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And this…………………

From
the heart of Major General,
USMC (Ret) Richard Cooke

I often mention in my posts a little
Mexican restaurant that I frequent here in San Diego that goes by the name of
Las Quatro Milpas, which serves the best authentic Mexican food in San Diego. I
mention it today, because of what has changed when I stand in that long line in
the heat down on Logan Avenue waiting for those 5 dear Mexican women to serve
the hundreds of us who show up before I melt in the hot sun.

The line outside of Quatro Milpas is a
place to meet new friends, reunite with people you have not seen in weeks or
months, but happen to get that same desire for that Chorizo at the same time you
did, so that every time you show up again, you can restart your friendship as if
it never stopped. Everyone has a story about how long they have been coming to
Quatro Milpas or how they discovered it, or how long was the longest line they
have stood in waiting to get to their food.

Cease-fire, my ass!

To every person who believes that you
can reason with these animals, I must ask you where your mind went.
It is the weakness of the free-world’s
NON-response that has allowed the terrorist threat to grow into a movement that
threatens our very existence. When a U.S. soldier can be dragged through the
streets of Somalia and our response is to LEAVE, when 280 Marines can be bombed
in their sleep and our response is to LEAVE, when after terrorists kill Spanish
civilians on a train, and their nation’s response is to elect capitulating
socialists who order the immediate retreat of their soldiers from Iraq, and so
on, and so on, what are the terrorists to think, but that the free world has
become a pussy?

The fact that a majority of Americans think this nation needs AN EXCUSE for
going after terrorism after 911 scares the hell out of me.
It suggests that we as
a nation will eventually fail to produce the men and women who every day, stand
between freedom and tyranny.
Yesterday, San Diego had its Gay Pride
Parade. Oh, the joy.. It was billed as the largest ‘celebration’ in the cities
history. THIS city.  (The City I grew up in
during WWII! md) The very city where sailors
came home to after fighting in Midway. The city that trains half of this nations
Marines, hosts the USS Ronald Reagan, the USS Nimitz, the former Fightertown
USA…our largest celebration is for the GAY…PRIDE..PARADE. Ponder that with
me, will you?

We are at war.

I want Israel to continue, even escalate their attacks on Lebanon. I want them
to ignore the media, ignore the pundits, and ignore even the weak among them who
want to find a peaceful way out of this current conflict.

History
teaches us that until a bully is beaten, the bully keeps coming.

The free world paid for our freedom in
blood, and if blood is what it will take to keep it, then lets just have at it
now, shall we?

Let Iran and Syria attempt to aid Hezbollah. Let Israel attack them. Let it
escalate until we are forced to fight at Israel’s side. Then, can we for the
last time, just kick some ass until it is over? Every generation must pay this
price, as long as there are those who seek to force us to follow a dictatorial
ideology. Radical Islam says, "Agree or die." In response, we should
stop asking them, if there is a middle ground to be reached. We should be
saying, "Fine, but it is YOU that will die."

Israel, I see you fighting not just for your freedoms, but also
for the world’s. I trust that if you continue, the free world will be forced to
side with you, even if it means that a few of us die in the process. The time is
now. It is time for THIS generation to prove itself worthy of those that came
before us. It is time for us to say NO MORE to the terrorist threat, to find
them and kill them. 
Do not stop fighting, Israel.
Make  the free world help you put an end to this
madness. In doing so, you might help us find the courage and moral convictions
that made us free to begin with, so that one day, little Jewish children, and
old lovers of Mexican food in America  can
go about our daily lives with the freedom that others died to give us.

I am adding this comment from

John
5 (VN 69-70)
John
is also a Retired Police Officer of 30 years
15 of those years on a Swat Team

My
comment is: do we as a united Republic have what it takes? I am truly worried
that we don’t. Because as a people of ONE country/nation we are not united,
and as he says we have it to good.  Many can not fathom what could happen.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me that
feels this way. I have shed blood for this Country on more that one occasion and
I hate to see this happening here, the divided country, the arrogance of those
that think “it will never happen here”. It means that my friends that I lost
and that what I have done is for nothing. Sometimes that’s just the way I
feel. The new breed does not care what the earlier generations have done, it’s
all for knout.

So
many relatives on both side of my family have given their all for this country.
Almost every war except Korea. One was one of the first Sheriff’s of the NW
Territory. So I have deep loyalty to the Republic, and become upset with those
that don’t.

