News Photos of the Day

Not hearing about / seeing these photos from Egypt on the MSM, are we?:

From Tahrir Square Protests

 Ann Patterson is the US Ambassador to Egypt

 

Dereliction of Duty

Barack Hussein Obama likes to remind us that HE is POTUS - President of the United States - and Commander-in-Chief.

The buck stops with him. Supposedly.

On September 11th terrorists attacked the American consulate in Libya and murdered 4 Americans. 

At first we were told it was a spontaneous protest of a You Tube video that had taken an ugly turn.  Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Hussein Obama wanted us to believe this.

Now we know that was a lie. 
Now we know that help was requested. And denied.

The Intelligence community was the first to be thrown under the bus.
Then Hillary Clinton threw herself under the bus.

What bus is this you ask.
It's the Barack Hussein Obama Re-election Campaign Bus, of course.

Barack Hussein Obama - President, Commander-in-Chief, Buck-stopper  Buck-Passer - has done nothing about the Libyan terrorist attack except to interrupt his campaign-and-talk-show tour long enough to meet the caskets at the airport.

Oh, my bad. That was a Photo op.

Then he goes on Comedy Central and  called the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi “not optimal” during the taping of “The Daily Show.”


Here's what's not optimal, POTUS (=Piece of totally uncompetent sh*t), the fact that Bubba Clinton was impeached (by the House) for lying to Congress about sex ... and you not only allow the murders of 4 Americans, you lie about it and have others lie about it and there are no impeachment proceedings (yet).

The father of former SEAL Tyrone Woods, murdered in Benghazi, sent this message to Barack Obama:

“It’s better to die a hero than live a coward.”

 Who made the decision not to save my son?

Former National Security Adviser Bud McFarlane added this on Obama’s non-response to the Benghazi 9-11 terrorist attack:

“To have known what he had available, to have known that Americans were under fire, and to have done nothing, is dereliction of duty that I have never seen in a Commander in Chief from a president of any party. Outrageous.”

 Requietum en pacem

John Christopher Stevens

Ambassador

Sean Smith

Air Force veteran who worked as an information management specialist for the State Department;

 Glen A. Doherty

Former Navy SEAL who worked for a private security firm and was protecting the consulate in Benghazi

Tyrone S. Woods

Former Navy SEAL who had served protective duty in various U.S. posts

Obummer's Foreign Policy

Tonight is the last of the 2012 Presidential election debates and it will focus on foreign policy.

What is Obummer's foreign policy, you may wonder. 

My first inclination is to say that he has none, but well, sometimes pictures speak louder than words:

And we all know how well the Appeaser-in-Chief and his State Department have handled the Libya situation.      Incompetently.

It's 3-am and Obama is Missing in Action

And so Is Hillary Clinton

 

A Not-So Moronic Media Moron

At last.

CBS Reporter Slams Obama Administration for Major Lie

CBS News and "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan took the gloves off last week, dropping her role as a disinterested journalist and delivering a speech in Chicago that criticized the Obama administration over its handling of the war in Afghanistan and the attack that killed four Americans in Libya.

Lara Logan is a South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent. She is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, and a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes. Wikipedia

Re: Libya

From over at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:

Failing Forward

 

Well said, LC SecondMouse!

My favorite comment:

LC Gladiator:   According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.

Time for Obama to throw Hillary under the bus. You don't think he's man enough to take the blame himself, do you??

The Heroes of Iran

June 12th marked the 1st anniversary of the student-led uprising in Iran.

Neda Agha-Soltan

 

Requiescat in Pace

Haiti Horribilius

  According to the Local news , the American Red Cross wants to bring 45,000 Haitian refugees into Jacksonville, then disperse them across Florida with 4,000 coming to the Orlando area.   And they may be given a fast track to visas so they can get jobs (yeah, right).

   My problems with this:

#1  Barky Obummer has already promised an "immediate investment" of $100 MILLION to the Haiti relief fund.  I guess we should feel lucky that he didn't use the B-word (as in billion).

#1a  Just what are we investing in?   Billions of $$ in taxpayer and private aid to Haiti hasn't worked in the past. 

Where will the money go?

Much of the U.S. government's aid to Haiti comes through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has provided at least $800 million from budget years 2004 through 2008, agency figures show.

