Posted on 09/30/2009 9:11:52 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey
How true.
Do you sense that Obama is planning on turning our troops over to the International Courts anytime soon?
Given the damage done to his clout in healthcare I think he’d have a seriously hard time if he wanted to cede power to the international court in the Hague (ICCC?).
I can see him going after the CIA - or more to the point not stopping Holder from going after them - but actually handing over troops to an international court for War Crimes? I don’t see him being able to get away with that any time soon (and it should be never!)
US Congress Approves Tripling Of Aid To Pakistan
Last update: 9/30/2009 2:50:49 PM
ping
This is the right link for U.N. Lawyers Target U.S. Troops.
Truly, like wormwood the star is falling very quickly ...
Obama needs to be kicked out of office.
“The link at the top of your post points to nothing more than the main page of the new abysmal handling of IDB editorials, where this post isn’t even seen.
This is the right link for U.N. Lawyers Target U.S. Troops.”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505775
Thanks for catching that Ron.:) That happens. I’m going to change that in my other posts.
I call it “life by committee.” When a vague board, committee, (or NATO in this case) determines things, there is no single person to accept responsibility or point the finger at if things go south.
NATO HQ should be moved from NYC out of the US. We pay billions to be insulted by lunatics that we find now are operting under the same playbook as Obama. Chavez, Castro, Amadmanjihadi, Kim Jong Il, Kahdafi... They all love Obama. This is who we have been offending these many years these lunatics who in the past hated us and now love us. This is the Liberals answer? I agree with Kahdafi move the UN to Tripoli.
Healthcare Public option. He needs the left to remain behind him and they are screaming that Universal govt run Health care or nothing. He will platcate them with his cowardice on world issues.
Now, I wonder if I should be against the war in Afghanistan?
Hmmm... What to do, What to Do....
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Whatever, he still needs to decide if he wants the battle.
Proving once again that Democrats won’t fight for anything. If the country was invaded, they’d probably be out greeting the liberators.
Amid the maze of trenches and dug in positions, mortar barrels poke forth circled by sleeping bags encased in mosquito nets and camouflage ponchos offering shade from the searing heat of the day.
Nearby a few industrious troops have fashioned small huts out of wire, sacking and dried up reeds. The lop-sided sign on one reads Home Sweet Home. A hammock strung from two trees offers somewhere to rest away from the beating sun.
This is Combat Outpost Sharp, the US Marines’ most remote base in southern Helmand, deep into Taliban territory in the notoriously lethal green zone bordering the river. Here a few hundred Marines have set up camp in the shattered remains of a derelict school. The graffiti on the walls, childish pictures of planes next to Jihad proclamations, bear testament to the previous Taliban inhabitants who made it their headquarters.
Every room and hallway is packed with cots, next to each are neat piles of body armour, helmets, weapons, MRE (meals ready to eat) and the rudimentary basics needed to survive. Only the odd package from home, a United States postal service box bearing the words “America Supports You”, a pack of Cheez It crackers or some Close Up toothpaste stand out from the military paraphernalia.
Everything is covered in thick grimy film, blown in from the foot-deep powder-like sand outside. As a helicopter descends, giant rolling clouds of dust sweep like a tsunami over the camp.
Ants and rats share the accommodation. At sun down the mosquitoes buzz in from the surrounding canals while at night bats swoop low around the buildings.
A plastic toilet seat, ingeniously fashioned on to some ammunition cases over a cess pit are the ablutions while a series of tyres and bars strapped to wooden posts make up the “gym”.
The camp – officially called COP Sher (Lion) but renamed by Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines after Lance Corporal Charles “Seth” Sharp - a popular 20-year-old from Georgia who was killed on the day they arrived in July - is fortified with large Hesco barriers on top of which sit make shift look out posts fashioned out of wood and sand bags, from where sentries maintain a constant look out into hostile territory beyond. Almost every day involves a battle in this Taliban heart land.
“Welcome to paradise,” grinned one US Marine. Bar the insignia on the uniforms and the tattoos, it is identical to the British forward bases – conditions their forefathers of the Great War might have recognised. Even the black humour remains the same.
Down in Forward Operation Base Delhi, Garmsir, which the US Marines inherited from their English counterparts in June, little has changed. The men still sleep in cots under the stars, wash their laundry in bowls of water and use flimsy, hastily made wooden toilets over less than fragrant pits. The only “luxury” acquired are the Afghan water tanks which now feed into the plywood showers, where once plastic solar showers hung.
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Pray, PLEASE PRAY for our TROOPS!
Good luck with getting the countries of NATO and their troops to take on this mission!
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