Military leaders who are teaching that Islam is the enemy should be given promotions

Instead, the terrorist-supporters from CAIR are calling for their dismissal as well as eliminating anti-Islam training materials, all of which are factually correct. The only people who should be dismissed, if not court martialed, are the ones who leaked the training materials to the media and CAIR.

The Traitor in the White House is systematically destroying our military and its ability to defend us. If we do not kick his Muslim Marxist ass out of office, we will all be bowing to Islam four years from now.

TWO despicable dhimmi Muslim asskissers: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, right, talks to reporters alongside Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in April. Commenting on a military training class containing anti-Islam sentiments, Dempsey called the course "totally objectionable."

MSNBC  Emerging details of inflammatory anti-Islam materials used in U.S. military training have prompted a chorus of outrage from civil rights and American Muslim groups, and growing demands for the dismissal of military leaders associated with the course, and for other actions to address the issue.

The materials, first detailed by Wired.com, used in an elective course at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va., promoted “total war” against Muslims in order to stave off terrorism. The course, “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism,” raised the option of “taking war to a civilian population,” in disregard of the Geneva Convention of 1949, and possibly destruction of Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest sites.

“This is Abu Ghraib by power point and lectern,” said (radical leftist atheist) Mikey Weinstein, president of the nonprofit Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), referring to the scandal that erupted in 2004 after the surfacing of torrid pictures of U.S. troops abusing prisoners in Iraq. “It’s even worse than Abu Ghraib. What they are talking about is essentially genocide,” of Muslims.

The military announced a review of its training materials and canceled the “Perspectives” course in late April. The action came after an FBI review resulted in the elimination of reams of materials that were found to be discriminatory against Muslims, treating the whole population with suspicion.

The details coming to light from the the 8-week course at an elite military institution — taught to officers since 2004 — have shocked even those who have long complained about discrimination against Muslims.

Instructor Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, the main focus of the criticism, taught that the Geneva Conventions that set standards of armed conflict are “no longer relevant. ”This would leave open the option once again of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable…).”

Dooley’s materials mock the notion of “moderate Muslims.” He taught that the growing number of mosques and Islamic centers in the United States would generate more adherents to use “violent jihad” in pursuit of Islamic domination.

The course materials admit that the actions and views included will not be seen as “politically correct.”

Indeed, the courses contradict U.S. government positions — as represented internally and to U.S. allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere — that while the country is fighting Islamic extremists, it is not at war with the religion or its adherents as a whole.

On Thursday, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Obama appointee, General Martin Dempsey called the course “totally objectionable” and “against our values.”

Dempsey told reporters at the Pentagon that Lt. Col. Dooley was no longer teaching, but has kept his job at the college, a top post-graduate professional military institution that serves students from around the world.

Among the organizations calling for Dooley’s dismissal from the college is the Council on American Islamic Relations.

“It is imperative that those who taught our future military leaders to wage war not just on our terrorist enemy, but on the faith of Islam itself be held accountable,” wrote CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad in a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. “These shocking revelations are completely out of line with the longstanding values of one of our nation’s most respected institutions.”

The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee is urging the Pentagon to recall and retrain military personnel who have been subjected to the anti-Islam material.

“It’s very troubling,” Abed Ayoub, ADC legal director, told msnbc.com. “You’re sending American soldiers overseas with these trainings and these biases … I think there definitely should be a study as to what impact these trainings have had on their actions.”

Weinstein, from MRFF, asserts that Dooley and others in his chain of command who knew about the course materials or should have known about the material should face court-martial.

“MRFF calls for the immediate dismissal of Lt. Col. Dooley, as well as an immediate condemnation, deeply probing investigation, and swift trial by courts-martial of those responsible for allowing content advocating genocide to be used to indoctrinate future leaders within the U.S. armed forces,” he told msnbc.com.

Atheist Leftist Weinstein, a former Air Force judge advocate general, or JAG, believes the course is merely a symptom of a larger problem. In recent years he has campaigned against the military’s invitation of speakers that are known for virulent anti-Islam views. ”This is simply a small cancer cell that is rapidly metastasizing,” he said. “This is representative of a larger more sinister force which is fundamentalist Christianity.” (This atheist POS thinks Christianity is bad but Islam is good)

Barack Hussein Obama ‘spits’ on the families of the dead Navy SEALS

When the caskets of those who were killed in Afghanistan and brought back to Dover Air Force Base, the families collectively asked that Obama NOT have cameras present. The families wanted to grieve in peace and not be part of an Obama photo op circus and political statement. Many of the families did not even want to be acknowledged by Obama, but he didn’t respect that request either.

Their name conjures up the most celebrated moment of America’s post-Sept. 11 military campaigns. Now the Navy SEALs belong to a grimmer chapter in history: the most deadly incident for U.S. forces in the 10-year Afghanistan war.

Three months after they killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan and cemented their place in military legend, the SEALs suffered a devastating loss when nearly two dozen of the elite troops were among 30 Americans who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan.

(Personally, I believe Obama wanted the SEALS killed which is why the entire SEAL team was placed on an old, slow helicopter, and sent into a Taliban-infiltrated area)

H/T Alan

How much lower will the U.S. military be forced to bow to Islam before it cracks?

