November 22, 2005
What our Soldiers Think
I found this letter via a new site I had been directed to by the management™ at the Rott. The site is written by a 35 year old female soldier/combat medic attached to the 101 AB, and it's a real eyeopener. I look forward to reading Grey Eagle on a daily basis from now on.
This soldier received permission to let this go into the public domain, as he felt it was important to convey what he feels is the majority view of (at least) his close compatriots. He wants this to be used as letters to your Senators to let them know that the soldiers know WHY they are in Iraq, and WHY they want to continue until they get the job done. Here it is:I have watched on television how the American public questions why their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters are fighting and dying in a country 9000 miles away from their own soil. Take the word of a soldier, for that is all I am, that our cause is a noble one. The reason we are here is one worth fighting for. A cause that has been the most costly and sought after cause in our small span of existence on our little planet. Bought in blood and paid for by those brave enough to give the ultimate sacrifice to obtain it. A right that is given to every man, woman, and child I believe by God. I am talking of freedom.
I have watched brave souls give their all and lose thier lives and limbs for this cause. I will no longer stand silent and let the “deaf and blind” be the only voice shouting. Stonewall Jackson once said, “All that I have, all that I am is at the service of the country.” For these brave souls who gave the ultimate sacrifice, including your son Cindy Sheehan, I will shout till I can no longer. These men and women are heroes. Their spirit lives on in their military and they will never be forgotten. They did not die in vain but rather for a cause that is larger than all of us.
It's interesting to note the reaction to the type of forum that Grey Eagle provides; she allows all viewpoints to be expressed with few restrictions, so naturally, those that take the Michael Moore-0n/DNC/Moveon.org?Democratic Underground POV took the first opportunity they could to attack the site with dos attacks and various other low-down underhanded slime that even a spammer wouldn't consider Kosher. Go give her a good word and let her know that there are people here that do believe in the mission and appreciate the sacrifices that our soldiers are making on a daily basis.
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November 17, 2005
Fighting the Partisans
Dick Cheney is mad as hell and he won't take it anymore. Kudos to him, I just wish it hadn't taken so long to take the gloves off and start fighting back.
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WMD's
Yep...Saddam didn't have WMD's, or ties to Al Qaida, or terrorism of any sort....
Of course documents found in Iraqi Security Ministries seem to have a lot of documentation on procedures on how to hide WMD's from UN inspectors, going so far as to have an investigation on how those same inpectors found some documents on those procedures....and records of meetings with Al Qaida members, and money transfers to Afghanistan...
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November 16, 2005
History, and those that refuse to learn from it
“I wonder how well you have been sleeping these last nights? Mothers and fathers all over our beloved land are spending sleepless nights worrying again over their boys being sent to fight wars on foreign soil—wars that are no concern of ours.” —Letter to the President from the parent of a U.S. soldier
Talk about discouraging. All year long the negative numbers about the war rolled in like the tide. The President’s approval rating in the Gallup poll bottomed out at 23 percent. Another poll showed that 43 percent of Americans thought it was a mistake to have entered the war. Sounds like President Bush has truly hit rock bottom hasn't it? One problem though, the letter and the poll numbers refer to President Harry Truman; The letter quoted above was typical of the mail Truman received, as his letters ran 20-1 against the war in Korea. Subsequent history has shown that resisting Communism in Korea was the right thing to do...Imagine all of Asia working unfettered under the sphere of Communism. I believe that it is the reason we were right in fighting in Korea are the same that we were right to be in Viet Nam; even though we were "defeated" in that action due to the actions of a loud socialist minority and the micromanaging of military actions by an inept political leadership. By delaying the advance of Communism in Asia, we won the Cold War, and maintained our own national security. We payed an all too heavy price for that security. Freedom and security never comes cheap, but the cost was raised by the populace warring among themselves, instead of focusing on the enemy. If we want to bring true peace to the Middle East, we need to stand firm in our resolve against the Radical Islamofacists. We need to hold the MSM to account to tell us ALL that is going on in Iraq, NOT just the body bag count of American and British soldiers. We need to hold political leaders to account for their past stances. For John Kerry et all to state that they were "mislead on intelligence" is to demonstrate one of two things; either they: A. Are lying, as all these same leaders made statements similar, or even more vehement than the President's in the days leading up to the authorization vote for war, based on the same RAW intelligence that the President had. OR B. They are so inept in their abilities to discern the facts of a situation that they don't deserve to hold their office. We are one month away from the first truely democratically elected government in an Arab country, in a country that has already agreed on a (natively constructed)Constitutional framework for that government to operate under. For this to happen less than three years after the overthrow of a dictator who had ruled with an iron fist for over thirty years is nothing short of miraculous, yet the MSM seems to be actively trying to obscure the real accomplishments and gains in Iraq, preferring to try to whip up antiwar sentiment by focusing on body counts and anything else that we might wish not be occuring. Half of our government is acting against the interests of our goals in Iraq;and against the morale and safety of our soldiers there, in a bald faced partisan attempt to bring emberassment against a President that they despise so much that they would risk the security of our country to bring that President down.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 07:57 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
November 15, 2005
PSA
Sorry everyone, I'm still stuck with a super lousy connection and can't seem to stay on long enough to get anything worthy up.
