The Iraqi soldier died attempting to pull himself up over the dashboard of his truck. The flames engulfed his vehicle and incinerated his body, turning him to dusty ash and blackened bone. In a photograph taken soon afterward, the soldier’s hand reaches out of the shattered windshield, which frames his face and chest. The colors and textures of his hand and shoulders look like those of the scorched and rusted metal around him. Fire has destroyed most of his features, leaving behind a skeletal face, fixed in a final rictus. He stares without eyes.
On February 28, 1991, Kenneth Jarecke stood in front of the charred man, parked amid the carbonized bodies of his fellow soldiers, and photographed him. At one point, before he died this dramatic mid-retreat death, the soldier had had a name. He’d fought in Saddam Hussein’s army and had a rank and an assignment and a unit. He might have been devoted to the dictator who sent him to occupy Kuwait and fight the Americans. Or he might have been an unlucky young man with no prospects, recruited off the streets of Baghdad.
The Atlantic, The War Photo No One Would Publish
Who was it who said, war is hell? I don’t suppose things have changed all that much.
How is this soldier different from any other soldier who has died in battle?
Is Admin a pacifist? Careful, that is exactly what the feds will be attempting to accomplish should a police state arise, pacification.
Or, is that soldier a hero, having died defending his country from a foreign invader? Yes, and no. The hero will have fought against tyranny in all and any of it’s varied forms, the true enemy being ignorance. At least Admin acknowledges there is nothing we can know about this individual, good or bad.
Believing the truth of God’s word, and taking action on that belief is the highest form of service.
With that, I will bid this thread adieu.
Sunnis are gathering together again in northern Iraq creating a target rich environment. We’ve allowed them to gather some of our weapons of war left behind in an attempt to give them the appearance of a formidable opponent.
When the time is right we will fly around the clock sorties creating many more well done jihadist’.
Dumbass ragheads have no idea they are being stood up like pins on a bowling lane with the same chance of defeating the ball.
Sensetti
You actually believe your country will “defeat” the “enemy”. Who is the enemy Sensetti?
You never fucking heard of ISIS until one month ago. Right?
Open your fucking eyes and stop with the patriotic rally around the flag bullshit.
These ragheads don’t threaten your way of life or our country.
Let them kill each other and keep my tax dollars out of it.
Nonassholeamous
Shut the fuck up. Go pray with the rest of your bible thumper assholes.
You faux Christians disgust me with your God bullshit blather.
You are too fucking stupid to understand non-interventionism.
I guess you actually believe all those propaganda crucifixion photos coming from Iraq, just like you believed the killing babies in incubators during the Gulf War.
Are you really as stupid as you seem?
The fuckwads on the local news last night were touting the success of Obama’s humanitarian bombing adventure in Iraq. They were ecstatic over the truck that had been obliterated by an Obama bomb. These fucking idiots didn’t even consider we used a $1 million bomb to blow up a $5,000 truck. The only fuckers benefitting are the US arms peddlers who will get another order for a $1 million bomb.
The people in this country, including idiots on this site, are beyond hope with their patriotic bullshit and thinking they are winning. Jesus Christ, it’s hopeless trying to get through to idiots.
Admin back up and read my comment. The ragheads are being set up.
Admin,
Even better, you use a billion dollar jet (B-2) flying on tens of thousands of dollars of fuel with an expensively trained pilot dropping a million dollar bomb to destroy a $5,000 truck and we paid for all of it either in direct dollars or in funny Fed money with future inflated pay back. Oh what joy war is.
Bob.
I am trying to figure out why this ISIS army was stood up. They did not just happen along. I believe the target is Iran but I fail to see how all the pieces fit. Yet
BTW Admin we don’t pay bills with tax dollars. The last I looked we were about a Trillion a year short of that mark. We print money to pay bills and prosecute war. Please correct me if that not accurate.
Mooslims are a disease upon whatever society they infest.
In 5 … 4… 3 …, your cue to inform me that not all mooslims are bad, only a small minority are radical, most are peace loving, blah blah blah.
Two weeks ago … in NJ, Yusuf Ibrahim, 28 … beheaded two Coptic Christians, burying their bodies and heads and hands in separate graves ………
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2013/02/25/two-christians-beheaded-in-new-jersey-by-muslim-man-media-silent/
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Germany has 4 million mooslims. They are starting to regret it.
“Never before have the sympathizers of Islamic terror appeared so openly in Germany …… what madness” —–— Editorial, Westfalen-Blatt.
