Young Americans – The "Unwinnable" Ramadi Episodes: Series Prologue And Episode 1

Big Hollywood ^ | 1/12/2010 | Pat Dollard

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I was interviewing Michael Yon on my Blog Talk Radio show, "The Jihadi Killer Hour," and we were discussing the fact that in many ways, Ramadi was the truest analogy of Afghanistan. The Iraq war hinged entirely on whether or not Ramadi could be won, as Al Qaeda needed it to control the rest of their recently established de-facto state, the Al Anbar province of Iraq. The shorthand is that we were told Ramadi, and therefor Al Anbar, and therefore Iraq, was lost, and it was time to get the hell out of what was almost literally the new Dodge, the wild west of western Iraq. Well, due to our tenacity and solid counter-insurgency plan, we won the hearts and minds of the citizens of Ramadi, and we won the war. But not before the Democrat political establishment killed many young Americans by encouraging the enemy to keep fighting by endlessly dangling the tantalizing promise of a forced media and Congress-driven surrender. There’s not much lower humanity than a person who will cost his country a war, (and in this case, the lives of those who have died in the fight that he has worsened and prolonged), for the sake of any personal gain, be it political, financial, whatever. There are people in Washington, D.C. who are guilty of treason, plain and simple. The court and laws of common sense certainly find this to be true – - I’ll leave it to the lawyers to jerk themselves off about the standards required to meet the actual legal definition. If you’re working for a defeat of your country, you’re a traitor. More on all of this, later. . .

. . .You’ll be seeing about 3-4 episodes a month, on an essentially weekly schedule. . .

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Kudos to Breitbart for hosting all episodes of Young Americans at Big Hollywood. These are not to be missed and if you want to see the reality of US efforts, of the surge, of why and how decisions are made in combat, and the overall lessons for victory in Afghanistan, please watch these films.

I posted links on FR to the first two eps. This merits a new post given the new, high profile hosting location at BigHollywood as well as the addition of the series prologue.

These films are intense and graphic. Be forewarned, but please don't turn away.

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Pinging the lot of you as you were interested in the initial “Young Americans” documentary posts and/or were interested in Pat Dollard’s initial dispatches from Iraq articles... please spread the word. This is the documentary that he wanted to put out years ago, but Showtime wanted to muck up and slant. Americans need to see these videos... the initial delays may work for the best if this series can help inform and shape public debate over Afghanistan, especially with the current admin seeking retreat and failure.

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Not sure how I got on this ping list, but I’m glad I did. Just reading this text makes me want to read/see more from Dollard:

“But not before the Democrat political establishment killed many young Americans by encouraging the enemy to keep fighting by endlessly dangling the tantalizing promise of a forced media and Congress-driven surrender. There’s not much lower humanity than a person who will cost his country a war, (and in this case, the lives of those who have died in the fight that he has worsened and prolonged), for the sake of any personal gain, be it political, financial, whatever. There are people in Washington, D.C. who are guilty of treason, plain and simple.”

That is so damned spot-on it’s unbelievable. Why didn’t we hear stuff like that from Republican leaders, all the way up to Bush, while it was happening?

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BTTT

1counter, you may find this interesting.

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“If you’re working for a defeat of your country, you’re a traitor.”
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Ain’t no shortage of them in DC...

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“But not before the Democrat political establishment killed many young Americans by encouraging the enemy to keep fighting by endlessly dangling the tantalizing promise of a forced media and Congress-driven surrender. There’s not much lower humanity than a person who will cost his country a war, (and in this case, the lives of those who have died in the fight that he has worsened and prolonged), for the sake of any personal gain, be it political, financial, whatever. There are people in Washington, D.C. who are guilty of treason, plain and simple. The court and laws of common sense certainly find this to be true – - I’ll leave it to the lawyers to jerk themselves off about the standards required to meet the actual legal definition. If you’re working for a defeat of your country, you’re a traitor. More on all of this, later.”

Yup. Code Pink, Obama, Pelosi, Durban, Reid, etc....I hope they all rot in hell. Obama didn't even have the character to be happy that the Surge worked.