The U.S. military is in a full-fledged retreat that is marked by such desperation that it qualifies as a rout. No, not the retreat from Afghanistan, where Afghans in uniform are attacking, killing, and wounding American and other coalition troops with increasing frequency as the grip of Islamic Law tightens like a noose around the country.

Clare M. Lopez  Not the one in Iraq, either, where an Iranian puppet regime now seems powerless to stop the wave of al-Qa’eda suicide bombings and sits waiting for the next civil war to explode anew. No, the most ignominious retreat that the U.S. military currently is involved in is the one which has top Pentagon officials ordering  Defense Department schools to purge all training content that would actually inform military students about the enemy threat doctrine of Islamic jihad and its shariah origins. The stated objective of the dhimmified behavior is to ensure that American warriors never get the idea that the U.S. is at war with Islam—or apparently any realization that Islam is at war with the U.S. either.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin E. Dempsey, has ordered all Department of Defense (DoD) curricula to be reviewed for anything “disrespectful of the Islamic religion.” Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby added helpfully (if not especially grammatically) that the U.S. is “at war with terrorism, specifically with Al Qaeda, who has a warped view of the Islamic faith.”

The surrender statements followed complaints about “anti-Islam” themes which allegedly had been presented in a class called “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism,” taught at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA.

In effect, the scrubbing of truthful — if difficult — material about what is really contained in Islamic doctrine, law and scripture that so motivates the forces of Islamic jihad will bring the U.S. military into compliance with Islamic law on slander. It also brings DoD into line with the capitulation-to-Islam campaigns already underway at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State as well as throughout the Intelligence Community.

Under Islamic law (sharia), “slander” means “to mention anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.” The sayings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad (the hadiths) also discuss slander:

“Do you know what slander is?” They answered, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said, “It is to mention of your brother that which he would dislike.” Someone asked, “What if he is as I say?” And he replied, “If he is as you say, you have slandered him, and if not, you have calumniated him.” – Sunan Abu Dawud

Whether these top-ranking DoD officials realize it or not, their actions in purging military training courses of truthful material that a Muslim “would dislike” (because it reflects badly on Islam), is, in fact, tantamount to submission to Islamic law at a time when enemy forces these troops must confront on the field of battle fight precisely in the name of that law (sharia).

Not content to confine its capitulation campaign to the mid-level officer ranks, DoD also aims to set military mindsets straight about Islam early on. West Point cadets continue to participate in what apparently has become a staple of their academy experience: a visit to the Islamic Center of New Jersey, a mosque with a long list of questionable associations and statements by members of its congregation and leadership.

FEMALE CADETS FORCED TO WEAR MUSLIM HEADBAGS

The April 2012 visit by some 23 West Point cadets in U.S. military uniforms to this mosque featured gender separation of the men and women students as well as photographing the women in head scarves, for prominent placement in leading American newspapers. The one-time Imam of this Islamic Center, Sayyid Askar, proclaimed in 2000 that “jihad is an absolute obligation upon those whose land has been occupied.”

EVEN WORSE, WOMEN SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE FORCED TO WEAR HEADBAGS IN PLACE OF HELMETS

And finally, just to make sure that the ranks of the U.S. military better reflect the ethnic diversity not just of the USA, but of places where they may eventually serve, the U.S. Navy SEALs and SWCCs (Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen) are now recruiting at swim programs … in Dearborn, Michigan. That’s right: The U.S. Navy SEALs are looking for young recruits in neighborhoods that are home to large concentrations of Arab-Americans, some of whom hail from family backgrounds in southern Lebanon.

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Sgt. William J. Woitowicz, U.S. MARINE hero, awarded the Silver Star…sadly, posthumously

America is forever indebted to you, William, for your courageous service. God bless your family. Semper Fi. RIP.

Sgt. William J. Woitowicz, a former native of Groton, Mass., was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third highest honor for combat valor, during a ceremony on Saturday, April 28th, at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in front of family, friends and fellow Marines.

SICKENING: The Muslim-in-Chief turns West Point Cadets into submissive ‘dhimmis’

No more training future soldiers about who the enemy is and why they want to kill us. Now, West Point cadets visit a NJ city with a large enemy Muslim population to witness the cultural diversity they will encounter overseas. (In other words, to brainwash them into believing that the so-called culture of 7th Century savages is just as good as ours)

Washington Post(H/T Robin H) The men and women in crisp U.S. military uniforms walked in close formation through the bustling, traffic-choked streets, passing women in full Muslim hijab, sari-clad Indian mothers pushing strollers, worshippers heading to an Egyptian Coptic church, and small shops with signs in Arabic, Hindi, Korean and a dozen other languages. (But notice in the photo below,  female academy cadets are wearing Muslim headbags, no Indian saris or Korean attire. And in the photos and videos below, they only show the cadets at Islamic centers where the speakers are all Muslims)

The cadets are visiting as part of a class at West Point on peacekeeping and reconstruction called “Winning the Peace.” The class ends in a three-day crash course designed to make the future officers _ and, ultimately, the soldiers under their command _ more sensitive to cultural differences.

