WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) released the following statement regarding reports that three American servicemembers were killed and 25 were wounded in an Iran-backed unmanned drone attack in Jordan.
“I am both sad and angry learning about the death of three servicemembers and the injury of 25 in Jordan. My prayers are with their families and friends. Make no mistake: this attack is not an isolated incident. For months, American troops have been under unrelenting attack by Iran-backed groups across the Middle East. These acts of aggression cannot go unanswered. I look forward to reviewing the Department of Defense’s plan of action to prevent further aggression and ensure the safety and security of our troops in the region and around the world.”
CONGRESSWOMAN KIGGANS: Make no mistake: this attack is not an isolated incident. For months, American troops have been under unrelenting attack by Iran-backed groups across the Middle East. These acts of aggression cannot go unanswered. I look forward to reviewing the Department of Defense’s plan of action to prevent further aggression and ensure the safety and security of our troops in the region and around the world.
ME: When I read these missives or whatever they are from the good Congresswoman from Virginia, I have to wonder if she has spent a good part of her life in a sound-proof chamber where no news of the outside world has been allowed to filter in to disturb her ignorance of reality.
American troops have been under attack in Iraqinam and Syria for far longer than a couple of months.
And those “acts of aggression” as she calls them are because the people who live in those areas, like was the case in Viet Nam, and the case in America in 1775 are because the people who live in those areas do not want those troops there, period, and that includes the government of Iraqinam itself.
Being a puppet or client state of America, of course, the government of Iraqinam has no territorial sovereignty, just like was the case back when Rome ruled that part of the world and sent their legions wherever they would, because like the US today, they thought they were invincible.
Ms. Kiggans should make a better effort to learn about how the world functions.
We were in Viet Nam because a true horse’s ass named Lyndon Baines Johnson in Washington famously said that he was not going to let some “raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country” push mighty America around, except they did.
And those of us with working memories, something congresswoman Kiggans seems to lack, remember those “contractors” America had in Iraqinam hanging from that bridge, and our troops battling the militia of Ad Sadr.
So this has been going on for far longer than a couple of months.
And on that subject of who are the real aggressors here, Bloomberg just had an article out titled “Iraq Says 16 Killed in US Strikes, Calls Security Risk Grave – US strikes overnight came in retaliation for troop deaths – Iran says Washington is stoking regional instability” by Khalid Al Ansary and Jennifer Jacobs on February 3, 2024, where was stated as follows:
Iraq’s government said civilians were among at least 16 people killed in a wave of US airstrikes that the Middle Eastern country called a grave risk to security in the region.
The strikes also injured at least 25 and damaged residential building, Iraq said.
“This aggressive strike will put security in Iraq and the region on the brink of an abyss,” Basim Al-Awadi, a spokesman for Iraq’s government, said in a statement issued on Saturday.
“Iraq reiterates its refusal to let its lands be an arena for settling scores.”
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STUPID IS AS STUPID ******* DOES, and Washington, D.C. sure does have a large dose of REAL STUPID!
To close, as a REAL COMBAT VETERAN, someone who has actually “felt the wind,” I have these words of advice for Ms. Kiggans to consider:
When you are armed with a deadly weapon, and the backyard you are standing in with your weapon is not your backyard, then it is YOU that are the AGGRESSOR, and that makes you a legitimate target for those who do own the backyard, and if Ms. Kiggans thinks the Pentagon and all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men are going to change that calculus, she is daft and shouldn’t be serving in OUR congress, where she is part of the problem with her BELLIGERENT BELLICOSE JINGO talk, not a part of the solution.
When those in power, regardless of where or when, but specifically in this case, here in Washington, D.C., do not know history, which is the on-going story of HUMAN NATURE, not mere events, then they are stupid, and even more stupid are those who put them there, and this seems to be especially true in the case of congresswoman Kiggans of Va., who has it in her head that America rules the world, when it can’t even govern itself.
The only people I have ever met who knew anything about OUR history were in Viet Nam, and it was based upon these following words from OUR Declaration of Independence that the Vietnamese were standing up to the mighty USA, an ignorant world-class BULLY, and I would suspect that these same feelings motivate those in Iraqinam and Syria who are trying to eradicate us over there like a form of vermin, which happens to be their right, given we are the INTRUDERS in their lives and in their land.
