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Conversation? Was THAT what it was? I throught is was just another typical "arrogant liberal attempts to demonstrate superior intellect" whining session, as you normally produce ... Sure seemed that way!
Tell me, how does it feel to be so exposed, and then have your ass handed back to you by a mere mortal?
ROFLMAO .......
Netanyahu Vs. the Shadow of Annihilation
by Ron Radosh
March 6, 2012 - 11:58 am
By Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh
There were a few surprises at Monday night’s AIPAC meeting. Throughout the previous two days, AIPAC spokesmen regularly championed the bi-partisan nature of Congress’s resolve to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but by the end of the evening the differences in their approach and resolve were apparent, and so were the sympathies of the more than 13,000 attendees.
First up was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He laid out the many ways in which Iran has acted as a dangerous and terrorist rogue state, and noted that while the Obama administration may share the common goal of stopping Iran from going nuclear, they had not come close to achieving success.It was the failure of Obama’s diplomacy from the beginning of his term that had forced Congress to act and would do so again.
The reason, McConnell said, was that the administration’s policy contained a “critical flaw.” At first, the Obama team tried to negotiate with Iran by extending an open hand in friendship, but two different offers and deadlines to meet with their leaders in September and December of 2009 came and went with no results. Iran just continued to work on getting their bomb. As Congress grew impatient, it initiated a sanctions policy which the president opposed, eventually reluctantly signing it.Congress then handed the president an additional tool “he did not seek or ask for,” that of sanctions against the banks doing business with Iran.
But now, according to McConnell, the president’s current error is to rely too heavily on sanctions alone. To say “all options are on the table,” McConnell said, might be a good talking point, but it is not a policy. Threats alone, he noted, “have lost their intended purpose.” A red line only works if the definition of that line is clearly spelled out and what the painful consequences will be if crossed. In light of the president’s reluctance to do it, McConnell laid out his plan:
If at any time the intelligence community presents the Congress with an assessment that Iran has begun to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, or has taken a decision to develop a nuclear weapon — consistent with protecting classified sources and methods — I will consult with the President and joint congressional leadership and introduce before the Senate an authorization for the use of military force. This authorization, if enacted, will ensure the nation and the world that our leaders are united in confronting Iran, and will undermine the perception that the U.S. is wounded or retreating from global responsibilities.
McConnell’s plan of action, which received many very enthusiastic standing ovations, was followed by former House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. You had to feel sorry for the woman who reiterated President Obama’s plea to have patience and let sanctions work, and then reminded the audience of everything the Democrats had done to support Israel over the years, and went on to tell the story of her family’s commitment to a Jewish homeland before Israel existed. All this was appreciated, but after McConnell it fell rather flat. Indeed, her plea that “Iran must abandon the reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons” sounded so lame, that it made her appear to be giving endorsement to McConnell’s very strong argument, since she literally said nothing to show she believed any teeth should be applied to Iran at all, outside of continuing with current administration policy.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu finally took the podium to thunderous applause, he spoke not just as a politician and the head of Israel, but as the historical memory and leader of the Jewish people. He reminded his audience that in every generation people sought the annihilation of the Jews and now that threat was represented by Iran. But this time it was different, now the Jews had ceased to be the powerless people incapable of stopping the Holocaust. They had their own state that could and would protect them.
Praising Obama for understanding that American policy is not one of “containment,” Netanyahu went on to emphasize that “those who seek our destruction cannot have the means to obtain that goal.” Proceeding to criticize the words of pundits who say either that the world can live with an Iranian bomb, or that Iran can be deterred, the prime minister continued: “Responsible leaders should not bet the security of their country on the most dangerous regime whose leaders will use the most dangerous weapons” against their proclaimed enemies. He asked everyone to consider one question: If a regime seizes embassies, stones women to death, kills gays, gives support to Assad, and foments the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah, and does this before even getting the bomb, what would it do once it obtained it? Instead of talking about the great costs of stopping them, he said, one has to talk about the cost of not stopping them.“I promise you,” he said, “as Israel’s prime minister I will never gamble with the security of Israel.”
