Posted on 12/05/2003 6:52:50 PM PST by doug from upland
Bill visited my city several years ago. Officers were ordered-in to provide crowd security when not enough volunteered. I have a lot of seniority, so I didn't have to be there...prayers answered.
But I talked to the guys who did have to go:
Secret Service emptied out all the tenements...about forty of them surrounding the public park where he spoke...under threat of "detention" for refusniks: one guy was held at the station for the afternoon, just didn't want to leave his house...no charges.
All LEO's had their firearms emptied and checked by SS. The guys were informed by the prez's men that the sharpshooters on the surrounding rooftops would kill any cop reaching for a gat before they got it out of the holster. No matter the reason. Hyperbole? Probably: no one was gonna test it, though. A very convincing pre-event presentation, according to the fellas.
During the festivities, a buddy of mine had someone in the crowd code with a heart attack. He ran toward a nearby ambulance to get medical help, where three SS guys nearly shot him (in uniform). They berated him, yelling, "Who told you to leave your post?" They told him to go back to where he was: the ambulance was for the president's exclusive use in a emergency. I can't remember how the heart-attack victim made out or how help was summoned.
I can't say for certain that the military was similarly treated, but I remember reading the stories. It fits with this true tale.
At some point, we're gonna need to get our ducks in a row to beat this BEE-ahhhtch--either in the Senate race of '06 or else the Presidential run in '08--and getting these stories verified and documented, then well-distributed, will go a long way in putting the nails in her political coffin.
FReegards...MUD
US NEWS BLACKOUT???
Interesting points to remember when we read and hear all the negatives that are printed or broadcast daily, in our "unbiased" news services.
Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1st...
... The first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active duty.
... Over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
... Nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
... The Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
... On Monday, October 6th power generation hit 4,518 megawatts-exceeding the prewar average.
... All 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
... By October 1st, Coalition forces had rehab-ed over 1,500 schools - 500 more than scheduled.
... Teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
... All 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
... Doctors’ salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
... Pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
... The Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccination doses to Iraq's children.
... A Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000 kilometers of weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
... We have restored over three-quarters of prewar telephone services and over two-thirds of the potable water production.
... There are 4,900 full-service telephone connections. We expect 50,000 by year-end.
... The wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes to cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and towns.
... 95 percent of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.
... Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
... The central bank is fully independent.
... Iraq has one of the world’s most growth-oriented investment and banking laws.
... Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
... Satellite TV dishes are legal.
... Foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for minders and other government spies.
... There is no Ministry of Information.
... There are more than 170 newspapers.
... You can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.
... Foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.
... A nation that had not one single element - legislative, judicial or executive - of a representative government now does.
... In Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad's first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city council elected its new chairman.
... Today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
... 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
... The Iraqi government regularly participates in international events. Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over 30 Iraqi embassies around the world.
... Shia religious festivals that were all but banned aren't.
... For the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
... The Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
... Uday and Queasy are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.
... Children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with the government.
... Political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
... Millions of long sufferings Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
... Saudis will hold municipal elections.
... Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
... Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
... The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian -- a Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy and for peace.
... Saddam is gone.
... Iraq is free.
... President Bush has not faltered or failed.
... Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the Press corps that prides itself on bringing you all the news that's important.
Iraq under US lead control has come further in six months than Germany did in seven years or Japan did in nine years following WWII. Military deaths from fanatic Nazi's, and Japanese numbered in the thousands and continued for over three years after WWII victory was declared.
It took the US over four months to clear away the twin tower debris, let alone attempt to build something else in its place.
Now, take into account that almost every Democrat leader in the House and Senate has fought President Bush on every aspect of his handling of this country's war and the post-war reconstruction; and that they continue to claim on a daily basis on national TV that this conflict has been a failure.
Taking everything into consideration, even the unfortunate loss of our sons and daughters in this conflict, do you think anyone else in the world could have accomplished as much as the United States and the Bush administration in so short a period of time?
Note to all bloggers - please place links on your pages! In cases such as this it can make a world of difference!
Yep... looking now...
Page 15, from the "On the Prowl" section, subhead "It takes a photo-op," lead paragraph:
Prowler was astonished to see photographs in the January 11 papers showing Hillary Clinton reading to children on the pediatrics ward of the Georgetown University Medical Center. You see, the children were perfectly healthy-- they were the children of the hospital staff...
There's more, of course- with the Clintons, no matter how deep in the mire you go, there always is no bottom.
Be sure you read my tagline, and think about it. Really, really, think it over...
What a piece of trash hildabeast is!
I read here that she came to the dinner an hour late, making the troops wait, then took head of the line privelege to stuff her pie-hole.
If you can recall the approximate date of when you ran all those "the real Hillary" posts from a few months ago, that would narrow it down enough for me to find & repost the links to them.
#1 - FJB
#2 - Children in Hospital
#3 - She Throws Coffee in Marine's Face
#4 - Dissing Health Care Execs Who Offered Solution
#5 - Hillary, the Commies, and the Black Panthers
#6 - Defiling the White House Christmas Tree
#7 - Hillary Calls the Police Murderers
#8 - How Did She Get Her Name?
#9 - Sister Frigidaire
#10 - Troopers and Secret Service as Servants
#11 - Beep, Beep, Get Out of My #$%&@&$ Way
#12 - Hillary Lied to Zeifman, Rigged Nixon Impeachment Protocols
#13 - It Takes a Village To Stiff a Waitress
#14 - Rape, Part 1
#15 - Rape, Part 2
#16 - Rape, Part 3
#17 - Hillary Doesn't Really Have a Goon Squad, Does She?
#18 - Algore Learns Lesson on Inauguration Day 1993
#19 - Strom Thurmond Meets the Hillary Express
#21 - Why Cops and Firemen Hate Hillary
#22 - The Wind Up, Here Comes the Pitch
#23 - Psssssst…Hey, Can You Watch My Husband?
#24 - Witches Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Race-Baiting Stones
#25 - Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (Healthcare)
#26 - Madison Dies, Hillary Lies, What a Surprise (Part 1)
#27 - Madison Dies, Hillary Lies, What a Surprise
#28 - Semper Fido
#29 - Filegate; Who Hired Craig Livingstone?
Funny, though...that Marine, as a sentry, would have been completely justified in bitch slapping the Hildabeast, placing her under arrest, and opulling any weapn he had in doing so (damned if my crazy a$$ might just have done that!)
If so, then we can, and should, GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND HOME...OUR JOB IS FINISHED!
Honest to God, even I forget how heinous all these deeds were until I once again see them lined up, one after another.
America was very lucky to survive Clinton I, but I very much doubt she could survive Clinton II as a free and sovereign nation. There will be no second chance if Hillary comes to power.
I agree...but that makes it that much more important to confirm this story before spreading it around too much. As much as the Hildabeast loathes our military, I can see it being true, but I want confirmation.
FReegards...MUD
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