Interesting!! A retired Marine gets it off his chest........
Too bad we don't have folks on Capitol Hill willing to speak out like this. J.D. Pendry is a retired Marine Sergeant Major who writes for Random House. He is eloquent, and as taught by the Marines, he seldom beats around the bush!
'The Axis of Idiots'
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You have accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You are a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa -- Okinawa , John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiful, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of bei ng Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you would show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington .
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq , you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we will run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours, after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secre ts and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try su pporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi, J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
It's an essay--doesn't mean what they have said about folks is true only that the essay existed.
No cal....it's this guy's professional, America loving, marine patiots OPINION! As he sees it. With much much more experience and knowledge than you and probably most of us here.
Any numbskull would know it's true. He stated FACTS. Something you clearly no nothing about.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I sent this to another retired marine. His response was "this shows all the stupidity of the Bush/Cheney administration but does not show the evil it accomplished." He recommends you all see the film "The Good Soldier." Further asked me to relay to you that suicide numbers are astronomical in those young veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. By now there is a good chance that suicides will now top the combat deaths. Something to ponder. "Any numbskull would know it's true." He stated FACTS as he experienced them. Something you clearly no nothing about unless you too are an Iraqi War vet.
I sent this to another retired marine. His response was "this shows all the stupidity of the Bush/Cheney administration but does not show the evil it accomplished." He recommends you all see the film "The Good Soldier." Further asked me to relay to you that suicide numbers are astronomical in those young veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. By now there is a good chance that suicides will now top the combat deaths. Something to ponder. "Any numbskull would know it's true." He stated FACTS as he experienced them. Something you clearly no nothing about unless you too are an Iraqi War vet.
Obviously not an unbiased reply to your supposed question.
Have you noticed this forum has no vets posting here- do you know why ? they get treated like crap- Oh sure everyone has an uncle -daddy- or some relative that has served- but this forum consist of a bunch a wanna be patriots.- No vets posting here-
There was a real live vet- you know someone who was actually in real live combat - He posted here for a while and but was brow beaten relentlessly- by these fake concerned citizens-POSERS - who just like to hear their gums flap.
Wrong as usual. There are plenty of fellow vets here. I will ask Master Sgt Joe Lazzari to re-up for this post-lol-The problem is all the liberal military "experts" here that never spent a day in service.
I sent this to another retired marine. His response was "this shows all the stupidity of the Bush/Cheney administration but does not show the evil it accomplished." He recommends you all see the film "The Good Soldier." Further asked me to relay to you that suicide numbers are astronomical in those young veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. By now there is a good chance that suicides will now top the combat deaths. Something to ponder. "Any numbskull would know it's true." He stated FACTS as he experienced them. Something you clearly no nothing about unless you too are an Iraqi War vet.
War is not nice...never has been and never will be.....and it doesn't matter who is in office.....
.....and war will never leave.....
every generation is touched by war
I am not a vet and will never have the chance to be....and to be honest,,,I never could be
all I can say,,,,is thank you to the vets----and it still wont change a damn thing.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Wrong as usual. There are plenty of fellow vets here. I will ask Master Sgt Joe Lazzari to re-up for this post-lol-The problem is all the liberal military "experts" here that never spent a day in service.
It is you that is mistaken- read my post very slowly-
"Have you noticed this forum has no vets posting here- do you know why ? they get treated like crap- Oh sure everyone has an uncle -daddy- or some relative that has served- but this forum consist of a bunch a wanna be patriots.- No vets posting here-
There was a real live vet- you know someone who was actually in real live combat - He posted here for a while and but was brow beaten relentlessly- by these fake concerned citizens-POSERS - who just like to hear their gums flap "