Booty

Just like mercenaries, cowboys and pirates back in the day often celebrated hard won (and easy wins too) by divying up the booty, Great Satan's regime changers honor that age old practise in their recent victory over the Mahdi army's no go zone (that magically changed into a combat zone) called Sadr City.

"Sadr City, a bastion of Sadr's Mahdi Army, had been off-limits to U.S. and
Iraqi forces since the fall of Saddam Hussein in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
But under the truce agreed earlier in May, the Mehdi Army agreed to lay down
their weapons and allow Iraqi forces to enter the slum. The militia, while
vowing not to hand over their heavy weapons, has melted away."

Formerly called 'Saddam City' after a wicked despot who lost his gig (and ultimately his life - though not before watching his sons get shot to pieces by the uparmored darling sons of Great Satan) this shi ite suburb of Bahgdad was name changed into Sadr City after a shi ite cleric who was assasinated by illegit secret police back in the day.

Shortly after the statue fell in al Firdos square, Sadr's son Mookie magically appeared with an armed milita called the Mahdi Army and systematically took over Sadr City.

Imposing a pocket caliphate complete with Sha ria courts, Sha ria police and of course - Sha ria executioners, Mahdi army couldn't be content with tormenting their hood - they had to act out and expand the torment - throughout the entire hood of Iraq.

Mookie proved really adept at preaching, tormenting girls, cussing Great Satan and gathering his minions in one place - just in time for Great Satan to sweep in and annihilate them.

Such urine poor tactical - even strategic accomplishments may have been interpreted that Mooki was actually an agent of Great Satan. Or an Iranian minion that was sucking the mullahs dry of resources like volunteers, cash and weaponry.

That was all pre Surge. Since Surge kicked in, Mookie had to split for safer climes and alledgedly pursuing jumped up Ayatollah status.

Admitting he totally sucked at anything except attracting fear, death and disaster for his vison of a heavily armed, easily offended and violently intolerant Mohammedist society.

Mahdi Army has had their collective booty handed to them at an alarming rate. Ran out of Basra, confronted in Karbala and finally driven back to their formerly safe as milk pocket caliphate of Sadr City.

Since the entire world has seen what illegit, heavily weaponized militias who can usurp the State's authority and sovereignity when ever the opportunity presents itself can do.

Thanks to Iran's fanboys in Lebanon - the Hiz'B'Allah, Iraq's gov realized the state needs to hold the monopoly on violence - lest it collapses and ceases to be a state.

Thus began the Sadr City blitz. Agreeing to uphold a ceasefire (which funnily enough seemed more like open combat) Mahdi Army promised to hang on to their heavy weaponry regardless.

Hiding, toting around such devices tended to function like M 16 magnets.

Sitting around the still steaming guts of Mahdi army - their Iranian Revo Guards, homegrown time traveling intolerants and sha ria law loving losers, Great Satan breaks out the list of treasures her killers of killers and the new Iraqi Army guys have won:

100 caches of weapons, including 295 mortar rounds, 367 AK-47s, 109
anti-tank mines, 39 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, an anti-aircraft gun,
six helicopter rockets, sniper rifles, improvised explosive devices, 123
grenades and artillery shells.

Great Satan also racked up with the foreign enemy (including the original Super Villan Imad himself) fed and funded Mahdi Army's 1st foray into semi intelligent weaponry of the non human kind.

Flying IEDs called IRAM (Improvised Rocket Assisted Mortars for the uninitiated)

Based on an obsolete, old school Chinese Multi rocketeer vehicle sino nomenclatured Type 63 towed 107mm, 12-tube multiple launch rocket, By design, essentially one rocket detonates in the tube - causing the others to detonate or launch and detonate.

IRAM also has a wonderful penchant for detonating right in the faces of their launch squads.

Unverified reports claim media items like dVd's on everything from how to interrogate captives, create Irainian style IED's to bootleg copies of 'Baywatch', Playboy's 'Girls Next Door' and several risque discs of the you know what type along with new enemy tactical weaponry make the treasure term 'booty' all the more appropo.

D Day

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!


You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year of 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.

Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

The Supreme Allied Commander

Appease Tease

There is a dual adage that kicks in about 9th grade time for girls in the Great Satan. Constantly sexed up in the media, the radio, VH 1, MTV 1 -3, the web - That's when it becomes very appearent that appearantly society is a society of players and hoes.



To snag attention - girls are taught very quickly to show off those delightful little assets to an extent that attention is on auto pilot. Like a pop tune from a few years back - there are no conflicting signals.

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - Dang right! It's better than
yours. I could teach you - but I'd have to charge."

The adage is dual edged -

"Oh, once you get involved, Everyone will look this way-so,You must
maintain your charm, Same time maintain your halo"

The adage is interpeted as:

"It's OK to dress like hootchie and act like a hootchie - just don't be a hootchie"

Fair enough. Sounds ok. Fun! even.

A very close friend followed that adage and learned a terrible lesson. The adage REALLY is

"Dress like a hootchie - act like a hootchie - and get treated like a hootchie - even if you're not a hootchie"

She learned that one the hard way - on her very first date - with a guy that she really, really liked.

In a way - this Grimm Brothers tail tale heart could be applied to the appease tease in Pakistan.

Since Pervez Musharrif and the Deathly Hallows succumbed to a real election back around St. Valentine's time that totally dissed his rather pitiful military offensives against the magically no go Federated Tribal regions.

Amazing too - the Army in the Land of the Pure was pretty adept at busting protesters and knocking heads of unarmed lawyers - but embarrassingly doofus grande at taking out armed Taliban fans, time traveling intolerants and foreign terrorist minions and super villans.

Cutting deals that were unenforcable with outlaws in lawless areas sucked too.
As the election showed though - non profit jaw flapping was the most popular of the ex General, au courant pres for life bizzarro tactics.

So, no big surprise when the new cats in the Land of the Pure began a do over for appeasing true intolerance. As one of the 'negotiators' told the gov

"We are fighting for the enforcement of Islam. If the government enforces Sharia today, we will stop our struggle. But we want to see practical steps from the government, and not just the promises."

What was spooky though is that Pakistan is cutting unenforceable deals with every gangster outfit in the No Go Zone. Accepting promises that have no means of being monitored - let alone enforced seems totally retarded.

"This strategy of accelerated appeasement only empowers groups with a
history of violence who are devoted to undermining Pakistan's sovereignty. In addition to creating breathing space for extremists (since it is the militants who determine when an agreement is broken), the accords allow a greater flow of recruits to the training camps and further violence.

At best, the politicians are shunting the problems down the road--and these problems will be larger by the time Pakistan is forced to confront them.

The new accords are also a threat to the United States. Baitullah Mehsud has told journalists that "jihad in Afghanistan will continue" regardless of negotiations, a sentiment echoed by other Taliban leaders.

As U.S. forces in Afghanistan face increased cross-border attacks, Americans at home should be concerned about the increase in the risk of another catastrophic terrorist attack.

The 9/11 Commission Report warned that a terrorist
organization requires "time, space, and the ability to perform competent planning and staff work" in order to carry out a 9/11-like attack. Pakistan's new accords provide al Qaeda and its allies with the requisite time and space"

The tease of appeasement is an illusion - a wicked deceitful play - like the hootchie theory. Just ask innocent bystanders Denmark. Or locals with a CD shop. In fact over 250 people have been killed just this year in terrorist attacks that came from the the very intolerants that the Land of Pure is 'negotiating' with.

If another T type attack is committed in Great Satan - chances are it could be traced back to Pakistan. The Land of the Pure's pussyfooting around is dangerous and not only for Great Satan - but for Pakistan and their precious magical No Go Zones as well.

Pic - "La la-la la la, Warm it up. La la-la la la, The boys are waiting"

Destiny

Iran’s problems extend to the Gulf States and include occupation and destabilization operations, among other practices, and the same applies to Lebanon, Yemen and other states. This confirms that Iran’s problem is not with Saudi Arabia or Egypt only, as Damascus is trying to convince us, rather; it is with all the countries in the Arab world.

Iran is not a superpower but it has a specific goal and it relies upon some groups that believe that their sectarian affiliation to Iran grants them power and stature – with the knowledge that vast majority of Shia, on all different levels, are aware of and always warn about the threat posed by the incumbent regime in Tehran.

