J. D. Pendry

J. D. Pendry

Sorry, Im a bit fuzzy, maybe you can explain to us good americans why we go to war all over the world……and perhaps touch on how many people (not just americans) have died because of it? Just wondering…..Jay Dee. – posted by Felipe

This comment was sent to Post Turtles , which I wrote on July 22, 2007. Comments such as these are manifestations of cyber courage bolstered by the anonymity of hotmail and the Internet and are generally ignored and sent to the cyber trashcan. The posters of them are not interested in discussion. This one wasn’t laced with the usual profanity, but does reek of the usual liberal condescension. Felipe’s IP address originates in the UK. I won’t post his hotmail email handle, but I’ve discovered something interesting during my years of cyber travels. People use the same handle whether it’s for their hotmail account, in forums or other places. I typed Felipe’s into Google and it steered me to a California gay singles site and a restaurant review written in the UK. The review was written by someone with the same handle as Felipe’s and claiming to be from California. Hey, I’m just sayin’…

I started to send this comment over to my friends at OWD for their thoughts, but they’re as old as me and I think some of them have pace makers - and PTSD. I can’t afford to pay for their busted keyboards or any time in the cardiac care unit so I thought I’d chat with Felipe myself. If I do a bad job of it, I’m sure they’ll stand me at parade rest and square away the situation.

Felipe asked me to explain to “us good Americans” why we go to war all over the world. That implies I suppose, that Felipe is a good American and I am not. First, observe that Felipe spells American with a lower case “a”. You net savvy types know that’s an insult. If Felipe is an American, he is not proud to be one. Unless, of course, he is able to precede his American nationality with a qualifying hyphenated identity label. In fact, if Felipe is outside the United States, he (or she) tries hard to hide his identity and likely participates in bashing our country as all good little a Americans do.

Felipe’s America would look like Europe I expect. High unemployment, high taxes, rampant social welfare, segregated minorities who like to riot, burn cars and bomb stuff, with economies in the dumpster and growth paralyzed by rampant socialism. This is liberal utopia.

Felipe’s favorite European city probably resembles Amsterdam. I visited Anne Franke’s house while I was there. I’m sure Felipe will be the first to remind you that Anne was one of the six million Jews murdered by Hitler’s Nazis. Unlike the Dutch countryside, Anne’s house was the one decent spot I can recall from the city. I don’t recollect seeing many buildings outside the tourist lanes that were not covered with graffiti. In the red light district, whores filled every window, street hawkers offered live sex shows on stage and the hash bars sold all the dope one might desire over the counter. Felipe probably liked Dam Square the best. It’s where their National War Memorial is. When I was there, the base of the memorial was littered with many unsavory and un-bathed characters laying about it. The urine stench was strong enough to provoke a gag reflex. To be fair Amsterdam doesn’t represent all of Europe. It is however, the destination at the end of the socialist and moral relativist highway on which Felipe and his little a American friends would like to see our country.

Why do we go to war Felipe? Is there nothing for which you consider the act of war justified? Liberal utopian thought patterns tell us that everyone is harmless. If we don’t bother them, they won’t bother us. Unfortunately, history doesn’t support that.  From the beginning of our history, around one million Americans have died in wars. Since 1973, probably forty times that many died in America alone at the hands of abortionists and you call it “free-choice”. But I don’t imagine that thought ever occurred to you. Killing the defenseless doesn’t resonate with you does it Felipe. Maybe that’s why it bothers you that we’ve brought war to people throughout history who made it their quest to kill the defenseless. The Japanese raped and pillaged Asia until they made the mistake of attacking us. Ask the Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese and others how many people lived because we came. Ask the Central European countries? Ask the Jews? Ask the Cambodians and Vietnamese about the two million who died because our little a American liberal politicians abandoned them? Ask the Iraqis about Sadaam’s mass graves, rape and torture rooms? Ask the three thousand people whose reason for dying was that they awoke one morning in a free country and decided to go to work or take an airplane trip?

Yes Filipe, I agree that you are a bit fuzzy. That’s how you feel when you are under the influence of liberalism. Little a Americans like you do not deserve what good Americans have built and are willing to sacrifice to preserve for you. But, when need be Felipe they’ll be there to protect you. And you won’t mind a damn bit.

Copyright© J. D. Pendry, 2007, All Rights Reserved

J. D. Pendry

I took some time off from serious news and politics for few days following my last post. The American media did too, but that’s not unusual. When I tired of the newest chapters in the sad lives and times of Orenthal James and Britney and the ensuing solemn discussions about his guilt and her fitness to raise children, I thought I’d poke around and see if there was anything else important and deserving of my attention - other than football. I found some things interesting and telling. I may meander a bit, but I’ll eventually arrive at a point.

