From the Confederate Yankee and Times UK Online:

“Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas”

Reliably, the Obama Middle East Policy Advisor only met with Hamas because he belongs to a “peace outfit” - a leftist crazy ‘conflict resolution’ think tank. Isn’t it interesting that Obama would fire someone for participating in talks with Hamas when Obama said he would “negotiate” with them?

Obama has said:

And what we should be doing is reaching out aggressively to our allies, but also talking to our enemies and focusing on those areas where we do not accept their actions, whether it be terrorism or developing nuclear weapons, but also talking to Iran directly about the potential carrots that we can provide in terms of them being involved in the World Trade Organization, or beginning to look at the possibilities of diplomatic relations being normalized.

So he wants to negotiate with terrorists.

The president has to lead that diplomacy, which is why I’ve said I would convene a meeting of Muslim leaders upon taking office because I think we have to send a strong signal that we are willing to listen and not just talk, and certainly not just dictate or engage in military action.

There again he’s all about negotiating with terrorists.

From Powerline on Hamas’ endorsement of Obama:

[…] Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election.” Why? “He has a vision to change America.” Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to “change.”

He and his PR people certainly want it to APPEAR as though they’re outraged over a campaign worker talking with Hamas. What really matters is what lies in your heart. John Hawkins asks an interesting question:

Now that prominent members of Hamas are endorsing Obama, can Hizbollah and Al-Qaeda be far behind?

“Change you can believe in”. That slogan is starting to invoke immediate fits of uncontrollable laughter from me whenever I hear it now.

CY: [Obama] kicks off his political career by attending a fundraiser in the home of a pair of well-known and infamous domestic terrorists that led a group that had targeted and in some cases killed American citizens, including off-duty soldiers and police officers. When this association is highlighted, he labels it a “distraction.”

[…]That’s not change you can believe in. That’s moral cowardice and craven opportunism.

Exactly.

Vets for Freedom’s Executive Director Pete Hegseth on National Review Online from 4/30

Last week, the Pentagon announced plans to promote General David Petraeus to Central Command and General Ray Odierno to the top post in Iraq. Amidst an unpopular foreign war, such occasions ordinarily trigger a feeding frenzy for war critics, eager to shed light on military missteps and miscalculations. In the wake of this announcement, though, resistance has been sparse and sporadic…

Click here to read more

— Captain Pete Hegseth, who served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division from 2005 to 2006, is executive director of Vets for Freedom.

I couldn’t find a satisfactory commie picture of the IVAW alone, so this one will have to do. From The Two Malcontents.

The marxist IVAW plan is to bring their dog and pony show before the House Progressive Caucus, since their original efforts in Maryland didn’t go over so well. The next phase is to go over and sing to the choir in Washington; their dutiful fellow pink-o comrades in the Progressive Caucus. (Rep. Dennis Kucinich, co-chairman)

Take a look at the organizations that support the Congressional Progressive Caucus (Circus). It should give you an idea of the 70 or so Congressional members of this caucus(circus) and how they spend their time:

“An array of national progressive organizations will work to support the efforts of the caucus, including the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation magazine, MoveOn.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice, Peace Action, Americans for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. Also co-sponsoring the kickoff event were the NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention. The CPC has long maintained cordial ties with the Democratic Socialists of America, which hosted its website during the 1990s.”

Until 1999 the Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations’ websites. -Discover the Networks

The eyes and ears of thousands will be inspecting closely every word spoken by IVAW testifiers since, according to IVAW press release, the Congressional testimony is billed as being under “oath”. A few calls for “proof” (date, time, place, witnesses, leadership, and unit involved) would be appropriate…generalities may be satisfying to a gullible media or politically correct congress, but when our warriors and nation’s policies are potentially defamed and distorted, only facts and credible evidence will be acceptable.

There was nothing of substance reported at the WSII National Labor College event so we can expect the IVAW tilted crystal ball to fabricate additional fantasy, if this appearance actually occurs.

Information as to where and when of the testimony is listed below in a IVAW press release.

