No Punches Pulled Here

Insight of a Sergeant Major
(The author, J.D. Pendry,
is a retired Army Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House.)

NO PUNCHES PULLED HERE

Jimmy Carter, you're the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw
the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the
spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people
hostage. You're the Runner-in-Chief.

Bill Clinton, you played "ring around the Lewinsky" while the terrorists
were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and
then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses embolden the killers.
Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about
American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is
more fiction than fact. You've accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women
and in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time... the
same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake. You want to run
from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the
Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before
you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win
militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded
murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa,
John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you
didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your
war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician.
You're not a Marine sir. You wouldn't amount to a pimple on a real
Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis,
tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who
murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South
East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the
same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu
Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you
saying that Iraqis torture chambers were open under new management. Did
you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrate real
torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you'd sho w the
world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation
of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese which
led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated fool bent on repeating
the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to
homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, a ll while sitting
on you wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein,
Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam.
Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the
Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war
is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you
give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated
American Soldiers - cause to think that we will run away again and all
they have to do is hang on a little longer.

American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you
publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence
gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung
that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't
strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda
destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda
is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America's axis of idiots. Your collective stupidity will destroy
us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are mo re
important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent
civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in
the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant
editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of
murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve
to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers
home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country
ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes,
I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with -self. I'm also
questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be
breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in
uniform. You need to run away from this war and this country. Leave the
war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to
people who are willing to defend it.

No Commander in Chief, you don't get off the hook either. Our country has
two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who
attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force.
It's your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots.
America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country,
abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger
please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute
those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute
those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need
you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now.