Orenthal still hasn’t found the real killers and according to the liberals, we still haven’t found those doggoned weapons of mass destruction. That is, unless you count the chemical warhead that exploded and killed the Iranians and Syrians attempting to arm it atop a Scud C missile that has a range of 300 miles. The explosion spread VX and Sarin nerve agents and mustard blister agent around the complex where it occurred. Their deaths were agonizing, I assure you, unless they were killed outright by the explosion. A tiny drop of VX or Sarin will kill you. The symptoms of nerve agent poisoning are rather gruesome although some of them, like violent retching, are similar to those experienced when hearing about the tribulations of Orenthal and Britney. Blister agents do as advertised to both your skin and respiratory system. Coughing up a lung becomes more than a figure of speech. Not to worry, though, I’m sure these weapons are for peaceful purposes- insecticide maybe.

Iran boasts that it has 600 Shihab-3 missiles aimed at Israeli cities and at United States sites located inside Iraq. It begs one to wonder about the types of warheads on these missiles doesn’t it? It is just a reminder for you that Iran is led by a Holocaust denier with a death wish that believes Israel should be wiped from the map. This should raise concern amongst sane people, which excludes much of Washington, DC and practically all of academia. We are allowing this terrorist boss who advocates genocide and provides weapons and training to people who are killing American Soldiers in Iraq to come to our country. Killing Americans is not new to the Iranians. They’ve been accomplishing it through proxies for practically 30 years. The leader of a country who stifles free expression by beating and humiliating young men for the dastardly act of dressing or acting Western is getting the opportunity to address students at Columbia University. Columbia is one of our prestigious centers of higher learning I’m told. It costs parents $46,095.00 a year for Columbia’s fatalistic liberal indoctrination of their children. These are the same indoctrinated spoiled brats who practiced the freedom of expression and tolerance they learned from Columbia’s professors and their parents when they disrupted and prevented a presentation from the Minuteman group.

There was another interesting piece added to the axis of evil puzzle. The recent Israeli air raid in Syria was to take out nuclear material supplied to them by the North Koreans. I wonder if they wanted to put their peaceful nuclear pursuits on top of their Scuds. We should ask Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich to address that with them on his next visit to Syria while he berates our country to a terrorist boss.

If you look around, not much of what I just shared, except for the Iranian admiration society meeting at Columbia has received much coverage in the mainstream of the U.S. media. The media decides for us that Orenthal and Britney are the important news that we need to hear about, while the threats of Syria and Iran apparently are not. Unfortunately, most of America is just along for the ride.

We’ve already observed the Speaker of the House showing more respect to a Syrian terrorist boss than she does to the President of the United States. We are ill informed by our so-called news sources and our politicians answer to the move on crowd instead of to their voting constituencies, but here’s the straw that broke it for me. Last week there was a resolution before the Senate. At the end of it, Senators were asked to make one simple affirmation. The important part of that affirmation, which you also do not hear discussed in the media, is in bold letters.

b) Sense of Senate.–It is the sense of the Senate–

(1) to reaffirm its support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, including General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq;

(2) to strongly condemn any effort to attack the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces; and

(3) to specifically repudiate the unwarranted personal attack

Voting no:

Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Clinton (D-NY) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Menendez (D-NJ) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

If you cannot affirm your support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, you do not deserve a seat in the United States Senate and you most certainly are not suited to fulfill the role of Commander in Chief.

Discovering what is left out of the news and listening to and observing politicians has left me to wonder about who speaks for me. Who speaks for our Soldiers? Who speaks for our country? Who speaks for you?

© J. D. Pendry, 2007, All Rights Reserved

J. D. Pendry

My apologies to those of you who are offended by my title, but it expresses how I feel just now.

Throughout today, I’ve listened to ringing bells, reading of victim names, acknowledged moments of silence and heard too many speeches mourning the events of September 11, 2001. Intermingled with the mourning, I listened to excerpts from the most disgraceful conduct ever from United States Senators.

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard as many accounts of where I was or what I thought then, as I have today. I’ve never shared my personal feelings about September 11, 2001, but I intend to as this anniversary day ends. A friend of mine died in the Pentagon. He subscribed to my mailing list and occasionally commented to me about something I’d written. He was more of a professional friend than a close personal one, but in the Army we had many such friends. He’d completed 30 years of service or close to it. His retirement ceremony was scheduled for the following week and there was no requirement for him to even be at work on September 11. His job was important and it impacted Soldier’s lives across the Army. He was there to ensure that the transition of his replacement went smoothly. That is what professionals do. When the fuel heavy airliner hit the Pentagon, it went directly into the section holding his office.

