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I voted against Zarqawi before I voted for him.

I have a plan before I didn’t have a plan.
No. Wait.
I had a plan before I have a plan.
Uh…
First I didn’t have a plan, then I had one.
Now where did I put that thing.

Actual comment by Kerry….

“No matter how brave our soldiers are, no matter how valiant, no matter what their caring,” said US Senator John Kerry, pictured here, “Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun.” Opposition Democrats used President George W. Bush’s secret visit to Iraq as an opportunity to renew their calls for speedy end to America’s military involvement there.

No, there is no truth to the rumor that if my plastic surgery were to ever fail, my eyebrows would be slapping against my knees! And Zarqawi was one of our best Allies, He is going to be missed by all democrats.

Actual quote…….”Have you had enough of a war that is failing to make America more secure?..Democrats will accomplish this with civility, honesty, and fiscal responsibility because on the very first day, we will pass a reform package, Honest Leadership, Open Government, to make the most corrupt, closed Congress in history into the most open and honest one. We will pass our civility package, which will turn the Congress into an arena of ideas instead of an auction house where legislation goes to the highest bidder.”

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Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-Drying Out) speaks with Rep. Sam Farr (D-Moonbat) in the foreground, while Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Senile) stares at the ceiling in the background.

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Where’s an exorcist when you need one? Quick, someone bring me a drink!

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Chucky’s bride!

Ramadi, Iraq
Terrorist-infested Ramadi in the wild west of Iraq is for U.S. troops the meanest place in the country, “the graveyard of the Americans” as graffiti around town boast. There is no better place to observe American troops and the fledgling Iraqi army in combat. That’s why I came. When military public affairs asked where I wanted to be embedded, I told them, “the redder, the better” (red means hostile).
So they packed me off to Camp Corregidor in eastern Ramadi with the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). The 506th’s official motto is “Currahee,” Cherokee for “stands alone.” But they’re better known as the “Band of Brothers” – so dubbed by author Stephen Ambrose and HBO (although the term originally applied to just one company in the regiment).

Michael Fumento has exclusive coverage, with the “Band of Brothers.”

Wild Thing’s comment……
I want to thank Michael Fumento for his email to me about this and for sending me his site. Thank you Michael you are doing a great job of sharing things with us about our awesome troops.
And here is another post I did on this……In Country

Welcome Home… America’s Tribute To Vietnam Veterans
Celebrate our veterans with parades, concerts, and eight days of activity at the Welcome Home Tribute to Vietnam Veterans. This week long procession of thanks invites all who are Vietnam veterans and those who would like to appreciate them to join in the festivities.
Awards will be given, rides on the Huey helicopter, and a Sky Soldiers air assault demonstration will light up the eyes of all visitors. The week will end with a Native American Powwow, veterans luncheons, and a Heartland Benefit concert.
Vietnam era veterans wishing information or to register for the Homecoming may do so by going on-line at:
Welcome Home
or by calling 1-800-335-4587. Tickets for general public go on sale May 11, 2006 at 7:00 am. Tickets available by phone at 1-866-464-2626, or online HERE

