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SWATTING FLIES
www.donbendell.com ^ | 11/22/2005 | Don Bendell
Posted on 11/22/2005 11:30:12 AM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, Harry Reid, John Murtha, Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, and those of your ilk, where were you when God created the world?
Senator Hiram Johnson in a 1917 speech before the US Senate said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
I’m not speaking of George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, I refer to each of you and either your total sacrifice of integrity for the sake of political expedience, or maybe each of you has simply lost your mind, or just maybe you misplaced your testes. “Pull out of Iraq immediately,” you decry, and most of you have visions of leading our country, especially in these years following the cowardly sneak attack of September 11, 2001? You have got to be kidding! I would not follow any of you to a public undressing of Catherine Zeta-Jones, much less off to war.
Whatever happened to the great statesmen of the democratic party, the John Kennedy’s, the FDR’s, the Harry Truman’s?
Wesley Clark, you are a retired Army general and John Murtha, a retired Marine colonel. Did you two completely forget a code of honor, supporting our troops, and tenacity in the face of adversity? Yes, you did, all for politics, which is empirically more important to you than the safety and psychological well-being of our fighting men and women from whose ranks you rose. How many men under your commands died, so you could betray their legacy of courage by talking about cutting and running in the midst of a war? Neither of you served with any more honor or courage than me, and I gladly will take you to the woodpile for your comments.
Ted Kennedy, you are quite simply a political pimp, who could not even get hired as a lifeguard away from Washington or your family’s money and name. John Kerry, if I had my way, you would be in prison for treason, and Harry Reid and John Dean, all you two have to do is occasionally open your mouths and you save me the trouble of commenting on your actions.
How dare you! How dare you aid and abet the enemies of freedom, of democracy, of man’s inherent right to live without oppression, because of your egomaniacal visions of being one of the great statesmen of our time! Believe me, your actions simply will make you a speck of dust in an unread history book, and a few quickly-forgotten public flashes while being devoured by the multi-headed, gluttonous network news monster.
If you really want to go down in history, become part of the solution, not the problem. You do not publicly say our President lied to go to war. You all know better, but every time one of you makes such ignorant statements, al-Zarqawi laughs and bin-Laden chuckles. Each one of you is one of the most effective weapons of our enemy in a time of war. They use you, with your obedient cooperation. Why? So you or more in your party get into office. What a damnable reason to betray our troops! Hanoi taught our future enemies how to manipulate such a weapon decades ago, but people like you have forgotten all about “lessons-learned” in war. They got away with it with me in the sixties, but you are not going to get away with it with my sons in harm’s way. Every time flies like you leave the manure-pile of Beltway strategizing and try to land on the exposed skin of American public and leave your dung-covered tracks on the minds of innocent or misled Americans, I will be there with my fly-swatter, and I am not alone.
Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, including a tour on a green beret A-team (Dak Pek) in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, is a top-selling author of 21 books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. His pro-Bush/anti-Kerry editorials were widely published in newspapers and magazines, and circulated by millions all over the world on the Internet. He has been interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE and on many radio shows and speaks all over the country. His newest novel, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT, will be released worldwide by Berkley (Penguin) in December 2005.
Permission is hereby granted to reprint, copy, or pass this on wherever and to whomever you choose. This is posted on my website with other political editorials: http://www.donbendell.com .
Blessings, Don Bendell
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NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
November 21, 2005
Release Number: 05-11-99
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPERATION BRUINS CONCLUDES
CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq – Approximately 150 Iraqi Army Soldiers and 300 Marines and Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (2 BCT) and 2nd Marine Division concluded Operation Dhibbah (Bruins) in northern ar Ramadi Nov. 20.
The operation netted several weapons caches used by al-Qaeda in Iraq-led terrorists to conduct direct attacks on Iraqi Army, U.S. forces and Ramadi citizens and to build hundreds of roadside bombs.
The caches were found Nov. 20, in a sweep through northern Ramadi. Plastic explosives, artillery and mortar shells, fuses and remote and pressure sensitive detonators were among the items found.
Marines conducting a combat patrol in support of the operation were attacked by a roadside bomb. There were no casualties or damage from the bomb which targeted the fourth armored Humvee in the column.
Marines were also attacked with a single rocket-propelled grenade while on patrol on the perimeter of the cordon area. The grenade impacted near the al Qudar Mosque but caused no casualties and limited damage.
Twenty-one rocket launchers and 43 rounds of RPG ammunition were discovered along with 23 medium machine guns, three sniper rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Thirty-two black ski masks were also found in this cache.
Operation Bruins was part of a series of disruption operations in Ramadi designed to set the conditions for successful elections in December.
Attacks against Iraqi and U.S. forces in the Ramadi area have decreased 60 percent in the last few weeks, as a result of these ongoing operations.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, SGT. FIRST CLASS DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL.
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