Why Won’t the Obama Administration Acknowledge We Are at War?
President Obama is seemingly oblivious to how the world changed one September morning.
I remember 9/11 as vividly as I remember the day I got married, the birth of my children, and other life-changing events that became etched in my brain. That day forever changed the person that I was and the person that I would become. It put life in a perspective that can only exist when one’s innocence has been taken away.
And one would imagine that the tragic events of 9/11 would have changed the lives of every American who may not have witnessed firsthand the planes crashing into the World Trade Center or the eventual collapse of those great towers, but who could not escape the replay after replay on television and dramatic photographs plastered across every newspaper and magazine for weeks thereafter. Unfortunately, I do not believe that the lives of every American were altered that day.
I use the term “unfortunately” because I believe that one can only evolve in life and gain wisdom through experience — experience which is often painful and devastating, but which is part of the world in which we live. Those who grow up sheltered may live a very happy life, but they will go to their grave lacking the depth of understanding afforded to those who truly experienced life — its ups and downs, its joys and sorrows, its triumphs and its losses.
There is not a day that goes by that I do not think about the victims of the attacks on 9/11. The horrific events of that day reinforced something that my mother always said to me: “Life is but a minute.” Since 9/11, when I kiss my children goodbye in the morning, I pray that we will all arrive home safe and sound at the end of the day. I do not live my life in fear of being the victim of a terrorist attack; I live my life aware that there are terrorists in the world that want to kill me merely for living a life of freedom. It is that awareness that keeps me grounded in a reality that all too many Americans seemingly do not understand.
I have written before of friends who could not wait for Bush to leave office in order to regain their civil rights, which they viewed in jeopardy under his administration. That sounds completely ludicrous today in light of the various policies emanating from the Obama White House that will result in true infringements on our freedoms. But what is even more bizarre is that those civil rights and freedoms are being afforded to those very terrorists who participated in the attacks of 9/11 and who wish to destroy those very freedoms.
It is bad enough that my children cannot get an H1N1 vaccine due to production shortages and yet the government ensured that the Gitmo detainees were vaccinated. Then on Friday, it was announced that five Gitmo detainees, including terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be brought to New York City in order to face criminal charges in a civilian court. These terrorists, who wish to attack us and the freedoms which form the basis for our system of justice, will now be afforded all of the rights granted to U.S. citizens. And it will be done at the expense of the taxpayers, many of whom are survivors of the detainees’ heinous acts.
It was odd for me when I recently discovered that a liberal friend had no idea that Obama decided months ago that we are no longer fighting a “global war on terror” but are rather engaged in “overseas contingency operations.” When I asked her how she viewed Obama’s handling of the Fort Hood incident, she was not aware that he refused to draw any conclusions as to a possible motive and that he does not use the term “terror” to describe these types of attacks on our military personnel and citizens.
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Lauri B. Regan is a lawyer and a frequent contributor to The American Thinker website.
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1. john from cinncinatti:i’m watching the news, and it states the economic ramifications of sending over 40 thousand will be billions, yet 780 billion can be given away at the stroke of a pen. we are now unable to sustain operations because our economy is to weak. we can’t defend ourselves because we have run out of money, yet healthcare is a priority because they feel they can tax us enough to operate that. a death spiral for us.
Nov 14, 2009 - 11:24 pm 2. ked5:“I’ll stand with the muslims” is all that’s needed to hear to understand why he has changed the war on terror to “oversea’s contingency operation”, and treats avowed jihadists who murder in the name of allah as common criminals (or psychiatric patients) – if that.
Nov 14, 2009 - 11:55 pm 3. Dave Surls:“President Obama is seemingly oblivious…”
Pretty much.
Nov 15, 2009 - 1:02 am 4. Poor Citizen:Laurie, I too share your frustration. We have been involved in two hot wars and a couple of remaining cold wars and alot of economic turmoil, both at home, and abroad. Its not a good place, but there we are. If you remember, the last president started two wars, and alot of folks supported that because they believed that we, and our allies were about to be attacked with missiles at any moment. So we went to war, without thinking and since then… that president left and we have learned alot. Unfortunately, eight years or so later, we are still at war and this president is trying to steer a course to where we can resolve these conflicts with at least some degree of stability and national honor. Its very, very complicated. There are countries, lives and alot of money at stake so this time (hopefully) decisions are made “after” being well thought out. That is called…doing it the right way. Hope that helps.
Nov 15, 2009 - 1:23 am 5. Francis W. Porretto:Yet another beautifully written article that proceeds from a completely mistaken assumption.
The assumption is that, despite all we’ve seen and heard from and about him, Barack Hussein Obama is sincerely dedicated to the well-being of America and Americans. It’s that assumption that gives rise to nearly all the confusion among us on the Right — indeed, among decent Americans of every political creed.
The assumption is irresolvably contradictory to virtually everything Obama has done since he graduated college. Barack Hussein Obama is an evil man with an evil agenda. Why else surround himself with allies and acolytes such as Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Bill Ayres, Tony Rezko, Alex Giannoulias, and Jeremiah Wright? Why else push for policies any person of ordinary intelligence can see will reduce the nation to poverty? Why else repeatedly kowtow, in person and through emissaries, toward the world’s worst tyrants and dictators?
Barack Hussein Obama wants what Hugo Chavez has: America reduced to his personal satrapy, populated by a fearful and impoverished citizenry stripped of the means of resistance. His recent overtures toward international gun control laws, superintended by the UN, could hardly be interpreted otherwise.
Get it right, people. You cannot oppose evil while pretending it’s merely misguided. If this man is permitted to go any further, you won’t be able to oppose him at all.
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:53 am 6. no Obama:Present Obama believes that the leaders of Muslim countries will help him win/out over these “overseas contingency operations.”
They are really a religion of peace and would never attack a Muslim appeasement leader!
Present Obama and several of his minions know that 9/11 was an inside Bush-Cheney-Israeli con job that got us into this costly war just to save Israels face and butt after their disastrous Hezbollah war.
Present Obama will give us a
‘Peace with Honor Withdrawal speech’
just before Thanksgiving and his left wing media lovers and circus will give us the shaft.
Present Obama
Present Obama
umm umm umm good!
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:37 am 7. Old School:If Obama and/or the Left acknowledge that we are in a war, they would have to fight it – and they know they lack the spine to win it. It’s easier for them to just pretend it does not exist and therefore shirk all responsibility that might possibly interfere with their self-gratification.
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:40 am 8. Anonymous:Because we’d have to do something about it then.
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:50 am 9. kochevnik:The Qur’an does not condemn any group of people collectively, and that no one is born “cursed” by their ancestry.
Indeed, even though there are verses that are critical of some Jews who were political opponents to Prophet Muhammad, the Qur’an states very clearly that it is speaking only in relation to those who do evil, not those who do good, and that God judges people by their actions. (3:75-76). Another verse is even more explicit:
“Those who believe (in the Qur’an), and those who follow the Jewish scriptures, and the Christians and the Sabians — any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.” (2:62)
Rather than demanding a war crimes trial be instigated for glaringly obvious evidence of collusion and a criminal coverup in 911, Mrs. Regan unquestioningly endorses the corporfascist warmongering. This is an insult to Americans who died that day.
Mrs. Regan is yet another theofascist, in good company with christofascists like trained priests Stalin and Hitler and Jesuit schooled Castro and Catholic school educated Pol Pot.
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:53 am 10. eon:These days, besides the Beatles’ song “Nowhere man”, President Obama reminds me irresistibly of E. Elias Merhige’s film “Shadow of the Vampire”, starring John Lithgow and Willem DaFoe.
