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A little something for you to see from Rush Limbaugh, I thought this was good. ~ Wild Thing

Rush on the hostages yesterday:
RUSH: Well, Winston Churchill is having a scotch in his grave right now asking the question: “How did 15 British sailors and Marines give up without firing a shot?” Churchill probably cannot believe this. You know, they pretty mothballed their navy. Great Britain, I’ll tell you, it’s gone PC in ways you wouldn’t believe. If you people haven’t heard, this I want you to sit down. This is from the UK Daily Mail: “Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils,” according to a government study. The study “found that some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity of the Holocaust for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. There is also resistance to tackling the Eleventh Century crusades where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques. The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using histories as a vehicle for promoting political correctness.”
Political correctness? It’s worse than that! The Brits are not teaching the Holocaust because there are Muslim students in there who are Holocaust deniers, and they don’t want them to be offended! They’re worried that they’re going to start blowing up the schools or something, I guess. (interruption) Yes, there is a “consensus” on the Holocaust, but the Brits are willing to say, “To hell with consensus.” The Holocaust is not “consensus.” It’s fact. Look, you wonder what’s happened to the Brits? It’s political correctness is running amok, and “conflict resolution.”
Does anybody think that 15 United States Marines would just sit there and allow themselves to be taken when they had not invaded Iranian waters and then in two days, start apologizing on Iranian TV? Do you think 15 United States Marines would do this?
No.
Way.

TEHRAN, Iran – Fifteen British sailors and marines released by Iran arrived at Tehran’s airport early Thursday and were expected to board a commercial flight to London, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
The 15, whose release from nearly two weeks in Iranian captivity was announced Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in a convoy of sedans that drove directly to the presidential VIP section of the airport, the reporter said.
The convoy was escorted by several cars belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guards.
The British crew was expected to board a British Airways flight scheduled to leave the Mehrabad International Airport at 8 a.m. local time (12:30 a.m. EDT).

Wild Thing’s comment……
Just sayin! Cause I love OUR USA troops!
Regarding the 15 Brits, I am glad they are going to be released. I am glad they are alive and well.

U.S. Army Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment (Recon), 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., discover a cache of weapons in an abandoned van during Operation Minotaur in Qubbah, Iraq on March 24. Operation Minotaur is a mission to rid an area of insurgent forces to allow coalition forces freedom of movement throughout an area of operation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano)

Staff Sgt. Jeriah McAvin, Charlie Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment (Recon), 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., searches a spider hole for during Operation Minotaur at Qubbah, Iraq on March 24. Operation Minotaur is a mission to rid an area of insurgent forces to allow coalition forces freedom of movement throughout an area of operation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano)

Iraqi Security Forces, Cavalry Discover Extremist Training Camp
Multi-National Division – North PAO
ZAGANIYAH, Iraq – Iraqi security forces from the 5th Iraqi Army Division, working with coalition forces, discovered a terrorist training camp in Zaganiyah, Iraq, while conducting clearing operations in the Diyala River Valley palm groves Thursday.
Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 5th IA and Company B, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, discovered a fortified underground bunker with three exit points, four prepared fighting positions and a training camp building.
While clearing the area, the Soldiers unearthed five weapons caches consisting of more than 100 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, more than five RPG launchers, approximately 70 mortar rounds, bomb-making materials, homemade explosives and terrorist planning and training materials.

“The terrorists from Al Qaeda have no place to hide. Their safe havens do not exist and their training camps are being destroyed,” said Col. David W. Sutherland, 3-1 Cav. commander. “We will continue to attack these organizations and bring the perpetrators of violence to justice in order to secure the population.

“The people in Diyala are disgusted and disillusioned by the fact the terrorists have nothing to offer but destruction through actions like this and they are gaining confidence in their ISF,” he added

Pfc. Karla Hiquiana (left), Specialist Alex Teesdale (center) and Chaplain (Capt.) Ben Clark, read messages on boxes of Girl Scout cookies sent by troops from the greater Austin, Texas, area. The three, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, separated 1,100 boxes of the cookies that would be distributed to the battalion’s Soldiers. Each Soldier in the battalion got two boxes and extras were handed out to other Soldiers in the 1st ACB.

Story by Sgt. 1st Class Rick Emert
By Sgt. 1st Class Rick Emert
1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
TAJI, Iraq – It’s a yearly tradition that 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade Soldiers would have missed out on – Girl Scout cookie season.
Instead, Girl Scout troops from the greater Austin, Texas, area sent about 650 pounds of the treats, that many crave this time of year, to the Soldiers from 4-227th stationed at Taji, Iraq.
The battalion has received about 1,100 boxes of the treats with more on the way, according to Chaplain (Capt.) Ben Clark, the chaplain for 4-227th.

