Posted on 08/05/2004 6:19:10 AM PDT by AJ Insider
Liberals care about troop morale only when a presidential election is at stake, and they don't care very much even then, as we see so frequently this year and saw during Vietnam.
God bless Col. Twitty and his troops! They are the best.
"U.S. Army commander says unbalanced news threatens troop morale"
Of course it does. That's the point.
Yes, yes and yes. The RATS and big media have pronounced Iraq as a failed venture. We lost boys! That is their message. Completely untrue. WE seem to have no way to counter this. It needs to be done.
Meant this as a post not a private reply - apologies to Gefreiter....
Maybe I should've titled this myself instead of using the NRO title.
I was posting it mainly about the contents of the article itself, especially the heroism of the 3-15 and the intense fighting that took place in Baghdad, which wasn't reported on that widely.
The press and morale thing is just side news in the article to me, since it's not that big of a surprise and numerous other letters home have said the same thing.
Real justice for your troops would be for Michael Moore to turn up in an orange jumpsuit on one of those Al Jazeera special videotapes.
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Excellent article
Since when do the libtards give a damn about the troops...other than lip service of course. It wasn't the Young Republicans throwing blood, shit, piss, and shitty diapers on troops coming back from VN. It was the very people that HANOI JOHN EMBRACED then and continues to EMBRACE NOW!
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One thing about this war is the same as Viet Nam, the press is not on our side.
I can't imagine how much the betrayal by their own countrymen hurts our troops - hurt our Vietnam Veterans, then and now, but their suffering helps us understand a little better the cost of our freedom. We suffer for our troops and Veterans today with each new betrayal - and will defend them on the homefront, enlighten our neighbors.
(Blurry screen alert.)
On the night of April 6, 2003, Lt. Col. Stephen M. Twitty called his subordinate commanders together a few miles south of Baghdad. "Guys, this is it..."
By day's end, two of Twitty's men were dead and 45 wounded out of his 600-man task force (1,000 men total, if counting the 400 troops who were battling enemy forces south of Baghdad).
"I actually feared I was going to lose 90 percent of my lead company."
"Isn't that a miracle?"
(Lt. Col. Stephen M. Twitty, shining a light on a corner of the "quagmire".)
The armed forces are suffering because of the election year media bias...not because what they are doing isn't valuable and important to this nation and Iraq. God bless our armed forces....
Great article. I'd love to see more of this.
“Iraqis Want Us There” - U.S. Army commander says unbalanced news threatens troop morale.
National Review Online ^ | 8/5/04 | W. Thomas Smith
That is exactly what it is designed to do.
That is the plan of the main stream media.
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