16 posts tagged “military”

Please pass this information on to any in the military that have not registered to vote they can do mail in voting thru Oct 28

this is the new website
http://www.texasmilitaryvote.com//

Nearly 1,000,000 military and overseas absentee ballots were requested for the 2006 election, but only one-third of them were actually counted. That means that more than 660,000 interested military voters were ultimately not able to have their voices heard. This is unacceptable.

We must protect the rights of our soldiers—and their families—to vote and have that vote counted. Help a loved one or friend make sure they are registered, their ballot application is processed, and their vote is delivered and counted. Democrat, Republican, Independent…party affiliation or personal views are irrelevant. We ought to make certain they are able to vote.

This web site is a portal to great information that will make it easier for our men and women in uniform to do that which they have worked so hard to make so simple for the rest of us. They often put their lives on the line to guarantee the freedoms that make this country exceptional, and they deserve every opportunity to exercise the basic right to vote themselves. Let’s make certain they have exactly that.

God Bless our troops and the United States of America,

John Cornyn
U.S. Senator from Texas

H/T to CJ at A Soldiers Perspective

This is the wife of Eric Egland. We first heard about Eric when he returned from Iraq and became one of the first veterans of the War on Terror to announce intentions of running for Congress.

via Family Research Council

The home-grown commitment to our military that guaranteed success on D-Day has taken a backseat to partisan differences that threaten to endanger our troops oversees. The soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are still awaiting help that has not yet come in the form of the War Supplemental bill.

Torn over a non-germane provision, the House is set to debate the Senate's version of the bill, which gives groups like Planned Parenthood a discount on contraceptives, the morning-after pill, and possibly RU-486 (the chemical abortion drug).

We need your help to convince House members that H.R. 2642 was meant to arm our soldiers--not Planned Parenthood. Please take a minute to contact your representatives and urge them to fund the war for freedom, not the war against the unborn.

The dhimmi leaders in Congress insist we've lost in Iraq and ignore Afghanistan. Their inaction on the War Supplemental Bill guarantees they will be proven right and the extreme left wing whackos pulling their strings will have won another battle for the forces of evil. Loading a defense bill with unneccessary funding that has nothing at all to do with fighting terrorism and the evil behind it insures a Presidential veto and allows them to appear to be the good guys.

Do not let them pull this crap on our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines fighting the War on Terror.

Iraq is won. WE WON!!!!!!!!!

All we have to do is provide 6 more months of security and we'll have a stable Iraq. Then our efforts need to be concentrated on the final and primary front for the war on extremists, Afghanistan. Thats gonna be the one, folks. Thats the one that will make or break us.

We need twice the manpower on the ground right now in Afghanistan. The sooner we finish in Iraq, the sooner we can finish in Afghanistan.

Tell your representatives to stop dicking around and pass a clean bill, with no funding for anything not military.

Burn up the FAX machines, load up the inboxes, fill the voice mails with your messages.

FUND THE TROOPS DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!

People ask me that when I tell them I am pro-victory, pro-mission, pro-troop  I qualify the response with the admonition that I am not pro-war, as the more extreme elements of the rabid left have called us. No one I know is pro-war, especially veterans. I’d love to see the entire world living in harmony, drinking hot chocolate and eating S’mores around the campfire. You can forget the Kumbiya though. I really have grown to dislike that song and besides, I don’t sing. The last time I sung, animal control showed up asking about cats being tortured.

I’ve heard politicians say victory is not possible. I’ve heard military personnel say victory is possible, we just  need to maintain the current staus quo and wear them down. I’ve heard others, including military personnel, say we have already won, and now we’re providing security so the Iraqi’s can build their own system. I’m in the last group, but I tend to accept the second groups mindset, in that we will be fighting this menace for a long, long time.

True victory means the troops get to come home. Victory means the Iraqi people no longer live in fear of homicide bombers or VBIEDS in marketplaces or IED’s/EFP’s on the roads. It means the terrorists who perpetrate these horrendous acts are silenced and hopefully, gone. It will mean women can attend school in Afghanistan without fear of being dragged into the street and murdered or worse. It will mean the peaceful Muslims, the ones who simply want to live their lives, practice their faith, and raise their children as we do, will be able to do just that. It will mean that the water wells, the treatment plants, the oil pipelines function everyday, providing clean water for irrigation and drinking and a source of income for the Iraqis.

Will there ever be a time when we no longer fear the random islamofascist nutjob following the teachings of a manical pedophile, in search of eternal life and his 72 virgins? Will there come a day when we can board a plane without being treated like drug smugglers or worse? Will it happen in our lifetime? I hope so, but I doubt it. My great grandchildren will probably see this, unless you subscribe to the Mayan timetable.

