Quotes of the day
posted at 9:00 pm on July 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“If you are fighting to install sharia [Islamic law] on this country, you are going to have to be killed.”
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“I think we’re at the irreversible point.”
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Well done 3rd ACR! (That’s my boy!)
He fell off the e-mail wagon a bunch lately. All he ever said was ‘Dad, we’ve been busy’. Mom and I figured that it wasn’t because of Nintendo.
Limerick on July 5, 2008 at 9:06 PM
If Obama wins he will take credit for the victory in Iraq.
That’s what we neo-cons call chutzpah.
RobCon on July 5, 2008 at 9:11 PM
A few more “victories” like Iraq and we’ll all be in the poorhouse.
“Credit” was an interesting choice of words, Rob…about a trillion dollars worth?
alphie on July 5, 2008 at 9:14 PM
:)
terryannonline on July 5, 2008 at 9:22 PM
G-d bless your son Limerick, I only hope us Squiddies can do him justice when Iran tries to shut down the gulf under president Obama.
Squid Shark on July 5, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Meanwhile in the UK, the morally bankrupt church, a judge, and some others are talking about adhering to sharia and schoolboys are being punished for not praying to Allah.
Strange….
Django on July 5, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Save us from global warming,..whatever it costs.
a capella on July 5, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Technical question: How do they go about clearing the Straits if Iran sinks a few oil barges? I assume you don’t just hook a winch on and reel them up.
a capella on July 5, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Shameful.
doodleduh on July 5, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Well done 3rd ACR! Thanks Limerick, we appreciate your son’s great work and remember, all our prayers are with you and all our fighting men and women.
Zorro on July 5, 2008 at 9:45 PM
We have demolition teams and such, the SOH is deep enough we would just need to get some ships like the SALVOR and the GRAPPLE over there to get them clear. The Navy in the meantime would have to keep the SOH clear of the Iranian Navy and the IRG-N. We may get some help from the Qataris and the UAE because they want their oil to get out.
Squid Shark on July 5, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I’m absolutely perplexed and dumbstruck at some of the comment’s about AQ in Iraq,from the enlightened!
Well,ya know,their was no AQ,in Iraq,they were all in
Timbuckto on cultural diversity training!(SARC)
Or,Iraq was just minding their business,killing and raping
at will,and according to Liberals,ya know,its their right,
or some stupid assine logic like that!
Wouldn’t this be an easier sell to the Lib’s,that AQ is the
NUMBER 1 contributor to the non-exist,Global Warming!
jus sayin!
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Yes doodleduh, alphie is shameful.
Zorro on July 5, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Drawing Al Qaeda to Iraq after 9/11 and killing them there by the tens of thousands = “Man-n-n-n-n…what a giant waste of money!!!11!!”
The Paulnuts and the Dems don’t get it and never will.
Django on July 5, 2008 at 9:49 PM
A few more victories…
Alphie on July 5,2008 at 9:14PM.
Alphie: Its almost 10:00 o’clock,its the Liberal Power
Hour pray worship of your great Hope and Change!
:)
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 9:52 PM
You’d think 9/11 would have been enough for these people but no. Instead, they decide to blame their own government for it and put their little heads in the sand and wait for them to be cutoff with a dull knife by fanatics who want to kill them above all others.
TheBigOldDog on July 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Limerick on July 5,2008 at 9:06PM.
Limerick:You have some emotional currency in this fight,
and while I’m in the land of the Eskimos and
moose,your son,and your family, are in my thoughts
and prayers.—————————-:) :) :).
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 9:59 PM
How much is freedom worth to you?
coldshot on July 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM
The proverbial light at the tunnel just keeps getting brighter and brighter.
One has to wonder if a withdrawl will be ordered from President Bush because all benchmarks had been reached? And our brave men and women in uniform can leave under the banner of victory they truly deserve.
Hog Wild on July 5, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Not only on this thread, but in general…
Actually, shame is indignant.
