Entries Categorized as 'military'

Warrior General Stan McChrystal Retires

Date July 24, 2010

He ended his 34 years as an Army Officer yesterday. Al-Qaida couldn’t stop General Stanley McChrystal but Rolling Stone Rag/Mag sure did — which frankly still bites.
Wearing his own Army combat uniform for the last time, McChrystal received full military honors, including a 17-gun salute and flag formations by the Army’s Old Guard. [...]

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poisoning our troops?

Date February 19, 2010

it’s unbelievable that we are just now hearing about this, but reportedly 5 muslim soldiers dubbed ‘the fort jackson 5′ are being investigated by the us army for trying to poison the food supply at fort jackson in south carolina. they are apparently connected to the arabic language translator program called ‘09 lima’ on [...]

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arlington at christmas

Date December 21, 2009

always beautiful, especially at christmas.

arlington national cemetery

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cindy sheehan, barack obama, and the anti-war left

Date December 14, 2009

anti-war leftist cindy sheehan, feeling quite left out in the age of obama, has penned a letter to the narcissist in chief threatening to camp out at the washington memorial - all for peas, er peace.
cindy says this:
Dear Mr. Obama,
I hear that you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently in Oslo, [...]

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chris matthews calls west point ‘the enemy camp’

Date December 1, 2009

so tonight in his ‘commentary’ of The One’s speech on Afghanistan, chris matthews called west point “the enemy camp”. why is this maroon still on tv?
chris matthews lost all objectivity with that ‘first tingle’. here’s the video:

oh and chrissy? where is the public apology? un.stinking.believable.

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cheney on afghanistan and obama

Date December 1, 2009

tonite barack obama will use our soldiers from west point for image building (instead of his horrible greek columns from the campaign) to present his carefully stage-crafted event of telling the nation he will be sending 30,000 more troops to afghanistan. but preempting the speech is dick cheney who, yet again, steps up fearlessly [...]

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obama’s 34,000 troops for afghanistan

Date November 24, 2009

three months ago, general stanley mcchrystal gave obama three options on winning in afghanistan: a low-risk plan requiring 80,000 more troops, a medium-risk plan requiring 40,000 more troops, and a high-risk plan requiring 20,000 more troops.
if the official non white house leaker is to be believed, and who can really say with this administration, obama [...]

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ft hood terrorist, nidal malik hasan, was a ‘muslim death-squad type’

Date November 17, 2009

from christopher hitchen’s pen to all you unbelievers that he was simply a mentally ill man:
“The admonition not to rush to judgment or jump to conclusions might sound fair and prudent enough, perhaps even statesmanlike when uttered by the president, as long it’s borne in mind that such advice is itself a judgment that [...]

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obama’s war strategy: leaking and dithering

Date November 12, 2009

apparently, the obama administration is continuing to leak and dither on afghanistan, all in the name of ‘clarity’.
a ’senior administration official’ (rahmbo? axelrod?) leaked that the feckless obama, in an attempt to seek clarity, is rejecting all the afghanistan war options presented by his national security team. it’s also been [...]

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today’s must read post

Date November 11, 2009

politics really does makes strange bedfellows. i’ve been a somewhat annoyed fan of hillbuzz for a long time. though they are primarily liberal and frequently wrong (heh) they have always been an honest blog of great integrity and good reading.
i’m publishing their post below in its entirety and i know its [...]

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