10 posts tagged “msm”
I operate many blogs, some of a social nature and a few are just blogs for anyone to show up. My pet blog is SlantRight.com. My son has purchased the rights to the name and operates it on his servers for me for free. It is the Dad discount.
I rarely spread comments from one blog to the others; however I received a comment from “More Democrat ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy” on my Mindsay blog which is more of a social blog. The comment was made by a person that goes by the moniker of Moralnihilist. Moralnihilist said little but it irked me a lot. So I am sharing my distinct charm around in my reply.
Moralnihilist said:
The purpose of the Iraq war was to line the pockets of George W Bush's oil buddies, nothing more. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was no threat. ...
We've already spent 10 times what we spent in Vietnam, and the cost in lives has been tragic.
I guess Ann Coulter is correct: Liberals Lie!
The Dems and Bush reacted to the same Intelligence of the time. Even President Clinton understood that Saddam Hussein was dangerous but did not have the cajones to do what GW did. Clinton's awareness of Iraq and transnational terrorists may never be completely known because the treasonous Dem used his security clearance to destroy classified material related to Clinton.
Whether or not the validity of WMD in Iraq is actual or mystified is irrelevant. The fact remains Hussein has shown in the past no hesitation to attack his neighbors for hegemonic gain and profit (with Iran the US aided him and with Kuwait we were against him). This is not to mention the brutality that Hussein and his psycho-sons inflicted on Iraqi citizens. Even now in 2008 mass graves of slaughtered men, women and children are haphazardly stumbled upon.
The only reason the U.S. does not send a military force to remove the butchering Arab Muslims from Sudan is the Islamic world would wrongly perceive it as an attack on Islam. Western nations even with the potential of their combined power to remove the current Sudanese government fear the Islamic reaction (The West is dominated by Left Wing cowering dhimmis). The genocide against Black Muslims in Darfur and Black Christians in Southern Sudan is enough reason to take out the regime. It is a demonstration of dhimmification of the U.N. and the protection of Communist Chinese that such action is not even close to being a consideration.
As far as oil goes: duh!! Are you an American or a dimwitted American? Islamists (though a growing minority in the Middle East) run the perceptions of America. If Islamists control oil in Iraq as well as oil in Iran and the Saudi Monarchy is a sneeze away from joining the Shah of Iran's fate. How do you think the National Interests of America would be affected if Islamists controlled the life blood of the World's economy? Can you say convert or no oil? That would mess up the Dems utopian delusional vision on how we should respect what happens in another nation's internal affairs.
As for the Iraq and Vietnam comparisons, the only thing valid that you have asserted is the unpopularity (forged into the minds by a Leftist MSM ignoring other facts and the Dems exploiting the non-reported facts) of the Iraq War in America.
So in essence Moralnilhilist, you are full of manure. I leave it to you decide what kind.
You’re dang right! There is bias against Republicans in the Mainstream Media! When have you heard the big buck Call Girl’s dream – Governor Spitzer of New York – called a Democrat by the MSM?
JRH 3/14/08
Does anyone remember the Mainstream Media (MSM) labeled Haditha Massacre? I say MSM labeled because there was no massacre! Islamist propaganda got to Western journalists who reported it the incident as a massacre when in fact it was a search for terrorist insurgents that had just blown up a Marine colleague.
Mr. Cut-n-run and Rep. Jack Murtha actually bought into the lie and publicly said this:
"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. And there was about twice as many as originally reported by Time."
Apparently the U.S. Government wishes to make an example of one of the last accused Marines Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani.
Friends this just plain sucks! We send troops to Iraq to make sure the Iraqi regime once ran by mass murderer Saddam Hussein is deposed to put a chink in terrorism and because the Weapons of Mass Destruction were not located the MSM has been frying the military ever since. Dear God in Heaven, Bush sent troops to Iraq based on Intelligence Reports that were divulged to Republicans and Democrats alike. So what WMD was not located! The Butcher of Baghdad was removed and now as the Surge is beginning to work, foreign terrorists attempting to disrupt the government that replaced Saddam are getting their butts kicked.
