During World War II, the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. Psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work They gave the script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale. What was that demoralizing message?

It had three main points:

1. Your President is lying to you.

2. This war is illegal.

3. You cannot win the war.

Does this sound familiar? Is it because Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Nancy, etc. have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on TokyoCNN, TokyoABC, TokyoCBS, TokyoNBC etc., to our troops?

 The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them.

 Come to think of it, Tokyo Rose told the troops she was on their side also

Robot Bartender

A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man replies "150" and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality, biochemistry, environmental interconnectedness, string theory, nanotechnology, and sexual proclivities. The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is really cool."

He decides to test the robot.

He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the perfectly prepared drink and asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man responds, "about 100." Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football, NASCAR, baseball, supermodels, favorite fast foods, guns, and women's body parts.

Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him and asks, "What's your IQ?" The man replies, "Er, 50, I think." And the robot says... real slowly,

"So... is.. your... party... gonna... nominate... Hillary... for...president ???

It's just a joke...don't flame me with "I love Hillary" comments.

Survey finds many Brits dial N — for naked

I don't personally care what state of dress, (or undress) someone is in when I talk to them on the telephone, I can only recall a handfull of times the thought has even crossed my mind. I really worry about anyone who commisions a study like this. Now, I'm always going to wonder.....reading news has poisened my mind!

 I wrote this in November. November 20th. That was was 4 months ago. That means 8 months until John gets home and 6 or 7 months before I leave.  John should be coming home for "mid-tour" sometime soon. I will give him a day or two with his family and then Al and I are going to pick him up and go fishing, and will attempt once again to rid the world of any and all alcohol.  I don't even drink...I'm probably gonna regret that when i wake up on the lake shore. :o)

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Christmas in Iraq

I have a very good friend in the Army. This friend and I have been together, off and on, since the mid 90's and have had quite a few shared experiences. People hate it when we get together because we always end up playing "remember when". You know that game. It's where you sit around saying, "Hey, remember that time when we...". Him and I have a good time playing though. We've seen a lot since we were both privates and we relate to each other extremely well.

 

The two of us have a mutual friend. John, the original friend, met this other guy in Germany and served in Iraq with him. I met this other guy a few weeks ago since he is now part of my unit. Him and I clicked and while talking, we discovered that we shared a common bond...John.

 

(For those of you who are non-military...get the gay thoughts out of your head. There is a bond shared between soldiers that have served and almost died together. We live together, shoot at people together, laugh and joke, share hardships and pain, and on and on.)

 

Anyway.....John is a Staff-Sergeant with years of experience. He has been to Kuwait, Iraq, Kosovo, The Checz Republic, etc. He has been leading soldiers since some of his soldiers were still in diapers. John is deploying back to Iraq next week. He doesn't want to go and is even convinced that he won't come back this time. I don't know how he got that thought in his head, but it's there. I say he doesn't want to go, and he doesn't,  But never once has he made an attempt to get out of it. He hasn't gone to see a Chaplain, he hasn't shot himself in the foot, he hasn't went AWOL. He has a duty to his country and his soldiers and he fully intends to do it to the best of his abilities. He's that kind of guy.

 

SOOOO...last night, the three of us met at Johns house. We drank a few gallons of Coors Light and told war stories. The more we drank, the louder it got. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I drank while the Hurricanes lost to Georgia Tech. We don't get together near enough.We made a point though, to get together last night. It may or may not be the last time I see John. He leaves next week and right before he gets back, the other guy and I leave. Hopefully, in 2 years, when we are all home again, we'll all sit down again and repeat this night with new war stories and tales of boredom and fright in the desert. If not, last night will be burnt into my mind forever. Wives and girlfriends cry when they see their loved ones off to war because they are afraid and don't know what may happen. Soldiers drink and laugh when they see a buddy off to war because they do know what may happen and they know they would much rather remember the laughing than they would the crying. I wish him the very best of luck and I hope Santa can still find him in Iraq.

 Vets back from Iraq with stories to tell

"Soldiers are nonpartisan," explained Staff Sgt. Larry Gill of the National Guard. "We could give a rat's heehaw about same-sex marriage or other issues. We're given a job to do, and you go out and do your job. Because if you don't, someone's going to get hurt or die."

I don't like the media. I usually don't agree with much they write while covering the war in Iraq. In this story, though, someone just wrote the story. They just put in the quotes and opinions of soldiers and left their personal opinions at home. This is a story of soldiers and the way they feel and their memories without the politics and Bush / Blair bashing.  If more of these were written and widely disbursed, perhaps sentiment at home would change some.

Is Tom Cruise taking on ‘South Park’?

 

It's no secret. Tom Cruise has went from the "gotta watch him" day of Top Gun to the "I think he's a friggin idiot and refuse to watch anything he plays  in" days of Scientology. It's not that he isn't a good actor. He is. He still has the good looks and smile to make women of all ages drool on themselves. He crossed the line though.  He left  the silver screen and let the world see his personality. He doesn't realize that 99.9% of us just don't care what he believes or thinks as long as he just makes movies. Now that I know what he believes and thinks, I could not care less about him and can't watch a movie with him in it without connecting his character to his real life, which ruins the whole movie experience. When will celebrities learn. We don't care about them personally and really don't care what they believe in personally or politically, we just want to be entertained.