If you’re not familiar with the movie, it’s a historical fantasy about the “real” story of the filming of director F.W. Murnau’s pioneering horror film “Nosferatu; Ein Symphonie des Grauens” (Nosferatu; A Symphony of Horror)in 1922. The conceit in the story is that Murnau’s star, Max Schreck (played by DaFoe), really was a vampire, that Murnau (Lithgow) made a devil’s bargain with to make the “perfect” vampire movie. (BTW, the actual Murnau film is still considered a landmark in horror films to this day.)
At the climax, when Schreck is supposed to die at the touch of the rays of the sun after feeding on the heroine all night, he sabotages the door that was to open letting the sunlight in, and then attacks and kills Murnau’s assistants. In spite of this, Murnau keeps cranking the camera, and keeps filming. When Schreck looks at Murnau, Murnau simply turns the camera so that the dead bodies of his crew aren’t in the field of view.
And then says to Schreck, “If it isn’t in field, it doesn’t exist”.
I submit that Obama’s worldview, born of “progressive” dogmas, is his “field of view”. And that he literally cannot see the war we are (much against our will) embroiled in because he simply refuses to acknowledge the existence of anything that conflicts with that dogma.
To him, the Islamist war against civilization is like what Murnau turns the camera away from. He does not want to see it, because its existence conflicts with his goals- and his personal version of reality.
Therefore, “If it isn’t in field- it doesn’t exist”.
clear ether
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Nov 15, 2009 - 4:07 am 11. vivo:There are differences between TERRORISM and WAR.
To carry out terrorist activities, includes training, fundraising, financing and recruitment, usually carried out by a group of people with violent results directed at military objectives or innocent people.
A war implies a sustained violent effort between countries or military factions.
9/11 was terrorism. The invasion of Irak was a war. The several revolutions in Latin America carried out acts of terrorism. The killings in Africa were genocide. Killing people doesn’t solve any problems. There are better ways but many leaders just don’t get it.
Nov 15, 2009 - 4:31 am 12. Libertyship46:The United States has been at war with Islamic fundamentalists since 1800, when Thomas Jefferson sent a naval task force to fight the Muslim Barbary State pirates off the coast of North Africa. The only reason we have not had more problems with Muslims prior to 9/11 has more to do with Middle-Eastern politics than it has to do with the United States. Once those mean old colonial rulers like the British or the French left the Middle East, the new Muslim rulers proved just as corrupt and incompetent as the colonial rulers. Therefore, somebody had to be blamed. Either it was Israel, or America, or the West in general, somebody had to be blamed for the lousy living conditions in the Muslim states. Basically, the Muslims needed a scapegoat for their own ineptness and corruption. Enter the jihadists. Like the Jews in Germany, a repressive regime needs an enemy, so why not blame the West for everything? Did you ever notice that radical Muslim fundamentalism is worst in failed Muslim states, like Afghanistan, Somalia, and in many of the poorer parts of Pakistan? America and the West are now the scapegoat for all of the Muslim world’s problems and this mindset will not go away soon. However, if the United States remains strong and clearly shows the Muslim world that, if attacked, it will bring crushing destruction on the Muslim state that sanctioned that attack (as in the case of the American attack on Afghanistan right after 9/11), then the Muslim world will find some other, less formidable, scapegoat. I was always against nation-building in Afghanistan. Trying to make that country, with all of its tribal problems, into a carbon copy of Iowa was always a stupid idea. But going into that country and killing (yes killing, not imprisoning) as many of the Taliban and al Qaeda members as possible was ALWAYS a good idea. If we sent a message that we would come back and continue decimating their population until they left us alone, then they would probably leave us alone and find some other target. But if we actually think that we will stop Muslim jihadists by being nice to them, by trying to “reason” with them, or by trying to make the Muslim world adore us, you are sadly mistaken. The only thing these people respect is power, and that is sadly lacking in the White House today. This is just like the Carter Administration and the American hostages in Iran, only this time Islam is holding the entire United States hostage and the president is doing nothing about it. If we do decide to abandon Afghanistan, I only hope that it’s in a way that doesn’t make the United States look weaker than it already does to these Muslim fanatics.
Nov 15, 2009 - 4:57 am 13. Terry Gain:The world didn’t change on September 11, 2001.
The carnage inflicted on civilization that day was but the latest assault upon civilization by a totalitarian organization that was formed in the 7th century and whose advance upon civilization throughout history has only been temporarily halted through the use of force.
The world did however change on November 4, 2008 and in ways not yet understood. The result of that sea change is that the advance of the totalitarian organization is continuing apace.
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:17 am 14. noreen:Has anyone seen the 2 devout Muslims just appointed to important Homeland security posts by this president? Has it occurred to anybody that he facilitates Muslim atrocities on American citizens. I stand by my thoughts that he is indeed a Muslim himself. He has weakened and made vulnerable our country. Fort Hood killer a terrorist? Damn right. And I fear there will be plenty more where he came from. Obama has declared it open season for jihad. Hell he has the FBI ANd the CIA fearful of doing their jobs. Now he is dragging terrorists here for civillian trial. Just when I think this nightmare of a administration cannot get any worse it does. When is he going to go away so we can fix what he has ruined in our country
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:33 am 15. noreen:9/11 was the day I stopped being a liberal and became a conservative. the day I was reborn and became a patriot
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:35 am 16. Terry Gain:If you remember, the last president started two wars
Liar. The Iraq war started on August 2, 1990 when Hussein invaded Kuwait. On March 20, 2003 after the U.N failed to enforce the terms of a 12 year old Ceasefire Resolution, which was resulting in the deaths of 50,000 Iraqi infants per year(according to UNICEF) the United States took steps to end the war and liberate Iraq from the jackboot of a genocidal stalinist who harbored and trained terroists. Despite opposition from the treacherous Democrats who voted for the liberation of Iraq, and then opposed it when it became politically advantageous to do so (because there are too many weak minded poor citizens), the resolute Bush prevailed and the democracy of Iraq, while still being pacified, no longer supports Islamic terrorism.
The war in Afghanistan started on September 11, 2001 when the United States was attacked by an enemy based in that country.
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:37 am 17. Baraq Hussein Al-Bama:Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
Allahu akbar!
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:01 am 18. CJ:obama is protecting his own. It’s that simple.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:13 am 19. ETAB:Francis Porretto – I agree, fully, with your analysis.
So many people are puzzled by Obama’s words and behaviour; they try to explain him by asserting that others are to blame, that we didn’t see or hear accurately what he said; that facts about the economy and the wars are not true; and finally,that..we are racists, rabble-rousers, unAmerican..if we dare to criicize him.
But his actions are indeed all explainable if we assume that he does indeed want to harm America. Then..it’s all clear. These include his massive pork-stimulus with its generation long deficit, his attack against industry with his cap and trade and his increase of taxes; his health bill which will bankrupt the economy, and his indifference to the needs of the military with his indifference to Afghanistan.
His anger at criticism is well-known. He at first tried to ignore the Tea Parties, now he calls them ‘teabaggers’. That is, he insults the American people who criticize him; dissent is not allowed in Obama’s regime.
He rejects the Power of the People, represented by their Congress. Instead, Obama wants Congress to be merely a rubber stamp of ‘His Policies’. He insists that Congress pass bills without reading them or debating them.
Then, there’s his deliberate insults to leaders of the West, his support for anti-democracy by his support of the Honduran Zelaya, his indifference to the needs of the people calling for democracy in Iran. And -he is directly responsible for enabling Iran to develop an atomic bomb.
