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One Marine’s View of Col. Oliver North

This is an excerpt from One Marine’s View a USMC blogger in Ramadi, Iraq:

I have a section of Marine F-18s circling like great white sharks above us ready to dive down and tear a holy shit ass into someone if needed. I’m thankful they are Marines up there, they will know how we fight and that could be the difference in tenths of seconds and again yes I’m very glad their fellow Marines. We get to our destination through a narrow empty alley. Its quiet and we quickly move past bullet ridden walls to our determined location. While conducting our business inside some of the men are outside establishing security and talking with Col Oliver North. Its weird seeing him in this shit hole but he is cool as hell and shoots the shit with they guys. He’s still a Marine and the men know it. You can’t bullshit the men they will smell a turd a mile away like the stench of other Marines who have strayed…

That last remark sounds like this Marine is making reference to a certain disingenuous ex-Marine turned congressman – Jack Murtha perhaps?

13 Dec 2005 by Islamic Terrorism Military Whacko Politics

The Birds of Baghdad

Michael Yon has a new article entitled “The Birds of Baghdad” at Michael Yon : Online Magazine. The article starts out:

I love birds. Everywhere, I notice the birds; often I hear their voices before seeing them. To my ears, the most beautiful singers are the mockingbirds. I can listen to their songs for hours and hours, especially in the springtime, when the bachelors are courting and they sing all night during the full moons. In cities, lovesick bachelors often mistake a streetlight for the full moon, and perch in a nearby tree, singing their hearts out.

Some people cannot sleep to the mockingbird, but to me there is no sweeter song. When I hear a mockingbird in the spring, I’m reminded of Louis Armstrong’s famous song, “What a Wonderful World.” On those full moon nights, I think to myself that the mockingbird is singing, I love you. Eventually, a female hears the song, and one by one, pairs form, nests are built from twigs and bits, and the circle of sweet songs continues.

Louis Armstrong’s “Wonderful World” is a favorite of Damsel’s and mine.

06 Dec 2005 by Blogosphere Islamic Terrorism Media Military Photography

Broken and Worn Out

Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year because the Army is “broken, worn out” and “living hand to mouth,” – Rep. John Murtha (D – PA)

After reading some MILBLOGs over the past week, one could conclude that the target of Rep. Murtha‘s remarks, the Army in Iraq, is alive and well, motivated, and defiant of ex-Marine Murtha’s remarks (although rare, there are a few actual ex-Marines).

My conclusion is that the only thing “broken” and “worn out” is the Democratic party who are “living hand to mouth” by spreading disinformation and smearing our men and women in uniform.

03 Dec 2005 by Congress Islamic Terrorism Media Military Whacko Politics

One Marine’s View

This Marine is in Iraq. Somewhere close to Fallujah. These are his takes on American Media and CNN in particular. If you think the media are fair and ethical about what they report in Iraq and elsewhere, think again . . .

America if you didn’t believe us in the past, this should do nothing but reinforce how we are saying that the enemy is trying to get to you all at home to go south and demand us to come home before the job is done and that the media is soooo off mark. This just proves we are making huge gains here. Why? Because the real blind sheep, the big time news agencies, bought the trick, line and sinker from the terrorists. They fell for the oldest trick in the book, taking news tips from the enemy and paying them big cash to allow camera men to tag along with them. Yea great idea because a camera might look like an RPG to a Marine far enough away. It’s a clever technique that the US invented. Counter psyops is one way to buy out ‘reliable’ sources to submit stories to the press. This is now proof of how desperate the big time news agencies are for bad gauge on the US campaign in Iraq. They have no news so they pay for whatever may come down the line. Lowering their contacts and standards they knowingly purchase news reports and film events from the enemy.

Be sure to visit One Marine’s View for the complete article.

03 Dec 2005 by Islamic Terrorism Media Military Patriotism

Views – Military vs. Media

Mona Charen has a great syndicated article today: Media don’t share Marines’ view of Iraq

Here’s a few of the high points:

One does not sense that members of the military share the belief so widespread in the press and Congress that the Iraq war is going very badly.

Certainly an understatement for those of us who bother to learn what’s going on for real.

I do know that since Vietnam, liberals have viewed every exercise of American military power (with the exception of those undertaken by Bill Clinton) as preludes to disaster. The very first question Ronald Reagan was asked at his first presidential press conference concerned El Salvador. The question: Did he think it was going to turn into another Vietnam? Democrats invoked Vietnam with every other sentence during the controversy about aiding the resistance in Nicaragua. More recently, just days into the Afghanistan war, The New York Times ran a front-page lament calling that conflict a new “quagmire.”

Liberals seem always to believe that America will lose its wars, and when it doesn’t, that it should.

Did ya notice the “Democratic exemption” afforded to Clinton? And that even success is a “quagmire” when Republicans are involved. And everything is Vietnam?

And, finally, Damsel related this incident she saw in another post to me over our chatroom session. Ms. Charon included it in her article. Let it just sink in . . .

A small group of Iraqis were turned away from [a] food distribution point, though they had been waiting in line for hours. They were given vouchers and told they could come to the front of the line the next morning when supplies would be replenished. These few unhappy souls were then besieged by press types eager to tell their story.

At the same site, the Marines had repaired an old Ferris wheel. The motor was dead, but when two Marines pushed and pulled by hand they could get the thing turning to give rides to the children of the Iraqi employees. A U.S. photographer watched impassively. “Why don’t you take a picture of this?” demanded one Marine. The photographer snorted, “That’s not my job.”

Asshole photographer. Asshole media.. Think about this before you buy the Times or tune in the “alphabet outlets” – ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS (need I go on?)

Update: Wizbang has a nice article about Joseph Lieberman’s (D – sometimes, DINO – otherwise) article encouraging President Bush to tout our successes in Iraq.

29 Nov 2005 by Islamic Terrorism Media Military

Congress Debates whether to Cut and Run

Of course, the Democrats want to slither into a corner and avoid calling the question . . .

From GOP Bloggers:

Let’s dispense with the public flogging of our troops’ efforts and put it to a vote. Either our lawmakers support the troops’ mission or they don’t. Time to go on the record instead of just pandering to the media, or playing the ambiguity game.

From Little Green Footballs: The Democrats Plan.

UPDATE: Of course, the resolution to cut and run went down to a resounding defeat.

God BLESS our men and women in the armed forces – and especially those in the Iraqi theatre. We’re truly with you people!!

18 Nov 2005 by Islamic Terrorism Whacko Politics

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