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The true friend

Posted on November 2, 2006 | Comments Off on The true friend

When the going gets tough, Mr. Anonymous Source (Seymour Hersh) talks tough, i.e. as anti-American as he can make it.

"’If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said [at McGill University in Montreal].
“’In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,’ he said. ‘It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.’” 

Fie on you, Hersh, and a pox on your house.

Given Kerry’s remarks, tortured explanation, half-hearted apology and all, despite his long history of doing the same thing, ShrinkWrapped wonders if these swipes are being orchestrated, as part of the Dems capture-Congress push. Kerry and Hersh are peas from the same pod.

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Cpl. Michael T. Seeley, R.I.P.

Posted on November 1, 2006 | Comments Off on Cpl. Michael T. Seeley, R.I.P.

Seeley, 27, of New Brunswick, was a Mi’kmaq indian on his second tour in Iraq, who had served in the Canadian armed forces, and the U.S. Marines before joining the U.S. Army. He was due home Saturday when he was killed in action on patrol.

"Betty Ann Lavallee, chief of the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council, in a statement expressed pride in Seeley. ‘Like so many young aboriginal men and women … Seeley volunteered to serve without regard for what he was being asked to do.’"

Said his mother: "He fully believed that people were being hurt who shouldn’t be hurt and it was their job to protect them. He believed Saddam Hussein had to be stopped and that’s what he did."

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Troops respond

Posted on November 1, 2006 | Comments Off on Troops respond

stuckiniraq

Find us a rich widow to marry, Lurch, so we can be as haughty as you are…./via Drudge and 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division, Minnesota National Guard

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Set-recs

Posted on October 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Set-recs

Set-recs, for "set the record straight" is what the old time newspapermen called corrections, which were always plentiful although frowned upon.  After five years of pummeling from the not-always-accurate MSM’s preferred war narrative, it’s about time the defense department entered the set-rec business, here.

They’re also into argument for their side of the issue, even when rebuffed.

"Second, the issue is not Newsweek’s position versus the ‘government position.’ The issue is that your readers were given a one-sided, opinion-laced article on Afghanistan based on falsehoods—which is something that journalists and editors are usually concerned about. Your dismissive reply is disappointing, to say the least.”

More, please. 

Via Op-For 

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Bush unfiltered

Posted on October 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Bush unfiltered

You may not like what he says, but you have a better chance of hearing it in his words if you read the transcript.

"I’m sure people who watch your TV screens think the entire country is embroiled in sectarian conflict and that there’s constant killing everywhere in Iraq. Well, if you listened to General Casey yesterday, 90 percent of the action takes place in five of the 18 provinces. And around Baghdad, it’s limited to a 30-mile area. And the reason I bring that up is that while it seems to our American citizens that nothing normal is taking place — and I can understand why, it’s a brutal environment there, particularly that which is on our TV screens — that there is farmers farming, there are small businesses growing, there’s a currency that’s relatively stable, there’s an entrepreneurial class, there’s commerce."

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Tet on the Tigris

Posted on October 20, 2006 | Comments Off on Tet on the Tigris

Bush’s political and media opponents are having a grand time with his remark that there may be some similarities between Tet, 1968, in Vietnam and Baghdad, in 2006–at least in the way that the enemy is trying to influence American politics. Poor man, he has no way to win with some people. If he says nothing, he’s uncommunicative. If he says something, he’s either blundered or engaging in spin. British military historian John Kagan says he blundered. At least Kagan’s numbers are instructive.

"By January 1968, total American casualties in Vietnam — killed, wounded and missing — had reached 80,000 and climbing…In a bad week in Vietnam, the US could suffer 2,000 casualties. Since 2003, American forces in Iraq have never suffered as many as 500 casualties a month…In any year of the Vietnam war, the communist party of North Vietnam sent 200,000 young men to the battlefields in the south, most of whom did not return. Vietnam was one of the largest and costliest wars in history. The insurgency in Iraq resembles one of the colonial disturbances of imperial history."

Via Instapundit 

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Crucifiction returns

Posted on October 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Crucifiction returns

The side of sectarian violence in Iraq you may not see in the MSM.

"Christians are living a terrified life in Mosul and Baghdad. Several priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped and murdered and a couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified in the Christian neighborhood Albasra."

Via Gates of Vienna 

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