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You know its hard to know what your actions will lead to....Thank you Hackworth for your part in "helping" our military and out country. Nick Berg thanks you. "My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Susan," the man said on the video. "I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in ... Philadelphia http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_iraq_american_beheaded_3&printer=1

Just to let you knwo, if anybody here posted at Hackworths guestbook he removes any and all comments that show him in a bad light. How about that from the SFTT founder.

I cant find this anywhere, even MSNBC doesnt have it on there site. But a Uncle of a Spc being charged in the Iraqi Abuse scandal told MSNBC the names of the Senators who ignored his plea for help on ths issue. Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Sen Akaya(?), Sen Byrd, Ben Nelson and some others. One told him that he wasnt a direct relative so they couldnt help him, and Sen Byrd told him that he doesnt respond to emails less than 500 words! Lets all call them to step down for covering up the story!

As an American citizen, I’m ashamed of the atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq. As a former professional soldier, I’m appalled not only by what has happened in the prisons there, but also by our military leadership. From the very top of the Pentagon down to the 320th Military Police Battalion, the brass have spent months covering up obscene behavior while placing the sole blame on Joe and Jill Grunt. The damage to our country and our just war on terrorism is already devastating. And these war crimes not only diminish the sacrifices of our gallant soldiers in Iraq and...

Just heard on KVIl in Dallas, Col. Hackworth being interviewed. Stated he will be releasing the names of the notorious 17 today on the internet. FYI

The London Sunday Times, May 19, 1996 LAST POST FOR A HAUNTED 'HERO' IT WAS probably the loneliest journey of his life. Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the four-star chief of American naval operations, left his sandwiches untouched on his huge, mahogany desk, picked up his hat and ordered his driver to take him to his home in the Washington naval yard. Moments earlier he had heard the news that he had been expecting for a year. Rear Admiral Kendall Pease, the navy information chief, told him that two reporters from Newsweek magazine would be arriving in two hours to question...

Ret. Col. David Hackworth, one of the most decorated living U.S. soldiers and a WorldNetDaily columnist, helped expose the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal after learning about it from U.S. troops on the ground. Hackworth pledges to discuss his role in the international controversy in his next column, scheduled for publication Tuesday. "The Pentagon hoped it would go away or at least that the responsible high brass would escape untarnished," Hackworth told WND this weekend. The story began to unravel earlier this year with the actions of Ivan Frederick, father of an Army reservist turned prison guard in Iraq, Staff Sgt....

CUMBERLAND, Md., May 7 — Ivan Frederick was distraught. His son, an Army reservist turned prison guard in Iraq, was under investigation earlier this year for mistreating prisoners, and photographs of the abuse were beginning to circulate among soldiers and military investigators. So the father went to his brother-in-law, William Lawson, who was afraid that reservists like his nephew would end up taking the fall for what he considered command lapses, Mr. Lawson recounted in an interview on Friday. He knew whom to turn to: David Hackworth, a retired colonel and a muckraker who was always willing to take on...

Troops in Iraq killed, wounded because of brass inaction April 29, 2004DAVID H. HACKWORTH KING FEATURES The central theme of Sun Tzu's timeless book, "The Art of War," is for commanders to take care of their troops. If one of his generals had sent warriors into battle with defective chariots, I'll bet you a fortune cookie that the offender's head would have quickly decorated the end of a pike. But that's far from the case in the 2004 U.S. Army. And a classic example of leadership negligence is our soldiers' current chariot, the Humvee. As early as Oct. 3, 1993,...

Nothing to smile about Posted: February 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 David H. Hackworth "For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For the want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For the want of a horse, the rider was lost; For the want of the rider, the battle was lost; For the want of the battle, the kingdom was lost; And all for the want of a nail." Swap "nail" for "tooth" in Ben Franklin's epigram and you've captured part of the plight of today's U.S. Army. For the past three years, about one...

Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along. Most of the rest of us, from the president to his key advisers, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Tenet, to the majority of Congress and to most of the talking heads – including the pre-Iraq War NBC analyst David Kay, who reported WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) behind every Iraqi sand dune – blew it big-time when it came down to the awesome arsenal that Saddam had supposedly squirreled away. Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on...

