They've Been Working on the Railroad
Heidi at Euphoric Reality has been following the case of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in the Sunni insurgent-infested hellhole of Haditha, and makes a detailed and compelling case for a frameup by locals and "journalists" covering the story.
Heidi's post is a long read, but well worth the effort, as she reveals information that the Western Press, slavering over the thought of an Iraqi My Lai massacre, has suppressed.
These are the men to whom Jack Murtha has been seeking to deny due process. And this isn't the first time that the Press and feather merchants at Eighth and Eye have tried to screw over combat Marines.
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 22, 2006 05:46 PM (2OHpj)
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Bluto,it is neither the locals nor MSM that have indicted these Marines. It was however Time magazine that did bring it out into the light of day, as Seymour Hersh did with the killings at My Lai. This tragic incident has been carefully investigated for over one year. I do not feel that the Marine Corps would have brought charges at this time against a Lieutenant Colonel unless they had pretty some pretty strong evidence. Also, I believe, the libel suit brought by Sgt Wutterich against Rep Murtha was dropped some months ago as his attorneys had noted that Murtha had never mentioned their client by name. would you have any more on this ?
Posted by: John Ryan at December 22, 2006 06:07 PM (TcoRJ)
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Trust a traitor like John Ryan to glory in these Marines' plight. John Ryan, the last Marine that the brasshats at Eight and Eye had enough evidence to bring charges against was Ilario Pantano. Do you have more information about his fate, you treasonous piece of shit? The charges were dropped, and Pantano resigned his commission n disgust. Another good Marine lost because partisan assholes, such as yourself, John Ryan, want to smear the American military. Have I mentioned before that I consider you to be a stupid and evil person?
I highly recomend the movie "Rules of Engagement".
It was made before a lot of this other crap came up, and it is almost prophetic. I think it should be required viewing for anyone commenting about Jihad, terrorism, and the Middle East, as it relates to what our troops have to face.
What troops have to face in real, life and death combat.
Also, Merry Christmas.
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 22, 2006 11:24 PM (2OHpj)
"Rules of Engagement" is one of the finest movies ever made, and definitely the best when it comes to dealing with islamopithecine terrorism and deceit. Guy Pierce's brilliant performance alone is enough to recommend it. (I saw it three times before I recognized him. I thought he really was a Brooklyn native.)
Tellingly, this movie was made in 2000. After 9-11-2001, we get nothing but apologies for islame from Hollywood, with White, neo-Nazi, or Columbian terrorists.
Islamopithecine wogs murder 3000 innocent people on our soil, and all of a sudden, we're supposed to stop reviling islame and start loving it.
It's enough to make me puke.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 24, 2006 01:31 AM (abVz3)
The government officials who indicted those Marines are acting entirely on the accusations of demostrably unreliable "locals and the MsM."
Fuck you, cock-sucker.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 24, 2006 01:34 AM (abVz3)
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Here's an interesting historical factoid: In the declining days of
Rome, it was quite common for influential politicians to sabotage
military campaigns by propaganda and lies so as to cause failure with
which to discredit political rivals. It was even common for corrupt
Roman politicians to make deals with Rome's enemies in order to gain
politically at home. When no honest man could hold the throne, it fell
solely to a rapid succession of conniving backstabbers, and the great
and diverse empire split in two. The last Emperor of the West was a
barbarian, and then the Dark Ages came.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 24, 2006 11:42 AM (v3I+x)
Is Capt. Jamil Hussein in Hiding?
For the most part, both the corporate news outlets and the left side of the blogosphere have been deafeningly quiet on the Jamil Hussein story. Every now and then, though, somebody pops his head up and, whipped up in a fit of ignorant (or feigned) rage, launches an intolerant tirade against any who would question the official corporate line. In the course of an extended rant against all of us who would dare question the veracity of a local Iraqi stringer, at least one blogger in the AP cheering section infers that Jamil Hussein hasn't come forward because the attendant publicity would put his family in danger:
It is strange that the AP doesn't seem interested in dragging out an Iraqi source and shouting, "Dance, monkey!" while all their bureau reporters and staff circle up and clap rhythmically. I'm sure Hussein would then be welcome on many national television shows and, afterward, he could go home with some lovely green room gift baskets and a big target to stick on his family.
Unfortunately, this is about as close to factual analysis as the AP cheering section has so far managed to get.
I'm fairly certain this story would have already gone away if the AP had just admitted that the "Burning Six" story was fabricated and issued a retraction. They refuse to do so, and that's why this story is important. But it's not going away, Ms. Carroll. We're not going to let you get away with a strategy of standing your ground, sticking to your guns and just hoping it blows over.
It's not going to blow over because this story is really not about what happened in a neighborhood in Baghdad on November 24, 2006.
This story is not even about whether or not Police Capt. Jamil Hussein exists, whether the 61 AP stories that used Capt. Hussein as a source have any veracity, or whether there is or is not a "civil war" in Iraq.
This story is about a western news media establishment that gets duped and exploited by politically-motivated local stringers time (Mohammed al-Dura) after time (Jenin) after time (Bassem Mroue) after time (Adnan Hajj) after time (Green HalmetHelmut Helmet) after time (The Qana Ambulance) after time (The Burning Six).