My Title would be!!
PC Pentagon Gives Red Carpet Treatment to CULT Islam

U.S. Marines Build Shrine To Islam
We are at war with militant Islam, but you wouldn’t know it from the Pentagon, which is busy erecting a shrine to Islam just five short years after Islamic terrorists destroyed a good chunk of its own building and killed more than 100 of its occupants. Worse, it’s consulting on the project with a Wahhabi-educated cleric posing as a moderate.
Last week, military brass — along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations — dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as a symbol of the military’s “religious tolerance” and “respect” for the faith the enemy uses to attack us. Already, plans are in the works to build by 2009 a bigger mosque at the Marine base in Quantico so Muslim service members can have a “proper place” to worship, and one that “honors their religious heritage,” officials say, not realizing that the mosque can also be used by the enemy to build a Fifth Column inside the Marines.
The idea for the center came from Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, a young, smooth-talking Muslim chaplain, who wanted a permanent place of worship — and “education” — for the growing number of soldiers who are interested in — and converting to — Islam.
Quantico has only 24 Muslims on base, so the mosque — the first of its kind in the 230-year history of the Corps — will also serve to introduce and draw other Marines to the faith. Large posters explaining how “Muslims love and respect Jesus” (but only as a minor prophet and not the son of God, which they view as blasphemous to Allah) line the inside of the white building. This is one way imam Saifulislam — known on base simply as “Saif” — bridges the faiths to reach out to Christian soldiers. Blacks are particularly susceptible to his pitch.
Apparently, whatever Saifulislam wants, he gets — even at the terrorist prison camp at Gitmo, where he was first assigned after 9-11. There, he recommended that al-Qaida detainees be served halal meals — including traditional dates and lamb — prepared according to Islamic dietary law. The Gitmo menu now boasts 113 Muslim-appropriate meals for the benefit of finicky terrorist tummies.
That’s not all. Thanks to Saifulislam’s advice, our enemy now wakes to the sound of Muslim chaplains calling them to prayer instead of barking dogs or guards, who are now trained in Muslim sensitivity. Also thanks to Saifulislam, detainees can brush up on jihad by reading paperback Pentagon-issued copies of the Quran. They can even finger prayer beads and wear makeshift turbans and skull caps.
While at Gitmo, the Navy imam privately counseled al-Qaida prisoners in their native tongues of Urdu and Arabic. “I must give hope for them to cope,” Saifulislam said. How thoughtful of him.
It turns out Saifulislam also ministered to Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, a fellow Muslim charged with desertion, just before he went AWOL again last year. Hassoun deserted his post in Iraq where he served as an Arabic translator. After he was captured, and after he met with the Quantico imam, he deserted again.
Saifulislam is clean-cut with a Colgate smile. The Pentagon gives him great latitude because he claims to be moderate.
However, Saifulislam studied Islam at a hardline Wahhabi school in Virginia that was raided by federal authorities after 9-11. And one of his mentors is Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami al-Arian terror case. Federal court records allege he gave at least $50,000 in jihad money “to support suicide bombings” in Israel.
Saifulislam, born in Bangladesh, insists he is only a Sunni Muslim and does not adhere to the faith’s more orthodox and militant Wahhabi sect practiced by Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Still, his pro-jihad academic background should raise flags at the Pentagon.
Instead, it’s giving him a permanent taxpayer-supported platform from which to convert grunts to Islam. With the Quantico mosque, the Pentagon is facilitating the study of the holy texts the enemy uses, heretically or not, as their manual of war. This is tantamount to the Marines setting up a Mein Kampf reading room during WWII.
The timing of the dedication ceremony is ironic by half. As the deputy secretary of defense and Marine commandant respectfully removed their shoes to enter the mosque and intoned pleasant PC platitudes about being one big happy “family” with Muslims, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrest of 17 Muslim men who had allegedly plotted to explode fertilizer-based bombs at important sites in Canada. Their plans also called for attacking parliament and even beheading the prime minister. Almost half of them had attended the same mosque in Toronto.
Several military officers chose to sit out the Quantico ceremony than hear deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England mouth “salaams” to the Muslims in attendance. They think the mosque is misplaced, and don’t trust its imam.

“I have great concern about this young Muslim chaplain,” said Lt. Comm. Gary P. Stewart, also a Navy chaplain. “I don’t trust him.”

The Pentagon’s over-the-top gesture is only the latest sign that political correctness is running amok inside the military. Chief chaplains for the Navy, Army and Air Force routinely meet with top leaders from the Islamic Society of North America for PC powwows, even though ISNA is a Saudi-backed group with ties to terrorists. No matter, the Pentagon distributes ISNA literature on Islam and Muslims to help increase troops’ “sensitivity” toward Islam.
The first principle of war is knowing your enemy and what motivates him. The PC-addled Pentagon seems to have forgotten that rule.
Wild Thing’s comments…….
I got sick at my stomach reading this article. This is what happens when politically correct politicians get involved with trying not to offend the enemy instead of killing them. I am sure that most Marines are pissed as hell about this especially after returning from Iraq where they were fighting against the very people that we are now trying to coddle. This is just unbelievable. Zarqawi didn’t create Islam, Islam created him. It’s one thing to give them space to worship it’s another to build a new Mosque.
This is embracing the very cult and culture of death that we are fighting against!! Churchill said “We will never surrender”. We say “We’ll kiss your ass”.
Islam is not a “great religion”. It is a cult/religion following a blood-thirsty murderer. It brooks no opposition, it does not co-exist with other religions. It believes it must reign supreme and will use force to subjegate it’s opponents.
The United States should declare that is does not view Islam as a religion in this country. That will be the ONLY way we can defeat Islam. This will be a long and bloody war.

Al Gore jokes he’s been getting a taste of the movie star treatment.
The former vice president was on the “Tonight” show Thursday night. Host Jay Leno asked about the reaction to Gore’s documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Gore says since he’s been on the Hollywood A-list, he’s had a huge feud with Lindsay Lohan. When Leno asked for details, Gore said Lohan “knows what she did.” The line got a big laugh.
Gore also jokes he might consider a nude scene in his next movie if the script had integrity and it advanced the story.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
File this under the I don’t get it category!
Global warming and nudity?? Just seeing ‘Al Gore’ and ‘nude scene’ in the same sentence makes my eyes hurt. And how could we forget this quote by Al Gore, ” don’t want to diminish the threat of terrorism at all, it is extremely serious, but on a long-term global basis, global warming is the most serious problem we are facing.”…..
…HUH Al?? Hell’s bells you mean global warming is worse then the threat of terrorism?? I think Islam missed the memo on that!

