I’ve come to understand that she is genetically incapable of logical or rational thinking about this subject – any more than she was back during her youth – the Vietnam era. To her “all war is bad” – there is never a good reason for war.  And there wouldn’t be any war – if smarter more visionary people like herself were simply allowed to sit down and talk to our enemies.  In her heart she’s an internationalist socialist – a person who yearns for a world without borders or countries – and thus without armies. She’s led a very protected life.

So despite the fact that Islamists struck here and killed people from her district [my next-door neighbor for one] her instinct is to go reason with them. She cannot grasp that the Islamists see her as a woman deserving of being stoned to death.  She just doesn’t get it – and never will – even if she was being stoned.

 >> opposed … supplemental funds for the war .. did not have an exit strategy in place
Going to war is not like going to a hockey game at the Garden. It’s nice to have an “exit strategy” when the game is over and you want to get out of Boston and drive home.  But war is not a game, and is not undertaken lightly. You are all in – or you don’t go.  And if you are being attacked,  you’re already all in it.  So you defend and counter-attack with everything – or submit to your attacker.  “Submit” has often meant that the men are killed, the women raped, and the children carried off as slaves. In 21st Century America too many people have not studied history, and cannot grasp this basic reality.

 >> length of the U.S. commitment in the region was unknown
In war the commitment is until one side is either dead, – or willing to submit. For so long as the Islamists are willing to wait us out in caves, we still have a commitment, – or they will reemerge and their next campaign will be worse. That lesson should be obvious from recent history; – our failure to crush Saddam the first time required a much more costly return trip. Vietnam and Cambodia should also be fresh in your memory.

 >> potential costs in both American lives and treasure had not been appropriately articulated
War is not a discretionary expense. If you are worried about dollar signs you are hobbling your generals and endangering your troops.  GrandMa doesn’t understand; – she is not debating about buying new jerseys for the Varsity, – she’s funding a war! This is defeatist talk at the outset, – which we also saw in Obama’s West Point surrender announcement.

 >> Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen continued the process of explaining

Niki Clutching Notes

She is such a [pardon my French] a dumb ***** she loves flinging words and titles around because she (1). is overly impressed herself, and (2) she thinks you’ll be impressed to hear her use these words.  Remember her clutching her MoveON talking points during the Town Hall events?  She really doesn’t have a CLUE!  Over a year ago I gave her the Principles of War – and offered to teach her further about them.  Think she ever even read them?  She hasn’t got a clue. Way too dumb to be in Congress.

 >> greater detail…needed around several points that are central to the ultimate success of this strategy
What Strategy??!? We have no strategy!  Obama does NOT want to win this war – you never heard him say “victory”.  His reasons and makeup are far different from GrandMa’s,  he is emotionally on the side of al Qaeda and the Taliban. He wants the Islamists to win – but it can’t be obvious.

So he claims to have a “strategy” – in reality a plan of half-actions and missteps guaranteed to produce a defeat. Democrats don’t care. [Most don’t care about people as people, they care about their grand visions and policies]. They’d all just as soon pull out now and let the Taliban start the beheadings and the stonings. They do not understand the nature of this enemy. They have no strategic vision, – right now they’re only thinking about the mid-term elections,  not about our national security or world peace.

>> I will continue to press for answers to these unresolved questions during the Armed Services Committee hearing with General McChrystal next week.
Translation: “I am just so important!!  I get to question a 4-Star General!!  I will read a series of prepared statements to McChrystal [who will listen with stony resolve while clenching his toes under the desk] and ask some prepared questions which I don’t fully understand.  I won’t understand his answers – but I’ll be seen on C-SPAN.”

 >> As the President stated, our commitment in Afghanistan cannot be indefinite
Really?  We’re still in Germany and Korea. Who dictates timelines, – Congress, the press, or the actions of the enemy?

>> training of Afghan National Security Forces has been part of our strategy for…eight years . . . they still are not close to being capable of providing security on their own.
Well, – let’s change our “strategy” and go after the Taliban and al Qaeda – let’s kill every last man, woman, child and dog where necessary to end the threat to America. That is a strategy! [OK, a ~ little ~ over the top, but you get the idea. Don’t wuss around with something this important].

