Category Archives: Wall of Shame

Is NATO that stupid?

I have to wonder what elementary school drop-out is up at NATO running things and making decision? It does not take even a High-school diploma to figure out this is not a good idea or will turn out well.

Taliban militants, who have shunned violence, are being provided monthly cash incentive of £100, besides being given amnesty for all crimes such as murdering children, beheadings and hanging women.

“Members of the Taliban who give up their fight are being paid £100 a month and will be allowed to keep their guns in a new initiative to end the insurgency,” the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Paying the Taliban not to fight is like giving a rapist free hookers so he doesn’t rape innocent women. Sure it will accomplish what you want in the short term, but over time it will become too expensive and you make them dependent on you.

Once we cut off the payments then they will go back to doing what they have to in order to survive, which means attacking us or the Government of Afghanistan. You cannot buy your way out of a problem like this.

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Eviction for hanging a flag on Veterans Day?

I would have never thought I would see a true story like this in America while I was alive. I am just astounded at the level of Political Correctness and un-appreciation of our military and our country that now runs rampant in the USA. Just yesterday I was talking with a good Canadian friend who told me that the way the our media presents America on the news to the world and perception it gives is 180 degrees different than what it is like. He loves this country and hates it when all that is shown is bad.

It is that media and the fear of lawsuits, the ACLU, and the worry of “offending” someone that leads to something like this happening. This apartment complex should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Edward Zivica, a 70-year-old who served in the Navy in the 1960s, faces a hard choice come Veterans Day next week: He can obey the rules and remain in his apartment complex, or he can follow his tradition of hanging the American flag outside his place.

The managers at his subsidized housing project here have given him notice he’ll be evicted if he again violates the rules against putting anything on the exterior walls.

That notice came after the flag went up Oct. 27 for Navy Day, one of several that Zivica marks by hanging it outside the community room near the main entrance. He’d gotten a letter from the management in June telling him to quit.

Read the whole story at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/11/ap-navy-veteran-could-be-evicted-hanging-flag-110311/#mce_temp_url#

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Barney Frank- Oxygen Thief of the Day

When will this idiot quit stealing oxygen from the rest of the world and call it quits? How is he allowed to still serve and what idiots keep re-electing him to office. Hearing his voice makes my skin crawl and pisses me off as muck as seeing Pelosi’s face.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the ranking Democratic member on the House Financial Services Committee, is blaming military spending for the recent S&P move to downgrade the U.S. credit rating. Unlike some DoD officials, Rep. Frank is not blaming the cost of military pay and compensation, but his issue is with the amount of money spent on being “the military policemen of the world.” According to Frank, the credit reversal could change our thinking and the influence the military has in politics. Additionally, the military is a logical target for spending cuts and $200 billion could be saved by reducing the U.S. military presence in the world. To read the full article, go to: militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/08/military-spending-to-blame-for-credit-rating-hit/

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Pitchfork Brigade needs to step it up

I just read this posting over at Blackfive.net and am still speechless.

Homes for Our Troops has now been told that it must begin anew the entire approval process and that the house needs to be at least 3400 square feet and multi-level to even be considered.

“Shockingly, it appears that the Knob Hill community has decided it does not want to welcome SFC Gittens and his family, as we were previously told,”…

Please take a moment and go read this:

www.blackfive.net/main/2011/06/just-not-good-enough-for-their-neighborhood.html

and then do whatever your heart or guy tells you to do.

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Are MRI Machines needed in Afghanistan?

Troops in Afghanistan may have to wait 10 to 12 months for advanced medical machinery for treating concussions, raising concerns among top military leaders that the equipment will not be available for potentially hundreds of sevice members with mild brain injuries.

I read this story the other day and I was amazed that some of the top Service and Combat Commanders are asking for this common medical technology but some doctors in the services are disputing the effectiveness of these technologies,

Army surgeon-general Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker said that although an MRI is a helpful tool in battlefield care, it is not essential for diagnosis.

The Navy surgeon-general, Vice Adm. Adam Robinson, echoed the view that an MRI is primarily a research tool.

Rather than saying “no” and saying they don’t agree with the top Commanders, these medical professionals need to be presenting their cases to the Commanders and either showing they are right and the Commanders are wrong or they need to have their minds changed and support the Commanders’ request.

Without an urgent demand, the two machines for $9 million must be acquired through competitive bidding, the Navy says. They will not reach Afghanistan until August at the earliest, Robinson says.

More than 300 U.S. troops per month suffered concussions last year in Afghanistan. Mullen’s science adviser, Army Col. Christian Macedonia, said if purchased outright, without competitive bidding, MRI machines could go to the war zone in a period of weeks.

So because of acquisition rules and policies about the urgent need of these the MRI machines will take months to go forward and be used rather than weeks which is how fast it could be done.

I bet if some of our Representatives in Congress starting applying some pressure or if the mainstream media started talking about this then those machines would be on the next plane heading east. But until then, I guess it will fall on Army Times and MilBlogs to get the word out.

Read the whole story at www.armytimes.com/news/2011/04/gannett-no-mris-in-afghanistan-041511/

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This makes me sick

I have said it before, and I say it again. Pulling out of places like the Korengal and Pech River Valley as a grave mistake and go in the face of COIN. It contradicts everything we have been trying to do for the last 3 years in Afghanistan.

This video not only makes me sick, but it also pisses me off. I can’t imagine what it does to the friends, comrades and familes of those 100+ killed in this valley.

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Lack of Leadership

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he has stayed out of the contentious budget negotiations in Washington, even as he expressed disappointment at the potential government shutdown and the possibility that troops would miss paychecks.

“I have not been at all involved in the budget negotiations, and I obviously defer to the president,” he said Friday.

Oh, ok…wait, WHAT?
Isn’t the SecDef the primary and top leader representing the military and all of its members? Shouldn’t he be the primary advocate and spokesperson for the troops under his command? Shouldn’t he be the one lobbying and pressuring Congress to pass a bill that would keep troops getting paid?

In the book “Obama’s Wars” the SecDef was painted as a “yes” man and a guy that likes to avoid conflict and would not choose sides until the very end when it was clear who would win. He would side with them.