I lost my Yahoo acounts, including my address book ansd my Yahoo e-mail account. for the time being, you can reach me at delftsman3@gmail.com, when I get the old account back, or a new one established, I hope I can recover my address book....Posted by: Delftsman3 at 07:41 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
November 14, 2005
Lting liars and the Lies they tell
Matthew Heidt of Froggy Ruminations has the ultimate smackdown of those that continue to try to impugn the President as a liar and willfully misleading the American public into an unjust war.
As in so many cases it seems that the pot likes to call the kettle black because of projection of what the pot engages in.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 01:54 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
November 11, 2005
"RoP" Exemplified
Yet ANOTHER example of the actions of members of the "Religion of Peace".
WHEN will we in the West realize that Islam is inimicle to our ideas of freedom and self-determination? Maybe the French will start to wake up, now that some 3,500 Citreons and Renaults have been burned and the residents in some 9 suburbs have demanded that they be allowed to be governed by Shar'ia Law insted of French common law... Will it take the same type of sad events to wake up the people in the US? H/T to Jack for the linkPosted by: Delftsman3 at 07:05 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
I'm still alive...
Contrary to some thoughts(wishful thinking?), I'm still alive...I have been fighting a longlived Flu bug and I still don't have a good enough connection for real posting; it just takes too long to load the pages and get the links.
I hope to get a better connection soon, and really look forward to bringing you some good things to jolt the brain cells. In the meantime, give some hits to the other fine blogs on my roll, especially the blog-father, Misha, and that crusty old coot, GuyK, and all the gals keeping Acidmans place going while he tries to recover from some serious shit. Not to mention my favorite student in the Hoosier Blog Alliance, the Foxfrom Vincennes If your feeling like arguing against a true Progressive, visit Wanda, if you come from my side of the spectrum, you'll find something there that will get your blood flowing strong, but please, be nice when you comment, she's honestly seeking the best for all, according to her own lights; we may not agree with her reasoning, but at least respect her for her honesty and willingness to hear from all sides. And please,let them know where you came from if they aren't part of your regular blog rounds. I can't seem to stay on long enough to comment on their blogs, and I hope they miss me as much as I do them. Thank a Veteran today, remember that his/her sacrifices have kept you free.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 06:45 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Veterans Day
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October 28, 2005
Blogging Gap
Light blogging for a while....seems that the gods of connectivity have seen fit to grace me once again with their sense of humor.
I'm back on a shaky dial-up, thanks to the good auspices of a really great friend who was willing to split some of his time with me. Hope to regain DSL again soon, but knowing SBC and their (total lack) of service, it may be a while. I will try to put up at least one post a day, IF the connection holds up long enough through the web searcing for something worthy to relate.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 10:14 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
October 25, 2005
Question of the Week
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2000th Causelty
Well, we've reached what the Left seems to regard as a magic number; we've lost the 2,000th service member in Iraq. The anti-war crowd seems to believe that this is the number that will spark a full-fledged cry from the American people to abandon the Iraqi's to their own devices.
I think the troops feel differently; as the story states: "Recent public opinion polls show that Americans increasingly favor an early withdrawal of troops, but soldiers in Iraq said the rising death toll stiffened their resolve and would likely make pulling out more difficult." We need to pull the gloves off and let the troops conduct a full out-balls to the wall WAR and forget the niceties of whether or not the Arab street won't like us any more. We have made great strides in Iraq, despite what the LSM has been peddling. They try to call it a morass, even though we have rebuilt a quarter of the infrastucture, and the Iraqi's have voted to enact a democratic constitution. The left says "too little-too late" and "why has it taken so long"?; when if they looked at our own history, they'de find that the Iraqis are almost eight years ahead of where we were in the founding of our own country. There will many problems and setbacks in the years to come, but the seed has been planted, and with the proper care, it will grow into a mighty tree. A tree that will bear witness to the sacrifices made, both by our brave men and women, but by the Iraqi people themselves; we owe it to those that gave the last measure to continue to tend the tree of Liberty untill it has become fully rooted and is capable of resisting the storms that may rage around it.