Media Advisory: May 5, 2008

Contact: Francesca Lo Basso, 215-498-3347, media@ivaw.org

Winter Soldier on the Hill: Iraq Veterans to Testify Before Congress on Failure of Troop Surge

WHAT: Winter Soldier on the Hill

WHO: Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) & The Congressional Progressive Caucus

WHEN: May 15, 2008, 9:30am-12:30pm

WHERE: 2261 Rayburn House Office Building

WHY: To present eyewitness accounts of the Iraq occupation to Congress.

Washington, DC - On May 15, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will testify under oath before Congress about their eyewitness accounts of the military occupation of Iraq. Testifiers will include veterans who served during the surge.

This testimony represents a shift from reports to Congress from high-level commanders and political appointees to direct accounts from boots-on-the-ground soldiers and Marines about the situation in Iraq. Testifiers will detail the ineffectiveness of the “troop surge,” the dehumanization, abuse and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians, and the breakdown of the military as a result of the ongoing occupation of Iraq.

Testifiers will include Luis Montalvan, who served two tours in Iraq as an Army Captain; Jason Washburn, a US Marine Corps Infantry Rifleman who served three tours in Iraq; and Kristofer Goldsmith, who served in the Army as an Artillery Forward Observer in Sadr City, Iraq.

“The time has come for Congress to hear about the occupation from the soldiers and Marines who have seen it first-hand. Petraeus continues to repeat the administration’s talking points while ignoring what the soldiers on the ground know: the Iraq occupation is not working,” said Kelly Dougherty, a former Military Police Sergeant in Iraq and Executive Director of IVAW.

Winter Soldier on the Hill is a continuation of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (WSIA), held at the National Labor College from March 13-16, 2008. Named after Thomas Paine’s reference to soldiers who stand up for their country in its darkest hours, WSIA gathered over 250 members of IVAW and collected over 30 hours of testimony regarding the negative impact of the Iraq occupation on the military - including an overburdened Veterans’ Administration, demoralized service members and a crumbling military infrastructure.

Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded in 2004 to give those who have served in the military since September 11, 2001 a way to come together and speak out against an unjust, illegal and unwinnable occupation. Today, IVAW has over 1,000 members in 43 states, Washington, D.C. and Canada and on military bases overseas.

From Colonel Riley (USA, Ret) through email.

More at the Sniper here and here, here

GOE has created another petition (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ivawtruthintestimony/) asking the CPC to verifiy any info that the IVAW brings to them. This petition reads about the same as the petition that was circulated for the Senate Armed Services Committee. The CPC is more of an ad-hoc group than any sort of official committee, but since we’ve been out in front of IVAW on this, we should probably stay there.

Please circulate this petition among your mailing lists.

Although all things considered, I’m not sure how much good it will do beyond show them that we’re watching every move they make.

This time, in Basra, Iraq. The headline says “Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier in Basra is murdered by her own father in honour killing”.

But I’m not sure if I would go so far as to say she even ‘fell in love’ with him. It was a completely innocent relationship; but when her father found out she’d received gifts from the British soldier, he came back and killed her to cleanse the family honor. They buried her without the normal ceremony, and her uncles spat on her grave.

Seventeen-year-old Rand Abdel-Qader told her best friend how she had fallen for Paul, a 22-year-old she met at a charity where she worked as a volunteer.

But since she was only seventeen, similar to the Said girls in Texas, it was really quite innocent.

Rand said she met Paul only four times, always in public.

According to Zeinab, Paul used to tell Rand about England and promised to show her the sights of London one day.

“But the thing she used to like talking about best was how he praised her beauty and her intelligence. She told me he called her ‘princess’.”

Despite her feelings, there was no physical relationship. “She never did anything more than talk to him,” said Zeinab.

All infidels are now going to get sensitivity training which teaches them not to even strike up a friendship with muslim women; muslim girls should never learn what the world is like outside Iraq or where they’re from. They should never entertain the thought of merely speaking with someone who is outside of this culture…and they should always remember their place.

Through email from Joe Wierzbicki
Grassroots Coordinator, Move America Forward and the Move America Forward website

You already probably know some of Melanie’s greatest accomplishments including her role as a talk radio host for 14 years; leader of the national pro-troop organization, Move America Forward; “Mother of the Recall” that rid California of Gray Davis; activist who got the carcinogen MTBE out of California’s gasoline and drinking water after misguided environmentalists had the state put it in there, etc….

