The below is from a Retired Special Forces Sgt Major
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.... served in the SOG (Special Operations Group) in Vietnam with REDACTED, they have both been involved with various disaster relief programs for the last several years to include Hurricane Katrina. They have both always been straight shooters and known to call a spade a spade, as well as sometimes using very "colorful" language which had to be cleaned up a bit. So I have no doubts as to the truthfulness of what he's saying.
News back from REDACTED.
He and REDACTED made it back somewhat safe and sound.
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To All,
I just returned from Haiti with REDACTED. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other.
Port o Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact. Our team was a rescue team and we carried special equipment that locates people buried under the rubble. There are easily 200,000 dead, the city smells like a charnal house. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money.
The ones I ran into were either incompetents or outright anti American. Most are French or french speakers, worthless every d*** one of them. While 1800 rescuers were ready willing and able to leave the airport and go do our jobs, the UN and USAID (another organization full of little OBamites and communists that openly speak against Americana). These two organizations exemplar their parochialism by:
USAID, when in control of all inbound flights, had food and water flights stacked up all the way to Miami, yet allowed Geraldo Rivera, Anderson Cooper and a host of other left wing news puppies to land.
Pulled all the security off the rescue teams so that Bill Clinton and his wife could have the grand tour, whilst we sat unable to get to people trapped in the rubble.
Stacked enough food and water for the relief over at the side of the airfield then put a guard on it while we dehydrated and wouldn't release a drop of it to the rescuers.
No shower facilities to decontaminate after digging or moving corpses all day, except for the FEMA teams who brought their own shower and decon equipment, as well as air conditioned tents.
No latrine facilities, less digging a hole, if you set up a S****** everyone was trying to use it.
I watched a 25 year old Obamite with the USAID shrieking hysterically, berate a full bird colonel in the air force, because he countermanded her orders, whilst trying to unscrew the air pattern. "You don't know what your president wants! The military isn't in charge here, we are!"
If any of you are thinking of giving money to the Haitian relief, or to the UN don't waste your money. It will only go to further the goals of the French and the Liberal left.
If we are a fair and even society, why is it that only white couples are adopting Haitian orphans. Where the h*** is that vocal minority that is always screaming about the injustice of American society.
Bad place, bad situation, but a perfect look at the new world order in action. New Orleans magnified a thousand times. Haiti doesn't need democracy, what Haiti needs is Papa Doc. That's not just my opinion, that is what virtually every Haitian we talked with said. The French run the UN and treat us the same as when we were a colony, at least Papa Doc ran the country.
Oh, and as a last slap in the face the last four of us had to take US AIRWAY's home from Phoenix. They slapped me with a 590 dollar baggage charge for the four of us. The girl at the counter was almost in tears because she couldn't give us a discount or she would lose her job. Pass that on to the flying public.
#1
This rings true to me. I was in Honduras for Hurricane Mitch in 1998. My guys had spent a couple of days pulling people, dead and alive, out of the mud, distributing food and rescuing flood victims before USAID and some church sponsored lib do-gooders showed up. The latter were especially useless and obnoxious. They spent 3 days sitting on their pampered asses and sneering at "the military" while my people continued to work 18 hour days. Worthless arrogant bastards, all of them.
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Interesting you should say that, Flash. During the aforementioned episode in Honduras, one of the do-gooders became very suspicious of my British accent, watered down and Texanized though it was by that time. He asked what the British army was doing there (my GI uniform not withstanding) and went on to suggest, in all seriousness, that there was some kind of neo-colonialist plot going on. Since it is a given among these people that the US military are incompetent as well as venal, he apparently thought I was some sort of James Bond type sent there to help the Americans in their mission of oppressing the poor and undermining their legitimate leaders (ie communists and media based elitists.) I informed him that I was a legitimate and long serving officer of the United States Army. I added that, like certain other Americans, I had come from elsewhere; but had been a US citizen for 24 years. I also suggested that he expand his reading beyond Howard Zinn, Ramsey Clark, and Ian Fleming.
(I missed the mark a little there. The fool had no idea who Clark was.)
#4
I think I'll wait for the secret audio & video recordings that back up these allegations. Remember the 'piles of corpses used by Haitians in protest' meme? Whatever became of that?
#5
What became of it is that, having no other place to deal with corpses, the locals stacked them by the roadside and those working to rescue the trapped, feed the starving and prevent massive outbreaks of cholera etc. dealt with those corpses as/when they could.
