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Great Read:

www.diggsbrown.com

What happens when a group called “Peace Action West” sends a questionnaire to a Green Beret who’s running for Congress?

They get answers. Blunt answers. Answers they probably didn’t expect from a run-of-the-mill candidate for Congress.

Diggs Brown is a Major in the Green Berets who has done two tours since 9/11. He’s running for Congress in Colorado.

Here’s how Diggs Brown began his response to the “Peace” questionnaire (all of these are direct quotes from his answers… enjoy):

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I’m going to assume from the title of your organization and the tone of your first question that this is going to be an interesting questionnaire.



So let’s dispense with the usual political double-talk. I’m a Green Beret. You’re something called “Peace Action West”. This is not going to be pretty.




He was right. It wasn’t pretty. When “Peace Action West” asked about the what “practical steps” Major Brown would take towards “the elimination of nuclear weapons”, Brown let them have it:



As for the “elimination of nuclear weapons,” are you kidding me?


It takes a pretty naïve outlook to assume that we live in a warm and fuzzy world where Kim Jong Il isn’t a lunatic dictator who’s starving his own people and blackmailing the Pacific Rim with nuclear threats.


It takes a pretty naïve outlook to give Iran the benefit of the doubt and assume that Mahmoud Ahmedinijad isn’t looking for a quick and easy way to wipe the Israelis off the map.


I’d say that there’s no such thing as a “practical step” to achieve the impossible.



Would he support the nuclear test ban treaty? Here’s Brown’s answer:



Well, well, well… Iran signed it. I guess we can all rest easy because Mahmoud Ahmedinijad has given us his word that he’s not going to be testing any nuclear weapons. Did it ever occur to you that his idea of a “test” would be to lob one over at Tel Aviv to see if it detonates properly?


Throughout history, whenever America and her allies have put stock in the signatures of dictators on pieces of paper it has left us vulnerable. Hitler signed a piece of paper agreeing to “peace in our time.” Japan signed a piece paper in 1930 agreeing to limit the size of its navy. The Soviet Union signed – and broke – treaties throughout the Cold War. North Korea, Iran and Iraq have all signed pieces of paper in the past twenty years that have turned out to be meaningless acts of deliberate deception.


We must learn from history. We must continue to develop the most state-of-the-art weapons systems and we should be testing them.


What’s the use of having weapons if we’re not sure that they’ll work? More importantly, what’s the use of having weapons if our enemies aren’t sure that they’ll work?



But wait, it gets better. They asked what “diplomatic tools” Major Brown would use in his “negotiations” with Iran, and he answered:



As the cornerstone of my negotiations with Iran, I would speed up the development and production of the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, a precision-guided, 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb (the “MOP”) capable of destroying their underground nuclear facilities.


Bringing the MOP to the negotiating table would be an extremely effective “diplomatic tool”.


There would be a single precondition for negotiation: The immediate and unconditional cessation of all nuclear activities and the granting of full access to our weapons inspection teams. If Mahmoud Ahmedinijad does that, we can talk further.



Then things got personal. “Peace Action West” asked about his support for the surge in Afghanistan. Major Diggs Brown got blunt.



Let’s be honest, have any of you have ever been to Afghanistan? Have any of you ever fired a weapon (or had one fired at you)? Have any of you have seen what the Taliban and Al Qaeda are doing to innocent civilians?


How about some of you go on a trip over there and ask the Afghan people what it was like when the Taliban was in charge and what it will be like if we leave too soon.


I’ve been to Afghanistan. I have Afghan friends who were beaten by the Taliban because they didn’t grow a long-enough beard. I have worked with Afghan women who were forced by the Taliban to wear head-to-toe burkas and prohibited from getting an education. I have met Afghan widows who were beaten on the streets by the Taliban because they left the house without a male escort – and if they left with an escort other than their husband, they risked being summarily executed for presumed adultery.


I spent a tour of duty in Afghanistan. I helped rebuild a school there, one of the first in the nation that allowed girls to get an education. I saw the Afghans enjoying art, music and freedom of expression for the first time in a generation. I saw Afghan villagers walk miles in bare feet to get their first medical care in years. I saw the overwhelming generosity of the American people who opened their hearts and their wallets to ship school supplies to help children they’d never met.


All of that was made possible by the United States Military, and I saw the gratitude of the Afghan people who saw the American Soldier as their best hope for a better future. The chants of “Thank you America!” still ring in my ears.


So when you’re ready to tell me what you’ve actually done about the conditions in Afghanistan, other than try to tie the hands of the people who are actually helping the Afghan people – the United States Military – get back to me.



Refreshing isn’t it? Don’t you wish every candidate would have the same candor? “Peace Action” asked if we should be spending more on a “civilian surge” in Afghanistan instead of military. Major Brown’s answer:



Send in a bunch of civilians to get shot and blown up because there’s not enough military support to protect their butts? What could ever go wrong with that plan?