In honor of her 14 years as one of the stars of Hot Talk 560 - KSFO, and a national pro-troop leader, supporters of Melanie Morgan will be conducting a “Salute to Melanie Morgan” event that will take place on Saturday, May 10th at the historic Fior d’Italia restaurant in San Francisco. The Fior d’Italia is America’s oldest Italian restaurant and they serve up delicious offerings that will bring joy to the palette.

Melanie’s never been paid for her work with Move America Forward or any of her other conservative, pro-America activism. She does these things because she is a passionate lady who can’t sit back and not take action when she things in the world that require our attention and action.

You can purchase tickets to the event (which takes place at the historic Fior d’Italia restaurant in San Francisco - America’s oldest Italian restaurant) via Move America Forward’s website (all the proceeds from the event go to help MAF’s pro-troop efforts). More information on the event and the link to order tickets is here.

Or, if you cannot attend the event, please still make a contribution to the MAF “Salute to Melanie” fund as a gesture of support for Mel and all she’s done. Again, all proceeds go directly to MAF to use in what will be an incredible summer of activity that will fight back against those who try to hurt our troops and dishonor America. Contribute to the “Salute to Melanie” fund here

All proceeds from this event will go to Move America Forward - to fund their summer pro-troop push as we fight off the criticism, ridicule and attacks against the missions of our military men and women.

We ask all MAF supporters to make a donation to this fundraising drive even if you cannot attend the fundraiser - CLICK HERE to DONATE.

Visit the Move America Forward website for more details. You have your choice of two events to attend on Saturday, May 10th.

Read about it here at GOE.

For the second time in as many weeks, an Iraq War Veteran and his family held a Support the Troops rally across the street from the weekly “peace” protest in this college town. This week the true nature of the ‘peace’ activists was revealed for all to see. When the veteran’s 14 year old son crossed the street to videotape the protesters and their signs, the protesters became agitated and began harassing the boy. The right to record video in any public venue is long established in law and any attempt to interfere with that right is a violation of civil rights.

Seeing the escalating tension across the street, the veteran and his wife crossed over, leaving their three youngest children on the other side for safety while they went to retrieve their eldest son. Two of the female ‘peace’ protesters then attacked the veteran’s wife. When the veteran pulled one of those attackers off his wife he was jumped by four or five of the ‘peace’ people and knocked to the ground where they held him while beating him and smashing his eyeglasses.

The son pulled the remaining attacker off his mother, but the attacker managed to get in one last kick to his mother’s head with her boot. She then punched the son in his face while his mother called the police.

This all took place at a busy intersection, the mother had been knocked into the street in bumper to bumper traffic. People were visible in the windows of shops and a bar nearby. One might think someone would intervene to put a stop to the assault. One would be wrong. In a scene eerily reminiscent of the Kitty Genovese tragedy in New York, the bystanders and passers-by refused to stand up to the ‘peace’ thugs. Displaying a craven cowardice one would not have expected in middle America they would rather go on their way thankful that it was not them being assaulted. It was NOT them, today, but what about tomorrow?

Read the whole thing. Naturally, the nasty face of the REAL peace protesters is something the media would never show, but-

Last Fourth of July, in New Jersey, one of these ‘peace’ people walked up to a young veteran of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and shot him in the heart just because he was in the military. Last month another person or persons unknown detonated an improvised explosive device at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square. Today a veteran and his family were assaulted in plain daylight on a public street in view of dozens of people and not one lifted a hand to help. This is not the America I grew up in. This is the Amerika the ‘peace’ crowd is bringing to your town and neighborhood.

That’s why we should continue to gather in the streets and face them down–and provide peaceful means of protecting ourselves, since it seems that the police aren’t interested in doing so, and neither are other American citizens who are nearby.

The sad news of the discovery of Jonathan Cote’s body has just recently hit the airwaves…apart from the other contractors’ remains which were discovered before that.

Why was Jonathan not included in the others identified and why the delay? Cote’s finger was among the fingers sent to authorities before the bodies were found. Family members have no information about the circumstances surrounding his death at the hands of the terrorists, autopsy results will be coming back in about six weeks.

gainesville.com:

Cote had served four years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. His military service included tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was serving as a contractor - a hired civilian - when he was taken hostage.