Senior Megan Kelty (L) and junior Jordan Reilly (2nd L), wear headbags out of dhimmi submission, as they sit with other cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., during a presentation at the Islamic Center of Jersey City

DHIMMI A BRIEF OVERVIEW
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule—whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact (“Dhimma”) which rendered them inferiror to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid.

No legal rights. Jews may not testify in court against a Muslim and have no legal right to dispute or challenge anything done to them by Muslims. There is no such thing as a Muslim raping a Jewish woman; there is no such thing as a Muslim murdering a Jew (at most, it can be manslaughter). In contrast, a Jew who strikes a Muslim is killed.

Humiliation and vulnerability. Jews and Christians had to walk around with badges or veils identifying them as Jews or Christians. The yellow star that Jews had wear in Nazi Germany did not originate in Europe. It was borrowed from the Muslim world where it was part of the apartheid system of Dhimmitude.

It wasn’t a tour of duty overseas, but a field trip to Jersey City, just 60 miles down the Hudson River from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

The city of 250,000 is one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse places in America, and the West Point cadets are visiting as part of a class at the academy on peacekeeping and reconstruction called “Winning the Peace.” The class ends in a three-day crash course designed to make the future officers — and, ultimately, the soldiers under their command — more sensitive to cultural differences.

All the speakers appear to have been Muslims

The program has taken on new urgency as the Army deals with the fallout from a string of embarrassing episodes in Afghanistan, including reports of U.S. soldiers posing with the bloody remains of suicide bombers, urinating on Afghan corpses and burning Muslim holy books.

During the visit to Jersey City, the 23 cadets in the class stay overnight at a mosque and attend Islamic prayers. They also go to an Egyptian Coptic Christian church, a synagogue and a Hindu religious service, and sample the foods of the cultures they encounter. (Funny, how all the videos only show the mosque visits)

At the Islamic Center of Jersey City, where the cadets stay, program organizer Ahmed Shedeed said the visit to the city is an eye-opener for some students.

I guess the only 'Koreans' (woman in middle) the cadets met were Muslims, too?

“Some of these soldiers have never seen anybody different. Some have never seen a black person or eaten Chinese food, and they come to a place like Jersey City and they understand they’re not the only ones in the world, that there are civilizations and cultures that came before theirs,” he said.

Emad Attaalaa of St. George’s Egyptian Coptic Church, where the cadets spent an afternoon learning about the history of the church and enjoyed a Middle Eastern-style lunch, said the program has mutual benefits, getting young people from his largely Egyptian congregation interested in the military or a career in law enforcement.  “Kids in the church come and ask me after meeting the cadets, ‘What do you think about joining the Army?’” he said. (Gee, I bet they didn’t hear that from anyone in the Islamic center?)

At the Islamic Center, congregants explained to the cadets the importance of removing their shoes in prayer areas, and the female cadets were shown the proper way to cover themselves with Muslim headscarves out of respect.

Nothing about cultural difference in this video, all about the Prophet Mohammed:

Jersey City sits across the Hudson River from New York. Nearly 40 percent of the population is foreign-born, and more than half its residents speak a language other than English at home, according to census figures. It has a large Muslim population. Some of the plotters of the deadly 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center attended a mosque there.

Col. Cindy Jebb, a social sciences professor at West Point who has taught course on cultural anthropology as well as terrorism and counterterrorism, said the academy is fortunate to have such a melting pot close by.

“When you start to learn about other cultures, it makes you very self-aware, helps create a more adaptable thinker, and it develops empathy,” she said. (Empathy is the last thing you need for people who are trying to kill you)

But they don’t learn about culture, only religion:

Although this year’s visit focused on the Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, she said the controversies that have hurt U.S. efforts to gain the trust of Afghans are also discussed with cadets.

“We always use such incidents as a learning opportunity,” Jebb said. “Looking at it in the larger context of understanding that these actions of a few do not reflect the entire military, we discuss why these actions are so detrimental, and how you go about building a tone within a unit of cultural understanding.”

At dinner with the cadets, Muslim women were segregated from men. Only female cadets in  headbags were allowed to dine with the male cadets. Muslims were offended.

MUSLIM American Soldier assaults US Marshal and Deputy Sheriff with bloody spit

Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, who refused to deploy to Afghanistan, arrested & charged in another Fort Hood bomb blot

In what can only be described as disgusting behavior, Muslim soldier, PFC Naser Jason Abdo, bit through his lower lip yesterday and then spat on a U.S. Marshal and a Deputy Sheriff who were escorting him back to jail in Waco, Texas.

Examiner  (H/T Robin H)  Abdo is the MUSLIM Soldier accused last year of plotting to detonate a bomb in a restaurant near Fort Hood, (the same Fort Hood where another MUSLIM soldier massacred 13 soldiers and wounded 45) frequented by U.S. Soldiers; a crime for which he previously confessed.

Apparently angered by Judge Walter Smith’s decision not to reject that previous confession,  Adbo, 22, spat on the two officers in the elevator of the Waco Federal Building after a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court.

Abdo went AWOL from Fort Campbell on July 4, 2011, and was arrested in a motel room in Killeen July 27, on suspicion of making a weapon of mass destruction with intent to harm others. Abdo was also previously arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.