This system is broken, folks, and the LEFT WING should be every bit as concerned about this as the right wing. If the "eyes" and the "ears" of our nation are being flooded with false images and sounds, how is the "brain" expected to make good decisions? It can't. This is not a left or right issue, people!!
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"Green Halmet"? Next you be telling us to watch out for the old lady in the "Blue Hairmet"
What keeps me interested in this story is just how indignant and insulting Carroll and company was. They didn't just stubbornly stand by their story, they went out of their way to attack and insult everyone who questioned them. One of the basic rules of free rhetorical debate is to only fling personal attacks when (1) you are just being a jackass and don't care if you lose the argument, or (2) you are trying to lure your opponent into a trap. Ms. Carroll sounds like a junior high school Kos kid, except she apparently forgot that she lacks the ability to yell "screw all you douchebags, I'm banning you from commenting on my blog!"
Posted by: wooga at December 21, 2006 06:18 PM (t9sT5)
Posted by: John Ryan at December 21, 2006 07:35 PM (TcoRJ)
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This story will not go away you say. The story isn't really around. There are some people living in their own little world who seem to think that it is a really big deal and that they are exposing some huge conspiracy, but the real truth is that 99.99% of Americans don't know and don't care.
Keep tilting at windmills.
Posted by: Unimpressed at December 21, 2006 08:31 PM (iaV9O)
Posted by: civilbehavior at December 21, 2006 10:17 PM (AYJPk)
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Unimpressed, I think you are right about the percentage, but why don't
they care? Why don't people care that what they see on the tube
has some relation to reality? Why don't people care that there is
a whole cottage industry in Gaza that reconstructs Israeli attacks,
recreates them, or just downright fabricates them? If 6 didn't
die then might 60 have lived, or 655,000?
We are told that we have lost in Irak. How do we really know one
way or the other, if what we hear, see, and read is simple
hearsay? Foreign policy/national security decisions based upon
political pressure from gossip. High tech gossip, but gossip
nonetheless.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at December 21, 2006 10:21 PM (yZ0Nx)
They are in the path of a catagory five truth storm. The sky just hasn't turned green yet.
We may be ants, but the tree were attacking has no way of stopping us. We will bring it down!
They turn sacred free speech into a fountain of lies, and lead Americans to lose faith in their troops, and their leadership in time of war. The very idea of a giant monopoly controlling your news and information is wrong. WRONG!
I have my enemies list, and I don't forget. I'll talk about AP's lies to anyone I can until they are gone. They have used up my good will. For them I have no other cheek to turn. Lying deceitful scum!
No, this story isn't going away! AP is going away! WATCH! The ants will show you how it is done!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 21, 2006 11:00 PM (2OHpj)
Of course this is a left and right issue. The left are lying, and the right are calling them on it. So are you. (Calling them on it.)
"Right" is a synonym for "correct," you know.
How much longer are decent people going to pay tribute to the left by patronizing their propaganda sources before we declare war and fight back with all we have? Until the inevitable nuclear attacks on our country? (Yes.)
The left revels in false images and sounds that convey their agenda. The ends always justify the means to the unprincipled.
Don't give them any more of your gold. You work hard for it. We all do.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 22, 2006 05:42 AM (abVz3)
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While the ant analogy sounds good on the surface it has a fatal flaw. Yes you are small and the AP is big. You are correct. But Ants; although small, work in huge numbers.
There just aren't huge numbers of people aware of this story. There aren't huge numbers of people who were aware of the original AP story.
If you don't believe me do a Google news search for "Jamil Hussein." There are about a half a dozen bloggers trying to keep this alive. The only news outlet is the Northern Arizona Rural News. Northern Arizona may be the least populated region of the U.S.
If you want the AP to start accepting reality, then you should probably accept some too.
Posted by: Unimpressed at December 22, 2006 10:52 AM (iaV9O)
Muhammed was only one man. Reality has a way of hiding its potential. I tell you, this is the beggining of the end for AP. Someone may come along and co-opt the name. We have seen that sort of thing before. Either way this AP is going to die, in body.
USA, all the way! and Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 22, 2006 03:20 PM (2OHpj)
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Those guys from the 447th are friends of mine. Thanks for putting EOD on your site. We don't recieve enough attention for the work that we do over there.
Posted by: EODDan at December 21, 2006 09:36 PM (hcOyp)
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Thanks for taking the time to get thesse to the wider public like you do. I know they don't have the 'T plus A' factor of some other stuff you post, but it is actually very important.
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 21, 2006 11:31 PM (2OHpj)
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq executed 13 men convicted of murder, kidnapping and other crimes, the government said Tuesday.
Video released by the government showed the men wearing hoods and green jumpsuits, and standing against a wall shortly before they were hanged. Some images showed two men standing together on a gallows with nooses around their necks.
It's good to see them pushing back against the numerous jihad videos that are aired on t.v. and posted ad nauseum on the internet.
Expect comparisons to Saddam from the usual suspects, though.
Iraqis Rescue Hostage, Capture 10 Insurgents
[More uncensored news from Iraq, as written by soldiers in the field]
BAQUBAH: The Iraqi Army led a successful offensive operation here recently, capturing 10 suspected insurgents and rescuing a kidnapped 16-year-old Iraqi boy being held for a $150,000 ransom.
more...
