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  • Washington Post; Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled

    I know, it’s almost paralyzing, isn’t it? After a week of publishing old news on the front page of their newspaper, in the form of an expose on IEDs merely two weeks ago so they could avoid reporting the good news pouring out of Iraq, the Washington Post finally admits that the US-led coalition has made substantial headway;

    The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq.

    It doesn’t take long for the other shoe to drop, however;

    “I think it would be premature at this point,” a senior intelligence official said of a victory declaration over AQI, as the group is known. Despite recent U.S. gains, he said, AQI retains “the ability for surprise and for catastrophic attacks.” Earlier periods of optimism, such as immediately following the June 2006 death of AQI founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. air raid, not only proved unfounded but were followed by expanded operations by the militant organization.

    The article is also followed on the front page with the story of the Washington Post reporter, Salih Saif Aldin’s, death in Baghdad.

    The 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau was shot once in the forehead in the southwestern neighborhood of Sadiyah. He was the latest in a long line of reporters, most of them Iraqis, to be killed while covering the Iraq war. He was the first for The Washington Post.
     
    “The death of Salih Saif Aldin in the service of our readers is a tragedy for everyone at The Washington Post. He was a brave and valuable reporter who contributed much to our coverage of Iraq,” said Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Post. “We are in his debt. We grieve with his family, friends, fellow journalists and everyone in our Baghdad bureau.

    Yes, it’s indeed sad, but if the Post had put even one article about a single soldier or sailor or marine or airman that had died on the front page, I wouldn’t be rolling my eyes this morning. In fact, did they run a front page story of Medal of Horor recipient SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy last week? Nope. Here’s the Post’s reportage on the page 11A column “Nation in Brief“;

    Navy Seal to Be Given Posthumous Honor

         

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A Navy Seal who was killed while leading a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan will be given the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. Lt. Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue on Long Island is the first Medal of Honor recipient for combat in Afghanistan, the Navy said in a statement.

    That’s it – the whole thing. It’s not even the first item in the series. Yet a 32-year-old reporter gets the front page. So my excitement at a front page story of success in Iraq is tempered by my disdain for the elitist retards at the Washington Post.

    Deebow at Blackfive noticed the same poor reportage from NYT on Lt. Murphy. Linda SoG at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy goes off on the Associated Press for ignoring our heroes and naming several they should get to know.

    I’ll continue to get my news from the internet – like this news from Iraq and this from Afghanistan, both by RTO Trainer at Protein Wisdom (h/t Ace of Spades). And Victor Davis Hanson (by way of Curt at Flopping Aces and Michele Malkin). And from Gateway Pundit who has the numbers as well as the good news.

  • Hey, WaPo, you have something on your chin

    Well, if I were a Democrat, I’d probably think this is a wonderful piece that Peter Baker wrote this morning in the Washington Post entitled “Feats Divide Pair Linked by Election” comparing the paths of President Bush and Al Gore over the last seven years. But I’m not a Democrat - I’m human – and so this is just fawning drivel masquerading as front page news;

    What a difference seven years makes. The winner of that struggle went on to capture the White House and to become a wartime leader now heading toward the final year of a struggling presidency. The loser went on to reinvent himself from cautious politician to hero of the activist left now honored as a man of peace.

    For the Gore camp, it was a day of resurrection, a day to salve the wounds of history and to write another narrative that they hope will be as enduring as Florida. “We finally have their respective legacies,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a veteran of the Clinton-Gore White House. “Bush earned the Iraq war, and Al Gore earned the Nobel Prize. Who knew Al Gore would one day thank the Supreme Court for their judgment?

    “A day of resurrection”? I don’t know how many Democrats I heard say, on September 12th, 2001 that they were suddenly glad that Al Gore wasn’t the President. How the Hell do you get resurrected above that? Does anyone at the Washington Post or in the Democrat caucus really think that Gore is happier with his Nobel Prize than he would have been in the Presidency?

    I’ll tell ya, I’m happier that he got the Nobel Prize than I would be if he was President – but Gore isn’t. He thinks he deserved the Presidency, he tried to undermine the electoral process to get it. It wasn’t so hard to undermine the Nobel Committee.

    We deserve a Nobel Peace prize for not choking Gore after having to listen to his whining about losing for the last seven years.

