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Forgot about it. You're right, ...I had read that. Forgot about it. You're right, timing off. Good to be reminded of that stuff now and again.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43459260087045098202008-02-26T18:02:00.000-05:002008-02-26T18:02:00.000-05:00Yeah, he is good at that stuff.Yeah, he is good at that stuff.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27392621840322769182008-02-26T17:58:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:58:00.000-05:00Institutional memory, sam, usually that task is le...Institutional memory, sam, usually that task is left to elijahdesert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47568056245898718792008-02-26T17:56:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:56:00.000-05:00ThanksThankssamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18296625219282309552008-02-26T17:55:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:55:00.000-05:00Well shee-it, missed BW's post, didn't I?Well shee-it, missed BW's post, didn't I?samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16858315840463917532008-02-26T17:54:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:54:00.000-05:00From 27DEC06, from Bob W.CPT Patriquin was killed ...From 27DEC06, from Bob W.<BR/><A HREF="http://wilsonizer.blogspot.com/2006/12/soldiers-who-get-it-in-iraq.html" REL="nofollow">CPT Patriquin was killed in Iraq </A> the thread that links to <A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/how_to_win_in_anbar_v4.pdf" REL="nofollow">This report</A> in PDF format.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15122027481351586952008-02-26T17:49:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:49:00.000-05:00Your timing is off, sam.The Anbar Awakening began ...Your timing is off, sam.<BR/>The Anbar Awakening began in September of 06, a full six months before the "Surge" began, almost 10 months before the full combat component was in place.<BR/><BR/>Most of the "Surge" troops went to Baghdad, not Anbar. Fact of the matter. Just keep the guns flowing, the indigs will do fine, aQ cannot defeat the Tribes, no more than we could.<BR/>They subverted them, first. To fight the US occupation, when the natives came to learn the truth of the aQ mission, they turned on them. After we stopped operating against the Tribes.<BR/>Bob W had a post on the subject, from a Captain, since KIA, well over 18 months ago, now.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42748943104634330702008-02-26T17:48:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:48:00.000-05:00Amit Singh, 32, of Arlington, is also seeking the ...<I>Amit Singh, 32, of Arlington, is also seeking the Republican nomination. His platform is “libertarian leaning” and advocates reducing the size and scope of the federal government.<BR/><BR/>Singh, born and raised near Richmond, graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in electrical engineering. He now owns his own engineering firm that primarily serves federal agencies.<BR/><BR/>This is his first foray into politics.</I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2008/feb/26/five-vie-8th-district-seat/" REL="nofollow">VA 8th District</A>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62385406686505437822008-02-26T17:45:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:45:00.000-05:00We have spent six years training the Iraqi Army to...We have spent six years training the Iraqi Army to stand up. If they cannot, by now, they never will be able to.<BR/><BR/>There was a cadre of Shia veterans, as NCOs, from the Iran/Iraq war, Six years is two enlistments, even a civilian can become a Staff Sargent in six years.<BR/><BR/>If we'v done our job, per President Bush's stated mission, the Iraqi Army should be capable. They've had more than enough time to git-r-donedesert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83376617237674674302008-02-26T17:42:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:42:00.000-05:00Anbar didn't defeat AQ until we surged. When we'r...Anbar didn't defeat AQ until we surged. When we're out, they're fucked.<BR/><BR/>I think.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58046063789954007232008-02-26T17:33:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:33:00.000-05:00Would aQ be a more difficult enemy to defeat than ...Would aQ be a more difficult enemy to defeat than the US Marines?desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15906983051516784802008-02-26T17:31:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:31:00.000-05:00Support the natives, from afar.The 1920 Brigades, ...Support the natives, from afar.<BR/>The 1920 Brigades, the Badr Brigades, the Mahdi Army and whatever elements of the Iraqi Army function.<BR/><BR/>Spend money, not blood.<BR/><BR/>Since it has been the people of Anbar that have defeated aQIraq, why would they not continue to maintain local soveriegnty?<BR/><BR/>Why would they surrender, just because we leave. <BR/>They fought US, and won.