President: 5900 Enemy Killed, Captured Since October
Deeply buried in this Reuters story (14th paragraph) is the news that US and Iraqi forces have killed or captured nearly 6,000 terrorist-insurgents since October:
In a rarity, he gave a body count of 5,900 enemy killed or captured by U.S. and Iraqi forces in October, November and early December.
Expect this disclosure to get absolutely no air time on the network's nightly news programs.
Credit where it's due: Eason Jordan's new IraqSlogger website headlines the 5900 figure.
Yesterday, Jordan, who was forced to resign from CNN after inflammatory "off the record" remarks about US troops, invited Michelle Malkin to join him in Iraq to search for AP mystery source Jamil Hussein.
Has Eason resolved to turn away from the Dark Side, or is it all cover for some ruse? Stay tuned.
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Always give a Leftard credit where it's due. We wan to encourage them.
Posted by: Jesuslad Carlos at December 14, 2006 01:54 PM (8e/V4)
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Hey Jawa, thanks for the plug. We don't have an agenda, we just cover Iraq and we do it 24/7. Simple idea, urgent need, no politics involved. Do we have opinions..yep. But most of our focus is on getting the ton of information our guys gather on the ground out to the reader.
enjoy
RYP
Posted by: RYP at December 14, 2006 03:26 PM (wacYD)
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RYP: both you and Eason Jordan have been noted for radically anti-military opinions. How will that affect your ability to get the news out?
I notice that your blog prefers to cover bad news about Iraq. The impression an uninformed reader gets is that the Coalition's mission in Iraq is a wasteful folly.
Since you have no agenda, I guess its just a case of shoddy reporting.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 15, 2006 11:03 PM (bLPT+)
Malkin Goes Snipe Hunting in BaghdadMichelle Malkin has been invited by Eason Jordan to come to Baghdad to search for the mythical Jamil Hussein. From what I understand, the "Jamil" hunt is the Baghdad equivalent of the "snipe" hunt that the youngest Boy Scouts are taken on at their first camping trip. I wish Michelle all the best of luck and hope she does better than I did as a young Tenderfoot. In fact, I'm still looking for one of those pesky 'snipes'.......
Reading various blogs, there seems to be alot of hate directed at Michelle from the left. I think I smell fear.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at December 14, 2006 11:20 AM (oC8nQ)
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Any site that has Juan Cole on their blog-roll is not worth the click.
Words fail me at how idiotic Eason's site is, and I can't fathom how anyone gives him credibility.
Even Michelle mentioning him gives him credibility - even in reverse.
Dunno. All I can do is shake my head and weep at the damage that asshole is doing.
Posted by: yo at December 14, 2006 11:25 AM (fkcf6)
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I remember my first(and last) snipe hunt well Rusty.
It is good to have an end to journy twords, but it's the journey that matters in the end. Even if she dosnt find the little snipe, this will promote her standings in my book.
The Balls!!!
Michelle, you have to get a tatto;-)
Eason, you better take good care of her.
Posted by: Convert at December 14, 2006 01:10 PM (USvqV)
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Michelle is gonna need more than a flashlight and a pillow case to catch this snipe. If I remember right they only come out at night, are well camoflaged and their really, really fast;-)
Posted by: Convert at December 14, 2006 01:22 PM (USvqV)
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All Jordan has to do is go to the AP. They know where Jamil is. Right?
All sarcasm aside, since Jordan says they are searching for Jamil, it
shouldn't be that hard to find him if he indeed exists. Afterall
the AP even stated which city and which police department he allegedly
worked at.
$10 bucks says the reporter who was supposed to have "met with him" "in
his office" "several times" lied and the AP got caught drooling over
another fake, juicy story.
Posted by: Oyster at December 14, 2006 01:37 PM (SCVhh)
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What they're really hunting for is the AP's journalistic standards. They'd have better luck locating a real snipe.
Come to think of it, Kathleen Carroll is a gutter-snipe. They don't need to head to Iraq after all.
If Jordan thinks he can vindicate the AP by producing some shmuck who claims to be the man known as Jamil Hussein, he's got another think coming. That would just highlight their status as a liars, because "Hussein's" story is as bogus as his identity.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 14, 2006 11:10 PM (bLPT+)
Divide And Conquer
Well, it seems the good old U S of A has the country of origin of 15 out of the 19 9/11 hijackers by the short hairs:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in a war against Iraqi Shiites if the United States withdraws from
Iraq, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing American and Arab diplomats.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia delivered that message to
Dick Cheney during the U.S. vice president's brief visit last month to Riyadh, the newspaper said, citing the officials it did not name.
Cheney traveled to Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. ally[close ally, yeah right - V] and the world's top oil exporter, to discuss Iraq and how to break the deadlock in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
During the visit, King Abdullah expressed strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the United States and
Iran, which is largely Shi'ite, the Times said.
The Iraq Surrender Group has had a useful purpose all along. They're scaring the bejebus out of every tinhorn, pisspot thugocracy in the Middle East by suggesting that we "dialogue" with Iran and Syria. Well, every tinhorn, pisspot thugocracy that isn't named "Iran" or "Syria."
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Good post Vinnie. I heard about this, but you add a bit of flavor to what seemed bland elswhere.
Also I'd like to mention to 'civilbehavior', it isn't exactly like turning off a spigot. There are maybe three, or four ways to stop the oil money.
