In a recent article about William Ayers, it is proposed that he is an upstanding professor now. There is no apology for what he did. There is no taking it back. As a matter of fact, he wears articles about the Weather Underground on the door of his office at the University. I ask one question - If you were a terrorist and felt that America was evil, where could you make the most changes to the country?
-Lady Colonel
I have to admit that this was a threat I've thought about for a long time. Anyone who has seen the movie The Day After
Very few electronic systems can handle such a blast. Old tube type systems were actually less vulnerable than today's transistorized systems. With more and more systems computer controlled today, we are actually more vulnerable today than we were in say 1960 (more tube based electronics, less computer controlled systems).
One small nuke, in the wrong hands and planned correctly, could cause more mayhem then we'd like to believe.
-Colonel Steve
I'm not sure what is going on in this country. Perhaps we are just a little too sure that a 911 can never happen again.
According to a recent article, Guantanamo jury gives bin Laden driver 5 1/2 years , a jury at Guantanamo gave Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, a mere 5 1/2 years, counting the time he has already spent. This means he will be released in just 5 months. Perhaps coming to a neighborhood near you.
On the deck of cards that was distributed as the most wanted of Al Queda, Hamdan was the 2 of clubs. However, the jury did not see him as a big player.
Hamdan admitted he drove bin Laden around Afghanistan at the time of the 2001 attacks, but said he took the job without knowing the al-Qaida leader was a terrorist. It came as "a big shock," he said, when he learned bin Laden was responsible for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, where Hamdan is from.
PLLLEEAAASSSEEE! I am trying to keep from rolling my eyes here! He was captured while in a vehicle with two shoulder-launched missles. Oh yeah, he borrowed that car, and the rockets weren't his. The jury found him innocent of carrying the missles to kill US soldiers.
Based on this, I think its plain that Al Queda must be a friendly group that we just have misunderstood. Let's just turn them all loose and give them their weapons back.
On June 26th, David Addington, VP Cheney's Chief of Staff was testifying before a House subcommittee regarding interrogation practices. When David Addington refused to discuss specific techniques because Al Queda could well be watching the proceedings, Rep. Bill Delahunt replied, "Well, I'm sure they are watching and I'm glad they will finally get to see you Mr. Addington." All this with a smug smile on his face.
Why do Democrats not get it?!!! This was an outrageous statement and he should not be allowed to get away with it. He later said he meant no ill will. Yeah, riiiggghhtt! What do you think? Watch the video. Also read Pat Dollard's blog.
-Lady Colonel
This past week, America's 39th president, met with the leaders of Hamas, encouraging them and even giving a hug to one of their officials. Can you imagine the giddiness of Hamas? They now feel validated. Carter even went so far as to put a wreath on the tomb of Yassar Arafat. We certainly are not portraying a unified front here. The US should revoke Carter's visa! He should never again have the opportunity to take his agenda to terrorist's groups in the name of the US. Whenever a past president meets with leaders around the world, it is viewed entirely differently than if an individual citizen offers their support. When you take on the role of President of the United States, you should understand that you will never again be able to be viewed as a common citizen. No matter what Carter's bizarre beliefs are about Hamas, they are still a terrorist group and should be treated as such.
Is this Carter's first experience in this area? No, in 2002 he met with Castro. He also met with Chavez and helped him win an election in Venezuela. The Wall Street Journal said Carter was fooled in the article, Conned in Caracas. We should never again allow this to happen. I for one would love to see Carter either stay with Hamas or never again be allowed to meet with terrorists.
-Lady Colonel
You've heard all the lines about the United States and it's position in Iraq. "We're there for the oil." "More Yankee Imperialism." "We hurt innocent civilians." "No one who lives in Iraq wants us there."
Read the story about this little guy at the milblog Blackfive. One more reason why we're there. May seem like an insignificant reason to some. Not to me. Nor to this little tyke.
A friend of mine is a medic over there now. The work they do supporting not only our own folks, but the civilians in the surrounding areas will not be forgotten.
For him and for me, thank all of you for your service.
-Colonel Steve
It's a great thing to get trained in an almost real simulation. Take today's modern flight simulators. Or the training the military does at the Fort Knox Zussman Urban Combat Training Center.
Now we have the folks at Burlington Township High School holding a mock hostage situation for police training purposes. Only this time, it's a pretend right-wing Christian group.
For realism, huh? Just how often does a Christian group held folks hostage? The rest of the simulation may have been accurate, but I'm certain this part wasn't.
-Colonel Steve
Last night, Lady Colonel and I heard replays on the radio of Rosie O'Donnell's rants about the collapse of WTC7. We were both amazed at the zaniness of the tirade. You'd think by her comments she thought she graduated from an engineering school. Obviously far from it.
Popular Mechanics responds with a point by point debunking of her comments.
In one part of her tirade, she promised to bring in physicists from Harvard and Yale to prove her theories. Yeah, right. Later, either her or someone else on the show commented that Yale physicists couldn't be too good due to President Bush graduating from there. Don't forget, Rosie, so did John Kerry. And his cumulative GPA were slightly worse.
(HT: Ian at Hot Air)
Speaker Pelosi is all upset because Vice President Cheney said that the Democrats' plan to strangle the Iraq effort would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy." She whines he is questioning their patriotism by implying they are less interested in national security than the GOP.
Al Qaeda said that we would lose our will to fight the war in response to their persistence and the Democrats (and some weak-kneed Republicans) are following that script. The job is not done in Iraq and anything we do to leave before the job is done means that Al Qaeda and their terrorist brethren have won.
All Cheney is doing is stating the facts. If the Democrats' feel their patriotism has been impugned by doing such, well, thats too bad. Facts are facts. Of course, the Democrats' have repeatedly shown they are all to willing to ignore facts in their pursuit of political points.
--Red
Fox News is reporting that Saddam may be executed prior to the New Year.
-Colonel Steve
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