{"id":3208,"date":"2008-09-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:00:00","slug":"wapo-asshat-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"WaPo asshat at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many lies. Who believes that in Afghanistan last month, only five civilians were killed by the American military in an airstrike, instead of the approximately 90 claimed by the Afghan government? Not me. I first gave up on the military during Vietnam and then again when it covered up the death of Pat Tillman, the Army Ranger and former NFL player who was killed in 2004 by friendly fire.<\/p>\n

— WaPo Moran* Richard Cohen.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I took the liberty of responding to Mr Cohen and shared my email with Blogfather Lilyea:<\/p>\n

For the record: In all my years in the army I never once ran into a soldier, airman, sailor or Marine who gave a shit what you thought of us.<\/p>\n

I ran an op with Afghan National Army guys one time. Their commander said 100 of their guys would be accompanying my patrol. 7 showed up. You trust them more than you do me, I couldn’t care less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John has\u00a0written about the douche before here<\/span><\/a>, here<\/span><\/a> and here<\/span><\/a>. Washington Post will hire anyone, apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n

It just astonishes me sometimes that reporters actually believe their own press.\u00a0 When I start writing stuff here and think that\u00a0people actually form an opinion on what I write rather than their own opinions, for the love of Spongebob kick me in the ass.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Moran!\u00a0 Go USA!<\/span><\/p>\n

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