At least $700 million more was pledged for Haiti by governments, international givers and charities at an April 2009 donors conference.

  

Failure of Foreign Aid to Haiti

#2 Will this become S.O.P for all international disaster victims?

        "The American Red Cross has seen massive migration into the U.S. from areas like Kosovo and Bosnia in the past"

#3  Are they gonna bring the ones running around the streets with machetes, looting and killing?


#4 With the US unemployment rate at about 10%, jobs should be offered to American citizens before refugees, emigres, whoever. Period.

#5 If the American Red Cross is suddenly overflowing with money for non-American citizens, they'd better not be poor mouthin' next time a hurricane rips up the Gulf Coast.

   If Barky wants to spend money helping people, why the hell not start with the 2 million Native Americans who have been pretty much ignored by our government for decades?

Hell Freezes Over, Almost

After throwing America's only real ally in the Middle East, Israel, under the Hope 'n Change Bus in his U.N. Speech (Sept 23), Barack Hussein Obama almost caused Hell to Freeze over when he said:

"Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone."
-Barack Hussein Obama at the U.N., 9/23/09

What a great idea!   Have the United Nations do what it was created to do!

You know, like maybe actually get involved Middle East affairs, or do something about the genocide in Africa.

I won't be holding my breath waiting for the _insert favorite epithet here_ dipshits at the United Nations to grow a collective set.

 

It's Past 3 A.M.

   While Thousands of people are in the streets of Tehran, a few people seem to be Missing: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Hussein Obama 

 

Not Missing: Mir Hossein Mousavi

 

 

Obama Has Failed the 3 A.M. Test

 

Nile Gardiner:

Ten days on from the fraudulent Iranian election, President Obama still looks like a deer in the headlights without a coherent strategy.

His response has been weak-kneed and utterly lacking in conviction. When faced with his first real test as a world leader Barack Obama decided to press the snooze button rather than take decisive action.

It is hard to imagine Ronald Reagan sitting on the fence while a revolution took place before the eyes of the world against one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet.

Obama finally issued a half-hearted statement over the weekend calling on Tehran to "stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people" only after coming under intense criticism from critics at home for his softly softly approach.

By that time dozens of demonstrators had been murdered by the barbaric "security forces" and their proxy militias and thousands of protesters, including women had been brutally beaten.

Obama did not though question the legitimacy of the Iranian election result, directly criticize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or outline any change in America’s policy towards Iran.

As far as the Obama team is concerned, the demonstrations are an annoying inconvenience getting in the way of the new policy of "engagement" with rogue regimes, also known more commonly as "appeasement."

Every impression is given that the Obama White House is largely indifferent to the plight of the Iranian people and their suffering. The most powerful man in the world is acting as though he were the leader of a small neutral nation, rather than the head of a global superpower.

Barack Obama has a clear choice between siding with millions of Iranians who are clamoring for greater freedom, or aligning himself through passive acquiescence with a brutal Islamist tyranny.

Just as the United States openly sided with Russian and East European dissidents who spoke out against Communist oppression decades ago, today it must voice its support for those who are fighting for liberty in Iran.

The United States cannot remain neutral in the face of totalitarianism -- it has to take a stand and be on the right side of history. It must also seek to isolate Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs that back him rather than continue a fatally flawed strategy of engagement.

Ultimately, short of military action, the West’s best hope in heading off the prospect of an aggressively hostile Iran armed with nuclear weapons is to back a change of regime.

As a world leader Obama is already looking like the Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century, passive in the face of an array of adversaries, and actively weakening America’s defenses by cutting defense spending while adopting an apologetic tone for his country’s past.

In his first six months Obama cannot point to a single foreign policy success. He should though acknowledge that the Obama doctrine of reaching out to America’s enemies, including Iran and North Korea, has been a spectacular failure.

H/T: The Obama File

Vigorous Debate?

ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY and Media Mouthpiece:

I think the president has been clear that this is a vigorous debate in Iran between Iranians about their leadership.

Well, I guess I've just never considered shooting and brutally beating unarmed people as vigorous debate.

News of the Day

Today's Headlines:

   Barack Hussein Obama Orders Vanilla Custard Cone.

