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A reporter from Men’s Health embeds with SEALs in Western Iraq.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/04/16/165703.aspx  This is an interesting article written by a Canadian who served with the Mossad. Interestingly, it is about the emasculation of Canada’s Armed forces as a whole by the Liberal Party, read Socialists. Their Special Forces snipers continue to help in AFG, though. mThis is the route the Clinton’s were leading us down in the 90’s. Peacekeeping and armed “Meals on Wheels”/officers as business managers. We can never let them get hold of our military again. Where have all the Scoop Jackson Democrats gone? …and as for REP Murtha - McCain too old to be President? YOU and SEN KKK Byrd are older than him? Do us a favor and retire now. 

Well, those pesky Iranians were shadowing and making provocative moves against USS TYPHOON, which used to be a Naval Special Warfare ship. Three issues here: force protection, enemy collection, and response recon. The Iranians are doing electronic collection on us  from shore-side as it isn’t too far away. They want to see what electronic emissions are coming from different ships and catalogue them, just my hunch. Probably are salivating for us to turn on our fire control. Can one avoid the collection? Probably not. If we shut down they will simply switch tactics, such as sending in their own UAV to feint or attack us, reminiscent of 20 years ago when we were afraid of the “low/slow” flyers. They are also measuring response and profiling each ship for readiness and weapons. That having been said, if they are making straight in moves - hey surface guys - you MUST fire flares and warning shots: be prepared to destroy them. Remember retired Marine GEN Paul Van Riper a few years ago came in and destroyed a battle group in an exercise using swarms of small boats: that really mad the regular Navy mad - that wasn’t in the script!! You are going to hurt people’s careers!! Here’s the link: www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28161-2002Aug16 This baloney that the CO’s are “showing great restraint and discipline” is just that. The CO of one of the Cruisers a few months ago let those guys get FAR TOO CLOSE.  This is the slippery slope which then leads to risk aversion: to having our ships not even manned with loaded guns, which led to the COLE incident: “better to risk the ship than an accidental discharge or have to fire a warning shot”; that could ruin a CO’s career!  Hey CO’s - better to be tried at a Court of Inquiry than lose any of my people. You need to be able to pass the ”man in the mirror” test in the morning for the rest of your life, as I used to tell my guys. If you are that worried about your career, switch jobs. 
    The other thing we MUST have is as many cameras documenting the situation, as well as perhaps putting up a UAV during transits: be on the forward edge of the info warfare scheme as possible, and get it out front in the media IMMEDIATELY. Heck, get some UN  observers to do the transit and speak into the mike - uh…umm…well, I can dream, can’t I?  This is asymmetric warfare, with info warfare a huge part. The Iranians know that and are very good at it.  ”Stinky” Ahmedenijad could use a little kick in the ass….

Here is a piece my little brother did for KDKA radio in Pittsburgh - it speaks for itself : facts and humorous pictures. Cut and paste:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l52IBJlwR8   Check out his other works by clicking on his logo on the links page.

Also, check this one out from years past of LSD’ers trying to re-write history. http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv   ….and, SEN Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), just made the moron list in besmirching SEN John McCain’s service and the service of all military personnel.  Oh, and SEN Rockefeller, laser-guided bombs (you said missiles) were not around when SEN McCain, in his A-4 Skyhawk, was shot down - they were still under development, and when they did come into service in 1969, at first, they needed a seperate aircraft to “lase” for them, an O-2 spotter with Pave Knife designator pod or Pave Nail, an OV-10 Bronco with a qualified Forward Air Controller. Here is the link: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/lgb.htm   Most fighters now “self-designate”, though we could also do it for them on the ground. Pushups, ready….begin.  See Daryl Whitcomb’s book, The Rescue of BAT-21. This is a Medal of Honor story. The movie was factually wrong. Callsign BAT-21, LTCOL Iceal E. “Gene” Hambleton, was rescued by a Navy SEAL LT Tom Norris and a South Vietnamese SEAL, Nguyen Van Kiet, (the only Viet awarded the Navy Cross, but what do you expect from Hollywood?  

