The betrayal of America

The Augusta Free Press ^ | February 20, 2006 | Max Friedman

[EveningStar]

This column is a rant, not a soft, cuddly piece of fluff opinion. It is going to tell the truth like you have never heard it before. To quote Jack Nicholson from the movie "A Few Good Men" - "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth" - but I'm going to give it to you anyway.

So, as your mother used to do to those of you readers who are old enough to remember, hold your nose and take your medicine, because the doctor is in, and he's operating with a chainsaw.

After 35 years in the news/journalism business, from D.C. to Vietnam, I can honestly say that most of the leading Democratic Party politicians and their far-left support groups are traitors to this country. Besides the few who are deceased or out of office, today's DP is loaded with leaders who have sold out this country to the communists, to the Islamofascists and to their egos. Others are just plain stupid, addle-brained and knee-jerk jerks.

(I'll get to the Republicans in a minute)...

[dk/coro]

Please define "responsible" as used in he context of this critique.

Seems to me "responsible" is in the eyes of the beholder (to used an old, hackneyed phrase.) *S*

[FreedomPoster]

CWII ping.

Nice rant. Worth clicking through, increasing the font size, and reading.

[PerConPat]

Now, this Friedman guy, hardly anyone is going to read this...

But, I wonder how many Americans are thinking it? Probably a lot more than many of us suspect. The traitors had a pretty easy time of it in the Vietnam era since the US homeland hadn't been attacked. Well, things are more dangerous now.

The Dims always appear to be ahead in the spinning world of politics because their policies are about what people desire- namely nirvana. However, reality can't be made to disappear; and so, the Utopians have always lost in the long run.

My comments to the Lefties, when I can't avoid the wretches, are short and sweet. They tend to run along this line:

Years of taking the easy way out in the struggle against terrorists have brought us to the point where it ultimately doesn't matter who wins this or that election; like it or not, we're in a war to the death. Temporary sidesteps to put bleeding hearts into office will only prolong the struggle.

[Garvin]

Walter Pincus
pincusw@washpost.com

Born in Brooklyn, Walter Pincus worked as a copyboy at the New York Times after graduating from Yale University. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1955 and served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Washington from 1955-1957. After his discharge, he worked on the copy desk of The Wall Street Journal's Washington edition. He left in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In 1963, he moved to the Washington Star before joining The Washington Post, where he worked from 1966 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive editor of The New Republic. He covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings and the Watergate trial, writing articles for the magazine and op-ed pieces for The Washington Post. In 1975, he returned to The Washington Post to write for the national staff of the newspaper.

When he resumed writing for the newspaper, he also was permitted to work as a part time consultant to NBC News and later CBS News, developing, writing or producing television segments for network evening news, magazine shows and hour documentaries.

Pincus has taken two 18-month sabbaticals from journalism. Both were spent directing investigations for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under its then-chairman, Sen. J. William Fulbright. The first was into foreign government lobbying (1962-63) and the second into U.S. military and security commitments abroad and their effect on U.S. foreign policy (1969-70). Both investigations led to legislation. The first in a revision of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; the second in a series of limiting amendments on defense appropriations bills that culminated in the Hatfield-McGovern legislation to end the Vietnam War.

At The Washington Post, Pincus has written about a variety of national news subjects ranging from nuclear weapons and arms control to political campaigns to the American hostages in Iran to investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch. For six years he covered the Iran-contra affair. He covered the intelligence community and its problems arising out of the case of confessed spy Aldrich H. Ames, allegations of Chinese espionage at the nuclear weapons laboratories.

Pincus has won several newspaper prizes including the George Polk Award in 1977 for stories in The Washington Post exposing the neutron warhead; the 1961 Page One award for magazine reporting in The Reporter, and a television Emmy for writing on the 1981 CBS News documentary series, Defense of the United States. In 1999 he was awarded the first Stewart Alsop Award given by the Association of Foreign Intelligence Officers for his coverage of national security affairs. In 2002 he was one of six Post reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Sent to the world, via email.

Thanks!!!! This is ONE powerful article!!

[Dog]

Guys like Seymour Hersch (NYT), Walter Pincus (WP), Dana Millbank (WP) and other hatchet-job writers have always been assigned the dirty work of exposing and destroying America's intelligence systems and internal-security operations. Somebody should look into Pincus' background around 1959. They might find something very strange.

Hey guys....lets stroll down memory lane and see what happened in 1959.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thank you for the ping, I would have missed this.

Now must return to emailing this article across the country.

[commish]

Awesome find. If your blood ain't pumpin by the time you finish this, you are not alive or just don't give a damn about this country.

[MNJohnnie]

I don't know. Have to ask the person who made the comment TO me. I find it perfectly responsible however not everyone agreed. I was merely being polite to the person who posted to me they started their comment "Well it may not be responsible...." Maybe not but it sure was fun to read.

[maggief]

Walter Pincus doesn’t joke around. He’s an investigative reporter by nature and training. He worked for Army intelligence after college and investigated foreign-government lobbying for a Senate committee before becoming a reporter. He’s been reporting on nuclear weapons since the 1970s. He’s known former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix since 1959. His sources in the intelligence and scientific communities are plentiful and deep.


http://www.washingtonian.com/inwashington/buzz/2004/081304.html

[maica]

Thanks for the ping. Friedman is the crest of the wave that will be coming forward as the democrats seek to destroy our country.

I can vouch for this:
The apologists and protectors of these countries [Soviet Union and Red China] were legion in the op-ed pages, and often on the editorial pages of the NYT and WP (as the two most influential papers in the country).

We called them anti-anti-communists, because they disliked Americans who had a beef with Communism, much more than they disliked what was happening behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain.

[Eastbound]

BTTT! (Hard copied)

[Howlin]

Your ping list reminds me, I miss ApesForEvolution. :-(

[maggief]

His longevity is such that he first met Hans Blix, who was the chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, at a conference in Ghana in 1959.

"The inspectors kept getting fed intelligence by our administration and the British and the French, and kept coming back and saying they couldn't find" the weapons, Pincus said. "I did one of the first interviews with Blix, and like everyone else he thought there would be WMDs. By January and February [of 2003], he was starting to have his own doubts. . . . What nobody talked about was how much had been destroyed," either under U.N. supervision after the Persian Gulf War or during the Clinton administration's 1998 bombing of Iraqi targets.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:H0NpWStX-z0J:occupationwatch.org/article.php%3Fid%3D6271+walter+pincus+1959+blix&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=firefox-a

[durasell]

Uh, so what's the point? More divisive stuff. He doesn't like either party or the media...a bit cranky, if you ask me.

[TheLion]

Thanks for the ping. One hell of an article!

I'll be e-mailing this to my list also.

[Americanexpat]

If he puts out a book elaborating on the claims he has made I would buy it.

[mystery-ak]

WOW...thanks Howlin...this made my day....the font is a little hard on my old eyes...LOL

[I_be_tc]

bttt

[Howlin]

I know what you're saying.........LOL.