    Perhaps Ari Fleischer said it best, in the Post article;

    “I’m sure the president, and many Republicans, roll their eyes about how political the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming,” said former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. “For Al Gore, it’s a high honor. But for what’s probably a growing group of Americans, the Nobel Peace Prize comes coated with some strong political veneer.”

    Imagine, people might actually be thinking that the Nobel Committee isn’t the high and mighty arbiter of what’s important to the rest of the people in the world.

    Newsbusters’ Brent Baker reports similar knob-slobbering at the Big Three networks last night.

    Thank goodness that Michael Goldfarb reads “The Plank” so I don’t have to.

  • Re: The recent comments of LTG Sanchez

    Not surprisingly, the Mainstream Media latched right on to his comment:

    “There is no question America is living a nightmare with no end in sight,”

    Sadly, that is NOT all General Sanchez had to say. Army Times published an article on General Sanchez’s comments Army Times managed to note a few things the MSM didn’t:

    Jaws dropped as Sanchez glared out at the room, and then eyes rolled as he spent an hour blaming everyone but himself.

    and

    He said some poor strategic decisions in Iraq had become “defeats because of the media,” and that some reporters feed from a “pigs’ trough.”

    He lamented the media’s treatment of Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina. Brown resigned from FEMA after accusations that he had mishandled the hurricane.

    and

    He said the partisan politics of Congress are “killing soldiers,” and that the focus needs to be not at Capitol Hill, but in Iraq. And, he said, the media’s coverage of partisan politics was driving a wedge in democracy. He called for newspapers to run corrections more prominently and noted that television and Internet outlets often don’t run corrections at all.

    The Bush administration, he said, failed to plan economically and politically for Iraq, and has continued to fail in expressing its plans and strategies to the American people. The best the administration could hope for with the current approach is to “stave off defeat.”

    When asked for specific names involved in failures he cited, he said, “I’m not into second-guessing decisions of our political leadership.”

    This sounds like a bitter guy who feels he got the stinky end of the stick and is now interested in seeing others dragged through the mud he feels he was unjustly drug through. Come on, now, invoking Katrina should be a clue, shouldn’t it?

  • EJ Dionne; stop beating this child

    Since the SCHIP bill was vetoed last week by an astute (finally) President and I had my say about the wisdom in halting irresponsible spending, I stepped out of the fight and deferred to much more capable bloggers who tore the Democrats’ to pieces. Bloggers like Michele Malkin, and Chickenhawk Express and Freeper ICWHATUDO who tore down the Democrats attempt to use a twelve-year-old boy as a poster child for President Bush’s veto.

    Well, this morning, I got my hackles up when I read Washington Post’s EJ Dionne’s “Meanies and Hypocrits” Dionne wrote:

    Okay, the Democrats are “fair game,” but a 12-year-old? No wonder nobody talks about compassionate conservatism anymore.

    Um, show me one blog where anyone attacked “a 12-year-old”? You can find plenty of examples where bloggers attacked his parents who apparently spent their money “keeping up with the Joneses” instead of paying for health insurance – but no one has gone after the boy.

    I made choices in my life that had to do with putting my children first while my own desires took a back seat. The major reason I stayed in the military after I became a father was to protect my family’s health, but the Army didn’t provide dental coverage for my family, so I paid for a dental plan. Know why? Cuz I just figured that it was my responsibility to my family. And I think people who don’t consider health insurance for their kids are just as guilty of child abuse as anyone else – and it’s not the responsibility of the federal government to parent for children.

    I wish I could remember what blog had it – but someone listed the States that had like 40% of Schip recipients who were childless. What’s the “C” stand for again?

    But Dionne continues along the child abuse vein;

    The real issue here is whether uninsured families with earnings similar to the Frosts’ need government help to buy health coverage. With the average family policy in employer-provided plans now costing more than $12,000 annually — the price is usually higher for families trying to buy it on their own — the answer is plainly yes. All the conservative attacks on a boy from Baltimore who dared to speak out will not make this issue go away.

    Maybe potential parents should take the cost of health insurance into account before they start a family – huh? I beat this into my son-in-law’s head after he married my daughter – it took some time, but he finally got it. Just before they got pregnant. Now they’re not destitute paying hospital bills for her difficult pregnancy – thanks to Gramps. Maybe there needs to be more people who aren’t afraid to coerce their family members into doing the responsible thing.

    Again, EJ, we’re not attacking the child – we’re trying to impress upon parents that protecting their child is their responsibilty – not ours. It takes a village to point out the local idiots.

