Dana Rohrabacher is going to be our new Congressman for Newport Beach in 2013. We love Dana and Rhonda in spite of a heavy variety of slings and arrows that have been cast against that team in the many years back. Personal choices aside, they are great folks and are never stuck for a position on virtually any subject or policy. Dana’s famous photo during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, while supplying arms to the Mujahadeen, Northern Alliance was a classic, outfitted in Afghan garb and leaning on his AK-47.
Dana was a youngster then, bringing home the bacon for his constituents in Huntington Beach and supporting the Space Station and McDonnel-Douglas. Dana sat on the House Space and Science Committee and was looking to take Bob Dornan’s spot on the Armed Services Committee. So, Dana being an independent thinker and making certain arrangements with the Reagan-Bush people – Dana went off to Afghanistan. Was he really CIA? Was his travel approved by the State Department? Did he check with the reigning Secretary of State? Who knows? Dana went to Afhanistan and went there seemingly often.
Fast forward to yesterday. Hamid Karzai got his breeches in an uproar when he heard the inimitable Dr. Dana (Special Forces) Rohrabacher was coming back to Afghanistan. Now you have to understand that Dana just doesn’t hang out in Kabul to talk to the various International Press folks. Dana wants to go there amongst ’em! He might go to Kandahar….he might go to the Ubeks border region…he might hang out with Special Forces kids on the Pakistani border where most of the action might be. No, Dana doesn’t do Club Med Afghanistan. So Karzai went off the charts, called Obama, called Hillary, called the Pope…probably. “NO Dana, NOT this time or ever!” came the Karzai call. Heck, he was even willing to take Rick Santorum, before he would take Rohrabacher.
Well, being “persona non grata” can be actually looked at as good thing sometimes. Our American military seems to think that even though the Afghans still are growing Heroin Poppies as a major crop, still have the Drug Cartel folks doing the gun and explosive running, even though every major “Hearts and Minds Effort” has failed, even though the corruption of our so-called Foreign Rebuilding Program for Afghanistan has folks that are some ex – NSAID folks ripping off all the money before it gets to the Afghan people – Our military guys still seem to think: “We are gaining on it!” The latest troop deployment is set to remain through 2014 and our limited occupation force program is scheduled to last through 2024! Even though Afghans civilians work in the PX during the day – they work as Taliban by night, setting IED’s! But how can you fault those that have to work two jobs to support their families?
Back to Dana and Rhonda. These are salt of the earth types. They probably watch C-Span, CNN, MSNBC and Dancing with the Stars. They pay attention to what the media is up to and try to find out what is really going on. If they weren’t elected types, they would still be doing this kind work – we are more than sure of that. Dana and Rhonda are not lazy. Who else would choose to go to Afghanistan rather than take a cruise on an Italian Cruise Ship? Well, maybe not then. But there is little doubt that they could be taking a little time off to visit historic Williamsburgh rather than putting their lives at risk in a “shooting zone”.
So, what is going to happen now that Dana has been “Disinvited for a trip to Afghanistan!”? This is going to be very entertaining and we suggest all those with a modicum of curosity in our political system….watch what happens the next time Dana goes on Bill Maher!
Folks: Please credit the photo from where you stole it—OC Weekly.
Actually i stole it from mother jones, did they steal it from you¿ Will look into this when i get home, smart phone too stoopid njgh
Oh! You’re talking about the goofy drunken one in the Uncle Sam hat. Everyone knows that’s from the Weekly. I’ll just take it off, I’m tired of it anyway.
I ‘ll send you a new one that cracks me up. It’s from a recent Brietbart R.I.P. fundraiser at Skosh Monahans. Gustavo doesn’t have this one.
I’ll keep an eye on my inbox.
I wish I had one of him eating.
You’re not the only person who’s described in gruesome detail to me what a face-shoveling pig he is, GREG RIDGE!! lol
Ha ha, nice. Take that, ‘Tavo!
Oh give me a break. These people make these visits under intensely heightened security. Their lives aren’t at risk.
On top of that, I’m glad Karzai is fed up and just about ready to ask us to leave his “country”. Should have happened long ago.
anon – Dude, please …you are not going to be invited to Karzai Palace in spite of your kudos for the peerless leader and his very expensive brother or brother in law He is far too busy….insulting other visiting dignataries to send out invitations to people who have only seen “The Man Who Would be King”….with Sean Connery.. He probably gets free time share stays in Pakistan that he wou’t share too! “Your cave or mine?” is probably on his cell phone when you call.
