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7.24.07 @ 12:01AM

GLASS SLIPPERS
Re: John Tabin's Doubting Baghdad Thomas:

This sounds a lot like somebody dusted off the hit pieces written during the Vietnam war by the John-Kerryesque types to discredit the troops serving there. It plays only to the DailyKosite mentality that all American military personnel are someplace between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon man in the evolutionary order.

I've talked with a number of troops who have been and come back, and some over there now, and this really smells of the Left running recycled hit pieces to fire up their base to "support the troops" (e.g. "they're too stupid to know any better") and "bring them home now."

The only demeaning term that seems to be in use is "Haji" (i.e. one who has been on a Hajj to Mecca) for the true believers who want to see us out or more commonly Iraqis in general. Pretty tame stuff compared to "gook," "dink," "zip" and some of the less printworthy terms used in Vietnam.

What the Left will NEVER admit is that our troops in many cases are brighter than they are, better trained and thanks to Liberal largesse more considerate of the ramifications of their actions. We still fight for the most part with the gloves on, and the regular forces are extremely well disciplined (Abu Ghraib was an anomaly, not the norm, and most of the culprits were not regular Army soldiers.)

Par for the course.
-- Cookie Sewell
(Vietnam Vet -- 1970-71)
Democratic Peoples Republic of Maryland

Apparently Stephen Glass has resurfaced, and is up to his old tricks at the New Republic.

You'd think that a magazine that was so publicly humiliated for false and shoddy journalism would know better. Then again, shame is not an emotion that resonates with the left.
-- Gavin Valle
Peapack, New Jersey

JUST WAIT AMENDMENT
Re: Jennifer Rubin's Fred and the First Amendment:

Jennifer conveniently and entirely omits mention of the report that claims no First Amendment freedoms were infringed upon. (I thought about providing the link but, what for, this is obviously a hit piece.)

She also glazes over the fact that Romney's entire political life is a flip-flop and no amount of "explaining" could hope to excuse his sociopathic lying, especially when he blatantly reinvents his positions on such subjects as the Second Amendment.

She also finds no reason to stop at those examples to whisk over what Fred had said on Chris Wallace's interview three months ago as she ignored that McCain had actually said he was "happy" to infringe any rights Mc-F might have taken in order to limit political influence...Unfortunately, no one with a brain was there to ask him how George Soros managed to create a media network to perform the same exact purchase and punishment of representatives nor did Jennifer remember that it was through Fred's efforts that the SCOTUS finding was made possible in the first place.

How quickly personal political agendas shorten our long and short term memories, eh, Jennifer?
-- Chris

HEAT SHORTAGE
Re: Paul Chesser's Republican Governors Who Wilt:

Reading the article by your Paul Chesser I wonder why nobody mentions the Petition on Global Warming (see Internet) signed by over 19,000 independent scientists and professionals to the effect that any climate change occurring is not due to human activities. This petition is backed up by research performed by independent scientists, not by government hacks sponsored by the United Nations. These same government hacks, or the professors of today's hacks, 30 years ago predicted catastrophic globaloney cooling (see Newsweek of April 25, 1975), calling for massive airplane fleets to spread carbon black or soot over polar ice in order to increase heat input to the planet.
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas

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