One possibility; replace oil with some sort of miracle fuel that makes oil a pathetic choice.
Second possibility; conquer it all by force, since the guys who have it will happily sell it to the rest of the world, even if we never bought another drop. Then we could use the cash to stop global (insert crisis here)!
Third option; nuke the middle east so that no one can have it.
Or if you believe, then it may actually be possible to appeal to the better qualities of humanity. Give them something better than jihad in the name of Allah, and for the local dictators. You Know ... freedom, and democracy! But I guess that option is just pie-in-the-sky to some folks, ain't it?
So absent a new, free society whats left? Technological breathrough, or war.
Unless 'civilbehavior' has a secret recipe for 'miracle fuel', it looks like we do this hard! If you, civibehavior do have the secret to super fuel, and you sell the product dirt cheap, then I gues you won't be making any profit, and you probably will get tired of hearing about Al Gore.
Anyway, I'm glad I popped in.
USA all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 13, 2006 06:56 AM (2OHpj)
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"and the world's top oil exporter" with Iraq being the second largest reserve and Iran the third........Oh but,but, we went there to free them and give them democracy.......
Foolish Americans.......the best thing you can do for the rest of your lives if you want to "stop terrorists" is to stop the flow of oil revenue to the Middle East. You people never get it do you?
Posted by: civilbehavior at December 13, 2006 07:26 AM (AYJPk)
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OF COURSE! Its all so fiendishly simple. No wait, its needlessly complicated.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at December 13, 2006 07:49 AM (oC8nQ)
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Ahhh! Enjoy the coffee. Another day without piddledick, Greg and No Fear. The socalist party has sent them elsewhere.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 13, 2006 09:48 AM (jaYa7)
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civilbehavior:
Foolish Americans.......the best thing you can do for the rest of your lives if you want to "stop terrorists" is to stop the flow of oil revenue to the Middle East. You people never get it do you?
Where do you live? you stupid pinko hippy, am I assume it's nowhere that relies on petroleum fuel, nor Oil for manufacturing? no? stfu. Here's a little hint for you: if we stopped buying all Oil tomorrow India, and China would buy it instead, money still flows to the middle-east.
I'm sure someone without a cerebral cortex, damaged by liberalism could figure it out.
Posted by: davec at December 13, 2006 02:27 PM (yaQM4)
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Stopping the oil revenue effectively "stops the war on terror" if for no other reason it shuts down the support that is given to the madrasses. Look to Saudi Arabia, Bush's boys in oil. they were the financiers of the 911 hijackers not Iraq but without Iraq and Iran the US doesn't have the control of the spigot.
If either decided to go euro (which Saddam was threatening to do and was his biggest threat) it would have been devastating for the US. Our economy is on shaky ground as it is. 9 trillion in debt and a third of it owed to communists?
Yeah, you guys who think nuking the world have really thought this out.
And as for miracle fuel.......start with your American car manufacturers and your Republican Congressman who refused to address CAFE standards in the last energy bill. No one is saying the Chinese and India aren't going to suck it down but let them try to find a way without bankrupting their treasuries and nations blood to keep it stable. In the meantime we shoud be working on a Mahattan project to turn down our own spigot.
Foolish Americans.........stupid redneck hypocrites....(now that makes us even Davec, silly boy)
Posted by: civilbehavior at December 13, 2006 09:50 PM (AYJPk)
How do you propose to stop oil revenue, retard? It cant be done peacefully.
By the way, your beloved Dhimmiecrats are the vermin who oppose ethanol as a substitute for oil, even though it's the only viable option.
Rednecks are good Americans. You are not. You don't belong in Georgia, boy. Islamopithecines belong in the zoo.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 15, 2006 11:20 PM (bLPT+)
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>By the way, your beloved Dhimmiecrats are the vermin who oppose ethanol
as a substitute for oil, even though it's the only viable option.
I agree they do not know what the solution to foreign oil is, they just talk about global warming without talking about the solution
but MSNBC and Red Herring have recently covered the fact that algae is a hundred times more productive than other biofuel feedstocks (like corn ethanol)
Posted by: norbu at December 16, 2006 12:38 AM (UVQjU)
So I decided to run a little experiment. I wrote this post this morning. It includes three stories. The first is the car bombing in Baghdad today. The second is a story about Iraqi Police finding a bomb near the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The third is about Iraqi army forces freeing 23 hostages and capturing or killing some members of the cell.
I consider the deaths of the innocent people in the car bombing, “negative news.†I consider the other two stories “positive news.â€
I decided to follow all three today and see just who picked them up and who didn’t. To test the old saying, “Bad news travels fast.â€
First we have the bad news about the car bombing. It has 779 entries on Google news. Everyone reported it as expected.
Next we have the attempted bombing at the Mosque. It has only 10 entries on Google News. NPR did report this over lunch hour. However, note the al-Reuters story uses a misleading sensational headline, “Bomb explodes at Iraq's Samarra mosqueâ€. That kind of dampens the mood eh?
And last but not least we have Centcom’s report on the hostage recovery, with enemy terrorists killed and captured. It has one entry on Google News, me.
But we follow a lot of hostage stories. So I thought surely CSM will be covering this. After all Jill Carroll works for CSM. So I surfed on over and nope, nada, nothing!