More body-bag bait? Posted: January 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 David H. Hackworth The 81st Brigade is rated as a combat-ready fighting outfit. But when it came time for this federally activated Washington state National Guard unit to ship out to Iraq, the high brass ruled that it was nowhere near ready to rock 'n' roll down where the bullets fly and people die. The brigade's foxholes, in one of the most vicious contemporary killing fields in the world, were filled instead by regular units from the combat-worn 82nd Airborne. Wait a minute! Isn't the 81st one of...

Saddam's in the slammer, so why are we on orange? --------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 30, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth Almost daily we're told that another American soldier has sacrificed life or limb in Iraq. For way too many of us – unless we have a white flag with a blue star in our window – these casualty reports have become as big a yawn as a TV forecast of the weather in Baghdad. Even I – and I deal with that beleaguered land seven days a week – was staggered when a Pentagon source gave me...

Gotcha! Posted: December 16, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth Great news – Saddam Hussein is in the slammer. Hats off to U.S. military intelligence, which did the Get-Saddam spadework and put all the pieces of the puzzle together swiftly enough to triangulate the Super-Rodent's rathole while he was still there. We've been nanoseconds away from nailing this creep a number of times during the past few months, but somehow he always managed to scurry off to twit everyone committed to a free Iraq – including our weary warriors out in the killing fields – for yet another day. A...

How an American war hero is taking his battle over Iraq to Washington By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 05 December 2003 The left leg of retired Colonel David Hackworth still carries a bullet that he picked up while fighting in the Vietnam War. Wounded a total of eight times, he claims to be America's most highly decorated soldier, his chest weighed down by honours such as eight Purple Hearts, nine Silver Stars and eight Bronze Stars. While no-one doubts Colonel Hackworth's patriotism or service to his country, there are plenty of people who do not appreciate what he has to...

The left leg of retired Colonel David Hackworth still carries a bullet that he picked up while fighting in the Vietnam War. Wounded a total of eight times, he claims to be America's most highly decorated soldier, his chest weighed down by honours such as eight Purple Hearts, nine Silver Stars and eight Bronze Stars. While no-one doubts Colonel Hackworth's patriotism or service to his country, there are plenty of people who do not appreciate what he has to say about the United States' occupation of Iraq and the way it was carried out. Donald Rumsfeld is likely to be...

George Bush hit the mark when he visited our troops in Iraq on Turkey Day. He's the Main Man, and his daring and dangerous trip told our warriors he cared and was with them all the way. Commanders – and especially the commander in chief – inspire soldiers, and it's their duty to beat feet to the front whenever they can. But not senior staff weenie wannabe-warriors back in the rear with all the gear – straphangers who are into cluttering up battlefields such as Iraq mainly for the braggin' rights.

Let’s say you own a small trucking company with 20 drivers, but six of your operators are dysfunctional in one way or another. In the real world – to stay in business – you'd have to sack ‘em to survive. But, apparently, the U.S. Army’s Ready Reserve Force doesn’t need to be concerned about the bottom line as long as we taxpayers have deep pockets. An estimated 60,000 of the 205,000 soldiers on their books can’t deploy to combat zones because of medical problems – and an alarming number of these non-deployables are either wacko, overweight or otherwise physically not...

Pfc. Jessica Lynch recently was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, a Purple Heart and the POW Medal. The BSM citation reads: “For exemplary courage under fire during combat operations to liberate Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Private First Class Lynch's bravery and heart persevered while surviving in the ambush and captivity in An Nasiriya.” A BSM for “bravery” and “surviving in the ambush and captivity”! The Army's official After-Action Report said she was in a vehicle that crashed while hauling butt trying to escape an enemy ambush. She was knocked unconscious and woke up at a nearby Iraqi...

My British-made bulletproof Tetranike vest served me well in the badlands of ex-Yugoslavia, Somalia and Latin America back in my days as a war correspondent – that is, before darling wife Eilhys changed the drill. But that doesn’t mean the vest is also retired. No sirree. Since 9-11, my trusty Tetranike has served one tour with the Army in Afghanistan and three in Iraq: with the Army, FBI and presently protecting a retired “snake eater” who’s training the Iraqi police force. The reason that sucker’s so well-traveled is that the Bush administration just can’t get its priorities right when it...