J. D. Pendry, you sir, are an imbecile. Allow me to dissect you nonsensical rant piece by piece:
"Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi
movement. You threw the Shah under the bus,
welcomed the Ayatollah home, and
then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when
they took our embassy and our people hostage.
You're the runner-in-chief."
The Shah you speak of was an undemocratically appointed dictator like Pinochet. The Iranians had every right to rise up against him and Western Imperial influence. Carter did what he could in handling the crisis and even fought for the release of the hostages after his electoral loss in 1980. In fact, his efforts led to the aforementioned sought after release. The Sunni Fundamentalists of Al Qaeda have nothing to do with the Shiite-ran government of Iran, so your charge that Carter's handling of the hostage crisis birthed the fundamentalist movement we find ourselves faced with today is laughable.
"Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while
the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers."
Um, Bush 41 was responsible for the deployment of our troops to Somalia as part of a UN Mandated peacekeeping mission in the midst of the country's Civil War. The UN and the US withdrew from Somalia when it became clear that foreign presence was no longer welcome. Weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole attack and the Bombing of our Embassies in Africa?
The embassy bombings were responded by airstrikes in Afghanistan that were meant to target Bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda. Not to mention the stern warning from Clinton to the Taliban that any further acts of terrorism perpetrated by AQ would rupture relations between Afghanistan and America, even leading to a military incursion.
The results of an investigation conducted by our intelligence agencies didn't attribute blame to Al-Qaeda for the attacks on the Cole until late December of 2000. Since the country was in the midst of a transition of power from one president to a successor; Clinton didn't want to boggle Bush down in a military conflict before taking the reigns of power. So, Clinton's team communicated this intelligence to Bush's team, and the rest is history.
"Each time you failed to respond adequately,
they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001."
Hmm, so, Clinton sends his counterterrorism chief to Bush and Bush demotes said official. He ignored Clinton's warnings and advice regarding the high priority counterterrorism efforts were. Sub-Cabinet level meetings were held on counterterrorism for much of the year prior to 9/11, then on 9/10/2001, the Bush Regime cut funding to those efforts all the while receiving briefs on Al-Qaeda's movements, intentions and recruiting, and you blame Clinton?! Wake the fuck up!
"John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact..
You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it."
For the sake of not repeating myself, I'll postpone responses to your ignorance on Iraq until later. Kerry has not lied about anything regarding his service. The Swift Boat attacks on him were thoroughly debunked years ago, and the charge that he was for the Iraq war before he was against it (whilst claiming he felt the same about Vietnam) is misleading.
Kerry, like many Democrats facing reelection in 2002, chose to sell out the constitution to grant Bush the unconstitutional authority to initiate military action at will largely due to the politically inconvenient timing of said vote. They were all led to believe that Hussein posed an imminent threat to the country and voted to grant Bush his overreaching powers of war on the precondition that he sought out a diplomatic solution to the purported "crisis".
Furthermore, your sentiments reference to comments made by Kerry at a rally that were taken out of context that referenced to his vote for a difference version of an appropriations bill than the one in question that had passed without his vote. Kerry, did say, on the campaign trail in 2004, that he would've still supported going into Iraq with all we knew at that point. Then again, this was all half a year prior to the conclusion drawn by our own weapons inspectors that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
"John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John."
In your assault on the incredible character of this American hero, you left out the recognition of his more than 30 years of service in the Marine Corps as well as having partaken in no less than two theaters of war during that time period.
Now, the man's status as a corrupt and washed up politician is debateable, his sentiments regarding a redeployment to Okinawa were not sincere but hypothetical. He was merely remarking on the amazing capabilities in troop and armament deployment our military now enjoys. Again, remarks on Vietnam and Iraq will be delayed until later...
"Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run."
Argh, this delay in response is killing me...
"Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all the while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington ."
Gee, I can't wait to speak in defense of one of the greatest servants the people of this nation has ever had. God be with him in these waning days of his life.
"Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum."
...and...
"American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer..."
Wait a second...are kidding me? Publishing religiously offensive cartoons is far less important than covering an unconscionable story about how our country is transforming into a police state not unlike those that we once referred to as our ENEMIES. I believe in confidentiality, but not when that secrecy endangers the constitution and the individual liberties of every American. I'm going to steal a line from you ignorant neocons and suggest that if you don't appreciate these liberties or our constitution, then you should consider moving to China or Russia!
"You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing."
At first, the first three sentences of this section appear to be an address to morons of your ilk or even the complicit media that helped bring this country into an unnecessary war, but it is obvious that you are beyond help. What, may I ask you, were we defending ourselves against in Iraq? IN what way did Saddam pose a viable threat to our land, freedom, families? Please avoid using Bush's lies to respond.
"There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies."
Not one member of the media, government or peace movement supports or wishes to aid our enemies. Your equation of dissent with treason is as old as Nationalism itself. In seeking out the truth and demanding an end to this God-forsaken occupation, we ARE supporting our country, and furthermore by doing all of that in addition to fighting for the return home of our soldiers, we are supporting THEM.
"Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it."
Yes, I'm questioning your sanity and intelligence. Your grasp on reality ended the moment you started listening to those who so willingly spew bullshit at the rate villains like Karl Rove, Condi Rice and George W. Bush have. You seem to suggest that anyone who dares to disagree with you or the man you call "president" not only deserves to be deported, but to die as well. You claim that we who seek the truth and an end to pointless wars are aiding those who oppose our freedoms whilst you go out of your way to assist those actively eroding them. Whose the traitorous one now?
"No, Mr. President, you don't get off the hook, either. Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the AXIS OF IDIOTS."