Cross-posted at The Talon.

Last week’s Vietnam flashback was courtesy of the mixed nuts in Berkeley who took it upon themselves to label the local Marine recruiters “intruders” and “unwelcome.” Some people will do anything for a feelgood liberal headline. But we were heartened by the overwhelming numbers of proud and patriotic Americans standing by our defenders. And, typically for liberals, Berserkely kinda backed down under their pressure. (Hey, Mrs. Obama: plenty of folks manage to find lots to be proud of in America.)
 
While we were distracted by the Berserkely street theater, a much more disturbing scene was unfolding in our Nation’s Capital. On Friday, February 15, members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) stormed a recruiting office at 14th & L and laid siege while Metro Police stood by. In a protest entitled “Funk the War” these children delighted in an act of civil disobedience that is as pathetic as it is chilling. Didn’t see that on Keith Olbermann’s report? I wonder why. 

These spoiled privileged brats are the tools of some of the most disturbing figures on the Left. At Friday’s event, the sagging hags of Code Pink stood off to the side while cheering on the SDS kidz’ action. You can almost see their petuli-addled brains whirling, “If we send the children to do our dirty work, the police will be hesitant to make arrests.” 

I have to believe that the police would find joy in hauling one of those old prunes off to the clink. But getting your photo in the paper arresting a white, fresh faced college student? Not so much.

According to witnesses, Code Stink and the other aging hippies stood by the side and sent the children to the front lines, and ultimately into the recruiting station. Yet another technique the Left has borrowed from the Viet Cong.

Read the rest at Human Events Online

Full disclosure: I spent 30 minutes on the phone with this writer. Turns out we have some mutual friends. A LOT of mutual friends.

This is what I told her in reference to the public threat of violence against me and other pro-victory activists posted on the Indymedia site;

It's a member of the Washington DC extreme left movement who knows us and thinks we're intimidated by threats posted on the Internet.

We're pretty sure who it is, and all of us doubt seriously HE would be that violent, but he could instigate a confrontation by others who are capable of violent actions, and make it look as if we started it. My concern is the safety of some of our group who do not have the physical capabilities to defend themselves. I doubt anything will happen, but I've never underestimated the left before and I'm not about to start.

 

This whole thing is getting uglier by the day. The left keeps saying Iraq is another Viet Nam and they are doing everything they can here to duplicate the anti-war movement in the '60s. The SDS/WeatherUnderground evolved after the 68 DNC in Chicago. It was violent then, it's beginning to get violent now. 

 

The next thing I look for is a bunch of them chanting "The whole world's watching the whole world's watching"

Cal Thomas via Townhall.com:

Since 2001 when "the war on terror" began, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports $649.9 billion has been appropriated for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). In the budget President Bush just submitted to Congress, there is a request for an additional $108.1 billion for 2008 and $70 billion for 2009.

The cost of these wars has been largely borne by the American taxpayer, while the benefits of success in Iraq and Afghanistan will reach far beyond the borders of those countries to the world. If Islamic extremist can be quelled in Afghanistan and Iraq, people the world over will literally breathe freer. Since so many will benefit, isn't it fair to ask them to help subsidize the effort?

USA Today reported last week that America's "allies" in the war on terror have provided what amounts to chump change. Countries that made large commitments to rebuild Iraq have paid just 16 percent of what they had pledged. According to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, other countries committed to contributions of $15.8 billion during and after a conference in Madrid in October 2003. The countries that have given the least are the ones that have the most resources to give - and possibly the most to lose, as some are targets of al-Qaida's efforts to replace Arab governments with Taliban-like leaders.

From military.com:

Pakistan, Taliban to Begin Peace Talks

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Taliban militants declared a cease-fire Feb. 6 in fighting with Pakistani forces, and the government said it was preparing for peace talks with al-Qaida-linked extremists in the lawless tribal area near the border with Afghanistan.

Any deal that allows armed Islamic extremists to operate on Pakistani soil would run counter to U.S. demands for the government to crack down on militants. The Bush administration contends a failed truce last year allowed al-Qaida to expand its reach into this turbulent, nuclear-armed country, and the U.S. has sounded warnings in recent days about a revival of militant strength.

A spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a militant umbrella group, said the new cease-fire would include not only the tribal belt along the Afghan border but also the restive Swat region to the east where the army has also battled pro-Taliban fighters.

EXCLUSIVE:

New York Times 'Killer Vet' Story

Exposed as Erroneous by Pro-Troop Group

SACRAMENTO- Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org), the nation's largest grassroots pro-troop organization, today announced that after vetting the numbers cited by The New York Times in their Sunday, January 13, 2008 story, "Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles," it became clear that the Times had engaged in demonstrably erroneous and false reporting.

