RBT was dusting up it again in the Spokesman-Review's, HBO blog. DFO the proprietor of this sandbox posted the question.

Poll: Should Bush Be Forced To Bring Troops Home

Should President Bush be required to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year as mandated by the U.S. House? — Idaho Statesman.

*Yes
*No
*No opinion

RBT replied with this comment.

What! Are your waiving a red flag in front of a bull :-) I'll keep my pontification short. I agree Bush has made major mistakes but he didn't lie. The CIA is playing a 5th column attack to CYA in not understanding the dynamics of Islamofascism. e.g., its stateless ideologically driven transnational nature and that factions will ally like street gangs when the Great Satan is involved. This is a chess game that the Mad Mullahs of Iran are true masters. Unfortunately their leader in on a real apocalyptical quest to hasten the return of the 12th Imam e.g., martrydom at the expense of the Iranian people. Yes, Country first above that of partisan political gain. Dems are taking cheap shots. Either defund the war without pork bribes but don't slow bleed the troops. I'm no fan of Neo-Copperheads who salute the troops to their face all the while stabbing them in the back for political gain.

As long as the grunts on the ground believe in the cause I will support them. And now for a link to the real American Idols unlike those some Americans seem fixated on:






American Idols on Vimeo

HT Sgt. Hook

RBT was approached a long time ago by Dr. Zin (AKA Gary Metz) of Regime Change Iran when I was still president of my police officers' assn in California to advocate within the law enforcement community to urge Cal-PERS to divest it's holdings in Iran. At that time Iran had not emerged in the minds of many as a key player in the GWOT.

Kenneth Timmerman has this new piece up at FrontPage advocating such action be taken now. Scott Malensek and Steve Schippert have seen the declining gas refinery capacity as the Achilles' Heel of this regime. President MAD by siphoning off oil revenues to fund his nuclear apocalyptic vision, Hamas, and Hezbollah is causing the Iranian economy to tank for lack of investment in the gas refining infrastructure. In fact a few strategically place grenades by plausible denial spec ops attacks would probably do the trick. The Sauds have sufficient capacity to pick up the slack while the people of Iran effect a regime change.

I just fired off an email to the current president of my POA to instruct our PORAC rep (Peace Officers' Research Assn of California- statewide LE labor organization) that PORAC take such a position and begin lobbying the pension giant ,Cal-PERS, to do as Timmerman suggests. Mind you many California law enforcement officers are serving in many capacities in the GWOT. I'm sure the same is for all the states. I would encourage all active and retired law enforcement officers to do the same to support our brothers and sisters who are serving in the GWOT

RBT

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What You Can Do about Iran
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 23, 2007

This week brought unusual news from Russia, which until now has been a major supplier of Iran�s nuclear programs.

The Russians said they were pulling engineers and technicians out of Busheir, the Persian Gulf site where since 1995 they have been building a nuclear power plant for Iran. They cited as pretext Iran's failure to make timely payments on the $800 million contract.


Should this turn out to be more than just a tactical maneuver, Russia's pullback from Iran signals a real success for U.S. diplomacy.


But the U.S. has had less success in other areas. And the administration must show results soon if it doesn't want Congress to pass new legislation that will impose mandatory sanctions on foreign companies trading with Iran.

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Update:

RBT wrote this email to the Board of PORAC. Feel free to write your own too. Here is the email list for the Board. RPT will post contact info for the Board of Cal-PERS soon.

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Board of Directors
Peace Officers' Research Assn of California

Dear Fellow Colleagues:

I am a past, two-term president of the Riverside Police Officers' Assn during that trouble reign of Police Chief Ken Fortier. PORAC provided much needed moral and legal support for our association during that time. Ken Fortier's reign under the then City Manager John Holmes set in motion the underlying factors that ultimately led to the tragic shooting event of Tyisha Miller.

