Posted on 11/28/2004 10:17:11 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Memo to ny times eds, Marines, capital M.
What supreme fools these arrogant b*stards of the Times are.
Congressman Billybob
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Still flogging the "dead horse" of Vietnam as a way of condeming the Administration's decisions in Iraq.
When will these "sidewalk experts" wake up to the reality that neither their opinions nor their approval is sought or welcome?
"After a marine stumbled across a yellow plastic bag lying in an irrigation panel with what he identified as a severed human head and intestines, Lieutenant Duarte radioed to headquarters and was told to leave it for investigation by the Iraqi police."
You gotta admire these guys. They must have very strong stomachs.
You've never actually read anything from Burns before, have you? Did you bother to read any of Burns' reports during the actual war? Or preceding it?
It's remarkable that Hussein didn't arrest or expel Burns.
NYT so wants Iraq to be Viet Nam that they will print anything. Credibility lost. The Grey Lady is dead.
OK, one more time. The American military did not lose in Vietnam. Not only did the U.S. military win every single major engagement, Nixon's bombing of N Vietnam won a peace treaty by which the N Vietnamese withdrew from the south.
AFTER Nixon resigned over Watergate, the N Vietnamese launched a major tank assault in violation of the treaty. The American military had withdrawn and the democrats in Congress would not even permit President Ford to send equipment to our allies.
The U.S. military won in Vietnam. Vietnam was lost to a combination of liberal demmocrats and a communist invasion after we withdrew.
Burns' piece was doubtless read with interest and growing excitement by Zarqawi and his followers. Al-jazeera will happily give it broad play, as well.
Sulzberger and Keller aren't stupid. They know full well that, by their editorial policies, they are encouraging the enemy. But they don't care...
The American Military DID NOT LOSE THE VIEATNAM WAR!!
The Politicians and the The Civilians that bought the Line of Crap that John Kerry and Jane Fonda and the rest of the Communist Propaganda Machine was Spewing LOST that WAR!! WHy is the SOB Traitor still in Office in the Senate! Why is Jane FOnda still not in Prison for Treason!
but then their version of Viet Nam is also a huge lie. It was then and is now.
What is this obsession with Vietnam by the NYT? If, as the story states, these guys were born AFTER the Vietnam war, I doubt these Marines gave much thought to that war unless a NYT's reporter asked them about it. I suppose the NYT and other liberal media outlets would love to revisit those glory days of Vietnam.
You may not be aware that reporters generally have absolutely nothing to do with the headline of a newspaper story.
I've seen so much Bulldog journalism in the past few years and a heap of yellow journalism; this latest sinks to a new category.
This Times yocal seems to really have a burr under his saddle. He is working and writing hard to see to it America withdraws. Undermining morale, noting the uncomplimentary comments of the Iraqi unit made about the Americans, and interjecting his own version of past military history which he apparently views as a defeat--seems a clear gift to the cause of our enemy.
How is it this guy did not become lost in the weeds on this mission? His writings and logic are "lost". He could easily have been overlooked, and lost, on the return trip.
Take a long hike shmuck.
You are on the money. At the same time he is spouting the 'failures' he does NOT acknowledge the successes that the Fallujah campaign and other campaigns clearly are.
Hence he is part of the 'Legacy Media'.
If I venture to guess this will appear in the military early bird, news from all over the world. I can only wonder how they feel as they click on the link to read the news and this is what is front of them on their screen.
Good thing there are many positive articles out there, just harder to find, but, I have to believe they see those as well.
Thank you for your post.
Oh give me a break! The left is just getting more and more blatantly biased as the days go on. How stupid this makes them look.
I can only wonder how the Times gets away with such reporting. Do her readers not see what we do? Are they so blinded, that the truth, to them, is some five letter word?
It seems that the NYT feels using the V card, that somehow that gives them more credibility, I say HA, loud and very clearly.
Thanks for the post Congressman Billybob!
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