11-11-2009

Happy Veteran’s Day: I don’t care if you were a paratrooper, cook, medic, grunt, pilot, or ran the laundry and bath point, you have my thanks for serving our country.

“Guns on the Q.T. – Thank God for That”: A Mudville Veterans Day tradition, I first posted this one from Baghdad in 2004. My grandfather (whose grandfather fought for Ohio in the Civil War) was a medic on the battlefields in WWI, the letter reproduced below was to the girl back home who would become his wife.

Victims, Villains and Heroes: The careful consideration of Nidal’s victimage stands in sharp contrast to the treatment of American soldiers at Haditha denounced as cold blooded killers by a member of the United States Congress.

When Our Military is Attacked, Obama is a Nowhere Man: When Obama isn’t prepped and rehearsed, he flails around like a blind man. He’s clueless, lost in space. …is his disconnect caused by damage from childhood, from being raised by freaky people?

Hasan’s Treason: …accusations of treason and sedition by irreparably bad actors like McCarthy and MoveOn have grotesquely scarred the terms. With Hasan, however, we move well beyond accusation. Hasan committed an act of treason. Count the bodies, dead and wounded, for they are harsh facts, and they are the consequences.

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