I must confess, when I initially read this part of your rant, I honestly believed you were going to at least ridicule Bush for his mishandling of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, but, I sit here a disappointed American. For the most part, your calls for Bush to "deal" with us dissenters echoes the same calls by Hitler's supporters to deal those who dared to question his intentions. Tread carefully dear soldier.
"America must hear it from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety."
Images of Hitler's rousing speeches to adoring crowds come to mind...
"Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target."
Are you a Hitler-loyalist reincarnate?
"You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media."
Not only do you speak like a true brownshirt, but now you openly advocate the suppression of the First Amendment?
"You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets."
Being redundant now...
"Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now."
If Bush or Obama approaches your doorstep, you have yourself to blame.
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In response to your lack of knowledge as to what is transpiring in Iraq and what occured in Vietnam:
John Kerry's testimony regarding proceeds in Vietnam were both heartfelt and spoken on behalf of fellow veterans who witnessed, or even partook in those atrocities. There is now documented evidence that would be fairly easy to find with a simple google search of the numerous allegations of Vietnam Vets, Vietnamese citizens and even the press, among many others. You live in a fantasy world where this country is a God-send for the oppressed around the world, wake the f*ck up already.
As mentioned before, Kerry was never fully supportive of war in Iraq, but that is where his unconstitutional vote took us. Iraq was exactly what Kerry described it to be: wrong war, wrong place, wrong time. Given the FACT that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi, maybe Saudi Arabia should've assumed a more central standing in our focus in response to those horrible attacks, but NOT ONE hijacker had any connection to Iraq.
Saddam was an ENEMY of Al-Qaeda, he feared their intentions as per his government and they detested his secular rule. Remember that one of the many reasons he was so admonished was that he was a monster of the CIA's creation. WE launched two coups that installed Hussein at the helm of power in the former colony of England. The first failed as that goverment collapsed shortly after he was placed in control, and the second was successful only after our government took a more active role in sustaining his power.
We supplied him with the weapons he used on his enemies both domestic and foreign, but we didn't complain about his crimes until it became politically expedient to shift sides.
Our military is broken. Your denial of such is evidence of your stupidity. We don't have a grand military like we did during World War Two, so it is incredibly strenuous for our military personnel to contend with two occupations as well as the litany of our obligations throughout the globe. That's why a draft reinstitution is not far from a reality if the present course is kept.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ARE OVER!! The former in May 2003 and the latter in December 2001. We are presently dealing with an insurgency against our occupations of those countries. We diverted our focus from the real problem in Afghanistan - to our detriment considering the resurgent movement there - to an unrelated "enemy" where we bear over 90% of the burden on every front. The peace CAN'T be won militarily, because it is counterproductive to wage war to win peace.
Peace is won diplomatically with economic aid. We know full well that schools must be built, good jobs created, services restored, people fed and housed, and finally the power and oil returned to the rightful owners: the Iraqis.
There is ample proof of war crimes being commited on a large scale in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Guantanamo Bay. Just research it, because the preponderance of said crimes are too great to enumerate here.
You forget that the people demanded an end to the Vietnam War, which was another illegal and unnecessary war born out of the political ambitions of a desperate President amidst a myriad of lies. Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War because that was their responsibility for having given Johnson the unconstitutional power to invade in the first place, just as that is the responsibility of Congress now.
It is obvious that your history lessons were either lax, or ignored by you.
Informing the world of the atrocious crimes commited at Abu Ghraib was vital to maintain our credibility as an opponent of war crimes and other acts of an inhumane nature. Your misguided comparison of the Islamic fundamentalists with the tyrannical Nazis is further proof of your detached view of the world. Nazis were created by a political party, hell bent on control, whereas the members Al-Qaeda are rejecting policies of the western world, its meddling with Arab affairs and defiling of Muslim holy ground. Nazis wanted to rule the world, Al-Qaeda's members merely want to "save" theirs.
You advocate the "annihilation" of those who oppose our society, but - once again - that is reminiscent of Nazi sentiments towards the "enemies" of Germany, especially those as perceived from within.
Our departure from Iraq and even Afghanistan would be an inspiration to the people of those countries, and would be a deadly blow dealt to Al-Qaeda because their biggest recruiting tool will have disintegrated. Members who've joined since the war in Iraq began would lose their incentive to remain, unless conditions continue to crumble with poor/no jobs, education, services, etc.
We are all well aware by now that Bush lied us into this quagmire, so your refusal to even accept that baffles me. Your parroting of the tired repug mantra "fighting them there so we won't have to here" sickens me. WE created the battlefield in Iraq and have only galvanized anti-American sentiment in the region by doing so. The irony is that we are now more likely to be attacked due to Iraq than we were after 9/11.
I'm puzzled by this notion that those who seek peace, justice and truth are responsible for acts of terrorism, when it is the government you have so supported that put our soldiers in the wrong place to begin with. If anything, it is YOU and YOUR F**KING PRESIDENT who has the blood on YOUR filthy hands. You helped get us in this mess, and therefore bear your share of the blame.
Semper Fi...or Semper Fidelis: translated to "forever faithful". Must that eternal faith and devotion be to a band of criminals or to the best interest of this country? I prefer the latter as you appear to blindly hold to the former belief.
In closing, J.D., I want to wish you a pleasant roasting, because that's all you are going to remember once the depths of hell swallows you whole.
Go F**k yourself Sergeant.,
Daniel H. Crawford III
How troubling it is to witness this level of ignorance put on display and circulated through the internet. My next regular update will be by year's end. I need to get some things in order in my life before I get back in the groove of posting regular updates. Let's not assume that our 44th President's election marks the end of our struggle. Now, we must strive to prevent him from failing to deliver on his promises. It is up to us to amp up the pressure and maintain it until we get the reform we deserve. There is no such thing as a time out for politicians, they run for office to serve us; let's remind them of such.