He is not working for, but against, America.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:13 am 20. exdem:It is not just the Obama Administration that has a muddled approach to this issue, it is the American people as a whole. As we we approach the nine year mark after 9/11 most Americans are still living in a 9/10 world. They are still in the dark and dangerously naive about the cunning enemy that we face. And who can blame them with all the mixed signals being received from the media and the government.
For exmple, how is any rational person supposed to make any sense out of a policy where we acknowledge that Sharia law is a bad thing and just about as far away from American values and culture as you can get, yet we send our Armed Forces to support and defend governments in Iraq and Afghanistan where this detestible legal/cultural code is, always has been, and always will be enforced. We need to extricate ourselves from all Muslim countries and as a matter of self defense we need to begin a massive PC free education progrgam so that all American citizens have a basic working knowledge of Islam.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:15 am 21. Liz:#5 Is correct that the assumption that Obama is pro American is wrong. The America we know and love is not the American he wants to creat.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:15 am 22. not to worry?:9. kochevnik:
Yes!
But those of us still alive on the home planet have to deal with these verses:
Its one thing to go door to door on a bicycle and leave pamphlets to join your church of Christ.
But if the intended convert says No!
Its against the US Constitutional law to go in and cut his head off,
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:32 am 23. blotto:but I suppose millions of sheepish people would join your church under that kind of fundamentalist missionary work.
K@9: “corporfascist”, “theofascist”, “christofascists”
Do you have any idea how moronic you sound? How many other “fascists” can you come up with? How about humanofascists? I think you are a moronofascists. Perhaps insanofascists, even maybe tediofascists. Stupifyofascists!!
And your quoting of the Quran is too cute. Your defense of Islam is too transparent as to who you are and your motives for being here.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:41 am 24. ricpic:Poor Citizen says it’s very, very complicated. No it isn’t. Obama hates our country. Once you figure that out you’ll stop agonizing over why he acts as he does. He acts to destroy us. The second amendment exists for this moment.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:44 am 25. misanthropicus:RE #9/kochevnik:
[...] Mrs. Regan is yet another theofascist, in good company with christofascists like trained priests Stalin and Hitler and Jesuit schooled Castro and Catholic school educated Pol Pot. [...]
I cannot believe that kochevnik is real -
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:46 am 26. Anonymous:#5, Francis W. Porretto is absolutely right.
Obama is not a President trying to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic,” but just doing a bad job of it, he is trying to deliberately destroy the Constitution, our democracy, our capitalist system and our freedoms, and to frog march us into some form of Fascism/Marxism; he is one of those “enemies foreign and domestic.”
As Poretto said, once you come to realize this, all of Obama’s actions make much more sense, and you can fight them much more effectively.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:51 am 27. Wolla Dalbo:#5, Francis W. Porretto is absolutely right.
Obama is not a President trying to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic,” but just doing a bad job of it, he is trying to deliberately destroy the Constitution, our democracy, our capitalist system and our freedoms, and to frog march us into some form of Fascism/Marxism; he is one of those “enemies foreign and domestic.”
As Poretto said, once you come to realize this, all of Obama’s actions make much more sense, and you can fight them much more effectively.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:52 am 28. marsouin:To be fair, Bush tried to have it both ways as well: a war against radical islam and not offend muslims. The result: “War on Terror.” In other words, even under Bush we could not name the enemy nor the nature of the struggle. American socialists, now in power, are pushing even further the obscurantism. With the elites tying one and a half hands behind our back, how can we win this war?
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:55 am 29. Bob:#4 Poor Citizen said: “We have been involved in two hot wars…”
Wrong paradigm. We are involved in a single war; Iraq and Afghanistan are but two campaigns within that larger context. There will be more campaigns before this war is finished.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:57 am 30. Dwight:Are we talking “war” in the sense of WWII, an all out commitment shared by a whole generation? Will “wartime” be forever? My larger point would be, I suppose, is that throwing the word war around makes it lose its meaning.
Do we want Obama invoking his wartime powers to suspend Habeus Corpus etc? Yes, it has become a righty thing to prefer “war/terrorism” and a lefty thing to prefer “law enforcement/criminal act.” But if acts of terror have been prevented since 9/11, has that happened because of military action or law enforcement action, snooping, monitoring emails, phone calls etc?
Nov 15, 2009 - 7:09 am 31. Samson:ditto …well put
5. Francis W. Porretto:
Yet another beautifully written article that proceeds from a completely mistaken assumption.
The assumption is that, despite all we’ve seen and heard from and about him, Barack Hussein Obama is sincerely dedicated to the well-being of America and Americans. It’s that assumption that gives rise to nearly all the confusion among us on the Right — indeed, among decent Americans of every political creed.
The assumption is irresolvably contradictory to virtually everything Obama has done since he graduated college. Barack Hussein Obama is an evil man with an evil agenda. Why else surround himself with allies and acolytes such as Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Bill Ayres, Tony Rezko, Alex Giannoulias, and Jeremiah Wright? Why else push for policies any person of ordinary intelligence can see will reduce the nation to poverty? Why else repeatedly kowtow, in person and through emissaries, toward the world’s worst tyrants and dictators?
Barack Hussein Obama wants what Hugo Chavez has: America reduced to his personal satrapy, populated by a fearful and impoverished citizenry stripped of the means of resistance. His recent overtures toward international gun control laws, superintended by the UN, could hardly be interpreted otherwise.
Get it right, people. You cannot oppose evil while pretending it’s merely misguided. If this man is permitted to go any further, you won’t be able to oppose him at all.
Nov 15, 2009 - 7:15 am 32. ETAB:Dwight, I think it’s an error to define war in only one way. As you see, it leads you into a difficult conclusion: either war, as declared by nations; or…a criminal act.
Terrorism doesn’t fit either definition. It’s not an agenda of sovereign nation, carried out by its official military. herefore, it is har to define it within our normal definition of war.
And criminal acts don’t define terrorism properly for criminal acts are based around not simply violation of laws but are normally acts committed against individuals, for individual goals: such as robbery, extortion, car theft, and even murder.
Terrorism is an act carried out by non-military people against the state. Not against individuals, and its usually not for individual gain but for ideological goals..and this ideology is against the state.
The state has to protect itself, and criminal self-defense such as the police, are not equipped to do this, and the criminal law is not equipped to do this.
That’s why this grey area of terrorism has been difficult to deal with ..because we don’t have the laws to define and punish and prevent it. But to move terrorism into a criminal definition, i.e., into acts against individuals, is a serious error.
Nov 15, 2009 - 7:37 am 33. johnt:It’s not complicated, twisted, sick, yes but not complicated. Islamic murderers are not the enemy.
Nov 15, 2009 - 7:48 am 34. tanstaafl:Republicans are.
No ? Compare the “we may never know” nonsense with the bile directed at Sarah Palin, pro-life demonstrators, tax protesters, etc.
The poor, little jihadists, all they want to do is kill Americans and destroy their country. What’s the big deal?
Why Won’t the Obama Administration Acknowledge We Are at War?
Because its Ideologue in Chief is not grounded in reality and common sense but in fantastical belief.
Nothing has changed inside Barack Obama’s head since these words of his, one week after September 11, 2001.
