Posted on 11/27/2017 8:17:41 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Do pigs fly? Shockingly, the extremely liberal Huffington Post on Sunday actually published a story involving Republican senate nominee Judge Roy Moore of Alabama that sounded almost positive...or at least not overtly hostile. The reason seems to be that the author, Hamilton Gregory, is a Vietnam veteran and his emphasis was on the practice of fragging during that war. Moore comes into the story mainly because he was under a fragging threat due to his insistence of enforcing discipline upon his troops, many of whom were drug abusers.
The headline was "The Forgotten History Of ‘Fragging’ In Vietnam: Senate candidate Roy Moore was reportedly among those officers targeted by their own men."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
A fascinating read. Thanks for posting it.
[[Pigs Fly: HuffPo Publishes Almost Positive Story About Roy Moore]]
Yes, but the real question on everybody’s mind is, “Is there lipstick on the pig”
Roy Moore is ancient history. They are now on Michael Flynn.
I’m sure the subtext the HuffPo hoped to put across: “A man so square, everybody sent him death threats! Is that who you want as your Senator?”
The other issue was that the higher ups had absolutely no strategy for the lower officers and enlisted, many of whom had only a year to go before rotating back to the real world.
Hard to blame people who wanted to bide their time in such a situation.
Shameful though to even consider harming a superior.
I wonder if there is any of that going on now in our interminable middle east wars.
I suppose not because it is entirely volunteer forces.
If I am wrong about any of the above, please enlighten me.
Fragging was a multi-facetted policy. Some whites and blacks wanted to get rid of those they called “hardnose” lieutenants” etc.
For some it was a racial war.
For a few others, they were mental and/or on drugs. Marijuana probably local. Heroin - Red Chinese/No. Vietnamese and some possibly from Laos. (at 90%+ pure on the streets of Saigon, when I was there, it was not something made up in a Meo’s pot in the hills of Laos. It needed a sophisticated chemical lab to reduce the impurities in the original heroin sap by continually cleaning out the impurities over a period of time).
Don’t trust Alfred McCoy’s book on this subject either. Most Viet vets and civilians I know who served in Laos say he is largely full of leftist crap, but he got a book and a good speaking gig out of it for many years.
Off the top of my head, from something I read about two months ago, there were a possible 130+ cases of ‘fragging’, with about 16+ convictions, and maybe up to 42 deaths (or less) from these actions.
Somewhere on the internet are official DOD casualty statistics. Don’t believe anything from Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the old Communist Party USA front, 1950’s & 60’s, Vets for Peace, or its successor in name over time, Veterans for Peace (also heavily influenced by the Revolutionary Communist Party who took over the original VVAW in 1973 and has control of it till today - names such as Romo, Cline, Bangert, etc. will show up at www.wikipedia, www.keywiki.org, etc.
I don’t think they slipped up and let this one get by them.
I think they were hoping that their readers would take away the idea that “SEE, EVEN HIS OWN TROOPS HATED HIM”, just didn’t work the way they hoped it would.
What the Huffinpuff Post didn’t realize is that most of us weren’t drug addicted scumbags.
...”The Huffington Post somehow slipped up and let this one go by them.”...
Can we dare to think that someone at the Huffington Post is waking up and feeling reluctant to jump on the bandwagon of MSM “shock and awe” fake news and that this is their toe in the water of real and good information about someone who may have been targeted for political purposes? If so, good for them.
I don’t think HuffPo slipped up in the way we wish were true. The editor slipped up by reading only the title and assuming it was anti-Moore.
I was secretary to a man whose troops allegedly was fragged. I believed it. He was a dreadful person. His retarded 12-year-old son would come to his office and he’d make fun of him to his face. Some things were much worse and involved physical pain.
Possible, but I think they see that the smear campaign has failed and are moving on to other projects, plus, they can say they were being fair by pointing to the article, at a later date.
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