  • So who hung those posters at GWU?

    Monday morning while the rest of America was sleeping in enjoying their Columbus Day, nefarious forces were afoot on the George Washington University. The Washington Post article “Poster Was Aimed At Racism Authors Say” this morning explains the event;

    Fliers that appeared on the George Washington University campus carrying an apparently anti-Islamic message were produced by students who were attempting to mock those they thought were trying to stir fear of Muslims, a campus newspaper was told.

    The GW Hatchet, an independent campus paper, posted a story on its Web site late last night saying it had heard from those behind the fliers, who said they had been misunderstood. According to the Hatchet, an e-mail that it received from the students said the flier was not an attack on Islam but an effort “at exposing Islamophobic racism.”

    Yep, but who did people who were outraged about this attack initially? The Young Americans Foundation conservative group on campus. As if any serious political organization would use hate as a tool to recruit in this day and age – well except radical Leftists and Islamists.

    So who were the people behind it? Well, the Post declines to name them, but the GW Hatchet has no problem naming names;

    The students – Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon, senior Brian Tierney, freshman Ned Goodwin, Maxine Nwigwe, Lara Masri and Amal Rammah – said their motives were misinterpreted.

    Yep, Adam Kokesh – the little weasel to whom I’ve dedicated a whole category on this blog. And what was their intent? Squelching the free speech of conservatives, of course;

    Students for Conservativo-Facism Awareness hung the posters in opposition to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, an event being held beginning Oct. 22.

    Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a David Horowitz event. Just like the KKK leaflets in Manasas were intended to paint the anti-immigration movement there as a racist movement, this Kokesh-led abortion was meant to fan the flames of  hate against conservatives and those of us who are wary of Islamofacism. And it worked initially (from the WaPo, yesterday);

    “I was just really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus,” said Najah El Bash, a sophomore from New York who is one of the leaders of the GWU Muslim Students Association. “You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. . . . It’s scary.” It had to be well-planned, she said, for so many posters to go up so quickly.

    Yeah, scary. It’s scary that people who who were cautious about blaming radical Islam for the 9-11 attacks is quick to point fingers at conservatives for this kind of childish rhetoric. I would hope that the George Washington University faculty will give Kokesh exactly what they would have intended for YAF if they’d found them responsible. But, fat chance. In fact, the local TV stations, after their initial reports of facists on the loose in the city, have dropped the story. Here’s a Fox 5 report that hasn’t been updated to reflect the solved crime since yesterday at noon. The local Telemundo news broadcast hasn’t changed either. I guess it’s too good a story when it’s sheet-wearing racists instead of non-sheet-wearing racists.

    By the way, those posters that Kokesh and his bunch got arrested for posting nearly a month ago that they claimed were an expression of their free speech? Well, they’re still all over the city – no one has taken them down. In fact, I saw a poster the other day from the March 17th protest. I wonder if the city has collected on their $20,000 fine yet.

    Hat tip to Kate for the early morning email on a slow news day. Michele Malkin has more, and Little Green Footballs was on it here and here. David Horowitz calls it a hate crime. LGF and Gateway Pundit write that YAF is being asked by the assistant director of student activities to apologize for the fake posters from YAF’s fake members.

    Samantha Sault of The Weekly Standard Blogs says colleges hate conservatives – I say colleges hate everyone equally. Why else would colleges so readily fill skulls of mush with inacurate and incomplete information?

  • Sowing unwarranted fear in the Latin community

    I read somewhere that the freedom of speech doesn’t include yelling ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater. If that’s true, then I suppose the freedom of the press doesn’t include yelling ‘Migra!’ in Prince William County as the Washington Post’s Pamela Constable does this morning.

    Although not yet enacted into law, the resolution passed by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors has created a sense of siege and solidarity throughout the county’s wider Latino community of about 30,000. Rumors circulate that people will be arrested if they board buses or drop off their children at school. Some legal residents, who bought homes and opened businesses, expecting to stay for years, say they are thinking of leaving.

    That seems innocuous enough, however, Constable, in two pages of writing, doesn’t ever tell us what the measure includes. You have to go elswehere to find out what this racist legislation is;

    The bill would require police to check the residency status of anyone suspected of breaking the law. The bill would also require schools, libraries, and swimming pools to verify the immigration status of anyone using county services.

