Bump for GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 2/23/04 - - Bagram, Kabul, Kandahar

Neat! Muzzle loader or trapdoor? I guess we'll never know.

The greatest pictures most Americans will never see. Thanks, as always, for the real news.

Don't forget to snag the pics you want before they are gone.

Thanks. It is absolutely amazing how much good the USA does each day
compared to that which becomes the anchors' focus in the evening.

Thanks again for this fabulous collection.

Great Pictures - I probably won't be seeing them in the media. Prepare for violence around the elections, because the enemies of freedom, including our press, won't like it.

Thanks Dio

I hope that you don't mind but I send many of these pics off in E-mails to get the truth out there.Giving you all the credit of course

RB

Awesome pictures!! Just when you think you're having a "bad" day.....God Bless America and our brave soldiers.

Owl_Eagle

"Guns Before Butter."

great pics... thanks.. bump...

Thanks for the pics

Thanks again, great to see the actions of military receiving the respect that they are deserving of, just thanks.

Thank you Diogenesis - finding your post is like
uncovering a jewel.

Great pictures. Thank you very much for sharing.

Now, back to our program.

Tom Daschle is deeply saddened by this.

Neat! Muzzle loader or trapdoor? I guess we'll never know.

Looks like a Snider breechloader. I'll admit I'm not used to seeing them slung upside-down in daily use.

"Thank you Americans!"

Monday, February 23, 2004

Flowers under Bush

Something is going right in Afghanistan: I am a coordinator for a pottery factory in India, and while delivering pottery to one of our customers the other day, a group of businessmen from Afghanistan were being given a tour of this major nursery. The leader of the group went out of his way to come and shake my hand and smiled and said, "Thank you, American." I was touched and glad that they are now planning on planting and growing in that land. Not everyone hates the American presence there. We must be doing something right in Afghanistan — they are planting! Keep leading, George Bush; things are going to turn.

- Charles Hartzell, Kirkland

Link to article:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001863017_monlets23.html

I thought of a Snider only after I posted. In reality, there's no way of knowing without the complete side view. All we can tell at the moment is it's a muzzle loader or a later conversion.[Conversion meaning most of the parts are an earlier muzzle loading design]

Hey... Are those REGULATION fishnet hose?

This is great...and in the Seattle Times too.

I think we should start sending some of the pics of good news to our local newspapers -- at least once weekly.

Do these photos need to have credit given?

Just beautiful.

Dio-what is wrong, breathtakingly WRONG with our press corp here in America? It is so cheap, so mired in spinning and lying about our efforts in Afganistan and Iraq, that it is WILLING to DENY the America people, the terrific American people, the full story about events in these nations?

Our press corp is so agenda driven and willing to deny all of us glimpses of the extraordinary good and humanitarian efforts our precious military is doing? And denying ALL of us balanced coverage of these efforts even as these media elites understand that we are PAYING for this out of our own pockets and if that is not enough, our precious troops are in danger EVERY single second they cruise the streets of these budding democracys?

We have a sick, sick media. Something has to be done. These talking heads and their bosses are deeply embedded in lying to all of us by omission. How is this different than Goebbel's activities during the Third Reich?

I am FED UP WITH IT!!!!

I want those yearning to know THE WONDERFUL ADVANCES our soldiers have made on the humanitarian front in Afganistan and Iraq to be made complete. I want our nation to KNOW about these terrific American soldiers...who listen to a boy recite an English alphabet, who stand by while women register to vote for the first time in their lives, etc. etc!!!!

HOW DARE THEY KEEP US IN THE DARK!!!!!!!!!! HOW DARE THEY FAIL TO SHARE WITH AMERICANS THE DEEP AND MARVELOUS SUCCESSES OF THIS CRITICAL ENDEAVOR?????????????

I dispise them all.

I tear up when I see the Kabul shots in light of what was. Bless the innocents, our brave troops and allies. Thanks so much...

Ping

Another excellent installment in an excellent series.

Thanks, as always, for sharing these with us.

While you spread these great photos, our heroes spread the joys of freedom in the middle east.

Like you, I assume it is a British rifle, either an 1853 Enfield muzzleloader or a Snider "trapdoor". I would not have been any more surprised to see a .577-450 Martini Henry either.

LOL!
The one guy second from right is staring at her feet nervously.

And the gunmaker could have just finished it adding his own touches. There's no way of knowing. I have a replica of a Sears catalog. Matchlocks and flintlocks were newly manufactured during the 1920's.

"Unlike in Florida or Illinois, I must be alive and have a picture I.D. to vote!"

MY OPINION: The Taliban are dying out and they know it.
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An FYI Link of Interest...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/02/000961print.html

JIHAD WATCH.org:

February 23, 2004


"Taliban claim responsibility for fatal attack on American reconstruction team"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Taliban is attempting to keep the jihad alive in Afghanistan by murdering construction workers. The focus on non-combatants accord with the provisions of Islamic law that forbid killing them unless they are considered to be aiding the war effort. This is used to justify bombings on buses in Israel, and by Osama for his attacks in the U.S. From the Guardian:"

Cap lock? hard to tell. Imagine there are some
interesting pieces floating around.

One of the great things Robert Heinlein created was the "Fair Witness".
"Is that house white?"
"I don't know, Boss." "It's white on this side."

I try to be as accurate as I can but I find it to be very difficult.

Good News.

thanks Dio.

Are there photos of the current action in Pakistan tribal areas in our search for OBL and Taliban? Indications are that is a hot zone.

Murdered a French woman in cold blood.

Waiting for French wife of Carlos the Jackass to rush to their defense.

Meanwhile I see they are out on steel bond.

Approximately one meter in length.

Behold the bold jihad warriors--typo, should read, behead the et cetera.

Fantastic, as always. I really look forward to seeing these. How DO you do it? Thanks to you and to all our brave troops keeping us and the world safe. Humbling.

Great as usual!

An U.S. F-15C fighter, front, and two Indian Sukhoi-30 fighter planes fly in close formation during a joint air exercise over Gwalior, India, in this undated Feb. 2004 photo. Indian and American fighter aircraft soared over the central Indian city in their biggest ever joint air exercise as part of widening military cooperation between the two nations, media and officials said. In the background is the River Chambal. (AP Photo/Indian Air Force/Handout)

Laughed out loud at that thought; thank you! Poor Tom!!!

What other country which had been barbarically attacked go after only the bad guys and set a nation free? These pics are so uplifting. And, as usual, not enough credit given to the troops for what they have accomplished. Just think about it; these people are voting! (And maybe soon no more burkas (sp?) if women choose not to wear.) Don't you wish you could be granted time with some of these guys to hear just a bit of the real scoop? We'll never know all of the tales of heroism but Hollywood couldn't top any of them.

Are those REGULATION fishnet hose?

I don't think asking her would be a good move. In any event, she doesn't look like the type that would be doing anything non-regulation. Brrrr!

LOL!
The one guy second from right is staring at her feet nervously.

Probably finds all that visible ankle to be both scandalous and sexually inflaming... But she most likely outranks his sorry self, and so he's got a bad case of cognitive dissonance. :)

LOL!
Either that or he's terrified by her.