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Monday, June 30
NRO: General Recklessness
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:56 PM EDT
"I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” former NATO Commander Wesley Clark told Face the Nation on Sunday. “In the matters of national security policy making, it’s a matter of understanding risk.” The Hillary-Clinton-turned-Barack-Obama-supporter continued: “It’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions." More>>> Sunday, June 29
Haditha cases continue to unravel
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 29 Jun 2008 09:04 PM EDT
Battered by six consecutive exonerations of Marines accused in a highly publicized case, military prosecutors face new difficulties in obtaining convictions against the two remaining defendants charged with wrongdoing in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha. The latest blow came June 17, when a judge ruled that unlawful command influence had irreparably tainted the dereliction-of-duty prosecution against the battalion commander at Haditha, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani and that the charges would be dismissed. More>>> Thursday, June 26
The Last Thing a Terrorist Hears...
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 26 Jun 2008 04:10 PM EDT
The whirling baldes of the Apache Gunship.
The AH-64 Apache in Action on the East River Range in Bagram, Afghanistan. This video was filmed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF V). It features the 30mm Canon, 2.75 inch Hydra Rockets, and AGM-114 Hellfire missile. Produced by Blackjack Film LLC.
Police Report: Mexican Army Members Busted for Home Invasion and Murder in Phoenix, Arizona
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:28 AM EDT
Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army. While on the J.D. Hayworth show, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer said that the men involved were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations. More>>> Wednesday, June 25
Tuesday, June 24
AP: US to carry on military trials at Guantanamo despite ruling
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 24 Jun 2008 06:23 PM EDT
Hearings for terror suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo are going ahead despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed detainees have a right to challenge their detention in a civilian court. Legal experts had described the high court's decision as the death knell of the special tribunals created by President George W. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress to try "war on terror" suspects. More>>>
Eliminating an Iraqi sniper, American style (rough language)
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:06 PM EDT
Monday, June 23
Kristol: Someone Else’s Alex
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 01:37 PM EDT
The ad is simple. A mother speaks as she holds her baby boy: “Hi, John McCain. This is Alex. And he’s my first. So far his talents include trying any new food and chasing after our dog. That, and making my heart pound every time I look at him. And so, John McCain, when you say you would stay in Iraq for 100 years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can’t have him.” Take that, warmonger! More>>>
Apache Helicopter Smokes some Insurgents
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:33 AM EDT
Nothing fancy, just some guys hiding out in their cars and an Apache pilot opts to light them up. Sunday, June 22
The Facts in Iraq Are Changing
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 02:10 PM EDT
As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most importantly, the facts about Iraq. During the Democratic primary season, all the party's candidates veered hardly a jot or tittle from the narrative that helped the Democrats sweep the November 2006 elections. Iraq is spiraling into civil war, we invaded unwisely and have botched things ever since, no good outcome is possible, and it is time to get out of there.. More>>> Saturday, June 21
CEO: Lockheed backs EADS tanker deal
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 21 Jun 2008 04:58 PM EDT
Stevens believes the German defense industry needs to receive more business in order to fund investments in things even as mundane as computers or software since their technological equipment is at least one generation behind the global standards. "Many of the companies that we work with in Germany are in danger," the Lockheed CEO explained. More>>> Friday, June 20
How To Blow 80 Million In 6 Seconds
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 20 Jun 2008 09:52 AM EDT
The crew forgets to activate the break cable for a plane landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The plane slips off the edge of carrier and crashes into the ocean. Thursday, June 19
The Underground Moscow
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 19 Jun 2008 04:31 PM EDT
Right beneath the Moscow downtown with its extra-costly realty lies ex-KGB dungeons. They are still full functioning and access is not so easy and still nobody knows the exact location and plan of those underground man-made caverns of Moscow but some parts of them are now open for the tourists. More>>>
Justice Kennedy: American Idle
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 19 Jun 2008 01:37 PM EDT
...the judiciary simply has no power over enemy combatants in wartime. Such power is committed to the executive as part of the commander in chief's power, and thus implicitly denied to the judiciary, just as is the power to declare war is unilaterally committed to Congress. As one law professor said to me, this is what happens when the swing justice is the dumb justice. More>>>
Follow Up: Haditha Marine prepares to sue Murtha over smear
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 19 Jun 2008 09:36 AM EDT
With most of the eight Marines charged in the Haditha, Iraq, incident now exonerated, the highest-ranking officer among the accused is considering a lawsuit against Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who fueled the case by declaring the men cold-blooded killers. In an interview with nationally syndicated radio talk host Michael Savage, the lead attorney for Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani said he and his client will look into suing Murtha and the Time magazine reporter, Tim McGuirk, who first published the accusations by Iraqi insurgents. More>>> Wednesday, June 18
Boeing wins key round in Air Force tanker protest
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 18 Jun 2008 02:17 PM EDT
GAO grants Boeing protest of $35B Air Force tanker contract award to Northrop, Airbus parent More>>>
Bye Bye- F-18 Air Strike On Insurgent Rocket Team in Iraq
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 18 Jun 2008 11:12 AM EDT
Here is part of the reason The Surge has been so effective... American Airpower. They bring mortars, we bring an F-18. But look at the bright side Islamists, you get your 72 virgins. Tuesday, June 17
America's Homegrown Troop Killers
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 10:27 PM EDT
It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them. It's a story you don't like to hear from the mainstream media: U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who want to do them harm include fellow citizens. More>>>
Obama: Bin Laden still free because of GOP tactics
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 06:37 PM EDT
Democrat Barack Obama says he'll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer. GOP rival John McCain's campaign criticized Obama Tuesday for speaking approvingly of the successful prosecution of terrorists. A McCain aide said, "Obama is a perfect manifestation of a September 10th mind-set" and does not understand the dangers posed by U.S. adversaries. Not that Barry has offered any solutions on getting Bin Laden other than invading Pakistan...- Riley More>>>
Military Training with Knives (In Russian)
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 05:34 PM EDT
A good video despite the fact it is all in Russian with no subtitles. The instructor definitely has some moves.
