The Urban Grind

This is what Jodie Evans of Code Pink told a woman whose son was killed in the line of duty in Iraq.

That was the despicable message Gold Star mom Debbie Lee got from Jodie Evans and her Code Pink organization regarding her son, Marc Alan Lee of the United States Navy, who was killed in action in 2006. She tells her heartbreaking story at Big Peace.

Evans, a major Obama ally and fundraiser, is about to hold a fundraiser for California Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. In her spare time, she raises money for terrorists and other America-haters – with impunity. This includes helping launch the “peace flotillas” against Israel in order to help the Hamas terrorist organization, a project on which she works with the president’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (the former Weather Underground terrorists).

Melanie Morgan explains Move America Forward’s protest against Evans’s Brown fundraiser, here. That so disgusting a figure as Evans could be a mover and shaker in Democratic Party politics explains a lot about the current mood of the country.

They really should, considering how dhimmified they’ve become.

The latest example of their lunacy is that former Prime Minister Tony Blair was grilled by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Chilcot Inquiry over the Iraq war.

Tony Blair was branded a murderer and liar last night after he ended his historic appearance before the Iraq inquiry with a blank refusal to voice regrets over toppling Saddam Hussein.

After six hours in which the Chilcot inquiry team had largely failed to breach his defences, the former Prime Minister brought trouble on himself by failing to show the contrition that his critics wanted.

Mr Blair, who gave a fluent, assured performance, refused to apologise for going to war, said that he would do the same again, and then warned that today’s leaders might have to take similar action to disarm Iran.

He went as far as telling the inquiry that it should pose the “2010 question” and ask what would have happened if America and Britain had lost their nerve and allowed Saddam to go on and build nuclear weapons.

To his credit, Mr. Blair didn’t let those leftist goons bully him. He stood his ground.

The Iraqi so-called journalist who threw a show at President Bush has become a hero in the Arab world.

In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10 million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the world’s most famous pair of black dress shoes.

A daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, reportedly awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist, a medal of courage.

Furthermore, an Egyptial man recently offered Muntazer Al Zaidi his daughter for marriage.

Meanwhile back in the U.S., the women at Code Pink are gaga over the shoe thrower.

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Luckily the Iraqi ambassador set those nutso Code Pink women straight. (Via Gateway Pundit)

Here’s what the ambassador said:

Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi is very lucky that it was Mr. Bush and Mr. Maliki and not Saddam Hussein. Because, had it been Mr. Saddam Hussein you would be carrying a different plaque by now. Number 2, in our country, I know that people have told you that showing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host. So in our culture we believe that what Mr al-Zeidi did was reprehensible.

If that Al Zaidi ever did such a thing to Saddam Hussein, he would be thrown into a human shredder, and his family would have been raped and killed.

During President Bush’s most recent surprise visit to Iraq, he was treated to an angry Arab “journalist” who threw shoes at him.

Here’s what the “journalist” said:

“This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog,” Muntazer al-Zaidi, from the Cairo-based Al-Baghdadia channel, yelled as he threw his first shoe at Mr. Bush from roughly 10 feet away.

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“This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq,” Mr. al-Zaidi yelled before being tackled by security guards and hustled from the room, according to wire service reports.

Frankly, these Arab men are in no position to be whining about how their women and children are being killed by us big bad Americans. It’s a known fact that terrorists, being the dickless excuses of men they really are, routinely hide behind their women and children rather than fighting like real men. I guarantee you, if American soldiers had been killed along with those women and children, this beast would be celebrating. The only time these Arab men lament the loss of their women and children is when no Americans or Jews have been killed in the process.

Anyway, I think it’s safe to say Muntazer Al Zaidi will only get a slap on the wrist.

Do you remember Bilal Hussein. He was a photographer for the Associated (with terrorists) Press whose work was basically insurgent propaganda. Michelle Malkin posted about him here. Here’s some more background information on Hussein.

This is just one more thing that will be swept under the rug.

Barack Obama told the Iraqi government that George W Bush should not be allowed to strike a deal on the future of American troops in the country without the approval of the US Congress, it has emerged.

Mr Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, also said that the deal should be delayed until President Bush was out of office, according to Iraq’s ambassador to the US – though this is denied by Mr Obama’s campaign.

The disclosure is likely to raise questions over the propriety of a Mr Obama’s contact with the government of a country in which the current president is still conducting a war.

I can see the Obama nutters already whining about how this is all just a distraction from the “real issues,” which for them is only the redistribution of wealth.

Hat tip: Madeline

This shouldn’t be surprising in the least. After all, this is a man who spent 20 years in the church of an America-hating pastor. And he refuses to salute our flag. So of course he’ll snub our troops.

From a Battle Captain in Iraq:

Hello everyone,

As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to ‘The War Zone’. I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.

As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.

So really he was just here to make a showing for the American’s back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you.

I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don’t understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.

If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
America n Soldier

Hat tip: C.F.

Hezbollah is no longer just in Lebanon and Israel. They’re also in Iraq, training terrorists and planning terror attacks against U.S. forces.

