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2005-10-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There is a really good book out, "Imperial Grunts," by Robert Kaplan that expands on this impressive article.

Kaplan recaps his experiences with those who truly represent the very best implementers of US policy and Democracy. The grunts on the ground in faraway places like Columbia, Mongolia, etc.

This generation does us all proud. God bless them all.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-10 01:20|| 2005-10-10 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 This generation does us all proud. God bless them all. dittos.

Stryker Team, 6-7, Mosul
Stryker Team, 6-7 Aviation Driver, Mosul
..and some of the old farts ain't too shabby either.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-10 02:09|| 2005-10-10 02:09|| Front Page Top

#3 "Hundreds of gripping stories of valor emerged that would have been publicized in World War II. Although there are far more heroes than louts in the ranks, stories of the abuses at Abu Ghraib and now at Fallujah vastly outnumber stories of heroism and sacrifice."

This, coming from one of the prime asshole pseudo-news rags on the planet indisputably guilty of the charge, is just precious. Why didn't you publish the stories of heroism, day in, day out? Because you were too busy buying and selling your own agenda bullshit, demonizing the best of America's best. Because you are history's fools and yesterday's news. Because you are Kool Aid pushers, Moonbat wetnurses, Tranzi whores, and socialist assholes.

Re: Abu BS... To make such a statement, one that you helped make into MSM "truth", a meme for all time among the morons, is to imply what, WaPo? You were just kidding with all the Abu Ghraib BS you published, day after bleeding day, along with your piranha peers? Liars. Cowards. Fools. Tools.

No. Absolutely not. You don't get to come back over the line and disingenuously pretend you weren't in on the fuckwit feeding frenzy. You don't get to put on your innocent clothes now and rejoin the honest people. You're fucked.

I hope you go under and drag every fucking investor and staffer down with you into oblivion. I hope you all end up sleeping on steam grates and fighting over refrigerator boxes. I hope you find the soup kitchens funded by decent Americans closed to you. I hope you find only broken shards of mirrors to look upon your vicious cowardice and self-loathing visages. I hope you die painful, ugly, miserable deaths - utterly alone with the knowledge you deserve none of the freedoms these people died to guarantee to Americans and others. You are separate from us. You are a tumor upon the body of Freedom. You are unworthy of any forgiveness, of any salvation, of any kindness. Your reward lies in Dante's Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell where the "Sowers of Discord and Schism" are continually wounded by a demon with a sword.

Fuck off. Die, already.

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 02:38|| 2005-10-10 02:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The writer, a former Marine and former assistant secretary of defense, is the author of "No True Glory: A Firsthand Account of the Battle for Fallujah."

But while the Washington Post is publishing this presumably to "provide balance", and deserves all of .com's colourful invective, the author is one of the good guys.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 06:41|| 2005-10-10 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 TS -- you are spot on, the WaPo edition in which this rose was plucked was heavily embedded with thorns. WaPo "balance" ratio is 100 thorns to 1 rose.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-10 08:59|| 2005-10-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The morning after Clark testified to the 9/11 Commission, Clark was to be interviewed live by Good Morning America. So, where did Clarke position himself for the interview?

Across the street from Ground Zero. This guy is an absolute loser.

Com -- not disagreeing with you comments, just adding to them. It is disgusting to see MSM portray Clarke as some terrorist intellect, giving him a spotlight on ABC News and publishing his "hit pieces" on current counter terrorism activities.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-10 09:08|| 2005-10-10 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 .com, I'm requesting permission to re-post your rant at my website, with full credit.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-10-10 09:42|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-10-10 09:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Good comments, folks. Yes, tw - I know he's a good guy... so what's he doing writing articles for the enemy, I wonder...

I was thinking about the NYT article on Clarke... mulling how the NYT came to allow Dickie boy to be so deservedly trashed, fair 'n square... And when I hit this article, well, it crystallized for me.

Good guys should not help these cretins come home. It's a cynical and disingenuous lie - not the article, but that they publish it. Fuck 'em.

By Christmas, 2001, the NYT had dropped all pretense of giving a shit about America or 9/11. The WaPo was close behind. For 4 long years they've given aid and comfort to America's enemies, both foreign and domestic, and to slightly lesser evils, such as simplisme Tranzis, MultiCulti Moral Equivalencers and every other deviant bunch of asstards and criminal yahoos in the zoo.

I condemn them to the fires of The Inferno. They shall not return to the fold. They have done more damage to this country than anyone else on the planet. Just the hurt and demoralization dealt out to our troops is enough, add in all the rest and they deserve whatever perdition we can cook up for them. Enough. Long ago, enough.

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 09:54|| 2005-10-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Ptah - of course, heh. :) Them be everybody's words - that agree with the sentiment, anyway.

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 10:15|| 2005-10-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#10 .com, I'm requesting permission to memorize your rant.

By the way, IIRC correctly Bing West's son Owen was a recon Marine in OIF.

Posted by Matt 2005-10-10 12:00|| 2005-10-10 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Matt :)

How are you, brother? Where are you? Family intact? Figured out what your future holds? I come and go these days, so I haven't crossed paths with you for awhile and I've been wondering. Give us an update, if you can...

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 12:11|| 2005-10-10 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 .com, thanks for asking. In a nutshell, I'm OK, my family's OK, and I'm working at our branch office in Jackson, MS. The bad news is that my house flooded big-time. As for the future -- I just dunno at this point.

Posted by Matt 2005-10-10 12:17|| 2005-10-10 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe he's trying to proselytize to the infidels, .com. Every pair of eyes from which the scales fall means that much longer until the Democrats come back to power... and that much less in revenue for the Washington Post and their fellow travellers. ;-)

(Really gorgeous rant, by the way. Today seems to be the day for literary achievement!)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 12:35|| 2005-10-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Matt - Excellent news regards the family. I'm very sorry for your material losses, however. Do you think you'll go back to NO, assuming that option becomes available? It's impossible to wear your shoes, friend. My best wishes and regards to you and yours.

tw - I'm not interested in helping enemies survive. Certainly the good guy would be welcome in other venues, such as NYPost, WashTimes, NRO or FrontPageMag. We know WaPo is a bunch of cynical shits, so why help them? I wanna see 'em fold. :)

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 12:56|| 2005-10-10 12:56|| Front Page Top

#15 .com, New Orleans is an equation with about 10,000 variables right now. If the city looked about the way it did when I was growing up there I'd move back in a heartbeat.

Posted by Matt 2005-10-10 14:23|| 2005-10-10 14:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Matt -- Looks like some openings on the NO police department, provided you can dodge a Hurricane by escaping with a stolen Cadi.

Or, you could brush your teeth and run for Mayor Noggin's job. He's off to Dallas once the Fed's mega-$$ bucks are spent.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-10 17:02|| 2005-10-10 17:02|| Front Page Top

#17 If I was younger I move to New Orleans in a heartbeat. Huge labour shortage and a chance to build something new.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-10 17:51|| 2005-10-10 17:51|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm not interested in helping enemies survive.

My words must have been unclear. I meant that any WaPost readers who read this op-ed and are touched by the statements, must subsequently come to disbelieve the normal slant of the Post and others like it. And once they disbelieve, why would they keep up the subscription?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 19:06|| 2005-10-10 19:06|| Front Page Top

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