Other U.S. civilians taken hostage with Cote were Joshua Munns, John Young, Paul Reuben and an Austrian citizen and veteran, Bert Nussbaumer. Their bodies were identified earlier this year.

May God bless his family and friends and all those who loved him right now, as they go ahead with funeral arrangements and their grief in his untimely passing.

The brutal reality that the terrorists identify infidels as less-than-human is what we are facing when we read the details of murders like Cote’s and other contractors - even the ones who were burned in their car and whose charred remains were hung over the Euphrates while terrorist sympathizers in Fallujah jumped around in sickening frenzied glee.

It is difficult to imagine this hateful cruel mentality; we are facing modern day nazis with Islamic trappings.

New York Magazine and Stacy Sullivan, et al - which includes all the usual players -including Joe Cafasso; are being sued because of the horrendous article that appeared in New York Magazine entitled “Operation Desert Fraud”; and the use of stolen images. Interestingly, Joe Cafasso is nowhere to be found and he’s cleaned up his blog quite a bit. But he sure was arrogant and brazen when Idema was in prison. The same sources that Sullivan used were used by Mariah Blake in her piece at Columbia Journalism Review, entitled “Tin Soldier”.

I’ve written here extensively about Idema, so I’m quite familiar with the names involved, and the kinds of sickening tricks these people use to evade/escape and even twist the truth.

New York Magazine stole photos, but paid Polaris Images for others that were used in the article. The reason they didn’t pay Polaris for the stolen photos is because they’d obtained them through criminal conduct, the court documents say.

The defendants claimed in court documents that Idema’s case shouldn’t be granted an extension to serve- because they ran away from the process servers.

What’s even more ridiculous is this from the court documents:

Sullivan, Artis, Warrington, and Cafasso went through extraordinary measures to conceal their whereabouts since the events set forth in the complaint, using a variety of alias names, misleading company names, forwarded phone numbers, and other methods of concealment.

What’s revealing also is that Stacy Sullivan now works for the infamous George Soros outfit, Human Rights Watch, and HRW covered for her in her attempts to evade the process servers.

What they did was order the photographs from Polaris images retroactively in February of 2008 and received the photos in March of 2008, in order to circumvent legal action for the publication of the stolen images back in October of 2004.

From what I gather from these documents, all defendants refused to have a statement taken under oath; and this, after they tried to evade the process servers.

Todd Robberson’s attorney really took the cake when he accused Idema of attempting to serve him in a synagogue during services on a Saturday, when in fact it was during his speech to a men’s club on a Sunday!!!

It’s amazing the lies they tell and hope to get away with - even after all this time.

What they’d hoped was Idema was going to die in Pulacharke; and they were willing to gamble that he’d never be in a position to sue them.

Someone told me that they’ve totally underestimated Idema, that they assumed he’d never get out of there.

No sh*t.

This is kind of interesting to me.

There is a little war going on between the Afghanistanis and the Pashtuns that are coming here from all over the world. I hate to break up this little party, but I have to go to work.

All Afghanistanis should be aware of this post from the Benawa website that is pointing here.

It has been very revealing in comments on this blog,–go see, here.

If ever you’ve doubted that democrats are on the side of the terrorists, look at the particular comment where the Pashtun blames Bush for the terrorists blowing themselves up. Nobody makes that choice but the terrorists…on the promises of people who claim to ‘care’ about families, who set them up for martyrdom and then abandon those families afterward.

Don’t let them get away with their propaganda campaign; make a comment in support of America and the anti-Taliban anti-Soviet anti-terrorist forces that helped us win the 2001-2002 war.

The Northern Alliance were and always will be our true allies.

This has got to be one of the most stupid complaints from a leftist of all time. Naturally, it’s a complaint coming from a civilian point of view, because in general, leftists don’t know or understand military culture, and seem to be - not only afraid of what they don’t know - but have citicism, contempt and disdain for it. And they have particular disdain for General P. But what do you want from a clueless moonbatty journalist, anyway? We’ve come to EXPECT this.

