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The Left's Definition of a 'Hero' By Michelle Malkin CNSNews.com Commentary February 07, 2007 Angry, left-wing Washington Post blogger William Arkin considers American troops in Iraq who believe in their mission "mercenaries" who are "naive" and should be thankful they haven't been spit upon yet. Curdled Democrat Sen. John Kerry thinks those soldiers, who volunteer for service, didn't "make an effort to be smart" and are "stuck in Iraq" because of their intellectual deficiencies. At the last anti-war spasm in Washington, liberal peace-lovers vandalized a military recruitment office -- repeating an act of destruction taken by rock-wielding thugs across college...

I was curious as to how Neal Gabler would opine. Surely, there was no way the resident aggressive lefty at Fox News Watch would defend the odious statements of William Arkin, who in this column libeled the US military as "mercenaries" and claimed we treat them to "obscene amenities." As it turns out, Gabler didn't, even going so far as to call Arkin's statements "idiotic." However . . . that doesn't mean that Gabler didn't find something to complain about in the way conservatives reacted to the column. Kvetched Neal: "There are literally tens of millions of bloggers out...

Excellent piece showing that William Arkin sliming of the military is just the latest in a long line of liberal media types sliming the military Here is the link if it doesn't work and sometimes it does not cut and paste one of these two url's into your browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17827093&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=580169&rfi=6 http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17827043&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Anti-war sentiment is moving dangerously close to a place America must never go — putting our anger on the soldiers that have been fighting the four-year Iraq war. Some of this takes the form of minimizing what happened the last time American GIs returned from an unpopular war — Vietnam. Liberal commentators, such as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, are diminishing the hostile treatment Vietnam veterans garnered when they returned from Vietnam. On the air on Thursday, Mr. Olbermann disparaged the old report of Vietnam veterans being spit upon when they came home: "And, oh, by the way, there is not one...

This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," February 5, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Continuing now with our lead story. A vicious attack on the U.S. military by NBC News analyst William Arkin. That report appeared on "The Washington Post" website. By the way, we expect blow back from NBC News and from some committed left wing media writers. We'll keep you posted. I'm sure that's going to happen. With us now, FOX News analyst Kirsten Powers here in the studio. And in Washington, Michelle Malkin. Now NBC News is going to say,...

On January 30, 2007, William M. Arkin wrote a sickening commentary titled “The Troops Also Need to Support the American People”, which appears on the Washington Post’s website. In this disgusting piece, Arkin ponders the thoughts and obvious dismay of our American heroes – the troops in battle in Iraq – in an NBC Nightly News story in which soldiers from Ft. Lewis, Washington, now stationed in Iraq, expressed frustration at the American media, and the left-wing and anti-American protesters hell-bent on undermining their life-or-death mission. Arkin, himself frustrated with the news that these valiant heroes clearly disapprove of his...

In compliance with the Fairness Doctrine and other proposed federal rules aimed at balancing online media opinions, I am introducing Iowahawk's new "Equal Time" feature. From time to time, I will be opening these pages to those with opposing viewpoints, where we will be debating the various top issues of the day. Please welcome today's guest dissenter, retired US Marine Corps LTC Mike Williams, as we debate today's Equal Time question: "Should Washington Post Military Analyst William Arkin Be Beaten Like the Repulsive Sack of Sh*t He Is?" The Iowahawk View Washington Post Military Affairs correspondent William Arkin recently stirred...

Update: Allah links to Johnny Dollar's audio of Arkin on John Gibson's radio show. You really have to listen the whole thing as Arkin gets shriekier and shriekier, but here's my rough transcript of the exchange half-way through the segment... GIBSON: The general tone of this piece is that the troops owe us, that we continue to support them through the war that they are losing. ARKIN: Oh, come on, John, that's your characterization! (Voice rising) I don't say they owe us anything! I just say that when the troops start to express their dissatisfaction with the American public, they...

Half-serious warning: those with heart conditions are advised to have their medications handy when reading this. With Democrats in congressional power, are leftists feeling suddenly empowered to express formerly taboo views? First came a column in the Los Angeles Times arguing we have overreacted to 9-11. Now comes Washington Post columnist William Arkin to express contempt for our troops and question how much we really owe them after all. Excerpts from The Troops Also Need to Support the American People: "I've been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq last Friday in which a number of soldiers expressed...

...is that a reporter might say what he actually thinks before an editor catches up with him and makes him stop. A case in point: William Arkin writes on "national and homeland security" for the Washington Post. Yesterday morning, in his blog titled (Early Warning) on the Post's website, Arkin wrote a post that has to be read to be believed. Titled "The Troops Also Need to Support the American People," the post comments on an NBC program in which soldiers expressed dismay at the lack of support for their mission manifested by some people back home. Arkin appears to...

Top News Story Financial Times WASHINGTON/TEHRAN: The US has prepared several plans to attack Iran since 2003, a former intelligence expert with the US military reported Sunday in the Washington Post. According to security analyst William Arkin, the US Central Command has been devising war scenarios with Iran at least since May 2003, shortly after the US-led invasion of neighbouring Iraq. One of the possible campaigns, entitled TIRANNT (theatre Iran near term) dealt with clash of US and Iranian ground troops, taking into account US experiences in its recent Iraq invasion, Arkin said. In addition, the US drew up...

Tired of seeing the New York Times getting all the headlines with their treason, the Washington Post has decided to join in the fun of betraying its country's most vital national secrets.This self-styled military expert, William Arkin, must surely be aware it is a gross and illegal violation of national security to release code names. (Ask Kissinger about "Umbra.") Of course that didn't stop him from writing a book that does just that a year ago, either.In fact, Mr. Arkin considers himself more of an activist than a journalist. (Not that there is any discernible difference in our one party...

Code word compromise The Joint Staff at the Pentagon last week ordered an investigation into the compromise of several programs that were revealed in a book by author William Arkin. According to a Jan. 25 cable from the Joint Staff to 14 military units, most of them involved in special operations, Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has asked for an "opsec" or operational security assessment of possible national security damage to special access programs and other "operational compromises" in the book, "Code Names." The U.S. Special Operations Command will be the lead...

<p>WASHINGTON - If you think of a hit television series when you read the words ''West Wing,'' then you probably don't have to worry about your next security clearance polygraph.</p> <p>But if it brings to mind secret U.S. bases in Jordan, you might have a problem if you have read William Arkin's new book, which amounts to the sort of unauthorized dump of classified information you would have to report to protect your clearance.</p>