Doing something half-assed, – then deciding that since it’s not working you’ll pack up and go home is why we lost in Vietnam [an easily winnable war].  It’s exactly why Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge [Cambodian version of the Taliban] and why the Khmer Rouge were then able to slaughter 1,500,000 people in the killing fields.  BTW Niki, the scourge of street gang violence in Lawrence and Lowell is a direct result of our turning tail and exiting SE Asia without a victory.  

Look at the map People, – understand just how very close the Taliban and al Qaeda are right now to the Pakistani nuclear arsenal – and how quickly the whole equation will change if they get their hands on even one of those Pakistani nukes.  Do you think GrandMa has a clue?

Islamist are swarming over most European countries, bullying those nations into permitting Sharia Law, and gaining ever easier access into America. Do you think GrandMa has a clue?   Help GrandMa understand she isn’t helping anybody but our enemies by diluting our efforts.  Email her at:  ntsongas@nikitsongas.com  or call: (202) 225-3411.

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

Hello Americans,

I have said for over a year that Obama’s goal goes well beyond simply being our pResident.   Being our first Black pResident means very little to him.   His vision, and his plans go well beyond America.   Undoing us is only a necessary first step.

The bi-polar Cold War world I spent much of my life in essentially ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall.  The USSR then imploded on itself,  crushed by the financial burden of maintaining itself as a nuclear superpower and communist police state.   For the last two decades we’ve watched the fleet of once feared Russian submarines rusting in deserted naval bases as the Russian economy began to be dominated by viscous entrepreneuring gangsters.  Chief among these is a former KGB thug – Vladimir Putin,  a man best described as a 21^st Century War Lord. 

A very short year ago our country was in the process of being taken over by a thug of a different kind.  Obama appealed to many younger Americans as the fulfillment of post-racial dream,  - a color-blind America.  Carefully package with a disarming smile,  well versed in the technology of the web, Facebook and Twitter,  with no written history to be examined, – he glided to victory on a cushion of Hope and Change.  He was aided and abetted by a very wealthy ardent socialist, George Soros, and by our corrupt and decaying Fourth Estate. 

Obama promised “Transformational Change”, – and nobody dared ask him what he really meant.   Joe the Plumber managed to get him to leak a big clue,  - but our inept media and our enthralled naïve young voters ignored the lurking truth behind those casual words “spread the wealth around”. 

Our election cycle “coincided” with the beginnings of an economic recession,  – one which I will always believe was engineered in part by Soros [and unseen accomplices] to set the stage for Obama’s election and takeover of our country.  There were hints aplenty as to our future,  such as when Rahm Emanuel explained a tenant of “Change” when he explained “. . . never let a crisis go to waste!” 

We were already up to our belts in deep shit, – but almost nobody believed it.  Now,  a year later, Trillions of borrowed dollars later,  9.8% unemployed later,  ObamaCare town halls later, and a LOT of Americans are starting to see – and to fear – the ‘Change’ that Soros, Obama, Emanuel, Axelrod, and Jarrett have been planning. Have you noticed that nobody is trying to sell you ‘Hope’ anymore?

Obama has been very busy.   He’s been around the world apologizing for the country he now leads.   He’s blown off friends like Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, and France.   He has bowed to the Wahhabi king of Saudi Arabia,  accepted a book from Hugo Chavez,  is campaigning to have Zelaya reseated in Honduras,  and done nothing except some perfunctory puffing at North Korea and Iran.  Since appointing General Stan McChrystal to lead our war in Afghanistan,  he’s had just one (1) phone conversation and one (1) 20-minute meeting with him.

Why?  Obama [and Soros] fully understand that perception becomes reality.  If the USA is perceived as weak, inept, and unreliable as an ally,  - the world will disrespect us and allies will disengage from us.   Obama wants us weakened to the point of being ineffectual.   Part of that was the borrowing of Trillions to finance the TARP, the takeovers of GM, Chrysler, AIG and the banks, and to extend unemployment benefits for up to a year.   Obama’s scheme to morph our world-leading health care industry into socialized medicine – ObamaCare – is simply a smoke screen for his other nefarious activities.  Sure, if he can pull it off it will speed up the crumbling of America, but the real intent is as a distraction,  – just as when a magician tells the audience to ‘keep looking at the hat’.

