re: "In Other News: Brits Now Helping to Dispose of Iraqi WMDs that Never Existed in the First Place"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") noted a change in the accepted wisdom that caused nary a ripple.

Money quote(s):

"On a related, but rarely explored (by the DNCMedia) note, we keep hearing concerns about Assad using WMDs against the rebels, concerns based on him threatening to do so himself, yet we somehow barely ever hear about anybody wondering where on Earth he got those WMDs from. It’s as if they just popped into existence caused by an Expert Level “Create WMD” spell or something.

Which reminds His Imperial Viciousness of something that a lot of us “fundamentally unserious” conservatives were harping on about years and years ago rather than just accepting the leftist memes like good “pragmatic conservatives” are supposed to do lest we be branded Visigoths or something, namely that satellite surveillance showed a strange and rather large number of convoys traveling from Iraq into Syria’s Bekaa Valley for no apparent reason during Bush’s 18 month “rush” to war against poor innocent brown people." (Emphasis in original post. - CAA.)

This is something that has bothered CAA for years. WMDs (which chemical weapons most certainly are) don't just conjure themselves into being.

And to see the swift metamorpheses of Assad from axis-of-evil to reliable-partner and back to WMD-equipped-despot evokes echoes of Saddam's similar transmogrifications. WTF?

7/31

re: "More EUro Alarmism"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") welcomed some remarks by Angela Merkel.

Money quote(s):

"German chancellor Angela Merkel very reasonably warned that if the EUropeon FAIL continues much longer, Europe may find itself in serious shit."

&

"(A)dd one source claiming that Germany has already issued orders to start printing Deutschmarks again instead of the laughably moronic “Euros” in “preparation for a possible withdrawal from the EU” and you have the beginnings of a full court press panic."

CAA still has a few DM (bills and change) rattling around the CAA-cave, come to think of it.

"Merkel is only stating the obvious, after all. If the whole Marxist Utopian nonsense collapses, which is will as inevitably as night follows day, Europe is going to be a clusterfuck and it will be every man to himself" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

EM1 is talking about more than just the unraveling of the "common currency," but then it's not irrational to believe that an Euro devolution would be just that and no more.

What's that rule about "you can't just do one thing"?

(Something to do with "unintended consequences.")

"What’s Germany, or any other European country, supposed to do if that happens?

....go down with the Marxist Titanic or try to fulfill their obligations to their own citizens and do what they have to do to survive?

Just exactly when did Greek public employees become entitled to the fruits of German, or any other workers’ labors?" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

That's the question that Germans (and others) are asking themselves. The answer seems to be (mumble, mumble, mumble) "solidarity"!

"If Europe collapses and the socialist hordes descend like the vermin they are to rape the few remaining European nations who still retain a sense of responsibility and our nation sides with the socialist locusts, I’ll burn my passport and take the next flight out to join the 21st century equivalent of the Escadrille Lafayette.

The only good socialist is a dead one."

10/27

re: "Damn, Ogabe Must Be in Need of a Distraction"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") posted with his characteristic frankness and clarity.

Money quote(s):

"Joe on the Taliban:

Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical.

The sound you hear is from thousands of U.S. troops shouting from Afghanistan: “Then who in the holy FUCK are those haji bastards shooting at us, you drooling, dimwitted dickheaded shitbird?”

We don’t know about the rest of you fine citizens (actually we do), but in our book assholes trying to kill U.S. troops are the very textbook definition of “enemies”"

Perhaps this will refresh the memory. I'm fairly certain the VP was in the room, if not as VP, when this speech was given.

"(Y)et another pretzel of illogic:

If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.

Enough of a “problem” to qualify as an enemy and threat to our interests which, if we remember correctly, count among them “not having the fundamentalist swine who harbored bin Laden while he plotted to murder 3,000 of our countrymen and refused to hand him over afterwards become the government of Afghanistan again?”

Because, and once again correct us if we’re wrong, that is their declared goal and exactly what they’ve been trying to do every fucking last day since we kicked them out of government.

So let’s see if we get this straight: The Taliban are not our enemy unless they continue to do what they’ve been doing for the last ten years and show no signs of stopping to do ever, but right now, while they’re doing just that, they’re not the enemy?" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

12/21

re: "Blogger Agonizes Over Col. Momo Not Being Given a Fair Trial"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") was untroubled by Col Qadhafi's end.

Money quote(s):

"(W)e really don’t give a hoot how obviously guilty beasts like Momo get sent to hell.

