Theodore's World

Some reason’s why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Let’s see now. . . . .
No Jesus
No Christmas
No television
No cheerleaders
No baseball
No football
No hockey
No golf
No tailgate parties
No Wal-Mart
No Home Depot
No pork BBQ
No hot dogs
No burgers
No chocolate chip cookies
No lobster
No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks
No gumbo
No jambalaya
No Beer
Rags for clothes and towels for hats.
Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he’s sick and there are no doctors.
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower.
More than one wife.
You can’t shave.
Your wives can’t shave.
You can’t shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times.
Your bride is picked by someone else.
She smells just like your donkey.
But your donkey has a better disposition.
Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!
I mean, really, is there a mystery here?
Thank you Jack (Conservative Insurgents) for sending this to me.

Military News
Honored Veteran Takes Lead Defense Position
by Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. “Hognose” O’Brien
Aero-News has learned that USAF Col (Retired) George Everett “Bud” Day MOH, one of the most highly decorated veterans of the Vietnam War, or of US history for that matter, has undertaken to defend “up to 20” Marines who have been accused of crimes up to and including murder in connection with an alleged massacre in Haditha, Iraq.
Col. Day is a veteran, peculiarly enough, of World War II as a Marine, and later of the Army, and then of Korea and Vietnam in the United States Air Force. In Vietnam, he started and led the Misty Super FAC program, which includes among its old boys Dick Rutan and several other aviation luminaries. In a tradition begun by Day, each Misty pilot had a unique numbered callsign beginning, of course, with Misty 1 (Day, of course; Rutan was Misty 40).

Day was marked for success in the Air Force early in his flying career, when he made a “no-chute” ejection from a doomed F-84F and survived. “I bailed out of a burning F-84 in 1957 in England,” he wrote in response to an enquiry from the Free Fall Research Page. “My parachute did not open, but lucky for me I landed in the Queen’s forest, and the riser cords of the chute wove in and out of the pine tree I fell in. I bailed out between 300 and 500 feet and lived.”
On August 24, 1967, then-Major Day was breaking in a new pilot on F-100F “Misty” “fast FAC” duty in the southern reaches of North Vietnam. He was instructing pilot Corwin Kippenham on how best to approach the target, a missile site, when their aircraft was hit. At over 500 knots it became a fireball.
Day ejected, followed by Kippenham, and they landed in North Vietnam near the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam. Day had a broken arm — broken in three places — and a dislocated knee, and the North Vietnamese grabbed him only a mile or so from where Kippenham boarded a helicopter to safety. Later Day escaped, only to be wounded by US fire when he slept too near an enemy artillery site, and ultimately recaptured after being wounded yet again.
In almost six years of captivity, Day endured unspeakable tortures, and, his fellow captives recall, drove his captors wild. In one case he responded to them by singing “the Star Spangled Banner,” which earned him a particularly violent beating — as the other prisoners all joined in, and the guards saw it as a loss of face.
There’s no official list of most highly decorated veterans, but Day and Army Colonel Bob Howard are more or less tied for the top title. There was a more highly decorated veteran in World War II, though: Douglas Macarthur. In all, Day has a staggering 70 awards and decorations, not to mention such post-service honors as having the Sioux City Airport named after him.
After retiring from the Air Force in 1977, Bud Day put his long-dormant law degree to work and he has been a lawyer and an activist for veterans ever since. He has not always won, but government attorneys have come to fear him almost as much as the North Vietnamese prison guards did.

These days, the old warrior even sees a rosy side to his bleak years of captivity: “Freedom has a special taste!” His legal record is a formidable as his military record; he has frequently argued appellate cases, and has taken cases to the Supreme Court and argued them there.
While there has been much reaction to probable charges in the Haditha case, no details have been released, charges laid, nor defendants named by officialdom — yet. But the defendants, whoever they may be — and we hadn’t heard numbers like “20” before — will not lack effective counsel.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
Thank you Col. Day, I believe in our Marines and all of our troops too! God Bless you Sir! God bless and keep our troops safe!

Excerpts from transcript of CNN’s ” Live Today”, Thursday, June 8th,2006
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Fred, one of the most vocal critics of troops in Iraq is Congressman John Murtha. He — last November, as recently as last November, asked — called for U.S. troops to be withdrawn. He joins me now live with reaction to this death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Congressman, it is a pleasure to have you, an outspoken critic in this war, but a very big day for this administration. Is it fair to say that this attack and the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wouldn’t have happened if U.S. troops were not on the ground?
REP. JOHN MURTHA (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Well, I’m not sure about that. I’m not sure it was a bomb that killed him from the air. So I’m not sure about that … There’s no question we can’t win this militarily … I think the intelligence came from the Iraqis, as I understand it. Now, this is the early reports. And it came to the security forces and the Iraqis and then passed on to the Americans. So this was a key element. Whether they could have done this themselves in this isolated area, I don’t know.