#6
Don't forget those 25 YO USAIDsters will also be similar in political thought as the failed "Rec and Park majors" on your "Mortality Counciling team" when they have the authority to "wisely" determine if you get an artifical hip procedure or a pill to ease your pain instead....since you had enjoyed more success in life, and all, and it is time to share with the less fortunate.
#7
I've been looking at the Google Earth imagery and doing some private analysis, posted on my weblog. I don't doubt much of this at all. I've worked with US "civilian" agencies off and on for 30+ years, and find them arrogant and highly opinionated, especially against the military. There ARE exceptions, but they're few and far between. Obumble needs to send Gen. Odierno (sp?) down there with orders to take over ALL US efforts, and tell the UN to go pound sand when they object. I have a friend that has been a missionary to the Dominican Republic for 22 years now, and he won't cross into Haiti for ANYTHING. The country needs 50-60 years of "occupation" to sort themselves out and learn to work. It'll never happen - neither Congress nor the UN will allow it.
The UN needs to be moved to Geneva, and the US needs to remove itself from it. It's a useless bureaucracy that hasn't a clue how to do anything but "order" the United States to do its job. It needs to die a rapid and unmourned death.
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The country needs 50-60 years of "occupation" to sort themselves out and learn to work. It'll never happen - neither Congress nor the UN will allow it. Good candidates for that kind of occupation are Haiti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and probably some others I haven't thought of yet. Congress and the UN may be the immediate scapegoats, but there is no way the American people would tolerate it, even if they could pay for it, which they can't. Charity only goes so far.
#9
If any of you are thinking of giving money to the Haitian relief, or to the UN don't waste your money. It will only go to further the goals of the French and the Liberal left.
Bummer. I already shelled out a hundred bucks at my church. I can only hope they're not as bad as the Sgt Major says. I'm not usually a charitable kind of guy but sometimes it gets to me and this was one of those times.
My own opinion, FWIW, is the US military should stay there and the US should just annex the place. Kick the UN and the French out, screw 'em. Haiti is always gonna be a basket case and the US is always gonna get suckered into paying for it so, if we got a grip on the situation, we might not have to pay as much.
This same stuff happened on every deployment I was on.
Red Cross was agitating and ruining our counts my moving people around to other camps without even giving us a heads up. Many "Aid" people just did not think there was any structure to camps (like Food and water and headcount for the same) so they just moved people around to their families. A horrible
Logistics problem and a waste of time and Lives.
Fakers run dog and pony, true grit is the Soldier.
Lock press outside the gate. Do-gooders need to see what is happening anyways. In matters of Life and Death, they are second tier. Lock all flights for essentials only, The press hires it's own security and transport/lodging.
#16
Seal it off, lock it down and let nature run its course. Cheap and efficient. Heartless, but f--k them and the rest of turd world. The U.S. needs to stop being the Worlds First Responder.
There's no law against being a jerk. But in this case I'll make an exception.
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Mods, cleanup on 16. Shomp just made a technicolor yawn.
#1
...and the woman behind the man softly whispering words of encouragement; "make the bastids pay. They are not like us. At last, at last, this is our moment. Make them pay!"
#2
I wish Bawbwa would have let the discussion roll out a couple more soundbites. Roger had some other priceless comments too.
"I'm in the Ratings business...
Have not seen such a laser focused mission statement since Brad Pitt said "We in the Nazi killing business, and boys, business is a-booming..."
#1
There is a segment of America that is mentally ill. They are the liberals, multiculturalist, anyone is welcome, even Islamists, hey lets even give them access to our forts! And they are the ones in office. Bet the same guy who wrote the report would also say Islam had nothing to do with 9/11.
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The British newspapers are covering the (now 4 separate) fraudulent pieces of the IPCC report nicely.
However, the WaPo, the NYTimes have barely noticed.
The Weather Channel (which I think is owned by NBC) has also not covered it.
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Here is a good report on several of the different "gates" that are currently being examined. This lady has checked out the "scientific papers" that were used by the IPCC to make it's AR4 assessment. Her discoveries include several "papers" from the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, and one from "Climbing" magazine. The IPCC is a fraud, and so is it's report. Time for both to be given the boot.
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Everyone, almost reflexively, says Israel. But is this true?
Israel is no larger than New Jersey. If Iran wants to destroy Israel it would not take many nuclear bombs to do so.
