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.
Well that makes sense; they were not thrown into prison, however; and it seems already they are moving about - but no doubt; and hopefully. . .being watched and perhaps they are disarmed as well.
That was the excuse for the connection to Thompson. The details have been shifting further away from the dem(wits) original story.
Not a MS unit
No contaminated fuel
No arrests or detention
Oh, drat. I've got to start another list.
Things that have changed as the story unfolds....
--in case you haven't already found this thread!
Could well be that his dollars are making this all possible. In fact, most likely. . .
This is interesting. If true, this is the closest thing to a military coup that we've had in the United States (with soldiers deliberately playing partisan politics in an effort to unseat a sitting president). Let's hope it is as close as we ever get.
When freedom ceases to be maintained by the uniformed professional soldier, it must be restored by the citizen-soldier. Usually this occurs at great cost.
So are you saying that the mutiny never happened? What about the arrest of the mutineers? What about the soldiers' relatives?
I though I had heard that the mission was completed by other troops from the same company. Why won't the MSM report this?
BTW, thanx for the ping. ;o)
Thanks!
Thank you for thanking me! :)
As to her daughter's advice 'call your Congressman!'. . .did she call her Congressman first or did Mama just call CNN. . .
The latest variation (no doubt to try to cover up this hole in their story) is that it was faxed... but only after the Clarion Ledger (dem captive newspaper) "pointed the situation out to him."
????????!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds a bit like CBS calling Terry McAwful on the forged documents bit.
Is the Clarion Ledger, or any other MSM outlet, a player in this? Who called who when?
Interesting.
I remember reading in all the information that has come out through the Swifties, that the VVAW had a similar plot as one of their plans.
Some of the members of VVAW proposed urging soldiers in VN to refuse orders. Not sure how far it went.
Must be a leftist tactic.
Oh, yeah. Big Time!
I'll have to document which is involved in this. The article where I found the original reference mentioned "of New York." I'll have to check out both so I don't send us off on a dead end.
Particularly if it's a set up in itself to trap the Pajamahaddin!
. . .yes, and fits perfectly with the Kerry Leftists; doing now; what they did then. . .
>Did anyone else get to hear a similar story in their church
>today? Our belief is we got to hear the DNC talking points in
>church today.
Where do you go to church?
it was claimed to be a message on an answering machine. The mother didn't listen to it right away, then contacted a friend in the JAG office, who warned "don't hit an officer." Why the hell would that be his warning? How about "obey a lawful order?"
A Lutheran church in Knoxville, Tennessee.
What would happen if helicopter fuel was contaminated with diesel fuel?
Interesting ... bookmarked!
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