I just posted this this article by renowned investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman's call for divestment in Iran to my blog. Regardless of your views on the Global War on Terror, many California law enforcement officers are serving in many capacities in the GWOT. Timmerman's recommendation is a way to destabilize the ruling totalitarian regime in Iran. This theocratic minority is detested by a majority of the Iranian people that are being held hostage by the guns of this tyrannical minority. This is an easy way to push this regime over the edge. If you believe this action has merit please take an active leadership role to force Cal-PERS to divest its Iranian holdings.

"Rocket" (RPD Detective Badge #1 now retired)

RBT was inspired by emails today from AJ Strata of The Strata-Sphere and Steve Schippert of ThreatsWatch to post this informational piece in the HBO blog of his local paper The Spokesman-Review. Many Americans are still unaware of this critical juncture in the GWOT. The enemy's propaganda that is being fed to them perhaps unknowingly by a majority of the MSM outlets is taking its toll.

The enemy is no match for our soldiers on the battlefield. To achieve the enemy's objective, the destruction of our society as we know it, it is engaging in a war of information to undermine the political will and support of the American people. This disinformation campaign is further enhanced by the MSM's hyping of the defeatism of the Neo-Copperheads.

Michelle Malkin has an excellent alternative news video of the some 30,000 counter anti-war protesters that showed up in DC this past weekend - "The Gathering of Eagles ." Most media outlets ignored this significant turn out while giving coverage to the Neo-Copperhead anti-war protesters. James Crittenden, City Editor of the Boston Herald also has this summary of alternative views from on the ground in Iraq.

This may also be a tipping point in this war of information. A growing number of Americans are growing tired of the Neo-Copperheads who put partisan political interests above that of our troops on the battlefield and that of Country. Recent Gallup polls showed that the approval rating of Congress is lower than that of President Bush. Fickle representatives who support the troops by saluting them to their faces all the while stabbing them in the backs should take note of this sea change.

RBT

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Ramadi at a Tipping Point

Why shut my mouth! Is there a sea change under way? AJ Strata earlier reported on RED on RED where the Sunni Tribal Chiefs have lost interest in AQ agents because all they seem to do is blow their neighbors up.

Now from the very bastion of the liberal MSM and always a harsh critic of the US, comes this little ditty.

The BBC has a series of articles coming out from a reporter in Ramadi which sound like they are being produced by a conservative think tank and not the center of Western liberal media. The reporter is clearly taken by what he sees in Ramadi, and in this latest installment notes Ramadi is at a tipping point which could echo across Anbar Province. Any ripple in Anbar will echo across Iraq, and then across the world. It will be a political earthquake shuffling everything it touches.

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And here's a OP-ED piece from the NY Post on Gen. Petraeus that you won't see soon in the other NY paper the NYT.

And the tribal leaders in Sunni al Anbar Province, the general reports, "have had enough." Not only are the al Qaeda fighters causing civil disruption by fomenting sectarian violence and killing civilians, but on a more prosaic but practical side, al Qaeda is bad for business. "All of the sheiks up there are businessmen," Petraeus said. "They are entrepreneurial and involved in scores of different businesses. The presence of the foreign fighters is hitting them hard in the pocketbook and they are tired of it."

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[Key piece by the General on Rules of Engagement]

"There were unintended consequences with ROE for too long," Petraeus acknowledged. Because of what junior leaders perceived as too harsh punishment meted out to troops acting in the heat of battle, the ROE issued from the top commanders were second-guessed and made more restrictive by some on the ground. The end result was unnecessary - even harmful - restrictions placed on the troops in contact with the enemy.

"I've made two things clear," Petraeus emphasized: "My ROE may not be modified with supplemental guidance lower down. And I've written a letter to all Coalition forces saying 'your chain-of-command will stay with you.' I think that solved the issue."

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As an aside Telfon Don of Acute Politics, BTW the best damn war correspondent in Iraq bar none, was the first to note this shift in Sunni tribal leaders last fall.

RBT

Michelle Malkin has an excellent alternative news video of the some 30,000 counter anti-war protesters that showed up in DC this past weekend - "The Gathering of Eagles ."

RBT