Yes, the P.M. added, it would be best if Iran abandoned its programs peacefully. But for fifteen years, it has been a danger to the peace of the world, and the truth is that “diplomacy has not worked,” nor, he added, have sanctions. Israel, he said, has waited patiently for the international community to resolve the issue, for diplomacy and then sanctions to work. “None of us,” he concluded, “can afford to wait much longer. I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.”
He noted that some commentators have argued that it is less dangerous for Iran to get an atomic bomb than what it would take to stop them, since force would provoke a more vindictive response from Iran. Turning to history to prove his point, Netanyahu told the audience about the request that the World Jewish Congress had made to the U.S. War Department in 1944, asking that the allies bomb the railroad tracks at Auschwitz. Several weeks later they received their answer. The railroad tracks could not be destroyed, the Department wrote back, because it might “provoke” the Nazis to do even worse!
He concluded, 2012 is not 1944. The Jewish people are different and have a state of their own, a Jewish state that will “defend Jewish lives and fight for our very survival.” Yelling out the slogan “Never Again,” Netanyahu concluded that Israel must “have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threats. When it comes to our survival we must remain the master of our fate.” Israel, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim, is a “Jewish state capable of defending the Jewish people,” and he ended by expressing his gratitude “to have friends who love the state of Israel and respect its right to defend itself.”
Netanyahu did not say what transpired in his meeting with Obama. He did not have to. He praised the president’s speech and agreed with him that Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, that all options are on the table, and that containment is not acceptable. But he made it clear that if Iran does not stop its march to nuclear capability, Israel will have to act to defend the Jewish people, and prevent another Holocaust in the making. In making that case, he threw down a gauntlet to Obama, the world at large, and especially the mullahs in Iran. Netanyahu means what he says, and Obama must take him very, very seriously.
The president may claim that he has Israel’s back, and will stand with the Jewish state in its time of need. Clearly, the AIPAC audience — a good many of whose members are Democrats who want to support their president — was not satisfied with his assurances. Nor, most likely, was Prime Minister Netanyahu. When push comes to shove, he asserted, it will be up to Israel to defend itself. Its leaders have learned from history that it cannot afford to rely on others, even those who purport to be its best friends. That message, we trust, was not lost on Barack Obama and his advisors.
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/03/06/i-will-never-let-my-people-live-in-the-shadow-of-annihilation/
Netanyahu Vs. the Shadow of Annihilation
by Ron Radosh
March 6, 2012 - 11:58 am
By Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh
There were a few surprises at Monday night’s AIPAC meeting. Throughout the previous two days, AIPAC spokesmen regularly championed the bi-partisan nature of Congress’s resolve to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but by the end of the evening the differences in their approach and resolve were apparent, and so were the sympathies of the more than 13,000 attendees.
First up was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He laid out the many ways in which Iran has acted as a dangerous and terrorist rogue state, and noted that while the Obama administration may share the common goal of stopping Iran from going nuclear, they had not come close to achieving success.It was the failure of Obama’s diplomacy from the beginning of his term that had forced Congress to act and would do so again.
The reason, McConnell said, was that the administration’s policy contained a “critical flaw.” At first, the Obama team tried to negotiate with Iran by extending an open hand in friendship, but two different offers and deadlines to meet with their leaders in September and December of 2009 came and went with no results. Iran just continued to work on getting their bomb. As Congress grew impatient, it initiated a sanctions policy which the president opposed, eventually reluctantly signing it.Congress then handed the president an additional tool “he did not seek or ask for,” that of sanctions against the banks doing business with Iran.