And this if from Wolf Blitzer on CNN, The Situation Room
Let’s turn now to a strong critic of the president’s policies, Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania. He’s joining us live from Capitol Hill.
Congressman, thanks very much for joining us.
Your critics are already saying, you know what? If we would have listened to John Murtha, we would have never gotten Abu Musab al- Zarqawi. What do you say to that?
MURTHA: Well, let me tell you, Wolf, they too it from the air.
And the encouraging thing about what happened today is, you had information from the Iraqis go to the Iraqis, then go to the Americans. Now, this is a significant event, there’s no question about it, to have gotten the top leader of al Qaeda.
You have got to remember, though, al Qaeda is a very small part of what is going on in Iraq. And you have got to be careful not to overestimate the impact this is going to have.
Naturally, we’re delighted to get him. But, even more importantly, they announced the defense minister today. They announced the interior minister today — and that intelligence flowing through the Iraqis to the U.S. forces. They could have done this from outside, just like I have — I have been — been suggesting right along.
The air came in and knocked it out, from every report that I have. So, you know, this is a significant event. I’m pleased. I compliment the troops about the way they handled it. I compliment the Iraqis. But we have got a long ways to go.
BLITZER: What does it do to your strategy, your recommendations, recommendations that the United States begin an orderly what you call redeployment from Iraq? What does today’s event do…
MURTHA: Yes.
BLITZER: … if anything, toward your thinking?
MURTHA: Well, it doesn’t change my thinking a bit.I have said right along, we have become the enemy.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
Murtha is just without concern for the troops. It is his way or the highway. I believe Murtha and the rest of the leaders of the Jackass Party want failure. It makes me sick to my stomach to think these people put their Jackass Party above our great Nation.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was killed by 500-pound bombs dropped by two F-16 fighter jets on a house north of Baghdad, it was the result of intelligence information gathered, in part, by an elite task force of international special operations forces formed just a month ago with the express purpose of taking him out.
The “A-Team” created for the mission drew on the skills and expertise of U.S. Army Green Berets, “Tier 1” of Britain’s Special Air Service and the Israeli Mossad.
The decision to form the unit was taken after a top-level conference between U.S. and British defense chiefs in Washington a month ago.
The unit was part of the already-secret Task Force Black run by Britain’s MI6 out of coalition forces headquarters in Baghdad. Nicknamed “The Untouchables,” it was given a no-holds barred brief in pursuit of Zarqawi in May.
To avoid detection, the team dressed in clothes bought from second-hand stalls in Baghdad’s back-street markets. They regularly sprayed themselves with a pungent, sweat-smelling odor known as “souk scent.” Each man wore contact lenses that turned their eye color brown or black. The goal was to permit them to look like any other Iraqi peasant as they hunted the most bloodthirsty killer in Iraq.
“The Untouchables” were assured in advance they need fear no investigation into their methods to bring Zarqawi to summary justice.
Though Zarqawi was done in ultimately by massive bombs delivered from high-tech fighters, the unit members were each equipped with L115A-353 sniper rifles that allowed them to kill at 1,000 yards. But the key to the mission was the fact that each made high-risk surveillance operations into normally no-go areas in Iraq.
While officially Israel denies any presence in Iraq, four Mossad assassins were assigned to serve with the unit.
“The Untouchables” also used thermal-imaging equipment to probe the “rat holes” the terror chief used as he flitted around Baghdad and other cities. They also had at their disposal a CIA-operated Predator unmanned aircraft able to provide a real-time video feedback of any area where Zarqawi was spotted.
Zarqawi boasted on his website of beheading innocent victims, including the murders of more than 1,000 British and American soldiers in Iraq over the past two years. Zarqawi also led terrorists that killed thousands of Iraqis through relentless suicide bombings and organized attacks. Many of the bombings were directed at large crowds of Shi’ites under a strategy U.S. and Iraqi officials said was designed to trigger a civil war.
Gen. Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, Britain’s vice chief of the defense staff, had told senior officers in Baghdad that “removing this terrorist will be a massive blow against al-Qaida.” Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told a news conference today the big breakthrough that led to Zarqawi’s location came while U.S. forces were trailing Zarqawi’s spiritual adviser, Sheikh Abdul-Rahman.
“Through painstaking intelligence efforts we were able to start tracking him, monitoring his movements. … Last night, he went to meet [Zarqawi] again at 6.15 pm when the decision was made to go ahead and strike that target,” he added.
Zarqawi came from humble beginnings – a former street thug from Jordan. But he remained elusive despite several U.S. military offensives, a $25 million bounty on his head and the capture of what officials said were several of his aides.
Caldwell said an Egyptian militant trained in Afghanistan named Abu al-Masari, who established the first al-Qaida cell in Baghdad, may succeed Zarqawi as head of the group in Iraq.
“What everyone needs to understand is the strike last night did not occur in a 24-hour period,” he said. “It truly was a very long, painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence, information gathering, human sources, electronics, signal intelligence that was done over a period of time, many, many weeks.”
There were six people in the house, including a woman and a child, but only Zarqawi and Abdul-Rahman have been identified.
Caldwell said important information was found at the location that led to 17 simultaneous raids later that night in Baghdad and its outskirts that uncovered a “treasure trove” of information.
But he cautioned against being overly optimistic because Zarqawi’s followers still posed a threat.
“It’s not the beginning or the end but it is a step forward,” said Caldwell. “Ridding Iraq of Zarqawi will not instantaneously stop the violence.”