   Let’s remember that going into Iraq to get the WMD and his abilty to manufacture WMD were combined but one reason to go. The outcry and constant drumbeat of those against our invasion was  that “there was no WMD found”. This is complete spin. Read Dr. Mahdi Obeidi’s book, “The Bomb in My Garden” - he wa the top nuclear scientist in the regime. Having heard his lecture, most everything was hidden from inspectors. Parts for centrifuges were buried in his garden, which were found, and our nuclear experts from the U.S. government labs attested that “they were better than ours.” Hundreds of tons of yellowcake, the precursor to making nukes, was found in the opening days of the invasion (someone pass that to Joe Wilson and Val Plame). Several hundred sarin nerve gas rounds were also found. What happened to the rest? Well, I think most was trucked out, and, much is still buried out there. Let’s remember what was buried at the end of some of the runways in Iraq: 30+ MiG-25 FOXBAT aircraft. These were developed to chase down the SR-71 BLACKBIRD. It was the basis for the movie “FIREFOX” with Clint Eastwood. I have a pic that I will try to upload of one of these huge jets being unearthed - these are half the size of a 737. These were fitted with chemical canisters, and, we were concerned about these before the war because they could take off from airfields out of the no-fly zones, fly at over MACH 2 along the borders at high altitude, and return to their bases before OPERATION’s NORTHERN and SOUTHERN WATCH could get aircraft up to intercept.  Let’s remember the “puppy poisoning” videos from Ansar Al-Islam, which was making ricin, working in NE Iraq - yes, they were/are Al-Qaida (someone please pass that to SEN Obama.), but Saddam supporting Al-Qaida (and he was) is for another post. Much of what was reported by DR. Kay and the ISG was spun by the media. Dual-use technology was dismissed as not being dual-use, such as the mobile vans.  Was the manufacturing suspended? Yes. Were they able to reconstitute - yes - read his book. Why won’t anybody publish this? Because there is an agenda out there - look at SEN Harry Reid - “the war is lost”…please don’t tell that to my SEAL brethren out there. By the way, you and Rep John Murtha got some ’splainin’ to do…the “Haditha Marines” have been found innocent.  Drop down for some pushups, schticks.  We are winning this insurgency. Counter-insurgency is the hardest operation there is, because it combines military, law enforcement, civil affairs, psyops, and the political process to win, and it is a long process which requires patience. The media and LSD’ers keep saying ”there isn’t a military solution”…yah….no kidding, but if you don’t have security first, and marginalize terrorists to being criminals, the political process can not succeed. This was the mistake the Clinton Admin made. He treated it as a law enforcement problem first; well, it was way beyond that - it was then, as now, a war. No Bill Maher, it isn’t a “giant law enforcement problem”.  Sure would be nice having some honest Democrats like SEN Liebermann. Whether you agree or not, we are there, and we need to win. Pulling out will be a disaster: do you think these terrorists will just go home? Think again. Whaddya’ think? GOD Bless MA2 Mike Monsoor who will recieve the MOH posthumously next week…where do we get such men as these?

A Harvard study that came out on Monday said that “adverse rhetoric by members of congress and the press about the war inflames and motivates the enemy”. We need these guys to tell us that? Well, even though the liberal intelligentsia has proclaimed such, will those liberal socialist democrats (LSD’ers) who want peace at all costs listen? Probably not as it plays with their political agenda to lessen our dominance in the world.  As for the study, this is basic information warfare, or as it was called, psyops. The media were also responsible for the hysteria after TET ’68 - Walter Cronkite even admitted as such in 2003. To read more, see PeterBaestrup - THE BIG STORY. How the media helped to lose the war. 

I started this LLC with this website for contracting, and the LLC, for those of you getting into this, is great for tax purposes.  I am starting this blog to discuss topics relative to Special Warfare and to the Global War, and it is Global, not as the Speaker of the House says “is just in Afghanistan” - ridiculous and harmful to our efforts.  It will also be fun because we were always told to be tight-lipped on how the civilian and military leadership handles the military - not anymore - got the r-e-t behind my name.  Why should all these retired “Clinton-era flag officers” have the fun?  Some of them say some pretty - questionable - things. We will mix factual arguements with some humor as well. Please feel free to send articles, questions, and comments. Also, please see the You.tube tribute to my fallen SEAL brethren and the lads of Naval Special Warfare on the “contact us” page.   Let’s kill/capture the enemy before they do it to us.  Cheers…Sandy