Now here’s the thing. Americans we cannot allow the Government to find one scapegoat to placate the delusional politically correct Left. The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) is taking up the cause of Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani. The problem is the government has nearly unlimited resources to prosecute persecute their scapegoat and the TMLC needs American Patriot donations to ease the burden of legal costs for Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani.
Here is the reasoning of the TMLC to defend Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani:
JRH (Hat tip toward Humbled Infidel)
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Lt. Col. Chessani & the Survival of America
A Personal Message from Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson, Esq.
President and Chief Counsel
Thomas More Law Center
Please Share with your Family & Friends
"The Nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten. "
- President Calvin Coolidge, 1920
Dear American Patriot,
The military trial of Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani will begin on April 28, 2008. And every patriotic American should be concerned with the outcome of this case because it could drastically curtail the future ability of American soldiers to defend our Nation and its Christian heritage and values.
For twenty years Marine Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Chessani has been defending our nation... often away from his wife and children... so that we could be safely with ours.
It’s mind-boggling that our government is sparing no expense to convict one of the most effective combat officers in Iraq on trumped-up charges. But now, you can do something about it.
I am aware that these are hard economic times for many, but please consider the sacrifices that Lt. Col. Chessani has made for each of us and our families, so that we may have peace at home. This is one of those times that you can show your gratitude. So please be as generous as you can.
The bogus criminal charges against Lt. Col. Chessani were triggered by a fierce house-to-house, room-by-room combat action taken by four of his Marines after being ambushed by insurgents in Haditha, Iraq on November 19, 2005.
Lt. Col. Paul Ware, USMC, a judicial officer who heard testimony in several cases involving the November 19th Haditha incident, had this to say about the criminal charges:
"To believe the government version of facts is to disregard clear and convincing evidence to the contrary and sets a dangerous precedent that, in my opinion, may encourage others to bear false witness against Marines as a tactic to erode public support of the Marine Corps and mission in Iraq. Even more dangerous is the potential that a Marine may hesitate at the critical moment when facing the enemy... "
This Marine Officer and his family urgently need your help - Click here NOW to support his cause.
Your generous financial support can help end this personal tragedy and injustice to Jeffrey Chessani and his family... and insure the future of America’s fighting spirit.
The four Marines involved in the November 19th incident were members of the battalion commanded by Lt. Col. Chessani - the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines - one of the most decorated units in the Marine Corps.
Lt. Col. Chessani is charged with failing to accurately report and investigate that incident. He faces dismissal from the Marines Corps, loss of all retirement benefits, and up to 2 1/2 years in prison.
The U. S. Army conducted two independent investigations of the Marines and both investigations concluded: there was no massacre and no cover-up.
But judge for yourself.
On November 19, 2005 at 7:15 a.m., a Marine convoy was rolling through Haditha, Iraq — a terrorist stronghold. Suddenly, a roadside bomb was set off destroying a Marine Humvee. The powerful blast killed one Marine and injured two others. The bomb blast was the signal for the ambush to begin. The Marines immediately received fire from the ambushing terrorists, who were shooting from nearby civilian-occupied homes. A four-man fire team stormed the two houses occupied by the armed insurgents and in the ensuing gun battles killed at least 9 insurgents and 15 civilians.
That roadside bomb BLAST was also the signal for insurgency attacks throughout the city that resulted in additional Marine casualties. Unmanned aerial vehicles video taped the Haditha action that morning. The video showed insurgents gathering their weapons and attacking Marines throughout the day.
As the battalion commander in charge of an area of operations about the size of South Carolina, Lt. Col. Chessani was responsible that morning for directing the combat response of approximately 2,000 American and friendly Iraqi troops. He immediately reported the deaths of the 15 civilian Iraqis to his superiors. In urban combat where terrorists purposefully use civilians as human shields, civilian casualties are a tragic and unfortunate, but not uncommon, occurrence.
Thus, not one of Jeffrey Chessani’s superiors – including top generals – hearing of the 15 civilian deaths considered it unusual. None of them suggested an investigation. In fact, his superiors commended him for a job well done. That was before Time magazine bought into the story promoted by insurgent propaganda.