This German jihadist wants to blow up an American nuclear weapons storage facility in Germany
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“For far too long, Germany’s political leaders, and especially the leaders of German Muslim organizations, have sat by and idly watched the proliferation of the Salafist-jihadist hatred culture, in the purported belief that it poses no danger. It is absolutely outrageous that local politicians have played down the risk of Islamism, while the capabilities of the security authorities are increasingly being overstretched by the need to deal with this threat. Muslim organizations should hang their heads in shame. Rather than bluntly stating that the barbarians in northern Iraq are ‘not Muslims,’ they whistle away to say that Islam is ‘only peace.’ In the future, this kind of obfuscation will no longer suffice, especially if German Muslims, who are subject to the German legal system, wish to avoid being held accountable for the killings in the name of Islam.”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4590/germany-jihad#.U-c__1p1KJ8.twitter
I’m not worried about any of this because Our Beloved President is, I am told, on a “working vacation”
“These ragheads don’t threaten your way of life or our country.” ——— Admin
I would only add to the end of your sentence the word “yet”. There aren’t enough of them in this country. But, once mooslims reach a certain percentage, they are a scourge on that society ….. as Germany, Sweden, England and a host of other European countries are starting to figure out. If I were President I wouldn’t allow any mooslims to immigrate here, starting immediately.
Sensetti
Debt spending is nothing but a future tax increase on unborn generations.
OOHHH
Let’s fear the Muslim invasion of America. We have 320 million people and 3 million Muslims.
Let’s deal with the facts. Who has a problem?
Fuck it’s already beyond what future generations can repay and growing by a trillion a year. It’s meaningless true accounting standards apply not.
Sensetti
That which is unsustainable will not be sustained.
That is why economic and social collapse are inevitable.
Bombing non-existent enemies in far off lands is just a diversion and an acceleration of the collapse.
Bombs & Circuses – The Fall of the American Empire
Stucky maybe we can trade our 3 million Mooslums for a few more Mexicans. I would certainly entertain that trade.
Admin,
At least the president picked a nice week to go to The Vineyard. I have the great fortune to be stripping the 100 hundred year old cedar shingles off the gable end of my house on my vacation. I would love the pressure of being president. I would like to see how long Barry would last standing on my roof stripping shingles with bloodied knuckles. Fuck that bomb tossing asshole, I’ve got work to do.
Bob.
Power is Power
Posted on August 8, 2014 by Martin Armstrong
Thomas Hobbes wrote in his seminar work the Leviathan: “Reputation of power is power, because it draweth with it the adherence of those that need protection.” Indeed, those who have observed politics and government have seen that without a doubt power draws to itself more power. This is true on an individual level as people want to know people of influence to bask in that power or if we look at the same human nature response at the governmental level. Nevertheless, the loss of that power also inspires attack where those who were once fair-weather friends truly envy that power and would take great pleasure in destroying it.
This is human nature and it applies at the individual level as well as at the group level and finally national level. The US is in danger of the slow degeneration as its arrogance surpasses its reason. This was the very act that resulted in the collapse of Athens in 404BC. The divide between China and Russia has been mended by Obama with lightening speed. The rise in China’s power is inspiring many to flock to its circle. This is part of the shift in power to Asia that we should see in full swing post 2032.
Don’t worry about them spending your tax dollars. It’s all smoke
The Obama administration failed to properly account for how it spent nearly $619 billion, according to a watchdog audit of the main federal website meant to track where taxpayer money is going.
The report from the Government Accountability Office picked apart the website USASpending.gov, and the agencies feeding information to it.
The database of government spending and contracts was created out of a 2006 transparency law, but the GAO found it continues to have serious problems. The Department of Health and Human Services was the worst offender, during the 2012 period GAO examined.
“Although agencies generally reported information for contracts to USASpending.gov, they did not properly report information on assistance awards, totaling nearly $619 billion,” the GAO reported.
USA Today first reported on the GAO audit.
According to the GAO findings, funding for more than 300 programs was not reported correctly. HHS topped the list of scofflaws, failing to report or reporting late $543.8 billion worth of spending. Part of the reason the number was so high is the agency was not providing information about direct payments to individuals, like for the massive Medicaid program HHS administers.
The Department of Veterans Affairs was next on the list, with $64 billion in spending not properly accounted for.
Further, the report found few contracts and grants were properly reported with all the required information. The GAO found just 2-7 percent of the awards had information “fully consistent” with agencies’ own records.
A spokesman for the White House budget office told USA Today that the administration is trying to improve the data on the site.
“OMB is committed to federal spending transparency and working with agencies to improve the completeness and accuracy of data submissions,” he said in a statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/06/transparency-troubles-audit-finds-61b-gap-in-federal-spending-site/
Admin
I don’t fear a mooslim invasion …… yet. And, who knows … “yet” may never come.