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October 20, 2005
Another Test
I like this comparison. I could have done worse.
| King Edward I You scored 70 Wisdom, 77 Tactics, 56 Guts, and 48 Ruthlessness! |
| Or rather, King Edward the Longshanks if you've seen Braveheart. You, like Edward, are incredibly smart and shrewd, but you win at any costs.... William Wallace died at his hands after a fierce Scottish rebellion against his reign. Despite his reputation though, Longshanks had the best interests of his people at heart. But God help you if you got on his bad side. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Which Historic General Are You Test written by dasnyds on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
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LSM at it Again
Pretty soon, THIS may become a new "major incident of atrocity" on the part of American troops, at least in the LSM. It's another example of "unbiased" reporting linking various semi-connected facts in an unpalatable to American sensibilitites manner; a in an intended attempt to cause public opinion to be swayed against the course of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you want to know the REAL chain of events, go read Jason Coleman's excellant explanation of what really occurred. An unfettered press is a necessity in a free society, but with that freedom comes the responsibility to "stick to the facts" and not use that power in furthuring a personal or corporate agenda. And it's a citizens responsibility to hold the press to just reporting the news and not manipulating it, unfortunately, all too often, the citizens have become unquestioning and uncritical sponges of what they read and see. Remember folks, just because you read it in the paper, or hear it from some talking head on TV, don't take it as the gosple truth, look behind the story and see what the facts and circumstances are and form your own opinion, and don't let the spinners catch you in their web of half truths, and sometimes,outright deceit.
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Gun Control
John Stossel has a good article on one of my favorite topics -- Gun Control.
As Mr. Stossel points out, it is a myth that gun control legislation has done anything but prevent law abiding citizens from providing for their own protection. In EVERY case where restrictions on citizens arming themselves have been loosened, the crime rate and the murder rate has gone DOWN, wherever the restrictions have been tightened, they have gone UP....just HOW can the advocates of gun control keep on trying the same thing over and over again and expect the results to be different? Personally the only control I favor is ensuring that one can consistently hit what one aims at. When I was a teenager, it wasn't unusual to see a student coming into the high school with a rifle so that they could take advantage of the range they had in the basement for the ROTC classes. Any student could use the range at times that it wasn't being used for training classes, under the supervision of the range master (with prior approval and upon having completed a firearms safety course). We never had an incident of a student "going postal" and trying to wreak mayhem on the campus. I firmly believe that firearms safety should be a required course for completion of a high school diploma. Famaliarity with firearms takes the mystery out of them and inculcates a healthy respect for what they can do. Firearms should be respected, not feared. My ten year old daughter has already begun her introduction to the joys , and even more importantly, the responsibilities of shooting, and if early results are any indication, she will be quite the marksman by the time she enters high school. It is her responsibility as a productive, law-abiding citizen of our republic to be capable of responsibly bearing arms, in her own, and for the protection of that republic; and I intend to ensure that she is ready and capable of accepting that responsibility by the time she becomes an adult ready to go out on her own.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 02:52 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ten Stolen Borrowed Funnies
Here are ten funnies from GuyK. I'm really gld to have found him; saves me a lot of time searching for stuff to post, when I'm too damned lazy to come up with origianal BS.
1. Jesse Jackson, Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert havewritten an impressive new book. It's called
"Ministers Do More Than Lay People." 2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary. 3. The difference between the Pope and your boss:
The Pope only expects you to kiss his ring. 4. My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash
and it is gone. 5. The only time the world beats a path to your door
is if you're in the bathroom. 6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once, the seat folded
up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really
chilled the mood. 7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable.
Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too. 8. A blonde said, "I was worried that my mechanic
might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told
me all I needed was turn signal fluid." 9. I'm so depressed. My doctor refused to write me
a prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting
a new flagpole on a condemned building. 10. Definition of a teen-ager? God's punishment for enjoying sex
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October 17, 2005
Let me scroll down to....
Well, it had to happen sooner or later....seems it may soon be possible to have your t*ts and hear them too.
I've been reading tales of Cyborgs in science fiction for the last 46 years, and it seems that reality is starting to catch up to the fiction. I was hoping that an internal skelatal assist to help the paralyzed walk would be the first application, but it seems that entertainment is the driving force of technology in this age. Now if you excuse me, I got to see if I can scroll down to Nights in White Satin Come on over here Mamamontezz!Posted by: Delftsman3 at 04:09 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
October 16, 2005
Worth?
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October 15, 2005
On DeLay
Seems like the prosecutor's case against Tom DeLay is falling apart before a jury is even empaneled.
Of course, the Left will point to this as a "technicality" and a "miscarriage of justice". Of course when similar things happpened to their beloved Clinton, it was hailed as a "triumph of the law". I , for one, hope it DOESN'T derail a full trial and presentation of all the evidence. The country needs this sordid mess sorted out, in as thorough a manner as possible. We need it to put all polititions on notice that they no longer have free reign to use funds in just any way they wish. I don't know if DeLay is guilty or not, I suspect that he is "legally" within the bounds as they were at the time, and "morally" guilty of monitary sleight of hand....I believe that probably 90% or more of all other pols, of both parties, are just as guilty of the same. I'm hoping that this trial will make them more circumspect in engaging in such behaviour....Yes, I know thats a naive, and most likely, in vain, hope, but then, as they say, hope springs eternal.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:07 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
October 14, 2005
P.S.A.
Due to some misunderstandings with my service provider, I've lost my old mail account, and my entire address book. So I've decided to go with a seperate entity to provide my mail service to me. the new addy is :
delftsman3@gmail.com I'll try to rebuild my address book as you all write to me. ThatisallPosted by: Delftsman3 at 11:07 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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