One Lone Conservative's Reality in a Sea of Liberal Delusion's
couchman's Articles In Current Events
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 ...
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 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 3, 2004 by couchman
The following is a story by Banafshed Zand-Bonazzi for FrontPageMag.com that was posted a few days. The story is an intresting bit of reporting...the kind thats very rarely reported by the general media here and abroad.....if even part of the story is correct....it does signal some good news out of Iran....but thats just my opinion..... By Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2004 A few weeks ago, Mamoun Fandy, a media analyst, syndicated columnist a...
September 27, 2004 by couchman
The following is an Op-Ed in the New York Times by David Brooks regarding the UN's action or in-action over the growing situation in Sudan. And so we went the multilateral route. Confronted with the murder of 50,000 in Sudan, we eschewed all that nasty old unilateralism, all that hegemonic, imperialist, go-it-alone, neocon, empire, coalition-of-the-coerced stuff. Our response to this crisis would be so exquisitely multilateral, meticulously consultative, collegially cooperative an...
August 14, 2004 by couchman
We have all seen the reports and heard the news speculating that the U.S. military is having problems finding troops to deploy into both Iraq and Afghanistan all the while trying to keep up our military commitments around the numerous other spots the world over. From the majority of stories or two-line snip-its, one would get the idea that the military must be too small and needs to add more soldiers, sailors, airmen & marines fast and I might agree if I didnt do the kind of reading I do on ...
May 14, 2004 by couchman
In the Aftermath of the brutally barbaric killing of Nick Berg , the usual reactionary questions are being asked such as why Berg was in Iraq, why didn't the US-led coalition protect him, etc; but they are just part of the course and are not unexpected by me or many others. But while I was gonna write bout Bergs death as my main talking or maybe what should be called bitchin' point, I decided to do bit of a side story related to the incident at hand, i.e. the reaction in the middle-east over it...
April 27, 2004 by couchman
Recently....in a very non-DOD approach, the Department of the Army has given the green-light to transfer 4 of the 5 remaining prototypes of the M8 Armored Gun System (AGS) to the 82nd after an Operational Needs Statement from the 18th Airborne Corps (of which the 82nd is part of) at Fort Bragg was 'kicked' upstairs to Army Forces Command that spelled out the the divisions need for a rapidly deployable vehicle with firepower that could be airdroped from an aircraft. The 82nd's requirement fo...
April 18, 2004 by couchman
This past saturday, King Abdullah of Jordan revealed that a major plot to detonate several bombs ,in the Amman area of his country, has links to Al-Qaida was thwarted. The three intended targets were the HQ of Jordanian Intelligence, the Jordanian Prime Ministers office in Amman as well as the US Embassy. While threats of bombings are not uncommon, one factor shows and increasing shift from the use of general explosives....the fact that materials for the construction of both a chemical bo...
April 17, 2004 by couchman
In the early morning hours, foreign invaders attacked the United States using aircraft to launch a devastating blow that shocked the psychie of the American people and called into question their willingness to fight back. It was the first time in history that an attack of this magnitude and daring was launched against American soil, in its aftermath lay thousands of dead and dying and an almost bitter taste of revenge needing to be quenched in the minds of all in the US. Who is to b...
March 16, 2004 by couchman
Recently, the Spainish city of Madrid was rocketed by a seris of well times & coordinated explosions that tore through several train stations this past Thursday. In the wake of the bombings, 200 innocent civilians lay dead & over 1,400 more lay wounded. They were perhaps the worst acts of violence in Spain's recent history and a wake-up call for the world. While the blame for the bombings was initially laid at the doorstep of ETA ( Basque Separatists ) by the Aznar government, analysts ...