The war on terror is over...did we win?

So, it's come to my attention that The Dear Leader declared recently that the War on Terror was over.


Really? Did we win? Where's the parades? When did the Taliban and Al Qaeda surrender? Was there a victory celebration?

Last I checked, we still had troops overseas fighting & dying in war zones. Last I checked, we were on a higher alert status due to the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Scumbag. Last I checked we had TERRORISTS in custody at Gitmo that still need to be dealt with who should have been fed to the hogs long ago.

Sounds like crap to me; the kind of crap that empty suits say in an election year...

You declared the war on terror was over when it will likely never be over, because there are still Taliban and Al Qaeda left alive to reform, regroup, and retaliate. The Taliban is laying low because you morons in the White House told them when we're ostensibly leaving, so why should anyone waste resources on fighting us openly when they can just wait us out & take over once you flip off the shining lights on the hill? Buffoons, the bloody lot of you.

Saying that the war on terror is over without the enemy surrendering means YOU have given up. YOU have surrendered. This is worse than Bush saying "Mission Accomplished" when it had barely begun. At least he, goofball though he was, was declaring victory prematurely. You assclowns are unable to do even that. You just want it all to go away, the war you swore you were gonna end when you were elected and are still fighting 4 years later. Dude, we EXPECT broken promises and lies from you. You've made an entire administration out of them. But this blatantly disrespects the thousands of American and Allied troops who have died in this war.

I call on you, and your party, and every decent American out there to go directly to this link and pay your HEARTFELT respects and gratitude to those who have sacrificed all of their tomorrows for our today. I generally view the New York Times in disdain as liberal fish-wrap but this time they did it right & proper. This interactive link is absolutely amazing & powerful. Go...scroll over the names. Stop and pull up pictures. Look at the faces who died to keep us free. This war ain't over...and the Radical Islamists will remind us of that in short order despite your weak-assed declarations.

 I purposely searched the database at the link for one person in particular, a Marine I met in the spring of 1988 as I was on leave between Military Police School and my new unit in Germany. At the time, Jeff Bohr was a Corporal assigned the Marine Corps Security Force Company, Naval Submarine Base King's Bay in Georgia. You can read all about Jeff's valor in combat here.

Happy Birthday, U.S.M.C.!!!

If you see a Marine, past or present, this weekend, wish them a happy birthday.Trust me, they’ll understand, and they’ll be highly appreciative.

Deep down, I sorta have a soft spot for Marines. I’ve always had the utmost respect for my comrades-in-arms from my sister service, and I’ve always been surrounded by Marine vets for as long as I can remember. This weekend we celebrate Veteran’s Day, but the day before that, the United States Marine Corps will celebrate its 232nd birthday.

Formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by an act of the Continental Congress, and organized as the Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 as naval infantry, the Marine Corps has served in every American armed conflict from the Revolutionary War to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Some Famous Marines:
Actors Don Adams, Bea Arthur, Brian Dennehy, R. Lee Ermey, Glenn Ford, Mike Farrell, Scott Glenn, Gene Hackman, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo!), Harvey Keitel, Judge Mills Lane (People’s Court), Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Ed McMahon, George Peppard, Robert Remus (Sergeant Slaughter), George C. Scott, Burt Reynolds, and Montel Williams, Baseball Hall of Famers Rod Carew, Ted Williams, and Roberto Clemente, astronaut John Glenn, musicians Freddie Fender, both of the Everly Brothers, George Jones, CJ Ramone (The Ramones), Shaggy, and Josh Gracin, boxers Ken Norton and Leon Spinks, lawyer F.Lee Bailey, golfer Lee Trevino, radio pariah Don Imus, and news broadcasters Dan Rather and Bernard Shaw.

If you’ve never had the privelege to see the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon perform, then you have missed out on one of the coolect things in the known universe. What the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels do in the sky, the Silent Drill Platoon does for close-order drill and ceremony, all without verbal commands.

Some Marines who impacted my life:
While in high school my neighbor Don Ares, a retired Gunnery Sergeant, often told me funny stories of his travels with the Corps. One of the most colorful and funny Marines I ever met was Staff Sergeant Pat Curley, a recruiter in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the late 80’s. He recruited two of my best friends in high school, Chris Cunningham and Mike Dunham.

While on leave prior to going to Germany, I got to hang out with Chris and some of the guys in his platoon and had a blast. I still talk to one of his platoon-mates from time to time; Chris Hembree is a successful attorney in Washington, DC and visits down this way a few times a year.

And of course, there’s Chris Cunningham himself. Chris has been one of my two closest friends for 24 years. After high school, I went into the Army and Chris went into the Marines. It’s probably the longest period of time that we’ve lived more than 50 miles from each other. Over the years we’ve teased each other in a good-natured inter-service rivalry that usually sees me losing a 6-pack bet on the annual Army-Navy football game.

I also want to take a moment to recognize a fallen Marine on this Marine Corps Birthday. I never really knew Gunnery Sergeant Jeffrey Bohr, but Chris served with him and always held him in high regard, and by all accounts, Gunny Bohr was a Marine’s Marine. I met him briefly before I went to Germany, when he was a Corporal assigned to King’s Bay Submarine Base, but Chris would mention him now & again over the years. A native of Ossian, Iowa, Jeff was felled by a sniper on April 10, 2003. He was 39 years old .

Gunnery Sergeant Jeffrey E. Bohr, Jr. was posthumously awarded the military’s third-highest medal, the Silver Star, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving with Company A, 1st Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment.

With his company assigned to seize a presidential palace in Baghdad and concerned that logistical resupply might be slow in reaching his fellow Marines once they reached the objective, Bohr volunteered to move in with the company’s main armored convoy.

While moving through narrow streets toward the objective, the convoy came under intense small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. Throughout this movement, Bohr delivered accurate, effective fires on the enemy while encouraging his Marines and supplying critical information to his company commander.

When the lead vehicles of the convoy came under enemy fire, Gunny Bohr continued to boldly engage the enemy while calmly maneuvering other Marines to safety. When word came down that there was a wounded Marine in a forward vehicle, Bohr immediately coordinated medical treatment and evacuation.

Moving to the position of the injured Marine, Bohr continued to lay down a high volume of suppressive fire, while simultaneously guiding the medical evacuation vehicle, until he was mortally wounded by enemy fire. One account stated that Jeff had the radio handset in one hand and was firing his M-16 with the other when he was hit.

Jeff’s wife Lori accepted the medal during a ceremony on May 3, 2003 at a ceremony at Camp Pendleton, California. Semper Fi and God Bless. The sacrifices of the Bohr family are not forgotten.

So today I want to take a minute and salute my comrades from my sister service. Yours is a long and proud tradition. However, the Army’s is longer, so there! Happy 232nd birthday, Devil Dogs!