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| Active duty military men respond to Harry Reid |
| 2007-04-20 |
| Michelle Malkin is collecting letters to Sen. Harry Reid. Here's one: Senator Reid: When you say we've lost in Iraq, I don't think you understand the effect of your words. The Iraqis I speak with are the good guys here, fighting to build a stable government. They hear what you say, but they don't understand it. They don't know about the political game, they don't know about a Presidential veto, and they don't know about party politics. But they do know that if they help us, they are noticed by terrorists and extremists. They decide to help us if they think we can protect them from those terrorists. They tell us where caches of weapons are hidden. They call and report small groups of men who are strangers to the neighborhood, men that look the same to us, but are obvious to them as a foreign suicide cell. To be brief, your words are killing us. Your statements make the Iraqis afraid to help us for fear we'll leave them unprotected in the future. They don't report a cache, and its weapons blow up my friends in a convoy. They don't report a foreign fighter, and that fighter sends a mortar onto my base. Your statements are noticed, and they have an effect. Finally, you are mistaken when you say we are losing. We are winning, I see it every day. However, we will win with fewer casualties if you help us. Will you? Respectfully, LT Jason Nichols, USN MNF-I, Baghdad More at the link, and a link there to still more. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #12 As said times before, post 9-11 many Net-savy mil servicemembers professed to have no probs iff Dubya-USA's strategy in ME is to empower pro-democracy movements or Govts in Rogue nations while destroying Radical Islam on battleground of Amer's choosing. This included getting rid of Saddam. What the servicemembers don't want are THE REASONS = SPONSORS OF ISLAMIST TERROR NOT BEING DEALT WITH OR RESOLVED. The 2006 elex was a VOTE TO CHANGE LEADERS-STRATEGIES FOR VICTORY, NOT for defeat, pull-out, withdrawal, dis-engagement or redeployment, etc, i.e WAS A VOTE TO DEFEAT IFF NOT KILL RADICAL ISLAM ONCE AND FOR ALL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Dubya is entrenching US influence + pro-democracy/capitalism movements all around Radical Iran, the world-acknowledged main sponsor of overt Muslim Terror, besides the ME + Muslim World, and all but officially daring Moud to do something, "to make Dubya's day" as Dirt Harry would say, to attack the USA + US Allies in ME-World. It is for Moud-Mullahs =Radical Iran to decide how to react, i.e. whether to save their own local power for as long as possible, versus to save = empower Radical Islam's agenda by attacking Amer wid new 9-11 or greater Terror events, i.e. "save" the Islamist agenda from entrenching, "Creeping America" by throwing the whole world into war and geopol chaos. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-20 23:50 |
| #11 Mike, good post. LT Nichols makes his points while maintaining his dignity. I would have loaded my letter with many *&%^&XX |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-04-20 21:13 |
| #10 Where did you come up with the 'Ike gave the Bay of Pigs problem to JFK', DB? Cuban Ex-Pats had the most to do with this one. (And the bad advice was mostly from his brother Robert.) |
| Posted by: Slats Chaitch4570 2007-04-20 20:07 |
| #9 To be really fair to J. F. Kennedy, he inherited the Bay of Pigs from the Eisenhower Administration. He was a new, young President who listened to bad advice from his advisers. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-04-20 18:36 |
| #8 What editor who is not an utter fool would reject publishing such letters? NYT, WaPo, LAT, etc. Oh, wait, you wrote who isn't an utter fool. My bad. Carry on. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-20 17:47 |
| #7 Every military service member needs to write to their hometown newspapers. Entire units need to sit down and compose letters home. What editor who is not an utter fool would reject publishing such letters? Letters signed by 20 or 30 soldiers or Marines are almost guaranteed to be published and prominently. And yes, such letters to the editor are read by the public. And the response to such letter would cause any politician criticized to tremble about the knees. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-20 16:11 |
| #6 Right, Mossilini. It might have been better if we had stayed out of that one especially considering all the gratitude we get from the French. The Germans went mad after WWI and might not have if we hadn't forced French terms on them. The French might even be nicer today if more of them were speaking German. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-20 14:49 |
| #5 You forgot WW-I, Wilson, DEM. Growing up in the '50s the Dems were known as the War Party. |
| Posted by: Uneasing Mussolini6149 2007-04-20 13:09 |
| #4 Ooops. I forgot the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy, DEM. Kennedy's fans credit him with averting nuclear holocaust during the Cuban Missile Crisis but what if he'd been a little more decisive at the Bay of Pigs? The classic example is Roosevelt, however revered he may be, who did nothing while Hitler rearmed Germany in violation of treaties signed after WWI. Blame Chamberlain if you want but Roosevelt stood by and did nothing. He could have nipped WWII in the bud. While it's easy to say such things with the advantage of hindsight, the disturbing part is that it seems to be a Democrat tradition and they look to be carrying on with it in regards to Iran. We could nip that situation in the bud with decisive action now but the question is, will we? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-20 12:51 |
| #3 Great. Nobody likes me anymore. So are you happy now, Nancy? Can I have my testicles back? Please? |
| Posted by: Senator Harry Reid 2007-04-20 12:42 |
| #2 Reid knows the effect of his words. He doesn't care. His strategy is to make George Bush look bad regardless of any negative consequences in Iraq or anywhere else as long as he can gain some kind of political advantage from it. He is a reckless and dangerous man but that is typical of the Democrat party. The irony is that Democrats have always been far more likely to get us involved in wars partly because they encourage our enemies with their witlessness but partly because they don't care who dies. Check it out: WWII, Roosevelt, DEM; Korea, Truman, DEM; Vietnam, Johnson, DEM; Failed hostage rescue attempt, Carter, DEM; Bosnia, Clinton, DEM; Kosovo, Clinton, DEM; Somalia, Clinton, DEM. Did you ever hear Republicans saying these wars were lost while we still had troops on the battlefield? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-20 12:24 |
| #1 Good move Harry [/sarcasm off] Hope keeping the Kos Kiddies and neo-marxist loud mouths happy is worth it. Nothing like politicizing the average grunt and the military. History is replete with fatal moves like this. Teach them that the only ones they can count on for their lives is their buddies. Cause that's who'll they'll die for. Who's going to die for you Harry? If you think I'll get between you and them, you are sadly mistaken. As imperfect as they may be, they at least have a sense of duty and honor and a commitment to a nation and not a party of self serving political hacks. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-20 12:10 |