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Don’t Call It What It Is

» by Raven May 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am » Comments Off

It’s been happening since 2004: The war on terror warriors have been going soft. September 11th has been forgotten, even by those who swore they never would forget.
U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use […]



…but only about half of them sought treatment

» by Raven May 1st, 2008 at 4:00 am » Comments (2)

When we read the headlines it’s often quite misleading. People on the right know this and those on the left don’t; they run with the headline without taking in the substance of the article. IOW, they don’t read the whole thing AND think about it.
An example of hype if I ever saw one, right here:
Study […]



The Long GoodBye to Matt Maupin

» by Raven April 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am » Comments (4)

Good Bye Matt…and it’s been a long goodbye.

CINCINNATI - Military workers and supporters from across the country joined in memorials Sunday for a slain Army reservist who had become a poignant picture of the war in Iraq after he was captured by insurgents.
Officials estimated that about 10,000 people walked past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin’s casket […]



The Few. The Proud. The Wahhabi.

» by Raven April 27th, 2008 at 9:03 am » Comments (6)

I love the Marines. Everyone knows this.
But when I read this I wanted to go smack them upside their high and tighties.
In a special ceremony, the Pentagon recently promoted a Wahhabi-trained Muslim chaplain who catered to al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo and fought to establish the first mosque in Marine Corps history.
When we cater to enemies, […]



Innocence Lost … Little Ones Murdered…

» by Duncan April 20th, 2008 at 10:58 pm » Comments (4)

Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing of the Murrah Building. I was unable to make it then, so I went today to see the memorial (I have some training here at OKC). It is a very, very sober memorial; one that was also quiet and peaceful. Beautiful even.

I was 18 years […]



Democrats Call Iraq War Failure.. Bush to Pass War to Successor…

» by Duncan April 18th, 2008 at 12:42 am » Comments (11)

Except it ain’t the Democrats saying it… its Al Qaeda’s #2 guy:
(AP) Al Qaeda’s No. 2 man claimed in a new audiotape released on a militant Web site early Friday that that five years of U.S. occupation of Iraq brought only “failure and defeat,” which the Bush administration will pass on as a “problem” to […]