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Ba'athist Bile by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 04/14/2006 This week's column is a report of an event some friends and I attended. The propaganda speech by an Iraqi woman named Eman Ahmed Khamas (or Khammas) was recently held in Tucson, Arizona at a Unitarian Universalist church. Sponsored by various "anti-war" groups such as Code Pink, Khamas is touring America to accuse US troops of bizarre atrocities and attempt to get people to believe that life was better for the Iraqis under Saddam Hussein. It may have been better for her, since she worked in a government approved job as a...

Thought you all might to see this. This was sent to me by the solider who wrote the following email. Thanks to Freeper eeevil conservative for working out the tech details so I could post it.

Iraqi Police in action. Words from Iraq. Personal stuff cut out...... I could wait to tell you what we saw today. As usual we were doing our routine patrols and as we were heading back to Mares. We saw that the IP’s (Iraqi Police) had one of the main roads closed. Shortly after, we realized that they were working on an IED placed on the right of the road exactly where we normally pass by to make a right turn. This people have a great sense of bravery, because even with the limitation on the equipment that they were using...

Saturday, March 18th, the local chapter of Protest Warrior, FReepers and various other friends and allies took on our arch enemies here in Louisville again for the first time in many, many months. The old hippies of the Local contingent of Leftist Lunkheads, LLL (aka LPAC), were up to their usual nonsense. Opportunists that they are, they had jumped on board the "Third Anniversary of the War in Iraq" protest wagon by scheduling a demonstration in the east end of Louisville (the more Conservative end of town, by the way). They used the number of our fallen heroes who...

<p>Kristinn Taylor of Free Republic and Stephen Cleghorn of Military Families Speak Out appeared on Hardball this evening to discuss the pro-War and anti-War message. Free Republic supports the War, while Military Families Speak Out is against the war and wants to pull our troops out of Iraq immediately. Both guests have family members serving in either Iraq or Afghanistan.</p>

Live thread from Fayetteville, NC. About 50 early arrivals in support of the troops have gathered ahead of the leftist "anti-war" rally in Rowan Park. This is the third year that FreeRepublic, in conjunction with Rolling Thunder, the veteran's motor cycle club, has organized a Support the Troops Rally to counter the Leftist Demonstrations here in the home town of Fort Bragg and Pope Airforce Base. This is the home of 82nd airborne division and 18 airborne corps, and we are proud and grateful for all they do to defend freedom! I am posting from a handheld, so those of...

Time once again for the Annual March FReep. This year the local loonies are going to carry cardboard boxes with leftist slogans on them. LOL! Time to rain on their parade.

Well, a little background... I'm in a Scout Platoon of an Infantry Battalion (2nd Bn 8th Infantry regiment) of the 4th Infantry Division. Our FOB is Kalsu, named after an NFL player, I believe the Buffalo Bills, who joined the Army during Vietnam and unfortunately died there. We are about 30 miles south of Baghdad along MSR Tampa, and about 5 miles east of Iskandariyah. Pay no attention to the news, buncha bloodsucking fiends. Nobody mentioned the Jundis (Iraqi Army Privates), who laid down some fierce covering fire so that network news airhead could get medevaced. Nobody mentions the fact...

Minor Mediator by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 02/10/2006 February 8th, 2006 was another great day to be an American in the snarled byways of Tucson as I slowly drove toward the Military Recruiting Center on 2302 E. Speedway. The Tucson City government, paralyzed by indecision, bickering politicians, special interests and bizarre traffic theories, has long been unable to figure out how to get cars to travel efficiently through the sandy city. Although I had planned to be early, I arrived at 8:30 am. Speaking of the bizarre, an unusual happenstance had occurred the week before, on a day I was...

A weeping Kim-Hoan Thi Nguyen kissed her 7-year-old son goodbye at the Ho Chi Minh airport and told him it would be a long time before they would be together again. Little Binh Le boarded the plane and flew off to the States, where his mother hoped he would flourish. It was 1991. She next saw Le when he visited Vietnam at 12. He cooked her french fries. He visited again when he was 18 and a recent graduate of Edison High School in Fairfax County. They had a party. Their next reunion came in December 2004. At his funeral,...