“It was an outstanding effort for them to collect and put a message on all of these boxes of cookies,” Clark said. “I can picture in my mind the effort that the person who put this all together had to put forth.”

Clark and his chaplain assistants, Spc. Alex Teesdale and Pfc. Karla Hiquiana – both from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4-227th – separated the cookies into boxes to go to each of the battalion’s companies. Each Soldier in the battalion gets two boxes, and the excess will be handed out to other Soldiers from the 1st ACB at such events as the Bunker 182 group meeting, which takes place every Sunday at Camp Taji.
Most Soldiers have picked up their boxes, and were not so patient about getting their Girl Scout cookie fix.

“I had Soldiers coming up to me for a week asking: ‘When are we going to get those Girl Scout cookies?’” Teesdale said.

“People in my office have been looking forward to getting them,” said Spc. Misha Argall, HHC, 4-227th. “I thought it was great they sent these; it’s not something you would associate with a deployment. It’s nice to know that people at home are still thinking about us.”

Clark said he has received other donations, such as items to set up a coffee bar in his building, but not on a scale like this.

“Before we knew what was in them, we saw all these boxes for the chaplain, and I thought, wow, his family really does love him,” Hiquiana said.

Clark is planning to send flags that will be flown over Iraq by the 1st ACB’s helicopters to show his gratitude to the Texas-based Girl Scouts.
The shipment of cookies coincided with a playful request from the1st ACB commander Col. Dan Shanahan for Girl Scout cookies to be sent to his Soldiers during a live town hall meeting that he attended via the Digital Video Imagery Distribution System on Feb. 27. Clark said the troops had been preparing the cookies for shipment before Shanahan’s request. But the brigade soon found itself inundated with cookies – not necessarily a bad thing.

“Who doesn’t love Girl Scout cookies?” Teesdale said.

“And, who doesn’t have a favorite Girl Scout cookie?” added Clark.

Certainly not Clark (Peanut Butter Patties), Hiquiana (Thin Mints), Teesdale (Thin Mints) or Argall (Caramel delights).

Wild Thing’s comment……….
Wouldn’t it be awesome if our POS Media had done this story. American chilidren supporting the troops, American children realizing more why they are living in the land of the free then our Congress.

Ryan Rahe, with mom Jayne, holds the flag that soldiers sent him after he sent his medals to them for good luck. (DARYL SULLIVAN / THE DAILY TIMES)

MARYVILLE, Tenn. — A generous donation of “good luck” sent to soldiers in Iraq was returned to a Blount County man after the recipients’ safe return home.
Ryan Rahe, an active participant in Special Olympics since middle school, has won numerous medals in several sports, especially bowling and swimming. The 25-year-old man has shared his medals with soldiers several times, with his most recent gifts going to soldiers in the Virginia Army National Guard in Iraq.

“He sent the medals and said they were for good luck, and thank you for fighting for our country,” said Ryan’s mother, Jayne Rahe.

“I put a little note in there and said since Ryan is not going to be able to protect our country, I really appreciated the work they were doing for that.”

Jayne said earlier recipients had acknowledged Ryan’s gifts, but this time, the young man received a special surprise. The soldiers sent him a package containing an American flag that had accompanied the crew of UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter 26849 on a combat sortie in Iraq, a certificate of appreciation of Ryan’s continued friendship and support, and a photograph of the men holding the flag and Ryan’s medals — which had accompanied them on this mission — in front of their helicopter.
‘Courage’ remembered
The letter written by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Anthony W. Grillett on Jan. 10 thanked Ryan for sending the medals.

“I and the Battalion can never thank you enough for sending us your medals,” Grillett wrote. “They have brought us luck and good fortune, and now as we prepare to deploy home we send them back to you with our eternal gratitude.
“That you would send us something so precious is a reflection of your character. As you called us heroes; to me you are the hero. For I believe it is not who you are, or what you are that makes you a hero, it is the ability to give all especially when it is never asked.
“Your courage to face the challenges required earning those medals and then so freely send them to us here in Iraq will forever make you a hero to me. I will never be able to truly express in words how honored I was when I read the letter from your Mother. It truly humbles me and shows me that what I fight for in our country will always be worth the small sacrifices asked of me. Thank you again.”
The letter was signed, “Your friend always.”

Jayne Rahe said the idea of sending support to the soldiers in harm’s way came about when she and Ryan were talking about news coverage of the war in Iraq. Jayne visited a www.anysoldier.com online and discovered how she and Ryan could let the men and women in Iraq know their efforts are appreciated.
Ryan, named 2006 Special Olympics Athlete of the Year for the Blount County Sports Hall of Fame, said he felt good when he received the box from the soldiers. He said if he could talk with them face to face, he would say, “Thank you.”
The Rahes plan to continue sending care packages to soldiers, including the medals.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
I love stories that show appreciation of our troops and Veterans. I think this one was special.
When we lived in California, the stuntmen’s organization my husband is with worked with the Special Olympics for several years. It was something that all the guys say even today, was a time that touched their hearts.

