The REAL American Pie

I, being as old as I am, grew up in the 70's. One of the songs I remember and really liked is Bye, Bye Miss American Pie by Don McLean. This, unlike the recent move series called American Pie had real substance and meaning. Although I thought the movies had some really funny moments, there is just something wrong with turning an American icon, Apple Pie, into a means to sexually satisfy oneself. I did not really think that joke was all that funny. Any way, I digress... The song, when I heard it in my younger years was a big hit and I, being as young as I was, could remember the catchy chorus like all the kid my age. As I grew older, I began to realize the song had some real meaning. While I was wandering the net looking for another McLean tune, Starry Starry Night, (another song with a lot of meaning, but I'll leave that for another post) I ran across a great site called Understanding American Pie. I whole heartedly recommend the site for your reading.

Here is the site.

http://www.understandingamericanpie.com/

What really burns me up is...

the MSM. That is what. There are over 100,000 military troops and untold number of civilians over here working hard, most with their lives on the line, to rebuild this country. Who gets the headlines..... the bad apples and bad news......

---Abu Gareb, a bunch of adolescent idiots who decided make an attempt at what they thought was having fun during the wee hours of the morning, they were caught in their criminal idiocy and punished. As well they should have been. However, the first couple of months I am over here, that was all that was on the news. When I was mobilized in February, that story was already old news, the military was already investigating and moving towards Courts-Martial for the accuseds. However, once the MSM found there were pictures--well, you would have thought the military had been caught with its pants down and the blame went all the way to the White House for the actions of some idiot privates and sergeants on the ground in Iraq.

---The unit that refused a mission a few weeks ago. (I can not comment on the facts of an on- going investigation directly) However, I can say there is no "we don't have uparmor" defense in refusing an order to go on a mission. What ever happened to form up, were moving out, on foot! We as a military and a society have gotten into the mode of war should be fought without any cost. Ideals worth fighting for such as liberty and freedom will require sacrifice. It seems that there is now a belief that if we just armor more, Individual Body Armor, up armor HUMVVE, etc we will be able to save all lives in combat. I am not suggesting that we should not endeavor to protect the troops as much as possible, lord knows I want armor. However, we can not allow the mentality of the troops to be, if there is no armor, or not enough armor then we don't go. That would mean the mission will not be accomplished. In this case, the mission was to deliver needed supplies to posts out in the middle of no where, posts that sorely need the supplies.

---the "lost" munitions flap. PLeeeze, this place is awash in munitions. Near here there is a huge bunker complex with all types of munitions scattered to the high heavens. There are civilian contractor working furiously to destroy it. There are munitions and weapons dating all the way back to WWII, that is 60 years! Moreover, since this "story" broke, the lefties have been huffing about why can't the Bush administration explain its self, Huh, huh??? They seem to believe that war, or any real life endeavor can be neatly played like a plot line in a 2 hour move. It escapes all the conspiracy theory loonies that the military is a hugh behemoth of an organization. Hell it is hard to find a light bulb sometimes in the Army, much less be able to answer a complex question of what happened 18 months ago while divisions were on a battlefield moving through an area handing off responsibility. I am not saying that the Army is not capable of screwing up, (which God knows it has in the past in spades) but to bring up an issue and expect it to answer the questions in nanosecond time, is asinine.

Also, to expect it to keep tract of every thing, looters, museums, chemical facilities, bad people we want to catch, not to mention killing of enemies on the battle field is preposterously. To do all the thing the MSM (and the Dems) wanted the military to do we would have needed a force as large as that used in WWII. BTW, even with that force in WWII, there was still those problems in 1945. The fact of the matter is this military (all voluteer) has done an extrodinary job and I just do not see, the MSM, the Dems or Mr Kerry saying anything positive about what is going on over here.

There are a lot of positive things, I see schools being built, factories being opened, people going back to work, getting their houses back in order. Everytime I look when out on convoy, there are new satellite dishes up (these were banned under Saddam). Also, there are NO more government sponsored systematic rape and murder programs in effect in Iraq. The US is looked at as liberators, not conquerors. As is has been for a long time in US history.

But do you see the good in the news as much as and with as much fanfare as the bad? NOOOO.

There now I feel beeter. (well for at least a few minutes)

Now in Kerry's corner....OBL!

Here is and excerpt from OBL's ramblings :

I am so surprised by you. Although we are in the fourth year after the
events of Sept 11, Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you,
and obscuring the main reasons and therefore the reasons are still existing to
repeat what happened before. I will tell you the reasons behind theses
incidents.

I will be honest with you on the moment when the decision was taken to
understand. We never thought of hitting the towers. But after we were so fed up,
and we saw the oppression of the American Israeli coalition on our people in
Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind and the incidents that really touched
me directly goes back to 1982 and the following incidents. When the US permitted
the Israelis to invade Lebanon with the assistance of the 6th fleet. In these
hard moments, it occurred to me so many meanings I cant explain but it resulted
in a general feeling of rejecting oppression and gave me a hard determination to
punish the oppressors. While I was looking at the destroyed towers in Lebanon,
it came to my mind to punish the oppressor the same way and destroy towers in
the US to get a taste of what they tasted, and quit killing our children and
women.

We didn't find difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration due to
the similarity of his regime and the regimes in our countries. Whish half of
them are ruled by military and the other half by sons of kings and presidents
and our experience with them is long. Both parties are arrogant and stubborn and
the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared
during the visits of Bush to the region while people from our side were
impressed by the US and hoped that these visits would influence our countries.
Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military. And was
feeling jealous they were staying for decades in power stealing the nations
finances without anybody overseeing them. So he transferred the oppression of
freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it the Patriot Law to fight
terrorism. He was bright in putting his sons as governors in states and he
didn't forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to
Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times.

We agreed with Mohamed Atta, god bless him, to execute the whole operation
in 20 minutes. Before Bush and his administration would pay attention and we
never thought that the high commander of the US armies would leave 50 thousand
of his citizens in both towers to face the horrors by themselves when they most
needed him because it seemed to distract his attention from listening to the
girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention
to airplanes butting the towers which gave us three times the time to execute
the operation thank god.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al Qaeda. Your security is in your hands. Each state that doesn't mess with our security has automatically secured their security.

First, whenever someone tells me they "will be honest with me" I immediately get suspicious. If you have to tell me your being honest, you are most likely doing the opposite. Second, this statement has a begging ring to it, not the fire and brim stone crap he usually spouts. Finally, it must be comfoting to extreme Bush hating lefties that OBL is persuaded by their rhetoric. Stolen election.... Bah.