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U.S. forces blow up bombs planted inside a school in Baghdad
voices of Iraq
The Iraqi police said on Wednesday that U.S. forces set off explosives planted inside a primary school in eastern Baghdad after the forces had dismissed all the pupils unharmed.

“We have received reliable intelligence that militiamen planted explosives inside al-Nabaa primary school in Ur neighborhood,” the source told the independent news agency voices of Iraq (VOI).

The source added, “Pupils were dismissed unharmed while U.S. forces blew up the bombs.”There were no casualties but the school fence was damaged and some windows were broken in the operation, he added.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
The insurgents are inhuman beasts. They are driven solely by evil and are devoid of all humanity. They deserve to be hunted down and killed. Thank God someone spoke up of what was planned so our troops could protect the children.
Not that the Democrats would care since they would probably want to sit down with the insurgents over tea, and discuss what motivated them to do such a thing …….while the bombs were going off at the school in the background killing all the chilren.

Petraeus: Iran Training, Arming Militants
Las Vegas Sun
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it’s “indisputable” Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq.
Gen. David Petraeus also told ABC News that suicide bombers are streaming across Iraq’s border from Syria and making their way into the country’s volatile western Anbar province.
His comments follow a harsh exchange of words over the weekend between the U.S. and Iran at a conference in Baghdad on Iraq’s security. The U.S. envoy to the talks, David Satterfield, said he had evidence that Iran was arming Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq, which his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, vehemently denied. He called such accusations a “cover” for U.S. failures in Iraq.
At the conference, both Iran and Syria pledged to support moves to stabilize Iraq, including reconciliation among Iraq’s factions. But U.S. and Iraqi leaders have questioned Iran’s commitment to backing such American-led efforts.
In the interview with ABC, Petraeus said cooperation from Iran and Syria would be key to stopping the violence in Iraq.
He said there are elements of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force that are training fighters and sending them into Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces. He said Iran is also sending “rockets, mortars and other explosives and munitions” into the country.

“That’s indisputable and again it’s a very, very problematic situation four our soldiers and Iraqi soldiers,” he told ABC.

“And if it’s something that can be brought to a halt through these initiatives of the Iraqi government, we would applaud that vigorously,” he said, referring to the talks in Baghdad aimed at bringing security to the country.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Can we close the border with Iran? No trade, nothing! Then evacuate an area about 5 clicks wide along the border and declare it a free fire zone. Then slaughter anything that moves in that area???? Would that work to make our point we are fed up with this BS from Iran and heck Syria too.

Gene Simmons and Tommy Thayer at Camp Pendleton
Gene Simmons website

GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS tv crew filmed us at Camp Pendleton over a few days. Sophie and I first visited there and went through (one day’s worth) of Basic Training.
Sophie, as the Marines like to say got and “Git Some”….ask a Marine what it means.
Then, Tommy Thayer and Darren Leader and Fran on fabulous bass got up and performed for a combine Military Force of Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines….
It was a very emotional experience and would make anyone proud of the men and women who risk their lives — without asking for anything…without getting fame or recognition…without much pay (a few hundred dollars)…all they want to know is that they are risking their lives and ‘IT MATTERS”…. IT DOES.
Here we are with America’s Pride and Joy. One of them (and he asked NOT to be singled out) is a PURPLE HEART Award recipient. He survived. Most Purple Heart Awards are sent to families. I’m sure you understand the implication.
Be Proud. Be Aware. You are protected by the World’s Finest Fighting Force. And, they are protecting the Greatest Country In The World.
In this day and age, people find it hard to admit. It’s not politically correct. Other countries don’t want to hear this kind of sentiment. Tough.
Learn how to spell it, Baby. It’s spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A!!!!!

Wild Thing’s comment……
Just wanted to share this with you.

Says Zell: Military shortages, Social Security crisis, and illegal immigration all linked to abortion
ajc.com
It hasn’t gotten widespread play yet, but former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller made a little news this week in Macon when he declared that abortion has contributed to the military’s manpower shortage, the Social Security crisis, and the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

“How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years? Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed,” Miller said.

“Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973. If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security,” the former Georgia governor said. “Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.”

Giuliani in 1989 on public funding of abortion

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Amazing that we hear a Democrat saying this and a so called Republican taking the stand FOR abortion. The world is upside down and inside out I think.

