By excusing his statements while he currently was in uniform sets a dangerous precident down the road….

Unfortunately, no matter how much many of us love and admire President Bush, this type of stuff is always excused. Since when has any person ever been brought up short if an activist or pol, or brought up on charges of insubordination if a soldier for spouting anti-war and anti-Bush tripe? Never, that’s when. I think President Bush is well meaning and does not want to demonize his opponents, but he is in office to protect us! If he must blast a treasonous piece of work like Sheehan or slap down the Murthaf*&^%r then he must do it! Letting them spout lies and hatred helps no one nor our country. All those generals and diplomats who say the war plans are illegal or immoral must be removed and punished. Christian turning the other cheek is fine for personal insults and attacks, but President Bush should also remember “Onward Christian Soldiers” and do his duty to defend the nation from the evildoers within.

Sadly, nothing much I fear will happen to Watada. He’ll probably be allowed to resign his commission and then he’ll appear all over the country to spread anti-war lies and be feted by the America haters. Maybe he’ll lose a months pay, his rank and his pension and VA benefits, but he won’t care because he planned from the beginning to disobey. The losses will mean nothing to him as he can make a career of being an anti-war crusader.

Expect to hear about him from now until the day he dies. The leftists will make sure of it.

Depending on what he’s convicted of, I think you might be right- that he won’t be able to serve in public office, own a gun, vote, etc etc.

The DU are SOOOOO funny. The chicken wire WTC mock up still has me giggling. That people with such little sense can speak with such authority…

The comment about how a hydrocarbon fire can’t weaken steel easily was tops; as my husband pointed out, charcoal and some bellows can certainly weaken steel enough for a blacksmith! Never mind JP4, plastic, fibre, paper, etc. Those people are just SO stupid!

Is Hackett so disgusted with the left that hes willing to go against the serious Leftys?? Is he… perhaps… growing up?

And I think there needs to be a show starring O’Donnell, Kirsten Powers, Flavia Colgan, Ana Marie Cox…hell, throw that unemployed Rocketboom chick in there…then some more tasteful lighting…music… I’m just saying, I need to get more liberal viewpoint into my TV viewing, that’s all. And I think they’d be the right hosts for it. That’s all I’m saying.

I hope that post is your attempt at being sarcastic & funny. Otherwise, I’d like to carefully point out the lack of liberal (defeatist) viewpoints in the various forms of media.

Print Media (NY & LA Times for starters as is the majority of print media including mags (or rags) like Rollingstone Mag which delve into politics and national security issues (in an effort to aid the sagging music sales of liberal(traitor) celebs such as the Dixie Chicks after they put their collective foot in their mouths.

Talk Radio (aside from NPR) the only thing the left has going on the air is AirAmerica radio…which should be classified as a failed experiment for the MoveOn.Org crowd (Hyped up ratings…when in reality they are cellardwellers, extremely limited distribution…no one is jumping to buy their programing and they in fact have to pay stations several million dollars to carry them..not exactly SOP in the talk radio business. An interesting side note is Armed Forces Network has been pressured to increase their programing of NPR (which the troops despise since its on most of the day) and to include AirAmerica, same deal with the troops hating it for dif reasons, funny thing is the troops keep requesting more of Rush, Sean, Laura Ingram, etc.

Television News/Cable News, gee aside from the old big 3 network news channels, theres CNN, MSNBC, and occasionaly C-Span. So much for a lack of liberal viewpoint.

Now, to the topic at hand, the Watada issue is nothing more than an anti-war setup. 1) Lt. Watada joined after Operation Iraqi Freedom began. 2) He never applied for CO status prior to his unit being notified of its deployment. 3) He volunteered for duty with the Sriyker Brigade (who would have thought an active duty combat arms brigade might be deployed…go figure. I am always amazed at the lengths the anti-war/anti-US crowd is willing to go to hurt this nation, the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghan and the greater GWOT. By excusing his statements while he currently was in uniform sets a dangerous precident down the road which quite possibly lead to something akin to a Banana Republic wherein the military is the true power of the land and the civil leadership is selected(if they do as told) and are subservient to the military which is directly opposite of what we have in America where the military is subservient to the civil leadership. But then considering the makeup of most dictatorships who the left supports (Socialist, Communist, Marxist – 3 faces of the same deadly coin) a military dictatorship in America is exactly what they very well might want. As to Hackett, I have never been a big fan of his mostly for his heated statements in the past on a variety of issues, however, he was dead on debating Lt. Watada’s father (who most likely assisted in if not instigated his sons entry into the military with false intent)especially when Haditha was brought up (so much for being presumed innocent until proven guilty). Gotta give Hackett credit where credit is due.

The Bush administration, Mr. Hackett said, “is willing to let illegals come in and take the jobs of Americans.” The answer made several of the young Democrats squirm in their seats.
One pushed Mr. Hackett to clarify. “Deport them?” Mr. Hackett was asked. “If we can afford to,” Mr. Hackett said, “yeah.”

“Illegal immigration is illegal. It’s that simple.”

(brief googling will provide a sample of the predictable reaction from Hackett’s erstwhile admirers.)

Here’s an idea:

Give me the weapons & equipment I ask for & plop me right smack-dab in the middle of the Sunni Triangle.

Come back a week later for extraction.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

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Watch it here….

That’s going to leave a mark!

Watada’s father should have known better than to bring a knife to a gunfight. Even though I have a very strong feeling that Dad is a political hack for both Inoyue and Akaka. He paid his quarter and took his chances. Then got thoroughly trounced for his meager efforts.

While Mr. Watada’s kid (I cannot and will not call him Lieutenant) will surely be stripped of rank, pay and privileges while serving time at Leavenworth. I have no pity for little twit.

Though it is amusing to see the Left’s Grand Scheme to create an Anti-War Poster Boy blow up in their faces!

Jack.

…wait…

…yes… I CAN believe they were stupid enough to do that! :-D