[Feiny]

This was forwarded to me by a retired Sargent Major in the Marine Corps. It had this written on the forward before he passed it to me:

Forwarded to all, NOT because this is so brilliant and insightful, maybe not even GROUND TRUTH. But this Marine Lt. and his men have earned his right in the hard way to be heard. I would ask in name of fairness that everyone help give this a wider audience and an objective ear.

Very good letter to the American people. Pass it on.

[Feiny]

Also in the email were these links from Goggle.com and found Lt Nofsinger's name on the following web pages:

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2004411113813
http://192.156.19.109/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/6B0469537EECC1A185256E7300348A6F?opendocument
http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/AA3034407948929D85256E730055E585?opendocument
http://d6664877.x102.kiwihosting.net.nz/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2934&#27659

[RightOnline]

Bless ya, Lieutenant, but if you're just now figuring out that the media are a bunch of leftist, America-hating droolers who'd like nothing more than to see you and your comrades die in the Iraqi desert.........welcome to adulthood.

[rocky88]

President Bush needs to read this aloud to the American people and the press. It's the only way.

[bellas_sister]

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[bellas_sister]

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[Peach]

Read Michael Savage's book - he's saying the exact same thing.

[rocky88]

cut and pasted to an email for my entire address book!

[GummyIII]

fyi!

[familyop]

Sure. I'll publish it to a site with moderate traffic (mostly government, military, universities,...).

...just flamed an English writer who was somewhat in favor of the "Palestinians," thinking he was a neo-Nazi. I was wrong about the neo-Nazi part, as he is against that sort of thing. But the news media in the UK are still really messed-up on the topic of Israel since the British Mandate (1920 or so through 1948, IIRC). After resolving a few things, he has shown himself to be really trying to understand the differences between what we see and what he sees. He told me that he has tactical material that we urgently need from British experiences in various colonies.

He has volunteered to donate British historical military manuals (released-to-the-public type, only) on various "imperial policing" tasks (which we probably already have), analyse the associated histories, and to give the resulting work (which we don't have) to us. ...cool? I'm going to host the material as a debate (on a low traffic and friendly traffic site with certain regions banned) before we can release it. ...gets more material, in the long run.

...any volunteer writers here who will write fairly short, cited rebuttals to points in his work? ...sorry, as we can't affort to pay and are doing this for free, ourselves.

[The Mayor]

I'm gonna read this at my Church!

[ladyinred]

At her request, I gave a list of soldiers serving in Iraq to my housekeeper who wanted to write to one herself, and give some names to her friends to do the same. Today while I was in the Antique Store working, she came in and told me that her friends refused the names of soldiers saying, "We don't support this war." My housekeeper doesn't either, but she rightly feels she should support the troops.

Later, I was relating this to a coworker and was overheard by a customer. He came up the counter and said his son was serving in Iraq for Navy Intel. He said you tell those who refuse to support this war that my son who is there said we are fighting those terrorists over there to keep them from being over here killing Americans.

The Father was very emotional and upset at what he heard saying that here his son was over there risking his very life for what seems to be ungrateful Americans and a lying media. Tears were welling up in this man's eyes as he told me how important a job our troops have in Iraq and elsewhere in the war on terror, and how the American people just don't believe it because the media is putting out outright lies to turn us against them.

Sorry for the length, but I promised this man I would put this out in cyberspace tonight after he asked me to please tell as many people as I can what his son said. I kept my promise sir, where ever you might be now.

[The Mayor]

[Quix]

THANKS TONS, SARGENT MAJOR,

HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD TO DO JUST THAT.

Among other things, I plaster my big fishing tackle I take my pottery tools to class in with great FREEREPUBLIC.COM DATA AND CARTOONS to cause the many liberals in my class to think.

If you think of any other specific things you'd like us to try, please let us know.

Blessings, prayer, support, deep affection,

[The Mayor]

PING!

[Keith]

Wow...I can't wait to send this thread to his mom...

This is one of the former students from my school (we called him RobNof) and he is not a latecomer to a proper view of the world.

This young man is everything you would want your son to be...principled, extremely intelligent, moral, brave, and God-loving.

Thanks for all the nice comments, I am sure he would be happy to hear from any freepers...add him to the canteen list...

[MHGinTN]

"If the American people believe we are failing, even if we are not, then we will ultimately fail." LtNofsinger, the democrat party has pinned their hopes for regaining control over America on the very thing you note is the ONLY way to defeat the American military efforts. For that treachery, I shall pledge to work tirelessly to bury the deceitful bastards this November. Thank you for writing home to US, Lt Nofsinger. We need to hear from you Soldiers daily, to cleanse the air of the lies spewed by the army of democrats and their media goonsquad!

[familyop]

"But the news media in the UK are still really messed-up on the topic of Israel since the British Mandate (1920 or so through 1948, IIRC)."

BTW, that comment on my part was not even fair. He did tell me that our more well known journalists (and we know who they are) show up at conferences and feed news to their news companies. If it weren't for our left/liberal journalists being the only source of what the British see of our country's security affairs, the populace over there would most likely see more of what we see. The truth (that is, what can be gleaned from perspectives of all sides for the viewers/readers to form opinions from) of today could overshadow the humiliations of yesterday.

He told me that the perception given to the UK about Iraq casualties, for example, is that we are as demoralized about "body bags" as we were during the Vietnam conflict. Our journalists are also giving UK news organizations the usual squishy relativism regarding contrived perspectives of Palestinians, Israelis, et al.

To sum it all up, British people do not often see terrorist leaders threatening us, threatening the Jews or sending their children to do their dirty work. They see reports that we're helping Israelis to oppress Palestinians. Israelis are portrayed as insidious manipulators of all.

We need to have conservative journalists going over there.

[thoughtomator]

Our armed forces have 'lost' only the media, not the American people. It's the media who are losing the American people!

[sport]

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[TEXOKIE]

This letter along with post 17 has been sent out to my email list! Thanks so much!