By Semperpapa
The count is very close to 4,500, tens of thousands wounded and their lives altered forever together with their families. And the Iraq war is over.
The end of WWII saw 440,000 KIAs for both theaters, European and Pacific. a staggering number regardless how you look at it, but a number that was not rendered useless by Harry S. Truman "ending" the war. The sacrifice of so many Americans lives brought the defeat of ruthless enemies not only of America, but of any speck of human decency.
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were defeated, millions of human beings were free.
Did all evil suddenly disappear? Of course not, but the evil of the Jewish Holocaust did. The horror of Japanese occupation in the western Pacific did.
No war ever eliminated evil completely. The first World War was supposed to be the "war to end all wars", the Great War (how can an adjective like "great" be associated with war?) to eliminate evil, and, as we know, that did not work out too well.
Barak Obama campaigned in 2008 on ending the war in Iraq, a war he qualified as "dumb". Really challenging for my intellect to consider this idiot as my president. This is supposed to be the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and yet had the audacity to qualify the blood and sacrifice spent in Iraq as being for a "dumb" cause, useless at least until it could come handy in his campaign.
And now, today, we can clearly see that the concerns of many in the know and many, like yours truly, who just use common sense, are sadly coming true, as the Obama regime "ended" a war that has cost America dearly in blood. Sure, the cost in treasure has also been high, but that particular aspect of the war remains a point of great disappointment for this American. The Iraqi nation, with the riches it holds in terms of oil, should have been made to pay back the American people for much of the expenses to free their people.
So my main concern is that of the families of those who left to fight for their country and never made it home. These families are today witnessing exactly the disintegration of the efforts their service member paid so highly to achieve.
Sunni and Shi'ite infighting is back, not even one week after the last American troop left Iraq, just as it had been predicted: our enemies had all the time and opportunity to plan their return to violence once the date had been telephoned by the administration.
What is going to happen now? Clearly, it looks like the sectarian issues among the leaders of Iraq is as alive as ever and the so called leadership is more interested in addressing old hate than insuring the safety and security of the Iraqi people.
14 separate and coordinated bombings have killed dozens of innocent people and it is only the beginning.
The result of all this is to alienate the Iraqi people against the Americans. What do the common folks in Iraq want more than anything? Security.
The mode of our departure while aimed at boosting Obama's image with his lunatic anti-war fringe, is certainly angering those who will pay in blood for the Obama re-election ploy.
But even if I want to discount the vicissitudes of the Iraqi population, I still am horribly angered by the perception that Gold Star families must be getting these days, their loved one lost only to see the country fall back into unrestrained violence. Sacrifice for nothing.
I have said this before, but never tire of repeating it: wars are not ended. They are either won or lost. If the political leadership in America has become so spineless that the idea of victory against the enemy of the Nation is considered "extreme" than they have no business sending our boys and girls into battle. If they are not allowed to fight to win, they should not be asked to go die for someone political ambition.
I have met many of those Gold Star families as they buried their dead. There is no boundary to the sorrow I feel for them, especially right now when the sacrifice of their son, daughter, mother, father, husband, wife has been made null by the ambitions of some politician.
Just my thoughts!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Neck at Neck
By Semperpapa
It must be a race between the old idiot and the young moron and the score is pretty tie these days. That's why the old fool is once again going on the offensive (and he is a very offensive fool!)
What am I talking about? The race is the one for the accolade of the worst president this Nation has ever seen, the candidates? Barak Hussein Obama and Jimmy Carter.
It is a clear toss up for many to qualify either of these individuals with the title of "worst" and even if my opinion qualifies Obama as clearly way ahead of his senile competitor, I must acknowledge the enduring attempts of peanut brain Carter to gain terrain over the young Marxist.
One round is today going to Carter, as the state news outlet of North Korea has divulged a letter of condolences that the former president of the United States sent to Kim Jong un in the occasion of the death of his beloved father Kim Jong Il.
Yes, according to the Norks, the letter expressed the condolences of Carter to the new tub-o-lard Kim Jong un and the rest of the Korean people for the untimely passing of the long time dictator of that country.
Never mind that the old porky pig can be held accountable for the death of unknown innocent North Korean civilians of starvation and re-education.
Never mind that Kim is responsible for violent aggression against the South Korean civilian population.
All this is not a preoccupation for Mr. Carter who has never been concerned about anything related to personal accountability. And now he is expressing his sorrow for Kim's demise.
The only thing the world, and especially the N. Korean population, should be sorry for is that the ass hat did not die sooner, possibly taking Carter with him.
And the fact that Kim Jong Il sought and achieved nuclear weapons must be another source of sorrow for Carter for the loss of such a man. Wonder if Ron Paul joined Carter in his sorrow. After all I am sure Kim's beef against the United States and its allies was provoked by our actions and who are we to tell the Norks that they should not have nukes!
Isn't that correct, Congressman Paul?
Just my thoughts!
It must be a race between the old idiot and the young moron and the score is pretty tie these days. That's why the old fool is once again going on the offensive (and he is a very offensive fool!)
What am I talking about? The race is the one for the accolade of the worst president this Nation has ever seen, the candidates? Barak Hussein Obama and Jimmy Carter.
It is a clear toss up for many to qualify either of these individuals with the title of "worst" and even if my opinion qualifies Obama as clearly way ahead of his senile competitor, I must acknowledge the enduring attempts of peanut brain Carter to gain terrain over the young Marxist.
One round is today going to Carter, as the state news outlet of North Korea has divulged a letter of condolences that the former president of the United States sent to Kim Jong un in the occasion of the death of his beloved father Kim Jong Il.