April 2, 2007 Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces.
The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill the Senate passed last week. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow exceptions, effective March 31, 2008.

“I am pleased to cosponsor Senator Feingold’s important legislation,” Reid said.

“I believe it is consistent with the language included in the supplemental appropriations bill passed by a bipartisan majority of the Senate.

If the President vetoes the supplemental appropriations bill and continues to resist changing course in Iraq, I will work to ensure this legislation receives a vote in the Senate in the next work period.”

“I am delighted to be working with the Majority Leader to bring our involvement in the Iraq war to an end,” Feingold said.

“Congress has a responsibility to end a war that is opposed by the American people and is undermining our national security. By ending funding for the President’s failed Iraq policy, our bill requires the President to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq.”

The language of the legislation reads:
(a) Transition of Mission – The President shall promptly transition the mission of United States forces in Iraq to the limited purposes set forth in subsection (d).
(b) Commencement of Safe, Phased Redeployment from Iraq – The President shall commence the safe, phased redeployment of United States forces from Iraq that are not essential to the purposes set forth in subsection (d). Such redeployment shall begin not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) Prohibition on Use of Funds – No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may be obligated or expended to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the United States Armed Forces after March 31, 2008.
(d) Exception for Limited Purposes –

The prohibition under subsection (c) shall not apply to the obligation or expenditure of funds for the limited purposes as follows:

(1) To conduct targeted operations, limited in duration and scope, against members of al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations.
(2) To provide security for United States infrastructure and personnel.
(3) To train and equip Iraqi security services.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Senate Democrats, McCain’s buddy Feingold and Reid pressing for an IMMEDIDATE SURRENDER and cutoff of funds now. They want the war ENDED before the 2008 election, no matter HOW MANY WILL DIE because of it.
Again, I am forced to ask: WILL NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON??
Those traitors are giving orders to the President to do what they want thinking that they are the Commander in Chief. The President is going to veto every treasonous and defeatist bill and he will get his funding for the troops without any condition. If it won’t stop them can Bush do an Executive order to cancel the treachery of the democraps?

Mrs. Chamberlain
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Axis Of Evil: Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads another delegation of Democratic supplicants to talk to Syrian Baathist thug Bashar Assad. If she needs reasons why talking to tyrants doesn’t work, we can give her 15.
In December, when Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., took the recommendations of James Baker’s Iraq Study Group seriously and was granted an audience with the Syrian dictator, we predicted he’d be “the first of many appeasers to come.”
Pelosi, fresh from passing legislation setting a timetable for our surrender in Iraq, is leading a delegation to the Middle East to talk to the likes of Assad, her office says, as “recommended by the Iraq Study Group . . . to discuss a wide variety of security issues . . . with representatives of governments in the region, including Syria.”
The delegation includes Minnesota freshman Keith Ellison, California Reps. Tom Lantos and Henry Waxman, and others. Ellison is the first Muslim congressman and will no doubt advise Pelosi to avoid stereotyping Assad, no matter that he is still on the list of state sponsors of terror.
The group’s first stop was in Israel, ground zero in Iran’s plan to build a nuclear weapon and place it atop one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Shahab missiles to wipe the Jewish state off the map. Ellison can explain how Mahoud believes this will usher the return of the 12th Imam.
We’ve seen how well Iran plays with others, capturing 15 British sailors in what in earlier times would have been considered an act of war. It is killing U.S. troops with advanced armor-piercing IEDs it supplies Iraqi jihadists. It plays host to Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi army has tried to destabilize Iraq’s infant democracy.
Still, Pelosi insists we follow the ISG’s advice. Come, let us reason together. But we’ve seen Iran’s response to the ISG and to the international community that has rightly sanctioned Tehran for building weapons of mass destruction.
Syria and Iran were partners in crime in Hezbollah’s unprovoked attack on Israel and used the democracy of Lebanon as a human shield as it helped provide weapons that rained death and destruction on civilians in Israeli cities and towns. It acted as a conduit for arms flowing to Hezbollah from Iran used in Hezbollah’s attacks.
Syria has been linked to the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and a host of other anti-Syrian political leaders as it works to destabilize the country it occupied for over two decades. Pelosi won’t be able to talk to Lebanon’s former industry minister, Pierre Gemayal. He was assassinated as part of Syria’s and Hezbollah’s plan to destabilize Lebanon.
The Speaker may be third in line for president, but she is not commander-in-chief. That responsibility, as well as the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, was wisely placed in the hands of the occupant of the White House long ago, not in the hands of a committee of 435.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino pointed out Syria is a country “that is trying to disrupt the . . . government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow into Iraq from its borders.” Pelosi, she added, “should take a step back and think about the message that it sends” to our enemies.