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27305315903290095142008-02-26T17:29:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:29:00.000-05:00Like Johnny Mac, doug is known for an occasional "...Like Johnny Mac, doug is known for an occasional "Senior Moment", sam.<BR/><BR/>Or you'd have gotten the hat tipped. fer shordesert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67893314350391496662008-02-26T17:28:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:28:00.000-05:00You know, when Obama wins, and he pulls everybody ...You know, when Obama wins, and he pulls everybody out. What's to stop AQ from moving in and totally fucking that place up?<BR/><BR/>What's the policy going to be then?samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1248512248127485282008-02-26T17:27:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:27:00.000-05:00CondiCondisamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16298066417877341512008-02-26T17:25:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:25:00.000-05:00I posted that transcript a couple threads back, Do...I posted that transcript a couple threads back, Doug.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19947330390224391402008-02-26T17:23:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:23:00.000-05:00The policies of GWBush/DeLay that you mentioned, d...The policies of GWBush/DeLay that you mentioned, doug, go to my point.<BR/><BR/>There is/was no "conservative" power base that supported rolling back the Federal Government. No, indeed it was expanded to "do the right thing".<BR/><BR/>If the "small governemt conservatives" were a power base, then Mr Paul would have scored much better, as would have Mr Thompson. Both went down in flames, Mr Paul raising money, but not a lot of votes. No, the main GOP vote getter, was McCain, he who exemplifies where the GOP stands. On defense, immigration and campaign reform.<BR/><BR/>I think you are overly optimistic, mat. But even if you are correct, the Congress will be much more dominated by Democrats than it is now. The Army staffers, along with Mr Murtha and Company will force a withdrawal from Iraq of most all of the combat compenents. This is exemplified by General Casey's statement posted earlier, today. The tours are going to be rolled back to 12 months. Whether or not the number of troops remains constant, or not. Politically it'll have the same effect.<BR/><BR/>McCain will, if elected, be a four year man, will little prospect of reelection, as Chuch Norris said, it is a debilitating job, and John will be 72 years young when entering it. He may be ready on Day 1, but on Day 1,460, he'll be toasted.<BR/><BR/>Who will be his heir apparent, that's the "real" question for the Convention.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90933770643521436432008-02-26T17:21:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:21:00.000-05:00U.S. COIN doctrine meets the Korengal ValleyAt the...<A HREF="http://westhawk.blogspot.com/2008/02/us-coin-doctrine-meets-korengal-valley.html" REL="nofollow"><STRONG>U.S. COIN doctrine meets the Korengal Valley</STRONG></A><BR/><BR/>At the same time Ms. Rubin was at Captain Kearney’s forward operating base researching her story, Colonel Chip Preysler, USA, commanding officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, gave an interview by video-conference with the Pentagon press corps.<BR/>The <A HREF="http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4062" REL="nofollow"><STRONG>transcript of the interview</STRONG> </A>confirms Ms. Rubin’s descriptions of challenging mountainous terrain, a determined enemy, and hard fighting. As to the mental state of his soldiers, Colonel Preysler keeps his own counsel.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1897196978887406112008-02-26T17:15:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:15:00.000-05:00MRAPs Ramp Up When Tommy Pruitt , the communicatio...<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/automobiles/24MRAP.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" REL="nofollow"> <STRONG>MRAPs Ramp Up</STRONG> </A><BR/>When Tommy Pruitt , the communications director of Force Protection, joined the company in 2005, it was making “from one to four vehicles a month,” he said. “Now it’s a hundred plus.”<BR/><BR/>Force Protection moved into a 550,000-square-foot campus in 2006, once home to a General Electric turbine engine plant. The plant has about 500 workers.<BR/><BR/>The 4-by-4 Cougar and MaxxPro are Category I, the smallest of three MRAP classifications, while the 6-wheel, 10-passenger models are Category II. The 45,000-pound, six-seat, six-wheel Buffalo occupies Category III by itself.<BR/><BR/>During construction, the Cougar is turned upside down and bolted to a 330-horsepower Caterpillar C7 turbodiesel and an Allison four- or six-wheel-drive transaxle. Unlike the MaxxPro, the vehicle’s padded seats are mounted to the floor.