Obama [and Soros] want the American economy so damaged, unemployment so high, and our dollar so devalued that panicked and desperate Americans will ignore or even rejoice when he assumes dictatorial powers – in a move which will closely resemble Germany on March 24th 1933. 

Yesterday there was a news story about the Gulf Arab states, China, Japan, Russia and France meeting secretly to stop trading crude oil for US Dollars.   This morning those nations are denying the story.   It doesn’t really matter,  because if it didn’t happen yesterday, – very soon it will happen.  Obama and Soros have worked very hard to make our currency worthless.   This was the situation in Germany in 1932/33.   This was the situation in the USSR in 1991. 

I know this scenario seems a bit like science fiction,  too sinister to be anything but a bad movie.  But look at how incredibly fast these events have fallen into place.   When have we ever had a president who was so totally disengaged and disinterested in the conduct of an ongoing war?   When have we ever had a president who appointed a platoon of ‘Czars’,  – or who so blithely spent your money by the hundred-Billion and even Trillions?   Have we ever had a president insist that captured pirates and terrorists be Mirandized,  or one willing to bring the most evil among them onto our shores?   When have we ever had a president who actually loathed and despised the country he was elected to lead? 

I am still bound by my oath to defend our Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic.  Americans, if you understand the danger we now face,  please start talking to those who are still in denial.

    /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

It develops exactly as we’d feared. General Stan McChrystal just inadvertently revealed that he has spoken with the Commander-in-chief exactly once  [1 time / singular]  since he took command in Afghanistan seventy (70) days ago.

Just one friggin time?!?  Can you remember way back to last year – when Obama railed that Afghanistan – not Iraq, should be the Central Front against al Qaeda?  Remember Moonbats?

So Obama can do six (6) TV shows in a single weekend,  but can’t find time to call the general he sent to find UBL and tame the Taliban?  I wonder why?!?

Could it ~ just possibly ~ be that after a lifetime of living a smug, elitist anti-military life,  Obama doesn’t even know how to talk to a real soldier?  I mean, maybe he really doesn’t understand the language of warfare – like the Principles of War?   Or maybe once again, his actions are speaking far louder than his words; – he really doesn’t give a shit, – not for Afghanistan, not for the Afghans, or the mission, or our troops, or even about finding UBL.  Gee, maybe Hillary does have bigger balls than Barack after all!

If you have a friend or a loved one in our military, – it is time to worry.  Well, it was time last year, – but many of you were in denial.  One phone call in seventy days says everything you need to know about this false god!  Now he’s off to Denmark to lobby for something he thinks is worth his time – getting the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

BTW, in case you’d forgotten, this is The ONE sporting a shirt he’ll never deserve to wear last year – back when he was pretending to care.

Forget ObamaCare for a few minutes.  This weekend The ONE wrestles with the first real make-or-break decision of his presidency:  what to do in Afghanistan?   He’s highly qualified to make this decision,  having studied world politics and military science for years,  and spent a whole day at Afghanistan airfields last year.  He even shot a few hoops with the troops.  Now as pResident he’s lucky to have the sage advice of his trusty VP,  that renown military expert – Lovable Joe Biden.  What could go wrong?

The MEssiah campaigned most vigorously against the Bush administration [he still does most days], specifically stating that the war in Iraq was a mistake because Afghanistan was the key to victory over Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda.  Since becoming pResident he’s been briefed on those other pesky players, the Taliban and the Tribal Drug Lords.  So he sent a new General to win the war. General Stan McChrystal was an outstanding choice, and if anybody can do it, – he can,  if actually allowed to.  His methods are tough, ruthless, but effective.  Just ask Saddam Hussein.  Oops, you can’t.

  Stan needs about 40,000 good troops – since Afghanistan is big, rugged, tribal, and landlocked, and our NATO allies are losing interest. Without them he says we will lose, – just like the British in the 19th Century and the Russians in the 1980s. Now The ONE must decide to either fight to win, – or tuck tail and run. The fate of the Obama pResidency rests on this one decision.