If convicted of the charges for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction along with eight additional related charges, Abdo faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Even though Abdo voluntarily enlisted in the Army in Garland, Texas, March 2009, he told detectives in Texas that he had applied for conscientious objector status.  

Abdo entered the service in March 2009 but applied for conscientious objector status in June 2010, on the eve of his first deployment to Afghanistan, citing his religious beliefs as a Muslim.  In May 2011, just days after his application was approved, Abdo was hit with 34 counts of possession of child pornography and his military discharge was put on hold.

“A Muslim is not allowed to participate in an Islamicly unjust war,” he told ABCNews.com last August. “Any Muslim who knows his religion or maybe takes into account what his religion says can find out very clearly why he should not participate in the US military.” (Yet he joined  voluntarily…apparently to kill American soldiers)

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While Iran is nuking up, the US Military is developing non-lethal weapons that will just sting the enemy a little bit

The military’s ‘Active Denial System’ is a heat ray microwave cannon designed to force enemy soldiers to surrender or to control Occupy-type crowds in the United States by ‘nuking’ the target with non-lethal pain-inflicting microwave rays.

(I dunno, I seem to recall when the Marines and Army ground troops invaded Iraq in Gulf War I, with guns and tanks in full attack mode, the Iraqi enemy couldn’t surrender fast enough)

Mintpress  A person hit with ADS feels a sudden blast of heat that many compare to opening a very hot oven. The target feels pain and reflexively steps or runs away. During the presentation US servicemen managed to immediately disperse a group of disguised marines who played the role of an aggressive crowd.

At ranges of over 550 yards, the ADS works by sending 94-GHz millimeter-waves that are able to penetrate through the outer layer of skin, creating a sudden, intolerable burning sensation as long as the individual stays in the line of fire. The weapon is designed to quickly disperse crowds by giving individuals an uncomfortable sensation provoking the instinct to immediately flee.

According to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, the ADS could be used in situations including defense of a perimeter, crowd control, protection of military forces, enhancing maneuver (particularly in an urban environment), protection of harbors and channels and protection of a pier.

Research conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) concluded that exposure to the beams produces a very low risk of skin damage. The heat waves penetrate through clothing, and 1/64 of an inch into the skin, causing skin temperature to rise to 50 degrees C, or 122 degrees F. Soon after targets move from the path of the ray, skin temperature returns to normal, and studies show no risks are associated with being hit by the ray.

Call me crazy, but Israel’s putrid-smelling ‘Skunk Gas’ that clings to skin and clothing for days is a much more effective non-lethal weapon than this ray gun.

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Left Wing Wacko Group blasts USMC Fighter Squadron for reinstating ‘CRUSADERS’ name

A recent decision by the Marine Corps to reinstate ‘Crusaders’ as the name of its Fighter Attack Squadron 122, replacing the Werewolves name, and adopting the red cross of the medieval Knights Templar was blasted as unconstitutional and offensive to Muslims by a left wing atheist group that is hypocritically supportive of Islam.

MSNBC  “I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad,” said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit atheist organization that advocates church-state separation. (This is the same organization fighting for the removal of the Camp Pendleton Memorial Crosses: aclj-fighting-atheists-to-save-the-u-s-marines-camp-pendleton-memorial-crosses)

VMFA-122 based out of Beaufort, S.C., used the Crusaders symbol from 1958 up to 2008, when Lt. Col. William Lieblein pointed out that imagery invoking the Christian conquest and colonization of Muslims during the Middle Ages was counterproductive to U.S. soldiers based across the Arab and Islamic world.

Dozens of military members, including Marines in the affected squadron have contacted MRFF reporting that the name has been changed back, and that the symbols had already been painted on the vertical stabilizers of the F-18s.

Weinstein says that members of the military who contacted his group — mostly moderate Protestants and Catholics — felt that the decision was blatantly religious. ”They’re being told, ‘the enemy gets to have Allah in their fight. We need to get our Lord and Savior back into our fight’,” said Weinstein.”

Lt. Cmdr. Wade Weigel, who currently heads the squadron, said he did not think the historic nickname was problematic, according to a report in the Beaufort Gazette on Monday.

“It’s a way for our Marines to draw on the service of the Marines before them, and to make their own history under the same name,” Weigel told the paper. “As the squadron prepared to celebrate its (70th anniversary), my intent was to return the squadron to the Crusader name since 50 of the squadron’s 70 years were under that name. The name change is a reflection of our heritage.”

The name change comes just as world media focuses on the trial of Anders Breivik, a Norwegian who admits to killing 77 people in a holy crusade against Islam and multiculturalism. Breivik brandished the Knights Templar symbols in his “manifesto” and YouTube video posted shortly before his bloody rampage. (Who cares? Breivik was right about the Muslims, but stupid to kill people only indirectly connected to the Muslim problem in Norway)

Through the law firm Jones Day, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on Wednesday sent a letter calling on top Navy and Marine Corps brass to reverse the decision, arguing that the use of Crusaders and the accompanying symbolism violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state, and threatening legal action if it is not changed.

Sources at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort have also confirmed that the “Crusader” insignia is being repainted on the planes flown by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122. These U.S. Marine Corps planes will once again have a great big red crusader cross on them, as shown in this pre-2008 photo.