You are aware that there are very bad people who are trying to kill us, right? That’s why they call it a ‘war.’


Afghanistan remains a very dangerous place for civilians to do business. The Taliban are actively seeking to attack American targets. As such, we must continue to put the focus on security first. Without security, civilians can’t do their jobs and the Afghan citizens can’t create a stable society.


One of the missions of the Green Berets is to win hearts and minds. You do disrespect the tremendous work that our military does every day with the assumption that it takes a civilian to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. I rode along with medical missions in the mountains of Afghanistan. Many of the Army doctors I served with climbed aboard helicopters and volunteered to fly into remote villages, set up medical facilities and treat the people.


Some of those volunteers never came back.


The surge should be military, first and foremost. They get things done, and they’re equipped to shoot back.



But certainly, Major Brown would be against the use of Predator drones in Afghanistan, right? Wrong.



You guys spent the first few years of the war complaining that too many of my brothers and sisters in the military were getting killed. Frankly, the use of military dead to make your political points is disgusting to me. Some of those men and women were my friends, and they would never want their sacrifice to be used to further your political agenda.


So now the Pentagon figures out way where a pilot can sit in a comfortable chair in Nevada and provide us air cover with a Nintendo controller, and you still have a problem?


What’s your plan? Sit back and “hope” that our enemies will learn to “Coexist” instead of murdering civilians, torturing women and plotting to plunge the world into a 7th Century theocracy?


Good luck with that, and thank God for the American Soldier (and those pilots protecting us with the UAV’s.)



Finally – and you’ve got to read this – “Peace Action West” asked Major Diggs Brown if he would support “reestablishing civilian control of humanitarian and development efforts.” Every American has to read and forward along Green Beret Major Diggs Brown’s response:



“Reestablishing civilian control of humanitarian and development efforts…” So the next time there’s an earthquake in Haiti or a Tsunami in Thailand the civilians will be the first responders?


Maybe the civilians will airdrop supplies from their massive fleet of civilian CH-47D Chinook helicopters? Or maybe the civilians will roll up onto the beaches in their civilian rigid-hull fast boats? Or maybe civilian paratroopers will secure the airfields for incoming flights of civilian C-130 cargo planes?


When the Tsunami struck, the first humanitarian teams on the ground were the United States and Australian Navies. (For some reason, I doubt that there’d just so happen to be a civilian carrier battle group in the region on the day after Christmas). As United Nations civilians dithered about which hotels they’d be willing to stay in, Airborne Rangers and Air Force special-ops teams secured airfields and conducted around-the-clock flight operations, sleeping on the tarmac in order to get badly-needed food and water to those in need.


This past week in Haiti, the 82nd Airborne landed in Port-Au-Prince (the hard way), secured the roads from the airport to the city and set up massive food and water distribution systems. The Coast Guard handled the immediate air-traffic control into Port-Au-Prince until the Air Force could take over. The Navy used their landing craft to get around the clogged harbor. Airdrops from military helicopters launched from the USS Carl Vinson were the first food aid to reach outlying regions. Ten thousand Marines will provide security. There’s a Navy hospital ship (the USNS Comfort) parked offshore with Navy medical teams performing surgeries on Haitian civilians. Meanwhile, the French and the Venezuelans are complaining to the United Nations that we’ve “invaded” Haiti.


It sounds like you and I have very different ideas about how the world works.


I’ve actually been there. As a college senior I signed up as a private in U.S. Army Reserves. Today I continue to serve in the National Guard and proudly wear the uniform of a Green Beret Major when I’m called to active duty serving the United States.


Through it all, I have seen firsthand that the most powerful force for good in the world today is the United States Military, of which I am a proud member.


(I have a feeling I won’t be getting your group’s endorsement.)



Signed,




Diggs Brown

Candidate for Congress (Colorado’s 4th Congressional District)

Veteran, Operation Enduring Freedom

Now for a little humor...

Gone to a Tea Party Lately?

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Gone to a Tea Party lately? You could be labled a terrrorist. In fact you might want to erase your browser's history after viewing this site. Then go out and purchase a "file scrubber" that encrypts beyond recovery by our government. 

Paranoid? I wasn't as much from Bush; except for the borders. I became paranoid about that. Otherwise, I didn't have an uncle Habib in Pakistan that I wanted to telephone. If that helped our intelligence to protect us, so be it. We gave up a lot more "freedom" during every war we have ever fought as a nation. There is no rational comparison between those war's and this and say that Bush treasonous or simply a dumb "bad" for implementing survllience on Middle Eastern, South African and Western Block countries phone calls. So what?

Now we have Veterans, Any Anti-Abortion sympathizer, Any NRA member, and Anyone against the stimulus, all of theses are deemed subject to terrorist group propoganda. Is this the same profiling we have screamed about "against Muslims in air travel"?  

Cap and Trade? Based on What?
 
 

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