I was out of the Army for nearly 2 years by then, but still had a number of friends working in and around the Pentagon. I sent an email to them. One by one they responded, accounting for themselves or any others they knew of and telling me what they could see from their offices. One of those emails I won’t ever forget. It was from my friend’s wife. She too was a friend of mine and a career Soldier. Her note was short. She told me she had not heard from her husband and that the plane hit his section of the Pentagon. They planned to retire together from service.

On September 11, 2001, soulless bastards stole life and the future from my friends as they did from many others. Our response as a nation each passing year seems a little odd to me. We lower the flags, ring bells, put ribbons on everything, read from lists, light candles… We can’t get beyond mourning. I feel as sad as anyone when I consider the innocent life lost to mass murderers, but at some point and as a nation we must stop our collective mourning and engage our collective fight against this evil with every ounce of our being. The time for memorials comes after the war is won.

For the past two days, I’ve listened to another collection of soulless bastards sounding as if they are using the disgusting New York Times, Moveon.org ad as an outline for their shameful conduct. General David Petraeus is an honorable man. One who has dedicated his life to serving his country and is a product of a culture of service, honor and integrity. Character attributes not so obvious to self-centered, empty headed, arrogant politicians. His treatment by Democratic Senators and Republican Senator Hagle is the most despicable treatment I’ve ever witnessed of a man of his stature. Their absurd political statements merely demonstrate who they are and how low they are willing to descend. They are a collection of imbeciles willing to place our country and our Soldiers in jeopardy to advance their Socialist, Communist political agendas. They grew up belittling American Soldiers, never miss an opportunity to do it now, and relish the chance to be as disrespectful as possible to a man whose footgear none of them are competent to shine. I question their patriotism. I question their commitment to the security of our country ahead of their personal or party political aims and I question their loyalty and commitment to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. I question the sanity of anyone who voted for any of them as you must clearly support their conduct and with them you own the consequences.

We face soulless bastards on two fronts in this war for our survival - Islamic fascists and despicable politicians with their move-on supporters. If our country is to survive in any recognizable form, we must defeat the enemies of our country on both fronts.

Copyright © 2007 J.D. Pendry

J. D. Pendry

Sometimes, there is no need for much additional commentary, but there is one thing I learned early in life. Soldiers have no faith in leaders who have no faith in them or their mission and who clearly do not understand the enemy or the threat he is.

“Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American Soldiers to protect these tribes from Al-Qaida said to these tribes: We have to fight Al-Qaida ourselves.” - Sen. Charles Schumer

“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything…” - Senator Harry Reid

“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans [Soldiers] had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings.” - Senator Dick Durbin

“There was no firefight, there was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops [Haditha Marines] overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. ” - Representative John Murtha

“Shamefully we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.” – Senator Ted Kennedy

 

And there is no reason… that young American Soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs.” – Senator John Kerry

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” – Senator John Kerry

“I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.” – Representative Charles Rangel

“We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged and to which we have now spent $400 billion and has seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.” - Senator and Presidential candidate, Barack Obama

“The fact is if we are able to cut off the funding for the war,

the president will not be able to conduct [win] the war.” – Senator Russ Feingold

“From New Orleans to Baghdad, this administration has made ‘planning’ a dirty word and an alien concept, and the damage to the United States has been immeasurable. Now with American lives on the line in Iraq, the least we can do is force them to draw up contingency plans to redeploy American troops in Iraq.” Senator John Kerry [discussing his and Presidential Candidate Clinton’s demand for briefings on redeployment plans]

“First of all, [it is] the president’s war. He’s the one without a plan.”

“He has to answer for his war. He has dug a hole so deep he can’t even see the light on this. It’s a tragedy. It’s a stark blunder. – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

“The War on Terror is a slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe. It’s a bumper sticker, not a plan.” – Former Senator, Former Vice Presidential candidate, Presidential Candidate John Edwards

September 11, 2007 is the 6th Anniversary (72 months) of the mass murder of 3000 people in an attack on free people and the sovereignty of the United States. Our axis of idiots seems either unable or unwilling to grasp the nature of the threat. Bin Laden (if it was indeed bin Laden) in his ramblings invited us to convert to Islam. One of the tenets if Islam is to offer conversion or submission to the infidels before you attack them.