Obama’s Response to 9/11
Nov 15, 2009 - 7:57 am 35. TomF:Lauri, you did very well in conveying the fear you feel. If 9/11 is supposed to change and dominate our life ever after, then the terrorist have succeeded in instilling fear in our lives. This fear is a danger to our liberty. Likewise, you mentioned the shortage of vaccinations as another worry. This virus scare is likewise a mechanism of fear that can be used to control the citizenry. Do we need to be prepared? Of course, but that is a big difference from being afraid. If there are those that were awaken from their dream world after 9/11 than that is a good thing. But for most of the world pre 9/11 and post 9/11 is the same dangerous world. Do I sympathize with the victims? Yes, as I do with the over 100 million that died at the hands of communists in the last century and the millions who died at the hands of the fascists.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:00 am 36. NCBob:Dumb question! The answer is obvious! To admit that we are at war is to recognize that Bush (and Cheney) was right, that all the years of “there is no connection between terror and Iraq” were as silly as they were dishonest.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:02 am 37. Terry Gain:Obama and his thieves will have a tough time next year keeping the Congress and passing legislation to reward their other cronies as well as they did the UAW.
One tactic to accomplish this is the one they used to get elected, blame Bush. The KSM trial and all it’s hearings on the standard motions have nothing to do with war, terror of KSM.
Obama will step back and say, “I want to punish him, but Bush did so many things wrong…” and then rely on his owned media to carry the ball.
It won’t work, but if it is the only tactic you have, you gotta use it.
K@9: “corporfascist”, “theofascist”, “christofascists”
Do you have any idea how moronic you sound?
Go easy on kochevnik. He’s auditioning to replace Anita Dunn.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:03 am 38. allahsucks:“The Qur’an does not condemn any group of people collectively, and that no one is born “cursed” by their ancestry.”
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:26 am 39. tanstaafl:kochevnik, you are a liar, and an ignorant one at that.
You muzzie-lovers are going to have to do better than that, we’re not as stupid as you and your brethren
One instinct of the thin-skinned authoritarian/community organizer is a pretense of identity with the underdog.
He is required by the limitations of personality to project a respect for and an understanding of “Mooslims” and Izz-LAM that surpasses and is more all-encompassing than the majority of plebian and dull thinking Americans.
This is typical of Leftist thinking today.
It is Obama’s (and others) selected “narrative” that whatever happens in the world related to Mooslims & Izz-LAM, their preferred narrative must be upheld.
Thus, we’re cautioned to not jump to conclusions about a radicalized psychiatrist whose business card said “son of Allah” (SWT) who had lectured fellow doctors on the glories of jihad & who’d been corresponding with his old Virginia imam now in Yemen who calls Hasan a hero.
Rather, we need to think about Abu Nidal Hasan as a tragic individual, suffering from secondary PTSD. (geez, is that as bad as secondhand smoke ?)
It’s all part of Obama-shtick.
It goes along with the deep bow to the son of Hirohito yesterday. Apparently, Japan and the US will be in a better groove, as Japan’s current head of state and BHO are both kinda sorta into socialism.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:27 am 40. Fred Beloit:This is the last straw. Obama, it turns out, is an acolyte of John Kerry. Obama was for a military tribunal before he was against it. What a high school kid this guy is:
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:30 am 41. carla:http://www.breitbart.tv/bombshell-uncovered-obama-statement-ksm-will-get-full-military-trial/
VIVO:
‘killing people doesn’t solve any problems’?? You mean like a cure for acne? Or recurring genital herpes? For those type of problems that I’m sure you’re familiar with, I would agree. Of course, history is replete with slightly more troublesome problems which can only be solved by killing someone. Unless you would prefer to be enslaved or exterminated. I am in awe of your sweeping comprehension of the history of civilization and human nature. If they ever decide to let you out of the institution, remember to keep out of the seedier parts of town, and never go out alone at night.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:47 am 42. Kate Rafferty:It’s important to understand this is a feature of the Obama Administration, not a bug. Things are going according to plan. They are not failing at instituting their plans, they are taking over and remaking our country. Expecting this to be like any other “pro” American administration, is a mistake.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:48 am 43. blotto:Terry Gain @ 37: LOL!! The memos and talking points Kos and Podesta at CAP give him make him sound really bizarre.
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:52 am 44. tanstaafl:And speaking of President Obama greeting the Emperor of Japan…
A picture is worth 1000 words
Nov 15, 2009 - 8:53 am 45. HEPT:Dam folks just bow down, accept islam and become good dhimmi’s .
Nov 15, 2009 - 9:08 am 46. vb:ETAB: Great comment. The situation is further complicated by the fact that our enemies do not even recognize the concept of a sovreign state. Their western enablers, in using the words of Geneva, are putting words into their mouths and showing them how to use them against us.
Nov 15, 2009 - 9:21 am 47. John "birther" Samford:In one respect the rabid moonbats are correct. The War, not War dichotomy is entirely the fault of the Bush administration. That administration went the way of a “War of Terror” because it wanted it’s cake and eat it too. Instead it got no cake and an empty belly.
Nov 15, 2009 - 9:35 am 48. misanthropicus:Within a week of the WTC attacks, President Bush could have asked for and gotten a Declaration of war against ANY and EVERY Islamic State that supported terrorism. That would have been a bi-partisan vote that would have given him the legal authority for military operations against Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and anyone else supporting terrorism. It would have made it clear that the USA was facing one enemy hiding behind many labels. One War, world wide against a religion spread across many nationalities.
Dubbau wiffed and now we are stuck with it is what it is.
Obama apologizing for Pearl Harbor, Midway and Hiroshima!
Obama licking shoes in Tokyo! More later!
“How Low Will He Go?”
Excellent text & juxtaposition of pictures in LA Times (of all!) of Obama & mikado and Dick Cheney & mikado – Cheney is class act.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/obama-emperor-akihito-japan.html
Nov 15, 2009 - 9:38 am 49. neverquit:The enemy is hiding in plain sight. Right in front of us all. In our streets, our churches, businesses, and even military. To not see it is simply living in denial. Death by political correctness.
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:06 am 50. Ruebacca:Islam is a Human tragedy. Islam does not have a moral functioning core and has been at war with Civilization for 14 centuries. A great way to demonstrate the moral rot at the core of Islam is to imagine if Jesus, Buddha and Mohammad live there lives in 21st century America and what kind of run-ins they would have with the law.
Buddha would have gotten a few tickets for loitering under a tree in a park.
Jesus would have been arrested for vandalizing an atm in a Jewish civics center.
Mohammad would have been charged with murder, insightment to commit murder, crimes against humanity (mass murder), robbery, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, unlawful imprisonment (slavery), human trafficking, treason and contrary to the laws of this state using marked cards (lol).
All Muslims know what a person Mohammad was, as Christians know the story of Christ and Buddhist know Buddha. We need to wake to the evil we face.
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:20 am 51. A.M Mallett:The reason is he cannot. We are essentially at war with everything he represents.
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:26 am 52. Theo Goodwin:Ms. Regan writes:
“But combine these domestic policies with Obama’s foreign policy decisions to date and the results are simply disastrous for our country. Reaching out to the Muslim world has not proven to be fruitful by most analyses. In combination with his harsh treatment of our allies, Obama has made America a laughing stock. And while those on the far left are thankful for that, wanting to see our standing as a superpower diminished, I wonder where many of them were on 9/11.”
Obama and his minions have a bleak vision of the human prospect and they are working furiously to adopt in America the same hopelessness, victimhood, and lust for revenge that rules among Palestinians, Iranian mullahs, and ACORN. Once they succeed, we will all view the world as the Palestinians do.
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:33 am 53. anonymous:14. noreen:”I stand by my thoughts that he is indeed a Muslim himself.”
There’s stupid … and then there’s PJM stupid.