Entelechy on July 5, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Well now. If it is good enough for Mosul, then it is good enough for DC. Who knew the Iraqis would confer 2nd amendment rights?!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM
The alphies of the world will have their heads on the block first. The Islamos despise them more than anyone else. They’re the biggest wussies around. At least for now they can pontificate because they don’t have to fight.
Entelechy on July 5, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Godspeed to your son, Limerick. You’ve got a fine boy that is doing us all proud. Next time you talk to him, thank him from us.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 5, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Thank-you and your son Limerick as he fights the enemies of these great states (foreign) and you fight the enemies (domestic).
God willing both will win.
Hope you and he enjoy the 4th.
dhunter on July 5, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Sorry, weekend of the 4th.
dhunter on July 5, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Tru dat, playette.
The jihadis only recognize strength. The weaker ones will go first. That’s how they roll. We’ll have to cover the asses of the alphie’s of the world (with no thanks, of course).
To borrow a few lines from Reagan,
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 5, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Alphie is probably about 14 (in brain power if not in age), and thinks he’s quite something for bearding the lion in his den. Hopefully, he will grow up some day.
Buford Gooch on July 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Entelechy is in da H/A house,
goodevening to ya,Entelechy!:)
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Holy crap!
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 10:18 PM
You beat me to it, Doctor! :)
Limerick, I didn’t know you had a son in the fight … I’ll keep him in my prayers, along with the rest of our troops.
Rosmerta on July 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Well now.If it is good enough for Mosul,then it is good
enough for DC.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac.on july 5,2008 at 10:05PM.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac:Now wait a tick,the right to bear arms,Ummm
I was under the impression that the US gave
Iraq their own “INDEPENDENCE DAY”,and not
vicey/versa!(KIDDING,a hum!)———–:)
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry – March 23, 1775
TheBigOldDog on July 5, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Thanks to all for the kind words to my son. He has 4,999 brothers and sisters in his regiment and another 750,000 scattered from Seoul to Shangri-la! God bless em all. Doesn’t matter if they are a cookie 1200 ft down in a sub or a zoomie 30,000 ft up in the clouds, they’ve got our back.
:)Just haven’t heared much lately and the articles gave me something to cheer about!
Limerick on July 5, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Thanks to all:
Limerick on July 5,2008 at 10:28PM.
Limerick:The American Armed Forces,AMEN :).
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM
I want BIG parades to honor the troops that fought so long and hard to reach victory. Yes, it can be a pain for the troops, but they need to feel the love from the core of America. (After WWI there was not one parade, but many. One per town that sent troops.)
We are close to decisive victory. Keep up the pressure. And 3rd Ar Cav – way to go!
Limerick, please tell your son, Thank You from a grateful citizen.
NaCly dog on July 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM
[Buford Gooch on July 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM]
I have hope for him. He has some of the bare essentials down — he is aware that profligate government spending can exist and that government can spend us into the poorhouse. He needs now only to acquire a few more and then apply concepts properly.
It will be a long slog for him, though, and I have no idea if he is up to the task.
Dusty on July 5, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I said this in another thread, but I’ll repeat it and expound.
The word “our” indicates ownership. This is “our” cat, house, etc. I know you people mean well, but when you have the looney left talking about bringing “our” troops home, or keeping “our” troops safe it makes me sick to my stomach. I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t entreat upon you to stop using a possessive pronoun when describing the troops.
Sorry if I sound like have sand in my vagina, but these are grown men and women who freely made a choice. They belong to no one.
/rant off.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I add my thanx and prayers as well! God Bless your son, you, and your family Limerick!!!
How can Obama get away with his so-called “judgment?” He won the dem primary by pointing out he was against going into Iraq to begin with, and against the surge, and for defeat? I’m very hopeful that the success in Iraq will equal defeat for defeatism! and Obama!
