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Battle Damage Assessment: Hillary Cop vs Delta Force
NewsMax.com ^
| 11/05/01
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 11/05/2001 9:55:18 AM PST by kattracks
Seymour Hersh's New Yorker magazine report claiming that twelve Delta Force members were wounded in an Oct. 20 raid on a Taliban leader's complex was roundly debunked yesterday, both by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan Gen. Tommy Franks as well as Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers.
Gen. Franks said the injuries were in fact mostly bumps, scratches and bruises and Gen. Myers reported, "My belief is that every soldier that came back from that particular raid is back on duty today."
That's more than can be said of Westchester County Police Officer Ernest Dymond, who remains sidelined by injuries sustained a week before the Delta Force raid, when he tried to stop a van carrying New York Senator Hillary Clinton as it blew past a local airport security checkpoint.
"I thought we might have a terrorist," Dymond told the Washington Times two days after the accident.
Officer Dymond's ongoing disability prompted one political wag to remark to NewsMax off the record, "I guess getting in Hillary's way can be more dangerous than fighting the Taliban."
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posted on
11/05/2001 9:55:18 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
The New Yorker article came up in today's (Nov-5) Pentagon briefing and there is clearly no truth to the report that troops came under heavy fire, found no useful intelligence, and had to make a hasty retreat.
Looks like the New Yorker has earned their Clymer Award.
To: kattracks
To kattracks, Am I the only person to see the similarity between Hillary and Leona Helmsley?She went to jail for tax-fraud.One of her "maids"testified that she had heard Ms.Helmsley remark on a number of occasions that"Only Little People Actually Pay Taxes".That is the same pathology that is practiced by The Clintons only,in their view,laws and security check-points are only meant to be observed by "Little People".In my estimation,this ideology Should make them even more subject to The Law and Security Check-Points than the rest of us!!!
To: bandleader
One of her "maids" testified that she had heard Ms.Helmsley remark on a number of occasions that "Only Little People Actually Pay Taxes".
Truer words were never spoken.
Mrs. Helmsley went to jail because she wasn't nice, she played a man's game as good as a man, and ended up with too many of the wrong people hating her guts.
Her husband probably also merited a vacation, but everyone was wild about Harry.
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posted on
11/05/2001 10:15:55 AM PST
by
wheezer
To: kattracks
This article makes a great point.
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posted on
11/05/2001 10:16:13 AM PST
by
optiguy
To: kattracks
Anyone
believe the Pentagon's spin on the Delta incident?
When the Pentagon is doing all it can to exclude both domestic and foreign press from the war zone, when the Pentagon bought up all Afghanistan imaging by a private spy satellite company, when Colin Powell tried to get a foreign government (Qatar) to silence a TV network based there (Al-Jazeera), do you trust Pentagon spinmeisters?
To: optiguy
Of course Leona did provide lots of expensive hotel rooms. Monica's ex-boyfriend's wife only provided one very expensive one.
To: sarcasm
"I guess getting in Hillary's way can be more dangerous than fighting the Taliban."Just about sums it up.
To: glc1173@aol.com
In assessing the Pentagon's story on the Delta Incident-One must be very careful to weigh every word coming from any source. The commander said that "It was his belief" that the injuries sustained were bumps and bruises and that the soldiers were back on duty. Anyone else with military experience believe that this commanding officer does not have access to this specific information. This officer is covering up what he knows by stating what he believes. This is not a problem just now but as things like this pile up over the duration of a long war, the military loses credibility with the public and then the public loses support for the operation which we know has happened in the past. If he did not want to reveal info he should have said that he would not comment about operation specifics and that there were elements of the story which were not accurate (true smokescreen- there is an element of EVERY story that is not accurate).
To: kattracks
It still amazes me how every other news medium in the entire USA has "ignored" this incident. We train delta forces to be elite defensemen and then someone like Hitlery Clinton comes along and runs one down without even so much as an "are your o.k."... wake up NY ... to paraphrase Will Shakespeare, something sure is rotten in NY....
To: glc1173@aol.com
I trust the Pentagon, more than I trust the New Yorker.
To: glc1173@aol.com
Anyone believe the Pentagon's spin on the Delta incident? You mean as opposed to the Taliban's spin?
To: patrioteagle911
"It still amazes me how every other news medium in the entire USA has "ignored" this incident. We train delta forces to be elite defensemen and then someone like Hitlery Clinton comes along and runs one down without even so much as an "are your o.k."... wake up NY ... to paraphrase Will Shakespeare, something sure is rotten in NY.... 10 posted on 11/5/01 11:44 AM Pacific by patrioteagle911"
I believe the article stated it was a police officer run down by CLinton, not a delta force soldier.
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posted on
11/05/2001 11:04:28 AM PST
by
tristam
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