From an Army Rangers mouth about Iraq (Must Listen)

YouTube ^ | April 30, 2007 | Unknown Army Ranger (2nd Tour in Iraq)

[Chgogal]

"If they bring us home....those guys they died for nothing"

[rlmorel]

That was one of the most intense and passionate exhortations I have ever heard.

Makes me ashamed of our politicians for doing what they are.

[kerryusama04]

That’s a great piece. I started to read the posts below the vid and had to stop from infuriation. Unfortunately, there is a segment in the population who will never accept that our mission is noble. I had a conversation with a closet lib the other day that blew my mind. I cited the fact that the whole “we support the troops but not the war” slogan was getting on my nerves because the war has gone on so long that most everyone serving has either re-enlisted or joined after it broke out. Add to the fact that nobody is coming home talking about “razing villages reminiscent of Ghengis Khan” and if you have an iota of respect for the military, you need to support the mission. How could someone say they support the troops, but loathe the mission they continue to volunteer for? His response was to analogize his job with being a grunt and say they don’t quit because they need the healthcare and pay. It was absolutely reprehensible. I almost tore my clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. He asked me why I thought people volunteered to go to hell and when I replied “to keep hell from coming here”, he and one of his coworkers actually laughed out loud. They don’t think the jihadis want to hit us - they actually believe that if we leave Iraq all will be well. It’s like 9/11 never happened. I’m with this Ranger. I’ll support the (not “this” but “the”) war vocally until I die. This Ranger and and my relatives serving, deserve no less. It is the least I can do.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[trussell]

Please, would you ping this to the attention of the Canteen crew?

It would be my pleasure MNJohnnie

[MizSterious]

I’ve had that experience too. Except instead of thinking they’re stupid, I tend to think they’re stark, raving mad.

[Archer24]

Excellent!!!
God bless all our troops.

[MizSterious]

Radigan’s Raiders pinglist—if you want on or off, please let me know via freepmail.

[MNJohnnie]

It is utterly infuriating to listen to weepy loser Liberals in the Junk Media, and else where, whine about how they are "tired of the war". Tired? What have they got to be tired about? They know NO one in the military. They know NO one in Iraq. They never done anything more difficult in their life then walking in some stupid Anti American march!

In fact, the whole war is one of total irrelevance to their personal life. The ONLY reason they "care" about Iraq is because the US Al Qeda PR squad in the US "News Media", egged on by a criminally irresponsible click of Democrat Party politicians, continually screams at them to worry about it! Note to all the Leftist whiners. Go back to worrying about the whales or the polar bears or what ever and simply GET out of our way. Iraq is a matter of supreme irrelevance to 99% of the American people. So simply quit worrying about it while far far far better people get on with cleaning up the mess Cold War era politics created in the Middle East.

[MizSterious]

The libs don’t care a fig about the war, except as a blunt instrument to use against this administration. They don’t care about the war, they don’t care about how many have died to fight it, how many innocents have been massacred by terrorists, they don’t care about any of it. They only care about their hatred of this administration. The rest of it is just useful for propaganda.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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http://www.Freerepublic.com/~aloharonnie/

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[Just Lori]

Very good! For the life of me I can’t understand why the liberals are trying to kill our own people! They claim to care so much about the poor and the downtrodden, yet they don’t want to allow our guys to raise those people up! It’s mind boggling.

[SquirrelKing]

Great post - thanx for the PING.

The comments on the vid are interesting. It's fascinating to see the leftists wiggle their way past him - part BDS, part bluster, all yellow BS.

God bless this man, God bless our troops. Let him finish his mission.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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..MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts

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[Calpernia]

I hope justice is served this time.

[bnelson44]

YOUR ACTION REQUESTED BY SOME TROOPS IN IRAQ: Please spread the word about an appeal for redress that people in the military can sign to show support for the mission. They are having problems getting the word out:

www.appealforcourage.org

If you haven't seen this yet: A campaign by active-duty troops asking Congress to drop plans for a withdrawal from Iraq. Lt. Jason Nichols, a 33-year-old naval projects officer who has been in Baghdad since mid-January, said the goal is to keep lawmakers focused on letting the military finish its mission in Iraq, and not prematurely declare failure

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7392499685041821301&hl=en

Petitions for civilians:
http://www.townhall.com/ref/surrender
http://www.gopetition.com/online/11574.html

[StarCMC]

Thank you to everyone who pinged me here.

God bless our troops. And God hold us responsible for our lack of support.

[gcruse]

“I then remembered that old saying about arguing with stupid people and just walked away.”

Yeah, you really refuted that guy, didn’t you? LOL

[SandRat]

No it isn’t really, Read the book Animal Farm. The DemonRATS are the PIGS. The DemonRats believe that they have a right to rule and rule as they see fit and we the peons, can’t question them.

[bnelson44]

An Appeal for Courage
by Lt. Jason Nichols

We can win in Iraq if we have the courage to finish the mission.

Recently a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle called me here in Baghdad and asked why the active duty military wasn’t opposing the war in Iraq in numbers similar to those that opposed the war in Vietnam. Not surprisingly, he didn’t print my answer.

He was asking my opinion as a co-founder of AppealForCourage.org, an ongoing effort to allow currently serving military personnel to send a message to Congress asking them to support victory in Iraq. I do not speak as a representative of the Defense Department or the Navy but simply as an individual and on behalf of the signers of the Appeal with respect to the wording of the Appeal. Nevertheless my answer was a military answer. It was a ‘root cause’; a term the military commonly uses to describe the source of an event, a foundation that must be identified before further action is taken. My answer was that the military overwhelmingly wants to win the war, and believes we can. Hence we don’t oppose it.

The primary reason we support the war is because we believe it is just and right, and we were given a mission to win it. The mission was clearly stated: overthrow Saddam and install an independent, stable, democratic government in Iraq. The military necessity was obvious after 9/11, the President said it was required and the Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of it. We were given a mission and the means to carry it out. The military is highly mission-oriented. It is ingrained in us during our training that excuses and rationalizing failure are not ‘the military way’. We must face reality and accomplish the mission within that framework.

Iraqi democracy is a mission we know we can accomplish, given time. The honest reality is that we are winning the war in Iraq. Both militarily and politically we are progressing at the pace expected, though not as well as the most idealistic hopes of a cakewalk nor as badly as the most dire predictions of quagmire. al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is terrified of a democratic country in their midst, and is still brutally attacking Iraqi civilians. But we are implementing a steady buildup of Iraqi military and police and seeing the rewards of having worked with the Iraqis in a cooperative way, often at increased risked to our soldiers. Simultaneously the extremists are learning the consequences of having bombed the Iraqi civilians for the past 4 years. Sunni Sheiks are joining together to fight them, proving AQI’s strategy is a short term one that is unsustainable during years of political progress.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20475

[Valin]

Bump for later. Thanks