Posted 1:46 AM by Steve
This was said by a member of Iraq's Olympic soccer team:

"We do not wish for the presence of the Americans in our country. We want them to go away."


Listen, chump. We want to be in your country 100 TIMES less than you want us not to be in your country, but don't think for a second we won't act defend ourselves. Don't think for a second the biggest hawk in the Bush administration wouldn't rather have thousands of our troops back home training instead of fighting. We will not allow terrorism to fester and flourish in your part of the world. Until you rise up as a free people and cast off the shackles of religious totalitarianism, until you say "NO" to the next ambitious and bloodthirsty dictator, get USED TO US.

The people of the Middle-East, regardless of national origin, need to grow up and become serious about becoming a productive part of the world. If not they will be relegated to the past and will only be remembered as a "little people, a silly people, greedy barbarous and cruel."

Posted 12:55 AM by Steve
Whoa there! U.S. team, don't be so defensive about your pathetic, embarrasing showing at the Olympics this year. Your egos are only trampling one of the most storied traditions in SPORTS!

Yeah, let's give credit to Argentina. The victors, who had one good NBA player and a player who was decent in college and is trying to stick in the pro game, made the all-star chumps look downright sad.

I would wager that I could find enough talent among America's CITY LEAGUE players who, with some practice in the international game, could have given the international teams more competition.

How many 'wake-up calls" does it take for the United States team to sacrifice their game and devote themselves to WINNING?

Even with no preperation time, hostile crowds and officials, and no understanding of the international rules. These players had the talent to win the gold.

I guess it just takes the heart that Magic, Bird, Jordan, Robinson, and Barkley have to dig down and win at all costs.

Posted 1:33 PM by Steve
MORE KERRY LIES!!

Plot thickens after checking recordsAugust 27, 2004BY THOMAS LIPSCOMBIn the midst of the controversy between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Kerry campaign representatives about Kerry's service in Vietnam, new questions have arisen. The Kerry campaign has repeatedly stated that the official naval records prove the truth of Kerry's assertions about his service. But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a "Silver Star with combat V." But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V' to anyone for a Silver Star."Naval regulations do not allow for the use of a "combat V" for the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration the Navy awards. None of the other services has ever granted a Silver Star "combat V," either.Fake claims not uncommonB.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran himself, received the highest award the Army gives to a civilian, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, for his book Stolen Valor. Burkett pored through thousands of military service records, uncovering phony claims of awards and fake claims of military service. "I've run across several claims for Silver Stars with combat V's, but they were all in fake records," he said.Burkett recently filed a complaint that led last month to the sentencing of Navy Capt. Roger D. Edwards to 115 days in the brig for falsification of his records.Kerry's Web site also lists two different citations for the Silver Star. One was issued by the commander in chief of the Pacific Command (CINCPAC), Adm. John Hyland. The other, issued by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman during the Reagan administration, contained some revisions and additional language. "By his brave actions, bold initiative, and unwavering devotion to duty, Lieutenant (j.g.) Kerry reflected great credit upon himself... ."One award, three citationsBut a third citation exists that appears to be the earliest. And it is not on the Kerry campaign Web site. It was issued by Vice Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, commander of U.S. naval forces in Vietnam. This citation lacks the language in the Hyland citation or that added by the Lehman version, but includes another 170 words in a detailed description of Kerry's attack on a Viet Cong ambush, his killing of an enemy soldier carrying a loaded rocket launcher, as well as military equipment captured and a body count of dead enemy.Maj. Anthony Milavic, a retired Marine Vietnam veteran, calls the issuance of three citations for the same medal "bizarre." Milavic hosts Milinet, an Internet forum popular with the military community that is intended "to provide a forum in military/political affairs."Normally in the case of a lost citation, Milavec points out, the awardee simply asked for a copy to be sent to him from his service personnel records office where it remains on file. "I have never heard of multi-citations from three different people for the same medal award," he said. Nor has Burkett: "It is even stranger to have three different descriptions of the awardee's conduct in the citations for the same award."So far, there are also two varying citations for Kerry's Bronze Star, one by Zumwalt and the other by Lehman as secretary of the Navy, both posted on johnkerry.com.Kerry's Web site also carries a DD215 form revising his DD214, issued March 12, 2001, which adds four bronze campaign stars to his Vietnam service medal. The campaign stars are issued for participation in any of the 17 Department of Defense named campaigns that extended from 1962 to the cease-fire in 1973.However, according to the Navy spokesman, Kerry should only have two campaign stars: one for "Counteroffensive, Phase VI," and one for "Tet69, Counteroffensive."94 pages of records unreleased?Reporting by the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs points out that although the Kerry campaign insists that it has released Kerry's full military records, the Post was only able to get six pages of records under its Freedom of Information Act request out of the "at least a hundred pages" a Naval Personnel Office spokesman called the "full file."What could that more than 100 pages contain? Questions have been raised about President Bush's drill attendance in the reserves, but Bush received his honorable discharge on schedule. Kerry, who should have been discharged from the Navy about the same time -- July 1, 1972 -- wasn't given the discharge he has on his campaign Web site until July 13, 1978. What delayed the discharge for six years? This raises serious questions about Kerry's performance while in the reserves that are far more potentially damaging than those raised against Bush.Experts point out that even the official military records get screwed up. Milavic is trying to get mistakes in his own DD214 file corrected. In his opinion, "these entries are not prima facie evidence of lying or unethical behavior on the part of Kerry or anyone else with screwed-up DD214s."Burkett, who has spent years working with the FBI, Department of Justice and all of the military services uncovering fraudulent files in the official records, is less charitable: "The multiple citations and variations in the official record are reason for suspicion in itself, even disregarding the current swift boat veterans' controversy."

