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| Remembering USS Cole attack--fourth anniversary today |
| 2004-10-12 |
| Hat tip: James at Hell in a Handbasket. These are my own words: Four years ago today the USS Cole (DDG 67) was attacked while refueling in Aden Harbor, Yemen, taking the lives of 17 sailors and wounding another 37 and leaving a 40' x 60' gash in the hull. As we honor the memory and sacrifice of our sailors, let us also not forget that this was just another pre-9/11 "nuisance" that John Kerry would like us to return to. Additionally, take a moment to read the biography of Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, USMC, the bugler--yes, bugler--posthumously awarded the MOH for his actions at Iwo Jima, and for whom the Cole is named. |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #3 "25 days before the last Presidential election when Bush said: âI hope that we can gather enough intelligence to figure out who did the act [to kill 17 Americanâs on the USS Cole] and take the necessary action. There must be a consequence.â (Page 201..911 Report)." Yet, when we found out who was responsible for the USS Cole this President had a failure of leadership. One prior Clinton administration holdover urged âThe fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding from the attack.â Report 212. But "Exchanges with the President, between the President and Tenet [CIA Director] and between herself {Condilezza Rice] and Powell and Rumsfield âhad produced a consensus that âtit-for-tatâ responses were likely to be counterproductive.â And so my friendsâ¦al Qaeda was permitted to attack our Country on 9-11. without interference from the Bush Administration |
| Posted by: Ebbavith Glavirt2777 2004-10-30 8:58:20 PM |
| #2 funny you should mention Iwo Jima ... ol' Zell Miller writing on that subject today: Zell Miller_Wash Times |
| Posted by: Anonymous5970 2004-10-12 4:53:59 PM |
| #1 Can you imagine what today's MSM would have reported about Iwo Jima? If they thought Abu Ghraib was big stuff, their knickers would have twisted right off reading the Marines' after action reports. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-10-12 11:31:08 AM |