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Marine's Excellent Letter: "Blunders" are Part of War
Daily Dish ^ | 10/20/04 | U.S. Marine in Iraq

Posted on 10/20/2004 3:13:55 AM PDT by Timeout

This Marine's letter should be read or heard by every American. In only a few words, he dismantles "the Kerry Doctrine" of war (and Andrew Sullivan's whining).

I urge every one of you to get this letter out to local talk show hosts. I'm going to ask my local newspaper if they will print it in a letter-to-the-editor in my name. I'll post later today after I talk to the editor.

God bless this anonymous Marine and all the others who make these excruciating choices for our benefit.


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To: Timeout
Correct. It was always my understanding that anything in a uniform of the United States was 100% under the purview of the United States taxpayer. What can or should a soldier do or say while in uniform or while in the PAY of the taxpayers of the United States of America. Even here where I work, I cannot breach the conflict of interest rules, unless I want to start looking for another job. Of course this leads us right back to the current question of Kerry's excessively indulged misdeeds after he returned from Vietnam. That man IS a criminal and I don't know how he has stayed out of jail to this point.
21 posted on 10/20/2004 4:55:43 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: SMARTY

How has he stayed out of jail?

Other than outright spying for another country, can you name the last time an American was prosecuted for treason? I'm no expert, but I suspect it's been a long, long time.


22 posted on 10/20/2004 4:59:00 AM PDT by Timeout (Bush isn't trying to shrink the SUPPLY of gov't. He wants to shrink the DEMAND for gov't.)
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To: Timeout
Those sentiments have been expressed by some here on FR, and by people who served, no less. Very depressing.

There needs to be some very highly publicized courts martial, dishonorable discharges, and jail time. After the election.
23 posted on 10/20/2004 5:05:34 AM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: HitmanNY; Timeout
I am a civillian, but I would add that blunders are part of LIFE, too!

I'm just glad my PBP (Personal Blunder Percentage) is around the 30% range mentioned in the piece. :o)

GREAT post!

24 posted on 10/20/2004 5:06:53 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Iwo Jima

Amen. And dittos.


25 posted on 10/20/2004 5:07:03 AM PDT by Timeout (Bush isn't trying to shrink the SUPPLY of gov't. He wants to shrink the DEMAND for gov't.)
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To: Timeout

Well, wasn't there recently an officer, a general I think, who said what he shouldn't have about Islam? I guess, if you challenge the holy cow of Liberal humanitarian indignation, then your butt WILL be fried.


26 posted on 10/20/2004 5:07:39 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: Timeout

SPOT ON!!!!


27 posted on 10/20/2004 5:08:33 AM PDT by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: Timeout
Political Correctness does not win wars. Fighting men do that. If one never does anything, they make no mistakes.Example Kerry's 20 years in the senate.

Kerry is a 20/20 hindsighter!!!!!!!


28 posted on 10/20/2004 5:33:41 AM PDT by Jarhead1957 (Semper Fi)
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To: brityank

Kerry knows full well the results of his actions and I am not shy to tell the truth: JfK your name is TRAITOR. A TRAITOR in every sense of the word! He should be and will be punished.


29 posted on 10/20/2004 5:39:00 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero)
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To: Timeout

BTTT


30 posted on 10/20/2004 6:14:32 AM PDT by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: Timeout

Bump.


31 posted on 10/20/2004 6:21:26 AM PDT by jimt
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To: jimt; spodefly

Thanks for the bumps!

This is what my dad would have called a "swell letter".


32 posted on 10/20/2004 6:36:01 AM PDT by Timeout (Bush isn't trying to shrink the SUPPLY of gov't. He wants to shrink the DEMAND for gov't.)
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To: brityank

"Kerry knows exactly what he did in Paris, and those further actions he has taken over the years in Washington. With Kerry we are well on our way to pre-1066 Britain, with the Landed Gentry controlling the Serfs -- and you know where he and his ilk and we who oppose them stand in that scenario."

Man, have you got Kerry pegged!!

BTTT


33 posted on 10/20/2004 7:32:47 AM PDT by international american (Support our troops!! Send Kerry back to Bedlam,Massachusetts!!)
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To: brityank
pre-1066 Britain, with the Landed Gentry controlling the Serfs

Except these serfs are armed to the teeth.

34 posted on 10/20/2004 8:47:26 AM PDT by 11Bush
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To: 11Bush

Ever wonder why the 'Rats are so in love with "gun control"?


35 posted on 10/20/2004 9:00:27 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Timeout
I wish every TV host could be armed with that statement every time Wesley Clarke shows up to berate our soldiers for making "mistakes" in the fog of war.

There are a few Keryboard Kommandos hereabouts who could learn something from the Marine who wrote this letter.

36 posted on 10/20/2004 9:19:06 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: ArrogantBustard
No wonder at all. The only way to get me to live on my knees is to remove my ability to defend myself. Won't happen, period.

Molon Labe!

37 posted on 10/20/2004 9:36:30 AM PDT by 11Bush
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To: Timeout

"War is a series of catastrophes that result in victory."


38 posted on 10/20/2004 9:37:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: Timeout

Excellent read!


39 posted on 10/20/2004 9:59:00 AM PDT by jjames001 (Hillary...? Hitler...? Hitlery...? sKerry is a perfect leader for the DemonRats, fits right in!)
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To: cateizgr8

PING PING PING PING


40 posted on 10/20/2004 12:35:11 PM PDT by wingnutx (tanstaafl)
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