The Daily News honors the legions of New Yorkers who have served from the start in Iraq and on the often-overlooked battlefields of Afghanistan.
Posted on 12/17/2007 4:38:34 AM PST by AliVeritas
Four back-breaking, soul-crushing, nation-rending years later, U.S. troops are at last scoring remarkable successes in Iraq - saving lives, calming strife and fostering the conditions necessary to build a self-governing country from its own rubble.
There are thousands of reasons why the picture has brightened in these past few months. One of them is Army Spec. Pierce Clouden, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, who has been stationed at Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad, since August as part of the "surge."
"Don't know when I am going home, but it's not any time soon," Clouden told us last week. "I love my job, and I reenlisted for four more years."
That's a soldier.
An American soldier.
A soldier to whom this country gratefully owes much.
As it does to all his brothers and sisters in uniform who have served from the start in Iraq and on the often-overlooked battlefields of Afghanistan.
Among those heroic volunteers are legions of New Yorkers - whom today we honor collectively as the Daily News 2007 New Yorker of the Year.
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The Daily News honors the legions of New Yorkers who have served from the start in Iraq and on the often-overlooked battlefields of Afghanistan.
Yes, the surge (i.e., fighting a war as it should be fought, with crushing numbers and power) is making it easier, but the real change is that you can’t possibly deny our successes now.
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Also, as you see from the right sidebar, this story is a miracle. Good for the Daily News.
Well said.
Hoo Rah!
Huh? Four back-breaking, soul-crushing, nation-rending years??? You've got to be kidding, unless you're talking in the summer of 1864 about the Civil War. One of the problems of this "War on Terror", I prefer the Counter-Jihad, is that it has had almost no effect on the daily lives of Americans. We're fighting this war with our pinky fingers. In fact, I can understand the people, like John Edwards, who say the War on Terror is a bumper-sticker.
The US is conducting the war on two fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq. As an American, you can live your life, as if there were no war going on and an alarming number of Americans (almost all Democrats) have come to the conclusion, that this war is not necessary and that there is no threat. If you just watch the MSM, you'd come to that conclusion.
So, the idea that this war has been "back-breaking" and "soul-crushing" and "nation-rending" is insane. It has to be the opinion of someone from a parallel reality and not from our planet Earth. I blame Bush and the Republicans for not clearing delineating what this war is, what the threat is and why we need to fight this war with one goal: Victory!
How original of you. Enjoy the company of your fellow travelers on that band wagon.
Your leaders disappoint you so you withhold your support. Weakened, they can do less to please you, thus you are even more disappointed, digruntled, disapproving. You become an active opponent. Oh, but your opposition is much more principled and helpful than those nasty 'rats. Of course it is.
Indeed.
Many thanks to all of the remarkable New Yorkers, from Bushwick to Buffalo, from Canarsie to Albany, from East New York to Rochester, who are serving this country at home and abroad.
If the nature of our enemies has not been described, if the goals of this war have not been put front and center and if the banner of victory has not been raised, who should I blame? The Democrats? The MSM? Who?
1. The word "hero" has lost it's meaning. Another word that has vanished from the english language is "shame". A true "hero" is the guy that jumped on the subway tracks to save a life. Soldiers in Iraq are "mercenaries" not "heros" They joined. Nor are firefighters heros. They joined for a rewarding job and good pension. It's their job to save lives. The subway jumper stands alone. No comparison.
2. Thanks for a great article on the TRUTH of what our coragous men and women are doing, not only in Iraq and Afghanistan, but around the world. Imagine, a newspaper actually REPORTING what's going on instead of deducing all of the ins and outs and shades of grey of every situation like it was some peyote induced vision. Some times, things are just what they are. Even Bill Clintons' cigar is, sometimes, just a cigar.
3. My fiancee works for sanitation; he has a good city job and a good pension already. But he is also a Marine reservist, and he will be in Iraq for most of next year. So there goes your "good job and pension" theory. It's ironic how some people are risking their lives to secure the rights of others to sit behind their laptops and pass judgement on them. You want to see the word "shame" resurface in the English language? Well here you go: shame on you, for your disgusting lack of appreciation. I hope you enjoy your holiday, nice and warm and cozy at home while those men and women you call "mercenaries" spend theirs halfway around the world, away from their families and loved ones, with nothing but the company of their M16's and sleeping bags to keep them warm.
4. May God bless these American heros, and may the traitors and useless idiots of Al Queda who post their drivel here wise up or leave our wonderful country. Here's a hot tip for the nay-sayers. The terrorists that our fine men and women are fighting would cut off your head if you criticized jihadis in the manner you defame Americans.
Who gains from yet one more "conservative" BDS-sufferer?
Would you like to explain this line? I would like an explanation before I jump all over it. Unless of course, you would like your fiance to pound you into the ground like a bent tent pin for calling him and his brothers "mercanaries".
I merely posted the comments that were published at the end of the article.
Jump away, but your anger is misdirected.
In the future, put comments you are quoting in italics. That is a good way to indicate that they aren't your words.
Yes master.
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