Posted on 10/17/2004 6:56:37 AM PDT by Phsstpok
The earlier thread about the October Surprise "Mutiny" hit piece on this mornings Today show prompted me to do some Googling to try to see if there were any connections of note. I felt that even the little evidence I found warranted a quick heads up and (forgive me) a separate thread as a call to action. I have no particular standing to do this, but this concerned me enough to fire off a flare.
It looks like the extreme left is orchestrating an October Surprise propaganda campaign against the war in Iraq and President Bush by staging a "mutiny" of reserve troops (appears to be 5 of 'em, when you get down to it) and playing it the way they played Abu Gharib.
First, the basic story. Reports surfaced on Friday, the 15th, that troops in Iraq had refused a "suicide mission" and were under arrest and held in close guard. A small handful of "frantic" family members began reporting "unfair practices" and "unsafe conditions," desperately calling on (the usual suspects) politicians to save their loved ones from cruel fate.
Some excerpts:
Daily News, October 17, 2004:
Calls, E-mails explain troops' alleged mutiny
The military has begun punishing some of the 19 Army reservists who balked at what they called a "suicide mission" and a "death sentence" in Iraq last week.
Some members of the South Carolina-based 343rd Quartermaster Company refused to transport fuel between the Iraqi cities of Tallil and Taji Wednesday morning, saying they had no protection for the dangerous trip.
now here's the kicker from the Daily News piece:
Citizen Soldier, a New York-based, nonprofit military rights group, has offered ... its help.
Citizen Soldier is not a "military rights group." It is a virulently anti-American and anti-Military extreme left front group. Their motto on their web site is: "Prepared to Challenge U.S. Militarism in the New Millenium."
Citizen Soldier also has close ties to John Kerry, as it's director Tod Ensign, was one of the organizers of Kerry's discredited Winter Soldier propaganda event in 1969, along with Jeremy Rifkin. This connection is the one that set off my alarm bells.
I couldn't figure the Mississippi angle till I found this in The Clarion-Ledger of Hattiesberg, Mississippi:
Platoon with Mississippi soldiers defies orders 17 soldiers placed under arrest in Iraq
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday. The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq - north of Baghdad - because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
and again, buried in the piece, is the clue to the source and spin:
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson said he plans to submit a congressional inquiry today on behalf of the Mississippi soldiers to launch an investigation into whether they are being treated improperly.
Bennie Thompson is one of the more radical members of the Black Caucus. He is a leader in the "fair play for Fidel Castro" movement in Congress. He is often the designated "hit man" in attacking minority members of the Bush Administration, particularly Dr. Condoleezza Rice. He was a rabid Deaniac, but shifted his loyalty to Kerry when Dean fell on his own scream.
The Salon hit piece ties this squarely to the Washington/DNC/Carville slime machine:
The inside story of the Army platoon that refused to carry out a "death sentence" mission.
is by Mary Jocoby, Salon's Washington Correspondent. Jacoby is one of Salon's "reliable" writers who can always be counted on to spew hate at George Bush, in particular, and Republicans in general. She rates Seymour Hersh as a "crack investigative reporter" and has authored anti-Bush hit pieces such as "The Dunce," "George W. Bush's Missing Year" and "Swaggering toward Election Day."
What is truly amazing about these pieces on the "mutiny" is that they appear to have been ready to go before the incident took place. These folks had their stories straight and remarkably consistent in record time, even before the news had reached the regular news cycle on CNN, who jumped on this in record time.
Folks, this is a set up. But it's a set up that, like many of the Kerry camps dirty tricks, they've had to fire off prematurely to try to distract the news media from a Kerry gaffe. Pulling the trigger on this was timed to try and keep the disastrous Mary Cheney attack off of the Sunday morning talk shows. These soldiers are pawns who were told that they would be used to unseat a sitting President (with undoubted hints of vast rewards from a Kerry administration) but they are being sacrificed, just like pushing a pawn, to protect the dims' king.
I noticed. . .but they are keeping a 'level head' so far. . .
They would not go there regardless of the connections. . .
She could have overnightted it.
I just think that was a few hormonal 'Michael Moore types' having their way - in the halls of AbuGrahib. . .
This story needs to be dealt with - investigated quickly. . .
Thanks for your info. . .'yikes' on that title!.
Keeping an open mind as well; but am wincing at the Newsweek/Times et al stories being pounded out as we speak.
We have all been waiting for the bigger shoe to drop. . .and maybe it just has.
I don't know if anyone has posted this, but there is a big difference between http://www.citizensoldier.org and http://www.citizen-soldier.org . I assume the hyphenated on is the one that has Kerry's former buddies in charge.
Even Zell Miller carried water for Bill Clinton for two terms.. and should be watched closely.. you can take the dimocrat from the party but it's almost impossible to remove the dimocrat from the dumbocrat... spending any significant amount of time in the dimocrat party shows you could care less about America.. almost ALL neo-cons are ex-dimocrats..
Theres a civil war brewing, if not, there SHOULD BE...
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
It's unraveling now.
Damn Bennie Thompson.
I'll be in Vicksburg one week from today,
and by God, on Monday morning, I am going
to get a HUGE LeSeuer sign for my corner lot!
This is total B.S. This guy is in maintenance. He knows better! Any mechanic will tell you all of these vehicles have fuel filters. Anyone who has ever worked with diesel (which is very close to jet fuel or kerosene) knows water is commonly filtered out. If there is too much water the vehicle will "run out of gas". This would happen before take-off if it is "contaminated" to the extent he seems to be eluding to. Also if it had been rejected before it is more than likely they did not have the means to filter it at that particular installation. Perhaps they did have the capability where they were ordered to deliver it. I doubt it was throw-away, that makes no sense.
I wondered why this would be taped; but then. . .maybe her family always tapes her calls - or perhaps it was an answering machine. Missed the beginning; but the Military has stated; they are not being held as prisoners. . .at least, now.
Anyone hear the call or know the explanation of why they had this available?
I agree. They're amateurs.
Supposedly it had been left on the family's answering machine. Mama must not have been home.
Excellent. I hope people who can, run with this. I am just an ignoramus, but as soon as I read the first article about this, alarm bells rang. It stinks.
ThugDemocrats are just Evil.
Bump!
I agree that one of them will spill the beans. My guess is that not all of them were as gung-ho for this rebellion as the ringleaders, and will be only slightly reluctant to tell what they know.
No question; and no doubt these folks are implementing first level revolutionary tactics to accomplish their goal.
The 'end justifies the means. . .' Period.
Thanks and 'for sure'. . .
Mama was home all right. It had to be on tape for this to work. I can hear mama now. "You go, girl."
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