As I was told by some Vietnamese in THEIR country, theirs because they were willing to fight and die for it for generations if needed, unlike people here in the US – “YOU DARE TO COME HERE TO OUR COUNTRY AND DO THINGS TO US YOU WOULD NOT TOLERATE US DOING TO YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY AND EXPECT US TO ACCEPT AS OUR DUE?”
And consider For by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred;
And consider these words of John Locke in The Second Treatise of Government, Chapter II, Of The State of War, which are quite relevant here, as well, to wit:
One may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a wolf or a lion;
Because such men are not under the ties of the common law of reason, have no other rule but that of force and violence, and so, may be treated as beasts of prey, those dangerous and noxious creatures that will be sure to destroy him whenever he falls into their power.
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
* He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
* He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
* For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
* For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
* He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
With apologies to Country Joe McDonald:
Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He’s got himself in a terrible jam
Way over yonder in Iraqinam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We’re gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Iraqinam;
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.
Come on Wall Street, don’t be slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go
There’s plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on Iran.
And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Iraqinam.
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let’s move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Now you can go out and get those ragheads
‘Cause the only good raghead is the one that’s dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we’ve blown ’em all to kingdom come.
And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Iraqinam;
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.
Come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Iraqinam.
Come on fathers, and don’t hesitate
To send your sons off before it’s too late.
And you can be the first ones in your block
To have your boy come home in a box.
And it’s one, two, three
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Iraqinam.
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.
As to this MESS in the Middle East that goes back way farther than a couple of months, which inane statement is an indication of just how far out of touch with reality congresswoman Kiggans is, as we see by going to p. 86 of “FIASCO – The American Military Adventure in Iraq” by Thomas E. Ricks, in the chapter entitled “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS,” it was largely created in the first place by the stupidity and short-sightedness chiefly of Joe Biden when he was ranking minority member of the senate foreign relations committee, which stupidity was later aided and abetted by more stupidity on the part Hussein Obama and Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan when Joe was Hussein’s assistant president, so back to February of 2003 we go, where we had this classic shallow-thinking by Joe then that made the mess he is confronted with today that resulted in the deaths of those Reservists in Jordan, thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
In previous wars, Congress had been populated by hawks and doves.
But as war in Iraq loomed it seemed to consist mainly of lambs who hardly made a peep.
In the months of the run-up to war, Congress asked very few questions, and didn’t offer any challenge to the administration on the lack of postwar planning.
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And it is precisely that lack of postwar planning twenty-one years ago that has resulted in the mess Joe Biden is confronted with today, which brings us back to that article and Joe’s stupidity, which is all he has ever had to offer to America, a lack of wits and good sense while Joe was in there to get his palm greased and his pocket stuffed, to wit:
The last chance was offered by hearings on Iraq held in February 2003, but this was not an opportunity Congress would take.
It had made its choice the previous October when it gave the president a blank check to go to war.
As a body it was willing to ask questions, but that was little more than a pose, because it didn’t object when it didn’t get responses that spoke to the issue.
It was a Congress that would take no, or something close to it, for an answer.
Douglas Feith’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at its major prewar hearing on Iraq was a memorable demonstration of testimony as tap dancing.
He couldn’t say how many troops might be required, or what a war might cost, or even what other countries might join the U.S.-led effort.
“Senator, it’s hard to answer a lot of these what-ifs because a lot depends on, you know, future events that we don’t know,” Feith told Sen. Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who was the ranking minority member on the panel.
“There are enormous uncertainties.”
As for the key question of the duration of the occupation, Feith deferred answering.
“I don’t think I want to venture into the prediction business,” he parried.
“The American people have no notion of what we are about to undertake,” Biden concluded that day.
It was an important observation about a democracy about to launch a war in a distant land, alien culture, and hostile region.
But it was made in a tone of passive resignation.
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It was made in a tone of passive resignation by Joe back then because Joe was stupid and lacking in imagination, qualities he maintains to this day, which takes us back to pp. 86,87 of “FIASCO – The American Military Adventure in Iraq” by Thomas E. Ricks, where we have this from a Marine general on the mess Joe was creating by being short-sighted and stupid, to wit:
(U.S. Marine General) Zinni, waiting to testify, sat in the room and grew increasingly uneasy as he listened to Feith and other administration officials.