Face it, Dana nailed him hard.
I couldn’t care less what Dana said to Karzai. We need to leave that god-forsaken country already.
Dana sucks. But he’s right about Karzai. And Afghanistan. So I won’t be attacking him today.
Anon – sounds like we are on the same wave…..Dana feels that way too, from what
we gather.
Never did understand how OC sending its admitted marijuana using congressman to Afghanistan disguised as a local furthered our well being in OC. I wonder if he got Osama’s autograph back then, when he too sneaked into Afghanistan to fight the Russian communitsts. Rohrbacher and Osama were apparently on the same side back then. Sounds like Karzai knows a loose canon when he sees one – or perhaps our State Department put him up to it?
*Actually Dana was quite involved with the Northern Alliance….and the great leader of the Northern Alliance was assasinated when Karzi came in: Coincidence…no doubt. They blamed it on the Taliban.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/northern_alliance.htm
Mr. Diamond,
Is that “REALLY” Dana with the AK?
Yeah, like I said, he borrowed some Afghan’s gun so he could look cool and tough for photo ops. This, despite the fact that he avoided serving his country in Vietnam by claiming a bad hip, and then spent the 70s SURFING.
Do you have any evidence/proof that Dana didn’t actually have a bad hip?
Dude. When you famously surf every day, how bad can your hip be? Have you ever surfed?
Gee, what were all these people upset about the draft for, when getting around it was apparently so easy?
At least he didn’t Nugent himself.
Maybe. It’d be a pain in the butt to Photoshop another Carmen Miranda hat for him, though.
Yes, I have surfed and I agree it is a very strenuous sport. However, qualifications for duty in the Armed Forces are different from what may be required for sport surfing.
Full disclosure – had a college deferment and got damn lucky in the draft lottery.
Yeah, I always found it uncanny that all five male, GOP congressmen representing the OC got so lucky back in those days, and yet almost never find a war they wont cheerlead for.
*Please……at least give Dana the common courtesy of a Clinton Defense. Clinton left the country just to go to Russia….(to school in England too). It was never tough to stay out of Draft….back in the day. Many guys after ’71 just got high draft numbers, others had their family GP give them a note that said they were color blind or any number of other things. Flat feet kept a lot of guys out of WWII. Some folks were medically deferred for several years and then forgot to go see their doctor during the year and they were re-classified 1A. Dana never did much tandem surfing that we know of and would have had to raise that 110 lb girl above his head…..which would prove that his hip was just fine – but that never happened that we know of.
So the 58K killed there were just a combination of willing volunteers and suckers, then? I have a feeling that lots of people would disagree that it was never tough to stay out of the draft — otherwise Ted Nugent would not have had to resort to such embarrassing measures and others wouldn’t have shot off a toe. Can’t you agree that it depended largely on who you were and who you knew?
I think that you need to review Clinton’s history. He was a Fulbright Scholar; from there he took a brief trip to Russia. The way you put it is backwards.
*Clinton is backwards….that’s for sure.
Philosophically speaking, the very people that so feared going into the Draft…were
the educated ones that would have wound up “cleark typists” and “company clerks”. They would have not been sent to Vietnam….but telling them that after they had left
for Canada or Sweden had them unconvinced. A lot of people were very twisted by
the thought that someone else would have life and death power over their lives. When Carter gave them all “amnesty” it was again, one of those great awful moments of the Carter Administration…but there were so many.
We never knew that being a Fulbright Scholar would get you out of the draft. Being married with two kids did. Going to undergraduate school did. So did Clinton already have his undergraduate degree? Anyone that went to Russia in those days…reminds
too much of Lee Harvey Oswald. No coincidences you know!
*PS. Ron served in the United States Army as a draftee from July 1967 to July 1969 and was lucky enough to go to Nurnburg, Germany rather than Vietnam.
Can’t you Orange County idiots keep your representatives from straying outside of your heralded county lines. First it was B1 Bob and now it’s Dana Rohrabacher. Have they not learnt that both these idiots have been referred to persona non grata on their own Orange County beaches and surf. Are these that not grounds enough to keep them home-bound?
*blush* We’re sorry! We’re sorry!