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:01 am 54. misanthropicus:The Commemorative Licking Shoes Tournament Hussein Obama continues:
“Obama Refuses To Defend Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/13/obama_refuses_to_defend_bombing_of_hiroshima_nagasaki.ht
Obama’s right – Pearl Harbor and Midway are other proof of the deep rottennness of this country -
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:02 am 55. vega:“…And it will be done at the expense of the taxpayers…”
But who forces them to comply?! While I would not advocete tax rebellion (called “tax evasion” by the IRS), remember one thing: taxes from zero are ZERO!
Since there is a “progressive” tax system, there is no way anybody could do, including the chief of the state Obama, if you DELIBERATELY make less money as you otherwise could, in fact do only as little as it is absolutely necessary for the basic survival of yourself and your family, and NO MORE!!
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:08 am 56. LeighB:#34, thank you for reminding me of Dear Leader’s response to 9/11. Of course, the fundamental difference between us and the terrorists is empathy. Yeah, that’s it. If they just had more the world would be a peaceful place. Exactly when did Barry put down the pipe? Larry Sinclair or anyone? Anyone?
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:10 am 57. Sherab Zangpo:Why would a radical, educated by communists, who got to the White House thanks to the support of the internationalist (and international) subversives want to defend America ?
For these radicals America is the only evil in the world.
His pastor has preached that kind of content to him for twenty years and Obama has repeatedly declared that he found nothing controversial in his pastor’s sermons.
He knows that we are at war , but he wants us to lose the war. He wants America to lose its leading role in the world, he sees that role as mere “imperialism”.
He is a brainwashed ideologue, a nihilist and an internationalist.
He is the ultimate product of leftist ideology.
And his administration is made of subversives, commies, radicals, black supremacists, and there are jihadists too.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:45 am 58. BC:Gee, maybe if some utterly worthless ex-President, whom I suspect most of you yahoos voted for not just once but twice, had focused on the actually people threatening us, we wouldn’t have squandered a trillion dollars or so, never mind all the military and civilian causalities, dabbling in insanely stupid and besides the point geopolitics.
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:55 am 59. fredomlover:To recognize that we are at war would be the adult thing to do, does anyone think we have have adults in the W.H.? Put up the sign on the fence “children playning ” at the W.H. and take his damn plane away,I think it is his favorite toy he spends more time on that than he does at home .I believe he is a disgrace to this country,he is weak,unable to make quick decisions,and can not make good decisions for the country because he does not believe in America nor would it be good for his long range plans. He wants to be king
Nov 15, 2009 - 12:25 pm 60. Whatztruth:Join http://www.actforamerica.org
Nov 15, 2009 - 12:34 pm 61. Fantom:Before we end up like Europe – now Eurabia!
Do you want to see on U.S soil ther no-go zones, rapes, polygamy, riots, anti Sematism, murder, replacement of courts with Sharia courts, honor killings….?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
29. Bob:
#4 Poor Citizen said: “We have been involved in two hot wars…”
Wrong paradigm. We are involved in a single war; Iraq and Afghanistan are but two campaigns within that larger context. There will be more campaigns before this war is finished.
That is absolutely correct. Using the unAmerican paradigm of poor’s/leftist , FDR started hundreds of wars.
But that does not fit the bill for unAmerican traitors like poor now does it?
Nov 15, 2009 - 1:51 pm 62. Fantom:47. John “birther” Samford:
I have to agree with you there. I believe Dubya though we could win this war on the cheap, by bringing democracy to the barbarians. But I thought then it would not work. I also figure Dubya did not count on the moral failings that define the left/liberals. They are nothing but quislings who undercut even Dubya’s limited strategy.
Nov 15, 2009 - 1:59 pm 63. Will:We have something to face also,and that is the fact that our president has an adgenda to destroy our America. Think about it.
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:21 pm 64. genghis:BC, you are 100% correct. The time,effort and money would have been better spent getting rid of Gore, Pelosi, Reid, Soros, Huffington, the NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, CNN, Barney Frank, Eric Holder, the Hollywood Left, etc, etc, etc…..the REAL enemies that threaten the destruction of America. Thanks for setting me straight.
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:28 pm 65. George S.:53. anonymous:
14. noreen:”I stand by my thoughts that he is indeed a Muslim himself.”
There’s stupid … and then there’s PJM stupid.
YES HE IS A MUSLIM by default. It is passed father to son. HENCE he is a muslim. ..he can renounce the religion and become an apostate, but I can find no reference that he has.
….and what’s with his affair with Sinclair ? what was that about ?
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:30 pm 66. Sarah:You’re right. BC. Money would have been better spent destoying leftwing snots such as yourself. Well, there’s always tomorrow.
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:54 pm 67. Dwight:#59 fredomlover wrote:
To recognize that we are at war would be the adult thing to do,…
———–
And what kind of war are we talking, o adult? WWII, the war o poverty, the war on drugs, what?
If we are at war, will this be for all of our lives and the lives of our children? If so, then, what does it mean to be at war?
Nov 15, 2009 - 2:57 pm 68. Filthy Screw:Whether or not Obama is a Muslim is an interesting question. He undoubtedly must have been influenced by Muslim thought as a child. He has clearly chosen every opportunity to ally himself with those that hate America. Why is anyone surprised?
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:03 pm 69. dr strangelove:He won’t acknowledge it ’cause he’s not capable of leading the war effort.
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:25 pm 70. misanthropicus:An ugly reminder…
Nov 15, 2009 - 3:50 pm 71. M. Report:http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/pdf/TheNewsJournalW.pdf
Why Won’t the Obama Administration
Acknowledge We Are at War?
What the Right Wing-Nuts said,
filtered down to the underlying
psychological layers of the
Loony Liberal Left personality:
Hatred of Humanity/
Hatred of self/
Death-wish
Which cause them to pursue
Nov 15, 2009 - 4:45 pm 72. Anonymous:self-destructive policies
in pursuit of unattainable
goals, rather like pursuing
a mirage into the desert,
accidentally on purpose.
Within a week of the WTC attacks, President Bush could have asked for and gotten a Declaration of war against ANY and EVERY Islamic State that supported terrorism.
Samford @47
What are you smoking? Like hell he could have (or should have). Declarations mean nothing if you don’t have the resources to back them up. Even today the majority of Americans want to abandon the small war in Afghanistan and allow al Qaeda and the Taliban to return. Only a year ago America elected as POTUS a man who advocated that Iraq be conceded to al Qaeda and Iran.
Given what he was up against – and I mean at home not abroad – Bush did well, even if he was too exhausted to defend himself from daily vicious attacks from his countrymen.
I suggest you read Bush And The Beltway and get a clue.
Nov 15, 2009 - 4:48 pm 73. kochevnik:23@blotto:
>Do you have any idea how moronic you sound?
Oh here it is again: the perennial wingnut “sounds” comeback! You have nothing rational to say. Instead you’re reduced to a popularity contest for the best bleating and grunting. Golly blotto, can you even imagine what you “seem”? Didn’t those human characteristics die out after the last ice age?
50@Ruebacca:
>Islam is a Human tragedy. Islam does not have a
>moral functioning core and has been at war with
>Civilization for 14 centuries…All Muslims know
>what a person Mohammad was, as Christians know the
>story of Christ and Buddhist know Buddha. We need
>to wake to the evil we face.
