http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antimilitary/ en-us Fri, 8 May 2009 21:36:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247213/posts CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid @ 5:16 pm by Michael O'Brien CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance. "From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid,... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247213/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 21:36:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240242/posts AFTER a mere 100 days, the "Obama Doctrine" for our foreign and security poli cies has emerged. And it's terrifying. The combination of dizzying naivete, dislike of our allies, disdain for our military, distrust of our intelligence services and distaste for our own country promises the worst foreign policy of our lifetimes. That includes President Jimmy Carter's abysmal record of failure. The core tenets of the Obama Doctrine to date would make a charter member of the Weather Underground cheer: We're to blame. If there are problems anywhere, they're America's fault. This central conviction of leftist ideology appears to have... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240242/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:32:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240020/posts Two deputies were murdered over the weekend by a member of the Florida National Guard who was “severely disturbed” by the election of Barack Obama, and believed the US government was conspiring against him. Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240020/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232786/posts WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his "decisive" handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days. Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232786/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:50:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231263/posts Reporting from Carlisle Barracks, Pa. -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that the Obama administration would move cautiously in shifting policies on gays serving openly in the military, but he signaled that service members should prepare for possible changes. In his most extensive remarks to date about the ongoing ban on gays who serve openly, Gates said he and other military leaders had "begun a dialogue" with President Obama about the issue. Obama promised during last year's presidential campaign to end the ban on gays in the military, and the White House said recently that it was reviewing... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231263/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231546/posts WASHINGTON -- The former head of the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush warned Friday that the release of documents detailing harsh interrogation methods holds major risks for U.S. security. Bush's former CIA chief added that the release will have a chilling effect on officers assigned to conduct interrogations. "Whenever you release material that secretly relates the way we conduct operations against terrorists you run two risks. One is that you're giving terrorists insights into things they need to prepare for, and they do prepare. And the second thing is you're sending a message to our allies... Fox News / Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231546/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:13:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225494/posts Forty years ago today, Harvard University caved to pressure from violent student radicals and banned the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) from campus. The ban continues because Harvard finds the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy too offensive to be countenanced. In those same 40 years, Harvard has hosted at least one terrorist - Yassir Arafat - and the former president of Iran’s terror-sponsoring regime. The latter, Mohammad Khatami, was asked to speak on the eve of 9/11. Current Harvard policy is to accommodate Muslim fundamentalists who demanded single-sex gym time in the name of Sharia law. They even... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225494/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:56:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225325/posts SAN DIEGO — Hope is the political message of the moment, courtesy of President Barack Obama. Tell that to Lincoln High School students Jennifer Astudillo, Sakeenah Shabazz and Alex Velarde, a trio of increasingly polished political activists. Sakeenah, 16, said hope isn't part of her political equation. “Always go in prepared for the worst, not with your hopes up,” she said. What they've displayed instead is persistence, as they've led a group of high school students in persuading the San Diego Unified School District board to shelve campus air-rifle marksmanship programs. The board confirmed the decision Tuesday, although members eased... The San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225325/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 02:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223678/posts Barack Obama, concerned about offending Britain and Germany, rebuffed strenuous attempts by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to persuade the new American president to make a trip to Normandy this week. White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President. French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through the cemetery... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223678/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2208056/posts <p>Most students at Columbia do not have firsthand knowledge war. Military violence has been a vicarious experience, channeled into our minds to television, film, and print.</p> <p>The more sensitive among the struggle to extrapolate experiences of war from our everyday experience, discussing the latest mortality statistics from Guatemala, sensitizing ourselves where parents were time memories, or incorporating into our framework of reality as depicted by a mailer or a Coppola. But the taste of war-the sounds and chill, the dead bodies-are remote and far removed. We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experienced down and tour hearts, and taking continual, tangible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task. Two groups on campus, Arms Race Alternatives (ARA) and Students Against Militarism (SAM) work within these mental limits to foster awareness and practical action necessary to counter the growing threat of war. Through the emphasis of the two groups differ, they share an aversion to current government policy. These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track.</p> The Sundial (Columbia University) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2208056/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:47:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178053/posts There has been some confusing reporting in the past few days regarding President Barack Obama's plans for the Defense Department budget. Officially, the Office of Management and Budget is claiming that it will increase the budget by 8 percent. But because most of the Iraq and Afghanistan war costs have been funded through supplemental appropriations rather than the regular department budget, total military funding remains a mystery. Mark me down as suspicious. I have been told by sources at the Pentagon that they have been told not to expect full funding of all existing programs. And there is evidence that... