Quran-burning investigation clears U.S. troops of any disrespect toward Islam

UH OH! What will the inbred Afghan savages do now? How many more American soldiers will they kill to make up for the lack of punishment?

The Blaze  Barack Hussein Obama’s groveling apology over a Quran burning at Bagram Air Field may have been completely wasted — a NATO/Afghan panel convened to look into the incident has just announced that while the disposal of the Koran was “improper,” it had nothing to do with anti-Muslim bigotry. TheWashington Times elaborates:

“It did find that there were some U.S. personnel who did improperly treat these religious texts, including some of their supervisory personnel,” said Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. “And it recommended that they be reviewed for potential disciplinary action.” (Oh, please)

The Qurans ended up in an incinerator after Afghan prisoners were found using the holy books to pass messages to one another. The books were confiscated and later ended up in an incinerator, where Afghan workers at the disposal site discovered the Korans burning and pulled them out of the incinerator.

In other words, the report confirms what has been known for weeks – the books weren’t burned out of spite against Islam. They were burned because potential terrorists were using them as a means to communicate without American knowledge. So with NATO and the Afghan Government accepting this interpretation, the question still lingers: why did the White House apologize for what was arguably an impolitic, but nevertheless necessary confiscation of tools for passing information?

Six dead American soldiers is what all Obama's incessant apologizing did for the situation

Is Barack Obama forcing military leaders to lie about so-called ‘progress’ in Afghanistan?

Apparently, at least one whistleblower and several members of Congress think so.

CLOSE GITMO NOW. Send the Muslim terrorists to Saudi Arabia.

It’s only fair, Saudi Arabia was home to 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers. Compared to prisons in the Kingdom, Guantanano Bay is as like a 5-start resort. Check out the photos and video from Gitmo after the Saudi video.

In Saudi Arabia, many prisoners have access to mobile phones via the black market. Some use them to film their experiences. The latest video to surface from Saudi Arabia was filmed in Braiman prison, in the city of Jeddah. It shows men sitting or sleeping on thin mats over nearly every inch of a hallway. The situation is the samethroughout the prison, according to a source who has visited the facility.  

The National Society for Human Rights, a government-sanctioned organisation, has repeatedlysaid that most prisons in the country are overcrowded, mainly due to the lengthy confinement of prisoners awaiting trial. Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, has pointed to reports of inhumane conditions in Saudi prisons, including a case in which five Ethiopian detainees allegedly suffocated to death last August due to overcrowding.

Recently, prisons have been getting more and more crowded, and the conditions are getting more and more difficult. The last prison I went to was the worst one I have seen yet – just as bad if not worse as in Jeddah, from what I can see in leaked videos. My cell was 5 metres by 6 metres, and I had 23 cellmates. We had to take turns sleeping – some of the men even slept in the toilet stalls. It could get very cold at night, and we didn’t have enough blankets.

Luxury detainee cell at Gitmo

 The prison’s hygiene was terrible. The food was barely cooked. When we were served pieces of chicken, there would still be feathers on it. Of course, in these conditions, people would get sick very easily, and because we lived in such close quarters, illness would spread very rapidly. On top of that, it was very hard to see a doctor.

Gitmo features daily Soccer Games, a full gym, CAble TV, and other recreation facilities

My back was injured during a brutal interrogation after my arrest. In prison, my injury only got worse, because I had to sleep on the floor. I asked to see a doctor – two weeks later, I finally saw one. All he would give me was acetaminophen, which didn’t work. That’s all the doctors would give anyone, no matter what the problem was. My doctor told me that was all they had to give, anyway. My back finally got so bad that they finally had to let me out so I could get real treatment in a hospital.

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The strange thing is, in the news, you read lots of stories about how Saudi prisons are getting more money, about how they’re making living conditions better for prisoners… but we don’t see this in prison. The money doesn’t seem to get to where it needs to go.”

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Last of the 8 Haditha Marines goes free, too!

Marine  Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich joins 7 of his fellow Marines who have already been exonerated of killing 24 unarmed Iraqis. Wuterich avoided serving any time for his role in the incident, winning leniency through a plea deal that carried no punishment beyond a reduction in rank.

