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Prelim Analysis - Mutiny Story is Set Up - call for a Post 47
Various - Daily News, Salon, ^ | 10/17/04 | Self

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:

'All of us refused to go'

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:

Revolt in the ranks in Iraq

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.


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To: No Income Tax
"She also said that they were held under armed guard despite news reports to the contrary"

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.

141 posted on 10/17/2004 11:14:20 AM PDT by cricket (Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
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To: vaudine
Thought I read or heard the dissidents in the unit were MS guardsmen.

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....

142 posted on 10/17/2004 11:14:24 AM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: backhoe

--in case you haven't already found this thread!


143 posted on 10/17/2004 11:15:24 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers. :: Kerry promises, but Bush delivers!)
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To: Charlespg
"this story stinks to high heaven,is George soros behind this?"

Could well be that his dollars are making this all possible. In fact, most likely. . .

144 posted on 10/17/2004 11:16:39 AM PDT by cricket (Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
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To: Phsstpok

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.


145 posted on 10/17/2004 11:17:59 AM PDT by applemac_g4 (Oderint dum metuat!)
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To: Phsstpok

So are you saying that the mutiny never happened? What about the arrest of the mutineers? What about the soldiers' relatives?


146 posted on 10/17/2004 11:18:13 AM PDT by Holden Magroin
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To: MKM1960
I would probably have believed the story if members of the same group hand not completed the mission later that day. It surely doesn't past the smell test.

I though I had heard that the mission was completed by other troops from the same company. Why won't the MSM report this?

147 posted on 10/17/2004 11:19:40 AM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: MistyCA

BTW, thanx for the ping. ;o)


148 posted on 10/17/2004 11:22:52 AM PDT by GoLightly (If it doesn't kill ya, it makes ya stronger.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

Thanks!


149 posted on 10/17/2004 11:25:57 AM PDT by MistyCA (I think if you were to ask Edward's wife, who is fat, she would tell you she is being who she is...)
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To: GoLightly

Thank you for thanking me! :)


150 posted on 10/17/2004 11:27:03 AM PDT by MistyCA (I think if you were to ask Edward's wife, who is fat, she would tell you she is being who she is...)
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To: MizSterious; raybbr; No Income Tax; All

As to her daughter's advice 'call your Congressman!'. . .did she call her Congressman first or did Mama just call CNN. . .


151 posted on 10/17/2004 11:27:12 AM PDT by cricket (Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
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To: BlessedBeGod
She could have overnightted it.

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?

152 posted on 10/17/2004 11:28:41 AM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok

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.


153 posted on 10/17/2004 11:29:26 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: TN4Liberty
I assume the hyphenated on is the one that has Kerry's former buddies in charge.

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!

154 posted on 10/17/2004 11:31:54 AM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: texasbluebell
"Must be a leftist tactic."

. . .yes, and fits perfectly with the Kerry Leftists; doing now; what they did then. . .

155 posted on 10/17/2004 11:32:42 AM PDT by cricket (Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
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To: No Income Tax

>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?


156 posted on 10/17/2004 11:34:15 AM PDT by applemac_g4 (Oderint dum metuat!)
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To: cricket
perhaps it was an answering machine

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?"

157 posted on 10/17/2004 11:35:26 AM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: applemac_g4

A Lutheran church in Knoxville, Tennessee.


158 posted on 10/17/2004 11:36:09 AM PDT by No Income Tax
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To: Allosaurs_r_us

What would happen if helicopter fuel was contaminated with diesel fuel?


159 posted on 10/17/2004 11:37:26 AM PDT by GoLightly (If it doesn't kill ya, it makes ya stronger.)
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To: Phsstpok

Interesting ... bookmarked!


160 posted on 10/17/2004 11:40:35 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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