Memo to ny times eds, Marines, capital M.
What supreme fools these arrogant b*stards of the Times are.
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Still flogging the "dead horse" of Vietnam as a way of condeming the Administration's decisions in Iraq.
When will these "sidewalk experts" wake up to the reality that neither their opinions nor their approval is sought or welcome?
"After a marine stumbled across a yellow plastic bag lying in an irrigation panel with what he identified as a severed human head and intestines, Lieutenant Duarte radioed to headquarters and was told to leave it for investigation by the Iraqi police."
You gotta admire these guys. They must have very strong stomachs.
NYT so wants Iraq to be Viet Nam that they will print anything. Credibility lost. The Grey Lady is dead.
OK, one more time. The American military did not lose in Vietnam. Not only did the U.S. military win every single major engagement, Nixon's bombing of N Vietnam won a peace treaty by which the N Vietnamese withdrew from the south.
AFTER Nixon resigned over Watergate, the N Vietnamese launched a major tank assault in violation of the treaty. The American military had withdrawn and the democrats in Congress would not even permit President Ford to send equipment to our allies.
The U.S. military won in Vietnam. Vietnam was lost to a combination of liberal demmocrats and a communist invasion after we withdrew.
The American Military DID NOT LOSE THE VIEATNAM WAR!!
The Politicians and the The Civilians that bought the Line of Crap that John Kerry and Jane Fonda and the rest of the Communist Propaganda Machine was Spewing LOST that WAR!! WHy is the SOB Traitor still in Office in the Senate! Why is Jane FOnda still not in Prison for Treason!
What is this obsession with Vietnam by the NYT? If, as the story states, these guys were born AFTER the Vietnam war, I doubt these Marines gave much thought to that war unless a NYT's reporter asked them about it. I suppose the NYT and other liberal media outlets would love to revisit those glory days of Vietnam.
This Times yocal seems to really have a burr under his saddle. He is working and writing hard to see to it America withdraws. Undermining morale, noting the uncomplimentary comments of the Iraqi unit made about the Americans, and interjecting his own version of past military history which he apparently views as a defeat--seems a clear gift to the cause of our enemy.
How is it this guy did not become lost in the weeds on this mission? His writings and logic are "lost". He could easily have been overlooked, and lost, on the return trip.
Take a long hike shmuck.
Oh give me a break! The left is just getting more and more blatantly biased as the days go on. How stupid this makes them look.
So....
Since there are palm trees and armed riverboats it's Vietnam? Is that the point?
Because besides those 2 things, I'm not really getting the comparison.
New York Times reporters shouldn't have taken the brown acid at Woodstock. It was not particularly very good.
Now they're having a flashback, stuck in a drug-induced sixties quagmire.
Our “esteemed” news media is trying its best to make Iraq another Viet Nam. Our military won, but the media, led by such celebrities as Walter Cronkite eroded public support with misinformation and propaganda.
It’s easy to see that Cronkite is still the media’s icon.
Looks like the NYT would be thrilled that this experience in Iraq might bring forth another super-hero like JF'nK. (In choosing to run stories like this, they don't have to run stories about our troops' great victory in Fallujah. They never give up, do they?)