Remembering Our War Dead

It took me FOREVER to find ANYONE on the Central Coast memorializing fallen US Veterans. I guess it just isn't as important as trashing the previous administration, art exhibits and pushing to give extra-ordinary rights to homosexuals. Yeah, to each their own. I was just sadden by the lack of parades or even religious services to remember what it cost in blood to keep the freedoms the whiners and perverts enjoy.

Highlights from the news today:

The text of former VP Cheney's dressing-down of Prez Hussein's response to terrorism threats. My favorite snippets:

In the years since, I've heard occasional speculation that I'm a different man after 9/11. I wouldn't say that. But I'll freely admit that watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities.

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By presidential decision, last month we saw the selective release of documents relating to enhanced interrogations. This is held up as a bold exercise in open government, honoring the public's right to know. We're informed, as well, that there was much agonizing over this decision. Yet somehow, when the soul-searching was done and the veil was lifted on the policies of the Bush administration, the public was given less than half the truth. The released memos were carefully redacted to leave out references to what our government learned through the methods in question. Other memos, laying out specific terrorist plots that were averted, apparently were not even considered for release. For reasons the administration has yet to explain, they believe the public has a right to know the method of the questions, but not the content of the answers.

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It is a fact that only detainees of the highest intelligence value were ever subjected to enhanced interrogation. You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists. One of them was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--the mastermind of 9/11, who has also boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl.

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Yup, Danny Pearl, of screaming while barbarians cut off his head with a dull knife from the front - so as to prolong his agony. As I recall, it took 5 minutes to get the torso separated from the head and the screaming lasted several minutes.

I so don't worry about a little "water-boarding" of the guy who DID the CUTTING OFF.

To return to the topic of the day, our fallen soldiers and veterans, Mr. Cheney so aptly put it:

Like so many others who serve America, they are not the kind to insist on a thank-you. But I will always be grateful to each one of them, and proud to have served with them for a time in the same cause. They, and so many others, have given honorable service to our country through all the difficulties and all the dangers. I will always admire them and wish them well. And I am confident that this nation will never take their work, their dedication or their achievements for granted.

God bless all the families who have lost loved ones in the battles to keep America the "Shining City on a Hill", a beacon of true hope to people of all lands. And may He protect those now in service to our country so that these will be no more losses of soldiers.