Onward Christian Soldiers. You're needed at home! Your country is under att

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What the Pentagon's Chief-of-Staff was complaining about.

Cheney Fights Back

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06/22/06 - Jack Murtha proves there are second acts in American politics. I had forgotten that federal prosecutors designated him an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation 26 years ago. I was reminded of it after Murtha became a candidate for majority leader, not by a Republican hit man but a Democratic former colleague in the House. In a long political career, Murtha has made bitter enemies inside his party who are alarmed by his new stature. Murtha got into politics in 1968 as a 36-year-old highly decorated Marine and in 1974 became the first Vietnam War veteran elected to Congress. By 1980, Murtha was a lieutenant of Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill and was moving to the top in the House when the FBI named him as one of eight members of Congress videotaped being offered bribes by a phony Arab sheik. The other seven congressional targets took cash and were convicted in federal court. The videotape showed Murtha declining to take cash but expressing interest in further negotiations, while bragging about his political influence. Murtha testified against the popular Rep. Frank Thompson in the Abscam case, which created lifelong enemies in the Democratic cloakroom. The House Ethics Committee exonerated Murtha of misconduct charges by a largely party-line vote, after which the committee's special counsel resigned in protest.

(Note: When Russert expressed doubt about "a timely response" from Okinawa to meet a Middle East crisis, the 16-term congressman from western Pennsylvania and new national security spokesman for his party stumbled: "Well, it -- you know, they -- when I say Okinawa, I, I'm saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly. And -- and -- when they don't know we're coming." In fact, a Pentagon spokesman says it would take "under a month" to prepare and send a 4,500-man Marine Expeditionary Force 6,000 nautical miles from Okinawa to Bahrain and then 600 more miles to Baghdad.)

An interview with the general

August 25, 2006,
Hugh Hewitt

When did you last see or hear Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, or Commander of Central Command, General John Abizaid, appear on one of the big three networks in prime time for a conversation on the war? Mike Wallace was eager to bring us Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's worldview to American living rooms, but have any of the networks been as busy setting out before the public our military's view of the stakes of the conflict and the nature of the enemy? On Tuesday, August 22, I spent 25 minutes interviewing General Abizaid, and played the entire interview twice on my radio program. The transcript is here. It is not a "gotcha" interview. I didn't ask about Haditha, or Abu Ghraib or any other subject designed to create a headline. Rather, my questions are straightforward inquiries about the conduct of the war and the stakes involved. General Abizaid is a widely admired military leader, and his responses are candid as well as focused. Here is one of the crucial exchanges: . . . read more

Media danse macabre

June 7, 2006,
Tony Blankley

"This is the goddamn drive-by-media's fault. Don't get mad. Get even."

The Marine incident, and its aftermath, at Haditha tells us much more about the media than it does about the Marines. And what it tells us ought to outrage us to the core. On every radio and television show I appeared on last week (and all I observed) in which this topic came up, without exception at least one of the media people immediately attempted to implicate not just the still-presumed-innocent Marines, but the American military's leadership and methods in general. The "Drive By Media" (Rush Limbaugh's scientifically accurate description) has already started to report this story in a manner that is likely to do vast damage that may last for several years to the morale (and possibly recruitment) of our military. It will create a propaganda catastrophe of strategic proportions in our mortal struggle with radical Islam and its terrorist spear point . . . read more

Semper Fi - As your Marine bros are shackled at Camp Pendleton, Muslim terrorist captives run around as if there was a birthday party at day school as demanded by your liberal media back home such as the New York Times. When you come home, don't get mad, get even with this Drive-By Media that has cursed your existence. Be sure to spit on them as they have spit on you. They care more for the temperature of their lattes and their shallow careers than the lives of you and your bros. Again, don't get mad. Get even in any legal way you can! Harass them, boycott them, stand in front of their offices and homes by the dozens or hundreds every day, encouraging their financial downfall. Do whatever it takes to send a message that you're not only unhappy, but highly displeased and that you're back. Don't forget to do the same to those local, state, and federal elected officials who have not supported your efforts as Marines, worried more about the treatment of the enemy that was trying to kill you. As for the voters of San Francisco that have spit in the faces of your recruiters, removing them from local high schools, leave them alone. Let Mother Nature have her way with them - Webmaster