TIME TRAVEL ARE YOU READY? The Canteen is about to embark on another journey back in time. If you're brave enough, climb aboard, no ticket required……we're about to take off. Come on, hop in, watch your step ...... The controls are set. Buckle up. Now don't be afraid....I know how to fly this thing.......Here we goooooooooo.......LIFT OFF…….. WHOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHLanding with a gentle thump. Here we are - Let me turn on the television to see what is on. Do any of you remember these shows? Green Acres September 1965- September 1971 – CBS Color - 30 minutes380 episodes Green Acres...

Communists Op Depressed by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 01/27/2006 It was a mild day in the Old Pueblo as I whizzed past cactus after spiny cactus in my quest to reach the Tucson Military Recruiting Center at 2302 E. Speedway on January 25, 2006. I had brought my coat but wasn't going to need it. The slight sprinkle this morning was not nearly enough to make a dent in our weeks long drought or chill the desert sands. I approached the target location at approximately 8:30 am as cheers and salutations resounded through my open window. At least ten Pro...

TIME TRAVEL ARE YOU READY? The Canteen is about to embark on another journey back in time. If you're brave enough, climb aboard, no ticket required……we're about to take off. Come on, hop in, watch your step ...... The controls are set. Buckle up. Now don't be afraid....I know how to fly this thing.......Here we goooooooooo.......Lift off. WHOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHere we are. Let me turn on the television to see what is on. Do any of you remember these shows? Get Smart 9/18/1965 - 9/13/1969 NBC 9/26/1969 - 9/11/1970 CBS Black and White/Color - 30 minutes138 episodes Created by Mel Brooks...

<p>WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq fell by more than a quarter in 2005 from a year earlier, Pentagon records show. Military officials call that a sign that insurgent attacks have declined in the face of elections and stronger Iraqi security forces.</p>

MILITARY VEHICLES The story of the BANTAM JEEP Karl Probst, an engineer working for American Bantam Car Company in Butler, PA, was the father of the jeep. Responding to a request for bids from the Army, he led the design and manufacture of the prototype jeep in just seven weeks and delivered to Camp Holabird, MD, on 21 September 1940.. **** Bantam GPV prototype delivered on time in September 1940. The origin of the name "jeep" is unclear. Popular notion has it that the vehicle bore the designation "GP" (for "General Purpose"), which was phonetically slurred into the word...

SoldiersPrayingMom just phoned me in tears to report that Sgt. Greg Parkinson (jmpmstr4u2) had been injured in the explosion of an improvised explosive device. The Department of Defense called Greg's wife, Tammy, to inform her of the injury just after midnight California Time. They told her that he had been evacuated to a field hospital, that he had all of his limbs, but that he has injuries in his left arm and back. SoldiersPrayingMom requests all Freepers to pray for healing and complete recovery. Pray for his Mom and Dad, Ruth (SoldiersPrayingMom) and Jim Parkinson, Greg's wife, Tammy, and his...

Washington, December 2, 2005—With a powerful wind chill factor placing temperatures just a few degrees above zero in a dark night of December, once again Free Republic squared off against the failure-prone Code Pink "vigil" at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. And again, FReepers outnumbered the wacko Pinkos almost three-to-one. Since March 2005, ever since a conglomeration of DC radical leftists under the Code Pink banner decided to protest the Bush Administration outside Walter Reed every Friday night, Free Republic's DC Chapter has faced them off across the street. There's something so obnoxious, so distasteful, so just plain mean about...

Just got back from the rally at Balboa Park this afternoon and since I have some time before the Chargers/Raiders game, I thought I post some pics I took (as promised).

BROOK PARK, OHIO - Cpl. Stan Mayer has seen the worst of war. In the leaves of his photo album, there are casual memorials to the cost of the Iraq conflict - candid portraits of friends who never came home and graphic pictures of how insurgent bombs have shredded steel and bone. Yet the Iraq of Corporal Mayer's memory is not solely a place of death and loss. It is also a place of hope. It is the hope of the town of Hit, which he saw transform from an insurgent stronghold to a place where kids played on Marine...

    Office of the Pentagon Chaplain Support The Office of the Pentagon Chaplain supports the spiritual well-being of Pentagon Military and civilian personnel through worship services, religious education opportunities, and pastoral care programs and activities including:    Programs for the spiritual, moral, and ethical needs of the Pentagon  personnel   Pastoral Care during times of crisis, grief, stress, or anxiety   Spiritual relationships to all personnel of the Pentagon for worship, religious   education, and pastoral care support sustaining spiritual well-being   Providing invocations, benedictions, blessings, and prayers at military ceremonies, social events, and other activities related to the...