I would have expected that 23 hostages saved from being shot or cruelly beheaded would be news and big news at that. I guess not.
Wow. This really demonstrates the bias evident in the MSM. Just last night I got into an arguement with some friends who do not read blogs, and the crux was that they thought the war was going bad because of all the bad things on the news. They don't read the blogs and didn't realize that there is any good coming out of Iraq. I'll e-mail them this link because it illustrates way better than I was able to explain.
Posted by: Brass at December 12, 2006 06:13 PM (6TLEO)
Posted by: Greyrooster at December 12, 2006 07:53 PM (gF3rB)
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Not really Howie. Foreign hostage takings in Iraq have mostly stopped so I don't really keep track of them anymore. I'm currently following the case of Gilad Shalit. He is expected to eventually be freed for 1,400 terrorists but you have suprisingly not mentioned that. That's big news. 1,400 terrorists for one kid soldier. Some big time Hamas leaders are guaranteed to be freed for him.
Posted by: George Ramos at December 12, 2006 07:55 PM (gF3rB)
Are you saying the Establishment Media want America to fail in Iraq and the wider Middle East? How can that be? The EM assure us that they're impartial fact reporters with no agenda other than to inform the public. Everyone from Kathleen Carrol to Dan Rather has gone on record denying that no left-wing bias exists. Who could doubt the word of Matt Lauer, or "Pinch" Sulzburger? Even Walter Cronkite has come out to defend the honor of his comrades, and uncle Wally is the most trusted man in the world. They give us all the news they think we need. What more could we ask for?
Your facts mean nothing. Our EM leaders would never deceive us. They're humanity's finest. I know because they told me so.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 12, 2006 09:20 PM (bLPT+)
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Whoops! "....gone on record denying that a left-wing bias exists.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 12, 2006 09:28 PM (bLPT+)
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George: Yeah that's a sucky trade. But that's what happens when you back down against the Islamists. The price goes up. Way up.
No Jeff. It may be that some of it is bias but I feel we could have also ran more good stories. It's hard. Car wreck syndrome. But in war there is always plenty of bad news so you have to make an effort report the good stories. If you don't morale suffers.
I'm sure that there are more problems with the way we've done things. But our poor information strategy can't be helping. All the bad news affects morale and war is all about building yours and tearing down his. I wonder just how much it has affected the situation. To what extent the natural tendancy to report the bad has contributed to our lack of will?
Posted by: Howie at December 13, 2006 09:46 AM (YdcZ0)
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Perhaps the perceptions of the situation are as bad as they are because it really is that bad.
Posted by: Jose at December 13, 2006 03:09 PM (vzsrg)
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Unfortunately, Jose, there's no way to know that because we're stuck with a group of propagandists posing as journalists who report only half of the story. The half their terrorist-insurgent stringers tell them to report.
Iraqis Arrest Shiite Militia Leader
Hopefully it is a good sign that the Iraqis are finally taking on Shiite militia leaders. While not identified as such in the press release, the fact that the group is called "Martyr Sadr" and is identified as an "Illegal armed group" rather than "insurgents" means that this was a group of Shiites. Since he was detained for "smuggling arms", there is really only one country that he could have been smuggling from: Iran.
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Today's SAT lesson kids: Office of the Martyr Sadr is to the Mahdi Army as Sinn Fein was to the IRA.
It is the political mouthpiece of Muqtada al-Sadr and his merry band of jackasses, named for Mookie's old man who was sent to the big harem in the sky by Saddam back in the day.
Basically Rusty, you have it right - if you reorganize the letters in "Sadr" it spells "Iran"... well... in arabic... just kiddin... but not really...
Posted by: Mike the Marine at December 12, 2006 06:16 PM (594be)
2Five doors were damaged by Iraqi forces when entering the buildings. No other damage was caused by Iraqi or Coalition Forces to the OMS or surrounding area.
Thank goodness the remainder of the doors were spared!!
Posted by: CanForce 101 at December 12, 2006 07:56 PM (xfvyZ)
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Soldiers, with the support of coalition forces, found 23 hostages and arrested six kidnappers when conducting ongoing operations in a western neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Dec. 11.
The 4th Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division team observed two vehicles that had stopped a local national bus, forcing the passengers off the bus at approximately 10:40 a.m.. The Iraqi Army Soldiers pursued the suspects who got back into the two vehicles and drove off in separate directions.
The Iraqi Army soldiers stopped one of the fleeing vehicles west of an established checkpoint in the area. One kidnapper was killed and two others wounded due to the small arms fire used by the Iraqi soldiers to stop the fleeing car. In the trunk of the stopped vehicle, one kidnap victim was found.
The other car, a white Daiwoo, was also followed from the location where passengers were forced from a bus. The Iraqi Army pursued this vehicle until it stopped in front of a house nearby. Two additional kidnap victims were freed from the trunk of the vehicle and 20 more kidnap victims were found inside the house. Six kidnappers were detained from this incident.
After further investigation, most of the kidnapped victims are believed to be Shi’a and predominately from Abu Ghraib and Ramadi. Some of the victims showed signs of abuse; they had been badly beaten.
All 23 rescued victims have been transferred to the 4/1/6 IA Headquarters and are receiving medical treatment.
The kidnappers have been identified as Sunni’s. The kidnapping cell leader, a Syrian named Abu Mousan, escaped capture.
