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Pressing On - Our troops deserve better than a Vietnam-era press.
National Review Online ^ | July 05, 2006 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

Posted on 07/05/2006 11:06:46 AM PDT by neverdem

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To: All; Cindy; LucyT; Oorang; Jim Robinson; Buckhead; Howlin

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You are so correct, Freeper Cindy.

If we Vietnam Vets had had the internet and Freerepublic.com to combat the TV Media lies about the Vietnam War being told to the American People daily,

...particularly by CBS News' WALTER CRONKITE & DAN RATHER,

...a once Free South Vietnam would still be Free today. It only took 40 years for Freerepublic.com to finally catch up to RATHER, but catch him we did ..thanks to Freepers buckhead & howlin.

But instead of Freedom's Victory in Vietnam, we are still left with:


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts



And now the President of Communist Vietnam is pressing the President of a Free South Korea to xtradite Vietnamese-American Freedom fighter CHANH 'Tony' HUU NGUYEN of Garden Grove, California from South Korea to a very uncertain future in Vietnam.

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660427/posts

Isn't FREEDOM the right to say "NO" to Communism..?


With Communist North Korean missiles now falling down all around to remind him of the above truth...

...the President of a Free South Korea could really use our respectful letters encouraging him to make the right choice for the Freedom of the one in this case..?


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965

(Real Deal Vietnam War Pictures)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
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http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

("WE WERE SOLDIERS" Paramount Pictures website)
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

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21 posted on 07/05/2006 5:51:38 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; devolve; Boazo; smoothsailing; JustPiper; La Enchiladita
Thankyou Tonkin


22 posted on 07/05/2006 7:08:29 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; bitt; Boazo; smoothsailing; writer33; pookie18; ...






LONE STAR LIGHT MAGICK

23 posted on 07/05/2006 8:23:55 PM PDT by devolve (fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
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To: neverdem
This IS the only parallel between Iraq and Vietnam--

the willingness of the MSM, liberals and democrats to undermine the efforts of our military, while providing encouragement, aid-and-comfort to our enemy.

24 posted on 07/05/2006 8:26:27 PM PDT by stockstrader
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To: devolve

That is just wonderful - you just get better and better!

Love the background too.


25 posted on 07/05/2006 8:28:47 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: devolve

haha, the SPIT!


26 posted on 07/05/2006 8:35:25 PM PDT by bitt (NY Times to New York: Drop Dead!)
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To: devolve

I hope everybody clicks and sees your great Webpage!!


27 posted on 07/05/2006 8:37:28 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the ping!


28 posted on 07/05/2006 8:50:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
Deja vu all over again.

Goodfellow’s Bedfellows: Who’s in Bed with the Washington Post Dana Priest is Goodfellow's actual bedfellow. A long, but interesting read on the left back to when they started being at least useful idiots, if not worse. It puts the lie to their whine that only the right built up useful organizations like AEI, Heritage Foundation, etc.

New World Disorder

Human Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation in East Africa IB-2006-F • June 2006 I was going to ask, "Does anyone know how to post this PDF in HTML without going gray?" Now the site is unavailable. The URL was http://www.davekopel.org/2a/foreign/kenya-uganda.pdf

From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

29 posted on 07/05/2006 10:50:41 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

You may find this post very interesting reading. It's from a former Hollywood executive who lived with the Marines in Iraq for seven months and is in the process of making a documentary about the antics of MSM. He is going to name names.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644762/posts


30 posted on 07/05/2006 10:56:38 PM PDT by Chgogal (2006 - The US Military fights for Freedom of the Press while the NYT cowers in a traitorous pose.)
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To: neverdem
I hope the Buffalo News's treatment of Zerkle and Bellavia is not a harbinger of a return to the bad old days of the post-Vietnam mutual mistrust between the press and the military. Morally smug journalists need to remember that a free press does not exist for its own sake, but because the Founders saw it as a guardian of republican government. They should also remember that this is a responsibility the press shares with the military.

THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

James Madison


 

When the founders granted 'The Press' special dispensation, they never considered the possibility that traitors in our midst would game the system. But that is precisely what is happening today. (Hate America? Support jihad? Become a 'journalist!')

This was bound to happen.

The premise behind the First Amendment as it applies to the press--that a vigilant watchdog is necessary, sufficient--indeed, possible--to protect against man's basest instincts--is tautologically flawed: The fox guarding the White House, if you will.

Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." True in theory. True even in Lippmann's quaint mid-20th-century America, perhaps. But patently false in this postmodern era of the bubbas and the Pinches.

When a free and great society is hijacked by a seditious bunch of dysfunctional, power-hungry malcontents and elitists, it will remain neither free nor great for long. When hijacked by them in the midst of asymmetric warfare, it will soon not remain at all.

If President George W. Bush is serious about winning the War on Terror, he will aggressively pursue the enemy in our midst.

Targeting and defeating the enemy in our midst is, by far, the more difficult task and will measure Bush's resolve and courage (and his independence from the MPRDC (mutual protection racket in DC)) more than any pretty speech, more even than 'staying the course.'

READ MORE

 

IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT
(Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?)

by Mia T, 6.27.06

PINCH SULZBERGER, PEARL HARBOR + TREASON
WHY WE MUST PROSECUTE THE NEW YORK TIMES
by Mia T, 06.26.06

WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
by Mia T, December 29, 2005

The Devil & the Gray Lady
By Mark Goldblatt, June 10, 2003, 9:30 a.m.



 

31 posted on 07/06/2006 1:52:17 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: SLB; Cannoneer No. 4; Darksheare; Lion Den Dan

Bravo! Great article.

A few pings.


32 posted on 07/06/2006 2:01:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: neverdem; 2111USMC; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; AlaskaErik; ...

Ping


33 posted on 07/06/2006 2:56:53 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: neverdem

Great article and FReeper comments bump!


34 posted on 07/06/2006 3:03:06 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT


35 posted on 07/06/2006 3:06:53 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: YOUGOTIT
The press and reporters are SCUM and traitors to this great nation they want the terrorist to win and will do anything to make it so.

Thank you for your short, to-the-point assessment. I would far rather read what you have to say than any member the ENEMEDIA.

is not a harbinger of a return to the bad old days of the post-Vietnam mutual mistrust between the press and the military.

"Return" requires that one once left.

36 posted on 07/06/2006 5:41:08 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Unless people start to:
--- stick up for our troops now
--- take a stand against the likes of hanoi kerry and cut and run murtha etc
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speak out condemming the NY Times
(today's troops) will get the same treatment as so many of us did.

Thanks Tonk - needed repeating!

37 posted on 07/06/2006 5:56:21 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: freema
"They’re not Americans. They’re just journalists."
It sums up the free press syndrome rather nicely.
38 posted on 07/06/2006 7:07:14 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: neverdem
Human Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation in East Africa IB-2006-F • June 2006 I was going to ask, "Does anyone know how to post this PDF in HTML without going gray?" Now the site is unavailable. The URL was http://www.davekopel.org/2a/foreign/kenya-uganda.pdf

I found it through Google's cache in HTML: HTML link

39 posted on 07/06/2006 12:27:44 PM PDT by GummyIII
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To: Chgogal

Thanks for the link! It was one helluva read. It even brought back when I had free mail and monster run on sentences absent punctuation.


40 posted on 07/06/2006 1:48:54 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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