Article: Is Isis already living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

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This article in the "Red Flag News", although I'd hardly call it a "news" source is wrong. For several reasons, but one of the first most glaring ones is in the 2nd paragraph or so, where it says that the President is first and foremost supposed to protect the people. 

That's not constitutionally correct as you'd think that a news source claiming to be all about the Constitution should know. 

The president (executive branch) is sworn to enforce the law that is written by the legislative branch of government. We have checks and balances. The legislative branch makes law, the judicial branch evaluates the law, and the executive branch executes (or carries out) the law. 

Starting an article off with an incorrect foundation just lets the rest of it go on incorrectly as well. 

As many people in the military, who I know personally, will attest (and they're not democrats at all), GWB messed up Iraq and that war was completely mismanaged. If it had been done properly in the first place, then things would be completely different, but they weren't and then there was a clusterfuck for Obama to try to clean up. But there's no way to clean anything up when Congress won't do anything except go on vacation and won't agree to anything, and blames the President for everything - he even got blamed for things that happened before he took office! 

Hindsight tells us that we shouldn't have gone in there in the first place, and we never should have sent our best people in the world with second rate equipment and expected them to do a first-rate job. All things considered, our people in the military have done an exceptional job. But how many of them have we lost? How many of them do we have to lose? How many of them are injured, or without limbs, in Walter Reed? 

Surely everyone remembers Walter Reed? That was a GWB scandal through and through. Nobody can blame Obama for that. 

The fact is that WE cannot fight those people. Other Muslims have to fight them. They don't want us occupying their country. If we are going to occupy them, we might as well just overtake them and make them another state, along with Puerto Rico, Guam, and the American Samoa.  But they don't want us occupying them. Our interference in Middle Eastern affairs is one reason that Osama Bin Laden was so angry at us if you recall. We trained him to fight against the Russians and then left him high and dry, and he got very upset. Took down the World Trade Centers and carried out numerous bombings before that. 

We even had a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in America" that we totally ignored by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. And what happened? Bin Laden struck America. Now everyone is on a fear wagon. It's all about controlling people through fear. 

That's why they rose up in the first place. They don't want us involved in their drama. So why are we? 

And ISIS makes up only 1% of 1% of Muslims. Who are we fighting them with? Our BEST people. Our most loyal, dependable, honorable people. Our Navy Seals, Green Berets, Snipers, National Guard, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force. Our best people are being killed and maimed in the hopes of what? That they won't come here? What a farce. 

If we really want to do something, we should do as Comedian Ralphie May proposed on one of his Netflix specials: We should clean out the prisons in America, take those 1 million plus people, send them over there, leave the weapons, and let them have at it. For every ISIS member they kill, they get free Hot Pockets! 

Gangbangers and serial killers would love it. "You can't get PTSD if you like to kill," Ralphie May joked. That's actually true, and one of the best ideas! 

I couldn't agree with him more! It would take care of our prison overpopulation as well as our ISIS threat and get our wonderful men and women in uniform back home to us - safely. Where they belong. 

Bush administration vs veterans

Bush Administration cuts $1.5 billion from military family housing. The Bush Administration cut $1.5 billion for military family housing, despite Department of Defense statistics showing that in 83,000 barracks and 128,860 family housing units across the country are below standard. ("Nothing But Lip Service," Army Times, June 30, 2003; "House Appropriations Committee Approves $59.2 Million for Ft. Hood," U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards Press Release, June 17, 2003)

Bush Administration underfunded veterans' health care by $2 billion. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget underfunded veterans' health care by nearly $2 billion. ("Vets Health Low on Bush's Priority List," The Hill, September 17, 2003; "Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003; U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, September 2002)

Bush Administration proposal would end health care benefits for 173,000 veterans. More than 173,000 veterans across the country would be cut off from health care because of Bush Administration proposed budget cuts and its plan requiring enrollment fees and higher out-of-pocket costs. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003)

Bush Administration budget cuts force more than 200,000 veterans to wait for health care. Over 200,000 United States veterans have to wait more than six months for a medical visit because of health care shortages. ("VA Health Care Funding Alert," Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Press Release, January 31, 2003)

Bush Administration opposed plan to give National Guard and Reserve Members access to health insurance. Despite the war efforts of America's National Guard and Reserve Members, the Bush Administration announced in October 2003 its formal opposition to give the 1.2 million Guard and Reserve members the right to buy health care coverage through the Pentagon's health plan. One out of every five Guard members lacks health insurance. ("Bush Opposes Health Plan for National Guard," Gannett News Service, October 23, 2003)

Bush Administration cuts $172 million allotted for educating the children of military personnel. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget cut $172 million of impact aid funding. Impact aid funding assists school districts by making up for lost local tax revenue from tax-exempt property, such as military bases. These education cuts will especially affect school-age children of troops serving in Iraq who reside on military bases. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003)

New Space Neighborhood Watch Program by Air Force

Not a bad idea at all. But what struck me was this: " The Air Force currently tracks about 23,000 pieces of orbiting debris bigger than about 4 inches. These range from old rocket bodies to the remains of an exploded Chinese satellite."

23,000 pieces? Nice... It is not enough to litter on Earth, people just throw junk in space and leave it there too. Someday, someone will have to clean it up. You can't keep throwing stuff out there forever. (Not that I'm going to do it *myself* or anything, but logically, that day will come.)
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4838839