was to prevent landlords from renting, and business owners from hiring, ILLEGAL immigrants. So, all it did was say, it is not legal for you to hire someone who is not eligible to work legally in the US- and it is not legal to give residence to someone who is not legally in the country. Seems pretty basic.
Well, of course, our good friends at the ACLU have taken up the case against the city of Hazleton, and you won’t believe what has been going on in this case. As of right now, the city has lost the most recent court battle, even though they vow to appeal. Two things about this case’s latest decision will make your head spin:
First, the ACLU attorney proposed, and the judge agreed that removing the illegal immigrants would put a strain on our foreign relations and that we should seek advise from foreign countries on how to craft these laws.
Take a moment, let that sink in, and remember to breathe, so your head doesn’t explode. Strain on foreign relations? They are illegally in our country, meaning they have no respect for our laws. Advise from foreign countries? Since when did this stop becoming the United States and instead we simply live in North America.
Second, the defendants (city of Hazleton) were never confronted by those who brought the lawsuit against them. This is a direct violation of the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of someone accused of a crime to be confronted with witnesses against him. This right is usually termed as the confrontation clause.
The reason the accused was not confronted by those against them? The are not legally in the county and were afraid that they would be deported. No US Citizen would be able to bring forth a lawsuit without having to identify themselves, so how can someone who is here illegally do the same? We need to know why a man is allowed to be considered a judge (who is guided by the US Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land) if he violates basically legal amendments of that Constitution.
We at the Common Sense Conservative need your help. We are asking that you post this story to your blog and spread it around to as many people as possible. (We will be posting all blogs that have added this story). Because today it may be a small town in PA, but tomorrow it will be in your home state, maybe even your home town.
Please visit Mayor Lou Barletta’s site, Small Town Defenders. Here you can sign an on-line petition, and make a donation (for you know the ACLU has deep pockets and this case will not come cheap). Mayor Barletta has vowed to take this all the way to the Supreme Court if need be, and he needs our support.
Captain Baker gave an important interview on video. Captain Baker, who in Captain Combs’ words is “an excellent soldier,” is from the Kurdish north, but Baker said he is Iraqi first, Kurdish second. He told me American Special Forces had trained him, he shared some interesting details about the killing of Zarqawi which occurred in 2006. Zarqawi had been the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, until he was killed nearby by U.S. bombs.
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This interview was filmed near Baqubah in a village where shallow graves containing the remains of murdered Iraqis had been discovered. Captain Baker, Commander of the Scorpion Company, 5th Iraqi Army, was in charge of the operation to dig up the bodies and secure the area. The video is part of an update for the dispatch “Bless the Beasts and Children” on www.michaelyon-online.com
Washington DC – “The Hill” has named 67-year-old Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the fourth most beautiful person on Capitol Hill. Robin Givhan, the Washington Post fashion critic, earlier this year wrote, “She looks polished and tasteful, with just a hint of ‘My skin’s been pulled so tight my eyebrows are almost in my hair’.”
The article states: “It is puzzling just how the first female Speaker of the House stays so fit. She is always working and traveling to enemy countries, rarely exercises and reportedly noshes on Ghirardelli mint chocolates and large amounts of defeatism.”
Astronauts Have Flown Drunk
Florida – A panel has found that on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk. The panel also reported “heavy use of alcohol” by astronauts before launch. More on this as it develops.
Lindsay Lohan To Become Astronaut
Sources close to Lindsay Lohan have told Scooter’s Report that the troubled actress has decided to join NASA, filling the position vacated by Lisa Nowak. When asked about her thoughts concerning the dangers of high speed space travel, Lohan replied, “It’s what I love.” You go girl!
A Tactical Operations Center (TOC) is the headquarters for a unit. Company-level TOCs are the smallest I have seen. A typical has about a hundred or more soldiers. The commander will normally be a captain. A company-level TOC often consists of a radio and a map, and one person on duty 24/7. It might have a coffee maker, too. In fact, there is a company TOC at the other end …
This footage from a meeting with US and Iraqi Army officials, taken in Baqubah days into Operation Arrowhead Ripper, is part of a dispatch called “Birds Eye View” on www.michaelyon-online.com
I had some difficulty doing a cartoon today. Something was bothering me about every idea that I came up with. Then it hit me. I love to do cartoons about what’s happening in the minds of most readers. I want to show our fears, hopes, and judgements… but after a while it’s easy to forget that the Middle East (and its players and history) has become, for most people who are not experts, a complicated and confusing mess.
Recognizing the existence of that confusion became the jumping off point for today’s Dry Bones.
So here’s the question for today: Did you know that Mahmoud Abbas is Abu Mazen? Let me know. I’m curious.
["Moderate" Terrorist... Is that like being "Slightly Pregnant"? ed]
The oil-soaked emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thanithe, pictured to the left, was not a happy camper on a British Airways flight when three princesses in his entourage were seated next to men who were not their relatives. What does this sort of thing mean for the free Western world? 