Do you even know what morality is, Ruebacca? It is a system of judgment you impose upon strangers. In that department theists as yourself are every bit as guilty as any Muslim. You little imaginary post clashes with reality, as Muslims in the USA are exemplary citizens and have far fewer run-ins with the law. Of course don’t let FACTS stop your hatemongering and theofascism. I’m glad you brought this out now all the world can see just what drives the wingnut USA mentality. This blog is so hateful toward the constitution and the standing president it strikes me as the next supremest cult awaiting their ‘Ruby Ridge” takedown by the Feds. If you don’t value “Freedom of Religion” then why should anyone care about eradicating yours?
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:01 pm 74. pibill:Sorry Honey, Your’e peeing in the ocean!
Nov 15, 2009 - 5:04 pm 75. Dark Helmet:obammy mammy is a traitor.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:02 pm 76. whyamInotsurprised?:Basic answer to question in title of the article is “he is a muslim at heart and a radical in action.” He cares nothing for what America was, in fact, I would bet he feels the same as Michelle who has never really been proud of her “country.”
But beyond that he feels he has the mandate to treat “war” as bad, “winning” as neanderthal, and Republic law to be trashed and replaced with one party rule such as his “friends” have around the world.
So his bowing is not so much a sign of respect to those he bows to as an “apology” and feeling of remorse for all the “sins” committed by America to those abused throughout history. You see, America
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:10 pm 77. Ricky:is a bad, bad country and he knows how to make it a “good” country. Fighting a “war” is not part of his formula, especially when it is against his own brethren.
The fundamental point of this article is that we are at war with Islamic fundamentalists. I do not disagree with this thesis.
However, the larger story of this decade has been the rise of China. And frankly, the economic implications of that country as it becomes the exporter of high technology, not just manufactured good, has far more potential to destroy this country than the damage done by Islamic terrorists. Do a hard analysis of the numbers. The trade gap with China has widened even more in the last year. More American jobs have been displaced and destroyed in industries where cheaper products undercut what little industry we have left.
Nov 15, 2009 - 6:54 pm 78. Pragmatist:many people post on here trying to downplay the facts and doubting that Obambi is a Muslim they laughingly try to pass of the fact that he was born to a Muslim father adopted by a Muslim stepfather and that all his genetic family is Muslim.
he went to school in Indonesia as a Muslim he confirms it in his book Dreams. He is on record making the freudian slip of talking about ‘MY Muslim faith’ and he can recite the Shahadah in perfectly accented Arabic . Just like all Christians can LOL. He is also on record as saying the Muslim call to prayer is ‘one of the most beautiful sounds on earth’ hoe very Christian of him.
Wake up America he wants to destroy you and remake you in his own Socialist Muslim image.
Nov 15, 2009 - 9:52 pm 79. Pragmatist:# kochevnik:
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:00 pm 80. Pragmatist:So what is it kochevnik is the Koran a HISTORY BOOK or is it as it claims to be the ‘ACTUAL and UNALTERABLE word of God’ and ‘for all men for all time’ it cant be BOTH at the same time can it. What you say CONFIRMS what we all know and that is that allah and Islam are the INVENTION of Mohammad and even the Holy Book just mirrors Mohammads wishes and worries. In fact his child bride Aisha is on record in the hadiths saying ‘Allah rushes to fulfill your wishes Mohammad’ she knew what he and allah were.
# 50 Ruebacca: You missed out peadophilia in the charges against Mohammad one of the most disgusting of all his crimes.
Nov 15, 2009 - 10:34 pm 81. rp:As you know, Obama and his battle-axe wife and friends, from Wright to Fr. Flager, to Ayers, to Immanuel to Axelrod ad infinitum; these members of troll central, are doing everything in their power to undermine the United States of America at every turn. If that means pushing the fiction we’re not really at war, they’ll do it.
The fiction that Hasan wasn’t the first terrorist to make a successful attack since 9/11.
The fiction that Sotomayor and Holder aren’t the most heinous of bigots.
The fiction that Obama is holding off sending more troops to Afghanistan for any reason other than to hurt the war effort; see how low he can sink morale.
The fiction that he’s doing something about his promise to assuage the energy crisis and make us less dependent on foreign oil.
The fiction that he’s not looking forward to the day when he gives the reason the military can’t get anymore federal funds is because we’re running out of money.(he’s bankrupting us, driven our debt this month alone to 12 trillion dollars.
Truth be known, Obama is so out of control with his Neo Com ways and schemes that it just might take somebody with the inner strength of a Ben Netanjahu to pin Obama’s ears back enough to really get Obama’s attention, and give Barack the talking to of his life.
Right now, the Prime Minister of Israel is a million times closer to the American core belief system than the brown eyed handsome neo com temporarily occupying the White House could ever be. Barack is hopelessly out of place, and it’s only a matter of time before he’s sent packing.
If your hearts are heavy with the destruction of America Obama has so brazenly begun, let your hearts be more hopeful.
Upwards of 1,346,964 brave Americans have not perished in wars during the life of this country to hand this great nation over to the pipsqueaks of pipsqueaks. I, Rachel Peepers am Obama’s worst nightmare.
The PR arm of the 3rd Il militia is launching in sixty days. First strike will be paid and unpaid media. Initial targets, from Joy of the View to our friends at MSNBC, to Stewart, Looney Clooney and Meher, to any of those other Hollywood pukes who hate the United States as much as Obama does. Watch. While they’re good at talking the talk, we’re about to find out of they have anything to back it up with other than yellow streaks down their backs. If confronted, they won’t walk; they’ll run like scared school girls in party dresses.
When the terrorist attack on Ft. Hood was carried out, as stated so well here at PJM, Obama should have apologized for it happening during his watch; for his failures.
Although the buck stops with Obama, this chicken President has yet to take any responsibility for anything going wrong.
I share your gut feeling that Obama will never get around to apologizing for betraying the people of the U S of A., especially all who lose their lives because of his Alinsky, Neo Com plotting and, as a result, the devious, dastardly acts necessary to carry out his sedition against our country.
Now he wants 17% of the U.S. economy to be placed under his thumb (not only for what he calls restitution when talking to the NAAPC) but also to make millionaires of even more of his friends and Democratic voters. His front loaded tax plan (to make the awful bill sound less expensive) will also tax middle America for everything from knee replacements to doctor’s furniture to pet-scans to the tune of 800 billion the middle class will pay in new federal taxes; a far cry from his pie in the sky statements that stopping corruption and increasing efficiencies would pay 100% of his boondoggle medical insurance scheme. Plus, when the ObamaCare laws kick in in 2013, you’ll lose your company, private insurance and be forced to join the single payer public option plan that was always Obama’s and his lawyers devious objective. If you have the audacity to choose not to buy his insurance, Obama’s special police will throw you in jail fosr a minimum of 6 months along with slapping you down with a $150,000 fine. No kidding. That’s part of his plan.
Obama, with a straight face, used to say Socialized Medicine would cut average premiums by $2500.
He doesn’t say that anymore. Ever wonder why?
And what about Tort reform?
Not a chance.
And his labor union friends and ACORN colleagues who’ve not surprisingly found a loophole and are now once again getting billions of your tax money, are ready to physically give anyone a beating that overtly opposes Obama by taking to the streets to protest ObamaCare. Which is only one reason various militias will be with you. Once the fat union bullies realize we can’t be pushed around, they’ll be running like scarred rabbits. And they won’t be back.
In 60 days, you’ll be seeing us on YouTube. By the end of January, when Obama’s StalthCare will be sneaking from room to room trying to get the fifty senatorial signitures needed for passage, I’ll be marching on Washington. Stamford, Law School is just a memory. I’ve hooked up with what seems like a country full of Iraq and Afghanistan vets who are insistent on serving this country once again by setting things right.