    Oh, my goodness – how draconian. Imagine making taxpayers identify themselves before using the services they pay for with their taxes. imagine making criminals identify themselves. How absolutely horrible. Actually, I think it’s horrible that it hasn’t been done up to this point.

    A sense of seige. Having to identify yourself creates a sense of seige. Funny – I have to identify myself all of the time. My wife, the legal Latin immigrant, has to identify herself all of the time. In fact, in the DC area nearly everyone has to identify themselves constantly – we all have ID badges and pass through security every time we enter or leave a building. I don’t feel under seige. Of course, I might if I’d committed a criminal act and I was worried about being arrested all of the time – but that’s not the case. 

    And it appears that it’s working, according to Constable;

    Gilbert Mejia, a Salvadoran restaurant owner, was the host of a recent meeting at his La Frontera restaurant in Gaithersburg. He said the fear of arrest and harassment among Latino immigrants has become so widespread that business at his restaurant has fallen sharply this summer.

    “Look at this place. Normally, we would be full for lunch,” said Mejia, gesturing around a room full of empty tables. “People are afraid the attitude from Prince William will drift here, that Maryland will be the next target. I have been in this country 27 years, and I’ve invested hundreds of thousands of dollars. We need to know what’s coming our way.”

    Of course, we can’t have a WaPo story without hyperbole;

    One was Jesus Calva, 40, who lives with his wife and two children in Lake Ridge, a woodsy townhouse community. Calva entered the United States illegally as a teenager and started working as a tree trimmer for $3 an hour. Today, he makes $27 an hour with a large construction company, and he helped rebuild the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. On his living room wall is a certificate of thanks signed by former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

    “I have always appreciated this country, and it really upsets me to hear about this law,” said Calva, who spoke briefly at last Tuesday’s hearing. Afterward, he strode outside, sat down on a curb and began to weep in frustration. “Even when I was illegal, I worked hard for everything I got, and I paid a lot of taxes,” he said. “If they don’t like us, why don’t they just say so? I love my home, but I don’t want to live in a place where I am hated.”

    Um, Jesus, no one has said they “hate” you. It’s just that those of us who’ve built this country into the economic and cultural powerhouse it’s become don’t want it to fall into the desperate morass of the other American countries. Anyone looking at this issue with open eyes (instead of a closed racist mind) would have to admit that illegal immigration needs to be blunted – now!

    Every story about immigrants in the Washington Post has some poor LEGAL immigrant whining that they’re going to lose their civil rights because they might have an accent or wear sandals or something. Like what happened to Cheech Marin in “Born in East LA” – a movie, not based on actual experiences, a work of complete fantasy – including the required happy ending. I’m pretty sure a check of ICE’s records would reveal that it’s never happened – I carry ID everytime I leave the house, I carry my passport everytime I leave the hotel in Central America. I really don’t see what’s so damn difficult about doing it here.

  • The rush to press

    I read and watched incredulously the CNN broadcast of the “Reliable Sources” bit on why the media isn’t reporting lower casualties and successes in Iraq. Noel Sheppard from Newsbusters transcribes;

    After introducing the subject, Kurtz asked, “Robin Wright, should that decline in Iraq casualties have gotten more media attention?”

    This was Wright’s amazing answer:

    Not necessarily. The fact is we’re at the beginning of a trend — and it’s not even sure that it is a trend yet. There is also an enormous dispute over how to count the numbers. There are different kinds of deaths in Iraq.

    That’s funny because two days into the invasion of Saddam’s Iraq, our troops ran headlong into a sandstorm – immediately the media called Iraq a quagmire and wondered if we’d ever remove the Hussein regime from power because of one little sand storm.

    The media had no problem trotting out the Hadditha story before the facts were known in order to smear the American soldiers, and now according to Little Green Footballs, Gateway Pundit and Michele Malkin, it might have been an al Qaeda plot – because they knew the media would pounce all over it without any real investigation.

    al Qaeda used the treacherous media against our struggle for national security with articles entitled “The Shame of Kilo Company” and “Did Marines Kill In Cold Blood?”. The New York Times even ferreted out a law professor who allowed them to quote that even though there isn’t enough evidence to prosecute the Marines, it doesn’t mean they’re innocent. Despite the fact that our Bill of Rights guarantees us the right of being innocent until the government proves otherwise; 

    “We can’t say those guys didn’t commit a crime,” said Michael F. Noone Jr., a retired Air Force lawyer and law professor at Catholic University of America. “We can only say that after an investigation, there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute.” 