Now here’s my friend C.F.’s excellent commentary on this situation

A few lessons to learn from the above:

1: This is going to sound like propaganda for Muslim Nazi Amalekites, but we need to face it and deal accordingly: the ragtag militia Hezbollah is a superior military force–in training, skill, and most of all toughness–to the regular forces of both the United States and Israel. With its fighters trained in killing Jews since nearly infancy and having grown up having had a lot less under much worse circumstances (I guarantee you the average Lebanese Muslim Nazi terrorist gets a lot less to eat in his mess hall than IDF troops, has nonexistent medical care either for regular illnesses or injuries sustained in training or combat, and faces a far more brutal, unforgiving training regimen in the desert), Hezbollah simply outclasses the politically-correct, brainwashed, feminized excuse that passes for the front-line military of the the IDF and the United States alike. Hezbollah suffered no losses in its spectacular daylight raid in January 2007 in Karbala; its infamous nighttime kidnapping operation in northern Israel two years ago claimed the lives of eight Jewish soldiers in exchange for the loss of one Hezbollah murderer. In the subsequent disastrous “counteroffensive” that Olmert launched, more Israeli soldiers died than frontline Hezbollah guerrilas.

Obviously Western/Israeli militaries still have a numerical and heavy-weaponry edge over Hezbollah, rendering their man-for-man foot-soldier advantage somewhat moot, but that fact is made moot by America and Israel’s refusal to harm Islamic “civilians”. If the IAF was not willing to destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure even as hundreds of missiles were falling on the northern half of Israel each day, don’t count on the USAF ever getting the moxie to properly punish those murdering our own soldiers–certainly not under Barack Osama, who outright sympathizes with the Iraqi Nazis, or “Hanoi John” McCain, the piece of garbage who called our soldiers “torturers” during Abu Ghraib and stood with his friend Hanoi John Fairy when he was calling Vietnam vets baby-killers during his nauseating Sodomite rallies with Jane Fonda in the early ’70s.

Why is Hezbollah man-for-man a better, tougher force than the Israelis or Americans? There are many factors, such as the deplorable program that rolled back military readiness in Israel that was started under the Labor pig Ehud Barak, but primarily it is spiritual and psychological. Hezbollah terrorists know what they are fighting for, are 100% convinced of the righteousness of their Nazi cause, and are always willing to die not only for fellow soldiers, but for their mission itself. For example, a Hezbollah fighter “foolishly” runs right in front of a Merkava tank so that he can get his shoulder-fired missile off at point-blank range; he is killed by flank fire in the process, but not before taking out the lives of four Israeli soldiers. Those kinds of “suicidal” combat moves not only turn out to be enormously successful, but drive an enormous psychological knife through the heart of the enemy. Such “craziness” completely unglues the vast majority of sanitized, modern Western infantrymen and tank crews.

Secularized, brainwashed (“Muslims are our friends, they are not terrorists, we need to respect them and their holy book”), materialistic, morally/spiritually empty conscripts are no match for a military that is filled with fanatical zeal and conviction. Most Israeli soldiers have no clue why they are protecting their country; most are totally secular, and some are far from sure that they are even the “good guys”. That wishy-washiness out on the battlefield will always spell doom.

2: “Christian” Arabs are every bit as committed to our extermination as their Islamic brothers and sisters. It does not matter how persecuted they are by their Muslim countrymen in their own lands; when push comes to shove they are always Arabs. Lebanese Maronites sustained a brutal civil war and genocide at the hands of Lebanese Muslims and its surrogates in the PLO; still, to this day, they are fanatically pro-Hezbollah and want to see Israel wiped off the map. Lisa is correct when she states that we must not hold back against any anti-Semites, regardless of what religion they claim. 99% of “Christian” Arabs are pure Amalek and are Muslims in everything but name. If anyone doubts me, and thinks they have to be pro-Hezbollah because of fear for their lives, why do most Christian Arabs in America (a small minority like Joseph Farah notwithstanding) continue to preach against Jews and defend Islam–where they have no reason to be in fear and have total freedom of speech?

Here’s another example of terrorists, and/or their supporters trying to use our courts against us.

Two United States companies and some of their employees are being sued by four Iraqi men who say they were tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq five years ago.

The four Iraqi men are suing a private US security contractor and two of its interrogators, along with a translation agency and one of its interpreters.

Their lawyer has filed complaints in three US states, claiming the accused were involved in a conspiracy to torture the Iraqi men.

One of the Iraqis says he was subjected to electric shocks and night-long cold showers in the winter.

Another says he was repeatedly beaten at Abu Ghraib and tied to door handles.

Somehow I doubt these men ended up at Abu Ghraib merely for throwing a candy wrapper out of a car window.

What a nice way for those wounded vets to celebrate Memorial Day!

The soldiers-turned-high rollers took a private jet to Las Vegas over the weekend for an all-expenses-paid getaway with all the perks normally saved for casinos’ richest regulars.

They were greeted at the airport by Wayne Newton, chilled backstage with the guys from Blue Man Group and hobnobbed with Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who runs Las Vegas Sands Corp. and paid for the trip.

The trip, organized by the Armed Forces Foundation, brought 40 wounded soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., to the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

“I’m gonna be bragging about this for a long while,” said Kinsey, 23, while hanging out in his penthouse overlooking the nearby Wynn Golf Course. Each of the soldiers, mostly in their 20s, stayed in a penthouse, and several who came alone got one to themselves.

Kinsey, a Marine corporal from Foley, Ala., who lost part of his left leg to an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2006, said he hadn’t spent too much time gambling — just a few slots.

“On a scale from one to 10 I gave this trip a 15 when I got on the plane,” he said.

Riley, a 21-year-old from Catlett, Va., who also lost part of his left leg to an IED in Iraq, was so overwhelmed by the trip he decided with his fiancee, Alyssa Mergler, to make it their wedding weekend. They planned to wed Monday on a gold and white gondola, courtesy of Adelson, whom Mergler said insisted on having his staff handle the plans.

Here’s some more background on Adelson.