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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Out of Line
Sultan Knish | Jan 13, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/13/2012 5:41:32 PM PST by expat1000

A LITTLE URINE WASHES OUT

In case you haven't heard some US soldiers might have urinated on dead Taliban fighters. Hopefully they did it facing in the direction away from Mecca, as American soldiers have been ordered to do to avoid offending Muslims, and that the dead Taliban didn't have Korans in their pockets at the time or it'll be a holy war. Oh wait it already is a holy war.

McCain, fresh from being saddened by the Communist attacks on Bain Capital, announced that he was saddened by the video and wanted the marines punished. Because having trials and routing that sort of thing through a military justice system rather than through the fiat of sad senators isn't how we do things anymore.

Good news though, the Taliban have announced that the video will not prevent them from accepting our surrender anyway.

Noted kleptomaniac and humanitarian Hamid Karzai denounced the video as "completely inhumane." Speaking of "Completely inhumane", there's Karzai's buddy Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf. Abdul is the head of the Islamic Union who was a pal of Osama bin Laden and a mentor to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Here's some of his very "humane" handiwork. During the Afshar massacre, Sayyaf's Wahhabis, with Saudi funding, massacred Shiite men, women and children. But that is humane. Unlike urinating on a dead Taliban.

The Taliban have also denounced it as inhumane.

The Taliban initially indicated that the video would not undermine the push toward talks, saying that they saw it as just more evidence of what they said was American brutality and arrogance.

“We strongly condemn the inhuman act of wild American soldiers, as ever, and consider this act in contradiction with all human and ethical norms,”

But let's hear it from the Taliban what they consider "humane" behavior.

"You must become so notorious for bad things that when you come into an area people will tremble in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and starve people. I want your unit to find new ways of torture so terrible that the screams will frighten even crows from their nests and if the person survives he will never again have a night's sleep."

Instead of just searching for criminals, the night patrols were instructed to seek out people watching videos, playing cards or, bizarrely, keeping caged birds. Men without long enough beards were to be arrested, as was any woman who dared venture outside her house. Even owning a kite became a criminal offence.

"Basically any form of pleasure was outlawed," Mr Hassani said, "and if we found people doing any of these things we would beat them with staves soaked in water - like a knife cutting through meat - until the room ran with their blood or their spines snapped. Then we would leave them with no food or water in rooms filled with insects until they died.

"We always tried to do different things: we would put some of them standing on their heads to sleep, hang others upside down with their legs tied together. We would stretch the arms out of others and nail them to posts like crucifixions.

"Sometimes we would throw bread to them to make them crawl. Then I would write the report to our commanding officer so he could see how innovative we had been."

Is there anything in there to make McCain "sad"? Anything to make Obama question negotiating with the Taliban? Don't count on it.

Urine washes out but there are worse stains on the soul. Like sitting down at a table with filth like this and accepting medals from the moneymen funding the murder of Americans. Urine washes out. Evil doesn't.

GOOD NEWS FOR PETA

Americans can no longer afford to eat meat. Many can't even afford chicken. Hope and Change.

TO KILL A MILITARY

Defense spending still represents less than 5 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. That is about half of what it was at the height of the Cold War. Obama is trying to push it back down to the 3 percent that it was under the Clinton administration.

To put the numbers into perspective, the fastest growing part of the budget isn’t defense spending, it’s interest on the national debt. And the interest alone is expected to pass 3 percent of GDP by 2016. If Obama is reelected then by the end of his term the interest on the national debt will cost more than national defense will. We will not have a military capable of reacting to any threats against the United States, but at the least the bulk of those threats will be coming from debt collectors.

Even while the Obama administration is making drastic cuts to the military, it has plowed more money into the welfare state than ever. Means-tested welfare spending increased to 910 billion dollars in 2011 amounting to a 50 percent increase over Bush administration budgets. That’s 200 billion dollars more than the Department of Defense budget.

See the rest in my entire article To Kill a Military at Front Page Magazine

RON PAUL'S RED STATE

Want proof that Ron Paul is the true uniter? Who else can help bring together Marxists to help cut America's defenses.

Trevor Loudon has followed up my piece on Ron Paul's Soros Defense Plan with a look of some of the players to the DSA or the Democratic Socialists of America, which happens to be Barry Hussein's old party.

The Project on Defense Alternatives coordinated the work of the Task Force. Carl Conetta drafted the main body of the Task Force report in ongoing consultation with Task Force members who “developed or digested proposals from the diverse sources cited in the report.” A sub-committee of the Task Force reviewed the final draft before publication. Conetta was assisted in overseeing the report by his Project on Defense Alternatives co-director and fellow Task Force member Charles Knight – a long time member of Democratic Socialists of America.