You see, we tend to believe in “live by the sword, die by the sword”, just in the same way that our SympathyMeter™ doesn’t as much as register a twitch of the needle when people holier than us agonize over terrorists not being offered the full protections of the Geneva Conventions.

Momo died the way he chose to live. He had tyrannized, murdered and brutalized without ever giving a second thought to the “rights” of his victims and those victims, some of them we might add, chose to send him off to Satan in the same way."

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"Was he given fair treatment by American standards? Of course he wasn’t, but he had deliberately chosen todisregard anything even resembling those standards for every year of his tyrannical, murderous regime, so why should he be treated differently? Because he “deserved” it?

We could think up at least four full pages of what he truly deserved, and we can assure you that the list would make even the most hardened barbarian savage vomit his guts out in fear.

His Imperial Majesty firmly believes that the only way you can convince somebody to play by the rules is to make it abundantly clear that if he disregards the rules, then the rules will be disregarded where he’s concerned too." (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

10/24

re: "Ogabe Administration Makes it Official: Terror and Islam are Non-Related"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") has no tolerance for those who would use political correctness as a weapon to disarm us.

Money quote(s):

"(I)t’s henceforth not permissible to use the words “muslim” and “islam” in anti-terror training (h/t Protein Wisdom)"

This sort of thing is going to lead to a seriously messed-up "The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes" moment. Pres. Bush's "religion of peace" pronouncement has been renewed and expanded under his successor administration to the point where it's impermissible to even consider that perhaps, in just this one little thing, Pres. Bush may have been wrong.

(Pres. Bush may have even known he was wrong, but in CAA's opinion #43 was attempting to head off the Huntington-esque "clash of civilizations" that UBL so desperately wanted to spark.)*

"What “muslim groups” are offended that a “religion” closely tied to 99.99999999999% of terrorism attacks might be mentioned in materials used to train law enforcement to combat terrorism attacks? "

Can you guess?

"The move comes after complaints from advocacy organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others identified as Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror fundraising trial."

CAIR. What a surprise. Which reminds me. I need to make sure the Holy Land Foundation documents are linked in my sidebar.

10/21

* It occurs to CAA that #43's understandable reluctance to make this an us-versus-them fight in the near-term with the entirety of the Islamic world, but at the risk of handicapping our efforts in the longer-term, somewhat parallels #41's decision, after 100 hours of combat in Gulf War I, to accept Saddam's ceasefire rather than take Baghdad and inherit the mess that was/is Iraq.

In other words, an understandable and justifiable decision in the short- and near-term timeframes which ends up costing the nation even more dearly over the long run.

re: "Il Douche Declares Victory"

Emperor Misha at the The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VWRC.") x.

Money quote(s):

"(N)othing would make us happier than to see Iraq emerge as a totally sovereign, peaceful democracy with no need for foreign assistance."

From his pen to God's ear.

"Perhaps it really is time to withdraw and let Iraq stand on its own feet. We certainly hope so as we, just as the Bush administration, never wanted to have to hang around forever. That wasn’t the mission." (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

Quite.

"Dear Iraq, we hope and pray that you will emerge as a beacon of freedom in the Middle East and that the sufferings you have gone through will not have been in vain. You truly inspired this American when you stood up to terrorism and oppression and lined up under mortar bombardment in order to, for the first time in the lives of most of you, cast a vote in a free election. You deserve for this to be a success.

Dear men and women of the United States Armed Forces, you have earned, again, our undying and eternal gratitude for the sacrifices you’ve borne for us, the courage you have displayed too many times to count under adverse conditions, the determination, loyalty and devotion to everything our great nation stands for and the example that you have set and continue to set for the entire world.

If this is to be victory, then that victory is yours and nobody else’s.

You paid the price.

The rest of us are left with a debt that we can never repay.

We are proud of you and eternally grateful to you.

We can only hope to ever prove worthy of you."

10/21

re: "Liberal Idiots Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Obvious Historical Reference"

Emperor Misha I at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") noted another instance of media nerds beclowning themselves.

Money quote(s):

"Which is what happens, we suppose, when you concentrate the entirety of your scholastic pursuits on such subjects as gender studies, basket weaving, social justice and comparative folk dancing."

This is just embarrassing.

To think that any ostensably educated American lacks a the full and rich historical appreciation for "Nuts!" as a timely and succinct response to an unwelcome request.

For shame!

"It’s interesting that they bleat about how muslims “shouldn’t have to defend their rights to worship freely or participate in the governing of our society” when they, at the same time, feel it quite appropriate for them to insist that Colonel West waive his right to freedom of association. Interesting as in “the irony here is so bloody dense it has its own gravitational field.”

