Congressman Doug Collins service in Iraq

From the official website of Congressman Doug Collins:

"In 2002, Doug joined the United States Air Force Reserve as a chaplain. He ministered to service members both at home and at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq, completing a combat tour in 2009."

Aside from his service as a pastor, state representative, and now United States Congressman, Doug has ministered to members of our military as a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve since 2002. In 2008, he served a combat tour stationed at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq.

Hmmm. What does a lawyer really do in a combat tour on the safest base in Iraq?

From Global Security:

There was a Subway sandwich shop, a Pizza Hut, a Popeye's, a 24-hour Burger King, 2 post exchanges (PXs) that sold an impressive array of goods, 4 mess halls, a minature golf course, and a hospital. The base had a strictly enforced on-base speed limit of 10 miles per hour.

Must be rough on a base with 'a movie theater, two base PX's, fast food courts including Popeyes, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Burger King, Green Beans Coffee, dance lessons, an olympic size swimming pool, and an indoor swimming pool.' And the constant threat of visiting celebrities and politicians including Carrie Underwood in December 2006 and Gary Sinise.

Wonder if My Congressman got to meet Carrie or Gary?

"As of May 2004 the base had 17,000 troops and was 12 1/2 miles in circumference. General John Abizaid, commander of US Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee in March 2004 that '. . . we are making Balad Airfield our primary hub in the region, and the idea of doing that is because we need to have the Baghdad International Airport revert to civilian control.'"

So Dear Dougie, during your combat mission in Irag inside a base 12 1/2 miles in circumference with fast food, celebrities, and an olympic sized outdoor pool, what were your daily duties as chaplain?

Did you go on convoy missions exposing yourself to enemy fire while maintaining the 10 mile per hour speed limit?

Did you ever fracken leave the base? Did you monitor the life guards? Did you share the foot holes and risk death just like the 8,000 civilian employees?

Tell us, Dear Dougie, what did you do in your combat tour of Iraq besides caplaining?

This is a repost. Here's some new information:

In 2007, Tony Blair begins withdrawal of UK forces.

Picture of Balad



Casualty list for Iraq War

Picture showing Bush May of 2003 "Mission Accomplished"



Article from Stars and Stripes on the dangers in 2004 from mortars at Balad

From 2007, Iraqi Parliament members request a withdrawal time table from US, an article from Fox News

From the US Army on Afghanistan and Iraq after 10 years. The war is costing $12 billion per month. In 2007, deaths in Iraq from all causes total 903. In 2008, 213 deaths.

Note on Deaths: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM includes casualties that occurred between March 19, 2003, and August
31, 2010, in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf,
Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Prior to March 19, 2003, casualties in these
countries were considered OEF.

Another link

And, so you don't think that I think it was easy for those who fought.

Another New Year, the same old Doug Collins

Doug Collins? Who the frack is Doug Collins?

Well Holy Irony, Batman, he's my Congressman and a Guest Columnist with the Gainesville Times. And a former lawyer like so many Congress members.

He's laying it on pretty deep in his column, One Language Unites a Nation. Shades of Imperialism.

Congressman Collins would like to extend Congressional reach all the way to your lips with a new law making English the official language of the United States. What the hell are people going to speak in south Georgia as their Redneck English ain't official nuttin'?

The Great Man sees 'English as something that necessarily unifies the citizens of the United States.' Sort of like how guns make sleeping babies safer and carpet bombing remodels cities. He goes on to say that, "If there is any day for the American people to be united, it should be the day we make our voices heard at the ballot box."

Election day unites us? Really, Master Collins. The only way you won an election was by dividing the people with misinformation, in English. Things like calling the current President 'lawless.' Dude, you refused to even listen to the 2016 Budget submitted to Congress by the President. Who's fucking lawless?

Let's take a swing on how well official language unite a country by looking at Pakistan. They have an official language, actually two including English. Collins must be proud, eh? English sure unites Pakistan, the final hiding place of bin Laden. The Pakistani national language, also the other official language, is Urdu.

I said Urdu. It bears repeating because it is not the Mother Language of the people as only 8% of the general population are born native Urdu speakers.

So how did Urdu become the national language? If we believe the well educated and right thinking Doug Collins, the Pakistani people quietly developed this language to unify a country. Only, he would have to admit the British forced Urdu on the Pakistani people way back in 1849 when the Southern United States were teaching English as the only acceptable language among human slaves. Luckily, to use some words from Collins, "Generations of immigrants to the United States have gladly accepted the considerable challenge of learning English" which includes the considerable challenge posed by shackles, chains, and collars.

Well, I wish Collins, one of 73 proud co-sponsors of this unifying, urgent, and essential law, good luck with uniting people by passing one law when Congressman Collins won't read the lawfully presented United States budget for 2017. I'm glad he consulted with voters in his North Georgia district through town hall meetings presenting his ideas for review and public comment before busting his pants in pride at being 1 of 73 sponsors of a really bad law.

Nice work. Just ignore the important things being written in English and write worthless laws about grammar. You can do it.

Lynching at Ol' Miss

Like it or knot.

Racism rules in the South. Wave the Battle Flag and cry Havoc!

Students at Ol' Miss University performed a ritual lynching of James Meredith, the first black student to attend the school.

Police on Sunday found a noose tied around the neck of the statue, along with an old Georgia flag with a Confederate battle emblem in its design, which has since been updated to exclude the emblem.

And a Georgia Flag?

I'm 58 years old and I've seen the KKK standing on street corners in the South. But remember I've only lived here since 1986.

I didn't live here in 1962. I bet white sheets were the rage.

Maybe the tie dye rage was a small rebellion which didn't take.

"Voting rights act? We don't need no federal protection for our darkies. We know how to handle them."

If that's not the mantra of Georgia, Let the leadership speak out. Repudiate vocally or validate privately.

Well, I'm listening.