New Film released By the Swedes Showing McCain’s release in 1973 to the US Military in Hanoi.

From Yahoo:

Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.

A former SVT reporter, Erik Eriksson, said he found the video in the network’s archives when he was looking for footage for a book he was writing about his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.

SVT posted the edited 39-second clip on its Web site on Thursday. It shows McCain stepping off a bus with other prisoners. He has a pronounced limp but is not using crutches.

It then shows McCain standing in a lineup when his name is called. He walks up to salute and shake hands with U.S. military officers. The last part of the clip shows a U.S. Air Force jet taxiing on a runway.

t/b: Hot AirJohn McCain Released From Hanoi To US Military in 1973

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Reid & Pelosi

The Democrat party controlled congress has reached a record low approval rating.  Will the Pelosi-Reid partnership continue for another 2 years?  Is the electorate still asleep?

From Gallup:

Congress’ job approval rating has dropped five percentage points over the past month, from 19% in June to 14% in July, making the current reading the lowest congressional job approval rating in the 34-year Gallup Poll history of asking the question. The previous low was 18%, last reached in May.

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The 75% currently disapproving of Congress is just shy of the record-high 78% in March 1992.

These results, from a July 10-13 Gallup Poll, follow 18 months of dismal job approval ratings for Congress, during which approval has usually registered below 30%, and has averaged only 25%.

Still, the 14% approval rating is extraordinary. Approval of Congress has fallen below 20% only six times in the 34 years Gallup has measured it. Including the latest reading, four of those have come in the past year: in July, June, and May 2008, and in August 2007. The two additional readings were from March 1992 (in the midst of the House bank check-kiting scandal) and June 1979 (during an energy crisis that resulted in surging gas prices and long gas lines), when either 18% or 19% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows that President Bush has a low approval rating of 33% (twice that of Congress’ approval).

For the week ending July 13, just 33% of Americans say they approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his job as President.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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John Murtha grudgingly admits the surge is working in an interview in Pittsburgh but misrepresents facts about the Iraqi war. What follows is what was left on the cutting room floor.

The worst enemy of the left are their lies exposed on the internet.

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Jack Murtha (democrat-PA) was quick to lay blame on these Marines for the killing of these Iraqis. He should be approached at every availability and confronted about the Haditha boondoggle.

From the AP:

A Marine intelligence officer accused of trying to cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis appeared stunned at first when a jury acquitted him of the charges.

For more than two years, 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson had been under suspicion, accused of ordering the destruction of evidence in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths to come out of the war.

“I didn’t really believe it was going to end until they said not guilty,” Grayson said in his first public comments following the verdict. “The case was so volatile, you didn’t know which way it was going to go.”

Grayson had always maintained his innocence. On Wednesday, a military jury agreed with him.

Cheers erupted as the jury found him not guilty of ordering a sergeant to delete photographs of the bodies from a digital camera and laptop computer.

The judge, Maj. Brian E. Kasprzyk, admonished the courtroom, telling them: “There will be no more of that.”

It was a reflection of the contentious nature of a case that saw Grayson painted by prosecutors as a liar who hindered an investigation. His attorneys said he was a fall guy for a botched investigation.

Grayson was the first of three Marines to be court-martialed in connection with killings of men, women and children on Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha.

He was not present at the killings that occurred after a roadside bomb struck a convoy, killing a Marine and wounding two others.

Investigators allege that after the bombing, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and a squad member shot five men by a car at the scene. Wuterich then allegedly ordered his men into several houses, where they cleared rooms with grenades and gunfire, killing more Iraqis in the process.

Four enlisted Marines initially were charged with murder and four officers were charged with failing to investigate the deaths. Charges were dropped against five of the Marines.

Grayson, of Springboro, Ohio, was found not guilty of two counts of making false official statements, two counts of trying to fraudulently separate from service, and one count of attempt to deceive by making false statements. He would have faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Jack Murtha was quick to jump on this Haditha charge and infer that these Marines were guilty before any trial began.

Grayson fought back tears as he described the months leading up the trial.

