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21Aug/106

Send your cards and letters!

Code Pink Founder Jodie Evans

So Ms. Evans (that's how the lefty ladies like it right? Ms. not Miss or Mrs.?) is holding a fundraiser for Jerry Brown out in California (so vote for him at your own peril) and in the invitation thoughtfully provided her home address.

At first I thought (and commented on the blog) "wow if I were a liberal, what would I do with THAT information?" And there were interesting suggestions.

Then, today I see THIS and have decided that as a conservative and you know, a HUMAN that this is what I would do with that information: Send a letter to Ms. Evans and let her know just what I think of her organization in general...and about her comments on the death of Debbie Lee's son in particular. Then, I would ask my friends, tweeps, and blog readers to do the same....and to tell two friends, and they can tell two friends and so on and so on.

So, grab a pen and jot this down:
Jodie Evans
757 Palms Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291

and send her a quick little note expressing your feelings. Be polite, be respectful (things she of course will not recognize, but that isn't the point) but tell her what you think.

Have fun!

UPDATE: So over at Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace it seems Ms. Evans got a little taste of her own medicine. I'm still trying to figure out why Andrew was wearing inline skates, but I'm having fun with the imagining. :) So get those cards and letters in the mail y'all, she's primed and ready for a little conservative activist snail mail!

Dede

Sometimes stuff rumbles around in my brain that's longer than 140 characters and, well......twitlonger just seems like cheating. :)

Tagged as: Code Pink, Iraq, Jodi Evans, support our troops, Treason, write a letter 6 Comments

28Jul/102

Wikileaks “outs” hundreds of Afghan informants

Via the publication of the 92,000 some classified intelligence reports. And I don't mean forcing them to come out of the rhetorical closet either!

It turns out that the same reports that people keep saying reveal nothig new, provide no big surprise to Americans who've been keeping up with the news from the AF-Pak theater, or as Cap'n Ed keeps quipping, read Long War Journal, actually do contain some fresh revelations; the names of hundreds of people who are either cooperating with, or acting as informants for, US forces!

Hundreds of Afghan civilians who worked as informants for the U.S. military have been put at risk by WikiLeaks' publication of more than 90,000 classified intelligence reports which name and in many cases locate the individuals, The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

The article says, in spite of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's claim that sensitive information had been removed from the leaked documents, that reporters scanning the reports for just a couple hours found hundreds of Afghan names mentioned as aiding the U.S.-led war effort.

One specific example cited by the paper is a report on an interview conducted by military officers of a potential Taliban defector. The militant is named, along with his father and the village in which they live.

"The leaks certainly have put in real risk and danger the lives and integrity of many Afghans," a senior official at the Afghan foreign ministry told The Times on condition of anonymity. "The U.S. is both morally and legally responsible for any harm that the leaks might cause to the individuals, particularly those who have been named. It will further limit the U.S./international access to the uncensored views of Afghans."

One former intelligence official told the paper that the Taliban could launch revenge attacks on "traitors" in the coming days. [emphasis-ed.]

Well, this is sure going to make it hard to recruit people to take the places of those "outed", eh? Not only because their names might be printed in a newspaper somewhere, rendering them ineffective anyway, but because of, er, peer pressure; you know, the fact that they'll probably be effin' killled! That's some reward for sticking their necks out to help US forces, especially when the Taliban already thinks it can outwait us until next summer when Obama will begin ordering the troop withdraws in order to fight a more important battle; with the Rethugs! during campaign 2012...

But, Mr. Obama is not the focus of my anger today, especially after reading this story. No, that is reserved for Bradley Manning, the "inside" source for the leaks; just what the heck was he thinking anyway? Clearly this is treason. He violated his oath, and needs to spend the rest of his days at Fort Leavenworth where the other inmates can constantly "remind him" of the especially loathesome nature of this traitorous act. YMMV.

My very special, white hot, OUTRAGE! though is reserved for that asshat Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Because, as Cap'n Ed points out, although Manning provided the information, Assange is the one who chose to publish it. And his cheap publicity stunt will effectively become a death sentance for Afghan collaborators. This piece of sh*t will have the blood of any and all victims of Taliban reprisals on his hands, as well as of the US troops killed in the future due to the local's reluctance to step forward and cooperate.

Of course, this weasel is worried about his own skin:

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, has said he has been warned by "inside sources in the White House" not to return to the US as he could be arrested.

Yeah...Inside the White House. If this putz wasn't such a weasel, I might be able to get a little h8te going over that statement. Too bad "the company" doesn't specialize in "wet work" anymore. Maybe they can get a contractor to do the job. Or maybe, just hack his site and put up a post declaring a new Mohhamed cartoon drawing contest...

That would surely get results.

Rocketman

Tagged as: Afghan intelligence documents, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Treason, Wikileaks 2 Comments

25Jul/106

Obama administration effectively signed off on Lockerbie bomber release

FREEDOM!

Well I'm shocked, SHOCKED!, that O! would lie to the public about the regime's role in this:

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.

The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments. [empahsis-es.]

High crimes and misdemeanors? Maybe not, but can we call it the usual hypocritical rank dishonesty that we've grown used to with Obama? Yes We Can!

Ace snarks:

But given the choice -- jail or freedom -- the White House chose... freeeeedommm!

Yeah...Too bad they don't seem so committed to freedom here at home.

What do you think about this revoltin' development, kind reader. And what do you think your trust level for the Present-dent's future palavering pronouncements will be?