A Marine was attending a college course between missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The professor, an avowed atheist, shocked the Class one day when he walked in, looked toward the ceiling, and said loudly,

“God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.”

The lecture room fell silent and the professor began his lecture. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed,

“Here I am God – still waiting.”

It got down to the last minute when the Marine stood up, walked toward the professor and threw his best punch knocking him off the platform and out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat down. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked,

“What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?”

The Marine calmly replied,

“God is busy today protecting America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to behave like an idiot and say stupid stuff. So He sent me.”

Thank you Jack (Conservative Insurgents) I LOVE this!

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters issued a hurricane warning for parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast on Monday as the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season quickly gained strength in the Gulf of Mexico.
The warning from Longboat Key near Sarasota to the Ochlockonee River south of Tallahassee means Tropical Storm Alberto was expected to produce hurricane conditions within the next 24 hours.
A tropical storm warning remains in effect for Longboat Key to Englewood.
At 11 a.m., Alberto’s winds had increased to 70 mph, up from 50 mph just three hours earlier. The storm was centered about 190 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola and was moving north-northeast at about 7 mph, National Hurricane Center forecasters said.

I live in Sarasota and so far just lots of much needed rain and some wind.

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Fox News host to guest: ‘You’re going to hell!’

“You are the devil!” Banderas exclaimed to Shirley Phelps-Roper. “If you believe in the Bible, miss, you’re going to hell!”

Phelps-Roper, who believes America’s sinful behavior has resulted in God’s cursings rather than blessings, was appearing on “The Big Story” last night to talk about why members of her Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., protest at funerals for slain U.S. troops with slogans such as “Thank God for 9-11,” “Thank God for IEDs (improvised explosive devices),” and “God Hates Fags.”
“What would you do if you had a son in the military?” an outraged Banderas asked. “Would you damn him to hell as well? Because you’re gonna join him there if you had a son!”
“I have eight sons and I have three daughters,” responded Phelps-Roper, “and none of them would dare, dare fight for a nation who has made God their No. 1 enemy.”
Banderas engaged in a heated, rapid-fire, name-calling exchange with Phelps-Roper, which included:
Banderas: “The Bible says ‘the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil,’ [from the Book of] Proverbs. ‘Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.’ Perverted speech like yours: ‘God hates fags.’ You are preaching absolute B.-., and you know the final letter.”
Phelps-Roper: “If you don’t tell them that this nation is full of idolatry, full of adulteries …
Banderas: “Full of insane people like yourself, ma’am.”
Phelps-Roper: “You’re proud. You’re proud of your sins. You can’t do enough sinning. You think ‘gay’ pride, bimbo. You have sinned away your day of grace.”
Banderas: “OK, you are an abomination.”
Phelps-Roper: “America is doomed. America is doomed. … Before your eyes, missy, you’re gonna see the destruction of America.”
Banderas: “If America is doomed, then why don’t you get out? Why are you in this country? Why are you an American? Are you an American?”
Phelps-Roper: “I am exactly where my God put me to tell you plainly, that you are going to hell, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Banderas: “Why don’t you take your church to another country, then, ma’am? Thank you so much. You should not be proud to be an American, and thank you. Good-bye.”
Last week, a Pennsylvania man filed a lawsuit against WBC for its “intentional and outrageous” conduct during and since services were held for his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, who killed in a noncombat vehicle accident in Iraq.
The WBC is planning another protest tomorrow in New Castle, Del., at the funeral of Army Staff Sgt. Darren Harmon, who was killed by an IED.
Wild Thing’s comment……
Thank you Julie, you did GREAT! And thank you Patriot Guard Riders for all the work you do to counter this evil group of military haters.

* Michelle Mallkin
* Stop the ACLU

Sergeant Describes Hunt for Insurgents in Haditha, Denies Coverup
Washington Post
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 11, 2006; Page A01
A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to cover up the shootings, his attorney said.
Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, 26, told his attorney that several civilians were killed Nov. 19 when his squad went after insurgents who were firing at them from inside a house. The Marine said there was no vengeful massacre, but he described a house-to-house hunt that went tragically awry in the middle of a chaotic battlefield.

“It will forever be his position that everything they did that day was following their rules of engagement and to protect the lives of Marines,” said Neal A. Puckett, who represents Wuterich in the ongoing investigations into the incident. “He’s really upset that people believe that he and his Marines are even capable of intentionally killing innocent civilians.”

Wuterich’s detailed version of what happened in the Haditha neighborhood is the first public account from a Marine who was on the ground when the shootings occurred. As the leader of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Wuterich was in the convoy of Humvees that was hit by a roadside bomb. He entered the house from which the Marines believed enemy fire was originating and made the initial radio reports to his company headquarters about what was going on, Puckett said.

