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SECRETS MEAN SECRET STUPID
WorldNetDaily ^ | November 3, 2001 | David Hackworth

Posted on 11/03/2001 8:22:45 AM PST by pattycake

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I know we all want as much news as possible, but this is the most important battle we will ever fight. I think we should be writing the news media and telling them to shut up and do their job, find other stories of interest. Keep our boys safe. Don't listen to the propaganda coming from such dumb towel heads as the Taliban. If we don't win this one we are doomed. Think about where the news is coming from. I support Bush in all regards, let him make all the decisions.

I have been reading so much crap coming out of the UK I felt I had to do something.

1 posted on 11/03/2001 8:22:45 AM PST by pattycake
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To: pattycake
Thanks. This needed to be said.....and heeded.
2 posted on 11/03/2001 8:28:12 AM PST by JD86
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Thanks I am so tired of seeing some of this childish mish mash, this is dead serious.
3 posted on 11/03/2001 8:30:26 AM PST by pattycake
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Retired Col. Ben Willis, a combat-veteran paratrooper, says, "It's the people's right to know vs. the soldier's right to live."

This says it all. Most of the "people's right to know" clammer comes from people who have never served in the military, are not related to anyone who ever served in the military and probably don't know anyone who ever served in the military. In other words, they are liberal leeches who want to enjoy the benefits of living in a free society but who, not only don't want to pay the price for liberty, denigrate and endanger those who are defending liberty for all of us.

I wish they would just shut up and let the Patriots get the job done so they can come home and be with their families too.

4 posted on 11/03/2001 8:37:14 AM PST by JD86
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If the "journalists" are so adamant about knowing what's going on over there, let them go and give us a first-hand report. Otherwise, they should just shut up!
5 posted on 11/03/2001 8:43:08 AM PST by lonestar
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I agree with your intent....but sorry to say the so-called journalists would be an even greater danger to our soldiers if they were allowed anywhere near the front lines. It is the position of the "professionals" that they are journalists first. Mike Wallace was asked if he was with the enemy getting an interview and had advance notice of an ambush on American troops, would he try to warn them? He said no, he was there as an observor and his first job was to tell the story, not to take sides. I was livid when I heard it. I can guarantee that if that occurred and it was my husband or my son who was killed as a result, that journalist would be permanently retired.
6 posted on 11/03/2001 8:51:12 AM PST by JD86
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We should call them what they really are: Treacherous! There is no valid reason to give this info out until AFTER the operation is completed.
7 posted on 11/03/2001 8:55:29 AM PST by poet
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To: JD86
I think the journalists first are really just journalist want-to-bees....
8 posted on 11/03/2001 8:55:49 AM PST by pattycake
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These people are giving AID and COMFORT to the enemy. It's making me CRAZY.........I am screaming back at the TV more than I ever was when Clinton was in office!
9 posted on 11/03/2001 8:58:27 AM PST by Howlin
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The press needs to show the same common sense and caution and stop aiding and abetting the enemy's spymasters and spin machine.

The press should be called on the carpet, but I have to think that they would not know most of this without some traitors in the military and/or the government feeding them the information.

Rumsfeld needs to find out WHO, and PROSECUTE them under the Federal laws he cited them as breaking.

10 posted on 11/03/2001 9:05:27 AM PST by Amelia
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Rumsfeld: "They are not leaks, they are federal crimes!"
11 posted on 11/03/2001 9:07:23 AM PST by ChadGore
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12 posted on 11/03/2001 9:08:19 AM PST by vannrox
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LOL....my son made me turn the television off after I kept yelling "SHUT UP"....and other things I can't print here..:)
13 posted on 11/03/2001 9:10:13 AM PST by JD86
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I think the journalists first are really just journalist want-to-bees....

unfortunately that doesn't make them any less dangerous to our troops

14 posted on 11/03/2001 9:12:12 AM PST by JD86
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Thanks Patty!

No one has the right to know about any operation/strategy/tactic or planning where our service men could be put at danger with loose lips, an article in a newspaper or a scoop on tv news!

Good security is managed on a basic concept, "The need to Know!", doctrine!

Even people with higher than top secret clearances operate under the "Need to Know" doctrine of managing secrets. Even if your ancestors came over on the May Flower and your ancestors were brave American Warriors in every war and battle, and your personal life is as clean as possible. A Top Secret Clearance only enables you to see and use what you need to know, when you need to know that data!

Most members of today's press are anti US military and probably at least 50% are anti American. Often their personal lives are/have been involved in illegal drugs with are obtained illegally and then used illegally. Most of them could not even qualify to get a simple confidential clearance based on a back ground check!

Any member of our military who leaks data that could harm our military personnel to a member of the press, should be tried and locked up for the rest of his life. If that release of data cost lives or endangered our people, he/she should be shot for treason! If that data is used by a newspaper or tv news group without checking to see if this is a serious leak, all involved should be arrested and confined until this war is over!

If we have a need to know, we will be told. If not we won't! The press has no need to know, and they should only be informed of what our military feels is now safe to be released!

15 posted on 11/03/2001 9:15:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: JD86
Clue: go to Target; buy yourself a dart gun; be sure to get the extra set of darts -- it keeps you from having to get up and go over to the TV to pick up your darts so you can shoot "them" again.

It works WONDERS for stress!

16 posted on 11/03/2001 9:18:17 AM PST by Howlin
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Most lefty journalists are enamoured with themselves. They think they have some sort of noble calling, when in reality most of what they do is serves themselves, their careers and their agendas (personal and political).

The phoney excuse of the "right to know" is horseshit, it's just delusions of grandeur. The way they dropped the Juanita Brodderick and the Chinese money story (just a few examples) like a hot potato(e) highlights my point. I guess the public doesn't have a right to know if our President was a rapist who was selling our nuclear secrets to China.

As we know, much of that technology has and will further find it's way into unstable Middle Eastern and Asian governments. You think we have problems now? Wait until Islam aquires a few megatons. Doesn't the public have a "right to know" that the Clinton administration will be directly responsible for this?

Of course not, he was their icon mascott of baby boomer liberlism who couldn't be made to look bad no matter what the cost.

BTW, Mike Wallace is a mentally unstable, leftist, suck-ass POS. Someone ought to sew his friggin mouth shut. I guess if I was an accountant dealing with Bin-Ladens laundered money I wouldn't report him because of "client confidentiality". His idiotic and outrageous statem, not unlike the statement from David Weston shows how far up their anuses these people's heads are.

These people are seriously self deluded and dangerous.

17 posted on 11/03/2001 9:20:20 AM PST by AAABEST
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To: Howlin
LOL Wonderful idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
18 posted on 11/03/2001 9:22:27 AM PST by JD86
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To: pattycake
I can remember as a child during WWII, that letters that came back home to us, had parts cut out even. If there was even a hint of where the soldier was, it was cut out of the letters. (when they came from certain areas) Everyone took it so seriously then. I was pretty young, but I remember that people really knew what was important. My father was killed, he had three brothers that did come back, but were never the same. And I had many other relatives that fought in that war too. I am so glad that none of them, that lived through it, had to worry about the press giving away things to harm them further!! And like someone said...if the press did, they would have been dealt with in a swift manor!!
19 posted on 11/03/2001 9:25:01 AM PST by Sistyelder
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To: AAABEST
These people are seriously self deluded and dangerous.

You said it much better than I did. I agree with you on every point.

20 posted on 11/03/2001 9:25:10 AM PST by JD86
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