This is good news. The terrorists kidnap ordinary working people and accuse them of crimes. If a ransom cannot be secured, often they are murdered in snuff videos.
Of course the terrorists will target people working regular jobs. Unemployment and poverty are conditions they require as part of their plans to take power.
There was also a bomb planted today near the entrance of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. If was found and removed. No one was injured.
Centcom: SAMARRA, Iraq – A bomb discovered by Iraqi police near the entrance of the Golden Mosque in Samarra detonated today at noon. Iraqi police were conducting a routine patrol of the area when they found the improvised explosive device placed at the main doorway of the mosque.
The police officials immediately requested assistance from Coalition Forces and an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team to help secure the area and diffuse the bomb.
The EOD team was successful in removing the detonation wire and fuse. However, during their attempt to remove the bomb, it exploded and caused minimal damage to the door and entry way.
A team of Iraqi police searched the interior of the mosque to ensure no injuries or damage was sustained.
“This action by the terrorists shows they have no respect for Islam, and are only concerned about killing innocent civilians,†said Lt. Col. Viet Luong, commander of 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.
“This bomb was built to cause maximum damage and because of the heroic action of the Iraqi police, this damage was minimized.â€
Both of these positive results were achieved by the Iraqi forces.
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• Governors' Visit
• Operation Season's Greetings
• Why I Serve
Bonus: Watch the explosion around 1:20 - I could be wrong, but I think the Army Rangers detonante explosives in the testicular regions of a Saddam statue. The resulting explosion rips a hole through the statue in said testicular region. Heh.
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I always feel so privileged to be the first to post comments, although a bit shocked that after 5 hours no one else jumped at the chance to comment on THIS one. Well first it is a bit long at just over 13 minutes, and the end piece with Pvt Haglund is a repeat. Also I had not heard of the names of any of the stars performing for the troops. When I went to the official site of Jamie O'Neil her on site photo looked much different than the person currently performing under that name. It might be just 10 years later in a hard life. http://www.jamieoneal.com/home/index.php The New England Pats cheerleaders were there but since I did see them during Sunday's game I assume this is there "B" squad. All in all I would give it 2.5 stars for #1supporting the troops #2 supporting the "stay the course" position (or its replacement key word "forward".
Posted by: John Ryan at December 12, 2006 01:51 PM (TcoRJ)
Multi National Force Press Get’s ExposureSeldom do you see Multinational Force releases on memeorandum. But a story we ran on Thursday was picked up by other bloggers over the weekend and did show. The more we all link them the more exposure these stories will get. If you read TJR this week you get a striking difference from the defeatism that is running rampant of late in the MSM.
Flopping Aces notes a story from The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq that started out on a few obscure websites and then moved to al-Jazeera. Then was picked up by the AP. We are accused of “atrocitiesâ€. FloppingAces noted the discrepancy with the Multi National Force’s account and asks, is this more “News From The Enemy?â€
The answer is YES! I believe this report came from the funerals following the strike where an American Pilot was lost when his F16 crashed supporting ground troops and operations to secure the area afterward.
When this was first reported on al-Jazeera along with the pictures of our pilot there were shots of dead “martyred mujahadeenâ€. There were shots of the damage caused by the warplane that occurred during the battle. The ending shot showed a black flag flying over the damaged structure with cheering fighters. These were combatants, mujahadeen, fighters, soldiers.
But at the funerals the story changes. The plane was not shot down during the battle. They mention a plane but it was used to cause damage afterward to “cover up crimes†that occurred during the battle. . They give an entirely different description of events. They say there were no fighters present, all were unarmed innocent civilians and were gunned down with no provocation. In direct disagreement with the first story.
This is now the version of events being pushed by Association of Muslim Scholars. A group with ties to Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
The group of hard-line Sunnis, which has routinely opposed the "U.S. occupation" of Iraq, alleged that American soldiers entered two Iraqi homes, shot their large families to death, then planted bombs that blew up the buildings to make it look as if the Iraqis had died in a U.S. airstrike targeting insurgents.
“U.S. planes bombed two adjacent houses in al-Jalameda area after midnight targeting the houses of the two brothers Mohammed and Mahmoud Hussein Jalmoud in western Ishaqi,†the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VoI) by telephone. “According to a preliminary toll, the bombing resulted in the death of 30 residents,â€
So yes this is the enemy’s propaganda. Innocent civilians who just happen to have:
MNF: AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-personnel mines, explosives, blasting caps and suicide vests. Who could they be? Coalition Forces also found that two of the terrorists killed were women. Al-Qaida in Iraq has both men and women supporting and facilitating their operations unfortunately.
So you see why it’s important that blogs carry our side of the story. Since this story was already known, when the enemys distorted acount comes it is recognized quickly.
If just keep supporting these stories we can get them a lot more exposure. I’ve noted that if a few blogs run a story a lot of MSM outlets jump on it. That is if we can just get them past using our side as sources. They seem to have no trouble using the enemy’s sources.
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This will be the guy running much of the oversight on our intelligence community for the next two years. Very niiiiiiice.
Now, I WISH I could say we'd be in much better hands had the Republicans kept power, but far too many GOP politicians would flub the same question.
And if you care about the future of your country, those facts should scare the living bejezus out of you.