<BR/><BR/>Aside from burly windshields, the front third of the Cougar looks remarkably like any International truck, from the raked hood with shark-gill-style air slots to the trademark split grille. The thickness of the ballistic glass is classified, but <STRONG>Sergeant Spurlock’s Cougar was once attacked by insurgents with AK-47’s.<BR/>“We just pressed up against the glass and watched the rounds hit,”</STRONG> he said.<BR/>---<BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/automobiles/24KAWASAKI.html?ref=automobiles" REL="nofollow"><STRONG>Diesel-Sipping Motorcycle for the Marines</STRONG> </A>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52719317040586380542008-02-26T16:36:00.000-05:002008-02-26T16:36:00.000-05:00Speaking of bad records and Doug's contention that...Speaking of bad records and Doug's contention that Bush isn't a conservative maybe the whole damn GOP really isn't conservative - or maybe the mantra of 'de-regulation' doesn't produce much of a good record...<BR/><BR/>"The accounting scandal now haunting the National Republican Congressional Committee was preceded by a series of decisions over the past decade to relax internal financial controls at the committee, according to numerous Republican sources familiar with the NRCC’s operations during those years.<BR/><BR/>Under Virginia Rep. Tom Davis and New York Rep. Thomas Reynolds, who chaired the committee from 1999 until the end of 2006, the NRCC waived rules requiring the executive committee — made up of elected leaders and rank-and-file Republican lawmakers — to sign off on expenditures exceeding $10,000, merged the various department budgets into a single account and rolled back a prohibition on committee staff earning an income from outside companies.<BR/><BR/>These changes gave committee staffers more freedom to spend money quickly and react to a shifting political landscape during heated campaign battles, and House Republicans were able to claim larger majorities after the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections.<BR/><BR/>But the actions also may have contributed to a perceived lack of oversight within the NRCC, especially over financial records, a failure that outside observers blame for an accounting scandal that could go much deeper than the allegedly forged audit a former treasurer sent to the committee’s principal lender in January. NRCC officials contacted the FBI soon after discovering that the former employee, Christopher J. Ward, had submitted what they believe to be a fake internal audit to Wachovia as part of a loan application by the committee.<BR/><BR/>House Republicans are still awaiting the completion of an outside audit of the committee, since at this time they are unsure of the scale or nature of the financial problems at the committee. Current NRCC Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) has publicly stated that there were “accounting irregularities” at the committee that “may include fraud.”<BR/><BR/>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8691.htmlAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232405130481114127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41729772981852792852008-02-26T16:29:00.000-05:002008-02-26T16:29:00.000-05:00No, no, you are having fun. But it may not be the ...No, no, you are having fun. 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But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.) -<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. She then chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as 'my worst mistake.'<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House Security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (“Filegate”) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996 both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years.<BR/><BR/><BR/>In order to open “slots” in the White House for her friends the Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for 'gross mismanagement' and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Another of Hillary's assumed duties was directing the 'bimbo eruption squad' and scandal defense: <BR/><BR/><BR/>---- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. ---- She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs. ---- Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.---- And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury ---- And Bill was impeached by the House. ---- And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, 'I do not recall,' 'I have no recollection,' and 'I don't know' 56 times under oath).<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary wrote 'It Takes a Village,' demonstrating her Socialist viewpoint.<BR/><BR/><BR/> Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial support.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.<BR/><BR/>In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the 'woman card' by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hillary's husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.)<BR/><BR/><BR/>As the junior Senator from New York, Hillary has passed no major legislation. 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