Pat Dollard  Wuterich pleaded guilty Monday to negligent dereliction of duty as part of the agreement with prosecutors. The minor charge carries a maximum sentence of 90 days. Prosecutors asked Jones to give Wuterich the maximum sentence of three months confinement, a reduction in rank and forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay. The judge  decided not to dock his pay because the divorced father has sole custody of three young daughters.

Wuterich has acknowledged ordering his squad to “shoot first, ask questions later” after a roadside bomb took the life of a fellow Marine, but he said he did not shoot any of the 10 women and children killed in nearby homes that he stormed with his men.“The truth is: I never fired my weapon at any women or children that day,” Wuterich told Jones.

Defense attorney Neal Puckett said Wuterich has lived under the cloud of being labeled a killer who carried out a massacre in Iraq. Lawyers also said he has been exonerated of directly causing the deaths of civilians in the two homes and insisted his only intent was to protect his Marines, calling it “honorable and noble.” “The appropriate punishment in this case, your honor, is no punishment,” Puckett said.

Wuterich, 31, told the court that his guilty plea should not suggest that he believes his men behaved badly or that they acted in any way that was dishonorable to their country. He said he ordered his men to “shoot first, ask questions later” so they would not hesitate in attacking the enemy, but he never intended to harm any civilians.

In Iraq, residents of the Euphrates river town of Haditha were angered by the fact that not one of the eight Marines initially charged will be convicted of manslaughter. The seven other Marines initially charged were exonerated or had their cases dropped.

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The United West presents Saluting our Military

Tom Trento and The United West held their first Florida event Supporting Our Military in Tallahassee following the end of the Iraq War.

The United West

On Tuesday, January 10th, The United West, held their first salute to service personnel and veterans returning to the Sunshine state following the official end of the War in Iraq on December 31, 2011.  The venue was the magnificently restored House of Representatives chamber in the Old State Capitol Building in Tallahassee on the occasion of the opening day of the 2012 legislative session. The theme of the event was  “When Johnny comes marching home to. . .  what?”

Tom Trento, executive director of The United West noted the purpose of the gathering:

“As we enter a new year and the Florida legislature convenes, it is only fitting that all Floridians join together to honor the men and women who serve and sacrifice each day for us all. Not to recognize their service is a travesty.”  “Florida has experienced the largest deployment of its Reservists and National Guard personnel in history to Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Central Command, the joint command headquarters for the War in Iraq and Afghanistan (Gulf II), is located at MacDill AFB in Tampa. Florida is home to over 1.8 million active duty, reserve, National Guard and veterans. We honor them all.”

The theme of the program underscored the sacrifices made  by the more than 6,000 killed and 47,000 wounded in the Gulf II conflicts.  The event  focused on providing meaningful rehabilitation and employment opportunities for returning veterans, whose unemployment rates tower over that for the civilian labor force.  Given US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports for December 2011, total unemployment for Gulf II war veterans was over 13.1 percent versus 8.5 for the total civilian labor force.  Also of concern is the continuing responsibility for delivery of health care and rehabilitation services to more than 600,000 eligible Gulf II veterans. The Veterans Administration and Congressional Budget Office estimate that care could cost as much as $55 billion over the period from 2011 to 2020.   That would include continuing care for more than 105,000 wounded warriors who suffered grievous disabling injuries requiring extensive rehabilitation and after care.

Those sacrifices by our military in Florida were underscored by two presentations at the Supporting Our Military event in Tallahassee.

Among the more poignant was the presentation by Billie Vaughn of Stewart, Florida father of Navy Seal Officer Aaron Vaughn,  one of 22 Navy Seals lost aboard a Chinook helicopter shot down on August 6, 2011  by Taliban rockets in Afghanistan.  

The finale to the event was the appearance of wounded warrior SSgt. William Castillo who walked in without assistance to address  the assembly.  Castillo exemplified the best among those who have made personal sacrifices to defend this country.  Camillo, an immigrant from Colombia,  spoke about his surviving an RPG attack in Iraq on his Humvee during which he was hit by enemy fire five times and his injuries necessitated removal of the lower portion of his right leg.

While Rep. Alan West (R-FL 22nd CD) could not be present because of scheduling conflicts are not he provided  a video address  that conveyed his support for all colleagues, military and civilian, who value sacrifices made by those who served in the Long War against Islamic terrorism.

