There are only two folks that I look on now and am like “Why didn’t I see the clues that dude was a huge bag of steamed dicks?” Charles Johnson at LGF, and Mike Yon. And to be honest, there’s nothing finer than watching them completely implode.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t read the Professional Soldier’s thread where Yon retreats when a guy shows up with facts about how Yon was escorted off the SF FOB for opsec violations, it is a thing of beauty.<\/a> <\/p>\n I was the Team Sergeant of the ODA on FOB GABE during that time frame. You asked one of my guys to talk to me and I met you in our main living area. You told me that you were in Iraq independently as an author and told be about your previous book. You asked a couple of questions about what we were doing (as had other reporters) and I deferred you to our PAO located in Mosul at the time. You pressed on with your questioning, even suggesting that I\/we could benefit in the long run from the association. I interpreted this as being beneficial to your writing and a breach of OPSEC and became rather short with you. Our dog, “Sheik,” sensed my anger and bit you on the back of the leg (not sure if she broke skin or not, but at the very least got ahold of you pant leg) With that, I told you to leave our compound and not come back and walked you back out of the Team House and through the gate. I then instructed my BDOC guards to prevent you from ever entering the compound again. In such, you we’re removed from an SF Compound at that time and the statement is true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, how does Mike respond to this? Is it to issue a mea culpa? Oh, hell now. He accuses them of incompetance and murdering an unarmed Iraqi man in 2005.<\/p>\n Your memory of events is off, though some facts are correct. For instance, on the raid in question one of your team members could not get through a gate\/fence. (I may have photo or video.) It was closed by wire. He needed my knife to get through the wire, which I gave to him. Mind you, this was on initial entry and he could not get through without my knife. I believe he was wearing jeans instead of a uniform.<\/p>\n I did in fact photograph papers that your team was leaving behind. I gave the photos to 1\/6 because it was evidence that your team was going to (and did) abandon. <\/p>\n It’s understandable that your team does not like me. And in fact, it was your team that caused me to turn down all other SF offers for the last seven or so years. <\/p>\n How did the murder investigation turn out? During an operation in about February 2005, it was alledged by an officer in 1\/6 that one of your team mates murdered an unarmed Iraqi while he lay face down on the ground. After I left Diyala, I did not track that any more and nearly forgot about it until now. What was the outcome of the investigation? Was there an investigation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From there, Yon really rolls out the big guns, citing video of Samuel L. Jackson and Jack Nicholson. Just what in the Holy Name of Spongebob that has to do with a murder 6 years ago is unexplained. But the Yonites are totally down with it.<\/a><\/p>\n Dude, jumped the shark, jumped the boat, damn near jumped the Atlantic Ocean. Loving the implosion. Kinda embarassed I ever looked up to him with respect, but so it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"