You can buy CRUSADERS merchandise here: VMFA-122 CRUSADERS

Soooooo? U.S. Army troops pose with dead Afghan terrorists’ body parts

An American soldier traitor says he released the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline.

LA TIMES  The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification.

The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts. Then the paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held — and others squatted beside — the corpse’s severed legs.

A few months later, the same platoon was dispatched to investigate the remains of three insurgents who Afghan police said had accidentally blown themselves up. After obtaining a few fingerprints, they posed next to the remains, again grinning and mugging for photographs. 

Two soldiers posed holding a dead man’s hand with the middle finger raised. A soldier leaned over the bearded corpse while clutching the man’s hand. Someone placed an unofficial platoon patch reading “Zombie Hunter” next to other remains and took a picture.

The Army launched a criminal investigation after the Los Angeles Times showed officials copies of the photos, which recently were given to the paper by a soldier from the division.

“It is a violation of Army standards to pose with corpses for photographs outside of officially sanctioned purposes,” said George Wright, an Army spokesman. “Such actions fall short of what we expect of our uniformed service members in deployed areas.”

The soldier traitor  who provided The Times with a series of 18 photos of soldiers posing with corpses did so on condition of anonymity. He served in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne’s 4th Brigade Combat Team from Ft. Bragg, N.C. He said the photos point to a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised the safety of the troops.(CRAP)

He expressed the hope that publication would help ensure that alleged security shortcomings at two U.S. bases in Afghanistan in 2010 were not repeated. The brigade, under new command but with some of the same paratroopers who served in 2010, began another tour in Afghanistan in February.

U.S. military officials asked The Times not to publish any of the pictures.(The Commie Times loves to post photos they think they can damage the military)

Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said the conduct depicted “most certainly does not represent the character and the professionalism of the great majority of our troops in Afghanistan…. Nevertheless, this imagery — more than two years old — now has the potential to indict them all in the minds of local Afghans, inciting violence and perhaps causing needless casualties.” Kirby added, “We have taken the necessary precautions to protect our troops in the event of any backlash.”

Times Editor Davan Maharaj said, “After careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangering U.S. troops.” (But you refused to post the video of Barack Obama praising Palestinian terrorists at a dinner in LA)

The photos were taken during a yearlong deployment of the 3,500-member brigade, which lost 35 men during that time, according to icasualties.org, a website that tracks casualties. At least 23 were killed by homemade bombs or suicide bombers. Suicide attacks on two bases of the brigade’s 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment killed six U.S. soldiers and four Afghan interpreters. The platoon whose soldiers posed for the photos was part of the battalion.

Virtually all of the men depicted in the photos had friends who were killed or wounded by homemade bombs or suicide attacks, according to the soldier who provided the images. One paratrooper on the mission wore a bracelet bearing the name of a fallen comrade.

On the first mission, to the police station in the provincial capital of Qalat, Afghan police told the platoon that the severed legs belonged to a suicide bomber whose explosives detonated as he tried to attack a police unit, according to the soldier who provided the photos. On the second mission, to the morgue in Qalat in late April or early May 2010, Afghan police told the platoon that explosives had detonated as three insurgents were preparing a roadside bomb.

The soldiers felt a sense of triumph and satisfaction, especially after learning that the insurgents had been killed by their own explosives, he said. “They were frustrated, just pissed off — their buddies had been blown up by IEDs” — improvised explosive devices — the soldier said. “So they sort of just celebrated.” (As they were entitled to do)

ACLJ: Fighting atheists to save the U.S. Marines’ Camp Pendleton Memorial Crosses

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is a leader in standing up for religious liberty and freedom of speech, under constant attack in America now. Last fall, the ACLJ intervened in the Camp Pendleton Memorial Cross controversy.

ACLJ WEBSITE

Examiner In honor of their fallen comrades, a number of Marines erected two memorial crosses, only to have the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers threaten them with a lawsuit.

According to this atheist group, allowing fellow Marines to raise two crosses sends a message of “exclusion” to others. Apparently, incapable of comprehending or unwilling to admit it, these atheists fail to mention that a refusal to allow Marines to honor their comrades in the form of a memorial cross, is itself, an utter act of “exclusion”.  It is a brazen exercise of intolerance; the very kind of intolerance many dishonestly accuse religious institutions of exercising.

As a result of this hostile act by the atheist organization, the ACLJ was compelled to write a letter to the Commanding Officer at Camp Pendleton, clearly explaining why the crosses do not violate either federal law or the constitution.

Scott Radetski, Karen Mendoza, Jon Gross and Shannon Book work to carry a 13-foot cross to the top of a mountain at Camp Pendleton on Nov. 10 to recognize those Marines who have fallen or been wounded in combat. The original cross was carried up by seven people, and three of those original seven were killed in combat in Iraq. Radetski was a chaplain during the battle for Fallujah, Mendoza's husband was killed in combat, and Gross and Book also served in Iraq during the battle for Fallujah.

In the letter, the ACLJ cites the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, which states “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion”, noting that this simply means that the government may not “endorse” any one particular religion over another.  It does NOT mean that government has the authority to deny the free religious exercise of the individual, nor the individual’s freedom of expression.

