I first met Debbie Lee at CPAC and was very surprised and pleased to see her again at the Boston Tea Party:
My CPAC interview with her is here.
No matter how many times you meet a Gold Star Mother you never stop feeling humbled around one.
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Voices of the Tea Party: Debbie Lee
Posted: April 20, 2010 by datechguy in short films/interviews, special events, tea parties, warTags: boston, short interviews, tea parties, tea party express
Saved by Her Enemy: Amazon Vine Review
Posted: April 11, 2010 by datechguy in amazon reviews, warTags: amazon vine, books, iraq, media
My review through the Amazon Vine Program of the Book Saved by Her Enemy An Iraqi woman’s journey from the heart of war to the heartland of America by Rafraf Barack and Don Teague is available at Amazon.com here.
The title is more accurate than you might know.
“Because they know you won’t run them over”
Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, warTags: amazon vine, books, iraq, reality, War on Terror
I’m only just over a third of the way through Saved by Her Enemy by Don Teague & Rafraf Barrak so normally I wouldn’t comment on the book yet, but I read something that should be read by every person who lionized the enemy:
Just before we crossed the border, the soldier driving a Humvee we were following stopped to warn us, “Watch out for children lying in the road.”
“Children?” I asked. “Why Children?”
“Because they know you won’t run them over. They line up little kids, five or six years old, across the road and force you to stop. When you do, people swarm the vehicle. They smash the windows with rocks, drag people out. You don’t want that to happen.”
“So what are we supposed to do?” I asked.
“You don’t stop. No matter what.”…
Interestingly enough they only used this tactic against civilians because they assumed that military vehicles wouldn’t bother stopping.
These are the people we are fighting and still fighting. This is the same attitude that Israel faces every day. If you don’t understand this, you either haven’t been paying attention or don’t want to pay attention.
If you read Pam Geller of course you won’t have this problem.
I’m not with Josh Marshall much…
Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, warTags: air travel, islam, shoe bomb, War on Terror, you fool!
but this paragraph concerning a certain qatari diplomat with a nicotine fit perfectly fits my thoughts:
I mean, are we really to believe that this guy took his having diplomatic immunity as free rein to crack a joke about need to light his shoe bomb? I’m curious whether under international law a diplomat can be expelled from a host country simply for being a raging c@#k.
Michelle Malkin is on the same page as Josh, that doesn’t happen often either:
If there’s any “misunderstanding,” it’s not from the air marshals who took their jobs seriously, it’s from the arrogant jerk who thinks treating national security with sarcastic shoebomb jokes when questioned by our homeland security watchdogs has any place at all on a plane in flight over American skies.
This fellow needs to be declared Persona non grata fast.
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