But now, according to McConnell, the president’s current error is to rely too heavily on sanctions alone. To say “all options are on the table,” McConnell said, might be a good talking point, but it is not a policy. Threats alone, he noted, “have lost their intended purpose.” A red line only works if the definition of that line is clearly spelled out and what the painful consequences will be if crossed. In light of the president’s reluctance to do it, McConnell laid out his plan:
If at any time the intelligence community presents the Congress with an assessment that Iran has begun to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, or has taken a decision to develop a nuclear weapon — consistent with protecting classified sources and methods — I will consult with the President and joint congressional leadership and introduce before the Senate an authorization for the use of military force. This authorization, if enacted, will ensure the nation and the world that our leaders are united in confronting Iran, and will undermine the perception that the U.S. is wounded or retreating from global responsibilities.
McConnell’s plan of action, which received many very enthusiastic standing ovations, was followed by former House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. You had to feel sorry for the woman who reiterated President Obama’s plea to have patience and let sanctions work, and then reminded the audience of everything the Democrats had done to support Israel over the years, and went on to tell the story of her family’s commitment to a Jewish homeland before Israel existed. All this was appreciated, but after McConnell it fell rather flat. Indeed, her plea that “Iran must abandon the reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons” sounded so lame, that it made her appear to be giving endorsement to McConnell’s very strong argument, since she literally said nothing to show she believed any teeth should be applied to Iran at all, outside of continuing with current administration policy.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu finally took the podium to thunderous applause, he spoke not just as a politician and the head of Israel, but as the historical memory and leader of the Jewish people. He reminded his audience that in every generation people sought the annihilation of the Jews and now that threat was represented by Iran. But this time it was different, now the Jews had ceased to be the powerless people incapable of stopping the Holocaust. They had their own state that could and would protect them.
Praising Obama for understanding that American policy is not one of “containment,” Netanyahu went on to emphasize that “those who seek our destruction cannot have the means to obtain that goal.” Proceeding to criticize the words of pundits who say either that the world can live with an Iranian bomb, or that Iran can be deterred, the prime minister continued: “Responsible leaders should not bet the security of their country on the most dangerous regime whose leaders will use the most dangerous weapons” against their proclaimed enemies. He asked everyone to consider one question: If a regime seizes embassies, stones women to death, kills gays, gives support to Assad, and foments the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah, and does this before even getting the bomb, what would it do once it obtained it? Instead of talking about the great costs of stopping them, he said, one has to talk about the cost of not stopping them.“I promise you,” he said, “as Israel’s prime minister I will never gamble with the security of Israel.”
Yes, the P.M. added, it would be best if Iran abandoned its programs peacefully. But for fifteen years, it has been a danger to the peace of the world, and the truth is that “diplomacy has not worked,” nor, he added, have sanctions. Israel, he said, has waited patiently for the international community to resolve the issue, for diplomacy and then sanctions to work. “None of us,” he concluded, “can afford to wait much longer. I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.”
He noted that some commentators have argued that it is less dangerous for Iran to get an atomic bomb than what it would take to stop them, since force would provoke a more vindictive response from Iran. Turning to history to prove his point, Netanyahu told the audience about the request that the World Jewish Congress had made to the U.S. War Department in 1944, asking that the allies bomb the railroad tracks at Auschwitz. Several weeks later they received their answer. The railroad tracks could not be destroyed, the Department wrote back, because it might “provoke” the Nazis to do even worse!
He concluded, 2012 is not 1944. The Jewish people are different and have a state of their own, a Jewish state that will “defend Jewish lives and fight for our very survival.” Yelling out the slogan “Never Again,” Netanyahu concluded that Israel must “have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threats. When it comes to our survival we must remain the master of our fate.” Israel, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim, is a “Jewish state capable of defending the Jewish people,” and he ended by expressing his gratitude “to have friends who love the state of Israel and respect its right to defend itself.”
Netanyahu did not say what transpired in his meeting with Obama. He did not have to. He praised the president’s speech and agreed with him that Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, that all options are on the table, and that containment is not acceptable. But he made it clear that if Iran does not stop its march to nuclear capability, Israel will have to act to defend the Jewish people, and prevent another Holocaust in the making. In making that case, he threw down a gauntlet to Obama, the world at large, and especially the mullahs in Iran. Netanyahu means what he says, and Obama must take him very, very seriously.