Give Stan enough troops to win, and the war will likely last another six years minimum, meaning it will still be around come 2012, and the casualty figures with it.  The Taliban began sensing American weakness last fall, and increased their operational tempo.  25% of our casualties have occurred since Obama took office.  Five more died today.  It has been a great summer for the poppy crops,  and the Taliban are awash in drug money.  Funny, because when they came to power in the early 90s, – they used to execute poppy farmers and drug merchants.

http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx  

If Obama keeps us in this fight,  his left-wing moonbat base will explode!  He’ll suddenly be a man alone in the White House, with only [shudder] his lovely wife to talk to.  It’s not simply a matter of giving Stan the troops, because he’ll have to keep the American People, the Pakistani People, and the Pakistani leadership in the fight too.  I’m not sure he has credibility enough left to do that.  Most folks already know that if his lips are moving he’s lying to them.  There’s no Letterman show for him to go on in Pakistan.

But if he orders retreat, – his pResidency is cooked!  He’ll be the lamest duck that ever quacked.  With that one move he will have totally undercut any claim he has to have been better, smarter, or more visionary than the Bush-Cheney team.  He will have exploded the image of the USA as a superpower to be feared and respected.

Remember the Soviets retreated, withdrawing their last unit in Feb ’89.  Promptly nine months later the Berlin Wall crumbled, then in 1991 so did the entire Soviet Union.   Do you remember what our retreat from Vietnam did to our national psyche in the decades which followed?   Obama may not be bright enough to envision the parallels,  – but you can help him.   If we retreat from that motley collection of illiterate peasant tribesman – the Taliban – no nation on earth will feel safe partnered in a defense alliance with us.  Then that stock of Pakistani nukes will be delivered into al Qaeda hands, and there will be Hell loosed on Earth, – and all of it on Obama’s watch.

Which is it?  Does Obama want to fight the good war and win one for the good guys, – - or does he secretly want to “side with the Muslims” as he wrote in his book,  – and set the Four Horsemen loose upon western civilization?  Isn’t it comforting to know that Lovable Joe is right there to help HIM through this decision process?

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

It was beyond tacky that you appear on the David Letterman show – where just 103 days ago the presiding lefty clown called Governor Sarah Palin “slutty” and made a vulgar joke about her 14-year old daughter being “knocked up in the 7th inning by Yankee outfielder Alex Rodriguez”.  A presidential appearance this soon conveys your tacit approval.

But ObamaCare is going down in flames and you’re desperate to “sell” your vision of socialized medicine,  – or your need to lecture people eats into you every day.   So you’re making a blitz of TV appearances. Sitting beside the Clown you get asked [we know it was scripted] if the protests are racially motivated as suggested by Jimmy Carter.  By now we should have expected your tacky response: “It is important to realize that I was black even before the election”.  So much for being our first “post-racial president”.  Just another Cambridge cops moment.  How many more must we live through until January 2013?   Barack,  just how does your continued race-baiting work to “sell” socialized medicine?

Meanwhile Barack, you are neglecting your other duties:

Afghanistan:  You campaigned on changing the Bush policies – that Afghanistan should be the Central Front. In June you appointed a new general to lead YOUR effort. Now just 100 days later General McChristol’s request for 40,000 more troops to win that war languishes on your desk, – unopened.  Do you lack the courage to open it,  – or to withstand the yapping of the moonbats?

The CIA:  You told America you wanted the past to stay in the past.  But you let the memos be released, and when Leon Panetta didn’t prosecute any agents,  you sicced your left-wing henchman Eric Holder to begin a witch-hunt for the agents who just spent years keeping the world safe.  Your actions seem to prove you always intended to tear apart the CIA and conduct show trials to please the Moonbats.  Don’t you have the balls to stand up to the moonbats?  Seven (7) former CIA Directors have told you to call off your dogs. You better listen.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a29nGs3Brcco

Mexican Border:  You promised last year to make our borders safer and more secure. What happened, – you forget?  The appointment of Janet Napolitano to homeland security means our border will be safer – safer for illegals to come across.  You are ignoring your oath Mister Obama!

Oh, and if you really weren’t aware of how much money ACORN gets, – have you looked at the unemployment numbers recently?  9.1% here in Mass-a-One-Shits, or didn’t your buddy Deval mention it?

Some of us knew over a year ago Barack, – others are reluctantly coming to believe it, – that you never wanted to be the president of our country so much as you wanted to destroy it.  You should think carefully about your future Barack.  Of all the narcissistic socialist dictators I know about in history, only Stalin died in his sleep, – and some people believe he was poisoned.

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!