The letter also points that the simple fact that an individual may “feel uncomfortable” upon viewing a cross does not constitute government endorsement of a particular religion. Initiating a petition, the ACLJ was able to gather the signature 45,000 Americans.

The ultimate decision lies in the hands of the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corp, and, according to the ACLJ that decision is now imminent.  The decision could come down any day now.

Apparently, if the crosses are allowed to stay, the MAAF has already signaled that they will follow up with a lawsuit.

Did Barack Obama’s draconian defense budget cuts contribute to the crash of the F-18?

The Defense budget cuts have been coming since Obama took office. But the full impact of these cuts so far is nothing compared to the nearly $1 trillion in cuts that will effectively gut the military. These cuts won’t go back to the taxpayers or paying off the debt, but instead will be added to the coffers of the already overbloated entitlement (free handouts) society he is creating in order to destroy America as we know it.

ZbigniewMazurak  Contrary to what Democrats would have you believe, there isn’t a lot of waste in defense, and certainly not $100 billion per year. Not even close.

The sequester, if allowed to proceed, would cut defense spending WAY too deeply (on top of all the defense cuts already implemented and scheduled, including the $487 billion in defense cuts unveiled by Panetta in January): by $600 billion. In total, the cuts would amount to $1.087 trillion over a decade, not counting the savings resulting from withdrawal from Afghanistan. Such deep cuts would gut the military. As a consequence of them, the DOD would have to, inter alia:

• Cancel the F-35 program completely without replacement, and thus betray foreign program partners
• Eliminate the ICBM leg of the nuclear triad completely while cutting the bomber fleet by 2/3 and cancelling the bomber replacement program
• Delay the SSBN replacement program
• Cancel all except the most basic upgrades for F-15s and F-16s while cutting the fighter fleet by 35%
• Cut the USN’s ship fleet to 230 vessels, the smallest size since 1915, and vastly inadequate (independent studies say the Navy needs 346 ships)
• Forego the deployment of any missile defense system abroad
• Cut the Army to its smallest size since 1940
• Cancel virtually all Army modernization programs
• Cut the Marines down to just 145,000 personnel
• Cut personnel benefits programs to such depth that it would break faith with them (e.g. massive cuts in DOD health programs and retirement benefits), thus discouraging people from joining the military or reenlisting

As testified by Obama’s own SECDEF, as well as all Joint Chiefs, lower-ranking generals, and other DOD officials, and as confirmed by many independent analysts and retired officers, sequestration would completely gut the military. For JCS Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, sequestration would produce “the definition of a hollow force”. For LTG Mills of the Marine Corps, “sequestration would break faith with those defending America.”

The HASC has come to similar conclusions and also warns that most of the damage that would be done to defense would be irreversible. For example, if you cancel a shipbuilding program that a shipyard relies on, the shipyard will have to close and be liquidated and will not be there to reopen when you’re finally ready to start buying ships again.

Moreover, first tier BCA-mandated budget cuts plus sequestration ($108.7 bn a year on average) plus zeroing out OCO spending (as a result of the inevitable US withdrawal from Afghanistan, $88.5 bn per year on average) means cutting the military budget by a total 32.11% – much deeper than the cuts made after the Vietnam War (26%) and almost as deep as the cuts that followed the Cold War (34%-35%). Now think about it, Dear Reader: we now know that the post-Vietnam and post-Cold-War defense cuts WRECKED the military. So how can we honest expect this round of defense cuts NOT to gut the military? We can’t. Simple math alone should tell you that, even if you don’t believe Obama’s own SECDEF, Deputy SECDEF, and Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as many lower-ranking generals, retired military officers, and independent analysts.

Speaking of the Joint Chiefs, there are only three possibilities:

1) That all of the Joint Chiefs are deliberately lying to scaremonger the Congress and the American people;

2) That all of the Joint Chiefs are ignorant guys who don’t know what they’re talking about; or

3) That Panetta, Carter, and the Joint Chiefs are right about sequestration.

Furthermore, not only would sequestration gut defense, it would be extremely unjust. The DOD would be punished for CONGRESS’ FAILURE to design a fiscally responsible federal budget; and even though its entire budget accounts for just 19% of federal spending, and the core defense budget (which would be the portion hit with the sequester’s cuts) accounts for less than 15%. Yet, this 15% portion of the federal budget would bear a full 50% of sequestration’s cuts. This would be deeply unjust and disproportionate, in addition to gutting the military.

To sum up, defense spending sequestration would completely gut the military and thus imperil the country; would be deeply unjust (punishing the DOD for Congressional failure); would be disproportionate; is not necessary to reduce the deficit or balance the budget; and would save much less money than conservative plans that don’t cut defense spending (such as the RSC’s and the Heritage Foundation’s plans) would save.

And, as Ronald Reagan said, anyone who proposes to cut defense spending must be forced to say which defense programs the Nation can do without, why, and how it would protect itself without them.

Obama has a habit of pressuring senior generals to change their testimonies to suit their agenda. Just ask 4-star General William Shelton, the commander of USAF’s Space Command, who says Obama pressured him to do just that.

It is quite conceivable that the Joint Chiefs were also pressured to testify, wrongly, that the $487 bn in defense cuts ordered by Obama is survivable.