Iran’s real problem lies in its desire to expand in the Arab world and to resume its exportation of its Islamic revolution. Many of us overlook the fact that Iran’s fundamental problem since [Ayatollah Ruholla] Khomeini’s revolution was exporting it, in addition to its interference in internal Arab affairs – and this is what [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s regime and its supporters are seeking to implement today.

The question here is "Why? And what has changed?" But the answer is clear: The Iranian regime found an advantageous opportunity in the fall of Saddam Hussein to fill in the void that was created in the region and to extend its influence in Iraq, and the same applies to Afghanistan

Washington presented Tehran with a priceless service when it removed its archenemies; Saddam in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The conflict is not Iranian-American as some would like to imagine; Iran believes that this is its historical opportunity to extend its influence in Iraq and Afghanistan and expand in the region whilst exploiting the vacuum and the shock that perplexed the Arabs the day Baghdad fell.


Iran wanted to resume what it had started in terms of exporting the revolution following Khomeini’s rise to power, but which was disrupted for a number of reasons, including the eight-year war with Iraq. This was followed by the rationality that was displayed by Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammed Khatami during their presidential terms in Iran.

The godfather of rapprochement at the time was King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, who was crown prince then. During that time, Washington wanted Saudi’s testimony that Tehran was responsible of the al Khobar bombings [29 May 2004] but the Saudis knew that it would have meant war with Iran. Riyadh did not give Washington that validation.

During Khatami’s presidency, Egyptian-Iranian rapprochement was increasing, with some minor differences – but both were speaking openly. At the time, Khatami pledged to change the name of the street that was named after [Anwar] Sadat’s assassin [Khalid Islambouli], but the matter was delayed because of the mayor of Tehran. And do you remember who that mayor was? Ahmadinejad!

The problem with Iran is not one about dialogue, rather; it is the crisis of the Iranian desire for expansion in the Arab world. Tehran wants to seize control of the region’s states and its objectives are clear – how else can one explain the Iranian petition against Google Earth over the name of the Arabian Gulf

This is not the attitude of someone that seeks rapprochement; rather, it stems from nationalistic or religious intolerance – and what is concealed is always greater than what is revealed.

A change in Iranian attitude without war cannot come about except from within Tehran internally, or through a Saudi-Egyptian stance that can yield results on the ground – but results that are far removed from Damascus’s deception

submitted by TaRiQ

4 Worst Places In The World For Girls

Women continue to have second-class status in many parts of the world, with little access to healthcare, education, or basic freedoms. UN's Human Development Report 2008 reveals a few spots where being a girl is a cruel fate.

Yemen
Share of women in Assembly of Representatives: Less than 1 percent
Female-to-male income ratio: 30:100
Female literacy rate: 35 percent

Nailing them young marriage wise is an ancient tradition in Yemen, with 48 percent of girls married by the time they are 18 and some brides as young as 12.

Result? Poor health for moms and precious little babies. 1 in every 39 girls die during pregnancy or childbirth, and 1 in 10 children doesn’t make it to a fifth birthday. Yemeni women live particularly restricted lives; for example, getting a passport and traveling abroad requires a husband’s or father’s permission.

Moldavia
Share of women in Parliament: 22 percent
Female-to-male income ratio: 63:100
Female literacy rate: 99 percent

First glance Moldavia looks kinda like Old Europe. The stats seem ok - hold up. Moldavia is a major slave trading state and girls are prime goods.

In a country whose per capita income (adjusted for purchasing power) is in the same league as India and Nicaragua, young women and girls often fall for recruiters’ promises of well-paying jobs abroad, only to be forced to work for pimps in places such as Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile, the government’s efforts to prevent trafficking and protect victims have been weak; some government officials and police officers have even been complicit in trafficking. But things might be looking up: The first female prime minister took office this year.

Papua New Guinea
Share of women in National Parliament: Less than 1 percent
Female-to-male income ratio: 72:100
Female literacy rate: 51 percent

Girls in Papua New Guinea can expect to receive only five years of schooling. What’s worse, accusing women of sorcery is often used as a form of social “payback.” If someone unexpectedly becomes ill or dies, the grievance is often taken out on an alleged “sorcerer”—almost always a woman—who is beaten, raped, or even killed in retaliation. Meanwhile, women have four times the risk of contracting HIV as men “because their social standing does not allow them to negotiate safe sex.”