 

Along the same lines...the Dixie Chicks have realeased a new song. It's no secret that I want to marry Natalie Maines and have her children. I think she is adorable, but once again...I don't care about her political views. She should express them at a ballot box, not on a stage. The Dixie Chicks went from the hottest country group in America to has-beens, overnight. I would have thought they would have just stayed out of the limelight for a while and then reappear with a non-contriversial song. Seems like that would have been the smart thing to do. Of course, they didn't. Go to www.dixiechicks.com and read the lyrics. It may just be me, but they seem a bit inflamatory. It's an odd path to a successful comeback for a group whose fan base is made up of the most patriotic group of people in America. Say what you want about Country music fans. Make the trailer park jokes all you want. Ridicule NASCAR, fishing, and beer drinking. Those are the people who listen to Country Music, and strangely enough, those are the people who will fight to the death to protect what is American. The Chicks need to figure out who pays their bills and adjust accordingly.

Army opens criminal probe of Tillman’s death

This story both saddens and amazes me. Pat Tillman was a great guy. He was a proud, patriotic American that did what few people could truthfully say they would do. He put his NFL career on hold to be a soldier. He didn't "give it up", he just put it on hold till he could get back. I'm the first to admit that I admire what Pat Tillman did. I don't agree with all this investigation B.S. though.

There have been more than 2000 people killed in Iraq and Afganistan and more than one have been accidentally killed. Only one was a NFL star though, so there is only one very public investigation. What about the rest of the people that died needlessly because of a miscommunication or mistaken identity? What about Patrick Ray Nixon, a person I wrote about in my last post who may have been killed by friendly bombs? Whats going on with that criminal investigation?

I guess my problem is I want everything fair. I think the same standard should be applied across the board. Oficers should get the same punishment as enlisted soldiers for the same crimes. The poor and unknown should get the same attention as the rich and famous. Besides, when you get right down to it, Pat Tillman was a Specialist in the U.S. Army. He was frightened, in the dark, fighting and unknown enemy. The person that shot him was probably another enlisted guy, frightened, in the dark, fighting an unknown enemy. Want to prosecute someone? Prosecute the people in the Tactical Operations Center that didn't let the units know they were operating so close to one another, but don't mess with the poor schmuck that was just trying to do his job and get home alive.

Now then, about  the Army telling a lie and informing Pat Tillmans family that he died a hero in a firefight. We all know every person on this earth tells a lie every single day. As far as I am concerned, this was one of the best, most useful lies ever told. When I go to Iraq, If I should die, no matter how it happens, even if I drown in crap by falling into a latrine, PLEASE, PLEASE, tell my family I died a hero, fighting for what I believe in. Let my children remember their father as a Great man and tell their future spouses that their father died a hero. Let my wife find some solice in the fact that I died doing great things. Let me be remembered as something that may bring comfort, no matter how slight, to my loved ones. Don't let them be bitter and hateful for the rest of their lives. Don't use me to divide a country and provide fodder to those with whom I don't agree. Unless I am in the act of comitting a crime when I die, just please  tell my family I died a hero, fighting for what I believe in, and doing the job I love most.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;Age will not weary them, nor the years contemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,We will remember them.

(Poem stolen from and reposted without permission from 1POW.)

In your haste to ridicule the president, you mentioned that he lives in a “bubble” and is out of touch. To that end, you are angry over his reaction (or lack thereof) toward New Orleans. Yes, the public is quite tired of hearing “New Orleans” as it means having to spend more of our taxpayer dollars to bail out a city that:

Through their own fault, created this mess.

They chose to ignore the levee problem for 42 years.

The city has a very rich history of graft and corruption.

The city has the highest crime rate and the highest rate of illiteracy in the nation.

Even at its best of days, the city was quite dirty and shamefully ugly.

 Before Katrina hit the city, the mayor and other officials did absolutely nothing to safeguard resources. Hundreds of school busses and other government vehicles were left abandoned to become ruined by the flooding. In fact, the mayor of a city who is already well below sea level DID NOT order a mandatory evacuation until 24 hours before the storm hit. This in itself is criminal and the good mayor has yet to answer for his inactions.

The resulting misery was only more pronounced by wonderful New Orleans citizens who looted businesses, not for food or water, but also for expensive electronics, tools, and sporting goods. Of course, the press decries the idea that these people are looters.

 New Orleans, yet again, is confronting graft, corruption, and outright theft even after the hurricane. In fact, it is downright embarrassing.

Once the finger pointing began, we found out that Louisiana was too busy playing politics and would not let portable emergency rooms, police with firearms, or Red Cross assistance into the state. Rather, every one of these resources went across the state line and assisted Mississippi, who welcomed them with open arms.

Fine New Orleans citizens who were evacuated to Houston, San Antonio, and other cities are responsible for increased violent crime rates within the host cities.

Thousands of FEMA trailers sat empty because Louisiana was having difficulty trying to figure out where to put them. This is laughable.

Now we have teary-eyed people being interviewed by the media demanding that we (the taxpayers) keep paying for their hotel rooms because they have nothing. In seven of the interviews, the woman was being interviewed while holding a baby while the guy, shirtless, was lying on the bed. Why was not anything said about he, or she, getting a job?

It is for these reasons that the people of the United States are tired of hearing about Katrina. We are sick of sending money to a filthy, corrupt city that is still sinking! I, who lives in Orlando, have endured and survived four hurricanes in the past two years. In one year, two of them passed overhead while the other one grazed us. It was MY responsibility to have adequate insurance on my house. It was MY responsibility to stockpile enough food and water to last until I could get some more, legally and safely. The government had nothing to do with it. They did not make me live in Florida; I chose to live here and, as such, am responsible for what happens to me during natural disasters. The only thing I expect the government to do is to repair the infrastructure so that life can move on.

I am curious though, when did Katrina and the lack of action by the governor of the state and the mayor of the city become solely George Bush’s fault?

Actually, it is you who are in the bubble, not the rest of America

Terry S. Jones

Sanford, Florida