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21-February-2006 | Ron Pickrell

[SteveMcKing]

"communist enabler"

An enabler of Communists, or a Communist who enables?

I have always thought of "_______ enabler" as referring to the latter- in that the enabler is the more dangerous effector overall (and just happens to be communist in this example).

[neodad]

Party pooper.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Well said and true. From your muse to the eyes of patriots in high places...

[bybybill]

Excellent post, pretty good too

[InkStone]

Pickrell, that's VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING. There's nothing like a history lesson to make it real. Thank you for such an excellent post.

[The Drowning Witch]

Now THAT'S a GREAT read. Well done. I'm printing this one out.

With all due credit to the author of course.

[Fielding]

Good story! Warm old bones.

[Billthedrill]

That's how the intel game works. You should never punish anyone for acting as Gallery did on his own initiative - initiative is what sets the American fighting man and woman apart from those who get shot for exercising any. It was said during the first Gulf War that an American Sergeant enjoyed more freedom of action than an Iraqi Colonel for this precise reason (he had better information, too).

But for those fond of wailing over how fantastically incompetent U.S. intelligence is - remember, we only ever hear about the failures.

[Enterprise]

"As it is, Rush's comments today were addressed to the Administration's seeming lack of concern about locating the missing weapons of mass destruction that bits of publicly exposed intelligence are hinting may have been moved to Syria."

I didn't hear those words, so I don't know if it is truly Rush's view. Maybe it is. But Rush has talked about President Bush's ability to use misdirection against the Democrats, who by the way, want to use the issue of "no WMDs" to impeach him. And I think President Bush is fully capable of using it against the enemies of this country too. But I repeat myself.

[Mama Shawna]

VERY thought provoking BTTT!

[Leto]

Excellent, the treachry & treason of the rats to exploit the Presidents inability & integrity to not expose our intelligence capabilities to defend himself politically is beneath contempt.

In the past when the security of our country was at stake, politics were put aside ( to an extent), no longer with the scum on the left.

[SquirrelKing]

After stabilizing the sub, the Guadalcanal took it in tow, and brought it back, complete with it's code books and code machine, into American possession!

Cool. Capture of the U-505. I knew an older fella in the Upstate who was part of that task force. Most exciting moment of his life, I think, and a great story.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Excellent post. I hesitate to speculate in public forums like this one for fear of coming too close to the mark and giving the wrong people ideas that might help them in their evil plans, and I'm just a humble civilian. I just posted the following in another thread about the port flap...

When my liberal friend says "Bush lied", my response to him is "Well I da*n well hope so!". We are at war after all, and to quote Churchill, "The first casualty of war is the truth". Somebody also said that the most effective lie is one that contains 90% truth. I really believe that a lot of the "news" as fed to and reported on by the antique media has that 10% fudge factor built into it. When I see something that just doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface of it, I'm inclined to think that, there must be "the rest of the story" that we, the civilian population are not privy to that sets the picture right.

I think that a lot of seemingly questionable decisions of the administration might resolve favorably if the back stories were known, perhaps 50 years from now we will get some huge surprises.

[arthurus]

An enabler of Communists, or a Communist who enables?

Yes.

[arthurus]

Think "Dubai" and "Ports" here.

[arthurus]

In the past when the security of our country was at stake, politics were put aside

To the left this is irrelevant. Yhis is not their country. They don't really have a country since the unpleasantness of 1989-90.

[tonycavanagh]

Not a bad post, and not a bad analaogy.

I was wondering when a thread like this would appear.

After all if we have evidence of WMD but no actual WMD the question is where are they and who controls them.

Now it would be nice to think we have them under observation.

If that is the case then there should not even be a hint of this.

If on the other hand we don't have them under observation then gentle hints that we do will.

1) Reassure the public.

2) May flush them out so we can observe where they are.

The fact that we have had gentle hints dropped around by white house and pentagon staffers lead me to believe that the latter is probably true.

Maybe after two many years in the Military and used to SNAFU I may be a little too cynical.

[pickrell]

"..I hesitate to speculate in public forums like this one for fear of coming too close to the mark and giving the wrong people ideas that might help them in their evil plans,.."

I know exactly what you mean. I nearly didn't post this at all, as I have refrained in quite a few other cases. But then, I have to look myself in the eye and say, "we at Freepertown aren't exactly retired army generals, stuck in front of the network cameras on the eve of the 1991 invasion to free Kuwait, and openly speculating on precisely where the spearheads will attack, and when." One can only hope that those persons don't blunder...

We are safely lost in the grass, immersed in the white noise of network chicks who, in their twenties, with decades of military experience, point out what the Marines are doing wrong. I fear, however, that Rush is in a unique category which gets noticed bigtime.

He would gladly, if I am any judge, participate in an artistically crafted campaign of disinformation if he thought it would misdirect the enemies of our country. But sometimes in the heat of another controversy, such as over our ports, I fear that undue attention may be called to areas that maybe are best left alone.

Fortunately, I am probably wrong, and only a few hundred reads will notice! And they are invariably the most loyal Americans. Americans who deserve to believe that our intelligence professionals come up with great intelligence... which is then compartmented, Gorelicked, and buried as unhelpful politically. Sorry- that was the last administration...

[tonycavanagh]

as an aside re your Too old to re-enlist; I too have reached that age.

During the Cold war in the mid 80s my country created a new force based on the Home Guard, called the Home Defense Force.

There job if war broke out was to guard certain areas of military and economic importance freeing up regular and reserve troops.

They were all ex reservists.

I think that would be a good idea, I would join straight away.

On the other matter, if we locations under observation, its still a very risky business and do we have all of them.

Still going with my gut feeling that a pooch has been screwed to borrow A American saying.