by Jim Kouri - NEW YORK -- Fox News and the NY Times reports that a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp -- author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns -- signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in were exaggerations and falsehoods -- fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of a source.
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Conservative Bloggers Comments:
In all fairness to the New Republic, I think they are getting a bit of a bad deal here. They printed something that they thought to be true and could not have known that the story was made up by this Army Private.
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
by Marc Sheppard
Casualties of Anti-War
August 06, 2007 01:00 PM EST
Warfare is the Way of deception – Sun Tzu
The left’s anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties early last week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value propaganda targets.
It’s no secret that Democratic strategists see failure in Iraq as a blood-soaked red carpet leading them to the White House next year. So much so that even before the president officially announced the initial 20,000 troop surge in January, opposition party leaders were scrambling to denounce it as a doomed and desperate last-gasp effort to save a failing policy.
And yet, the Dem-controlled Senate did unanimously add a fourth star to surge proponent General David Petraeus’s shoulder to confirm his selection as Iraq Multi-National-Force commander just two weeks later. And while Senate Dems expressed great confidence in the man who had co-authored the Army’s Field Manual 3-24 on Counterinsurgency a month prior, they somehow saw nothing duplicitous in their equally unanimous rejection of the surge plan it had inspired.
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http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/27092.html
Conservative Bloggers Comments:
I am not even going to have all the fun I could with this article. It would simply be too easy and way too enjoyable for this time of the morning (I actually have some other work to get done). I did enjoy the article and found it to be very interesting in the way the left is contradicting themselves in recent times. While I respect someone being against the war in Iraq (although there are some really thin reasons from some) I cannot respect those that are against the war for purely political reasons. As for those that are against war period, please see the quote at the bottom of the page by Theodore Roosevelt as to my feelings about them. At any rate, I thought the article worthy of sharing and look forward to comments on the subject.
Casualties of Anti-War
August 06, 2007 01:00 PM EST
Warfare is the Way of deception – Sun Tzu
The left’s anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties early last week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value propaganda targets.
It’s no secret that Democratic strategists see failure in Iraq as a blood-soaked red carpet leading them to the White House next year. So much so that even before the president officially announced the initial 20,000 troop surge in January, opposition party leaders were scrambling to denounce it as a doomed and desperate last-gasp effort to save a failing policy.
And yet, the Dem-controlled Senate did unanimously add a fourth star to surge proponent General David Petraeus’s shoulder to confirm his selection as Iraq Multi-National-Force commander just two weeks later. And while Senate Dems expressed great confidence in the man who had co-authored the Army’s Field Manual 3-24 on Counterinsurgency a month prior, they somehow saw nothing duplicitous in their equally unanimous rejection of the surge plan it had inspired.
Full Story:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/27092.html
Conservative Bloggers Comments:
I am not even going to have all the fun I could with this article. It would simply be too easy and way too enjoyable for this time of the morning (I actually have some other work to get done). I did enjoy the article and found it to be very interesting in the way the left is contradicting themselves in recent times. While I respect someone being against the war in Iraq (although there are some really thin reasons from some) I cannot respect those that are against the war for purely political reasons. As for those that are against war period, please see the quote at the bottom of the page by Theodore Roosevelt as to my feelings about them. At any rate, I thought the article worthy of sharing and look forward to comments on the subject.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Another Iraq Terrorist is toast...(and a few others too)
BAGHDAD — U.S. troops killed the Al Qaeda in Iraq mastermind of the bombing that destroyed the golden dome of a famed sacred Shiite shrine last year and set in motion an unrelenting cycle of sectarian bloodletting, the military said Sunday.
Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the group's Salahuddin province emir, was killed in a U.S. operation east of Samarra on Thursday, the military said He also was responsible for the June 13 bombing that toppled the Askariya shrine's twin minarets, it said.
Full Story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292150,00.html
Conservative Bloggers Comments:
Lets start with good riddance. One more terrorist on the way to Allah for reassignment. It doesn't mean the end of the war on terror are anythign like it, but it is prgress and I know it is motivating for our armed forces to be able to come up with significant names in the war against terror. I am sure this won't be the last one, but it is still good to see them dropping one at a time. Well done!
Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the group's Salahuddin province emir, was killed in a U.S. operation east of Samarra on Thursday, the military said He also was responsible for the June 13 bombing that toppled the Askariya shrine's twin minarets, it said.
Full Story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292150,00.html
Conservative Bloggers Comments:
Lets start with good riddance. One more terrorist on the way to Allah for reassignment. It doesn't mean the end of the war on terror are anythign like it, but it is prgress and I know it is motivating for our armed forces to be able to come up with significant names in the war against terror. I am sure this won't be the last one, but it is still good to see them dropping one at a time. Well done!
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