No "Plame" game here.

When Valerie Plame was supposedly outed by the Bush administration, her hubby Joe Wilson made a big stink and the media jumped all over it.
It did not matter to Joe or the 'journalists' that the incident could never be laid at Bush's feet and that it was more likely that another journalist was the culprit.
Now that information has leaked under the Obama administration and people have actually died, no blame seems to be landing on "The One".
It is amazing how much of a non-story this is for the Lamestream media.

Isn't actually dying worse than supposedly being outed and safe at home?

The secret of my CIA success

How to get ahead by doing all the wrong things may be the title of some memoirs when current CIA employees retire.
According to an MSNBC story, the CIA has not only failed to punish employees for making huge mistakes, they have promoted some of them to plumb positions within the bureaucracy.
The CIA needs to have someone from the outside who understands our real world needs where security is concerned come in and clean house.
There has been something wrong inside the CIA for decades and it hasn't gone away just because Obama is in office.

War ramps up in Afghanistan

The military is sending M1 Abrams tanks to Afghanistan in order to give the military a greater reach on the battlefield and a more powerful punch against the Taliban.
The announcement claims that a company of tanks (11 tanks) will be used by Marines in the southwest portion of the country.
This move and other escalations in Afghanistan are not being as closely covered or criticized by the media as they would be if Obama were not the President.
The war is heating up and more soldiers will die, but the screamers in the streets are staying home in droves just because the White House has a Snarky Marxist living in it.

A dog's life

It's really unfair when you think about it.
Just like soldiers that return home after surviving the battlefields of the world, only to be killed by a mugger or in a traffic accident, a dog that saved soldiers lives; went on Oprah; and was given a "safe" home here in the US, has been killed.
This time it was just a "mistake".

Chip your pet!

More violence in Mexico

Afghanistan is becoming less scary by the day as Mexico and Honduras become more violent by the day.
An American student was killed yesterday as the car he was riding in in Ciudad Juarez came under fire.
Eder Diaz was the fifth American killed in Ciudad Juarez in a week's time; all of the victims were from El Paso, TX.
Meanwhile a mass grave was discovered near Acapulco, Mexico that contained 18 bodies that are thought to be victims of Mexico's increased and ongoing drug violence. 

Iran "meddling" in Afghanistan

Iran is famous for pointing their crooked little fingers at others and claim they are meddling in other countries' business.
People that pay attention know it is Iran that is behind most of the "meddling" in the middle east.
Now they have been caught again.
A shipment marked as food, clothing, and toys was found to contain 22 tons of explosives.
The shipment was likely due to be delivered to the Taliban.

I wish the Iranian people would just remove the Theocracy and take their country back.
In the good old days, we would be supplying them with weapons instead of their government supplying our enemies.

The reward for doing a good job?

Wahab Sultany, a Lt. Col. in the Afghan military was sent to the US in January to help stem a growing AWOL problem with Afghan soldiers sent to the states for training.
I seems that the students who knew they were going to fail would slip away before being sent home rather than suffer the humiliation of failure (and also not go back to a war torn country).
The hardest and most important part of their training was learning English and that is what they were failing.
Col. Sultany managed to take an AWOL situation where 7 soldiers disappeared in December alone to only one going AWOL so far this year and even that soldier was in the program before Sultany arrived.
Everyone involved in the program thinks Sultan has done a great job, including paying for much of the costs for his activities out of pocket.
So what have his leaders in Afghanistan decided to do?
They are sending him home and his replacement isn't due for months.

I can't shake the idea that the Obama administration had something to do with this.
They are trying to screw up anything that works.

Doing the work American courts won't

A Pakistani court has convicted 5 American citizens of criminal conspiracy and funding terrorist organizations.
Facing life sentences, they were given only 15 years apiece.
The men, all in their 20's were apparently attempting to join a terrorist group in Afghanistan although they claimed they were going to do "humanitarian" work.
Claims of torture by authorities while they were in custody have been denied by the Pakistanis and the FBI.
The trial moved at light speed compared to the years long process usually experienced in Pakistan.

So, a foreign court moves quickly and convicts 5 would-be terrorists.
Why can'r our courts work this well?
 

American export worries Pakistanis

I have long held that the best way we can damage other countries is to export our homegrown nut-jobs.
It looks like we have started down this path in Pakistan by sending a crazy man with a sword, night vision goggles, and a pistol.
When stopped by the authorities, he stated he was on a personal mission to kill Bin Laden.
Gary Faulkner, 52 claims he has visited Pakistan 7 times and Chitral 3 times (lots of frequent flier miles).
I would love to know how he got there with the weapons..

Power Pointless

If you thought the Power Point diagram of the new healthcare was confusing, check out the diagram of the Afghan situation.
As one General put it: "Power Point makes us stupid!"