Military officials unveil the new name of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft as “Spirit of Go for Broke,” during a dedication ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, on Wednesday. The name stems from a WWII battle cry. (Marco Garcia / AP Photo)
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It was Fathers who preserved our Freedom from tyrants in WWII.
It was Fathers who froze at the Chosin, preserving our Freedom
It was Fathers who went to a far away place called Vietnam to preserve our Freedom
It was Fathers who went to Grenada, Panama, Iraq and now the War today.
Thank you to all Fathers for Protecting and Defending us through the years
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
The North Korean leadership has told its people to raise the national flag at 2pm (1500 AEST) on Sunday, in what may be a sign that Pyongyang will go ahead with a missile launch test, a Japanese government official was quoted as saying.
Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun also quoted the Japanese official as saying that the North Koreans had been instructed to monitor television and other broadcasts for a “message to the people”.
North Korea prepares to test missile that can reach USA
Seoul: North Korea loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad, preparing to test as early as Sunday a missile that might be able to reach the US mainland, media reported.
The reports follow US government warnings that the communist North is accelerating preparations to test a Taepodong-2 missile.
A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that a test may be imminent. South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper said intelligence authorities of Seoul and Washington had made the assessment, based on satellite images, that the North had loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and moved 10 large tanks of liquid fuel close by.
The Taepodong-2 is a three-stage missile, but the warhead section hadn’t been loaded yet, the paper said, quoting an unidentified high-level South Korean government official. South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Choo Kyu-ho couldn’t confirm the report.
Japan’s Foreign Minister and the US ambassador to Japan on Saturday called North Korea’s possible missile test a provocative action, and Tokyo urged Pyongyang through diplomatic channels not to proceed with the launch, news reports said.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Aso and US Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer met on Saturday evening.
Japan’s concern can be traced back to 1998, when North Korea test-fired a Taepodong-1 ballistic missile over northern Japan, claiming it was a satellite launch. There were reports that Japan had dispatched two Aegis destroyers to the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean.
NK warned over ‘provocative’ test (CXN/AP)
TOKYO, Japan — The U.S. and Japan both urged North Korea to halt preparations for a test-launch of a long-range missile, after Japanese and South Korean news reports said the North had loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and could test-fire the missile as early as Sunday.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned North Korea on Sunday Tokyo would regard any missile that dropped on Japan as an attack, the Reuters news service reported.
“If it is dropped on Japan, it will complicate the story. It will be regarded as an attack,” Aso said on a Fuji TV program.
“The possibility is not zero of a missile dropping on Japan. That’s why we are worried,” Aso said on the program, according to Reuters.
North Korean officials, however, denied that preparations for a launch of a Taepodong-2 missile — with the capacity to reach the U.S. — were under way, according to a South Korean lawmaker quoted by Japan’s Kyodo News service.
Wild Thing’s comment…..
A president with spine and foresight could have solved this problem in 1993 and 1994. Unfortunately we were stuck with Clinton. He sent the preening Carter; Kim Il Sung laughed and made a total fool of him. And here we are 12 years later, just about to fall within range of North Korean nuclear weapon delivery systems perfected after Carter “solved” the problem and got his standing ovation from the assembled clowns in Oslo.
“It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake,” the Massachusetts Democrat told a crowd of cheering leftists Tuesday at the “Take Back America” conference in Washington. “It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution.”
He called on President Bush to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of the year. Sen. Hillary Clinton disagreed and was booed. Thus, Mr. Kerry, in his bid to remake himself as the antiwar partisan his liberal base has wanted all along, has flip-flopped his way to an even bigger self-contradiction than the one that did him in two years ago.
This is just too convenient. The supposed change of heart comes at the very moment President Bush’s polling numbers ticked up on news of terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi’s death; at the very moment an Iowa poll places Mr. Kerry behind John Edwards among Democratic voters there for 2008; at the moment other Democratic hopefuls like Mrs. Clinton are being called formidable by Republican commentators; at the moment John Kerry is being written off as a has-been among presidential contenders.