Why is Iran embarking on its path only to get a handful of nukes which they will then immediately use on Israel?
Jerusalem is Islam's 3rd Holiest city. In Islamic eschatology, the coming Mahdi (Shia Islam's 12th imam) will establish Jerusalem as the capital of the worldwide Caliphate.
Would the Govt of the Islamic republic nuke the future capital of their future leader's empire?
Does Iran call Israel the Great Satan. No. The United States is the Great Satan.
Iran will only have one chance to use nuclear weapons against its target. It knows will face retaliation and so it must choose this target wisely.
Is Nuclear Suicide worth the price of destroying the Great Satan.. the main obstacle to a Global Caliphate?
or is Iran going to destroy itself just to destroy Israel... leaving the United States in power to keep Sharia law from gaining global predominance?
I believe the United States is the nuclear target of Iran. Israel is just misdirection.
Nuke the SA oilfields and the price of crude goes through the roof and Iran cashes in for years. Nobody is going to sanction Iran's oil exports - too desperate for the black stuff. Never mind fight a war over the top of the remaining gulf oilfields.
#2
I also say the US because we are the main obstacle to just about anyone. Hezbollah has cells all over. New Year's eve, 3 young Iranians with backpacks were picked up in the no-go area of Times Square; I saw them on the top floor of my hotel a day earlier scoping the area out. A van without plates was also towed away but nothing suspicious was found in it. My Iranian neighbor lives extremely well for a dentist and has added on two large additions to his $1.2 million home recently yet he appears to live alone on a 5 BR acreage, parking his F-150 in the drive rather than in the 4 car garage that was roomy enough for previous owners' vehicles and ATV's. He does nothing to arouse suspicion other than yelling at the contractors, extremely finicky and threatening to not pay his bills. How many more are living here with Homeland Security totally unaware? I expect something here soon.
#4
Iran doesn't have a military target for its nukes, only diplomatic. They want to be the Alpha state in the Gulf, the Gulf the world will now call the Persian Gulf. They control how much oil goes through the Straights of Hormuz. And their dominance will proceed from there.
But to actually use it would invite a response from a super power sooner or later. Nukes are useless military weapons.
#5
The strategic objective of Iran is dominance of the region, which can only happen if the US packs up and leaves. So convincing the US to leave is the goal. How that is achieved is their focus.
Perhaps sinking one of our aircraft carrier fleets, ideally with plausible deniability, after getting Russian and Chinese help against US retaliation. If they could pull that off, they could afford a decade of pretending to be nice with everything.
Figuring that in that time the US would lose its will to police the region.
debkafile's Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy in Tehran. Western intelligence agencies monitoring Iran have warned London that radical groups are secretly preparing to overrun the British embassy buildings and living quarters and take the diplomats hostage, replicating the siege of the US embassy in 1979, when extremist students held the staff hostage for 444 days. Those students were the early nucleus of the radical Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Britain maintains two embassy compounds in Tehran - one downtown occupies a 100-yer old landmark building surrounded by a large garden and a wall; the other housing the embassy's nerve center and living quarters on a large site which the deposed shah presented to Her Majesty's Government as a gift.
Our intelligence sources report that two Iranian militia teams have been formed to seize the two compounds: one takes orders from Ayatollah Mohammad Mesbah Yazdi, whereas the other is under the command of senior cleric Hojat-ol-Eslam Ahmad Khatami. The plan has been submitted to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for approval. He favors the project but has yet to set a date. It has also provoked controversy in the Majlis (parliament).
The pretext for the seizure would be that the two sites are the rightful property of the Iranian people. The real reason is that the Iranian regime has been gunning for Britain for some time, scheming revenge for London's alleged direct role in organizing the wave of opposition protests besetting the government since last June. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has been leveling this charge at the UK for the last six months.
Most of all, the Islamic regime would like to set off a huge row with Britain to overshadow the dispute over another round of tough sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
The radical factions behind Ahmedinejad are cheered on by China's opposition to sanctions and even more bucked up by the letter the US Chamber of Commerce sent to President Barack Obama urging him to refrain from harsher sanctions.
While played up in Tehran, this letter received little media coverage in the US and none at all in Israel.
It states: The proposed sanctions would incite economic, diplomatic, and legal conflicts with U.S. allies and could frustrate joint action against Iran.'
Iranian radicals believe US business interests took this position under the influence of Tehran's intransigence in the face of Western pressure to cut back on their weapons-related nuclear projects. They insist that by continuing to play hard ball they will throw the plans for serious military action or economic penalties out of court altogether.