That message is “we surrender.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Utterly disgusting! She’s a traitor….and really should be treated as such.
The fact that we have no diplomatic relations with Syria show how she is stepping outside the box!! The administration asked her not to go. She didn’t even ask for permission. She didn’t call up and say, “What would you think of me going over there on a fact-finding trip?” So there she is in Syria. She defies her own government while we are at war, and she tells the president to calm down?
Pelosi goes to bed at night and dreams up ways to destroy the USA

Here is some positive news about what the U.S. and our allies are doing in
Iraq.
Did you know that 47 countries have reestablished their embassies in Iraq?
Did you know that the Iraqi government currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?
Did you know that 3100 schools are or have been constructed/renovated?
Did you know that Iraq’s higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or Colleges and 4 Research Centers, all currently operating?
Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005, for the re-established Fulbright program?
Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is op erational with 5 one-hundred foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment?
Did you know that Iraq’s Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers?
Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?
Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers?
Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3,500 new officers each 8 weeks?
Did you know there are more than 1,100 building projects going on in Iraq which include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities.
Did y ou know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?
Did you know that 4,300,000 Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?
Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?
Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?
Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?
Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a televised debate recently?
… OF COURSE WE DIDN’T KNOW!
WHY DIDN’T WE KNOW…?
OUR MEDIA WOULDN’T TELL US!
Instead of reflecting our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib and people throwing snowballs at the presiden tial motorcades.
Tragically, the lack of accentuating the positive in Iraq serves two purposes:
1) it is intended to undermine the world’s perception of the United States thus minimizing consequent support
2) it is intended to discourage American citizens.
Above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense web site.

Senate takes strongest action yet against Pres. Bush, war
DC
In an aggressive move to counter President Bush’s war plans, the U.S. Senate signed off on a bill Thursday that provides $123 billion to pay for war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The bill, passed 51-47 in the newly Democrat-controlled Senate, orders Bush to begin withdrawing troops within 120 days of the bill being passed.
Most Republicans rejected the bill, refusing to support a bill that imposes a forced troop withdrawal. Bush held a pep rally with members of the Republican Party to help raise support for his plans to continue the war shortly before the bill was passed.
Bush has made it clear that any bill proposed with a timetable will not be passed.

“We stand united in saying loud and clear that when we’ve got a troop in harm’s way, we expect that troop to be fully funded and [when] we’ve got commanders on the ground making tough decisions on the ground, we expect there to be no strings on our commanders,” Bush told the Associated Press.

UW-Madison political science professor David Canon said, “This is the strongest statement made so far about ending the war sooner than later.”

In spite of Bush’s rejection of the bill, Canon said, “Congress has the support of the public and the public does not support the war. An unpopular war can only last so long before it has to end.”

There was a lack of enthusiasm for the bill from the Wisconsin Campus Anti-war Network.

“Proposing a timetable will not be effective because it allows the war to continue. This bill proves that Congress cannot be left to end the war; it’s up to the anti-war movement,” said UW-Madison senior and Wisconsin Anti-war Network member Chris Dols.

The proposed bill was delivered less than four months after Bush’s new plan for continuing the war in Iraq, regardless of the pressures to withdraw from a majority of Americans, according to Canon.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has been open about his disagreement with the Bush administration’s plan since the beginning of the Iraq war four years ago.

With the signing of the bill, “today marks an important step toward ending the war in Iraq,” Feingold said in a statement.

“For the first time, the U.S. Senate will pass binding legislation requiring the President to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. While this is long overdue, it is a big step in the right direction and it brings us closer to ending our involvement in this disastrous war,” he said.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Like a poker game only this one is with the lives of our troops. And the Dems can finish playing it in Hell if I had my wish.

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
UK
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades – where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem – because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history ‘as a vehicle for promoting political correctness’.
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into ’emotive and controversial’ history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting ‘anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils’.
It added: “In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.

“But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques.”

A third school found itself ‘strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination’.

The report concluded: “In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship.”

But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said:

“History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable.”

The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers – particularly at primary level – was leading to history being taught in a ‘shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning’.
Lessons in difficult topics were too often ‘bland, simplistic and unproblematic’ and bored pupils.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
How awful, how horrible it is to see this kind of thing going on. Now we have schools that will not teach something just because someone MIGHT be offended. TUFF! No longer doe the truth matter, no longer does history have meaning to people like this. It makes me sick! I swear the world has turned upside down.
As the quote we all know says….those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Churchill would be disgusted. So many modern brits and modern British public officials would have fit in well with Chamberlain and his fellow appeasers. Stick a fork in the UK, its done and in 100 years will be another Islamic hellhole.