There's more. Lots more. Follow the link to see the rest.

ALWAYS BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA

Jew Persecution Over Says Envoy

Washington, March 27, 1933 (INS)

Secretary of State Hull today was "greatly relieved" at the official report from the American embassy in Berlin that mistreatment of Jews in Germany had abated and the Hitler regime was doing its best to curb further persecution.

The report: received at the state department over the week-end said physical mistreatment of Jews "may be considered virtually terminated."

Secretary Hull immediately sent this reassuring information to leading American Jews and Jewish organizations who had complained of the alleged persecution of their religious brethren under Hitlerism.

In his telegraph the secretary said the "feeling had been widespread in Germany that following a political readjustment as has recently taken place some time must elapse before a state of equilibrium could be re-established.

"In the opinion of the embassy," he added, "such a stabilization appears to have been reached in the field of personal mistreatment and there are indications that in other phases the situation is improving."


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1 posted on 01/13/2012 5:41:36 PM PST by expat1000
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2 posted on 01/13/2012 5:42:58 PM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

From the same issue:

OUT OF LINE

In one of the odder election events so far, a Republican candidate who for all his flaws did have a track record of implementing a conservative program was demonized as a Communist on behalf of a man who had nothing resembling that track record, in defense of a company which benefited from tariffs and a pension bailout.

But the word has come down the wire. If you hate Mitt Romney then you’re a Communist. Like those well known members of Occupy Wall Street, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. So Gingrich came down to conservative talk radio, portions of which are heavily syndicated by a company owned by Bain Capital to make his apologies. Not that it will stop the establishment from baying for his blood a second time around.

Gingrich was obviously out of line here. The last thing we want is a candidate who takes the fight aggressively to his opponent. What we want is a candidate who smiles a lot at the camera and waits for the media to do his work for him. But that won’t work so well for Romney in the actual election where Obama has the national media sewn up. Sneering pieces in the National Review are not going to win the general election. Neither will declaring Bain Capital off limits. That might work on Bain Capital radio, it won’t work at all in the media.

Romney has the Republican establishment on his side in the primaries, but in a national election the establishment he faces is liberal. Which is why liberal Republicans can sweep through primaries but have a much tougher time in national elections. Standing for nothing is a good way to win party support, but a bad way to win national support.

In an Olympics worthy display of acrobatic prowess, no lesser conservative stalwart than John McCain declared that attacks on Bain Capital were right up there with Communism. “These attacks on, quote, Bain Capital is really kind of anathema to everything that we believe in. We believe in job creation, and the record of Bain Captial is to take companies that would otherwise fail and restore them to some kind of viability, and sometimes that doesn’t work, but, you know, when it always works is a thing called communism, where you keep everybody in business.”

Which just goes to show you that McCain is a Communist because back in 2008 he was leveling withering attacks against Romney’s Bain tenure. But the authentic conservatives like Romney and McCain have spoken. We will speak of Bain Capital no more, until we’re all defending Romney on it in a few months.


3 posted on 01/13/2012 5:48:30 PM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

Only 2 things bother me about this video.

1. The dork who had chain of custody over it and let it loose in the wild. He should be spoken to sternly and given a slap on the back.

2. Those Marines should have had a pig roast to celebrate and thrown the freshly chewed bones from the pig onto these vermin swine .

Then....they should have pissed on them.


4 posted on 01/13/2012 6:01:13 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: expat1000

It’s no wonder Meaghan McCain is stupid she inherited her Dad’s brains.


5 posted on 01/13/2012 6:01:49 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Vendome

I haven’t watched the video, but I’ve seen a number of comments that it looks staged.


6 posted on 01/13/2012 7:08:29 PM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

It has been suggested that the best punishment for these Marines is to make each of them drink three pitchers of beer, then to stand at parade rest while listening to a prerecorded speech by Obama - in its entirety.

The consensus is that this is a harsh punishment, but necessary to maintain good order and discipline in the Marine Corps.

It was further proposed that if any more Marines are to urinate on dead Taliban, they should do so while facing Mecca, to show proper respect.


7 posted on 01/13/2012 7:09:24 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: expat1000

Don’t know. the dead guys seemed to like getting watered.


8 posted on 01/13/2012 7:22:06 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

:-)

I just spent a few minutes trying to find the video. Not so easy, and could not with sound. That is important, as I saw a comment elsewhere that it ends with “That’s it?” implying the marines knew full well they were being videotaped and likely the tape would be made public.

Surely they would not have actually pissed on bodies in that case as they would have known they would be in a shiteload of trouble over it.


9 posted on 01/13/2012 7:53:09 PM PST by expat1000
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