Singer Harry Belafonte elaborates on his reference to Condi Rice as a ‘house slave’ and explains why Bush is more of a tyrant than Castro. This communist Belafonte needs to go, far far away to another country. Get the hell out of America you commie freak. To Harry Belafonte, Castro is a freedom fighter.
Speaking in October 1983 at a “World Peace Concert” run by East Germany’s official Communist youth organization, Belafonte gave his blessings to the Soviet-sponsored “peace” campaign pushing unilateral Western disarmament, at a time when the Soviets were putting SS-20 missiles in East Germany.
In June 2000, Belafonte was a featured speaker at a rally in Castro’s Cuba, honoring the American Soviet spies, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

Pictures of Gathering Of Eagles Caravan & Rally Pictures

Gathering of Eagles website

God bless all our troops, our Veterans and their families and loved ones. I love you all so much.

Military families and supporters in Move Forward America speak at Griffith Park en route to a rally next weekend in Washington, D.C.
LATimes

Kyle Crowley, an 18-year-old Marine, died in Iraq nearly three years ago. Stricken by stress and grief, his father, Mark Crowley, suffered a near-fatal heart attack about 17 months later, on the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The elder Crowley, now 48, a sheet metal worker from the Northern California town of Tracy, wasn’t healthy enough to return to work. He’s been searching for meaning in his life ever since.
The one thing he’s sure of, however, is that he doesn’t want his son’s life to have been lost in vain. That’s why he joined a cross-country caravan of military families and supporters urging the U.S. to support the troops and criticizing politicians and antiwar activists for calling for troop withdrawal from Iraq before the job is done.

“Many have died for these colors,” Crowley told supporters at Griffith Park on Friday as he held a U.S. flag. “If you don’t support these colors, get the hell out.”

The Los Angeles stop was one of two dozen rallies Crowley and others in the Move America Forward caravan will hold as they make their way to Washington, D.C., over the next eight days under the motto “These colors don’t run.”

About 100 supporters — including many veterans — added several dozen flags of all sizes to the caravan’s collection, which the group plans to display in “a giant flag city of red, white and blue patriotism” on the National Mall next weekend.
Move America Forward is protesting the antiwar rallies planned for the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The caravan includes two other California parents — Debra Argel Bastian of Lompoc, whose son died in Iraq, and Debbie Johns of Granite Bay, whose son is serving his third tour there.
Crowley in his view, it’s us or them.

“If we don’t finish it, they will. If we pull out or can’t win, [the terrorists] will make Sept. 11 look like a bar fight. They’re radical, and their only meaning is killing innocent people ” said Crowley.

A former Army ranger, Crowley said he could shoot an elk at 600 yards with a single shot. He wishes he could trade his own life for his son’s — or any of the other 3,000-plus troops who have died.

A convincing video documentary that the idea of man-made global warming is total bunk. The contributors to the documentary have impressive well-know scientific credentials, (including the co-founder of Greenpeace, and the head of the Meteorology Dept. at MIT) and follow the IDEOLOGY (that’s what is is, not science) of Environmental Change from the 1970s to the present. It’s a one hour and 15 minute video, but if you are at all interested in the topic, very well worth your time. Builds a convincing scientific case that our current warming trend is Solar related, not due to greenhouse gases.
Probably the most moving part is in the end, when it shows the price to be paid, primarily by survival-economy persons in the developing world, for the world-wide dogma of man-made global warming. This documentary clearly underlines that the world-wide almost religous devotion to the ideology of global warming has serious moral consequences.
An amazing documentary, very well done, which primarily interviews of leading scientists who dispute the current intolerant dogma of man-made global warming. This does to global warming what the movie Obsession does to Islam.
Al Gore and company are Communists out to “fix” imaginary problems and screw us all in the process.
Running time about 75 minutes. But well worth it.
Just in case there is any problem with opening the above video. Just click this link for a larger size at actual website. Thank you

…Thank you to Billy of Billy O’Blog for the video.

Gathering of Eagles is trying to gage the number of folks who are going to be Showing up in Washington on March 17th.
To all of the bloggers and websites that are listed in our sidebar as Participating Websites, we need your help and support now. Please post the following information on your blogs and websites. It is imperative that we get this word out as quickly as possible.
Security : When you go to sign the petition, it defaults to rendering your e-mail address private, even to the organizers of the petition.
There are two petitions now up online.
One for people to sign only if they WILL be at the Gathering of Eagles on March 17th:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/GOE31707/petition.html
The second petition is for those who will be with us in spirit:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/GOE317/petition.html
This will be very helpful in giving us some idea of how many Eagles will be in attendance on the 17th and how many will be supporting us from home.
If you plan to be there, sign in. Those who just can’t attend but stand with us in spirit are asked to sign the second petition.
755 so far have signed in as attending.
940 have signed is an with us in spirit.
(as of 1214 CST, March9th)
This number is a fraction of what we know to be true, but we need ALL BLOGGERS and WEBMASTERS to get this word out!!
Gathering of Eagles website