But, a few hundred years ago whites brought over blacks as slaves. I’m sure no one back then thought there would be racial issues down the road.
A hundred years ago there was no problem with illegal hordes crossing our Southern border.
My Presidential Platform would be “Nip it in the bud!”.
100,000 Muslims legally immigrate to the U.S. annually. Oh the horror. They must be stopped because they are all evil and want to kill us. Let’s run around like our hair is on fire.
How come the Asia Pacific region has almost 1 billion Muslims and is not racked with violence, war and terrorism?
Do you think any of this has to do with poverty and hopelessness? People with jobs and a better future tend not to become radical. The Middle East is a poverty stricken hell hole created by the American Empire.
An empire in decline needs enemies to fight so as to distract its sheeple from the disaster they have created domestically. Our new enemy is ISIS. No one had ever heard of them until a few months ago. How could that be? Do people ever think? An organized Islamic army does not just pop up over night.
Read the Snowden thread and you might get some insight.
“How come the Asia Pacific region has almost 1 billion Muslims and is not racked with violence, war and terrorism?”
Per quite a few news reports over the years, it is racked with Islamic violence. PI, Indonesia, Malaysia and others.
Since long before the 1970s, absent oil exports, the GDP of the Mideast has been miniscule. Poverty has been a majority percentage for centuries.
Desertrat
There have been individual instances. The region is not racked with violence. It has been the fastest growing region economically for decades. It has 3 times as many Muslims as the Middle East, with no wars, uprisings, or non-stop violence.
I deal with facts. You cling to your storyline of all Muslims being evil.
Economic prosperity breeds civility and less violence.
Iraq was doing well economically until 2003. Shia, Sunni and Christians were not killing each other. Good old American democracy sure fixed that.
It’s the fucking American Empire that has created the violence and terror. Open your fucking eyes and wake the fuck up.
Deserat use chart and graphs on Admin he loves them. As you can tell very little terrorism minus places the US has attacked.
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Sensetti
Thanks for the supporting info. 5 of the top 6 terrorist states have seen American meddling, invasion, or control for decades.
Is that Muslim terrorism in South America?
India is 80% Hindu and 2% Muslim. Fascinating what facts will reveal.
Where are all the Faux News Neo Con Faux Christians to tell me they hate us for our freedoms?
I love that storyline. Brain dead Cheney worshipers always make such logical arguments.
McCain is all over the MSM today telling us what a danger ISIS is to our freedom. I propose that Shitstain McCain, Dark Lord Cheney, and the rest of the neo-con hoard who created the disaster in Iraq parachute into the country and lead the attack against evil ISIS.
Didn’t Shitstain McCain have a photo op in Syria with his ISIS brothers a few months ago?
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The real reason no one would publish his photo is the publishers would not pay him the money he thought it was worth . Some of you need to do a little more research before getting so mad at each other or at least take an anger management class.
Re: The Global Terrorism Index
Do you not find it odd that Israel isn’t in the top 10 ?
Who’s blowing up India? All I know about India is bout every three years half the country takes a bath in a sewer water,shit infested river.
Admin, your tax dollars? You call me an asshole, yet you have no clue about to whom this world belongs, and it’s not you, you sanctimonious prick.
Take your own advice.
Nonassholeamous
You said you weren’t going to comment on the thread after your initial bullshit God drivel. Looks like you lied again.
Go fuck yourself you fucking asshole.
Go join the fucking army and go fight the Muslims yourself you hypocritical faux Christian douchebag.
Be a Christian soldier and wage your holy war on behalf of your god.
India is 13% Muslim. If it were 30% it would be on fire with violence.
“It’s the fucking American Empire that has created the violence and terror. Open your fucking eyes and wake the fuck up.” – Admin
And what would you do about it? Except, you already are, since ignorance is the enemy of truth. Even if you do stray a bit, but you can’t be held responsible for what you haven’t been taught.
Neither is ignorance sin, except when it’s available to not be ignorant. For those who would deny the truth, you’ve been served.
Assholeamous
Go back to Faux News and your neo-con Christian warriors for your propaganda. Be a real Christian and man up. Don’t be a pacifist. Enlist. Lead the charge against the god hating Muslim hoards.
Your pompous ignorance appears to know no bounds. You contribute absolutely zero to this website as you blather on with your religious crap.
Hit the fucking road. I’m sick and tired of your pollution on this site.
For the time being, asshole. I bid the thread adieu, that’s French, and when I came back, you had responded to me. So, who’s the dumfuk, or do you get off on being a bully?