The president may claim that he has Israel’s back, and will stand with the Jewish state in its time of need. Clearly, the AIPAC audience — a good many of whose members are Democrats who want to support their president — was not satisfied with his assurances. Nor, most likely, was Prime Minister Netanyahu. When push comes to shove, he asserted, it will be up to Israel to defend itself. Its leaders have learned from history that it cannot afford to rely on others, even those who purport to be its best friends. That message, we trust, was not lost on Barack Obama and his advisors.
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/03/06/i-will-never-let-my-people-live-in-the-shadow-of-annihilation/
yeppers. Just like the other sides always respected 'the office' when GW was occupying it.
But, sadly, that is just about where we are ....
The liberal media continually beats that race drum ... in some way or other.
The 'racist' word has become the liberal response to any negative criticism of Obama's performance in office. Not facts, not 'counter point' .... but "racist".
It's true .. one of our biggest imports is now not 'drugs' .. but 'dregs'.
Three words you seem to have forgotten as you scaled the rungs to the ladder of liberal arrogance:
Of ... by ..... for ....
Gosh, what a novel concept.
I fear their fear may be justified.
So, in short, you have just proven me correct in that liberals have not, are not and will not assume any responsibility or burden for any of today's problems, correct?
So much for that little exercise.
I don't understand how anyone could be as ill informed about someone they trust, respect and rely on.
'Back in the Day', everyone was more civil and just nicer than today. People had manners, and respect for their fellow man, and most importantly, respect for themselves. That makes a big difference in 'playing well with others'.
Some of the republicans are weasels. There are several who vote anti-gun in congress.
We will never see Holder held responsible for that debacle. Never.
I do not believe he is totally responsible. I do believe he could do something to help stop them from rising. I know he stated our prices should be more in line with those in Europe, and I know he stated fossil fuel prices would go up if he got elected, because he was pushing alternative energy sources ...
So he is partially responsible, I think ....
Do you deny he has made the statement, multiple times, that our gas prices should be like those in Europe? Do you?
Do you not see he is trying to remake our economy into a more marxist style, like some in Europe (that have, incidentally not exactly merited emulation)? Can you sit back and in honesty say he isn't doing that?
I'm sure that will be covered somewhere ... you can probably write it off as medical treatment .. LOL
"Honor killings" require tougher laws, say Iraqi women
By Yara Bayoumy and Aseel Kami | Reuters – 10 hrs ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a father doused his three teenage daughters with
boiling water and shot them because, he told a court, he suspected they were having sex. Two died.
He said he killed them to defend his honor.
Murder in Iraq can carry a death sentence but under laws that activists say are far too lenient for so-called
"honor killings," the father was jailed for just two years. Medical examinations showed the girls were virgins.
The light sentence was a result of Article 409 of Iraq's penal code which is often used in cases of "honor killings" by men. Women's activists in Iraq, led by the only woman in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, Minister of State for Women's Affairs Ibtihal al-Zaidi, are lobbying to change the law.
But they say they face entrenched tribal values in a country where parliament includes many men
from conservative parties.
For decades Iraqi women have enjoyed more freedoms than women in many other countries in the Middle East.
They are generally free from the strict enforcement of dress codes or restrictions on movement, and can join
political life.
But conservative tribal norms still prevail and all too often girls or women are punished by relatives for what are
perceived to be crimes of honor.
Such cases can be difficult to document. An Iraqi Human Rights ministry report said 249 women were
murdered in 2010, including for reasons of "honor crimes," without giving a breakdown. Amnesty
International cites the ministry as saying at least 84 women were killed in Iraq in honor killings in 2009.
Article 409 reduces a murder sentence to a maximum of three years if a man "surprises his wife or one of his
female dependents (who is) in a state of adultery or finds her in bed with a partner and kills her immediately, or
kills one of them."