Thank you John and thank you Major General Cooke and thank you to all Veterans and our troops today.

Jack H. everyone at Theodore’s World wishes you the best birthday! And many, many more. Thank you for serving our country and all you have done to help make this the land of the free.
Thank you for your kindness and friendship, comments and input to this blog and to my life.

Wild Thing and the Theodore’s World commandos

Jenin: 3 Hamas members killed while making bombs
Palestinian sources say three Hamas members killed after setting off explosives belt accidentally
Three Hamas members were killed by an explosion which took place Friday in the village of Dir Abu Daif, in the Jenin area. Palestinian sources say that the blast apparently took place because of a ‘work accident’ which took place while preparing explosives.
The AP news agencies reported that three Hamas members were brought to hospital, with the body of one in two parts. Palestinian security sources say he was likely a Hamas member who accidentally set off an explosives belt he was wearing.

A Lebanese woman watches her husband count U.S dollar bills they received from a Hizbollah member, at a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb in Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group’s support among Lebanon’s Shi’ites and embarrassing the Beirut government. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (LEBANON) Email Photo Print Photo

This is just a little from the article, it makes me too ill to put the whole idiotic thing here, sorry…………….

A Path To Lasting Peace
The writer is the Secretary of State

Looking ahead, our most pressing challenge is to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within Lebanon to return to their homes and rebuild their lives. This reconstruction effort will be led by the government of Lebanon, but it will demand the generosity of the entire world.

For our part, the United States is helping to lead relief efforts for the people of Lebanon, and we will fully support them as they rebuild their country. As a first step, we have increased our immediate humanitarian assistance to $50 million. To secure the gains of peace, the Lebanese people must emerge from this conflict with more opportunities and greater prosperity.

Wild Thing’s comment……
WRONGO Condi!
This is NOT good imo, but I have nothing to say about it so bye bye tax dollars to the Hezbollah! What the hell else did they think would happen? That the Hezbollah would say, ah no we don’t want the money, give it to the Israeli’s or to those living in Lebanon that are the few and far between non Hezbollah.
Let’s see, we give money to the Hezbollah while they are burning OUR Flag, saying they want us dead along with all the Jews in Israel. Sure that makes a whole lot of sense to me. NOT!
And another thing…..grrrrrr, you know the tons of photos a person sees or can see online of Muslim women, weeping, gnashing or is it knashing their teeth, whatever, with their few rotten teeth they have for the camera’s, the faces they make of such pretend grief at the loss of a loved one that was killed in the war instead of as a suicide bomber that would have made them rejoice?????!!!! Well the wailing and gnashing stops when the bucks show up don’t they. The next freakin thing we will hear out of the vile mouths is they “ want to go to Disneyland” God help us!
Since Russia has armed Iran and Syria then in turn they armed the Hezbollah and Hamas which issued orders to take IDF hostages and trigger the war. Let the damn Russians pick up the entire tab.

