The Underground Conservative

This veteran salutes all those who have served and are serving, especially the fallen.

The President’s speech from Arlington National Cemetary today.
Video of the President’s speech.
Arlington National Cemetary official website.

Last night, I was at Michelle Malkin’s blog, reading an old post that opened my eyes on what really happened in Haditha. Which is basically that the whole thing was, according to a Marine intelligence report (released here via pdf), an “intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.” […]

More news about the anti-American, anti-military types at Berkeley, courtesy of Michelle Malkin:

Move America Forward has a petition you can sign to protest Berkeley’s City Council’s resolution to force the Marine recruiting station out of town; the site had been down earlier but was online as I wrote this post
Senator Jim DeMint of South […]

Berkeley’s at it again:
The City of Berkeley, California has passed two resolutions attacking the United States Marine Corps, calling the Marines, “uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city.”
The Berkeley City Council voted to condemn the Marines on Tuesday night (January 29th) as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down a U.S. […]

This item, via Michelle Malkin, has me (a proud Army veteran) seeing red:
In response to a Marine Corps recruiting office established in Berkeley last year, local activists are trying to make it more difficult for future recruiting centers to open in the city.
If passed by a majority of Berkeley voters, a proposed initiative would […]

The military-hating lawyer I blogged about in yesterday’s post, Jay Grodner, had his day in court today and here’s what happened according to a reader at Michell Malkin’s blog:
Long story short, he has to pay $600 to a Semper Fi Fund (Marine [Corps] fund for the wounded) and he has to report for Social […]

As a veteran (Army) myself, this story rankles me.
Sgt. Michael McNulty, a 26-year-old Marine from Chicago, had his car keyed allegedly by a jerkball lawyer as he visited a friend before he left for his second tour in Iraq.
Charges against the lawyer, 55-year-old Jay Grodner, might be upgraded to a felony, […]

The MSM succeeded in getting Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff–the highest ranking military man in the U.S. military (remember, he’s outranked by SECDEF and CINC/POTUS)–to admit that he thinks the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay should be closed.
Asked why he thinks Gitmo should be closed, Admiral Mullen says: […]

The commander of a U.S. military prison in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly “aiding the enemy,” the military said.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, a senior commander of the Camp Cropper detention center west of Baghdad, has been transferred to Kuwait for the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding, a military spokeswoman […]

In their usual attempt to make President Bush look bad, the New York Times makes a rare admission: that desertions were HIGHER during the Clinton administration, when we weren’t at war, than they are now:
The Army prosecuted desertion far less often in the late 1990s, when desertions were more frequent, than it does now, […]

Yes, at first we were worried and we prayed for the safe return of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran. Then we were thrilled when we heard they’d been released. Then we were upset that they had caved in to their captors’ demands too easily and quickly.
But at […]

The only thing missing is a the demand for a troop withdrawal deadline that coincides nicely with the 2008 Presidential election season:
Tens of thousands of Shiites — a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags — rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. Some ripped apart American flags […]

“The American people are not getting the full picture of what’s happening here. They’re not getting the full picture of the drop in murders, the establishment of security outposts throughout the city, the situation in Anbar province, the deployment of additional Iraqi brigades which are performing well, and other signs of progress having been made,” […]

As if they’re going to believe her.
The “Vote for Hillary Campaign,” er, we mean, New York Times, has published a nice, fawning, fluff piece about Hitlery Clinton and the military. The article’s obvious purpose is to create the myth that Hitlery actually cares about our military. Har, har, good one!
As the Hitlery campaign […]