Curt, TSO at the Sniper John at This Ain’t Hell and others have made comments about this LA Times article Petraeus’ ‘ribbon creep’

There he sits in elaborate Army regalia, four stars glistening on each shoulder, nine rows of colorful ribbons on his left breast, and various other medallions, brooches and patches scattered across the rest of the available real estate on his uniform. He even wears his name tag, a lone and incongruous hunk of cheap plastic in a region of pristine gilt, just in case the politicians aren’t sure who he is.

That’s a lot of martial bling, especially for an officer who hadn’t seen combat until five years ago.

Can’t you just see a person saying these words with that superior intellectual elitist sneer on their face? This is yet more evidence of how far away a leftist is from military culture.

The military has rules and regs about what you’re supposed to do with your uniform, and where awards are placed on it. You wear what you earn; there’s a specific regulation on it, in fact; AR 670-1 “Wear and Appearance of Army Uniform and Insignia”..

What is amazing to me is that someone would write an article, in effect patting himself on the back for being so intelligent; who is using pop culture as a basis for comparison to someone who has earned the Ranger tab, for example; and German jump wings. You can’t hold a candle to men who’ve served who’ve collected this sort of experience; there is nothing in the civilian world that compares to it - even in a remote way.

Badges you earn in Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are also to be worn in a certain way, those are outlined in the the manuals–and I always thought it was a natural progression from childhood in scouting and earning your badges, wearing your uniform, etc.- to serving in adulthood in some military capacity.

“Bling” doesn’t exist in military culture. When you have medals, ribbons or commendations, it’s because you earned them.

Bling is civilian excessiveness- something you pick up somewhere at some high-priced store like celebrities do–ordering 16 pairs of a designer something-or-other in every color available. Our culture is so riddled with this nonsense that mothers are taking their grammar-school-age daughters to spas for a bikini wax, for microderm abrasion and to have their hair colored. And that says nothing of a culture that glorifies rape, cheapens sexuality and glorifies material THINGS.

This individual is mistaking General Petreaus and the Army for Michael Jackson and the world of theatre, rap and “bling”. There is no “bling” in military culture - it’s about duty, honor, country.

It’s an orderly world, where you can see at a glance exactly what someone’s rank is. And as I’ve witnessed at events, there is a pecking order, and a chain of command, that causes certain uniformed passersby on the street to salute a commanding officer.

This is evident no matter what style of dress someone is wearing - combat uniform, army green, service uniform, or dress uniform. (I don’t think you wear anything identifying your rank when you’re in your PT gear.) Here’s the tip for the idiot who wrote that article: Petraeus is required to wear his dress uniform when testifying in front of Congress…and that’s the other thing. There are a number of styles of dress, and they’re all for different utilitarian purposes.

You don’t have to be military to know this - it’s easy to look up!!!!

Click on the image for the website. This event is in Peoria Arizona, ending in Glendale Arizona.

Thanks to Dave Whitten from Voice of the Troops, KFNX News Talk Radioo 1100 AM Radio- Arizona for the tip.

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Media Opportunity: The Valley’s newest radio show, sound bytes with host’s Dave Whitten and Army LTC. Dawn Lake (retired), or in-studio interviews.

Subject: Voice of the Troops, the valley’s newest radio show that’s “about the troops, for the troops, and because of the troops.”

Sundays – 7-8pm, KFNX radio [1100am]

KFNX 1100 AM Studio

2001 N. 3rd St. Suite #102

Phoenix, AZ

Co-hosts – Dave Whitten and Dawn Lake [aka The Colonel]

The Valley’s only Troop Support Radio

Story:

Our radio show is now in its 5th week and, because of the popularity of the show and the public’s overwhelming support of the concept of the show, we attracting some impressive guests. This week we’ll have as a call-in guest Air Force Major General David Clary. He is in charge of all Air Force Operations for Iraq.

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Other tidbits about that incredible show:

Dr. Laura will be on “Voice of the Troops” on 4/27, she is the mother of an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper, which I didn’t know about Dr. Laura.

Navajo Code talkers on 5/4

Coming up (don’t have a date on this one yet), Maj. Gen Paul Vallaly (USArmy-Ret) US Army, Western Command–”Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.” West Point, 32 years in the Army, one of the first nominees for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations under President Reagan.