Get involved, folks. Please get involved. Either that, or start memorizing the Shahada. If the people running our nation can't be bothered to learn the most basic facts about the Middle East, you'll likely be needing to recite it soon enough.
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THE PLACE TO START IS TO GET THESE STRANGE PEOPLE TO DEFINE “WINNINGâ€. I am stunned that the blogosphere has been so easily duped by the MSM into framing Iraq within the context of “winning†and “losingâ€. Let’s think for a minute. The objectives of the Iraq war were to topple Saddam for good, and replace him with a form of democracy that most Iraqis wanted. You’re done! Not surprisingly, the Iraqis, after having lived for almost all of their more than 5000 year history under tyranny, are stumbling a bit, but not much, as democracies go. It took the US about 200 years to truly free blacks (or perhaps, you’re not even done yet – where are the black-white love scenes in the popular media?). Canada was not even remotely a democracy until the 1920's (Universal Suffrage – except for Indians, no Bill of Rights until 1950's-60's). France returned to an Emperor in the 1880's, and democracy there still looks shaky to me. Every democracy developed very slowly, but Iraq is rocket fast. At this point, few Iraqi fighters are directly attacking the Allies – they have mainly accepted their presence, and are now attacking each other (a bit). The way to know you have WON in Iraq is when the withdrawal is ragged, loose, and ad hoc. Good parents withdraw from control of their growing children’s lives in a way that is quite ragged, loose, and ad hoc. The parent encourages self-sufficiency and independence, but freely permits back-sliding if it seems appropriate. Parents always worry about their kids, and they are always there to help until the end. The US still has troops in Germany, Japan, and South Korea (why, by the way?). The US could probably achieve their goal of not being attacked at home by Iraq-based terrorists, if they withdrew tomorrow. Iraq is not, and probably will not become a failed state. If it did, re-intervention is completely possible, and history is full of such events. Britain has re-stabilized Iraq before, and in Basra, in some cases they re-occupied buildings that they left from last time. Strangely to me, the MSM has convinced even the blogosphere that the Iraq war has to be punctuated at the end by some type of “Clear Winâ€. Why? What, exactly would that be, anyway?
Posted by: DemocracyRules at December 10, 2006 01:46 PM (+WNUd)
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I hope Stein keeps up his campaign to expose this ignorance.
My fear is that these public officials will turn to 'moderates' such as CAIR to educate themselves. They will go from being uninformed to being disinformed.
Posted by: forest at December 10, 2006 02:24 PM (1YuGt)
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I have a simple mnemonic for this - Arabs are sunny where the sun bakes the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Persians are shitty, where the P in Perian goes with poop, linked to shitty. So there you have it, Arabs are Sunni, Persians (Iranians) are Shia.
Having said that, these two groups have been happily killing each other and carrying a grudge for 1400 plus years, this keeps them occupied and basically backward, so we should simply destroy any sides ability to make or obtain nuclear weapons and leave the rest to Allah.
Posted by: Terrapod at December 10, 2006 03:31 PM (Ffc+Y)
Win what? America is not engaged in any war or competition with Iraq. What are you babbling about?
America and the world would be safe from Iraq based terrorists if Bush were to cut n' run tomorrow?
Are you stoned, or just stupid?
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 10, 2006 03:42 PM (bLPT+)
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Terrapod : useful mnemonic. ..I, too, had memorized Iran=shit=shia
So, al queda is Sunni because Osama Bin Lanin came from Saudi Arabia? And the Wahhabis - from Saudi Arabia - are Sunni? And what about the Muslim Botherhood, from Egypt? And for that matter, the Nation of Islam in the United States?
And if the Kurds - a geographic distinction - are both Sunni and Shia - can it be said that the distinction is not really all that important? (the Kurds aren't fighting each other, despite their differences.)
And how is it that I - of lowly stature and influence - are more curious about all of this than our elected officials??
Posted by: Heroic Dreamer at December 11, 2006 12:50 AM (vufNv)
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I would like to say you all that it is absolutely not good to insult Muslims because of Al Qaeda although are al Qaeda peoples are Muslims but all Muslims are not alqaeeda similarly like all those who crucified Jesus were Jews but all jews didn’t crucified jesus.
Whole world knows that al qaeda don’t even represent more than 1% of muslims and they also knows that they could never face if all muslims stands in the wake of their current insult. If Muslims are not responding towards any provoking insult it id only because they love peace.
Other wise history reveals that truth is with muslim and muslims are with truth and the truth is a power could not be denyied by any other power.
PEACE
Posted by: George Fernendus at December 11, 2006 07:45 AM (A5tZq)
7 or start memorizing the Shahada. If the people running our nation can't be bothered to learn the most basic facts about the Middle East, you'll likely be needing to recite it soon enough.
A botched war in Iraq is bad, and if the incoming leaders are no better than the outgoing leaders at understanding the underlying causes of tensions in the region then that's even worse.
But if you seriously think there is a future scenario in which islamic terrorists take over out country and force Americans to convert to Islam, you have a very low opinion of Americans.
Posted by: bobb at December 13, 2006 12:46 PM (SGGuV)
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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/12/13/opinion/16975.shtml for more
Posted by: David Meyer at December 13, 2006 03:35 PM (f8TBF)
20 al Qaeda Terrorists Killed in Iraq
[Part of an ongoing series of articles uncensored and unmediated by a hostile press. News from Iraq, as written by soldiers in the field, before the mainstream media gets hold of it.]