Consistency has never been Mr. Kerry’s strong suit, but this is exceptional. We don’t know whether the actions are sheerly cynical or a cynical calculation coupled with colossal bumbling. It would be “bumbling” because prospects in Iraq are looking better this week than they have in some time, and American voters are noticing. The Iraqi government has filled key cabinet posts. A massive raid on insurgent positions is underway (452 raids and 104 insurgent deaths have reportedly happened since Zarqawi’s death). Even if this is not “the beginning of the end” of al Qaeda in Iraq, the way that bullish officials in Baghdad were quoted as saying yesterday, the timing suggests that Mr. Kerry might not even care if it was. The position he espoused this week would doubtlessly unintentionally play right into the hands of the enemy’s strategy, which is to survive long enough to grind away the American will to fight.
Mr. Kerry was a flip-flopper during the 2004 campaign. Now, apparently, he is an even bigger flip-flopper. He seems not to have learned anything from 2004. Even now, with more than two years to go until his next shot at the presidency, his finger in the wind still directs him, even on matters as vital as Iraq.
Wild Thing’s comment…..
I just can’t stand to even hear a MR. in front of Hanoi Kerry’s name. UGH!
A toast to
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My blog started on September 21,2005 and I want to thank each one of you for your awesome support, kindness and friendships. You all mean so much to me! Thank you for your input, your comments, your joy, rants and tears as we talk about the good, bad and ugliness in this world.
We support our troops together as one and I love you for that too. Thank you to all of you that are Veterans, thank you for serving our country and even today going that extra mile as you get the word out on things happening that are against America and your sharing about politics, and the war.
Thank you for the pings, the trackbacks and support since day one of my having this little blog. It has all meant so much to me. I have met some of the finest men and women in the entire world from having this blog and I am truly blessed and honored.
Thank you to the troops, thank you for peeking in here and your emails letting me know how you are doing.
Our friendships will go on into forever and always live in my heart.
On this day, Theodore’s World blog aka PC Free Zone has hit the 100,000 mark.
I toast each one of you and there is plenty of champaign for each of you.
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Chavez: Venezuela to Buy 24 Russian Fighter Jets This Year
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela will purchase 24 new Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets this year — and may purchase more — while his government moves forward with plans to set up factories to produce Kalashnikov assault rifles under license.
Chavez said Wednesday the SU-30 jets will replace a fleet of U.S.-made F-16s, which Venezuela has had trouble maintaining because the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has refused to sell Caracas parts.
“First we are going to buy 24 Sukhoi S-30’s and we are going to leave open the possibility of a future acquisition” of Sukhoi S-35s, said Chavez, speaking at a packed auditorium in Caracas.
Chavez said he could imagine a Sukhoi fighter jet launching a missile at an invading U.S. aircraft carrier anchored off La Guaira, a seaport located along Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, from skies above the central city of Valencia.
“From Valencia, or even farther, a Sukhoi plane can fire at an invading vessel stopped in front of La Guaira, and it doesn’t miss my friend,” he said.
Speaking to hundreds of soldiers at a military base earlier Wednesday, Chavez said the first shipment of Russian-built jets would arrive in this oil-rich South American country by the end of the year.
Wearing olive green military fatigues and a red paratrooper’s beret, Chavez personally handed out newly-acquired Kalashnikov rifles to soldiers after being presented with his own brand new AK-103 assault rifle.
Venezuela “is going to set up the first Kalashnikov factory in South America,” said Chavez, whose “revolutionary” government is buying 100,000 Russian-made AK-103 assault rifles along with ammunition and accessories.
Chavez used surging oil revenues to modernize Venezuela’s military, signing defense deals worth an estimated US$2.7 billion (euro2 billion) with countries including Russia and Spain.
Despite Washington’s objections, Venezuela is purchasing 15 Russian helicopters for US$200 million (euro160 million), and officials say they hope to buy 18 more.
Washington announced last month it was curtailing arms sales to Venezuela, saying the South American nation has failed to cooperate in counterterrorism efforts.
“We are preparing for the defense of sacred land,” Chavez said Wednesday after personally distributing new rifles among the soldiers at Fort Tiuna, Venezuela’s main military facility.