Posted 12:59 PM by Steve
Kerry LIED!



Admiral speaks out, disputes Kerry's account of 1st wound
August 27, 2004
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
NEW YORK -- Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart.
"Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in Charleston, S.C. He said, "Kerry requested a Purple Heart."
Schachte, a lieutenant, said he was in command of the small boat called a Boston whaler or skimmer, with Kerry aboard in his first combat mission in the Vietnam War. The third crew member was an enlisted man, whose name Schachte did not remember.
Two enlisted men who appeared at the podium with Kerry at the Democratic National Convention in Boston have asserted that they were alone in the small boat with Kerry, with no other officer present. Schachte said it "was not possible" for Kerry to have gone out alone so soon after joining the swift boat command in late November 1968.
Kerry supporters said no critics of the Democratic presidential nominee ever were aboard a boat with him in combat. Washington lawyer Lanny Davis has contended that Schachte was not aboard the Boston whaler and says the statement that Schachte was aboard in Unfit for Command undermines that critical book's credibility.
Schachte until now has refused to speak out publicly on this question and agreed to give only two interviews. One was a television interview with Lisa Meyers of NBC News, for broadcast Thursday night. The second was a print interview with me, for publication today.
Schachte described the use of the skimmer operating very close to shore as a technique that he personally designed to flush out enemy forces so that the larger swift boats could move in. Around 3 a.m. on Dec. 2, Schachte said, the skimmer -- code-named "Batman" -- fired a hand-held flare. He said that after Kerry's M-16 rifle jammed, the new officer picked up the M-79 and, "I heard a 'thunk.' There was no fire from the enemy," he said.
Patrick Runyon and William Zaladonis are the two enlisted men who said they were aboard the skimmer and did not know Schachte. However, two other former officers interviewed Thursday confirmed that Schachte was the originator of the technique and always was aboard the Boston whaler for these missions.
Grant Hibbard, who as a lieutenant commander was Schachte's superior officer, confirmed that Schachte always went on these skimmer missions and said, "I don't think he [Kerry] was alone" on his first assignment. Hibbard said he had told Kerry to "forget it" when he asked for a Purple Heart.
Ted Peck, another swift boat commander, said, "I remember Bill [Schachte] telling me it didn't happen" -- that is, Kerry getting an enemy-inflicted wound. He said it would be "impossible" for Kerry to have been in the skimmer without Schachte.
"I was astonished by Kerry's version" [in his book Tour of Duty] of what happened Dec. 2, Schachte said Thursday. When asked to support the Kerry critics in the swift boat controversy, Schachte said, "I didn't want to get involved." But he said he gradually began to change his mind when he saw his own involvement and credibility challenged, starting with Davis on CNN's "Crossfire" on Aug. 12.
The next time he saw Kerry after the first Purple Heart incident, Schachte said, was "about 20 years" later on the U.S. Senate subway in the basement of the Russell Senate Office Building. "I called, 'Hey, John.' He replied, 'Batman.' I was absolutely amazed by his memory." He said they "talked about having lunch" but never did it.
Schachte said he never has been contacted by or talked to anybody in the Bush-Cheney campaign or any Republican organization. He said he has been a political independent who votes for candidates of both parties.