Several months after the November 19th incident, an inflammatory Time Magazine news lead, instigated by an insurgent operative, accused the four Marines of massacring innocent civilians. You can probably guess what came next...
The leading anti-war politician, Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, saw the Haditha incident as a way to put pressure on President Bush to leave Iraq – even if he had to scapegoat innocent Marines in the process. Murtha appeared on major television networks and publicly accused the young enlisted Marines of “cold blooded” murder and Marine officers of a “cover-up. ” Mind you, this was long before the investigation was completed. He blamed it all on the stress of being in Iraq too long.
Murtha is head of the House of Representatives Military Appropriations subcommittee — a position with significant power over the military. He is the same person caught on tape negotiating bribes with Arab Sheiks during the FBI’s 1980 Abscam investigation — he was an un-indicted coconspirator in that case.
Political and media pressure caused the military to buckle. We now know at least 80 investigators were assigned to conduct a year-long, multi-million dollar investigation focused on Jeffrey Chessani and his four enlisted men.
Note the absurdity of it all... Lt. Col. Chessani is charged with failing to accurately report and investigate a crime that the military knows never occurred.
Here is Lt. Col. Chessani's background.
Jeffrey Chessani has honorably served his country as a Marine officer for 20 years. He and his wife Alisa have 6 young children – ranging in age from 2 months to 9 years. He served three tours of duty in Iraq, including the Second Battle of Fallujah. He has also served in Panama and in the First Persian Gulf War. He is a devout Christian who reads his Bible daily.
According to his official 2006 Combat Fitness Report (covering the period of the Haditha incident), his superiors considered him a superb leader, who demonstrated moral courage, with unlimited potential and value to the Marine Corps. Lt. Col. Chessani was described as one of the finer thinkers in the counterinsurgency movement.
I’m sure the insurgents are laughing in their caves because their planted story has eliminated one of America’s most effective combat officers. They know...
“A nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.”
One distorted magazine article and an anti-war politician have devastated the life and family of this patriotic Marine officer... and could adversely affect our military for years to come. That’s why...
I need you to send the largest gift you can... and rush it to me today.
Ambitious military prosecutors are doing everything they can to convict Lt. Col. Chessani in order to appease Murtha and the anti-war press. The vast resources of the military are at their disposal. The number of military investigators is virtually limitless. They can go anywhere, talk to anyone, and get anything, all at government expense. The Marine command structure is mandated to cooperate.
Without our help, Lt. Col. Chessani’s legal bills would already be astronomical — out of reach for a husband and father of six young children surviving on military pay.
In preparing for the preliminary hearing this past summer, TMLC lawyers examined thousands of pages of investigative reports and personally interviewed countless witnesses. They spent several weeks at Camp Pendleton, California, examining documents and witnesses and participating in the Article 32 Hearing.
TMLC lawyers are now engaged in a tremendous amount of legal work in preparation for the trial. This includes:
- Filing motions to dismiss the charges on constitutional and other procedural grounds;
- Filing motions to compel discovery that has been withheld from us, particularly the various emails, correspondence, and other communications, including classified communications, between high ranking officers in the chain of command;
- Filing a motion to dismiss the charges based on unlawful command influence. In this regard, we are in the process of requesting depositions of several high ranking military officers and civilian officials, including congressmen, service department heads, and others;
- And much more.
These motions will consume hundreds of attorney hours and thousands of dollars in travel expenses, transcript production, etc. — and this is all before the trial commences. Meanwhile, we are also conducting pretrial interviews and pretrial preparation. Moreover, additional thousands of dollars will be spent on developing courtroom exhibits to detail the incident for the military jury.
The general court-martial will take place at Camp Pendleton, California. It will last several weeks. The Thomas More Law Center will bear the enormous costs associated with establishing a second office, paying hotels and all the other expenses associated with two lawyers handling a case 2,000 miles away.
Lt. Col. Chessani was in Iraq because his country sent him there. He willingly answered the call to serve his country in our defense. That's why he deserves the support of every patriotic American. Now is the time to show him our gratitude.
