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1 posted on 07/02/2006 6:40:32 PM PDT by luv2ndamend
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I'll bet every one of those leaking scum is a registered RAT. Further, I'll bet that our prison population is overwhelmingly RAT. Democrats...the party of felons and traitors.


2 posted on 07/02/2006 6:49:51 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Jack Murtha? Not in my Marine Corps!)
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Subject: Soldier Slaps the New York Times


June 26, 2006

Lt. Tom Cotton writes this morning from Baghdad with a word for the New York Times:

Dear Messrs. Keller, Lichtblau & Risen:

Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.)

Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.

Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.

And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.

Very truly yours,

Tom Cotton
Baghdad, Iraq


3 posted on 07/02/2006 6:50:51 PM PDT by B-Cause (“If we go into a battle/war then it should be no holds barred.”)
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This guy oesn't mess around. He knows and uses every stong work of denouncement. I love it!


4 posted on 07/02/2006 6:52:07 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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Amazing that Tuesday is the Fourth of July and the Democrat "traitor/treason" Party will celebrate Independence Day while really trying to destroy our country, our freedoms and our children!!! Their open aiding and abetting our enemies, along with their cohorts in the MSM, has already caused the multiple deaths and woundings of hundreds of American fighting men and women and thousands innocents across the world. May every single Democrat rot and burn in hell for eternity!!!


5 posted on 07/02/2006 6:53:02 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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BTTT!


6 posted on 07/02/2006 6:54:55 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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Commies dumping on Rats?


8 posted on 07/02/2006 6:57:08 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: luv2ndamend

Is the Times trying to make it impossible to go after the Clintons if the Beast should somehow steal the election ?


9 posted on 07/02/2006 6:57:44 PM PDT by John Lenin
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is now nothing but an open conspiracy to murder by alerting terrorists ...

(Publishing the detailed information on Cheney and Rummy's summer addresses, with photos and how to avoid security - also, places the families shop and the routes they take.)

This is a blatant invitation for a hit - NOTHING ELSE.

There MUST be some measure of legal hurt that can be brought to bear = reckless endangerment? Something!

This cannot be defended by the "peoples need to know."

I would like to see the slime editors mug shot with "NY SLIME across his forehead saturating the Internet with his address, surrounding neighborhood, any security mechanisms, etc = He has made himself a 'public figure' - he's fair game.

I don't think he'd sleep easy.

Payback's, as they say, a bi*ch.

11 posted on 07/02/2006 7:02:15 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time>")
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FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT --- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1659469/posts


12 posted on 07/02/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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13 posted on 07/02/2006 7:03:20 PM PDT by knyteflyte3
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Its hard to be objective when your paper is heavily subsidized by America's political and spiritual enemies.
20 posted on 07/02/2006 7:14:11 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Jesus always reads His knee-mail. (Hall of Fame Hit-N-Run poster))
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'The public's right to know."

Of course, the NYT feels compelled to warn Americans that there are limits to their right. There are greater threats to freedom than national security.

The 'confidentiality' between the mainstream media and its sources, for example.

24 posted on 07/02/2006 7:27:56 PM PDT by eric_da_grate
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Outstanding article. Thanks for posting. Thanks to Gerard Jackson.


34 posted on 07/02/2006 8:03:31 PM PDT by PGalt
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BTTT!

Personally, I'm for boycotting all advertisers of NYT, but perhaps we should publish Sulzberger's and Keller's home addresses.

Personally, if I was either Sulzberger or Keller I wouldn't want returning vets, men and women well versed in the art of warfare and aware of who's side the NYT is on, to know where I live.

38 posted on 07/02/2006 8:20:01 PM PDT by GBA
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Bookmarked


40 posted on 07/02/2006 8:36:56 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (LIGHT A PRAYER CANDLE FOR THE TROOPS: http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm)
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44 posted on 07/02/2006 9:32:54 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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I am so happy to see, after five years, the "T" word used where it obviously applies...

Now, about the appropriate penalties...

45 posted on 07/02/2006 9:38:34 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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Maybe "Pinch" will get a "bad" dick, Karma and all that ya'll!!


46 posted on 07/02/2006 10:07:04 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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The obstructionist Democrats and the anti-war folks, like Cindy Sheehan, are trying to force Bush to say "Mother May I?" before he does anything like
take a well-earned vacation,
travel to Iraq,
investigate terrorist banking transactions, etc.
48 posted on 07/02/2006 10:27:08 PM PDT by syriacus
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ping


49 posted on 07/03/2006 12:05:36 AM PDT by SR 50 (Larry)
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