Ordinary1 on July 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM
“A few more “victories” like Iraq and we’ll all be in the poorhouse.
“Credit” was an interesting choice of words, Rob…about a trillion dollars worth?
alphie on July 5, 2008 at 9:14 PM”
alpo, you’re alive!
How do you do that without a cerebellum?
N. O'Brain on July 5, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Sorry if I have sand in my…
Blarg the Destoyer on July 5,2008 at 10:37PM.
Blarg the Destroyer:Point noted,but ya gota keep
your a hum(kitty) away from
the beach,so to speak!
And,I’m only kidding,just trying
to inject a little humour.:):):).
canopfor on July 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM
alphie-
One successful terrorist attack on the U.S. (on the scale of 9/11) cost the country more (in treasure and a lost sense of security) than the entire military fight since then against the jihadist scum.
It is more expensive to cower than to counter.
profitsbeard on July 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM
They are dillusional enough to think they’ll never be beneath the manhole cover
Some of the discoveries revealed the brutality of Al-Qaeda’s reign. On May 19 in the district of Muthana, an alert Iraqi soldier spotted a manhole cover that should not have been there.
Beneath it they found a ceremonial knife in an apparent torture chamber, its walls spattered with blood. Videos recovered from the chamber showed Iraqi soldiers and police being executed.
TheBigOldDog on July 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM
That is all I ask for. :)
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Blarg I think it is more the way a boss refers to his employees as “my people”.
The American People are our boss, and we have volunteered to “belong” to the U.S. for a period of time (thats why we just cant quit.
So the feelings are understandable.
Squid Shark on July 5, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Blarg,
Your point is valid, but I hope you can indulge us in this area. Just like the Steelers are MY favorite football team, I certainly don’t OWN them. Heck, I’ve barely passed through Pittsburgh on the interstate – once – at night and we didn’t even stop. But we each have things/people/groups that we admire and (at least vicariously) associate with. We cheer the victories and mourn the losses of these valorous ones we’ll likely never meet in person, and can’t help but form attachments to them.
innominatus on July 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Freedom is not free.
Johan Klaus on July 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Squid, I agree with everything you said after the comma. Their is nothing in the oath we swore about serving the American people. However, I do wish we would do more about the enemies “…both foreign and domestic”.
And innominatus, you can say the Army is your favorite branch (cause they are the best -wink). Trust me, I know that nearly all here are unabashed patriots, that love the country and appreciate the sacrifice that those that chose to serve undertake upon the behalf of others. I appreciate that more than you will ever know.
However, that does not ignore the point about the left in this country using the “our troops” mantra in undermining the mission. As I pointed out, it would be hypocritical of me to disapprove of them using “our” to undermine the troops, while not asking those of you that support the Armed Forces to stop using “our”.
I hope that came off less [insert favorite derogatory term here for the limp-wristed, linguini-spined beta-males here].
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM
TheirThere is nothing…Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 11:17 PM
I think that most people use term “our troops” out of pride.
Johan Klaus on July 5, 2008 at 11:23 PM
[Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM]
I understand your point with respect to using it to express some exclusive claim, in the sense you are excluding others from such “possession” for political purpose or advantage, but you must recognize that all such uses are not done for that purpose and you need to remind yourself that the troops are the same as the founders, the president, this country. That is, they all are ours in the sense of being “of us” not “belonging to us”. It is a distinction with a difference, even if it does not appear to be different, on it’s face, in it’s possessive qualities.
I, for one, will work to keep your concern in mind, and watch that my use of “of us” does not spill over into “belonging to us”, but as a free and independent man, myself, being now responsible by having accepted the oath which my fellow countrymen have taken, on my small part, to me, I’ll not quit using the term altogther.
Dusty on July 5, 2008 at 11:29 PM
On this side of the aisle, yes. On the other side it is used to undermine the mission because we need to keep “our” troops safe, or “our” troops spend too much time away from their family, or the fact that “our” troops face too much hardship… I could keep going, but I think you get my point.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM
I appreciate your well-thought out, intelligent response, but the sentence I quoted of yours, by your own admission -it seems to me- a semantical fallacy that is easily fallen into.