My guess is the latter.
“Don’t be a pacifist. Enlist.” – Admin. I did.
“Hit the fucking road. I’m sick and tired of your pollution on this site.” – Admin. Now your getting personal.
Thanks for your unsolicited opinion. It’s your site, and you invite comment. I suppose that only applies if it doesn’t push your buttons.
Oops, left off, “again, take your own advice.”
Admin , you probably detest me more then anyone on this site but if it wasn’t for guys like me you would be bored . I bet we make your life more interesting then miserable So in some strange way we do contribute to this site.Maybe not the way you would like but we do contribute. Right ?…Think about it…
Now tell this cockroach to go Fuck off and die.
Assholeamous
When do you ship out to Iraq to make our Christian nation safe for democracy and from evil Muslims?
I think you would be a great colonel under the wise leadership of General Shitstain McCain.
I feel safe knowing you’re on the front lines.
Remember. There are no atheists in foxholes.
Onward Christian soldiers. Do gods work and slaughter women and children.
Ignorance – i.e., ignore what you know you could learn.
Nescience – not even comprehending what is not known.
IMO the ME is a total quagmire of both ignorance and nescience concerning the greed required to store our oil under their sand.
My sheeple-peeps are so OVER this and every other “crisis” – and I’m afraid that might be the goal – a totally disengaged populace overwhelmed and befuddled – retreating further and further into a mental cave of bread and circuses.
Time to revisit “War is a Racket”
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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I’ll re-enlist to make the world safe for democracy when you swear an oath to serve and protect.
Until then, ridicule anyone you like, shit stain. I’m not going anywhere.
I believe ISIS will be used to attack Iran. ISIS has “stolen” 50 US Howitzers. They have 1500 up armored personel carriers.
http://youtu.be/kI4tmX8yEKQ
This shits gonna get real interesting real quick.
“India is 80% Hindu and 2% Muslim. Fascinating what facts will reveal.” —— Admin
Your facts are wrong. Thanks to Iska Waran for correcting them.
Northwest India has the highest percentage of mooslims. It is also the area with the most mooslim violence. Amazing coincidence. Kashmir … you might have heard of it … in the past decade Pakistan and India had their fingers on the nuke trigger.
Fascinating … the facts you ignore.
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“100,000 Muslims legally immigrate to the U.S. annually. Oh the horror. They must be stopped because they are all evil and want to kill us. Let’s run around like our hair is on fire.”
—— Admin
Not yet. “ALL” aren’t evil or want to kill us … only about 10% will cause absolute havoc. Can you pick the right 10%? Didn’t think so.
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“…. violence, war and terrorism? Do you think any of this has to do with poverty and hopelessness?”
Only to some degree. There are many countries facing poverty and hopelessness. Why are they ALL violent? Because your theory is flawed.
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“It’s the fucking American Empire that has created the violence and terror.” —- Admin
Right. Before the American Empire violence did not exist anywhere in the world, ever. People and countries loved each other. There were no wars before 1776.
I knew you were a mooslim-lover years ago when you posted that dead-baby pic. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, someone has to love them. You also have tunnel vision. You write about the 30 Blocks Of Squalor because you EXPERIENCE it. You personally don’t interact with a significant mooslim population, so they don’t frighten you. Someday you might have to change your mind, but by then it will be too late. Meanwhile, keep making light of it.
You’ll probably say some mean things … you’re so sensitive. I won’t be able to read your response, if you have one … “blow me”, included … because Ms Freud and I will be leaving shortly to go see Guardians Of The Galaxy, because there are no mooslims in space.
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“…. violence, war and terrorism? Do you think any of this has to do with poverty and hopelessness?”
Only to some degree. There are many countries facing poverty and hopelessness. Why are they ALL NOT violent? Because your theory is flawed.
“I believe ISIS will be used to attack Iran. ISIS has “stolen” 50 US Howitzers. They have 1500 up armored personel carriers.” —– Sensetti
Every time they fire a shell …. that’s one less shell in their inventory.
Every time they fire a shell …. that’s one step closer the Howitzer needs maintenance.
Resupply, parts, maintenance … when they can’t, then what?
Muslims – not all, of course – are committing the vast majority of the world’s atrocities.
If there are 3 million Muslims in the US, how many are going to be dangerous? Even 1% is 30,000 potential home grown terrorists.
Plus they put rabbits to shame when it comes to breeding in countries they occupy.
Admin is a smart guy. And I am truly serios about that. But I do not understand how he does not see Muslims entering the US as a threat.
It will not end well.