It took seven New York Times researchers to find 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in the United States, or were charged with one, upon returning home to this country.

 The Times made the false conclusion that:  "Taken together, they paint the patchwork of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak."

 The Times documentation of 121 potential killings out of more than 1.5 million veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), divided by 6 years of conflict results in a murder rate of just 1.34 incidents per 100,000 veterans per year.

 That murder rate is far lower than the murder rate for the general population, demonstrating that the experiences of military service – including having served in Iraq and Afghanistan – actually made it less likely for returning veterans to commit murder once they returned home, than the general population.

Given a census-estimated population of the United States of 300,000,000 persons in this country as of October 2006, and FBI-compiled statistics of 17,399 homicide offenders for  2006, the murder rate of the general population was 5.80 offenders per 100,000 on average – and a rate of approximately 7.67 per 100,000 for men.

 Since all but one of the veterans cited by the Times who committed a killing in the U.S. was male, the comparable rate is approximately 7.67 incidents of murder per 100,000 people among the general male population, compared to just 1.34 incidents per 100,000 returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (of both genders).

 "It's obvious that the New York Times has an agenda of undermining the missions of our troops in the War on Terror, so much so that they are willing to resort to demonstrably false statistics to support their anti-troop bias," said Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward.

 "The slander of our troops and veterans by the New York Times is unfortunately all too familiar.  We heard this kind of nonsense about our returning veterans from Vietnam.  It's the same insult, different war.

 "Perhaps the shameful staff of The New York Times has run out of war-time secrets to publish for America's enemies to read, because now they've resorted to an all-out smear campaign of America's finest men and women, who have served this country bravely and with distinction," Morgan said.

 In place of hard data to support their premise, The New York Times was instead forced to devote almost the entire portion of 6,321 word hit-piece to anecdotes of wrongdoing by individual veterans.

 The New York Times even went so far as to trace back the phenomenon of murderous veterans to Greek mythology to back up their assertions of their report.

 "The real mythology is the reporting by The New York Times," Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan concluded.

NOTE TO REPORTERS/BLOGGERS: Melanie Morgan and a delegation of staffers from Move America Forward have just returned from a 10-day trip interviewing U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait.

To schedule an interview with Melanie Morgan or the other members who traveled to Kuwait and Iraq including: Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee (mother of first Navy Seal killed in Iraq), MAF Communications Director, Danny Gonzalez, and MAF Deputy Executive Director, Mary Pearson, contact Ryan Gill of Move America Forward at: (916) 441-6197 or via email at: mary@MoveAmericaForward.org

>> You can link to this report, which is published at the Move America Forward website, at this location: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/MAFNews

*** Note that the central statistical measure is how many instances of alleged killings take place per 100,000 Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans who returned home. The New York Times might argue that our statistics are incorrect since the 1.5+ million Iraq/Afghanistan veterans have not been home during the entire 6 years of the war (especially since in the early onset of Operation Enduring Freedom troops were just arriving into the war zone).

However, Salon.com reports that as of January 31, 2005 there were 1,048,884 Americans who had fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. One can then calculate statistics from that point onward. Let’s give the New York Times the leeway of saying their alleged 121 incidents of killings by veterans occured during just the three years that elapsed since that time to the present. The murder rate per 100,000 people would still be approximately 3.5 incidents of murder per 100,000 returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans.

from the National Ledger via FreeRepublic.

Senator Thompson hasn’t done much for the United States of America, and could’ve chosen to vote no, to deny authorizing the use of military force in Iraq.  To this day, he claims that we can’t cut and run in Iraq, and that the job must be finished to establish a democratic nation.  He could simply have joined his liberal cohorts and spewed hatred of America.  Instead, he stood by conservatism, the U.S. Constitution and President Bush.

So when you begin to caucus or primary, elect the man who hasn’t chosen to make America his enemy.  Elect the man who hasn’t signed onto irresponsible environmental treaties.  Elect the man who didn’t vote to leave Saddam Hussein in power, and continues to support the troops and finishing the job in Iraq.  Elect the man who didn’t continue to build a surplus with higher taxes.  Elect the man who refused to vote to keep Partial Birth Abortion alive.  Elect the man who doesn’t believe in gay marriage.  Elect the man who’s not against the Second Amendment.  Elect the man who has never been pro-choice.  Elect the man who doesn’t want to continue throwing money at education.  Elect a man that isn’t against states’ rights and school vouchers.  Elect the man who hasn’t had any forays into liberalism, choosing instead to be a consistent conservative.

So, if you don’t go to the polls for what he’s done, go and elect Fred Thompson for what he hasn’t done.