It is just something that has always bothered me. I do appreciate the communities indulging me of this rant and having a discussion about it.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 5, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Has the good Colonel read the Iraqi constitution?
Article 89:
First: The Federal Supreme Court is an independent judicial body, financially and administratively.
Second: The Federal Supreme Court shall be made up of number of judges, and experts in Islamic jurisprudence and law experts whose number, the method oftheir selection and the work of the court shall be determined by a law enacted bya two-third majority of the members of the Council of Representatives.
MB4 on July 5, 2008 at 11:49 PM
My son USMC, my grandson USAF. In the words of the Texians, “come and take it”.
Johan Klaus on July 6, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Thank them and yourself for their service.
I’ll drink (coffee) to that Texian :- )
Texyank on July 6, 2008 at 12:44 AM
Gee, I just hope nobody shows those articles to Hairy Harry Reid or San Fran Nancy Pelosi! That’s all I have to say about that!
Vntnrse on July 6, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Limerick, you know what to tell your son from here. Your love and pride shine through your comments.
Not ignoring you canopfor – had left the HA parlor to get some housework done – it’s the juggling of hats, from professional to the more mundane. A good evening to you too,
Entelechy on July 6, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Why couldn’t Iraq adopt a system similar to that of Turkey, at least?
Entelechy on July 6, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Good deal! Limerick, you should be very proud of your son. Wish him the best from a former 2nd ACR Cav Scout.
coyoterex on July 6, 2008 at 1:58 AM
Limerick, thank you for raising such a fine young man. Please give him my thanks and best wishes.
If our country can survive the next 20 yrs., I know it will be in the hands of some of the finest men this country has ever produced.
Helloyawl on July 6, 2008 at 2:11 AM
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
Into valleys, into waters
Into jungles, into hell
Let us ride, let us ride home again with a story to tell
Into darkness, into danger
Into storms that rip the night
Don’t give in, don’t give up
But give thanks for the glorious fight
Percy on July 6, 2008 at 2:32 AM
(That’s my boy!)
Go Limey Jr.!
Tony737 on July 6, 2008 at 4:27 AM
Next to the quotes by the Founding Fathers, quotes from Ronald Maximus should be required reading for everyone on the
Fourth of JulyIndependence Day.My all time favorite Reagan quote is this line:
May Ronald Wilson Reagan rest in Peace on this Independence Day, and may anyone who supported the deal with the Devil known as Détente rot in the Hell they consigned the Soviet peoples, and by extension, all of us, to live in so long as the USSR was prepared to spread its gospel of Communism by the bullet, the Bomb, and the gulag, by any means possible.
And God Bless the men and women who serve, and have previously served, in the US Armed Forces.
Except, that is, for Murtha, McPeak, Clark, Kerry, and such ilk as have disgraced the Uniform.
Wanderlust on July 6, 2008 at 4:41 AM
Does the London Times count as part of ‘the mainstream media’?
If so, then perhaps the success in Iraq is becoming too great for them to ignore.
Not only should the troops get some fine parades, President George W. Bush should be honored and celebrated for having the courage and foresight to stick to his guns.
But I won’t hold my breath. . .
MrLynn on July 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM
I just hope that those among the troops who are inclined towards politics will take up the conservative cause when they get back home. We have some serious accumulations of trash in Washington that need taking out. Both Washingtons.
drunyan8315 on July 6, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Yeah, we screwed up the war almost as bad as the Democrats have screwed up their convention.
misterpeasea on July 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Wanderlust on July 6, 2008 at 4:41 AM
Thank you Wanderlust. You eloquently spoke for those of us who lived there, in that Hell on Earth we’re trying to prevent from returning, even creeping into here.
Entelechy on July 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM
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