Posted 1:54 AM by Steve
We stand upon an historic precipice. The frightening erosion of our economic liberties continues. Our nation must...must... make a serious u-turn.

As in every crisis, all is not lost. We are faced with an opportunity. Our nation has the chance to become a power for freedom and properity (thus peace) in this world . The political debate in the country has taken a disturbing turn. In the 1990's, the debate was from between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. Now the debate seems to be centering between big spending "compassionate conservatives" and closet communists. The Right has lost much of it's fiscally responsible identity. The Left has moved into nutball, Howard-Dean-scream crazy territory. In other words, while we were sitting here debating the whole damn thing took a big jump to the left.

Can you imagine if we unshackled the hard-working, infinitely creative American people? Can you even imagine if every city, county, state, and national political position was filled by Libertarian candidates? What kind of world would we wake up in overnight? To paraphrase William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) in "Braveheart" : While we squabble and argue over the scraps from the table of a bad federal government and a worse one we are missing our God-given right to something better.

Posted 12:46 PM by Steve
President Bush has guided the nation through one of it's darkest hours with humility and strength while restoring moral dignity to the Oval Office.

President Bush stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the workers at Ground Zero and oversaw a massive military mobilization.

President Bush took out two major state sponsors of terror, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein- overwhelmingly winning two wars. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a huge success with Iraq becoming a free sovereign nation Monday, June 28 2004.

The economic indicators show that we are in the midst of a vibrant recovery with home ownership and home values reaching all-time highs.


No WONDER the Democrats are so desperate. They are a party in decline. The extreme left has hijacked the Democrat Party from the moderates like Sen. Joe Lieberman and Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Their presidential candidate is one of the most extreme leftists to ever serve in the United States Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy! His picture graces the halls of a Communist Vietnamese museum in Hanoi where he is credited as helping the Communists defeat America.

Posted 11:43 PM by Steve
HYPOCRISY ALERT!

Things that make you go, "YOU SUCK, LEFTIST MEDIA!!!":


Why is it that when people criticize President Bush for anything, be it his personality, his policy decisions, his past history, his character, etc. the leftist media reports and discusses it.

BUT, when people criticize John Kerry for anything, be it his personality, his policy decisions, his past history, his character, etc. the leftist media report it and then discuss whether the criticism is "fair" or not.

During the 2000 election, it was a common thing for a Gore supporter to make all sorts of unproven claims about President Bush's service record in the National Guard. The media didn't bat an eyelash. In fact, they covered the story extensively!

However, when a group of veterans who served with John Kerry in Vietnam sincerely question the leadership and trust of a person who wishes to be commander-in-chief of our nation's military, the media acts as if some low, mud-slinging, negative campaign tactic has been

During the 2000 campaign, Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe joined in the Bush bashing, stating that Mr. Bush "was AWOL in the Texas National Guard." This charge has since been debunked.