He said he first found out he was under suspicion when he got a call from his commander months after the killings. A short time later, he was read the charges.

“It was surreal,” he said. “You can’t quite believe you are hearing all this.”

Grayson’s life was thrown into turmoil. He was barred from leaving the Marine Corps until the case was adjudicated. He had been scheduled to get out in June 2007.

Grayson said early on in the case he refused a deal that would have reduced charges and kept him out of prison.

“I was the one that had to look at myself in the mirror. To take the easy way out, you are the one that has to live with that,” he said.

During the darkest moments of the case, he said he leaned on his wife. The couple married in the middle of the investigation and gave up a honeymoon.

His wife, Susan, cried as she said what she had only dared to think about for months: “It’s over.”

Prosecutors did not make themselves available for comment.

Jack Murtha an embarrassment to this country.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D – San Francisco is angling for defeat in Iraq and the war on terrorism for her party’s own political benefit. Pelosi will push for a vote on the genocide resolution in an attempt to anger Turkey to suspend the use of their airspace to supply our troops in Iraq.

This type of scenerio will doom the Democrat Party in 2008. Just one more arrow in the heart of liberalism in the 21st century. If she keeps on insisting on this vote our military will suffer more fatalities in Iraq as a result of her ignorance and stupidity in foreign affairs.

No wonder the Democrat party controlled congress has such a low approval rating.

This further exposes the low wattage of the liberal mindset .

A full U.S. House vote on the genocide resolution is expected soon. Turkey, which acknowledges Armenians died in large numbers but denies genocide took place, has warned it might close its airspace to the U.S. military if the measure is approved.

The Turkish Parliament is set to vote as early as tomorrow to authorize a military incursion into Iraq.

The dispute is a source of concern within the Pentagon. The U.S. military brings enormous quantities of food, fuel, ammunition, spare parts and vehicles into Iraq every month through the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. Officials said 70% of the air cargo going into Iraq passes through Turkey.

If the U.S. lost access to Turkish airspace, it likely would try to bring supplies in from Jordan or Kuwait. But neither country could step in as a viable replacement. The U.S. has no major bases in Jordan, and the highways linking Jordan and Iraq pass through several restive Sunni-dominated parts of Iraq. The U.S. ports and bases in Kuwait, meanwhile, are already stretched by supplies en route to Iraq.

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Calling Jim Murtha: apologize to the wrongly accused Marines!

Jim Murtha and the scumbags in the Main Stream Media perpetuated a lie about the “Haditha Massacre.”

A new report by Nathaniel Helms at Defend our Marines proves the Marines were set up by Al Qaeda operatives.

Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter was an intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.

Veteran military defense attorney Gary Meyers said he never understood why the Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents leading the Haditha criminal investigation didn’t “examine the linkage” between Al Qaeda, the local insurgency and the events at Haditha. Meyers was an attorney on the defense team that successfully defended Justin Sharratt, a Marine infantryman accused of multiple murders at Haditha.

The journalist that did not investigate the story thoroughly was a writer for Time Magazine.

The prosecutors in the case against eight Marines charged with murder and cover up at Haditha still maintain the besieged infantrymen acted solely out of malice and poor judgment when they killed 24 Iraqis there. The prosecution’s investigation was launched after a story by Time magazine reporter Tim McGirk on March 6, 2006 accused the Marines of cold blooded murder in retaliation for the death of a brother Marine.

McGirk received his video “evidence” and contacts from two known Iraqi insurgent operatives already under observation by Marine Corps counter intelligence teams. One of the Iraqi witnesses McGirk relied on had just been released from almost six months captivity for insurgent activities and the other witness was considered a useful intelligence tool by Marines listening to him talk on his cell phone. McGirk never interviewed the Marines, who ironically had prepared a similar intelligence summary in anticipation of his canceled visit.

It’s obvious that the MSM and John Murtha intend for the US to lose in the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. When will the American Public wake up and defeat the Democrats in 2008?

h/t: Stop The ACLU , Michelle Malkin

t/b: Hot Air

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