    And still there’s no apparent shame from the media.

    Here’s another example; Abdul Sattar Abu Risha met with President Bush after he led the Sunni effort to run al Qaeda out of his little fiefdom – nary a word about the meeting in the press. Two weeks later the sheik was killed and it was in headlines across every newspaper as proof that al Qaeda was unbeatable in Iraq. Then we saw the pictures of the sheik and Bush. Apparently the media was wrong – it only reinforced efforts in Iraq against al Qaeda among the Sunnis – that’s not being reported either.

    Need more? The Washington Post has avoided reporting on increased security and the lessening lethality of terrorists in Iraq by running a four part series on the front page last week on IEDs – typical act of avoidance. Today the Washington Post runs the headline that “Top Iraqis Pull Back From Key US Goal“;

    For much of this year, the U.S. military strategy in Iraq has sought to reduce violence so that politicians could bring about national reconciliation, but several top Iraqi leaders say they have lost faith in that broad goal.

    Iraqi leaders argue that sectarian animosity is entrenched in the structure of their government. Instead of reconciliation, they now stress alternative and perhaps more attainable goals: streamlining the government bureaucracy, placing experienced technocrats in positions of authority and improving the dismal record of providing basic services.

    Nevermind that broad leaps have been made in the last few weeks towards Iraqi unity – nevermind that Iraqis rejected Joe Biden’s plan to divide their nation into pieces nearly unanimously.

    Sister Toldjah writes that Omar from Iraq the Model – an Iraqi on the ground in Baghdad – has written a piece for the Wall Street Journal detailing the signs that al Qaeda is losing in Iraq. Wonder why it’s not in the Washington Post. Oh, because today, they’re predicting political defeat for the Iraqis. That would be inconvenient to provide competing opinions, wouldn’t it?

    Who does the Washington Post, Robin Wright and the rest of the ignoramouses that claim to be the guardians of our freedoms think we are? They deride the blogs, just like they derided talk radio – but the mainstream press created the alternate news sources – by pompously deciding what we need to know and when we need to know it.

    Curt of Flopping Aces sums up;

    They struggle to explain why this news isn’t being reported but we all know why.  If it doesn’t fit their narrative, that being the “we’re losing in Iraq” storyline, then they want nothing to do with it.  If they were true reporters they would report this stuff because it IS news.

    Well, given that CNN never reported Hussein’s atrocities and continues to ignore atrocities in Cuba to save their precious access to propaganda, who can be surprised that they’ll continue to focus on the US shortcomings since Constitutionally we can’t restrict their access. CNN is just taking the route of least resistance. I don’t what is eating the Washington Post, besides a bad case of the dumbass – playing to these goofballs.

  • Sorry state of the Left; the politics of bad taste

    I’m tired of the “phony soldiers” story and that seems all that’s on the blogs this weekend. Even EJ Dionne at the Washington Post blogs that (surprise!) he’d take the word of Media Matters over that of the cacophonous opposition of those of us who’ve listened to Rush for decades.

    Wes Clark (h/t Hot Air) has decided that Rush shouldn’t be on Armed Forces Radio – but it was because of the popular demand of the troops that Rush was added to AFRTS broadcasts back in 1994 (when they were abandoned by the then-current administration). Shouldn’t it be by popular demand that Rush is removed by the line-up or is Wes Clarke the sole arbiter of what the troops should have for entertainment?

    But regardless, Kos diarist dlawbailey has taken Rush’s “phony soldier” controversy as a signal that the Left can bash troops at will now (h/t to LGF, Uncle Jimbo and Sparta. dlawbailey even takes potshots at Pete Hegseth’s wife’s appearance in an attempt to undermine the good works of Vets for Freedom. And spouting off about stuff he doesn’t understand (like ROTC training and military service) including the one glaring point that Uncle Jimbo caught the weasel on – the 101st hasn’t been a parachute unit since the early 70s. When I was stationed in Panama, they used to show up for the unit training at Jungle Operations Training Center in their blue berets instead of the maroon berets of every parachute unit in the Army. I was stationed there 1976-1978, so it’s been that long that the 101st has been “dopes on a rope” (a derisive phrase used only by paratroopers when referring to the 101st and their special training requiring them to slide down a rope to arrive at the cutting of battle by air. I’ll add that it’s not acceptable for non-airborne personnel to use the term and my use of the phrase is not a signal for Leftist diarists to begin referring to the noble troopers of the 101st Airborne Division as “dopes”).

