Summary:
Magnitude mb 4.7
Region IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION
Date time 2009-04-07 at 17:32:52.5 UTC
Location 32.62 N ; 47.95 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 56 km NW Dezful (pop 212,346 ; local time 21:02 2009-04-07)
55 km NW Shush (pop 52,284 ; local time 21:02 2009-04-07)

Magnitude mb 4.4
Region WESTERN IRAN

Date time 2009-04-04 at 18:59:20.5 UTC
Location 31.82 N ; 50.33 E
Depth 2 km
Distances 41 km E Ezeh (pop 107,536 ; local time 22:29 2009-04-04)
55 km SW Farsan (pop 25,071 ; local time 22:29 2009-04-04)

Show of hands here – how many vets here know what a “Political Dog And Pony Show” is? Please enlighten the uninformed lad.

Oh good lordy… we had an officer get an Achievement medal for OPENING THE CAR DOOR for an ambassador that came to visit us and one of our enlisted guys got one for SERVING HIM A DRINK. Meanwhile Im over at the embassy get struck up in conversation by some guy pretending to be a civilian and wanting to know if I had access to nukes….

Oh well, as long as I didnt have to be standing at attention or at parade rest during a ceremony, I didnt care.

drive-by visit!

Heh. I wonder if his 500 camp followers joined him there? Personally, I doubt it, from the looks of that crowd, most probably stayed behind for a visit to Amsterdam to “sample” some of the local coffee shops.

On April 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, KCK said:

Briebart has it that BHO is being received wildly by the troops, who shout, “I love you” to their savior, Obama.

There you have it – straight from your trusted media.

YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

We have a liberal among us who has no clue what a Rent-A-Crowd is?

Show of hands here – how many vets here know what a “Political Dog And Pony Show” is? Please enlighten the uninformed lad.

Nah, forget it, he’d never believe it…. not in his little candy cane world.

But I GUARANTEE you they are worlds above any other population in terms of dedication, work ethic, discipline, integrity, service, and commitment,

Amen to that truth.

On April 7th, 2009 at 6:30 pm, DavidHughes said:
or leave a suicide note about how this engagement ruined their lives.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Out of 2 million service members, one should expect to find 600 or even 6,000 who are O’happy and would worship the ground upon which our current CinC walks. I’d worry if that weren’t the case. But as many men and women as I have come across that didn’t care much for GW Bush, they DID have respect for him. There is a huge difference between “liking” and respecting your boss. The liberal media and pollsters will always go out of their way to find a sample of people who like or dislike… who are more inclined to respond emotionally rather than out of a true sense of loyalty and/or respect (or knowledge of what what the poll is actually asking). Compound that with the emotional sense of relief a lot of service members and their families may have felt when Hopey O’chump vowed to withdraw troops from the ME, only to slowly begin to realize that things are not going to go quite as promised, and you’ll soon see that the “like” for him will soon wane.

We have the greatest volunteer military force in the world. You seldom hear about how many have re-upped and volunteered for multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. But you hear ad nauseum about the .01% who refuse to, protest the operation after retirement or discharge, or leave a suicide note about how this engagement ruined their lives. The Armed Forces are a population like any other, in that they will have dissenting members, neurotic folks, pedophiles, criminals, etc. But I GUARANTEE you they are worlds above any other population in terms of dedication, work ethic, discipline, integrity, service, and commitment, and those who defame the service and integrity of the US and its military are VERY rare. Compare this sample (relative to its size) to any major city, or better yet to Congress— you’ll see that they are the epitome of honor and respect. If the military is so warm and fuzzy about the direction Obama and our congressmen and women want to take our country, why is it that so many libs try their damnedest to keep military absentee ballots from being counted? I wonder if it could have something to do with how underwhelming the support would be for their candidates? Hmmm.