Israeli commando dies in Lebanon raid

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants’ stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.
Hezbollah said its guerrillas foiled the raid after a gunbattle, and the Israeli army said one officer was killed and two soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
Witnesses said Israeli missiles destroyed a bridge during the raid — the first major violation of the U.N.-imposed cease-fire that took effect Monday following 34 days of fighting.
The Israeli army said the special forces operation aimed “to prevent and interfere with terror activity against Israel, especially the smuggling of arms from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah.” It said the commando team completed its mission.
The army said such operations would be carried out until “an effective monitoring unit” of Lebanese or multinational troops was in place to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its arsenal.
Hezbollah TV and Lebanese security officials said Israeli helicopters dropped off a commando team outside the village of Boudai west of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to release information to the media, said the Israelis apparently were seeking a guerrilla target in a nearby school but had no other details. The officials also reported heavy overflights of Israeli jets.
Such a bold operation risked scuttling the fragile cease-fire and suggested Israel was going after a major target near Baalbek — perhaps to rescue two Israeli soldiers snatched by Hezbollah on July 12, or to try to capture a senior guerrilla official to trade for the soldiers.
Hezbollah has said it wants to exchange the two soldiers for Arab prisoners, but the U.N. cease-fire resolution demands Hezbollah unconditionally release the soldiers.
Local media said Sheik Mohammed Yazbeck, a senior Hezbollah official in the Bekaa and a member of the Shura council of the group, may have been the target. Yazbeck is a native of Boudai.
Israeli troops have killed several guerrillas who Israel said threatened its troops in south Lebanon since the cease-fire, and warplanes have flown over the country. But the cease-fire allows military action in self-defense, and the commando raid was by far the most serious incident since Monday.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said Lebanese authorities found blood at the scene of the raid, indicating Israeli casualties. Salloukh, speaking to reporters after meeting with U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen in Beirut, said he informed the U.N. team of the Israeli action in Baalbek and said the U.N. team would raise the issue with Israeli authorities.
“If Israel continues its violations, it is the responsibility of the (U.N.) Security Council to take action and ask Israel to stop these violations,” he said.
A provincial government official, Bekaa Valley Gov. Antoine Suleiman, confirmed the Israeli troop landing. He told the privately owned Voice of Lebanon radio station that the landing party brought with it two vehicles that were later withdrawn after clashes.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV said the Israeli commando force landed before dawn and was driving into Boudai when it was intercepted by guerrillas who forced it to retreat under the cover of warplanes, which staged mock raids.
Hezbollah officials on the scene said overflights from Israeli jet fighters drowned the clatter of helicopters as they flew into the foothills of the central Lebanese mountains, dropping commandos and two vehicles they used to drive into the village when the Hezbollah fighters intercepted them in a field.
The commandos identified themselves as the Lebanese army, but the guerrillas grew suspicious and gunfire erupted, the officials said.
Israeli helicopters fired missiles as the commandos withdrew and flew out of the area an hour later, they said.
Witnesses saw bandages and syringes at the site. The also saw a destroyed bridge about 500 yards from the area where the landing took place, after missiles were fired by Israeli aircraft.
Overflights were reported Friday night in the same area.
Israel said late Friday its warplanes have not attacked Lebanon since the cease-fire took effect.
Baalbek is the birthplace of the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hezbollah. The area in the eastern Bekaa Valley, 60 miles north of the Israeli border, is a major guerrilla stronghold.
The U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution calls for an immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations.
In letters to Lebanese and Israeli leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned the two countries against occupying additional territory and told them to refrain from responding to any attacks “except where clearly required in immediate self-defense.”
Annan also told Israel and Lebanon that once the cessation of hostilities took effect there must be no firing from the ground, sea or air into the other side’s territory or at its forces.

Wild Thing’s comment………………
“Such a bold operation risked scuttling the fragile cease-fire and suggested Israel was going after a major target near Baalbek”
Give me a break! Blaming Israel for this and making it sound like they were the ones to break the so called ceasefire is a lie. The Hezbollah never disarmed.
Israel gave up Gaza and South Lebanon and got rockets and Jihad in return.
Insane greed, jealousy and hate, destruction and death in the name of Allah, because the Jews in their little nation are productive and intelligent. Instead of contributing to the world, the Hezbollah and Hamas seek to destroy it.
We need to keep remembering this…..the Ceasefire was broken the minute the Hezbollah said they would not disarm and they never did, but we knew they wouldn’t. The Hezbollah broke the cease fire within hours firing into Israel. Of course the article below does not say that, more typical BS agenda of the terrorist hugging Media.
The Hamaz, Hezbollah and Iran threaten Israel with destruction every week. This has stripped all pretensions from the Arab/Palestinian agenda. The Muslim goal is to destroy Israel. Not to get back “occupied lands” and then be content and make peace.
Hudna is integral to Jihad. Islam believes in permanent Jihad until the whole world is Muslim. There are such things as honest treaties and honest cease fires. This is never the case with Islam because Jihad is eternal, so the Muslim is commanded.

“Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well-versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century. Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.
In essence, this is religious license to renege on ones word, and to regroup, rearm, and reorganize to attack when ones enemy is lulled into thinking that one will be honest and fulfill ones side of a truce. This is tactic has been used over and over in Islam’s history, and is used to great effect today by Yasser Arafat, Hamas, al-Aqsa, and other Islamic terrorists all over the world. Recent examples include Fallujah and Najaf. What Westerners need to do is to read Islamic scripture and learn that in Islam there is no concept of permanent submission to any other power than Allah. Treaties mean nothing. Beware the hudna.”….from Clarity and Resolve

What the media doesn’t show you: Military personnel and their families protesting the protesters.