Also, did we miss the point where islam became illegal?"

Islam has only become illegal in American as part of the MacGuffin in certain dystopian novels.

"Follow the historical precedent of the answer and go on to utter defeat and destruction. Please."

&

"Now far be it from us to suggest that Colonel West was comparing an unindicted islamic terrorist front organization to Nazis, it’s more likely that he was just seeing another bunch of blustering fools issuing ridiculous demands that no man of honor could ever accept and saw the obvious parallel, but if you really must go down that road, let’s enlighten you a bit vis-a-vis muslim ties to Nazism."

8/20

re: "Yep, LTC West, that About Sums it Up, Sir"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") considered LTC West's take.

Money quote(s):

"It all sums up to “was it wrong? Yes. Should everybody get their knickers in a wad as if this little incident was a combination of My Lai, Malmedy, Auschwitz and the Rape of Nanking all rolled into one as some pundits have been hyperventilating? No. It was wrong, the guilty should be properly and appropriately punished and, oh by the way:

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

I wouldn’t go quite that far, everybody is certainly entitled to their opinion whether they’ve been in The Suck or not (although the latter group does have a perspective that the former can never have), it’s just that in some quarters it has gone from disapproval to F-5 hysteria. But I get the sentiment.

"

In retrospect, it seems like much more fuss has been made about the near-burning of some Taliban-desecrated korans than this earlier incident ever generated.

1/13

re: "Golden Shower Boarding"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VWRC.") had some strong words for the weak-willed.

Money quote(s):

"(T)he outrage, OUTRAGE is deafening across the blogosphere. How could they so disrespectfully treat the noble bodies of our valiant enemies??? It’s not like any one of the cadavers, prior to their overdue assumption of room temperature, might have been strapping bombs to little girls, beheading captive infidels with rusty scimitars or blowing up nuns. Oh, wait…

Of course CAIR, the unindicted front organization for pisslamic terrorism, is howling like stuck pigs which, needless to say, is music to our ears. Nothing that makes them scream like little bitches can possibly be a Bad Thing™. If you haven’t yet pissed off those fifth columnist swine, you’re not doing it right, so get your shit together already!"

CAIR is sort of the mirror-effect for actual, red-blooded, patriotic Americans. Pretty much anything they're against, you should be in favor of.

(Of course, the "broken-clock" rule of being right twice a day may still apply, but I haven't seen it happen yet.)

"(N)ow that the video has been leaked, the Corps pretty much has to pretend to give a shit. Our only hope is that they follow the mold of the Royal Danish Army and announce, five minutes after having promised a full investigation, that they have found, after a thorough review and interview with all parties involved, that the video doesn’t prove anything conclusively so, move along. Nothing to see here. Yes, that is the way it’s done over there. And once Army High Command states that there’s nothing to see, there is. nothing. to. see.

It’s our way over there of saying: “Dear hyperventilating civilians who sent us over here to get shot at, blown to shreds and otherwise inconvenienced in utterly brutal ways so that you could stay safe and snug in bed at home: War is nasty, brutal and ugly. That is why you send us to do it so you won’t get your hands dirty. If you don’t like how we perform your bidding, you are welcome to come take over. We wouldn’t dream of standing in your way. So put up or shut up, please. Warm regards from the ones whom you sent, because we sure as fuck didn’t write our own marching orders. Have a nice day and, by the way, YOU’RE WELCOME!” " (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

Armchair criticism from those who've never had, and never will have, "skin in the game" is neither welcome nor appreciated. That goes double for those who actively work to have our side lose.

"(T)he very bottom line: The Armed Forces don’t ask to be sent, they’re sent by the very same hypocrites who, when confronted with the harsh realities of a situation that they didn’t have the guts to deal with themselves, get the vapors and call for the persecution of those whom they sent. I spit on them. If they don’t like what they demand done in their names by better men than they can ever hope to be, they can just not issue the order to go.

War ain’t bean bag, and those on the sharp, brutal, life-threatening end of the spear can’t be expected to behave like good Catholic Choir Boys in the midst of death, danger and mayhem. You drop somebody in a toxic environment, toxic behavior is going to ensue and, as long as that behavior doesn’t include brutal treatment of innocents I couldn’t care less if I studied Advanced Indifference at Don’t Give a Shit University for two decades.