The Supporting Our Military event was organized by The United West and sponsored by a number of morale groups expressing appreciation to our military for their valued service and personal sacrifices.

As George Washington said, “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”

PEE BABY, PEE! Muslim apologists’ handwringing is far worse than Marines urinating on dead Muslim terrorists

Four Marines urinated on the bodies of three Afghan Taliban apparently thwarted in their ambitions to shoot off the Marines’ heads. The desecrating deed was an abridgment of military rules, and though it’s highly dubious, could have an adverse impact on U.S. operations in Afghanistan, but something worse has ensued.

STANDARD-EXAMINER   That’s the reaction, which, in the overreaching hands of some, has been far more a moral abuse than anything done to insensible corpses. The yelping and screaming have themselves been a desecration, but a desecration of the living, a means of terrifying and vilifying young, self-sacrificing American volunteers already subjected to the endless brutality of a war that’s not a war. It’s a nation-building process that instead of allowing adequate self-defense, subjects our military to constant sneak attacks by pretend civilians.

There’s more context, beginning with the fact that urinating on the dead is hardly unheard of in war, even for Americans. For our ceaselessly savage Taliban enemy in Afghanistan, articles remind us, it is kid stuff.

These people like to strip bodies naked, castrate them, burn them, and hang them high for all to see, (See Photos Below) as they did to American contractors in Iraq. It wasn’t the Taliban, but Americans can remember far
worse than urination during our brief intervention in Somalia, when stripped bodies of American soldiers were dragged through streets as happy crowds cheered. Jihadists have also cut off the heads of living Americans as a demonstration of their own humane beliefs. 

None of this is to say we should not be better. In fact we are much, much better, and though the Marines were wrong in what they did, their behavior became a supposed, unspeakable horror only because of the omnipresence these days of video cameras and social networking by which acts meant to stay private can end up on YouTube. In this age of the Internet, people all over the world could see a video of the Marines in action while the enemy no doubt saw something more: possibilities for exploitation and further demonizing.

Thus we had Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta wrong-headedly attempting damage control by making a major moment of calling the incident “utterly deplorable.” Panetta’s real concern clearly was the video, which he said could be misused to disrupt reconciliation with enemy Afghans. A brief statement by someone lower down would have given the Taliban less ammunition.

We’re trying to get the Taliban in talks so they will quiet down in return for a share of government when we leave, but listen, they are not about to hang up on these appeasement possibilities. Neither are they about to lay down their arms anytime soon.

They want to have as much military advantage as they possibly can when we pull out on a no-matter-what deadline, for they ultimately will not settle for just a share of power. They want the whole enchilada so they can get back to such activities as stoning young women to death for premarital sex and maybe aiding terrorist groups in attacks on the United States.

What should happen to the Marines? They’ve now been publicly excoriated not only by Panetta, but also Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and all kinds of military brass. The talk has been less tempered than when Iran was mercilessly squashing a public rebellion. Some commentators, trying to show how super-sensitive they are, have mostly shown how utterly inchoate their value system is, but knowledge of their comments still must sting.

The Marines must feel their future is done, and treating them like that is far worse than what they did.

I am with Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican who used to be a lieutenant colonel in the Army. He wrote in The Weekly Standard that the Marines’ offense should be treated as minor and that one punishment should be for them to sing the Marine Corps hymn in front of fellow Marines after a public apology.

MICHAEL SAVAGE   took aim at the response of “cowardly” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. John Amos, who said in a statement the behavior shown in the video is “wholly inconsistent with the high standards of conduct and warrior ethos that we have demonstrated throughout our history” and that the Marine Corps remains “fully committed to upholding the Geneva Convention, the laws of war and our own core values.”

“I think one of your core values, General Amos, would be to be a general who supports your boys who you’ve put in harm’s way while you sit on your fat behind there in North Carolina,” Savage said. “And that is to say,” he suggested, “‘We don’t know what happened, however, we are U.S. Marines first, and we support our boys. Whatever happened in the heat of battle will be looked into. Now go away.

Savage noted there is little media coverage when Marines are mutilated. “The Taliban are barbarians; they cut people’s heads off; they kill women and children. But, of course, there is no mention of any of that,” he said. None other than a Taliban spokesman himself use the term “barbaric,” but it was to describe the scene of Marines urinating on bodies.