N. Korean Authorities Urge Civilians to Evacuate Near Site of Possible Nuke Test
Reports from Seoul Korea, (daily newspaper Joongang Ilbo in Seoul) via the Japanese Jiji press agency, that South Korean intelligence has intercepted radio messages/communications in North Korea, which were aired last month, to civilians in the Kilju County, Northern Hamgyeong Province area of northeastern D.P.R.K., to evacuate.
PDF file Map of area

“By late April 2005 there were reports that North Koreans were constructing a reviewing stand and filling in a tunnel, both signs that an underground nuclear test was imminent. Tunnels for underground nuclear tests are different from regular mines, since they have to be plugged up to contain the blast. Satellite imagery reportedly indicated the North Koreans were “stemming” the tunnel, taking material back into the shaft to plug it up. Satellite imagery indicated that North Korea was shipping concrete and grouting to the site, possibly to plug the tunnel. Although there were signs of continued activity near tunnels in the Kilju area, there was disagreement among intelligence agencies as to whether the recent activity indicated an impending nuclear test.
Other reports indicated that the satellite imagery showed the North Koreans had dug and refilled a significant hole at the suspected test site. The hole was said to have been dug in a manner consistent with preparations for an underground nuclear test, but there was no conclusive indication as to whether the North Koreans had deposited a weapon inside. These reports indicate that the shaft is a vertical shaft, rather than a horizontal tunnel. Imagery also detected frequent truck movement bringing cranes and other equipment. The presence of cranes is consistent with a vertical shaft, but not a horizontal tunnel.
Imagery was also reported to show recent construction of an elaborate reviewing stand for visiting dignitaries a few kilometers from the suspected test site. The reviewing stand was considered a significant indicator of a possible nuclear test. American intelligence had overlooked the reviewing stand built prior to the 1998 Taepodong-1 missile launch. The North Koreans had visitors from other countries invited to watch the launch.
The source in the South Korean government said “our interpretation is that following North Korea’s underground nuclear blast test, they wish to head off any escape of radiation that would be a threat to the nearby civilian population and are evacuating as such.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Since when did North Korea care about the welfare of its citizens? I would not be surprised if there were a technical delegation of Iranian nuclear scientists and purchasing agents staying in one of the major Pyongyang Hotels at this very time, or maybe in a DPRK government guest house.
Could a North Korean nuke test be Ahmadinejad’s August 22nd announcement? Just wondering.
Here is our MOAB test off of Florida……….VIDEO

New York – Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took time out from an event commemorating 9/11 to take a swipe at a campaign commercial by John Spencer, her likely Republican opponent in November.
In the commercial, slated to run in New York City and on suburban cable stations, Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, accuses Clinton of being soft on national security issues and as such, aiding al-Qaida strongman Osama bin Laden.
It was Clinton who helped lead the Democratic attempt to filibuster the renewal of the Patriot Act, though she eventually voted for it.
The controversial Spencer commercial proceeds to superimpose images of Clinton and bin Laden together.

An angry Sen. Clinton told a group of huddled reporters: “It’s just outrageous that we see for political purposes someone not only being factually inaccurate about my voting record, but putting Osama bin Laden on the TV screen and trying to make a connection with me,” Clinton said.

“This is beyond outrageous. We need to get back to the business of trying to work together in a bipartisan, or really a non-partisan way to win the war against terror. I think people do a great disservice accusing patriotic Americans of being in bed with Osama bin Laden. It is a terrible injustice to use that in a campaign.”

Clinton then added: “I take a seat to nobody when it comes to the issue of national security.”

The Republican primary is slated for Sept. 12, when Spencer is expected to defeat Katherine (KT) McFarland, the only other candidate on the Republican ballot. McFarland, like Clinton has also criticized the Spencer campaign tactics.
Latest polls give Clinton more than a 25 point advantage over either Republican opponent.
The former first lady is seeking her second term as New York’s junior senator and is widely believe to be eyeing a run for the White House.