Families can cover up the crimes and courts may turn a blind eye. Political party allies among the
authorities can help provide false testimony or witnesses.
"One reason the numbers of honor killings aren't known is because when they're presented to court,
they are presented as suicides," Surood Ahmed, from the Kirkuk office of Iraq's al-Amal Association
for Women, told Reuters.
"The police are lenient with the perpetrator because they say 'we're sons of the society', so we can't
be tough on him."
The deaths near Kirkuk in 2008 were documented by Amal in Kirkuk for a report by Chicago's DePaul
University. The third daughter lost an eye and suffered a severe mental disability.
When her father left jail, she returned to live with him because there was no other place to go.
EQUALITY IN PUNISHMENT
Zaidi said she wants to change Iraqi law to provide equal sentences for male and female perpetrators,
without the special exemption for male killers provided under article 409.
She recounted the story of a 12-year-old Iraqi girl who killed her father after she saw him committing
adultery. She was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
"If a man saw one of his female dependents committing adultery, how would he be punished? Six
months and he'll get out," said Zaidi, who wears a headscarf.
"A woman, even a 12-year-old, got 15 years in jail for an act she committed out of fear and horror
of what she saw.
"Definitely, we have brought up this issue and we asked 'where is the fairness and justice?'. Here
the sentence for a woman differs from a man's. Fairness and equality is required in this issue," Zaidi
told Reuters in an interview Sunday.
Zaidi said she was planning to present a recommendation to the cabinet to modify Article 409 to require the
same sentence for male and female killers. But she believes any proposed changes to the law are likely to
provoke a "strong reaction."
"At the end of the day, we are a Middle Eastern culture where tribal norms dictate affairs," said Zaidi,
an Arabic linguist and independent member of Maliki's ruling coalition.
"We will require some time before these recommendations turn into law ... there needs to be social
awareness about this issue."
Zaidi said she also hoped to pass a law against domestic violence this year. Official statistics indicate 20
percent of Iraqi women face domestic abuse.
Sundus Abbas, who heads the Women's Leadership Institute, a rights group with branches in seven Iraqi
provinces, says the true figure for women who face sexual and domestic abuse is as high as 73 percent.
Zaidi's proposed changes to the honor killing law fail to address the issue, she said. Giving female killers the
same rights as male killers would still provide "legal cover for violence against women."
"It is not correct to give the husband the right to kill his wife under this pretext and to give the same right to the
wife in the same provision," she told Reuters.
"I believe (Article 409) must be abolished and instead have a law that punishes a crime regardless of the
reason."
(Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Robert Woodward)
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Thanks for the good news. I can relate!
at a minimum .... plus we are self-destructive it seems .....
That would be pretty much true these days!
Of course ... They're afraid we might actually recover from the last go-round!
Special Forces soldier dies trying to save NC kids
By EMERY P. DALESIO and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press – 2 hrs 17 mins ago...
HOPE MILLS, N.C. (AP) — A decorated Green Beret leapt from the second-story of his burning home early Tuesday, wrapped himself in a blanket and ran back inside in an attempt to save his two young daughters.
Firefighters recovered the body of Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell on the second floor of his North Carolina home, not far from the remains of 6-year-old Isabella and 4-year-old Natalia.
"He never made it back out," said Debbie Tanna, spokeswoman for the Cumberland County sheriff's office.
Cantrell's wife and the girl's mother, Louise, also jumped from the second floor. She was treated and released from a Fayetteville hospital for smoke inhalation. The family dog, a Rottweiler named Sasha, also survived the fire.
Cantrell was a special forces paratrooper who served six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Friends and relatives gathered to recover what they could from burned-out house in Hope Mills, a small community about a 20-minute drive from the gates of Fort Bragg.
The house, which featured a broad front porch with tall columns, was built in 1920. Tanna said the old home's timbers were likely very dry, causing a fast-moving blaze. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
A sign at the end of the driveway blocked with yellow police tape says "The Cantrells Est. Feb. 7, 2004." Bouquets of flowers and two teddy bears had been placed nearby.
