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Friday, November 20, 2009
Relay: "Axis of Idiots" by Sgt. Major Pendry
When I read this post sent to me by email, it "rang my liberty bell" with clear truth through his words. He is a patriot not afraid to be "politically incorrect". Enjoy.
"The Axis of Idiots"
"The Axis of Idiots"
From the Podium:
J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC
FROM THE PODIUM
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the "runner-in-chief."Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake! You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool. You're not a Marine, sir.. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the "runner-in-chief."Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake! You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool. You're not a Marine, sir.. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
The Three Pillars of Political Influence
Pillar 1: The Government
Pillar 2: Large Corporations
Pillar 3: Investors
So let me get this right. The Government controls and taxes Large Corporations who are owned by Investors, and taxes those same Investors for their gains. OK. Got it.
So where do the interests of Politicians lie...beside staying in power? Corporations are prohibited from making political contributions, but not prohibited from lobbying for their own special interests. So where is the real influence over Politicians once elected. Well it must be through our only remaining pillar....the Investors. No I not talking about you and me with our measly accounts. I am talking about Wall Street Investors.
Maybe this is the reason there are five, (count em 5), investment lobbyists for every politician holding office today.
Can you imagine having five people who want to do nothing more than have you think their way and have huge finds available to do just that? It would be hard to keep an open mind.
This is what is wrong with our political system. Politicians don't want to reform lobbyist influence because they provide the real money that keeps them in power.
Our founding fathers were mostly successful merchants and farmers. They never dreamed of taking a dime from someone they did not earn outright. If you missed it, the key word there was "Earn". These men had integrity. In their book, "earn" would have never meant swaying my vote in the direction of the one offering to pay them for doing it.
So it's really hard to listen to elected politicians talk about integrity while bowing to special interests of Wall Street.
Want to see it in action. Answer this....Just who got the tax payer's money under the program called TARP...answer, Wall Street Executives.
Let's see. If I were a Wall Street Executive I might be thinking something like this...
"We screwed up by making unsound financial decisions and bought a bunch of toxic assets (sub-prime), and now because of my relationship with Treasury Executives, I not only can receive funds to recover our toxic investment, but I also get this years multi-million dollar bonus which I did not earn. Cool..."
I wish I had 1/10th of their bonus.
Thanks for the political integrity at my expense...and that of millions of taxpayers who are working hard just to stay above water.
Did you know that Politicians quickly learn to trade their political vote on one bill for a vote on other bills...that is a story for a different time.
Have a great day.
Pillar 2: Large Corporations
Pillar 3: Investors
So let me get this right. The Government controls and taxes Large Corporations who are owned by Investors, and taxes those same Investors for their gains. OK. Got it.
- Without Investors, there would be no Large Corporations, or money to lobby politicians.
- Without Government, there would be no oversight on the actions of Investors or Corporations, and no taxes would be taken. Elected Politicians would not receive salaries and compensations.
- Without Large Corporations, we could not enjoy the economies of scale, and there would be no money to lobby politicians.
So where do the interests of Politicians lie...beside staying in power? Corporations are prohibited from making political contributions, but not prohibited from lobbying for their own special interests. So where is the real influence over Politicians once elected. Well it must be through our only remaining pillar....the Investors. No I not talking about you and me with our measly accounts. I am talking about Wall Street Investors.
Maybe this is the reason there are five, (count em 5), investment lobbyists for every politician holding office today.
Can you imagine having five people who want to do nothing more than have you think their way and have huge finds available to do just that? It would be hard to keep an open mind.
This is what is wrong with our political system. Politicians don't want to reform lobbyist influence because they provide the real money that keeps them in power.
Kind of a symbiotic relationship don't you think?
Our founding fathers were mostly successful merchants and farmers. They never dreamed of taking a dime from someone they did not earn outright. If you missed it, the key word there was "Earn". These men had integrity. In their book, "earn" would have never meant swaying my vote in the direction of the one offering to pay them for doing it.
So it's really hard to listen to elected politicians talk about integrity while bowing to special interests of Wall Street.
Want to see it in action. Answer this....Just who got the tax payer's money under the program called TARP...answer, Wall Street Executives.
Let's see. If I were a Wall Street Executive I might be thinking something like this...
"We screwed up by making unsound financial decisions and bought a bunch of toxic assets (sub-prime), and now because of my relationship with Treasury Executives, I not only can receive funds to recover our toxic investment, but I also get this years multi-million dollar bonus which I did not earn. Cool..."
I wish I had 1/10th of their bonus.
Thanks for the political integrity at my expense...and that of millions of taxpayers who are working hard just to stay above water.
Did you know that Politicians quickly learn to trade their political vote on one bill for a vote on other bills...that is a story for a different time.
Have a great day.
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