Sierra Leone
Share of women in Parliament: 13 percent
Female-to-male income ratio: 45:100
Female literacy rate: 24 percent

Sierra Leone has the unfortunate distinction of having the worst gender inequality in the world, according to the U.N. Human Development Report’s gender index, which scores countries on health, education, and economic indicators for women. One in 8 women dies during pregnancy or childbirth, and women have an abysmal life expectancy of just 43 years, one of the lowest in the world. Girls can expect to receive only six years of schooling.

On top of it all, the horrors of Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, in which perhaps a third of the country’s women and girls suffered sexual violence, haunt women today. Widows struggle to get by, survivors of wartime rape face stigma and discrimination, and men continue to assault women with impunity. The country’s Parliament enacted laws last June that criminalize wife-beating and allow women to inherit property, but how well those measures will be enforced remains to be seen.

submitted by Foreign Policy Magazine

Cluster Cuddle

Cluster Bomb bans are the internat'l feel cool groove of the year. Celebrating a treaty just signed in Dublin - 100+ nations signed on. Including Great Britain. These concerned cats are

"concerned that cluster munition remnants kill or maim civilians, including
women and children, obstruct economic and social development, including
through the loss of livelihood, impede post-conflict rehabilitation and
reconstruction, delay or prevent the return of refugees and internally
displaced persons, can negatively impact on national and international
peace-building and humanitarian assistance efforts, and have other severe
consequences that can persist for many years after use."

Sounds like a good descript for nuclear weaponry. Or intolerant resistence movements.


Fair enough. Cluster bombs also create concern that a few well placed devices can shred dozens of soft-skinned military vehicles and seriously effect the attack of an entire mechanized infantry battalion. A few hundred could annihilate an army corps.

"Cluster bombs are likened to flying land mines. An artillery shell or
air-dropped casing breaks into a shower of tiny hand grenades, which in turn
spew shrapnel or steel needles over an expanse the size of a football field. A
soldier caught in the open hasn't a chance."

Designed for instances when the concept of Force Multipliers is at work. Like trying to halt a NoKo invasion of SoKo. Or a Syrian attack into Little Satan. Or repelling mass attacks on a massive scale like a Russia China war. Or even an Indian invasion of the Land of the Pure.

"To destroy an enemy in place (impact) or to slow or prevent enemy movement
away from or through an area (area denial). Impact submunitions go off when they
hit the ground. Area-denial submunitions, including FASCAM, ( a very deceptively happy name for the Family of Scattering Mines) have a limited
active life and self-destruct after their active life has expired.

The major difference between scatterable mines and placed mines is that the
scatterable mines land on the surface and can be seen. Placed mines may be
hidden or buried under the ground and usually cannot be seen. "

This is significant. The major players and deployers of clustering munitions like Red China, Russia, Great Satan, Pakistan, India, Little Satan didn't bother to show up in Ireland for the conference though the Pentagon did acknowledge there was such a gig. Concerning

"...humanitarian concerns of those in Dublin, cluster munitions have
demonstrated military utility, and their elimination from U.S. stockpiles would
put the lives of our soldiers… at risk."

Thus the feel good groove. With zero legal compulsion. Signatories are legally bound though there are no enforcement measurements. For those who blew off the entire event there are no formal constraints of any sort.

None of these cluster bomber nations hooked up with the 1997 Land Mine ban treaty either. So what purpose does the treaty hold?

For the signers, cluster weaponry is now immoral, illicit, illegit. There may be a chance that militaries will develop doctrine prescribing and proscribing scenerios.



San Francisco Chroni's editorial board editorially theorizes that

If these countries, especially the United States, won't join the ban, then
their leaders should set specific ground rules for their use and promise to rid
the terrain of unexploded munitions when the fighting stops.

Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have authored a
proviso in a spending bill signed by the president stating that cluster
munitions can't be sold to allies unless the weapons have a failure rate no
greater than 1 percent and will only be used against defined military targets.
It won't prevent the United States from using the weaponry, but it should curb
an infamous "Made in the USA" export.

It could also cause an increase in quality control. Many cluster munitions - an amazing 10% to 40% - fail to detonate and sweetly lie safe as milk until surrounded by innocent civilians.

