{"id":19346,"date":"2010-06-04T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19346"},"modified":"2010-06-04T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:59:50","slug":"kos-excludes-information-on-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19346","title":{"rendered":"Kos excludes information on Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was writing about Mark Kirk and Tim Walz<\/a> yesterday, Kos was writing more about Kirk’s supposed deception<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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So I checked Kos’ source which is this page at National Defense Magazine<\/a>. The paragraphs before the one Kos quoted reads;<\/p>\n

Mark Kirk, of Illinois, holds the rank of Navy lieutenant commander in a naval reserve officer aviator unit called the Star Warriors, which flies the EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft, based at Andrews Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

In December 2000, just after he had been elected to Congress, Kirk was called back to reserve duty to patrol the no-fly zone in Northern Iraq, as part of Operation Northern Watch. Kirk also was called to combat in Yugoslavia, during Operation Allied Force in 1999, and served as the Joint Chiefs of Staffs\u2019 senior force analyst during Operation Sharp Guard over Bosnia in 1995. He served as an analyst at the office of the chief of naval operations during Operation Support Democracy in Haiti in 1994. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s a little bit more than Kos portrays of Kirk’s career. <\/p>\n

Kos continues whining that the Army showed good sense by not letting him near a shooting war;<\/p>\n

I was in the Army during Desert Storm, but am not a veteran of that war. Why? Because I was stationed in Germany and never deployed to Kuwait or Iraq. Kirk might argue that his efforts aided the war effort. Well, so did mine. I spent weeks shuttling supplies from depots in Germany to Frankfurt, where they were loaded onto transport planes to the Gulf. I lugged around everything from ammo to toilet paper (no joke). I spent weeks more working on my base’s post office, helping the small office handle the crush of letters and care packages being sent to deployed soldiers by their families. Seems trite, and it kind of is (and tedious as shit), but there’s little more important to a soldier than mail call. Trust me on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny how the guys that ship toilet paper whine the loudest. Since Kirk flew Northern Watch, I guess he could argue that he’s more of a Desert Storm veteran than Kos. Enough so that Kos chose to leave that right out of his attack on Kirk.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what Democrats are trying to pull, but if they’re going to exclude information from their charges, it’s going to bite them in the ass. Kos should know better, but then he’s never let the facts get in his way before. I’ve seen him use that toiletpaper repairman line as some sort of excuse to make him an expert on military affairs – as much an expert as Gordon Duff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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