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Airstrike kills terror leader al-Zarqawi in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the coalition’s most wanted man in Iraq, was killed in an airstrike near Baquba, jubilant U.S. and Iraqi authorities announced Thursday.

“At 6:15 Baghdad time, Special Operations forces, acting on tips and intelligence from Iraqis, confirmed Zarqawi’s location and delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq,” said President Bush during a White House statement.

Bush said al-Zarqawi’s death gives Iraq a chance to “turn the tide” in the fight against the nation’s insurgency.
Earlier, U.S. and Iraqi officials first announced the attack at a news conference in Iraq.
The 3-year-old insurgency has “lost its leader,” said U.S. Gen. George Casey, the highest-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq. Casey was joined during the announcement by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

“Today,” exclaimed the prime minister, “Zarqawi has been killed.” The announcement was greeted by cheers and applause.

A Web site used by Al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed al-Zarqawi’s death and urged its followers to continue the insurgent fight.
Another Web site used by the group issued a statement: “People of Islam, God will not let our enemies celebrate and spread corruption in the ground. Expect the right that was stolen to come back to us and destroy the Crusaders” — an apparent reference to U.S. troops in Iraq.
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the Web messages.
Al-Zarqawi was the self-proclaimed leader of al Qaeda in Iraq who pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Rest os story HERE
Wild Thing’s comment….
I love our troops! Thank you for all your hard work finding this piece of humuan flesh al-Zarqawi and taking him out.

Cher’s War: Helmet Safety for Troops
Memorial Day weekend, Cher was fighting for American troops on C-SPAN. The legendary singer called into “Washington Journal” early Sunday morning — 4:20 a.m. her time, to be exact.

“Hello? This is Malibu, California. I’m going to try to be really calm while I’m talking about this . . .” and she launched into a passionate argument for helmet safety upgrades for troops and her frustration with the government for not providing them to every soldier. Host Steve Scully recognized her famously husky voice.

“Is this Cher?” he asked.

“Yeah,” she answered. “I know that I am an entertainer and from Hollywood and should have no conscience, but I am an American and I just cannot bear these people for another moment.”

Her new cause is Operation Helmet, which has donated 6,850 of the liners to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan since it was founded two years ago. Bob Meaders , a former Navy doctor, was asked by his Marine grandson to research the liners. He founded the nonprofit because he believes the liners offer better protection against brain injuries. The Army uses them, he says, but other branches of the military do not.
Meaders, 71, was sitting on his back porch in Texas earlier this year when Cher first called. She donated $25,000 to the organization last month and told C-SPAN she’ll join Meaders on June 14 in Washington when he testifies about the helmet liners for the House Armed Services Committee.

“She has been a great supporter and good friend,” he says. “I said, ‘If you could stand behind and sing in case I get nervous, I’d feel more comfortable.’ “

Doc Bob’s Blog
Letter from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
Interview with Lou Dobbs, CNN, 18 May 2006

Writer facing jail for mosque threat
Telegraph.Co.UK
The Italian author Oriana Fallaci, who once wrote that Muslims “breed like rats”, may be facing up to three years in prison after she vowed to blow up a mosque.
Ms Fallaci, 75, who has cancer, is due to appear in court next week charged with the lesser offence of vilifying Islam, punishable with a £3,450 fine.
But after her latest outburst in the New Yorker last week Muslim leaders are demanding that she be tried for inciting religious hatred, which carries a three-year jail term.

The former journalist, who has said she will not attend Monday’s hearing in Bergamo, told the magazine that she intended to destroy a mosque being built at Colle di Val d’Elsa, near Siena.

“I do not want to see a 24-metre minaret in the landscape of Giotto when I cannot even wear a cross or carry a Bible in their country, so I blow it up!” she said. In a trilogy of books published after the attacks of September 11, Ms Fallaci lamented the Islam “invasion” into Europe.