For TMLC attorneys to defend this loyal Marine from the politically driven agenda that fomented the accusations against him, we need your financial support.
As tragic as these civilian deaths in Haditha were, it’s essential that we not shackle our combat commanders’ ability to make decisions by placing them in fear of criminal prosecution every time there are civilian casualties as a result of combat action.
Lt. Col. Chessani has devoted his life to the defense of OUR country... NOW he needs OUR help.
George Washington’s words are a somber warning for America:
“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation.”
YOU must assist the Thomas More Law Center in ensuring that the brave actions of our fighting men and women will not be turned into political fodder and talking points for politicians.
May God bless you, and may God continue to bless America.
Richard Thompson, Esq.
President and Chief Counsel
Thomas More Law Center
Michelle Malkin rips the hypocrisy of the Mainstream Media (MSM) creating and fabricating news to match their world view and simultaneously expose Slanted Left hatred of the Right. Malkin particularly focuses on ABC, CBS and NBC; however she could have just as easily had included the now exposed fake story of a Haditha Massacre. Go Malkin!
JRH 11/8/07
The Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial is becoming a fount of smoking gun proof that there is an Islamist agenda operating as a Fifth Column in America. I stand in near angry disbelief that the MSM is not hammering the significance of the documental proof that big buck Islamist organizations (deceiving Americans that they are Moderate Mohammedans seeking the American dream) are clandestinely conspiring like criminals to subvert American culture and infiltrate American politics with goal in mind – providing special religious benefits not afforded long time foundational religions (i.e. Judeo/Christianity) to delude the non-practicing Christians into conversion into violent Islamist Theo-political Mohammedans.
This is categorically wrong to allow this to happen.
It is fundamentally immoral for the MSM not to be reporting with emphasis the American Homeland agenda of Islamist organizations. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus forbid this deluded MSM adherence to Political Correctness. The MSM media is so rabidly fringe Left they do not have ears to hear or eyes to see that a fulfillment of an Islamist agenda will be the end of the MSM as we know it.
American soldiers dying in the Middle East fighting terrorism so that the Left and the Right in America can have the right of Freedom of Speech; yet if the Islamist Agenda were only to half complete the MSM media would be forbidden to write freely about Mohammedanism once their ears and eyes opened.
There is NO Freedom of Speech in a Mohammedan society. Freedom of Speech can lead to insulting dialogue, monologue, writing or speeches about Mohammedan and Allah. That is “Speech” NOT PERMITTED in Mohammedan society. People loose their lives for such public sentiments in the Middle East – legally.
Make no mistake; any accommodations to a Mohammedan Theo-Political society will end the American Constitutional Bill of Rights. There would be one set of laws for non-Mohammedans and another set for American-Mohammedans. THAT WILL FRACTURE OUR NATION AND OUR SOCIETY: America would cease to be the Land of the Free and home of the brave. America would spiral into a status of Third World nations, i.e. a status of continuous rioting until either the non-Mohammedans (secular and Christian Americans) or the American-Mohammedans extra-Constitutionally battled for a new rule of law. It would be a winner take all scenario and the loser no doubt will be heinous persecuted (it would not matter if the victor were non-Mohammedan or Mohammedan) for the perceived injustices that was heaped upon the eventual victors.
I know this is an extreme case scenario that may never actually come to fruition; however look at the pattern of Third World nation rioting and depravity AND look at the boldness of Mohammedans to riot in Western Europe and individually attack and/or rape non-Mohammedans in Western Europe. The pattern is escalating in Western Europe already.
If America chooses now to nip scheming Islamist organizations in the bud now, Constitutional legal measures can prevent potential future horrors of the future.
Related SlantRight.com Posts:
2. Dreher: A Gem of an Editorial Exposition about American Islam
3. Muslim Brotherhood Transnational Project Comes to America
4. It is Cliché, but Really – America Needs to Focus on the Islamist in our Midst
5. Fifth Column Radical Islamists Use Western Perks –
JRH (Hat Tip: American Congress For Truth E-Newsletter)