While Michael Dominated the News…

 

Michael Jackson dies and it’s 24/7 news coverage. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news.

 Ed Freeman

You're a 19-year-old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , November 14 1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the Medi-vac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses. And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , May God rest his soul.

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Despicable

Despicable that is the only word I can use for the untoward actions of Democrat leaders in the run up to General Petraeus's testimony before Congress. Before this honorable man could even speak a single word they were discrediting him a a shill for the administration. I have no words for the contempt I have for these so called "leaders" of our congress.

They have no honor and wouldn't know honor if it bit them. Even when they were cornered concerning the full page ad from MoveOn.org denigrating General Petraeus they waffled and feigned outrage. Never in my life have I seen anything like this, it is despicable.

Even after he stated, under oath, that his words were his own, he was still challenged by slimy political worms like Henry Wexler from Florida. Petraeus has literally shed blood for this nation, what has a chump like Wexler even done? And what gives him the right to question the integrity of this man?

It is infuriating that these morons are playing politics with an issue as critical as National Security. We as citizens should hold every last one of them accountable for every statement that they make. WE can not allow these hacks reigns to our military. The expertise to win this conflict is within our military and should be left there.

Minot Mistake

Well it seems my former employer (the USAF) made a small error last Thursday. They accidentally flew a plane load of nuclear weapons across the mid section of country. Seems someone made a mistake, they were not supposed to be live weapons.

Of course the MSM is making it sound like they were carrying raw bars of plutonium strapped to its wings, and radioactive liquids was dripping from its fuselage. The reports say that they were cruise missiles, this I doubt. The ALCM is relatively new to the inventory and it has to be the AGM-69 SRAM which can only be carried internally on a rotary launcher. Its also very unlikely that anyone, other than the idiot who made this mistake, was harmed.

These types of weapons are very difficult to damage, even in an aircraft crash. They are designed to strike targets at mach speed and remain intact long enough to detonate. A plane crash would do little more than dent the casing.

Nonetheless, right now there is a commander in Minot AFB in deep doo doo. You don't make a mistake of this magnitude and keep your command. This guy, gal, is probably on a C-17 headed to Greenland to command a radar site right now.

Schools in Session

And so will be Congress on Tuesday. This means that the maneuvering for the Democrats over the Iraq War can begin again. By all accounts and many liberal ones to boot, the new strategy is working in the Iraq theater. But that is going to matter little to the defeatist of this Congress and country that want us out of Iraq.

The strategy of the antiwar caucus is clear ignore the good things happening and trumpet the bad. Its the same tactic all politicians use, propaganda. Pick a single talking point and beat it to death until Americans begin to believe it is true.

I would like to believe that General Petraeus will be able quiet the naysayers when he reports to the Congress on September 15th. I am realistic enough to know that it won't happen. The real question is if enough turncoat Republicans will jump ship in order to give Democrats the majority they need. That too seems to be an unlikely event.

It looks like for at least the short term the strategy in Iraq will remain intact. Its unlikely that the Congress will de-fund the war. But with the progress in the strategy so far that would not have much support, including the left, who have had defections on the debate. Its going to be very interesting to watch.