GUESS THEY THINK THEY'RE BETTER

The papers are filled with news about Blackwater and security firms and what Blackwater MAY or MAY NOT have done--since they say they were fired upon and were acting in self-defense.

I'm looking at something different. Why does our State Dept hire outside firms that do not have to follow the rules of engagement our armed forces do? I can only surmise that State Dept. officials who travel to dangerous places are so important--or their lives are so important--that they "deserve" better protection than our fighting forces.

Even the Iraqi government gives immunity to private firms working there because they cannot offer that kind of security to visiting diplomats. Not so for our military--which they also cannot duplicate. I guess all lives are not equal.

The idea of being in a war with rules of engagement aimed at protecting everyone other than the soldiers risking their lives is nothing other than evil. It shows the mentality of politicians who make the rules. We can talk about rules concerning convoy protection, rules concerning allowing known militia-leading enemies to be free, and rules that respect that make having "the best military in the world" a meaningless phrase. Our rules of engagement cost American lives!
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What ARE they Thinking? Or not!

There's political hack and presidential candidate Ron Paul explaining to O'Reilly that we have CIA operatives in Iran trying to overthrow the government. Thanks Paul. Just in case anyone in the world doesn't know. He claims we've brought 9/11 and every other bad thing that's happening on ourselves because we invade sovereign countries. Nice to tell the world. Come to Warwick and tell the families of 9/11's innocent victims. You creep.

Hilary Clinton won't distance herself from the MoveOn ad in the NYTimes--General Petraeus or Betray Us. She'll believe captured Iraqis, the heads of other governments (particularly of our enemies), and everyone else but our General and Ambassador claiming he's asking us to listen to him as I used to tell my students to read their novels--with "willing suspension of disbelief." It's nice to know that woman (who will or has sold herself to the devil to achieve her long term goals) will say and do anything in the name of expediency. She'll also send back the money from Hsu--with a note saying they can send it back on their own. What a lady!

Other political types who would not condemn the NYTimes ad were Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Barak Obama, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden (plagarist), and Harry Reid.

A full page NYTimes ad normally runs about $100,000, but MoveOn paid only about $60,000. Guess it helps to sleep with the publisher.

There are politicians out there just drooling over the numbers of dead and wounded service men and women. The more the merrier. I mean that. Every dead soldier is a vote for them. If we stopped losing them, they would have no legs to stand on in the next election. So keep up those IEDs, they feel. So much for the military.

Why doesn't someone expose the ridiculous rules of engagement our people must follow? American military lives only count as promoting an anti-war vote, so why work to lessen them.

There's Brian DiPalma exploiting an horrific but rare incident of rape and publicly stating that he wants to use his movie to expose America and its soldiers to the world. As if there aren't enough suicide bombers recruited already, Di Palma wants to help. I don't think Di Palma made a movie about Saddam's son who liked to drag women in to rape them at will.

Mos Def raps that Bush brought down the World Trade Center. Tim Robbins and Rosie O'Donnell can't agree on the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis we've killed, but the number far exceeds the numbers found in the mass graves left by Saddam.

The only people these self-serving politicians and Hollywood-types don't listen to are Osama bin Laden and Ahmadinejad. The first tells us the only way to end all this stuff is to convert to Islam. The second says he wants nuclear power and is out to blow Israel to smithereens--first--and then go after us. Nor do they read the news and see the other countries around the world being terrorized--in Europe and North Africa, for instance. Why look for the truth when the truth gets in the way of winning in 2008?

Every name mentioned here is a traitor--a traitor whose rights have been preserved by the very people they seek to harm. Another analogy with VietNam? Jane Fonda.

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9/11--WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET

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I attended a 9/11 memorial this morning. It was raining pretty hard here in Warwick. The universe was in tears. I cried through much of it. American Legion sponsored it and Veterans of Foreign Wars made up the color guard. Members of the NYFD were there. Policemen. Emergency Service Workers. The EMTs got a call and had to leave in the middle. Warwick lost eight people that day, yet there are calls of "Enough is enough." At the end the Commander said that there will be memorial services each year on this date in this place as long as there is anyone to lead them.

We lowered our flag to half staff before we left for the service. Not even the town's flag was lowered. Disgraceful.

Ben Winstanley, a local politician, said it right in a very impressive speech reminding us of the terrorists--the cowards--who commited this heinous crime against us, and he exhorted us to NEVER FORGET and work to make sure it never happens again. He reminded us, also, that Osama bin Laden's tape warned us that to stop their acts, we must all accept Islam. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, and Chamberlain still appeased him. We needed the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor losing 2,333 lives before we listened.

We better believe Ben and not give up the fight as I heard those sanctimonious, self-serving Democrats like Congressmen Skelton and Wexler suggest yesterday as they persecuted and assailed General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. I heard it this morning as John Kerry and Barbara Boxer drooled their ignorance in front of these same esteemed Americans. Kerry compared Iraq to Viet Nam (how ironic is that?). For a different reason Viet Nam is like Iraq. Once Congress took over, it became a failure, a military defeat, and a disgrace for our country. Now they're at it again, and we will reap the same harvest. It's just so obvious that they want defeat so they can ensure the next presidential election is theirs. Assailing the General and the Ambassador is despicable. What a view that sends to the rest of the world! If our enemies are watching, they've got smiles on their faces.
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THEY COME FROM ANOTHER PLANET

Spent most of one of summer's last days listening to two intelligent and capable men get grilled by the biggest bunch of incompetents--our congressmen and women. It's a testament to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker that they kept their cool when confronted by one arrogant incompetent after another.

Before they even began, Congressman Skelton spewed his long-winded introduction telling them they were wasting their time. His mind was already made up. That stuff continued all afternoon from every democrat up there--impugning their honesty and smugly talking about lack of progress. That's the same congress whose ratings are lower, even, than the President's. That's the same congress who can't pass anything. That's the same congress demanding quick action who can't secure the borders here in more time than we've been at war in Iraq. Their sanctimoniousness makes me sick!

Just as in VietNam, when Congress started running the war, we were doomed. Now they're at it again.
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