Karzai called on the U.S. government to investigate and issue the harshest punishment possible, calling the “act” by American soldiers “simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms.”

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ALLEN WEST on ‘Urine Gate’ – “Unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is Hell”

Lt. Col Allen West in Iraq

As a Lt. Colonel (Ret) in the Army, Allen West gets the last word on this media-hyped non-event.

Weekly Standard  “I have assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

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Terror-linked CAIR wants the ‘Urine Gate’ Marines “punished to the full extent of the law”

We want the Marines who pissed on the Taliban terrorists to get a medal! Then we want the terrorist-supporters from CAIR to be prosecuted and jailed or deported.

This is what Muslims do with Americans they capture.

In a horrific display of barbarism, a masked person claiming to be Abu Mus’ad Al Zarqawi slaughtered American contractor Nick Berg. Sitting in a chair, Berg made the following statement: “My name is Nick Berg, my father’s name is Michael, my mother’s name is Susan,” the man said on the video. “I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in … Philadelphia.”

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New Book reveals Barack Hussein Obama’s deep felt hatred for U.S. troops

 Michael Hastings’ new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president’s relationship with the troops.

Buzzfeed   The book describes an Obama visit to Baghdad: After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad.

He’s asked to go out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers. He’s asked to sign copies of his book. “He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me.

“Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my
eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take fucking pictures with them?”

[UPDATED] US Marines piss on corpses of dead Muslim Taliban terrorists. YAWN

Yeah, yeah, I know, conduct unbecoming a United States Marine. Who cares? Oh, that’s right, terror-linked CAIR is absolutely outraged!

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the alleged desecration of corpses in Afghanistan by members of the U.S. Marines.

In a letter faxed to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote:

“We condemn this apparent desecration of the dead as a violation of our nation’s military regulations and of international laws of war prohibiting such disgusting and immoral actions.

“If verified as authentic, the video shows behavior that is totally unbecoming of American military personnel and that could ultimately endanger other soldiers and civilians.

“We trust that this disturbing incident will be promptly investigated in a transparent manner and that appropriate actions will be taken based on the results of that investigation. Any guilty parties must be punished to the full extent allowed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and by relevant American laws.”

TMZ  The United States Marine Corps is launching an investigation into a video which appears to show Marines in full combat gear urinating on several dead bodies.  In the extremely graphic video, which appeared on various websites this morning, at least 4 male Marines expose their genitals and urinate on the bodies.  The mystery person traitor who posted the video included a caption that reads, “**** ****** **** ***** team **** ** *** ***** ***** ****** ******** **** peeing on dead talibans.”

Now, Captain Kendra N. Hardesty — a Media Officer for the USMC — tells us, “While we have not yet verified the origin or authenticity of this video, the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of theMarines in our Corps.” She adds, “This matter will be fully investigated and those responsible will be held accountable for their actions.”

In the video, one of the urinating men can be heard saying, “Have a great day, buddy.” Another guy jokes about the situation … saying, “Golden like a shower.”

[UPDATE] SHRILLARY CLINTON expresses “shock and dismay” over the pissing Marines incident. 

Finally, Hillary gets to publicly vent her little known hatred for the Marines. When she was first lady, she was so repulsed by having to walk past all the Marines in uniform standing guard at the White House,  she tried to force them out of uniform, but failed.

For those of you left wing wackos wringing your hands over this media-hyped non-incident incident, take a look at what the Taliban do to their enemies, starting from the time they are 12 years old.

This video is very graphic, just in case you pantywaists want to get a barf bag first.

Facing certain death, dogs from Afghanistan find new homes in the U.S. and Canada

These stray dogs who befriended soldiers in war-torn Afghanistan have been flown thousands of miles to start a new life. The pooches were reunited with the servicemen and women with whom they bonded so closely while on duty.

Animal-loving US soldiers regularly make best friends with loyal Afghan dogs, who are invaluable companions on the front line and provide relief after days of brave and exhausting fire fights. British charity NOWZAD Dogs, which was started by former British Royal Marine Pen Farthing, who served in Afghanistan, masterminded the huge operation to relocate the animals.