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178053/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175800/posts The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion -- a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News. FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175800/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112802/posts Obama: "But it’s also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it’s important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war,... CNN Transcript via Clipsandcomment.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112802/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:12:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104418/posts Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft. But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn't think women should have to register. Also, Mr. Obama would consider officially opening combat positions to women. Mr. McCain would not. "Women are already serving in combat [in Iraq and Afghanistan] and the current policy should... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104418/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101050/posts When I heard Barack Hussein Obama mention last night that the government invented computers, I immediately thought it was invented by kids (not Al Gore) working in a garage. Guess I was wrong as today I discovered the following on another blog: Was this a McCain moment by obama? Quick takeaway from the 2nd presidential debate - Obama claimed specifically that U.S. government invented the computer, and Obama was very wrong. The computer was developed over a long period of time, and by most historical accounts trace back to Europe with British and German inventors in the late 19th and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101050/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:53:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096914/posts Should public schools open their doors to military recruitment, of any type, on campus? That was the question San Francisco voters took up in 2005, when they overwhelmingly passed Proposition I, which urged the city's schools to reject military recruitment in favor of college scholarship programs. The San Francisco Unified School District responded in 2006 by beginning to phase out of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, a long-standing and well-funded recruitment instrument of the Department of Defense, which targets San Francisco students of color, often from poor families, who attend seven public high schools, while steering clear of the... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096914/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085255/posts Supporting our troops By Steve Almond September 18, 2008 PERHAPS the most insidious byproduct of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been a reflexive sanctification of the military. To put this in bumper stickerese: Support the Troops. Well, I have an ugly confession to make: I don't support the troops - at least not unconditionally. When somebody tells me they serve in the military, my first impulse isn't to say, "Thank you for your service!" like those insufferable chickenhawks on talk radio. My first impulse is to say, "I'm sorry to hear that." Because I am. I'm sorry to... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085255/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:10:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050929/posts The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers. And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness. On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair... Tines on UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050929/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037105/posts (06-26) 19:20 PDT San Francisco -- San Francisco public high schools will no longer award physical education credit to students enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the Board of Education voted today in a hastily scheduled meeting. The 4-to-1 vote will likely cripple the 90-year-old military education program that serves 1,200 students because most use it to satisfy their p.e. requirement. "If students really love the program, they'll take it anyway," said board president Mark Sanchez, who has led opposition to JROTC because of its ties to the military. Gregory Wing, who will be a sophomore at Lowell... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037105/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034276/posts WORKING out last Monday, I heard a campaign flunky on TV insist that progress in Iraq is an illusion. "The war isn't over until all of the troops come home!" she grumped. Guess we're still at war with Germany. And Japan. Even Italy. Oh, and let's not forget all of our military bases occupying the Confederacy. The poor woman knew nothing about warfare, history - or Iraq. She just wanted to see her candidate win in November and wasn't going to let reality get in the way. And one look told you she didn't even know any "troops." But after... NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034276/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:53:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029832/posts The mainstream media and Republican operatives are finally starting to notice the connections between presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (IL) and the terrorist supporting group, Code Pink.The Politico reporter Jonathan Martin has an article this evening on the scandal:A co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, which has made a name for itself by interrupting hearings on Capitol Hill, is a fundraising bundler for Barack Obama. Jodie Evans has pledged to raise at least $50,000 for Obama, according the Democrat's campaign site. According to research being circulated by GOP sources, Evans has a record of inflammatory statements such... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029832/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026735/posts "Finally, a member of Congress has announced a laudable plan to do something about the abusive behavior of demonstrators of the anti-war left. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has introduced legislation to deal with what he has described as “a growing number of our fellow citizens [who] are abusing their right of free expression through vandalism and violent protest aimed at military recruiters and those who wish to serve.”" Finally someone talking serious about Code Pink's anarchical activities. There are a lot more examples of Code Pink's crimes then noted in the article.... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026735/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026067/posts I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026067/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:51:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024807/posts "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill, English economist & philosopher (1806-1873) The War, a documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novich is the... Lebanese-Council Coordination Council (LCCC) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024807/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021862/posts "In World War Two we didn't have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own," he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: "The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic." Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021862/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 13:30:30 GMT