Judge Armando Grasso ruled in a preliminary hearing that Ms Fallaci had made 18 statements “offensive to Islam and Muslims”.
Following her most recent comments, Adel Smith, the president of the Italian Muslim Union, said he would press for the sterner charge of inciting religious hatred.

Wild Thing’s comment……
Here are some quotes by her from the past that I have saved. I think she is aweseome!

“But we cannot escape.
We can confront the monster with honor, with courage; and by remembering the
words that Churchill said to the English when he went to war against Hitler’s Nazism. He said “We will pour out tears and blood.” Oh, yes: we too will pour out tears and blood. We are at war: do we or do we not want to get this through our heads !
And in war, you cry ! Period.” – Oriana Fallaci

“Resignation leads to apathy. Apathy leads to inertia. Inertia leads to indifference. Indifference paralyzes the instinct for self-defense, that is, the instinct to fight back.”

“Can anybody guess how many cemeteries of Allied soldiers there are in Italy? More than sixty. And the largest, the most crowded, are the American ones. At Nettuno, 10,950 graves. At Falciani, near Florence, 5,811. Each time I pass in front of it and see that lake of crosses, I shiver with grief and gratitude.”-Oriana

From National Geographic

“I found that people were more open to me when I dressed like them because the Pashtuns basically haven’t changed their habits, customs, and dress for hundreds of years. So I grew a beard, wore long flowing clothes, and got a turban, which the warriors accompanying us often had to help me tie. However, when I traveled with the American military, I dusted off my Western clothes and put them on because, naturally, I didn’t want to look like someone they’d be shooting at.”

….Hey Tim FUCK YOU! – —Wild Thing
Who is Tim McGirk?
The reporter who supposedly first broke the Haditha story …..“One Morning in Haditha”….Time Magazine…Mar. 27, 2006 …………..for the western media was Tim McGirk. Tim McGirk is a graduate of Berkeley, class of 1974.
Tim McGirk who celebrated Thanksgiving with the Taliban just two months after 9.11.

Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001
Thanksgiving With the Taliban
TIME correspondent Tim McGirk shares bread, raisins, and thoughts about the afterlife with some Taliban fighters, and finds some common groundBy TIM MCGIRK

“There was a genuine Thanksgiving glow about the meal. The bread is good, and more Taliban fighters come in to partake. One of them, a little man with a beard like a troll’s, says he’s Mullah Mohammed Omar’s nephew. But he hasn’t seen his uncle much lately: the Taliban supreme commander has been awfully busy since Sept. 11.”

“I leave thinking that maybe this evening wasn’t very different from the original Thanksgiving: people from two warring cultures sharing a meal together and realizing, briefly, that we’re not so different after all.”

Still, look at the sources Mr. McGirk courageously interviewed by email:
In the ensuing weeks, McGirk and TIME’s Baghdad staff members interviewed more than a dozen Haditha locals by e-mail (travel between Baghdad and Haditha is exceedingly dangerous for Iraqis, let alone foreign journalists), including the mayor, the morgue doctor and a local lawyer who negotiated a settlement between the Marines and the families…
The “mayor” is the mayor of the Sunni insurgent stronghold where only 150 people out of 90,000 dared to vote in the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum. The mayor holds his job solely at the pleasure of the terrorists who are in total control of Haditha.
The “morgue doctor,” Dr. Walid Abdul-Khaleq al-Obeidi, claims to have been arrested, held prisoner for a week and brutally beaten by US troops. From his remarks in interviews it is clear he hates the US. And of course he too only holds his job as the head of the Haditha hospital at the sufferance of the Sunni “insurgents.” Also Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi is an advisory board member of the BRussells Tribunal, which is an ultra radical terrorist-supporting organization.
The “local lawyer,” Khaled Salem Rsayef, claims to have had several relatives murdered by the Marines. He also wants further compensation for himself and his clients. Which he will surely get if the Marines are found guilty.
Wild Thing’s comment……
This terrorist loving liberal scum Tim McGirk got his info from the neighborhood residents, the same neighborhood where the terrorists came from, live etc.
I just keep thinking of our troops and of their families. How hard this has to be for them. I always want to fix everything, and make things that are sad go away. This is not only sad it is outrages what is being lied about by people that would not tell the truth no matter what.
They DO remind of the left because they lie when they do not have to, they hate our military, they are bent on destroying America, both the left and the terrorists from within since we give in to the BS of the Muslims with their schools and mosques where they teach hate. Give in to the left by not punishing them for their treason to America i.e. Jane Fonda, John Kerry, John Murtha, Bill Clinton and others.
I pray for our troops, I pray they KNOW those of us are here for them. That they know we do not prejudge them like Murtha has and others. That we are so very grateful to them for all they do for us, and for America. Thank you!
And YOU Tim McGirk can absolutely BURN in freaken hell!