Firefighters from Cotton Volunteer Fire Department, which is less than two miles away, were on the scene within four minutes of receiving the dispatch call. Assistant Chief Kevin Dove said the house was already engulfed in flames.
"They perished before our arrival," said Dove, a veteran firefighter. "It was horrible."
Cantrell, 36, was a member of the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg. He held the rank of chief warrant officer 2, which authorized Cantrell to lead half of his 12-member Green Beret team if it was split up, said Lt. Col. April Olsen, a spokeswoman for Army Special Forces Command.
Records show Cantrell joined the Army in 1994, listing a home address in Plant City, Fla. He had one combat deployment to Iraq and five to Afghanistan, returning from the last mission in August, Olsen said.
His record included four Bronze Stars and one Purple Heart, awarded for wounds suffered in a war zone, Olsen said.
"There are no words to express the sorrow felt in our close-knit community when a family suffers such a tragedy," the command said on its Facebook page.
Family members declined interview requests, as did a soldier who served with Cantrell.
Isabella attended nearby Ed V. Baldwin Elementary School. Principal Todd Yardis said the girl's teacher and a grief counselor broke the news of what happened to her classmates shortly after they arrived in the morning.
Yardis said both Cantrell parents had been very active at the school, with Edward Cantrell sometimes stopping by in his Army uniform. He recounted how excited the young girl was when her father returned home from his most recent tour of duty.
"Bella was a very happy, loving girl," Yardis said. "She was one of those students who would run up and hug you around the leg when you passed her class in the hall."
Yardis said Cantrell was a hero for trying to save his girls. The father had recently spoken about retiring from the service, rather than returning overseas and being separated from his family again.
"He talked about wanting to get out of the military and opening his own business," Yardis said. "He wanted to open a tattoo parlor."
Cindy Jacobs, who works at an assisted living home next door, said Louise Cantrell ran to the facility during the fire to get the staff to call 911. Jacobs said she knew the family, especially the mother, who would often stop to make small talk as she drove by. The two girls were often in the car or outside playing.
"She was with those girls all the time," said Jacobs, the executive director of the ARC of Hope Mills. "It's so sad. I can't imagine what she's going through."
Jacobs said she learned Edward Cantrell was in the military when investigators visited to ask about him as part of the procedure for getting a top secret security clearance.
"We knew he was Special Forces," Jacobs said. "He was just a heck of a guy. Very, very friendly."
The girls were energetic children, said Jacobs, who has an active-duty son in the Navy and whose husband is a civilian employee at Fort Bragg. "They were just adorable little girls," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/special-forces-soldier-dies-trying-save-nc-kids-154514032.html
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Six combat tours, and the poor guy comes back home and loses his two little girls and his own life trying to save them.
There are not words to describe the guy. And Obama wants to jerk the military around.
Special Forces soldier dies trying to save NC kids
By EMERY P. DALESIO and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press – 2 hrs 17 mins ago...
HOPE MILLS, N.C. (AP) — A decorated Green Beret leapt from the second-story of his burning home early Tuesday, wrapped himself in a blanket and ran back inside in an attempt to save his two young daughters.
Firefighters recovered the body of Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell on the second floor of his North Carolina home, not far from the remains of 6-year-old Isabella and 4-year-old Natalia.
"He never made it back out," said Debbie Tanna, spokeswoman for the Cumberland County sheriff's office.
Cantrell's wife and the girl's mother, Louise, also jumped from the second floor. She was treated and released from a Fayetteville hospital for smoke inhalation. The family dog, a Rottweiler named Sasha, also survived the fire.
Cantrell was a special forces paratrooper who served six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Friends and relatives gathered to recover what they could from burned-out house in Hope Mills, a small community about a 20-minute drive from the gates of Fort Bragg.