Here is the LINK to the AD

Bangladesh and France offers troops for Lebanon

UNITED NATIONS – Nearly 50 countries that could contribute the 13,000 new troops needed to expand the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon met Thursday amid concern over the ground rules and firepower the soldiers could use.
Bangladesh pledged up to 2,000 troops and France offered 200, a disappointment to some who expected more from the country likely to lead the force.
In an opening speech, Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown said at least 3,500 troops are needed to deploy within 10 days to expand the 2,000-strong U.N. force trying to help maintain an uneasy truce between Israel and Hezbollah militants.
“Every moment we delay is a moment of risk that the fighting could re-erupt,” he said.
Malloch Brown told diplomats from the 49 countries invited to the meeting that details on how the expanded force will operate and the rules of engagement will make clear that “this will be a strong, robust force, equipped and authorized to take all necessary action in its key tasks.”
The U.N. resolution that led to Monday’s cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah after a brutal 34-day war authorized up to 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help 15,000 Lebanese troops extend their authority throughout south Lebanon, which Hezbollah controls, as Israeli troops withdraw. The aim is to create a buffer zone free of Hezbollah fighters between the Litani River and the U.N.-drawn border, about 18 miles to the south.
Malloch Brown said the draft rules of engagement call for the use of force to prevent hostile activities in the buffer zone and to resist attempts to prevent the U.N. force, known as UNIFIL, from discharging its duties. The rules also allow UNIFIL to use force in assisting the Lebanese government if asked to secure its borders to prevent foreign forces, weapons and ammunition from entering the country, he said.
France and Italy said earlier Thursday that the peacekeeping mandate — partly written by the French — is not explicit enough, and demanded the U.N. set clear rules of engagement for troops that would bolster the force. A key concern, not mentioned by Malloch Brown, is whether the force will be called on to disarm Hezbollah fighters, as called for in a September 2004 U.N. resolution.
Even though the Israel withdrawal and handover to U.N. forces has gone well thus far, some potential contributors are believed to be concerned about avoiding confrontation with Hezbollah or being caught in the middle of a future conflict. Germany — uneasy given its Nazi past of any possible military confrontation with Israeli soldiers — said it wouldn’t send any but is expected to provide logistical support.
Italy has said it could quickly send as many as 3,000 soldiers — up from its current contribution of about 50 — but Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s office said that he was pushing for explicit ground rules. In a telephone conversation late Wednesday with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Prodi called for “a clear mandate, without any ambiguity and with very precise rules of engagement, for the soldiers who will be deployed,” the premier’s office said.

UPDATE:
President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that France will immediately double to 400 troops its contingent in the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
The statement from Chirac’s office came after he spoke by phone with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. France currently leads the UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon, and its decision-making on its role in a strengthened force has been closely watched.
Chirac told Annan that France “will immediately double its current contribution by sending 200 men,” the statement said.
The plan will be presented at a U.N. meeting in New York later Thursday to flesh out which countries will participate in the peacekeeping force as it expands from the current 2,000 troops to as many as 15,000, Chirac’s office said.

Wild Thing’s comment……
That’s almost enough cooks for the fighting men who need to be stationed there. Hey maybe they can teach Hezbollah how to surrender.

Iran to launch major military maneuvers
The Jerusalem Post
Iran will launch a series of large-scale military maneuvers across the country and has not made plans for an end to the ongoing war games, the army said Thursday.

“The maneuvers are aimed at introducing Iran’s new defensive doctrine,” military spokesman Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by state-run television.

He said the exercises would begin on Saturday in the south east of the country. “It will continue in the whole of Iran, stage by stage for an unspecified period,” Ashtiani said.

The announcement came as Iran faces heightened international scrutiny because of its contentious nuclear program and for supporting the Lebanese Hizbullah guerrillas.
Iran denies Israeli accusations it is arming and training Hizbullah fighters.
Ashtiani praised Hizbullah for its month-long fight against Israel. “Human forces can decide fate of a war. We saw it in Lebanon,” the general said, echoing Hizbullah claims it won the war by resisting a massive bombing and ground offensive for more than a month before a UN-brokered cease-fire came into place earlier this week.

The military spokesman said Iran’s maneuvers reflected the current level of tension in the Middle East. “We have to be prepared against any threat and we should be a role model for other countries,” local newspapers quoted Gen. Ashtiani, as saying. “Our army is ready to defuse all plots against Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The military exercise, involving 12 infantry regiments, is called “The Blow of Zolfaghar,” in reference to a sword that belonged to Imam Ali, one of the most revered figures of Islam for Shi’ite Muslims. A majority of Iran’s 70 million people are Shi’ite.
On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said that Iran also plans to boost security patrols on its borders.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
So who are they planning on going to war with?
And here a question I have. When they are at war such the Hezbollah and the so called army of Iran etc. They are supposed to pray 5 times a day, I mean IF they are a good Muslim / Muzzbolla and all. . So how do they work in their prayer time and shooting time.
In the film industry there are stand-ins for us. They stand their when lighting a set and for all kinds of reasons. Does the Iranian military have stand-ins for praying for them? Or maybe they are exempt as long as they are killing innocent people.