Archive for July, 2010

Mullen: Assange/Manning have blood on their hands

| July 30, 2010 | 19 Comments
Mullen: Assange/Manning have blood on their hands

As Sporkmaster and Old Trooper Tanker have written in the last few days, it appears that the culprit for releasing those 91,000 documents related to the Afghanistan War is Bradley Manning. It’s not surprising really, since he said he did it. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen told reporters yesterday that the […]

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A Pfc Knows better.

| July 30, 2010 | 4 Comments
A Pfc Knows better.

We have the latest on the wikileaks dump from the Wall Street Journal today. I’m sure it comes as no surprise that it was our pal Bradley Manning. Investigators have found concrete evidence on computers used by Pfc. Bradley Manning that link him with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a U.S. defense official […]

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Another hippie scam

| July 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
Another hippie scam

Someone who would normally support Bradley Manning wrote to tell me that the folks at Courage to Resist are sponsoring the above campaign and they have no intention of sending the money to defend Bradley Manning. In fact, this someone tells me that Bradley Manning hasn’t even heard of Courage to Resist. Normally, I’d be […]

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Adrienne Kinne, Blue Falcon

| July 29, 2010 | 37 Comments
Adrienne Kinne, Blue Falcon

Time reports that Spain’s National Court has decided to re-indict three American soldiers for killing a Spanish journalist in Baghdad’s Hotel Palestine during the last hours of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. On April 8, 2003, one day before U.S. troops officially captured Baghdad, a U.S. tank fired a single incendiary shell on the hotel, killing Couso, […]

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Rangel reminds us that he was a soldier while he acts unsoldierly

| July 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
Rangel reminds us that he was a soldier while he acts unsoldierly

While Charles Rangel negotiates with the House Ethics Committee, he reminds us that once he was a soldier. (Associated Press link); “Sixty years ago I survived a Chinese attack in North Korea and as a result I haven’t had a bad day since,” Rangel told reporters. “But today I have to reassess that statement.” First […]

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Former Arlington official accepts blame

| July 29, 2010 | 5 Comments
Former Arlington official accepts blame

According to the Associated Press and Stars & Stripes, John Metzler, the former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery for 19 years, has accepted “full responsibility” for the shoddy record-keeping at the cemetery that may have mis-interred as many as 6600 veterans according to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill. Of course, Metzler’s former deputy Thurman Higginbotham made […]

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Moron

| July 29, 2010 | 16 Comments
Moron

Do you need proof that IVAW is chocked full of poseurs and fakers? No better example exists than Jeremy Stainthorp Berggren (WTF kind of name is Stainthorp anyway? What kind of pretentious set of parents would saddle their spawn with that moniker?) But, anyway, I wrote about the doofus back in March when he told […]

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Voting Rights and the DoJ

| July 29, 2010 | 5 Comments
Voting Rights and the DoJ

Yesterday. jerry920 sent me this link to a Fox News article about the Holder Justice Department deciding that they’ll provide legal assistance to states who want to prevent servicemembers overseas from voting in their elections; Rebecca Wertz, deputy chief of the DOJ’s voting section, told state election officials that the legislative language regarding waivers is […]

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