Frankly, now I feel I’m right where I belong. The right place. The right time. The right people. I’m unafraid. The only thing that scares me is not doing what I know is right for myself and my country.
It was bound to happen. I’m on a collision course with the socialist/communist/whatever you want to call it, direction my country is going. It’s taken an extreme left turn. In many ways I don’t recognize it. There is much to know, much to do, and there are many wrongs to right before I sleep.
Nov 15, 2009 - 11:23 pm 82. John "birther" Samford:http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20091115.aspx
Strategy Page claims Ft. Hood was the 13th attack on American soil this year. That isn’t something you will see the MSM pick up on. I wonder why?
rp, consider taking a writing course before you drop out. 8 to 16 words is the best length for a sentence. Once you get past 20 words, you aren’t writing, you are spewing. Spewing puts people to sleep. Or at least that is what we were taught at dear ol’ Cow Flop U.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:53 am 83. vivo:That was before you were born. Things change. Today long, boring, aimless sentences with no structure, form, rhyme or reason doesn’t put people to sleep, it makes them frantically spin their scroll wheels like the croupier at the county fair.
See?
Of course, you could always change your nome de’ net to “smoking_hot_scroll_wheel”.
41. carla:
“I am in awe of your sweeping comprehension of the history of civilization and human nature.”
The history of civilization has been full of idiots like you. Look at the future, not the bloody past.
It’s so obvious that the pajammers here are so out of tune with the realities of the world that they deserve what they wish for. Sorry.
Nov 16, 2009 - 5:50 am 84. Brian Richard Allen:“” …. one would imagine that the “tragic events” of (September 11 2001) … “”
No, one would not.
Had one a clue about the nature of the evil acts committed on that day, “one” would remember there were no tragedies.
Only atrocities.
Nov 16, 2009 - 6:59 am 85. whyamInotsurprised?:rp, you are awesome!
couldn’t have said it better. the lefty chumps will piss their pants when they get a load of you and the hoard of patriotic Americans who won’t take this crap lying down.
these looney lawyers don’t know action beyond a piece of paper or a piece of ass. but they will when someone is coming after theirs!
ha ha, they are awakening a sleeping giant and his name is not marx, lenin, mao, pot, hussein, hitler, stalin, che, chavez, castro, or soetero! His name is Freedom, he is God fearing, and he is mad as hell.
God be with you rp! God bless America!
Nov 16, 2009 - 7:07 am 86. rp:WhyamInotsurprised?
Thanks so much for the kind words. At least, now I’m getting use to the sound of gunfire. Did the
real basic training with the Army, and it was kinda fun. Have dog tags, an MOS and a brown belt in Karate.
Part of the group is a conservative big city think tank that comes out to the country and woods
where I spend all my time.
In 2004, I worked a bit with the Swift Boat guys and Paul Hoffman, USN Navy Admiral retired. Sunk USS Kerry. Which was fun.
So this won’t be my first rodeo. But it’ll be fun riding herd on the thinkers in Washington and the bullies in the unions who
Nov 16, 2009 - 7:53 am 87. myth buster:are in for a big surprise party if they ever again try to push their weight around. Yesterday, met a copter pilot just back
from Afghanistan. Oozed steely courage. As opposed to Barack who’s on a first name basis with fear, just like most bully boys. rp
Yes, this is a war just like WWII. How long it will last we do not know, but wars end when one side is rendered unwilling or unable to continue fighting. That means we must either break their spirits or exterminate them, and since Americans are getting tired of war, more and more people are leaning toward “exterminate them,” using nuclear weapons.
Komrade K goes on the record admitting that atheists have no morality, because they have no foundation for morality. They do as they please because they don’t believe they are accountable to anyone. They are fools, full of wickedness and are actually stupid enough to think they’re wise.
Nov 16, 2009 - 8:56 am 88. rbell:Ms Lauri: Are we to assume that you don’t know who we elected to be our President. He is not American born He is black but not culturallyso. He is not opposed to human oppression and suffering because it is his duty to bring it to the American people. Obama is consistently indifferent to human suffering, as our most of his ilk. They have the big picture and we don’t. They know the future they want but can’t tell us, least we revolt.
Anyone who has done time in Academia knows their opinion of the masses; just sheep to be fleeced and led around by a barking dog (the police). The bridge between government and academia is strong and built up over a number of years. Every leftist politician who ever lost an election gets an academic appointment somewhere. The Kennedy School of Government and Political Science is just a leftist indoctrination center to build bigger and more mind numbing bureaucracies. The study of minutia is costing us Billions of dollars each year aand produces nothing beneficial to any one except the people producing this garbage. Check them out on NPR sometime. Creeps everyone of them.
Foreign dollars funded the Obama campaign. He is not going to win the war in Afghanistan. He is not going to reform health care. He is not going to revitalize the economy. He is not going to protect Americans on their soil. But he is going to spring mass murderers on a technicality. And that was his intention when he unilaterally declared them criminals, not enemy combatants. Wake up. He is not fooling some of us, just the people at Fox News.
Nov 16, 2009 - 10:03 am 89. Paul -Indiana:#17. Baraq Hussein Al-Bama: It’s more like this.
الله هو إله كاذبة وكنت له خداع.
Nov 16, 2009 - 1:44 pm 90. John "birther" Samford:When a conservative says “the people” he means all of them. From Boardroom to welfare line. When a Liberal says “the People” they mean those living under bridges. Since Liberals claim to speak for “the people”, the more inhabitants under the bridge, the more power Liberals have.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:13 pm 91. Poor Citizen:With that thought in mind, the Usurper and his policies should not surprise.
To no. 61 and 62
I served almost 26 years in the U.S. Military. Plese, Wash your mouth out with soap son.
You need to go to Wal Mart and buy a can of Respect, but hey, I forgive you…and all the Jerry Springer worshipers in our country…cuz ur.. jus plain ignorant.
So Rock on.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:14 pm 92. carla:VIVO:
I have nominated you for the the International Clueless Award, second only the the Nobel Prize as the most covetted accolade the world offers. Congrats.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:15 pm 93. kochevnik:87. myth buster:
>Komrade K goes on the record admitting that atheists
>have no morality, because they have no foundation for
>morality.
There is a foundation, but unlike you we’re not prone towards being judgmental based upon fairy tales.
>They do as they please because they don’t believe they
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:25 pm 94. Cybergeezer:>are accountable to anyone. They are fools, full of
>wickedness and are actually stupid enough to think
>they’re wise.
Hey you sound like an Islamofacist. Obviously you are up to something based upon religious texts. Here’s a christian plan Bush would approve: You need to be tossed in Gitmo, tortured until you confess, have you son’s testicles crushed while you reveal your WMD armory, and have your woman raped by approval of 30 US repub senators.
The Democrat Party wants communism in the United States, and Obama wants Islamic rule.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:34 pm 95. genghis:‘look to the future not the past’???
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:46 pm 96. genghis:‘look to the future not the past’???
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:47 pm 97. genghis:VIVO
‘look to the future not the past’???
Those who haven’t learned the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. You, apparently, believe that the world began three or four days ago. Or are too lazy to study the history of of the world. Or are just plain stupid. Not much wiggle room here.
Nov 16, 2009 - 3:50 pm 98. Marvin Breggman:Vivo:
Good news. It is the considered opinion among my colleagues at the NEA that you are to be a finalist for the Immaculate Imbecile of the Year Award. Finalists must attempt to cross the Santa Monica Freeway at rush hour while blindfolded, clothed in a a hefty bag. Please contact PUTZI (People United Through Zero Intellect)to schedule your chalenge. As you undoubtedly are aware, our founder, Soupy Sales, recently expired. Your participation will honor his memory.