Is it 1% dangerous Muslims per llpoh or 10% per Stuck. The detailed analysis is too overwhelming for me to respond.
You numnuts are so fearful you think it is just fine for the US to go around the world droning, invading, shelling, bombing, and generally pissing off the entire world.
It’s amazing how interested the American empire became in the Muslim world when oil was discovered beneath their sand.
Please clarify your idiotic positions for me.
Do you favor using $1 million bombs on $5000 trucks in a country 10,000 miles from the US?
Which Muslim enemy should I root for or against? Should I root for ISIS in Syria against the non-Muslim Assad? Should I root for the Sunni Muslims or Shia Muslims in Iraq?
Are the Pakistani Muslims good guys because they are our allies?
Should we deport the Irish along with the Muslims? Remember the IRA? Damn Irish muslim terrorists.
I’m glad to see Stuck and LLPOH are in favor of spending $1 trillion per year we don’t have fighting a never ending War on Terror against a bunch of raghead camel jockeys. They are true libertarians.
Stuck – learn about blowback and then blow me.
LLPOH says Admin is a smart guy. And I am truly serios about that. But I do not understand how he does not see Muslims entering the US as a threat.
This is pure speculation on my part. It has to be all the Viagra Admin consumed while on VACA. Shunting blood away from the Ole thought processors can have a lasting effect. He’ll be ok within a couple days.
Sensetti – I prefer to think he is at heart a kind, gentle, tolerant man, welcoming to all he encounters. Ghandi could have learned a thing or two from the Admin.
But then, I have been wrong on occasion.
Your probably right LLPOH
Thanks for the heads up T4C
admin, I guess we could argue about “racked”, but I’m certainly factually correct about Mindanao, Acer and Malaysia.
Yes, the Asian countries of the “Asian Tiger” group have done well. Indonesia may make up in coal sales to China what it has lost from having to end the export of oil.
But the non-oil GDP of the MENA countries is about equal to the GDP of Denmark.
Western women can wear bikinis, drive cars, own businesses which employ men, go dancing, drink booze…Are these not freedoms? All that is part of why mullahs call us “The Great Satan”. They don’t care if we vote or don’t vote. And note the official word of Mohammed about the mythical crime called “apostasy”.
Stuck & Llpoh
So Malaki, the democratically elected leader of Iraq, is about to be overthrown. Do you think the American Empire has anything to do with the overthrow? Do you think the new figurehead we install will be the solution?
I’m so confused. Is Malaki a good guy or bad guy? Was Mubarak a good guy until he wasn’t? Was Hussein our great ally against evil Iran or was he part of the axis of evil?
I think if we just get a more involved in the Middle East our Muslim problems will be solved. Don’t you think so?
Democracy, American Empire style.
Back to the photo: After Desert Storm, my son and some buddies went up to the “Highway of Death”. He’s always been a pretty tough kid, blasé about a lot of stuff. But he didn’t really have much to say about that scene.
Nonanonymous – yet another “hijack the thread, ANY thread, on any board/forum/blog” religious zealot to promote your particular God as the cause and salvation of mankind then run away before you are required to prove your case, which of course you have ZERO chance of doing.
No matter what has happened, from the morning toast being darker than usual to the waves on the beach being bigger than normal to yet another war/social upheaval/crisis that adorns mankind’s entire (scientifically proven longer than religion doctrine allows for) history, it’s Gods’ will, so bow down and pray all you backward savages or go to hell forever.
Yep – you have a right to speak and I have a right to call BS in response.
It’s long overdue in my opinion to end all these backward religions engaging in psychological pedophilia. ie brainwashing children to believe or risk suffering eternal hell fire for all time.
Religion – the legal horror movie.
Nonanonymous – yet another “hijack the thread, ANY thread, on any board/forum/blog” religious zealot to promote your particular God as the cause and salvation of mankind then run away before you are required to prove your case, which of course you have ZERO chance of doing.
No matter what has happened, from the morning toast being darker than usual to the waves on the beach being bigger than normal to yet another war/social upheaval/crisis that adorns mankind’s entire (scientifically proven longer than religion doctrine allows for) history, it’s Gods’ will, so bow down and pray all you backward savages or go to hell forever.
Yep – you have a right to speak and I have a right to call BS in response.
It’s long overdue in my opinion to end all these backward religions engaging in psychological pedophilia. ie brainwashing children to believe or risk suffering eternal hell fire for all time.
Religion – the legal horror movie.
I remember clearly the video of the evil Muslims dancing, flicking lighters like they were at a rock concert and high fiving, on the top of their van when the 757 hit the world trade center.
Oh wait, they were Jews…