 

  And In Other News:

 

Thousands Demonstrate in Tehran, Death Toll Rising

 

 

 

Killed In Tehran, Her Name Was Neda

Thank You. Not on ABC News

I just watched what passes for the evening news on ABC.

There was a segment on how life was so much better for Iraqis in Baghdad:

How roadside bombs had given way to street racing (picture of: young Iraqi men in a Porsche); 

How Iraqi women can now wear clothes they like instead of being covered up from head to foot    (picture of: young Iraqi women in in tight skirts);

And yet there was not one thank you to the US and the US military from the Iraqi people, from ABC News, or from Charlie Gibson.

Perhaps they would like Saddam and his psycho sons back.

I know that I would like to have the lives of 4200+ brave American men and women back.

Secretary of Incompetence

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a gift bearing an incorrect translation      

and then ... Hillary Clinton Rewrites History in Front of Puzzled Europeans

So, who is to blame for these embarrassments?

Since the Clinton philosophy of taking responsibility is to not to, the buck will 

undoubtedly stop somewhere down the hall.

Insulting Our Allies

  This is just unbelievable.

  It is traditional for world leaders to exchange gifts when they visit one another.

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was the first European leader to visit Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. 

  Here is what Prime Minister Brown presented to Barack Hussein Obama:

_ a pen holder made from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

_ a framed commissioning paper for HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

_ a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.  

_ and for the Obama kids: an outfit for each from Topshop, a British chain of clothing stores, and six children's books by British authors which have yet to be published in the U.S.  

  Here's what PM Brown received from Barack Hussein Obama:

  _ a 'special collection' of 25 'classic' Hollywood film DVDs; 

   (and do we know if they were even region 2 versions?  Because you know region 1 versions will not play across the pond)

 and for PM Brown's two boys:

 _ toy helicopters modeled after Marine One. (like the ones that may be purchased in the WH gift shop )  

  And here is the icing on the cake, the butter on the scone ... 

 From the British Sunday Telegraph:

A British official conceded that the furor surrounding the apparent snub to Mr Brown had come as a shock to the White House. ..."A number of our US interlocutors said they couldn't quite understand the British concerns and didn't get what that was all about."

... a State Department official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."

Read all about it HERE

 

Ahem, Mr Obummer

This is what is known as "the voice of experience":

"I have news for Senator Obama:  I have met some very bad people before in my life. It is not fear that drives my opposition to unconditional meetings with Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Kim Jong Il, and Raul Castro; rather it is my clear understanding that such a course will fail to eliminate the threat posed by these rogue regimes.  I don't fear to negotiate. Instead I have the knowledge and experience to understand the dangerous consequences of a naive approach to Presidential summits based entirely on emotion." - John McCain, May 22, 2008

Read the entire thing here . 

 

It's worth your time.

 

h/t to Robbie Cooper at UrbanGrounds

Wholly Shi'ite

   Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who threatened to "find friends elsewhere" back in August, had a secret meeting with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while both were in NYC recently.

    The two Shi'ite leaders also met in Tehran, September 2006, with mutual expressions of 'brotherhood' and pledges of continued cooperation between Iraq and Iran. 

  Ahmadinejad stated:

"This will strengthen bilateral relations. Iran and Iraq, as two brotherly neighbors, will stand by each other and unwanted guests will leave the region."

   Al-Maliki called the talks 'very constructive', adding that Iran is '...a very important country, a good friend and brother.' Ahmadinejad added,

"All our assistance to the Iraqi people will be to establish complete security in this country [i.e., Iraq]."

  It seems to me that Mr. al-Maliki has decided to find a friend elsewhere.

  It also seems to me, that this country needs to get out of Iraq NOW.

  Everybody out.  Everything out.  Now. 

  Don't leave a truck or a tire or even a single bootlace.  

  Head 'em up and Move 'em out.  Now.

   I will always support our troops no matter what the mission. 

   But this mission to make Iraq a democracy will never happen with friends like al-Maliki and his 'brother' Ahmadinejad. 

  "Wouldn't you rather fight them over there than in the streets of America?"  

  Let's fight them here.  Maybe that will get America's attention.  

  All this discussion about patriotism would be settled.  