Christine, you have a lot of explainin’ to do.

Saturday at 3:00 CST, Michael A. Minton, author of “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed: one man’s musings during perilous times in America’s history,” a hard look at current events. In the second half of the show, Kfir from Protest Warrior will talk about their new book: “A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos -and what to do about them”

Sunday at 3:00 CST, Jack Idema, Green Beret and former Special Forces soldier, tells us his harrowing story of being accused by terrorists-and arrested in July 2004, then declared guilty in a kangaroo Afghan Taliban court of ‘torturing innocent Afghans’ in September of 2004; while our government disavowed him. This show will surprise you.

Lots of rumors have been swirling around about al-Masri’s alleged demise.

In May of 2007, supposedly he was dead, and now again, supposedly he is dead AGAIN–but this version says he died in Pakistan of hepatitis.

I think they’re just trying to save his miserable hide with rumors.

Because what actually happened is…

Nazal Sabar al-Jughaify, also known as Abu al-Jarrah, was arrested in the town of Haditha after police ambushed him following a tipoff from local citizens.

“Abu Jarrah is one of the main financiers of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and also a senior lieutenant of Abu Ayyub al-Masri,” Youssef told AFP in the provincial capital of Ramadi.

So…water carriers for the terrorists in the media immediately put out disinformation to counter any intelligence that might come out of that arrest about al-Masri, the egyptian.

Or maybe his aide put that out there, who knows.

Either way, until there’s a body, I think it’s a lie.

In a ceremony at the Whitehouse, Michael Monsoor’s parents received the Medal of Honor on behalf of their son for his heroic actions: sacrificing his own life to save the lives of others.

“He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it,” said a 28-year-old lieutenant who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. “He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs’ lives, and we owe him.”

Michelle Malkin has President Bush’s remarks.

The Navy tribute is here.

See Bush’s face as he takes part in a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, for Petty Officer 2nd Class Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor, who was killed in Iraq in September 2006..

Monsoor was the second Navy Seal killed in Iraq. Marc Allen Lee was the first.

What an appropriate title for a blog that supports our troops. John posted pictures and videos from an amazing event from today.

Beforehand they enjoyed breakfast with the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Myers, and then headed to Capitol Hill for the bi-partisan press conference with two-dozen members of Congress, including Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsay Graham.

They numbered over 500 veterans who gathered today in Washington D.C.; in what John described as the polar opposite of the anti-war moonbattery John witnessed at the “Winter Soldier II Investigation” a few weeks ago. These men gathered respectfully outside the Senate Office building in support of General Petreaus’ testimony.

They stood on the grass in 45 degree temperatures, in sand-colored polo shirts. Emblazoned across their broad chests were the words “Vets for Freedom”.

In this video, the very handsome and well-spoken Peter Hegseth addresses the crowd.

Senators and veterans came up to speak at the podium, including GOP presidential hopeful John McCain and even– Senator Lieberman.

Go see and read the rest.

Also, see this post at Vets for Freedom. Make sure you read the “Stupid Things People Say to Military Wives”

And check out this book:
Adjust Fire

Transforming to Win in Iraq

by Lt. Col. Michael A. Baumann (USA, Ret.)

* sees the origins of present conflict in mistakes of the earliest counterinsurgent years
* illustrates U.S. military commanders struggling to meet political goals of the Bush Administration
* examines how counterinsurgent warfare in Iraq has forced the Army to transform
* gives background to tactical and political decisions occurring in Iraq right now
* answers the burning political question about the war in Iraq: “What now?”
* addresses leadership, culture, training, honor and emotional hardships of soldiers
* helps lay readers understand what it’s like to be in a military commander’s boots
* makes the military world comprehensible and the war in Iraq less convoluted
* answers questions politicians and pundits are unable to provide the American electorate
* helps reader see inside the Army to better understand the complexity and difficulty of this war
* shows how bottom-up democratic process has the best chance for success in Iraq
* shows how and why Gen. Petraeus has begun to turn the tide in favor of the U.S.
* provides clear cut examples of how the Army can change its methods to realize a more capable force
* provides roadmap against terrorist-based conflicts that loom ahead in the future
* 484 pages; 56 illustrations; $25; to purchase this book with a credit card, click here

That is all. For now.

