Dark Knight Raid

Wishing all well and hoping the best people for the job, let your conscience by your guide.

Well it looks like C mom has made her move to Neo Con Central. Please visit the Audible NeoCon podcasiting in which yours truly will be engineering. Please feel free to leave any hints, suggestions, crituques with myself or C Mom.

My wife and I finally after many delays went to see United 93. This movie will defintely strike an emotional cord with you. I found myself reliving the morning of 9/11 all over again. I was really surprised to see how many of the characters were played by themselves and that there is very little music in this film. Just title and credit music. This film will probably be played in my childrens history class when start school.
I would strongly recommend this film to anyone who wishes to get a glimpse of may have occured aboard that aircraft. I was impressed with the detail of the sets and the players. They captured as much of the story as possible from the phone calls of passangers and the flight recorders. As I am sure you know the the rest is speculative.
Please see this movie and never forget!

This was a an interview with Col. David Hunt on my local AM station, Please listen, and as always  look forward to your thoughts.

The following is an article written by Colonel David Hunt.

Burning Bodies Redux

OK, time to get this one right. Being in combat is very difficult; being in guerilla war is so much worse. There are no battle lines, the bad guys never have uniforms, they seldom stand and fight, they cheat, they cut off your heads, they burn and hang your body from bridges and they fly planes into buildings. It is hell on earth.

Being in combat hurts. It is debilitating. I am not talking about the bar room tough guys or the TV warriors or the muscle guys who walk around telling everyone that they were Navy SEALS and were not; I am talking about having been in real combat—the killed-the-enemy kind of combat.

Most who have done it never talk about it. They almost never tell stories or brag about it and when the guy at the end of the bar or the guy on the blog starts yelling about blood and guts and being real men and a ton of other bullshit, we usually walk away shaking our heads. But I will try one more time to explain it to you...

Soldiers who survive combat do so because of their courage, their training and their buddies. Most soldiers kill only when they have to and do so reluctantly and even then they are affected by it for the rest of their lives. A soldiers’ psyche or what we loosely call their humanity survives only because the horrific act of killing is authorized, legal and rewarded by their government and even then it still leaves scars. This I know.

When we talk about desecrating and burning bodies, an act made illegal in both civilian and military courts, what we are really talking about is the humanity, hearts and souls of our soldiers.

The Code of Conduct, The Rules of Land Warfare, The Geneva Convention, were drawn up and written down, in part, to try to save soldiers’ humanity. They were designed in an effort to protect that which makes them human. If we say it is ok to burn bodies then we send our men and women down the road to hell that is littered with the dismembering of bodies, collecting ears, rape, murder and more.

When we justify our actions by pointing to atrocities committed by the enemy, when we do the things that they do, when we become like them we become them. We become the thing we hate.

What we need are leaders that stop soldiers from doing harm to themselves; leaders that were not present in Afghanistan when soldiers burned two bodies, in broad daylight in front of an film crew.

I don’t care a damn about the Taliban bodies that were burned or the Muslim religious laws that were violated. I don’t give a damn about those things. But I do care that the soldiers who did this will probably be messed up for the rest of their lives. I do care that there leaders did not protect their men and say, “Wait, stop...” I do care that the leaders did not take care of their guys.

Let me be very clear, if burning the bodies was really necessary, then the leaders should have done it and taken the hit for it. They should not have allowed their soldiers to do it. Also, the leaders should have never allowed the cameras to be there--period. I do not agree that the bodies needed to be burned but if the guy on the ground made that call then the leader of that organization should be the one doing the deed.

There are many more aggressive and effective things we should be doing in this War on Terrorism, like killing bad guys in their sleep, using whore houses as intelligence collection points, pitting Imams against other Imams, bombing Damascus and Tehran, finding and killing bin Laden and Zarqawi. These things work; burning bodies only diminishes us and hurts those that do it, in ways to terrible to contemplate and too difficult to explain to those who have never been there.

I have few more remarks from Col. Hunt regarding a possible invasion on Iran, that I wil be posting at a later date. Feel free to leave your opinion.

Thank you for reading this whoever you are. Please forgive the bad sentence structure and spelling. Your comments are appreciated and encouraged.

I love this time of year, I finally get to fire people more important than me. The list is long this year, starting with our illustrious Gov. Taft. Maybe infamous?

In honor of thousands of legal and illegal aliens I have decided to have either Taco Bell or Chipotle, not sure which. Any suggestions?

I believe any President or any adminstration that would grant amnesty to 12 million illegals and minimize our borders, threaten our sovereignty must and should be censured. This is a threat to who and what we are. Now I know some of you believe this a message of hate but is not. I welcome any hard working individulal who wishes to earn the title of american citizen. And for the goverment to do away with due process on this matter is a dangerous thing. In my community alone we have had 3 children raped buy a boarder jumpers and countless other criminal acts. This is a very serious matter and for President to even consider such a thing is nothing simple of stupidity. I like President Bush very much and have a great deal of respect for him but, between his spend hog policies and his silence on hard issues, he has indeed disgraced the office of Presidency as much as President Clinton.

I am somewhat new to this blog stuff, so any pointers  or critiques are appreciated. I will not post aften as my wife covers a great deal more news than I. She has more time and access. I allow any type of feed back all ask is you allow the same in return. So with that said I hope to get to know a great deal of you and hope we learn from one another.