To those who still don’t get it, I repeat the offer: Suit up and go show the rest of us brutes how it’s done. Go teach the world to sing in perfect harmony while your buddies, your brothers whom you know better than anybody in the world and with whom you’ve gone through hell on earth, are getting shot, blown up, mutilated and brutalized all around you. You go do that and show us backwards Neanderthals how to maintain your cheery disposition and fair and open-minded behavior towards those who murdered the guy you went through The Suck™ with, his brains getting splattered all over your face. Please. DO IT!
Or shut the fuck up." (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

John Adams (in a letter to his wife Abigail dated May 12, 1780) wrote:

"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty
to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine."

Sadly, we must still study war and politics, although generations past have been successful enough at those that many may study instead the less-bloody sciences. The most vociferic (and fluff-headed) critics apparently passed on all that and seem to have studied non-sciences undreamed of in Founder Adams' day.

"(D)on’t anybody give us the old tired “this is only going to inflame the Hajjis further and help their cause” line, will you? Because we were getting along just dandy up until now, weren’t we?" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

Sadly, the culture of perpetual tribal offense would find grounds for grievance if they were hanged with a golden rope. Piss on 'em.


1/12

re: "Take Your Bulbs and Stick 'Em"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") was making good points right up until the talk about wading knee-deep in blood.

(Not cool.)

Money quote(s):

"(G)overnor Perry has, once again, told the fascist regime in DC to quit meddling"

What is it about Texas that her governors seem more presidential than those of other states?

"The point is that there is no Constitutional authority for the retards in the DC swamp to tell us which kind of bulb we want to purchase and, Constitutional issues aside, nobody has any fucking business interfering with consumer choice. If one choice is superior to the other, it will win out in the market place without any interference needed.

If it isn’t, then nobody has the right to force you to choose the inferior product."

The interstate commerce clause has been emanated and penumbra-ed unto death. At this point, you could probably get a majority of people in the country to vote in favor of deleting it from the Constitution (not that our system allows for such referenda, nor should it). It apparently takes the decades of legal training and judicial experience of our nine Supreme Court justices, not to mention that of generations of congressmen and such, to enable one to believe the expansive abuse of this clause is Constitutionally justified.

Because an ordinary U.S. citizen, relying solely upon their knowledge of the English language, middle school civics classes, and their own native common sense would never manage such a feat unassisted.

re: "Must Read"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") offers a creed for warriors.

Money quote(s):

"Undying loyalty to our friends, eternal and uncompromising ruthlessness to our enemies.

We cannot conquer hatred or envy, but we can control it through fear. Let them hate us, if they must, because they do not need to as it is their choice, as long as they fear us. When forced into defense, attack. Let all and sundry know that to oppose us is to die, that we shall never forgive nor forget, and that all we ask in return for the gift of us not destroying them is for them to leave us alone.

Never give in, never yield, and always remember that it is better to die after a day of fighting for liberty than it is to live a hundred years licking the boots of your conquerors.

We all suffer one death. May G-d and our own actions grant that it be a good one."

re: "Every Thing Old is New Again"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VWRC.") ponders something akin to lawfare.

Money quote(s):

"Our point is the use of the word “islamophobia”, since that doesn’t merely imply, that establishes a diagnosis of mental illness in those who, apparently, find it troublesome that there are cultures that would celebrate jabbing a knife into the heart of a three-year-old seven times or slitting the throat of an infant sleeping with her loving father, fearing no ill. Because we’ve seen it all before. When liberal fascists can’t find any other way to silence individuals with common sense, they label them “insane.” The Soviets were really good at that, their “asylums” were overflowing with sane people needing “treatment” for their “irrational” thoughts.

And their liberal fascist, national socialist heirs in the west never skipped a beat adopting that approach.

You either agree with them or you get locked up. For your own good, of course."

To old Cold Warriors (yes, from back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), this tactic will be instantly recognizable. And contemptible.

re: "Frenchies Lead the Way"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") has some common-sense rules which may apply to U.S. military intervention in (okay, over) Libya.

Money quote(s):

"(W)e have a few principles that we like to adhere to whenever that question comes up:

1) If you fuck with the U.S., you die. It may take a long time coming, but we don’t forget and we don’t forgive. You WILL die.

2) We always talk about our commitment to and support of freedom and democracy. We mean it too, so if you’re a fuckwit, genocidal tinpot tyrant who likes to mow civilians down with automatic weapons, you better look over your shoulder, pissant, because we’ll be coming and Hell rides with us.

3) Don’t fuck with us. If you choose to do so, see 1)."