While socialist moonbats like Code Pink and meatbrain yearn for our defeat and attack those who claim the surge is working…reports again are popping up about the success of the surge as Petraeus is due soon to make his report.

From WSJ:

As General David Petraeus briefs Congress this week on Iraq, it’s clear his surge has achieved remarkable results. The most crucial is that the U.S. can no longer be defeated militarily in Iraq, which could not be said a year ago. The question now is whether Washington will squander these gains by withdrawing so quickly that we could still lose politically.

WSJ Opinion Journal: Iraq and Its Costs-By JOE LIEBERMAN and LINDSEY GRAHAM-April 7, 2008; Page A13

When Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress tomorrow, he will step into an American political landscape dramatically different from the one he faced when he last spoke on Capitol Hill seven months ago.

This time Gen. Petraeus returns to Washington having led one of the most remarkably successful military operations in American history. His antiwar critics, meanwhile, face a crisis of credibility – having confidently predicted the failure of the surge, and been proven decidedly wrong.

But this we could have anticipated, since the moonbats have been on the wrong side of every conflict in history.

No one can deny the dramatic improvements in security in Iraq achieved by Gen. Petraeus, the brave troops under his command, and the Iraqi Security Forces. From June 2007 through February 2008, deaths from ethno-sectarian violence in Baghdad have fallen approximately 90%. American casualties have also fallen sharply, down by 70%.

Al Qaeda in Iraq has been swept from its former strongholds in Anbar province and Baghdad. The liberation of these areas was made possible by the surge, which empowered Iraqi Muslims to reject the Islamist extremists who had previously terrorized them into submission. Any time Muslims take up arms against Osama bin Laden, his agents and sympathizers, the world is a safer place.

Keep watching for the articles, and the anti-war people as they make asses of themselves trying to shout Petraeus down, like they did the last time. Little is accomplished for their side when they firmly establish themselves as kooknuts on the fringe.

Here’s Code Pink getting carted out of the hearing, the last time Petreaus testified about the surge. They’re nothing but domestic terrorists.

The cost of being anti-military

The Cost of Being Berkeley Part II - San Francisco Chronicle:

Berkeley is finding that having its own foreign policy isn’t cheap. The city’s recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they’ve been slammed by related protests.

And that’s on top of the $1 million the city spends annually on domestic and foreign policy matters hatched by its 45 citizen commissions, which outnumber those in virtually every other city in America and debate everything from regime change in Iran to the plight of nonneutered dogs.

They don’t seem to understand that when you attack the military, you attack ALL OF US.

But some business owners, residents and officials say the Marines dispute, which brought international headlines and boycotts, is a perfect illustration of why Berkeley should spend less money on foreign policy and more on filling potholes.

duh. It’s high time Code Pink was put in their place…they should receive consequences for aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war, and we should stop fooling ourselves into thinking that what they’re doing is ‘free speech’. What they’re doing isn’t ‘free’. Obviously.

Holy Brothel

That is a great dispatch, complete with the picture of an Al Qaeda ‘holy warrior’ with a prostitute.

What’s also interesting is his pointing out that they love drugs, and don’t bother to wait for their virgins in paradise-brothels are a great source of intelligence against Al Qaeda. Also mentioned in his book is a gay Al Qaeda informant who supplies information to Americans when his Al Qaeda lovers abuse him. Again, there goes the myth that Islamists “persecute” gays.

Yon’s book, Moments of Truth in Iraq has arrived at the publisher’s door and is available now, three weeks before it hits the bookshelves.

The return of an unhinged IVAW member

Bellingham Herald reporter/blogger Sam Taylor:

Evan Knappenberger, a local Iraq War veteran who did the Stop Loss Tower Guard vigil last summer and started the local Iraq Veterans Against the War chapter was suspended from the group, but reinstated after four days, for making threats online against pro-war activists two weeks ago.

Knappenberger, who initially suffered an indefinite suspension, told me on the phone this morning that he had received an apology from the IVAW board for what he called their “arbitrary decision” to suspend him in the heat of the moment.

Nevermind that he called for Michelle Malkin’s assassination

and bombing the Gathering of Eagles.

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IVAW oozing with moral authority