Yes, according to the Norks, the letter expressed the condolences of Carter to the new tub-o-lard Kim Jong un and the rest of the Korean people for the untimely passing of the long time dictator of that country.
Never mind that the old porky pig can be held accountable for the death of unknown innocent North Korean civilians of starvation and re-education.
Never mind that Kim is responsible for violent aggression against the South Korean civilian population.
All this is not a preoccupation for Mr. Carter who has never been concerned about anything related to personal accountability. And now he is expressing his sorrow for Kim's demise.
The only thing the world, and especially the N. Korean population, should be sorry for is that the ass hat did not die sooner, possibly taking Carter with him.
And the fact that Kim Jong Il sought and achieved nuclear weapons must be another source of sorrow for Carter for the loss of such a man. Wonder if Ron Paul joined Carter in his sorrow. After all I am sure Kim's beef against the United States and its allies was provoked by our actions and who are we to tell the Norks that they should not have nukes!
Isn't that correct, Congressman Paul?
Just my thoughts!
Friday, December 9, 2011
And This Guy Is A Congressman?
By Semperpapa
Never stops to amaze me the level of idiocy displayed by some of the people elected in Congress.
Yes not just the idiocy of those who have been elected, but the level of stupidity that must pervade those who actually go and vote for these morons.
Barbara Boxer, senator from the once great state of California, has very few rivals in the realm of mental deficiency, but there is a congressman who just blows the Californian idiot away: Georgia congressman Hank Johnson.
I am not sure and I am not interested in finding out who actually comprises the constituency of this guy, but when an idiot like him opens his mouth, I become increasingly fearful for my country.
As the Fast and Furious controversy ensues, as common sense Americans are waiting for the moment when AG Eric Holder is impeached and taken out of the DoJ, we have the statement of Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA):
"I think this is another manufactured controversy by the second amendment, NRA Republican tea party movement."
Yes my friends, the criminal operation engineered by the DoJ to attack the Second Amendment of our Constitution was conceived by the same people who champion the defense of our right to own and bear arms. Utterly preposterous, I would say.
But not for the congressman from Georgia. And Johnson must know what he is talking about, as he did in the following video:
http://youtu.be/zNZczlgVXjg
Yes, I feel so good that the survival of our republic resides in the hands of people like Rep. Hank Johnson. Don't you?
Just my thoughts!
Never stops to amaze me the level of idiocy displayed by some of the people elected in Congress.
Yes not just the idiocy of those who have been elected, but the level of stupidity that must pervade those who actually go and vote for these morons.
Barbara Boxer, senator from the once great state of California, has very few rivals in the realm of mental deficiency, but there is a congressman who just blows the Californian idiot away: Georgia congressman Hank Johnson.
I am not sure and I am not interested in finding out who actually comprises the constituency of this guy, but when an idiot like him opens his mouth, I become increasingly fearful for my country.
As the Fast and Furious controversy ensues, as common sense Americans are waiting for the moment when AG Eric Holder is impeached and taken out of the DoJ, we have the statement of Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA):
"I think this is another manufactured controversy by the second amendment, NRA Republican tea party movement."
Yes my friends, the criminal operation engineered by the DoJ to attack the Second Amendment of our Constitution was conceived by the same people who champion the defense of our right to own and bear arms. Utterly preposterous, I would say.
But not for the congressman from Georgia. And Johnson must know what he is talking about, as he did in the following video:
http://youtu.be/zNZczlgVXjg
Yes, I feel so good that the survival of our republic resides in the hands of people like Rep. Hank Johnson. Don't you?
Just my thoughts!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Corzine Effect
By Semperpapa
No, former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine does not have any knowledge of the whereabouts of $1.2 Billions that have disappeared from the company of which Corzine was CEO.
The brokerage company, MF Global, a very appropriate first initials as they relate to Corzine, filed for bankruptcy, but the former chief is being questioned by the House Agricultural Committee regarding the plain and simple disappearance of $1.2 billion of customers' funds.
I am sure that if there is an actual congressional investigation, a truly honest investigation (I know, honest and congressional in the same sentence is an oxymoron, but I can hope), Corzine's involvement in the disappearance of the money would be all clearly apparent.
And considering the closeness between Corzine and Obama, I wonder how much of the missing funds found their way into Obama coffers. But we will never know, as the Chicago way is the law of the land in Washington.
And to think that the former governor had been Obama's choice for Treasury secretary. How much would be the missing sum? If Gaitner has succeeded in making so much of America's wealth disappear, how much more successful could have the finer criminal Corzine have been.
Just my thoughts!
No, former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine does not have any knowledge of the whereabouts of $1.2 Billions that have disappeared from the company of which Corzine was CEO.
The brokerage company, MF Global, a very appropriate first initials as they relate to Corzine, filed for bankruptcy, but the former chief is being questioned by the House Agricultural Committee regarding the plain and simple disappearance of $1.2 billion of customers' funds.
I am sure that if there is an actual congressional investigation, a truly honest investigation (I know, honest and congressional in the same sentence is an oxymoron, but I can hope), Corzine's involvement in the disappearance of the money would be all clearly apparent.
And considering the closeness between Corzine and Obama, I wonder how much of the missing funds found their way into Obama coffers. But we will never know, as the Chicago way is the law of the land in Washington.
And to think that the former governor had been Obama's choice for Treasury secretary. How much would be the missing sum? If Gaitner has succeeded in making so much of America's wealth disappear, how much more successful could have the finer criminal Corzine have been.
Just my thoughts!
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