The house, which featured a broad front porch with tall columns, was built in 1920. Tanna said the old home's timbers were likely very dry, causing a fast-moving blaze. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
A sign at the end of the driveway blocked with yellow police tape says "The Cantrells Est. Feb. 7, 2004." Bouquets of flowers and two teddy bears had been placed nearby.
Firefighters from Cotton Volunteer Fire Department, which is less than two miles away, were on the scene within four minutes of receiving the dispatch call. Assistant Chief Kevin Dove said the house was already engulfed in flames.
"They perished before our arrival," said Dove, a veteran firefighter. "It was horrible."
Cantrell, 36, was a member of the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg. He held the rank of chief warrant officer 2, which authorized Cantrell to lead half of his 12-member Green Beret team if it was split up, said Lt. Col. April Olsen, a spokeswoman for Army Special Forces Command.
Records show Cantrell joined the Army in 1994, listing a home address in Plant City, Fla. He had one combat deployment to Iraq and five to Afghanistan, returning from the last mission in August, Olsen said.
His record included four Bronze Stars and one Purple Heart, awarded for wounds suffered in a war zone, Olsen said.
"There are no words to express the sorrow felt in our close-knit community when a family suffers such a tragedy," the command said on its Facebook page.
Family members declined interview requests, as did a soldier who served with Cantrell.
Isabella attended nearby Ed V. Baldwin Elementary School. Principal Todd Yardis said the girl's teacher and a grief counselor broke the news of what happened to her classmates shortly after they arrived in the morning.
Yardis said both Cantrell parents had been very active at the school, with Edward Cantrell sometimes stopping by in his Army uniform. He recounted how excited the young girl was when her father returned home from his most recent tour of duty.
"Bella was a very happy, loving girl," Yardis said. "She was one of those students who would run up and hug you around the leg when you passed her class in the hall."
Yardis said Cantrell was a hero for trying to save his girls. The father had recently spoken about retiring from the service, rather than returning overseas and being separated from his family again.
"He talked about wanting to get out of the military and opening his own business," Yardis said. "He wanted to open a tattoo parlor."
Cindy Jacobs, who works at an assisted living home next door, said Louise Cantrell ran to the facility during the fire to get the staff to call 911. Jacobs said she knew the family, especially the mother, who would often stop to make small talk as she drove by. The two girls were often in the car or outside playing.
"She was with those girls all the time," said Jacobs, the executive director of the ARC of Hope Mills. "It's so sad. I can't imagine what she's going through."
Jacobs said she learned Edward Cantrell was in the military when investigators visited to ask about him as part of the procedure for getting a top secret security clearance.
"We knew he was Special Forces," Jacobs said. "He was just a heck of a guy. Very, very friendly."
The girls were energetic children, said Jacobs, who has an active-duty son in the Navy and whose husband is a civilian employee at Fort Bragg. "They were just adorable little girls," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/special-forces-soldier-dies-trying-save-nc-kids-154514032.html
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Six combat tours, and the poor guy comes back home and loses his two little girls and his own life trying to save them.
There are not words to describe the guy. And Obama wants to jerk the military around.
Heck no, he was, and remains, immune!
I would imagine that participating in a campaign is pretty strenuous, and he probably is pretty much running on empty all the time.
Hey, after all, Obama went to sleep and woke up, and there were 7 new states!
Call it as you wish .. but I know the truth!
You could probably do it. I'm sure others have already.
Boy I can attest to that. I know what a PITA I was for the first couple of weeks after I had my surgery, until I could get out of that sling and start moving around again on my own!.
No, actually I am not .. any of those.
I'm becoming very rapidly fed up with liberals and their arrogance, their refusal to accept any responsibility for anything that is wrong in the country, and their continual efforts to try and make government the controlling factor over every move we make.
Do any of those qualities fit you?
The issue is the games liberals play, and their constant flip-flopping on everything in order to arrive a something they feel suits their cause.