"The Pentagon is readying a new generation of "smart" cluster bombs that
can be more precisely targeted and even ordered to self-destruct if they go
astray. These newer models wouldn't be banned by this week's treaty."

Not only that - Cluster munitions send very clear nonconflicting signals that nations who have them may very well use them.



Which should put a very large microscope of responsibility on regimes and resistence movements that tend to deploy and act out in innocent civilian rich turf that those "severe consequences" were severely self inflicted.

Vocab U - Z

U
UN - United Nations
 
Uncle Tony - Tony Blair - former Prime Minister of Great Britain and a true friend of America.

Universal Values, Universal Values of the Human Spirit - codified by Uncle Tony in DC speaking to Congress right after Great Britain and Great Satan regime changed the living daylights out of Iraq. "There is a myth that though we love freedom, others don't; that our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture; that freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law are American values or Western values; that Afghan women were content under the lash of the Taliban; that Saddam was somehow beloved by his people; that Milosevic was Serbia's savior. 
 
"...Members of Congress, ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit, and anywhere--anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. 
 
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. "
 
Ukrainia - Ukraine - former SSR of old school Soviet Union
UN Sec Reso - Resolution of UN's Security Council

V
Vlad - Vladimir Putin. Russia's seemingly leader for life. Ex KGB agent and Russia's current autocrat
voltiguer (French) - volunteer warriors
vertical envelopment - airborne tactics and attacks - paratroopers and or chopper borne troops,

W
Waltshiemers - the progressive deterioration in cognitive function - the ability to process thought (intelligence), consistenly maintaining a losing argument or debate in regards to a curious belief that Great Satan's support of Little Satan is the sole cause of the entire world's problems. Taken from Professor Stephen Walt and Professor John Mearshiemer's pitiful attempt reverse Great Satan's penchant for supporting democracies in a rough and tough hood. 
 
wmd - Weapons of Mass Destruction. Chemical - like mustard gas, biological like anthrax or ricin, nuclear like Hiroshima or Nagasaki or neutronic
 
warsaw pact - Way back in the last millennium when Russia, Great Britain and Great Satan annihilated Nazi time Germany, Russia felt the need to develop a counter to NATO. Warsaw Pact was the mirror alliance among Russia, occupied East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. Warsaw Pact collapsed right before Soviet Union
 
Waffen SS - Praetorian Guard of Nazi Germany. These cats define the term 'War Crimes'. Political solders at the regimes disposal intended to be special purpose troops for such duties as putting down counterrevolutions and strikes, conduct purges, and quell riots. Strict requirements for 'racially pure Aryans' to join. Waffen SS divisions - originally three - Liebstandarte (the fuhrer's personal bodyguard), Das Reich and Totenkopf (Death's Head's division) later expanded into a vast European army - even fielded a French division "Charlemagne', a Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian Danish division "Wiking" (Viking) and at wars end numbered nearly 30 units of varying size, experience and combat ability. 
 
Waffen SS won spectacular victories against Russia repeatedly but totally sucked in every battle against the British and Americans - except at Arnhem of "A Bridge Too Far" fame. Waffen SS were equally adept at killing armed enemies, disarmed captured combatants or innocent cviilians. Waffen SS' battlefield bona fides as elite troops are eternally stained with horrific atrocities with the most wicked, ungodly, murderous intent. 
 
Warrior - Great Satan's 2nd Infantry Division 

wickibit - a wicked hot hootchie ho
 
way back machine - played, old school thinking, desires - reactionary
 
Weenie Hut Juniors - originally a place from Spongebob Squarepants, a hang out in Bikini Bottom for nerds and little babies to hang out and discuss event of the day. Rebranded to define a blogsite by the notorious Great AND Little Satan hating, Iranian democracy protester undermining Dr Stephen M Walt . Hosted by Foreign Policy dot com "Weenie Hut Juniors" features some curious handwringing exercises.   

X
xformed - transformed

X Mtn Light - Great Satan's 10th Mountain light infantry division
Y
YAWN - boring

Ya'll, Y'all (Hillbilly) - everyone
yonder (Hillbilly) - in that direction
Z
zzzzz - tuning out incorrect arguments