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March 24, 2005 by couchman
Today, a Canadian immigration board denied political asylum for Jeremy Hinzman, thus serving as an initial notice to all US military deserters that their hopes of evading military duty (for which they all volunteered for), evading facing the legal ramifications of their position (electing to run instead of facing the music as it were is cowardly). Hinzman is not alone in his flight from serving honorably, at least 7 other deserters hiding out in Canada greated Jeremy's denial in the same ...
March 23, 2005 by couchman
Caught this on FoxNews.com, thought some might find this somewhat ironic...if not sick.... "NEW YORK — Paul Volcker's investigating panel on Wednesday said the rationale used by the United Nations to justify paying Benon Sevan's (search) legal fees in the Oil-for-Food probe is "incorrect." The assessment follows the announcement Tuesday that the United Nations agreed to reimburse Sevan, the suspended head of the U.N. Oil-for-Food program (search) in Iraq, for legal fees he incurred d...
February 28, 2005 by couchman
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::BEGIN TRANSMITION:::::::::::::::::::::::: Syria, land of terrorists, goverment hardliners and the region's/ worlds only other Baathist controlled nation. Recently, Syria is getting more and more attention from both media and goverments around the world....all of it bad, but why? Well, for starters, since before the war in Iraq, Syria has been accused of harboring former Iraqi regime elements as well as an access point for foreign fighters in Iraq, someth...
December 16, 2004 by couchman
The following is a brief overview of the actions that took place for 43 days during World War II, 60 years ago today...My undying gratitude goes out to those of the "Greatest" generation who made sacrifices in the deaft of fascists...All gave some, some gave all!....Least we forget! The Battle of the Bulge which lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945 was the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated. More than a million men fought ...
December 14, 2004 by couchman
Europe, the War on Terror, and the world of J.R.R. Tolkien -When will the Ents of Europe awaken? By now everyone, thanks to the wonders of moviemaking, has been re-introduced to the imaginative world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s (1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Populating his world of Middle Earth richly with humans and elves to hobbits and dwarves which have become the staple of the fantasy genre but it is his use of the Ents whic...
December 10, 2004 by couchman
Been a while since I posted a quote here...but after I read this one from General George S. Patton Jr., I couldn't pass up the chance to post it for your enjoyment/criticism.....I will list the origonal then the paraphrased one for todays times.... "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and ...
December 3, 2004 by couchman
Over the past several weeks, several letters from various soldiers/marines sent home have been published in papers or read aloud on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. I thought I'd list one myself that I was e-mailed to me from a friend in the service....it's among many that are making their way among the various services...and have instinctivly began finding their way to civilian eyes....in some small way it may allow us humble "Armchair Generals & Coffee-Klutch Diplomats" a look into the dangerous an...
November 20, 2004 by couchman
Yet again...after trolling through way too many sites...I find this intresting if somewhat alarming report concerning the Norwegian goverments successful attempts at banning a certain class of people at its rememberance anniversary for Kristallnacht....who is the group...Radical Muslims? Neo-Nazi's? Gremlins? No..this group of people who must be dissuaded from participating in this event..from showing any signs, symbols, flags,etc were not some radical idiotic element..no...they were the very...
November 10, 2004 by couchman
Okay....I was jumping from site to site when I came across this intrestingly written opinion piece regarding Islamic Fundamentalism on Victor David Hanson's site...take note of the authors name when you read it...then chime in with your own thoughts......... November 1, 2004 Islamic Fundamentalism It's Natural Appeal and Inevitable Defeat by Raymond Reda Ibrahim Raymond Ibrahim is a graduate student in the United States. One of the fundamental problems facing the Middle...
November 8, 2004 by couchman
After the Nov.2 elections in which President Bush was re-elected, I spent several days looking through some of Europe's own media for their take on the election and on the U.S. electorate that voted for the candidates....needless to say most were shall I say downright nasty and highly critical for the most part..not of President Bush...but of all the John and Jane Doe voters living in Anywhere, USA....the following is an exception to whats been written in Europe bout the elections that I disc...
October 30, 2004 by couchman
The following is a report written by Nile Gardiner, regarding the very real and very disturbing possibility that the U.N., that oh so wonderful international establishment internationalists like Kerry love and realists like myself and a growing number of Americans have begun to hate... Is the U.N. Meddling in the U.S. Presidential Election? by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. October 27, 2004 The ‘revelation’ that 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives have allegedly gone mi...
October 28, 2004 by couchman
This is the second part of my article.........lets continue with those for Kerry shall we and my colorful biased memo's Germany: In a statement by Gert Weisskirchen, foreign policy expert for the ruling Social Democratic Party, "...I cannot imagine that there will be any change in our decision not to send troops, whoever becomes president. That said, Mr. Kerry seems genuinely commited to multilateralism and as president he would find it easier than Mr. Bush (note he failed to say Pre...
October 21, 2004 by couchman
I was sufing the net when I popped on to Victor D. Hansons site..as I usually do.... when I ran across this story he wrote...as an observation...its fairly good...even it some may disagree with it...I do think he does pose some basic question we sould ask ourselves where this Anti-Americanism began...for it surely didnt start with president Bush's election in 2000 nor did it start with the Iraqi war...and if it didnt start there..then when?and why? October 16, 2004 Why Do They Hate Us?...
October 19, 2004 by couchman
The cease-fire Spain bought from the Islamo-fascist terrorists...paid for with their capitulation after the Madrid bombings seems to be constucted entirely of tissue paper.....though no offical document was ever signed...no summit held....the Socialist party and Spanish electorate in general chose to look back in Europes past and pick the one course of action that history has shown to be ineffectual at best.....appeasement. I almost await Spanish PM Zapatero walking out into a press confere...
October 9, 2004 by couchman
Since October 0f 2001, in an effort to pay homage to those who died in the 9/11 attacks and solidarity with the U.S., Spain's goverment has invited American troops to join them in marching in their national holiday parade (the date on which Christopher Columbus' sighting land on his first westward journey)...but not any longer.... But since then a new Socialist goverment has come to power, reversing former PM Aznar's central-right goverments pro-US foreign policy and angering Washington b...