“I can confirm that that version of events is consistent with our position on this case,” Myers said. “What this case comes down to is: What were the rules of engagement, and were they followed?”

Puckett said that while Wuterich was evaluating the scene, Marines noticed a white, unmarked car full of “military-aged men” lingering near the bomb site.
Wuterich told Puckett that no one was emotionally rattled by Terrazas’s death because everyone had a job to do, and everyone was concerned about further casualties. As Wuterich began briefing the platoon leader, Puckett said, AK-47 shots rang out from residences on the south side of the road, and the Marines ducked.
A corporal with the unit leaned over to Wuterich and said he saw the shots coming from a specific house, and after a discussion with the platoon leader, they decided to clear the house, according to Wuterich’s account.
There’s a threat, and they went to eliminate the threat,” Puckett said.
A four-man team of Marines, including Wuterich, kicked in the door and found a series of empty rooms, noticing quickly that there was one room with a closed door and people rustling behind it, Puckett said. They then kicked in that door, tossed a fragmentation grenade into the room, and one Marine fired a series of “clearing rounds” through the dust and smoke, killing several people, Puckett said.
Although it was almost immediately apparent to the Marines that the people dead in the room were men, women and children — most likely civilians — they also noticed a back door ajar and believed that insurgents had slipped through to a house nearby, Puckett said. The Marines stealthily moved to the second house, kicking in the door, killing one man inside and then using a frag grenade and more gunfire to clear another room full of people, he said.
Wuterich, not having found the insurgents, told the team to stop and headed back to the platoon leader to reassess the situation, Puckett said, adding that his client knew a number of civilians had just been killed.
Neighborhood residents have offered a different account, saying that the Marines went into the houses shooting and ignored pleas from the civilians to spare them.
For the complete article please click HERE , I only put some pieces of it here at Theodore’s.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
The press and Murtha decided to execute Marines before a complete investigation.

N. Korea threat on US spy flights
Seoul, June 11: North Korea’s Air Force Command on Sunday threatened to “punish” the US for its spy flights over the communist state, recalling the fate of a US Navy plane it shot down 37 years ago.
In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, the Air Force said that a US RC-135 reconnaissance aeroplane had made flights over its territorial waters on June 6, 8 and 10.
Describing the alleged US espionage flights as “openly crying out for a pre-emptive attack” on the communist state, the command warned of a possible repeat of 1969, when it shot down another US Navy plane, killing all 31 crew. “The (North Korean) Air Force seriously warns the US imperialists that it will sternly punish the aggressors if their planes continue illegally intruding into the sky on espionage missions,” it said.
“They had better not forget the miserable end EC-121 met in the 1960s.” North Korean fighters shot the reconnaissance aeroplane down off the country’s east coast in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) in April 1969.
Another US-North Korean incident occurred when North Korea fired missiles at an SR-71 spy plane in August 1981. The Blackbird jet was undamaged.
North Korea has been sensitive to US spy flights, with its media citing military sources as issuing a monthly report on US aerial espionage. Sunday’s statement was rare in that it was issued in the name of the Air Force Command.
North Korea has claimed the US is preparing to invade the communist country despite repeated US denials. The two sides are locked in a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. Pyongyang declared in February 2005 that it had built nuclear weapons. During six-way talks in September, North Korea agreed in principle to dismantle its weapons programme in exchange for diplomatic and economic benefits and security guarantees.
But North Korea has boycotted the talks since November when it said US financial sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over allegations of money laundering were blocking progress. Pyongyang has said that it would return to talks — which involve both Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia — only after the sanctions are lifted. One North Korea expert here said on Sunday’s strongly-worded North Korean statement may have been designed to draw US attention back to the deadlocked nuclear issue after Washington snubbed Pyongyang’s offer of bilateral talks.
“Given North Korea’s traditional pattern of diplomacy, it is time to get tough to bring the US interest back,” Nam Sung-Wook, a North Korea expert and professor at Korea University, said.
The US has rejected an invitation from Pyongyang for US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill to visit the country and has urged the communist state to come back to six-way talks unconditionally.
Wild Thing’s comment…..
How about if we send a couple of F-22’s along as escort. They had better not forget this is not the 1960s. There’s a new Sheriff in town. He’s not up for re-election and the U.S. public loves to see creeps like Kim Jong-Il get theirs. The MSM has already whined NK is more dangerous than Iraq was. They’d look awfully stupid for criticizing a reprisal on NK if they took hostile action against our Armed Forces.
I just wonder if they took hostile action against a reconnaisance plane, as they threatened, that is the first thing I would target. Their little “trophy” would be Tomahawked to oblivion. It’s still a commissioned vessel with the U.S. Navy, so technically it’s ours….we can do what we want with it.