Wild Thing’s comment……
These men like Chavez are nuts, they are insane and that to me is what makes them dangerous to the world. How does a person get through to an individual that has no reality of how things truly are. OH wait, the Dems are like that too. (sigh)
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Close Up
Wild Thing’s comment……..“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, “The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”
The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Most military members end their careers by the time they are half his age, but one Army doctor says he would rather come out of retirement to help the troops than watch from the sidelines.
Tomorrow, retired Army Reserve Col. William Bernhard, a 75-year-old surgeon, will start a journey to Afghanistan, his third deployment in the war on terror.
“It’s a great opportunity for me to serve the young men and women who, as we all know, have medical and surgical problems,” said Bernhard. “We need trained, experienced physicians to take care of them, and I feel honored that I’ve been selected to go over there and provide medical care for these troops.”
Bernhard, who lives in Cecil County, Md., has over 40 years’ medical experience, directing anesthesia at the University of Maryland’s shock trauma center for 10 of those years. He said he has trained countless military medics in the emergency room, and he remains one of the Army’s most experienced flight surgeons, keeping his skills up part time at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
“It doesn’t take any training for me to go to war,” he said. “All I have to do is get new uniforms … and qualify again with the 9-millimeter (pistol).”
Bernhard said every February he calls the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va., headquarters for the Army and Air Guard, and talks to the people in charge of a program called “BOG,” for “Boots on the Ground,” which puts doctors in field hospitals for 90-day rotations.
Over the past three years, the National Guard has been operating with fewer doctors than it would like, Bernhard said. “Unfortunately we used to have 850 Guard physicians,” he said. “Now there are under 450 — and less than 400, I’m told, are deployable.” So he takes his turn, helping fulfill the Defense Department’s commitments overseas.
Bernhard said he knows three other physicians who have also come out of the retired reserve to serve actively again.
Going back to active duty is always a funny process, he said:
“I go in to get an ID card, and they punch in my numbers, and they say, ‘You’re retired. You can’t have an ID card.'” The same thing happens as he stands in line to change insurance policies, get new uniforms and all the rest.
Having joined the Marine Corps in 1950, Bernhard was soon discharged due to a knee injury, which he said was a major disappointment. He joined the Navy as an anesthesiologist and served 10 years on active and reserve duty, then switched to the Army Reserve for 22 more years.
When Bernhard leaves his home tomorrow, he will spend about five days at Fort Benning, Ga., before traveling to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. From there he’ll fly to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, then convoy into Kabul, where he will connect with the Oregon Army National Guard’s 141st Support Battalion.
“I don’t sign up when I go overseas for anesthesia because I’ve done all that,” he said. “I’d much rather sign up to be a field surgeon, which means that I can work at a battalion aide station and at a trauma station, and I sign up to work also as a flight surgeon, and that gets me flying a lot of missions and taking care of aviators.”
Last year, he deployed to Iraq with the Mississippi Army National Guard’s 155th Brigade Combat Team. He took charge of medical facilities at five forward operating bases west and south of Baghdad.
“Any time I went outside the wire — and I was out a lot flying all over and doing missions outside the wire — I usually carried a 9mm and a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun because you’re close in to them there, and you’re in villages,” he said.
On Nov. 23, 2005, Bernhard and his unit found themselves guarding a bombed-out building on the Euphrates River 85 miles west of Baghdad. “I was the one with the shotgun, so I had to cover the little alley coming down behind us,” he said. “We got in a firefight for about 10 hours that night. A patrol coming down got within a quarter of a mile of us, and (the insurgents) ambushed them, and they killed one of my medics that night.”
Experiences like that make him want to continue to do all he can to help his fellow servicemembers, he said. Being semi-retired offers him the time to work on research projects while he’s stateside. And thanks to his military background, he can pursue new technologies to help in combat situations.
In Iraq he tested a new stethoscope, which he had been working on for years at the Army’s research lab at Fort Rucker, Ala. “This stethoscope worked magnificently,” he said. “It could work in a Black Hawk (transport helicopter). It worked in a noisy trauma center. It was just great.” This year, a dozen of the new stethoscopes are being sent overseas with Army doctors.
“Here’s an idea that I had that we’ve built, and now it’s starting to be used by the active duty military,” he said. “It feels good.”
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