General Dempsey himself, before he was confirmed, testified that deep defense cuts would weaken defense, that “national security” spending did not cause the deficit problem and that cutting it will not solve it.

More recently, he said, quite correctly, that sequestration of defense spending (the second round of BCA-ordered cuts, totalling another $600 bn) would mean “we would no longer be a global power”. Today, under obvious pressure from the White House and other defense cuts supporters, he claims he was misunderstood and that he only meant that “we wouldn’t be the global power that we know ourselves to be today.”

No, General, that’s not what you originally said. That’s what the White House now tells you to say. I’m sure that if the White House told you “say that the sequester would be harmless”, you would be saying exactly that.

While I wouldn’t call the generals liars or fools, this is not the first time that someone has coached witnesses to deliver a favorable testimony.

No matter how hard the generals and civilian DOD bureaucrats may insist to the contrary, the FACT is that Obama’s defense budget cuts mandate drove the pseudo-strategy the DOD issued in January, not the other way around. Obama demanded deep defense cuts, and the DOD had to produce a “strategy” to fit these cuts. That’s what happened, despite the generals’ and civilian bureaucrats’ pretensions to the contrary.

Obama demanded $400 bn in defense cuts on April 13th, 2011, during a budget issues speech at the GWU – long before there even was any talk of a debt ceiling deal. At the time, even his own SECDEF, Robert Gates, was surprised of the defense cuts mandate, and the DOD had to start working out how to implement them. Then, on August 1st, Obama negotiated a debt ceiling deal that mandated $487 bn in cuts from “security spending”, which Obama slapped exclusively on the DOD.

Only later was there any talk of a “strategy” to fit these cuts.

‘PART OF ME’ – Katy Perry’s new military video has the lefties spitting blood

A little Off Topic but a great fit in the BNI MILITARY category. Considering what a fine job of pissing off the lefties and no doubt their Muslim pals that Katy Perry has done here, I am happy to give her video and the U.S. Marine Corps some well-deserved publicity.

America-hating, feminazi writer, Naomi Wolf, urges boycott of Katy Perry video, calling it “military propaganda.”

FOX NEWS  Perry transforms herself into a U.S. Marine in her latest power-pop single, “Part of Me,” which addresses female empowerment and pays particular tribute to service women. Naomi Wolf, one of many who were arrested amid the Occupy Wall Street protests last year, is urging Americans to boycott the singer, labeling her video “a total piece of propaganda for the Marines.”

“I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it,” Wolf wrote on her Facebook page. “It is truly shameful… I would suggest a boycott of this singer whom I really liked – if you are as offended as this glorification of violence as I am.” 

A source close to Perry was shocked and disgusted by Wolf’s remarks. 

Another PR pro thinks Wolfe’s boycott call will backfire. ”In her efforts to boycott the video Naomi Wolf has brought more attention to it. Without her comments, most people would clearly have seen the military simply as a metaphor and not as an attempt by Katy Perry to glamorize the military or war,” said Glenn Selig, founder of The Publicity Agency. “It’s hard to believe that Naomi Wolf’s view of the video will resonate with the public at large because most people will view her comments as completely absurd and a ridiculous attempt to make a big deal out of nothing.” (And what’s wrong with glamorizing the military? It got my attention and because it is posted here, a very large audience, many of whom probably never heard of Katy Perry, could become fans)

H/T RevereRidesAgain

[UPDATED 2] MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Marine reunited with canine partner Sgt Rex

Marine Cpl. Meagan Leavey and her canine partner, Sgt. Rex, were trained to detect roadside bombs and other materials. Now, she's trying to adopt him before he's put to sleep.

‘REX is my partner. I love him’ – Retired marine fights to adopt military dog before it’s put to sleep.

The Blaze  Marine Cpl. Megan Leavey served with her four-legged partner Sgt. Rex through two tours in Iraq, completing hundreds of missions searching for roadside bombs until an insurgent explosion took them both out of service.

More than five years later, Leavey, 28, is fighting to adopt the dog she handled since her earliest days as a Marine before the German shepherd is put to sleep.

“Rex is my partner, I love him,” Leavey, who lives with her father in Rockport, N.Y. and works as a dog handler, told MSNBC. “We have been through so much together…I’ve spent day and night with this dog. It’s a very strong bond.”

Leavey was discharged in Dec. 2007, but Rex — considered a valuable work dog — was put back in service after he recovered from his injuries. That was until a month ago, when he was diagnosed with a kind of nerve paralysis that left him unable to serve, the Westchester Journal News reported.

It’s now a race against the clock as Leavey struggles to cut through military red tape and adopt Rex before he is put down. “As a safety precaution, they don’t give all dogs away,” she told the Journal News. She said Rex, a strong “alpha dog,” never hurt anyone he wasn’t supposed to.

“The dilemma with me is the minute they say he can’t be adopted, because he‘s sick and because he can’t work, they’d have to put him to sleep,” she said. “Not because he’s too sick to live a good life, but because they can‘t utilize him so it wouldn’t make sense for them to keep a dog they’re not going to work at the kennels. I don’t want to let that happen.”

But time is ticking, she said. “This is not [the Marines'] first priority,” Leavey told New York Fox affiliate WNYW-TV. “A lot of times it gets lost in the shuffle.”