Team Obama: Osama deserves a trial in an American Courtroom
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 04:24 PM EDT
Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts, a privilege opposed by John McCain. Responding to questions from The Examiner, Sen. John Kerry and former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said bin Laden would benefit from last week's Supreme Court decision giving terrorism suspects habeas corpus, the right to appeal their military detention to civilian courts. “If he were to be brought back,” Clarke said of bin Laden, “the Supreme Court ruling holds on the right of habeas corpus.” More>>>
Follow Up: B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Crash Video & Technical Report
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 09:54 AM EDT
Excellent detailed analysis concerning the crash of the B2 on Guam back in February. Monday, June 16
IRAQ: Haditha case attorneys feel case may be dropped
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 06:49 PM EDT
Chessani is charged with dereliction of duty and failure to follow a direct order. While he did report the basic facts of the killings to his bosses within hours, prosecutors say he should have been more aggressive in finding out why a squad of Marines in his battalion killed 24 Iraqis after a roadside bomb had killed a Marine. Chessani was not at the scene of the killings. He has said that from the reports he received, it appeared the killings, while tragic, were the result of "troops in contact" with the enemy and thus no further investigation was needed More>>>
LA Times: Bush Never Lied To Us About Iraq
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 06:28 PM EDT
Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war. Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House "manipulation" -- that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction -- administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods. More>>> Sunday, June 15
Blueprints for an Advanced Nuclear Weapon found on computers that belonged to rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 15 Jun 2008 11:20 AM EDT
The plans appear to closely resemble a nuclear weapon that was built by Pakistan and first tested exactly a decade ago. But when confronted with the design by officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year, Pakistani officials insisted that Dr. Khan, who has been lobbying in recent months to be released from the loose house arrest that he has been under since 2004, did not have access to Pakistan’s weapons designs. More>>> Saturday, June 14
Four Marines die in Afghanistan; 870 inmates escape
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 14 Jun 2008 02:22 PM EDT
About 870 prisoners escaped during a Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and demolished a prison floor, Afghan officials said Saturday. And in western Afghanistan on Saturday, a roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle, killing four Americans in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. More>>>
Newsbusters: Levin on Reaction to Gitmo Ruling: Reporters Spewing Enemy Talking Points
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 14 Jun 2008 02:11 PM EDT
Beginning his program Thursday, Levin took the Supreme Court to task for this ruling, as well as the predictable standing ovation from the media, crescendoing to the following conclusion that should be required reading for all Americans interested in the truth concerning this matter (ten minute audio available here, picture courtesy Radcity): More>>> Friday, June 13
3 Ohio Muslims guilty of plot against US troops in Iraq
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 08:17 PM EDT
These undated handout photos provided by the Justice Department show, from left, Marwan El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum and Mohammad Amawi, which the Justice Department said Friday, June 13, 2008, that a federal jury has convicted the three Ohio men of plotting to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The guilty verdicts were returned by a jury in Toledo,Ohio. More>>>
Levin: The Gitmo Defeat
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 06:19 PM EDT
It has been the objective of the left-wing bar to fight aspects of this war in our courtrooms, where it knew it would have a decent chance at victory. So complete is the Court's disregard for the Constitution and even its own precedent now that anything is possible. And what was once considered inconceivable is now compelled by the Constitution, or so five justices have ruled. I fear for my country. I really do. And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation. More>>>
Officials fell trees inscribed by US soldiers who fought for France
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 12:46 PM EDT
Claude Quétel, a French historian and Second World War specialist, was horrified when he discovered what he called a catastrophe and a shameless act. “It is a typically French failing to wipe out the traces of the past,” he told The Times. “I am indignant.” More>>> Thursday, June 12
Three Cool clips of the F-22 Raptor
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:24 PM EDT
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin recently showed off America's latest fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. In this video, ... more » Wednesday, June 11
EAT CROW, IRAQ WAR SKEPTICS
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 11 Jun 2008 11:21 AM EDT
June 9, 2008 -- AMERICA has won, or is about to win, the Iraq war. The latest proof came last month, as the Iraqi army - just a few months ago the target of scorn and abuse from Democratic politicians and journalists - forcefully reoccupied three cities that had served as key insurgency bases (Basra, Sadr City and Mosul). More>>> Tuesday, June 10
What kind of war crimes trials does Obama plan? (updated)
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 10 Jun 2008 01:54 PM EDT
Barack Obama's plan for imposing unity on the nation after he takes office apparently entails a close look at war crimes trials for Bush administration officials. He has even said so in an interview with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News. This kind of change -- putting your predecessors on trial for their conduct of policy -- may not be what most Americans really want or expect from someone with Obama's gauzy rhetoric of unity. But unity has a dark side in the hands of people who regard their opponents as criminals. America has two centuries-plus of history lacking the totalitarian practice of jailing the predecessors when a new president takes office. More>>> |
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