  Even Barking Mad Moonbat Liberals would have to choose sides.  

  It would be most interesting to see which side Congress takes. 

 

The Idiot(s) at Columbia

  More erudite people than I have written about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the US this week. 

  But here's my three cents worth:

  I personally think the two-faced little Monkey-Man dictator should never have been invited to speak at Columbia University, nor should he have been allowed in this country for any reason in the first place.

  Most, if not all, of those 700 Columbia University students in attendance at Monkey-Man's 'lecture' will never serve their country in the military. 

  Fortunately for them, they have that choice.

  But others made the choice to do so, and some of them are now in harm's way.

  Whether you are for the war or not, whether you are a Wingnut or a Moonbat, our husbands and wives, our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters are being killed and maimed by RPG-29 rocket-propelled grenades, 240 mm rockets and armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), provided by the terrorist state of Iran.

  What disturbs me the most about the whole thing is that some of those Columbia University students actually applauded the little shit.

  For Americans to applaud the leader of a state that sponsors terrorism and is providing weapons and materials that are killing Americans is just not right.

  What is wrong with those people?

“There is no significant need for the United States.” -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Maddie the Mouth Is Still Hurling

 Madeleine Albright, known liar, is still hurling 'em right and left (mostly Left).

   Campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Ms Albright characterized Clinton as `a caring person who understands the problems of real people`.

"There has been an attempt to portray her as a cold fish, and she is not. She's really a good friend and somebody who reaches out."

  Yes, Hillary cares ... about herself and her ambitions.

 
 Yes, Hillary reaches out ... for your money, for your vote, for whatever it takes Hill to get what Hillary wants.

 Yes, Hillary is a good friend ... as long as you play by her rules.

 
 Hillary understands nothing about the problems of real people because she hasn't been a real person for a really long time.

 But I digress.

 Albright was the first female Secretary of State, serving during the Clinton Follies, and as such was caught lying to Congress about intelligence regarding the North Korean underground nuclear facility at Kumchang-ri.

 She maintained all was well, that 'the Agreed Framework* had frozen North Korea's dangerous nuclear weapons'.

 In August 1998, US Intel became public that showed suspicious site activity and later reports said samples of bark, leaves, soil, and waste water collected from around the site tested positive for traces of radioactive plutonium, thereby leading to further speculation that the site contained or produced plutonium.

 Albright told frustrated Senators at a Senate committee hearing that she hadn't known until later in July. The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency interrupted her, "Madame Secretary that isn't correct".

 She had been told months earlier.

 Ms Albright visited Pyongyang 2000, when she drank champagne with the North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Il and praised North Korean nuclear & missile programs.

 Maddie the Mouth's latest remarks:

"I believe that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy.  That means that I am acknowledging it is worse than Vietnam."

  Vietnam with 58,000 American dead, turned into a politically correct war run by idiot Washington politicians and the CBS Evening News.   

  We didn't 'lose' Vietnam, no matter what Hanoi Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite, Hanoi John Flip-Flop Kerry, and those drug-addled '60s flower-children-hippie liberals might think.

 And as far as the 'greatest disaster in American foreign policy', that title goes to the eight years of Bubba Clinton's administration, in which Ms Albright played her part.

 The inept Clinton foreign policy boiled down to "anything for peace", selling out to the Chinese and the North Koreans, ignoring the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, thinking 'sweet-talk' diplomacy solved all problems ... while the Chinese, North Koreans and Islamic terrorists laughed up their sleeves. 

 

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"What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore."
-- Madeleine Albright

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*Agreed Framework:  Oct 1994;  NK promised to freeze and eventually dismantle its nuclear program, to remain part of NPT ; to allow some IAEA inspection, although a full account of its weapons programs was put off; 

   

  In exchange - the US would build light-water reactors for the North & deliver 500 tons of heavy fuel oil (it is against US law to sell nuke reactors to countries in violation of NPT, so the Clinton administration planned to subcontract work to allies) 

    

  AND, according to the Agreed Framework, the only inspections North Korea must adhere to are IAEA inspections at specified facilities at the Yongbyon nuclear complex. 

 

   Thus, North Korea is not obligated to permit inspections of Kumchang-ri.

(Who's the genius that came up with this?)