Nov 16, 2009 - 4:06 pm 99. RUListeningNow:This was the best article that I’ve read in a very long time.
Something is very wrong with the Obama regime and the latest is only one example this enemy within destroys the country.
Obama: “Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America” was the promise he made and yet nobody was listening.
Knowing Obama’s history should have made it clear exactly what we could expect. The problem was, unless you were willing to research and investigate, there would be no way of knowing that Obama is a radical Muslim and a communist on a mission to destroy America. Certainly the “useful idiots” (as Stalin would have called the American press) covered up Obama’s past. Perhaps they’ll listen now!
Nov 16, 2009 - 4:50 pm 100. CrossBow33:17. Baraq Hussein Al-Bama:
Don’t bet on it…
Nov 16, 2009 - 5:24 pm 101. rbell:#98: What a terrible thing to say. Oh you were referring to VIVO – never mind. I am betting he makes it across the freeway. In LA they break for imbeciles, when they are not voting for them.
Nov 16, 2009 - 5:28 pm 102. myth buster:93. Everything that comes out of your mouth is absurd. Nothing like what you suggest ever happened in this country. It does, however, occur in Islamic and Atheistic regimes. As for fairy tales, the idea of nothing creating everything, which is what you believe, deny it though you may, is by far more absurd than the idea of God becoming a man, dying and coming back to life. And don’t give me any BS about quantum fluctuations; I know what a quantum fluctuation is and it can’t create a universe. Quantum fluctuations occur only in minute energies and very short time scales, with the duration of the quantum fluctuation inversely proportional to the energy, after which it returns to nothingness unless the virtual particles procure enough energy to become real, as in radioactive decay.
Nov 16, 2009 - 6:02 pm 103. Dwight:What was this thread about? I remember now, something about why not acknowledging that we are at war. Andrew Napolitano tried to explain to O’Reilly tonight that one reason war has to meet a Constitutional definition is so that President’s cannot take on wartime powers for any particular war they choose to define. O’Reilly’s response: “I don’t care about the Constitution.”
Nov 16, 2009 - 6:50 pm 104. 888:The reason the Obama Administration and his ultra-liberal base and the mainstream media will NEVER admit or acknowledge that Hasan is a terrorist and that Hasan’s shooting rampage was a terrorist act, is because that would then tell the American voting public that only 10 months into Obama’s presidency, we experienced a serious terrorist attack at home (and, of all places, in a military base).
That’s in sharp and very obvious contrast to GW Bush, who after 9/11, kept us safe for 7 straight years from any terrorist attack at home.
Nov 16, 2009 - 7:24 pm 105. Chris in Dallas:#11. vivo:
“Killing people doesn’t solve any problems.”
That is an idiotic statement. Of course killing people can solve problems. Some great examples: Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini. If somebody had put a round in Joe Stalin’s head in 1920 the world would have been a much better place, not to mention old Chairman Mao who would have been another great candidate for kinetic energy poisoning!
Charles Martel killed an awful lot of Muslims at the Battle of Tours to stop radical Islam the first time. This war has actually been going on for over a thousand years, and isn’t going to stop until Islam undergoes a reformation. One that is probably going to require a lot of bloodshed before it is done.
Nov 16, 2009 - 8:46 pm 106. Bonnie:All we do is talk. I want some answers, some plans, some assurance that we are not going to sit back and let Obama win.
I knew from the first time I saw and heard him on TV that he was bad news, and the more I found out, the more horrified I was (back in May of 2008) that people were falling for such an obvious con-man.
We cannot let him and our other enemies win.
I want a plan, and I want it NOW.
Nov 16, 2009 - 10:33 pm 107. Maureen:OK Bonnie. OK. Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Nov 17, 2009 - 2:43 am 108. Absalom:“The reason the Obama Administration and his ultra-liberal base and the mainstream media will NEVER admit or acknowledge that Hasan is a terrorist and that Hasan’s shooting rampage was a terrorist act, is because that would then tell the American voting public that only 10 months into Obama’s presidency, we experienced a serious terrorist attack at home (and, of all places, in a military base).”
What are you talking about? The president came down here to Killeen and delivered a pretty emotional eulogy in which he did exactly that. I sat with my fellow soldiers and watched it in person.
Personally, I don’t believe Hassan’s attack was a terrorist incident any more than I believe that it was a terrorist attack here about 18 years ago in Killeen when George Hennard drove his pickup truck through the Luby’s, opened fire on the diners, and killed 23 and wounded 20 more. Or the guy who went into that McDonald’s in San Diego and killed all of those people.
Sometimes, people just snap. They are unstable to begin with (in Nidal’s case, it has been documented that his fellow mental health professionals were worried about his stability) and they just snap. And there is no motive of terrorism behind it. It happens in free societies when enough people have access to enough guns. A certain small percentage, it seems to me, will snap and — because the means of mass death are so easy to obtain — other people pay a huge price. It’s a price that we pay for not allowing an undue amount of restrictions on our personal liberties and freedom and one I am willing to pay.
But, having pondered the situation nearly every waking moment for the last 10 days or so and from being here on base and talking to people it seems to me that there was no terror (i.e. political motive) here but, rather, somebody who just lost it.
And yes, I am headed back to Iraq next month.
Nov 17, 2009 - 8:04 am 109. Mikos:My uncle Yannos just snapped. One day, he was just a happy-go-lucky guy, earning a decent living, living in an upscale condo in a big city, and then one day, he just snapped. No warning. No strange behaviour. No subtle signs of mental anguish. He showed up for work every day. Put in overtime too. Paid his bills on time. No debts. No female problems. Excellent health. But one day he just totally lost it. Snapped.. So we had to put him down. he was my favorite unlce. I got his condo. I loved uncle Yannos.
Nov 17, 2009 - 11:36 am 110. Now and Then:Jeepers Creepers:
“When the terrorist attack on Ft. Hood was carried out, as stated so well here at PJM, Obama should have apologized for it happening during his watch; for his failures.”
Why him and why now? Why not the other him back then?
Nov 17, 2009 - 12:28 pm 111. Dawn:Mikos. I knew your uncle. He was a really terrific guy. Sweet. We had a ‘thing’. The night before he flipped we were out to dinner. He seemed 100% OK. We were talking about the future, etc. Then, he got stangely silent. I thought it was the food (lamb carpaccio). He just pushed it around his plate. Didn’t eat any. Didn’t want to taste my souvlaki. Didn’t touch his entree. Didn’t even kiss me goodnight. But he did mention that he was thinking of giving me his condo. What do you think?
Nov 17, 2009 - 2:25 pm 112. vivo:98. Marvin Breggman:
101. rbell:
You got me confused with GW Bush.
105. Chris in Dallas:
“Killing people doesn’t solve any problems.”
You know the statement is generic. Yes, some people should be killed, but I meant not INNOCENT people, like genocides, terrorist acts, etc.
Nov 17, 2009 - 7:03 pm 113. marvin breggman:VIVO
Your response lacks style, cleverness, or any hint of sophistication. Unless we see some improvement in your prose, we’ll have to ask you to leave.
Nov 18, 2009 - 3:07 am 114. Dave Surls:“Yes, some people should be killed, but I meant not INNOCENT people…”
Yeah, that’s the sort of stuff liberal Democrat types are always saying…then they drop an atomic bomb in the middle of a city.
Nov 18, 2009 - 3:51 am 115. vivo:113. marvin breggman:
& u r?
Nov 18, 2009 - 6:52 am