In this one, it was Olberman who explained high gas prices as the result of 'speculators' in the Bush I era.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=30135276&txt2find=Bush|gas
But be that as it may, the clip you linked to, as compiled by the liberal group Media Matters, is nothing beyond some 'pick and choose' lines of Fox news interviews of ... surprise ... largely all liberal guests, and one flip/flopping entertainer .. None of whom, interestingly, even uttered the word 'speculators'... and none of whom were willing to say any of the responsibility was the fault of liberal ideals.
So the real bottom line is ... liberals just aren't going to accept any responsibility for anything that is wrong in this country, and your pitiful efforts with your attempt at a personal attack post just goes to prove that is a fact.
See, I cited liberals in general as the problem with the country, (for the reason they refuse to accept any responsibility for anything) while you want to try to make me out as the problem for not understanding anything and my "stupidity and bile-filled mind" and even wrote off fundamental Islamism, Iran, the deficit, inequality or any other issue often discussed as having anything to do with it.
Always entirely the fault of no one but a conservative, eh? You're almost funny, if we weren't in such serious trouble.
The mindset of liberals is astounding. Still, after three+ years in the White House .. there is zero accountability for anything, and they continue to blame every single problem on someone other than themselves.
Don't you think it is time liberals stand up, realize they're part of this country, and assume some of the burden as well as some of the blame and responsibility?
I thought you touted Fox as nothing but a propaganda source?
That only applies when you don't agree, right?
Flip/flop/wiggle/slither liberals .......... Talk about integrity.
Well, if there's anyting I despise more than a liberal, it's a liberal who lies and then tries to cover it by changing the entire basic premise of the discussion.
But then, again, that just about covers every liberal I have ever known ....
Yes, all true, and more.
The present administration and media in this country spit on our constitution daily ... using, of course, the freedoms provided by? The constitution of course.
Good one PW
You start by your statement "Arizona housing prices are up 20%" .... and now you're down to one small area of one particular city in the state .....
that does nto a state make, which is what you claimed in your original post ... "Arizona housing prices are up 20%".
Stop wriggling like a snake ... either limit your statements to what you are talking about, or admit you were wrong and stated something that was untrue.
Can't have it both ways, junior. Only your messiah can do that!
Just goes to show - they're very good judges of character (and the total lack thereof)!
A step at a time ......... they're destroying what it has taken 235 years to build ............
Tell me .... did they run from Bush?
Very good way to look at it Walk! I like that!
Liberal integrity .....
Wonder where they get their smarts?
NO! NEVER!!!!!!!! I'm sure you'll think of some more ... you have to! The election isn't until November!!!!
Egypt - 'Carjacked' MP had a nose job
AFP – 8 hrs ago...
Seems Egypt is having problems with some of their 'democratic revolution' folks .... This guy must be a true Liberal at heart ...
An Egyptian Islamist MP was forced to resign from parliament and from his party after claiming that he was injured in a carjacking, when he had in fact had a nose job, his party said on Monday.
A bruised and bandaged Anwar al-Bilkimy had appeared on television last week saying he was the victim of a carjacking and spoke of how gunmen beat him and stole 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($16,500).
But doctors and medical staff at a hospital in the Cairo suburb of Sheikh Zayed came forward and said that the MP, who belongs to the ultra conservative Islamist party al-Nur, had in fact been undergoing rhinoplasty at the time.
In a statement on its Facebook page, Al-Nur said its chief Emad Abdel Ghafur had gone to see Bilkimy on Monday and confirmed that the whole story had been "made up".
Bilkimy "has resigned from the party and from parliament," the party said.
The MP is also to "offer a formal apology to the doctors at the hospital, the party, all members of parliament, the media, security forces and to all the Egyptian people," it said.
Egyptian prosecutors had launched an investigation into the affair, asking staff at the hospital to provide Bilkimy's medical records and demanding a forensic examination.
Bilkimy's claims of an attack came as Egypt struggles with insecurity since a popular uprising toppled president Hosni Mubarak last year, with a rise in carjackings, robberies and violence on the streets.
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