Can you imagine the uproar if current Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie came out and said, "John Kerry is no war hero, he is a traitor. He lied about his record in Vietnam and the men who served with him don't trust him. His medals were undeserved and everything he did in Vietnam was self-serving. His protests against the war aided the enemy and, worse, dispirited American POW's. The speech he gave to congress after his return home was nothing short of treason."

Now I can say something like that, but can you imagine the uproar if a major figure in the political process said that about Kerry?

Posted 1:41 AM by Steve
KERRY CAMPAIGN BACKTRACKS ON FIRST PURPLE HEART AWARD
Campaign Says May Have Been Self-Inflicted
Washington—In a reversal of their staunch defense of John Kerry's military service record, Kerry campaign officials were quoted by Fox News saying that it was indeed possible that John Kerry's first Purple Heart commendation was the result of an, unintentional, self-inflicted wound."
"GARRETT: And questions keep coming. For example, Kerry received a Purple Heart for wounds suffered on December 2, 1968. But in Kerry's own journal written nine days later, he writes he and his crew, quote, "hadn't been shot at yet," unquote. Kerry's campaign has said it is possible this first Purple Heart was awarded for an unintentional self-inflicted wound -- Brit." (Special Report with Brit Hume Aug.23, 2004)
A recent television ad from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth featured Doctor Louis Letson who treated Kerry for his minor injury and Grant Hibbard who served as John Kerry's direct commander on the mission where he claimed his medal. Both men say Kerry did not deserve the medal given the fact that Kerry received a very minor wound requiring no more than band-aid treatment and because the wound was not a direct result of hostile fire, a requirement for a Purple Heart commendation.
"When Grant Hibbard and Doctor Letson appeared in our ad, they were attacked and vilified by the Kerry campaign but now we see news reports saying the Kerry campaign is now sheepishly acknowledging that what we said was true," said Admiral Hoffmann, founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "John Kerry's own journal reinforces the fact that neither Kerry nor his crew had seen hostile enemy action. John Kerry's first Purple Heart medal is based on fiction."
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is calling on the Kerry campaign to apologize to Grant Hibbard and Doctor Letson as the men did nothing more than come forward to speak the truth about the situation involving John Kerry's first Purple Heart medal.
This is not the only incident in which Kerry campaign officials have changed their story concerning Kerry's prestigious war medals. The incident on the Bay Hap River in which Kerry received his third Purple Heart and Bronze Star has also been the subject of considerable waffling by Kerry officials.
During the Democratic National Convention, Kerry used the Bay Hap River incident to suggest that he alone returned to rescue Jim Rassmann—a Special Forces solider—who was on Kerry's boat and was tossed into the river. Kerry described this incident to the American people as "No man left behind."
However Kerry officials were forced to acknowledge that Kerry's boat actually left the scene when another swift boat—operating on the other side of the river—was damaged by an underwater mine. Kerry officials now admit that Kerry's boat returned after several minutes to pull Rassmann from the water while three other swift boats remained on site to render assistance to the injured crew of the one damaged boat. Campaign officials once claimed that Kerry returned to the scene under withering hostile fire to rescue Rassmann after all the other swift boats left. But other accounts from eyewitnesses of that day confirm that the other boats stayed on site and that Kerry returned to the scene, facing no enemy fire, only seconds before another swift boat was preparing to retrieve Mr. Rassmann from the water.
"John Kerry's stories are falling apart," added Hoffmann. His statements don't even match up with his own journal entries. We are going to continue telling the truth about John Kerry's military service record so that the American people can make their own decisions about John Kerry's qualifications to be the next Commander in Chief."

Posted 3:02 PM by Steve
NEWSFLASH: Pat Buchanan is still a moron. His latest attack on so-called "neo-cons" is simply one more episode in his strange career and his warped take on conservativism.