    Since I also spent a few years teaching ROTC (at the University of Vermont), I can also add that not every cadet gets to go to Airborne School – the detachment is assigned a number of slots and there aren’t ever enough slots for everyone. Participation in political organizations while in an ROTC detachment isn’t limited by Army regulations – so cadets can join any organization to which they are drawn just like any other college student. Cadets aren’t confined by the UCMJ – dlawbailey should do a little research before wrapping himself/herself in minutae he/she doesn’t understand.

    Peckerwood dlawbailey complains about Hogseth’s lack of training – anyone who has spent a month in a TO&E unit knows that a bright and shiney new El-Tee has already had a few years of training at whatever college they attended, six weeks at Advanced Camp (if they’re ROTC), six months of their Basic Officers’ Course and ancillary training (Ranger School, Airborne, etc.).

    It’s not unusual for someone in a National Guard unit (like Hegseth) to not be Airborne or Ranger because of the rare times those particular officers get a slot at school. Unlike the idiots at Kos, the Army puts more stock in experience than schooling. The Basic Airborne Course – although it’s a great honor to be among the finest soldiers in the history of the world – isn’t a leadership school. Aside from being physically and mentally rigorous, the main prerequisite for the course is the student’s ability to obey the Law of Gravity at varying heights – nothing about leading troops in combat. I’ve even had leg Ranger LTs; they’d graduated from Ranger School, but not the Basic Airborne Course. Just the luck of getting school slots – that’s all.

    It seems that the “phony soldier” phony signal has turned loose the moonbats everywhere. Newsbusters reports that one-in-five Democrats thinks it’s a good thing if the US loses the war in Iraq. Wha??? Unless one-in-five Democrats are al Qaeda sleeper operatives, that should make the DNC think whether they want the votes of that constituency or not.

    Newsbusters also reports that members of the mis-named “Think Progress” have taken to praying – that the President and Vice-President die. In the words of a member named ‘Uncle Ho’ (clearly a misinformed person just for chosing that nom de plum); “I pray for Bush, and Cheney too. I pray that both die suddenly to free us from their neo-Nazi rule”. Yep, neo-nazi rule. Even after viewing the repression of the monks in Burma, the Left still thinks we’re ruled by nazis here.

    Speaking of which, Kate took pics of the latest Buddist protests in DC at the Myanmar, Chinese and Indian embassies yesterday. Why aren’t more of the Left getting involved against REAL injustice instead of this manufactured phony soldiers crap?

    But that’s not it. Crotchety Old Bastard (who tells us his son is still kickin’ ass in Iraq as a member of the Red Falcons – best wishes to him from this old trooper, too) writes that Medea Benjamin, the head shriveled up, barren old bag of Code Pink has made the brave decision to forego the protections she recieves from the Constitution. Who does she think she’s kidding? Does she think we’re going to put her on a raft in the Pacific Ocean and tie it off with a 12-mile rope on the Santa Monica pier? Dumbass.

    And Code Pink has taken to bravely assaulting recruiters who, generally can’t defend themselves the way they’ve been trained according to Marooned in Marin. And those goofballs in front of Walter Reed every Friday night protesting the war? Well, it turns out that because we’re winning the war in Iraq, their voluntary participation has waned and according to Chickenhawk Express, Michele Malkin and the Free Republic, protesters are being drafted by the unions and forced to participate – even though they’re not exactly sure why they’re there.

    As I predicted three months ago, the Left and their anti-war politics are failing and they’ve succumbed to the same tactics of al Qaeda – attacking innocent people who can’t defend themselves (apparently, according to Crotchety Old Bastard, al Qaeda is even adopting the tactics of Democrats and attacking the dead, too). Just like the tactic isn’t working for al Qaeda, it’ll bring a ugly end to the anti-war screwballs, too, but not before there are a bunch more casualties – on both sides.

    UPDATED: It seems Uncle Jimbo, a retired special warfare operator of some reknown, started a diary on Kos and has been banned for – get this – being a pedophile. All he did was bust on the Koskommies for the aforementioned diarist’s post busting on an honest-to-goodness bronze star awardee’s career (and wife, by the way). The comments on Jimbo’s diary post are really beyond the pale. The closest comment to anything supporting the troops is when one commenter called Markos a “a f*king veteran”. Like I said – the politics of bad taste.