“They were nowhere near capable” of transforming first Iraq and then the Middle East, he thought to himself.
They didn’t know what they were getting into.
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That should read that they didn’t know what they were getting us into, nor did they care, which takes us back for more, to wit:
They were unprepared.
His private conclusion that day, listening to Feith and the other administration witnesses was, “These guys don’t have a clue.”
When it came his turn to move to the witness chair, Zinni came close to lecturing the Foreign Relations Committee on how they might better have handled the administration’s witnesses.
First of all, he said, you need to abandon the idea of an “exit strategy,” because there isn’t going to be one: “There’s things in this part of the world that are too important for us to think that this is a ‘go in, do the job as best we can, and pull out.’”
Also, you could have pinned them down on their goals.
Is it really “a magnificent democracy” they’re aiming for? he asked.
“I mean, is it truly this transformed Iraq that we’ve heard about, or are we just going to rid of Saddam Hussein and hope for the best?”
“. . . . What is it you want?”
Zinni decided that day that the neoconservatives in the administration really were consciously rolling the dice.
“I think – and this is just my opinion – that the neocons didn’t really give a **** what happened in Iraq and the aftermath,” he said much later.
“I don’t think they thought it was going to be this bad.”
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And here we are today, which raises the question as to why congresswoman Kiggans seems so unaware of any of this history.
The “Shoe Bomber” was a Muslim.
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims.
The Fort Hood shooter was a Muslim.
The USS Cole bombers were Muslims.
The Pulse Nightclub shooters were Muslims.
The “Underwear Bomber” was a Muslim.
The Madrid train bombers were Muslims.
The Times Square bomber was a Muslim.
The Bali nightclub bombers were Muslims.
The London subway bombers were Muslims.
The Moscow theater attackers were Muslims.
The Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims.
The Iranian Embassy takeover was by Muslims.
The Pan-Am Flight#103 bombers were Muslims.
The Air France Entebbe hijackers were Muslims.
The Beirut US Embassy bombers were Muslims.
The Libyan US Embassy attack was by a Muslim.
The Buenos Aires suicide bombers were Muslims.
The Kenyan US Embassy bombers were Muslims.
The Israeli Olympic Team attackers were Muslims.
The Saudi Khobar Towers bombers were Muslims.
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims.
The Beslan Russian school attackers were Muslims.
The Achille Lauro cruise ship attackers were Muslims.
The 1993 World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims.
The Bombay and Mumbai India attackers were Muslims.
The September 11th, 2001, airplane hijackers were Muslims.
Flashback 2007 from Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times article titled, ‘Obama: Man of the World’:
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. … Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Think of it:
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem
Shinto living with Confucians = No Problem
Confucians living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Baha’is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM
The Arabs are not happy!
They’re not happy in Gaza.
They’re not happy in Egypt
They’re not happy in Libya.
They’re not happy in Morocco.
They’re not happy in Iran.
They’re not happy in Iraq.
They’re not happy in Yemen.
They’re not happy in Afghanistan.
They’re not happy in Pakistan.
They’re not happy in Syria.
They’re not happy in Lebanon.
So, where are they happy?
They’re happy in England.
They’re happy in France.
They’re happy in Italy.
They’re happy in Germany.
They’re happy in Norway.
They’re happy in every country that is not Muslim.
And who do they blame?
Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!
And they want to change the countries they’re happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were
unhappy!
ARABS:
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Let’s have a look at the evidence: No Christmas. No television. No nude women. No football. No pork chops. No hotdogs. No burgers. No beer. No bacon. Rags for clothes. Towels for hats. Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower. More than one wife. More than one mother-in-law. You can’t shave. Your wife can’t shave. You can’t wash off the smell of donkey. You wipe your #$%$ with your hand. You cook over burning camel sheeet. Your wife is picked by someone else. Your wife smells worse than your donkey. Then they tell you that “when you die, it all gets better”.
No sheeet Sherlock! It’s not like it could get much worse!
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
ISIS : AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
CAIR: AN ISLAMIC TERROR-LINKED ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
And We just can’t figure out who’s causing the problem?