Ray Robison: Pointing out the obvious to the oblivious

McCain on Somalia timetable

Now, when this got pushed around by the left I thought it was pretty unfair. The lefties didn't tell you the rest of the story. The context of his statements are 1) President Clinton already made the decision to bring the troops home in 6 months 2) The mission to Somalia really was billed as a purely humanitarian mission with no national security interest 3) McCain is saying that since the President has already announced a pull out, why wait? Just bring them home now since they already fulfilled the mission.

However, since McCain is now doing to Romney what the lefties (his own buddies) did to him I think it is only fair to bring this up again. Romney's comments where in the context of evaluating strategies, one of which is always disengagement. He did not advocate it, he merely talked to the fact that if it was going to happen we should not advertise the details to our enemies. He made it quite clear he did not advocate withdrawal at that time and said he would veto a timetable if he was in office at that time.

So here you go Maverick.

And before you get all St. John on me, remember, I ain't sending my people out to talk to the Democrats about selling out my party like.....someone did.

Latest at American Thinker

On the "resurgent Taliban"....

Interview on America's Truth Warriors

Had a great time with the gang, here is the archive of the interview.

Also the archive of the interview with Gary Baumgarten on Paltalk, great guy, many thanks.

Rusty goes Aussie!

A while back I contacted Mark Schliebs of News.com in Australia about a case involving a "Sheik" who sent a letter to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. The harrassing letter offended a lot of folks and I asked Rusty if they could look into it. I wrote Mark and told him Rusty and his crew were on the case and it might make an interesting story. Well, I guess it worked out well.

Rusty is international now. Good for the Jawas!

Iraqi troops Physical Training

Old but still funny

Possibly the biggest jerk alive

from CNN, in Spain- a guy runs over a kid on a bicycle two years ago now sues kids parents for damages to his car.

I want to beat him.

New York Times trips over own talking point

Hey, don't they all tell us that al Qaeda would never work with Saddam Hussein because they thought he was an infidel?

Somebody at The Times let one slip.....

The Yemeni government argues that its approach is in keeping with their deeply conservative society, where Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein remain popular figures.

The article is about the fine line walked by the government of Yemen in dealing with their own jihadi problem. A very good article in fact. Yemen is home to one of the most extreme Islamic sects, known as Wahhabiism to some. And this source of Islamic jihad loves Saddam? Just like the Pakistani Islamic jihad groups. Just like the Palestinian jihad groups. And the Jordanian ones. Mmmmmmmm....come to think of it, seems like a lot of Islamic extremists, far from hating Saddam, actually supported him.

Now what was that about Saddam the infidel?

Yes, I know some al Qaeda, even UBL have called him an infidel, but they call everyone an infidel, even each other.

Sorry NY Times, you may never use that line of reasoning in another hit piece because your own pages just discredited it.

West Point CTC new monthly journal

Called The Sentinel. First issue came out last month but I didn't notice it until today.

Media alert

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Russian spy sheds light on Russian campaign to destroy USA

More confirmation that Putin is a double talking KGB piece of crap out to destroy America.

A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam's regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program — and allow Russia to skim profits.

Tretyakov, former deputy head of intelligence at Russia's U.N. mission from 1995 to 2000, names some names, but sticks mainly to code names. Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna, a senior Russian official in the oil-for-food program and a former Soviet bloc ambassador. He describes a Russian businessman who got hold of a nuclear bomb, and kept it stored in a shed at his dacha outside Moscow.

The 51-year-old Tretyakov had never spoken out about his spying before this week, when he granted his first news media interviews to publicize a book published Thursday. Written by former Washington Post journalist Pete Earley, the book is titled "Comrade J.: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War."

"It's an international spy nest," Tretyakov said of the U.N., during an interview this week with The Associated Press. "Inside the U.N., we were fishing for knowledgeable diplomats who could give us first of all anti-American information."

The UN is an international spy nest. No kidding. When I was in Kosovo, our intelligence officer told us about a UN official with the refurgee commission. He said that the UN official would follow our vehicles to a village and run and and grab the village leader and order them not to tell the Americans anything.

Now I am not saying this was an official UN position, but it was pretty obvious that the official had an agenda and was working for some one other than the UN. All we were trying to do was find illegal weapons to stop the fighting and this official was trying to block our efforts. What would be the point of that?

To make us fail and damage US efforts.

Sounds like KGB to me.