“To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam, for the greatest mistake one can make in this world and one which is uncorrectable is to die while not surrendering to Allah, the Most High, in all aspects of one’s life.” - Ambassador for the Religion of Peace, Osama bin Laden

It might be a good weekend to check your bunker supplies.

© J. D. Pendry 2007, All Rights Reserved

J. D. Pendry

In the military, the importance of being the example is stressed constantly. Role modeling and mentoring are not endeavors taken lightly. The understanding that everyone influences someone all of the time, whether conscious of it or not, is critical. It causes one to consider the consequences of actions beyond their impact on self. To reinforce the importance of that, the military rewards the good examples and hammers the bad ones.

In my seminar days, I’d ask participants to compile a list of attributes in people that they most admired and wanted to emulate. Interestingly, attributes like egomaniac, corruptness, sexual perversion, alcohol and drug abuser, foul mouthed, self-serving, general all around butthead, etc. never made it onto the lists. What’s more telling was that their lists of people they most admired were often in conflict with their admired and desired attributes. Out here, were everyone is supposed to be smarter than those in the military we exalt the bad examples and hammer unmercifully the good ones. That’s because we admire and desire the fame, wealth and power the bad ones have more that we detest their behavior.

Look at professional athletes. They were pampered through a public education system that failed them. They got breaks that the average kid doing what he was supposed to do didn’t get. We raised them to hero status because of their athletic skills. We turned them into uneducated millionaires with a twisted value set then gasped when they ended up in prison or got involved with things like dog fighting, which then causes them to declare that they’ve found Jesus. We rewarded their bad behavior which reinforced for a generation of kids the attributes needed to acquire wealth and fame.

While our sons are wearing their ball caps sideways, sporting their bling bling, and wearing an oversized Michael Vick jersey, what attributes are we stressing to our daughters? Reckon we’re teaching them to be like Paris or Britney or Lindsay? All that is required is that you have a little talent for something like acting, singing or Internet porn videos and be relatively pretty. Then you magnify those attributes by being a drug and alcohol abusing celebrity party girl. Each time you are caught doing stupid celebrity tricks, have your agent declare that you are off to rehab for the cure and that the cocaine in the pocket of the jeans you were wearing wasn’t your cocaine because they weren’t your jeans. Everyone in the media will compete for your story and the rest of us will endure it repeatedly during the 30 minute news cycle. You’ll be more famous and wealthy and our daughters will emulate accordingly.

We have good role models for our young men and women. They’re neither wealthy nor famous, but model the good attributes our young people need to acquire. These are the Men and Women serving in the United States Armed Forces. It’s a rare day when anything positive is said about them. Instead they’re portrayed as everything except positive role models. Members of the United States Congress have publicly compared them to Nazis, called them cold-blooded murderers, torturers, terrorists, and implied that they ended up in Iraq because they’re too uneducated and stupid to do anything else. That is how we emphasize positive attributes for our youth here in the land of the free. After all, what young person aspires to be a cold-blooded killer too stupid to do anything else when he can be like Mike?

If there is any group that should stand out as an example for all of us, it should be our elected leaders. Too often, they are the unfortunate example. The President of the United States had sex with an intern inside the Oval Office and he probably wasn’t the first. We allowed him to remain as our leader even after he lied about it. Congressman Mark Foley and Senator Larry Craig are not the first members of that elected body to have their sexual perversions made public. Instead of closeting them, they should have followed the example of Congressman Gary Studds who admittedly had sex with an underage male page and was reelected several times afterward. Or the example of Congressman Barney Frank who found a companion through gay personal ads then allowed him to live in while he operated a prostitution ring from his house. Good ol’ Barney is still serving and probably in more ways than we care to know.

It goes beyond sexual perversions. Duke Cunningham is in prison for bribes, where he should be. Cold Cash Willie Jefferson is still on the payroll. Neither has the distintion of being first crooks in Congress. The Hillary-Hsu connection is neither the first nor only time a criminal contributed money to put or keep someone, Democrat or Republican, in office. Watergate was not a onetime Republican only event.

Washington is a cesspool. One wonders if it is a reflecting pool or a perpetuating one. Regardless, they have the audacity to pass judgment on others, like the infant Iraqi government, while being incompetent to accomplish anything themselves. Their failure at being an example for the American people is their most notable accomplishment. How do you tell a youngster that behavior is not acceptable, when it is perfectly acceptable in the Oval Office and Congress? Leaves one to wonder if any of them have ever considered the consequences their conduct has beyond self. Somehow I doubt the thought ever entered their collective minds.

Maybe they are being what they want to see.

© J. D. Pendry, 2007, All Rights Reserved