To help speed the process up, she reached out to veteran’s organizations and to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, who oversees military service dog training. In the letter, Schumer detailed the relationship Leavey and Rex had and credited them with saving countless lives, according to the Journal News. (The first good thing  Chuckie Cheese Shumer has done in his entire career)

If Leavey’s request is granted, Rex will enjoy a sizable home with a fenced-in yard. Until she hears more, all she can do is wait. “It’s a partnership,” Leavey told the newspaper. “I feel like I know Rex so well. I’m so looking forward to seeing him again.”

BNI READER Barbara kindly gave us a link to Baghdad Pups. I’m going to write to them and see if they can help with this. Maybe you can too: OPERATION BAGHDAD PUPS

BNI contacted SPCA Global Animal Rescue (Operation Baghdad Pups) re: helping Meagan and Rex, and this is their response:

Hi Bonni,

Thank you for contacting SPCA International. We fully support Megan Leavey’s efforts and you can read more about this story on our website at:http://www.spcai.org/index.php/news-and-blog/spcai-news/item/722-spca-international-supports-megan-leavey.html

Placing Rex with Megan is a logical choice, so that he can live-out his retirement with an old friend.  SPCA International is extremely happy to hear that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is working to cut red tape and expedite the process of getting Rex and Megan reunited.  We expect that the Marines will release Rex to Megan quickly, and we will continue to follow the story in case there is anything SPCA International can do to help make this reunion a reality.”

Thank you for your concern and support!

Sincerely,

SPCA International Staff 

An injured Marine and Purple Heart recipient has won a campaign to adopt the wounded combat dog she partnered with in Iraq.

FOX NEWS  The U.S. Air Force has agreed to release the dog, Sgt. Rex, into the care of  former Cpl. Megan Leavey, 28,  so that the two can live a civilian life together, MyFoxNY.com reports. 

Leavey and Sgt. Rex were injured in 2006 while disarming an explosive IED. After Leavey was discharged in December 2007, she asked to gain custody of the 10-year-old brown German Shepherd that she calls her partner.

Leavey’s first attempt at adopting Sgt. Rex was denied, and he was returned to service after recovering from his injury. But then he was diagnosed with facial palsy and could no longer serve. Leavey grew concerned that he would be put to sleep, so she continued her requests.

The case garnered the attention of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who intervened and sought to help reunite the pair, MyFoxNY.com reports. 

“The Marine Corps has taught me to never give up,” Leavey told MyFoxNY.com. “I haven’t so it’s really paid off.” Sgt. Rex has been credited with saving many lives during his time in service. The pair hunted IEDs in Iraq during two tours of duty.

PORK EATING CRUSADERS! A big hit with the troops in Afghanistan!

With tensions at an all time high in Afghanistan following the quran burnings and urinating on Taliban corpses video, the  attention is now falling on a long line of ‘Infidel’ apparel and gear.

BUY PATCHES HERE: LA POLICE GEAR

Business Insider (H/T Henry P) Exhausted from how they feel they’re being perceived, troops have taken to wearing patches and carrying items that label themselves infidels and offer translation in local dialect.

In the Muslim world an infidel means literally “one without faith” who rejects the central teachings of Islam. 

Military.com tracked down Clayton Montgomery at Mil-Spec Monkey, a large online seller of infidel gear, who says his most popular item by far is the “Pork Eating Crusader Patch.”

The patch includes an image of a knight in a Crusade’s tunic, eating what appears to be a large ham hock, and lest there be any confusion — a translation in Arabic.

They haven’t gone unnoticed. The website Muslim Awakening, posts a picture of what appears to be a German soldier with the patch adhered to his combat uniform. Other items are more subtle.

There is the Infidel Zippo advertised as: “This one is small enough to hold some personal meaning and not be in-your-face to everyone you meet. It’s perfect for pulling out at just the right moment to get the full effect.”

UNPRECEDENTED! Marines forced to disarm in combat zone over fear for Leon Panetta’s ‘safety’

"Hey, Leon, don't ever turn your back on those Marine killing machines"

In a highly unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday.

MSNBC (H/T Joel M)  Although the military said the order was not given in response to Sunday’s shooting of 16 Afghan civilians allegedly by an American soldier, it possibly underlined how high tensions were running after the incident.

Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus  said he had given the order because the two dozen Afghan soldiers also there were unarmed and he did not want to treat them differently. (CRAP)

According to reporters at Camp Leatherneck, the Marines were waiting to hear Panetta’s speech when they were abruptly told by their commander to get up, leave their weapons, including M16 and M-4 automatic rifles and 9 mm pistols, outside and return unarmed.

“All I know is I was told to get the weapons out,” Sergeant Major Brandon Hall told The New York Times. Asked why, he replied, “Somebody got itchy, that’s all I’ve got to say. Somebody got itchy; we just adjust.”

Military officials in Washington told NBC News’ chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski that the decision to disarm the Marines was indeed significant. ”It sends the wrong message” that Marines can’t be trusted in the presence of the secretary of defense,” one told him. Miklaszewski also told NBC’s Chuck Todd Wednesday that the move was “highly unusual” and that Marines in combat zones are always supposed to have weapons within their reach.