Coalition Forces killed 20 terrorists Friday morning while targeting al-Qaida terrorists in the Thar Thar area.
more...
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Ahhh Sweeeeet Thanks for the good news Dr. S. What a wonderful way to start the weekend.
As always hats off to the coalition troops.
Just a few days ago 80 bad guys were dispatched to h%ll in Afghanistan. It's like the Al-Qaeda/Taliban are tasting leather-and-polish in their mouths because that's how far up the coalition boots have gone, if you know what I mean....!!!!
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at December 08, 2006 12:24 PM (vixLB)
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I'm sure most people by now have read the AP article written by SAMEER N. YACOUB, on the same incident. In that article, the mayor of the village claims that 19 civilians also died, including 7 women and 8 children. The mayor's story is of course backed up by...unnamed "local police." Here's my thing, all of yesterday's Press Releases from CENTCOM carefully noted operations when there were no civilian casualties. But they did not do that this time. Does this mean CENTCOM didn't say anything because they knew there WERE civilian casualties? Without any information from CENTCOM, should we take the mayor's word? At this point I think it is justifiable to doubt AP's accuracy, but without any contrary accounts, we have nothing.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at December 08, 2006 12:29 PM (oC8nQ)
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AP version: Ameican forces kill 20 Iraqi civilians. Eyewitnesses claim the unprovoked attack claimed the lives of women, children, and cute little orphan bunnies while they were praying in a mosque.
Reuters will have come up with matching photos, and MSNBC describes it as a civil war with America.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 08, 2006 02:13 PM (bLPT+)
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I swear to God. I wrote that last comment before I read comment number two. It just goes to show you: the AP is already more ridiculous than any farce designed to ridicule its yellow journalism.
Bohica, you do know that terrorists are civilians, right? You do know the terrorists (via their reliable AP mouthpiece,) always claim women and children were killed, right?
The boy who cried wolf was more reliable than the AP. At least he told the truth once.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 08, 2006 02:19 PM (bLPT+)
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Hmm. Truthy is stranger than fiction. Yes, I know that the fact that Centcom reported 20 insurgents killed and the mayor reported 19 civilians killed means that we are probably talking about the same people and not 40 people.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at December 08, 2006 02:34 PM (oC8nQ)
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Have you seen or heard ANYTHING that clear and respectful to the troops on our national "news" media?
I just learned more in 13 minutes than in four years of network "news" coverage.
Keep posting these.
Posted by: Good Lt at December 08, 2006 10:02 AM (D0TMh)
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This is where it is at. What better way to find out how things are going that from the troops themselves?
Keep em coming!
Posted by: keb at December 08, 2006 12:08 PM (TZCDy)
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Absolutely. How can this get more mainstream? Almost no one believes in victory at this point.
Posted by: Sharm at December 08, 2006 10:34 PM (xVW97)
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I love it! plz post every episode of this. we the people need to watch this. this is the real news... It is so wonderful to watch!
Posted by: hank at December 09, 2006 07:04 AM (pU0SG)
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Well they have been available all along. I feel bad we've not posted more of them.We should have been. But there are over 500 and we never see any of them on TV? HTF does that happen!? Heck run em on PBS something.
Posted by: Darth Odie at December 09, 2006 09:52 PM (YdcZ0)
The ISG Recommendations: One Soldier's Response
T.F. Boggs is a twenty-four year old Army Reserve sergeant who's completed two tours in Iraq. Here's some of what the sergeant has to say to the members of the Iraq Study Group:
I thought old people were supposed to be more patient than a 24 year old but apparently I have more patience for our victory to unfold in Iraq than 99.9 percent of Americans. Iraq isn’t fast food-you can’t have what you want and have it now. To completely change a country for the first time in it’s entire history takes time, and when I say time I don’t mean 4 years.
Talking doesn’t solve anything with a crazed people, bullets do and we need to be given a chance to work our military magic. Like I told a reporter buddy of mine: War sucks but a world run by Islamofacists sucks more.
This guy makes me ashamed of what a mushhead I was at 24. Be sure to read the whole thing.
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And what's this business about "talking to Iran and Syria"? Are you kidding me? The Islamic Regime of Iran and the Ba'athist regime of Syria ARE the sources of much of the problem in Iraq. In fact, I understand, that shipments of shaped charged explosives from Iran to terrorists in Iraq have been intercepted by the coalition. Bluto, in my opinion trying to cut a deal with the Mullahs of Iran and the thugs of Syria is an act of betrayal to Serg. T.F. Boggs and his brothers-in-arms.
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at December 07, 2006 07:54 PM (EdIIN)
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You cannot change muslims or the countries they live in. You can only eradicate the scourge and start over.
It is in Americas best interest to eliminate all iraqi citizens and give the land to Israel to further help one of our best and most deserving allies.
Posted by: Bill Bradford at December 07, 2006 08:03 PM (DCZ7U)
Seldom do you see Multinational Force releases on memeorandum. But a story we ran on Thursday was picked up by other bloggers over the weekend and did show. The more we all link them the more exposure these stories will get. If you read TJR this week you get a striking difference from the defeatism that is running rampant of late in the MSM.