They smell blood...they smell weakness. I don't think this analysis is so far-fetched. The mullahs need to reinvigorate the 'revolution' against the 'protestors'. Look what the last embassy grab got them...besides, this would be a smart move to buy more time. And time is all they're gaming for right now...Watch out, Brits...
"Cheer up Yanks! I wouldn't worry, I doubt the Iranians would be poor sports, it wouldn't be gentlemen-like, would it now! By the way, isn't it tea time or how bout some wobbly pop? I've been missing out on my zeds."
During the Rose Garden signing ceremony in August 1996 of his landmark welfare reform law, President Bill Clinton told a welfare-to-work story that had inspired him to join with Congressional Republicans and pursue reforms to break the difficult cycle of dependency. The Washington Post reported Clinton describing how a decade earlier he had asked Lillie Hardin, a former welfare recipient in Arkansas, what the best thing was about being off welfare. Ms. Hardin replied, When my boy goes to school and they say, what does your momma do for a living? He can give an answer.'
For too many Californians, the heartbreaking truth is that their son or daughter has been left with no good answer. That is because while other states have made progress in reforming welfare, California has been left behind.
The numbers tell a bleak story. In 1996, California had 21 percent of the nation's welfare cases. Today, 32 percent of all welfare cases in the United States are in California, even though we only represent 12 percent of the total U.S. population. Consider this troubling comparison; California is nearly twice as big as New York state, but we have five times as many welfare cases.
Despite being a state famous for opportunity and promise, California lags much of the nation when it comes to moving people from welfare to work, according to the federal government. Only 22 percent of welfare recipients in California who are required to meet federal work minimums are working. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, our state is one of only nine that does not unconditionally enforce the federal government's five-year lifetime limit on cash welfare assistance. These flaws in our welfare system, coupled with a monthly cash check that is almost 70 percent higher than the national average, work against the goal of helping more welfare recipients leave welfare for a life of greater independence and dignity.
California simply cannot afford this kind of failure any longer. The good news is we don't have to. Michigan, which enacted sweeping welfare reform in the 90's, is a good example. When adjusted for population, Michigan has half the incidence of welfare dependency as California, despite a higher unemployment rate than ours. A 2009 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found that if there were stricter sanctions on adults who fail to meet work requirements here in California, the state's caseload would be substantially lower and its work participation rate would be significantly higher. Everybody would be better off.
My campaign for governor is focused on creating jobs, fixing public education and controlling Sacramento's enormous appetite for wasteful spending. A common sense welfare reform plan can help achieve all three goals. First, we need to send a strong message that welfare in California is a temporary helping hand, not a permanent way of life. We can do this by replacing the seldom enforced, five-year time limit with a strictly enforced two-year limit. Second, we can require the able-bodied to work, perform community service or achieve a GED. Lastly, we will utilize modern technology to much improve the collection of child support and hold absent fathers accountable for meeting their legal and ethical responsibilities. Over the past decade, California has spent more than $1 billion in fines because we could not put together an efficient computer system to collect child support payments. That extra money could help struggling families reduce or even end their reliance on welfare.
There are now more than 1.3 million people trapped in California's ineffective welfare system. It is costing the state's ailing budget billions of dollars while doing too little to help welfare families break free from a vicious cycle of dependency. Applying long overdue common sense reforms to welfare will relieve stress on the state budget and is the right thing to do for our communities.
#4
My state pays for education during the five years of assistance, giving a hand-up so they can be self-supporting. I know a single mom that had the aptitude to be a physician's assistant but I know not all do and we have an abundance of salon stylists and massage therapists. Contrast California that not only courts the cheap labor, they give illegals in-state tuition. CA also has the largest homeless population, usually drug addicted and impaired. That Arnie asked the federal taxpayers to bail them out just infuriates me.
#5
Salon stylists and massage therapists, even if not in paid employment, can save their families pots of money and make the employed members happier and more effective. My darling mother-in-law worked briefly as a stylist before marriage, and her children and grandchildren never paid for haircuts until they moved out of town.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The numbers tell a bleak story. In 1996, California had 21 percent of the nation's welfare cases. Today, 32 percent of all welfare cases in the United States are in California, even though we only represent 12 percent of the total U.S. population. Consider this troubling comparison; California is nearly twice as big as New York state, but we have five times as many welfare cases.