American Airlines flew the dogs from the Middle East to JFK Airport, New York, where emotional reunions took place. The soldiers travelled from their home towns across America to greet the dogs off the plane before taking them home. The charity American Dog Rescue and skincare firm PRAI Beauty, which has donated over £30,000 towards helping NOWZAD Dogs transport strays, were also part of the operation.

ANIMALS   provide comfort to our Warriors especially when they are far from home, under fire and spending many months away from home…The stray dogs & cats are pretty much verboten but like many other things, military personnel find a way to keep the fuzzy friends under wraps. U.S. Soldiers and Marines are smuggling them onto bases across the country. The military leadership seems to turn a blind eye, though regulations specifically prohibit them.

They go by names like Smoke, Bacon, Mickey Blue Eyes and Butterscotch, and they can be coerced with as little as a pat on the head, a scratch behind the ears or a tasty treat. They are the stray dogs and cats of Afghanistan who, at many — if not most — U.S. bases here are adopted by Soldiers and Marines individually, by squad or platoon, and spoiled as much as any mutts or felines in suburban America.

While no one will say so officially, it appears commanders recognize the value that pet dogs and cats bring to the morale of a base, so they look the other way as long as the animals do not interfere with the mission or present health concerns.

CANADA: Alberta teacher rescues 7 stray dogs from Afghanistan. “I cannot begin to tell you the abuse that I saw the mother dog endure,” he said.

CTV.CA  (H/T Traduction) When Spencer Sekyer stumbled upon a stray dog and her new brood in war-torn Afghanistan 18 months ago, he couldn’t walk away. The puppies were huddled in the gutter and their mother appeared to have been abused. But they quickly warmed up to Sekyer, an Alberta junior high school teacher who spends his summers teaching in conflict zones around the world.

Sekyer was hooked. He began feeding the canine family and playing with the pups, but soon realized he wanted to do more. One-and-a-half years later, seven of the now-grown pups arrived in Calgary, thanks to Sekyer’s efforts to arrange their new lives in Canada.

After a long flight from Kabul via Frankfurt, Germany, Sekyer and the dogs were reunited Friday at the Calgary International Airport. ”It’s the right thing to do,” Sekyer told CTV Calgary. ”I think you’d have to have a heart of stone just to walk by,” he said of his first encounter with the puppies.

Rescuing the dogs and bringing them to Canada wasn’t an easy task. Before he left Afghanistan, Sekyer first had to find a shelter for them. On his return home, he had to raise the money ($4,000 per dog) to fly them halfway around the world. Sekyer and his wife even climbed Mount Kilimanjaro as part of their fundraising efforts. Air Canada also helped by waiving their $28,000 fee to fly the animals to Canada.

Once the dogs cleared customs in Calgary on Friday, they were let out of their cages for an emotional reunion with Sekyer. The dogs wagged their tails and some of them whimpered as Sekyer petted them for the first time since that summer in 2010.

Each dog will be checked out by a veterinarian, spayed and microchipped before joining a new family in Canada. ”It’s been a crazy ride but it’s all worth it,” Sekyer said.

ALLEN WEST: “Barack Obama’s plan to slash defense spending completely decimates the ability of the military to be able to support and defend this country”

Congressman West says the policy shows that “the President is totally misguided and displays a level of incompetence that is absolutely unconscionable. People all over the world who are enemies of the United States of America are cheering right now.”

What’s more, Barack Hussein Obama will be putting 500,000 more Americans out of work.

(H/T) SheikYermami  But what did anyone expect? No one with even the vaguest awareness of Obama’s background would be surprised to see him seize on his opportunity to destroy the American military.

Any savings produced by disarming ourselves will be swallowed up by ever-expanding entitlement spending. Whereas defense spending makes America stronger, every penny wasted on wealth redistribution makes the country weaker, and commits us to further spending down the road as the percentage of the population that votes for a living instead of working grows and grows and grows.

Combined with Obama’s recent decision to give away missile technology secrets to the Russians (treason-anyone-barack-obama-signaled-congress-this-week-that-he-is-prepared-to-share-u-s-missile-defense-secrets-with-russia) there is no mistaking that Obama intends to cripple this nation in the next 12 months.