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2006-03-28 Home Front: WoT

'Unit's' military expert has fighting words for Bush

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Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-03-28 12:05|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That is why I never watch these shows. All LLL crap.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-28 12:19|| 2006-03-28 12:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I would have dismissed comments like this out of hand from just about any other source, but a guy like this does have a lot more credibility than just about any other source, so I have to pause a minute and question my beliefs. Not change those beliefs, at least not yet, but question them, and look for some similarly credible sources to restore those beliefs.

And I thought the program on rescuing the church kids was amazingly timely, in view of the rescue of the peaceniks from Iraq last week, and their lack of any kind of gratitude.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-03-28 12:39|| 2006-03-28 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "We have fomented civil war in Iraq"

Ya right. Does this guy work for the NY Slimes and or Bin Laden.... Just another Wesley Clark.

Shaking head and changing the program.

Posted by Ebbeger Jomonter2910 2006-03-28 12:48|| 2006-03-28 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 s I said I respect these men, but I think the SgtMaj does everyone a dis-service by not using his own words and simply parroting the LLL fever swamp. The show had promise but weaving in stereotypes and LLL talking points turn me cold.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-03-28 12:49|| 2006-03-28 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Why do they build churches here where they are not wanted?

Here's a clue the writer appaernly did not have.

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matt. 28: 19-20).

Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine
or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
(Romans 8:35)

Posted by OldSpook 2006-03-28 13:01|| 2006-03-28 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 The last 5 minutes of episode 1 made it obvious this would be LLL drivel. Sounds like I haven't missed anything.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-28 13:04|| 2006-03-28 13:04|| Front Page Top

#7 This so called SGM is nothing but LLL pissed off peice of SH*T. It sounds just like he has been talking W.Clark.Just another little sawed off PISS ANT!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-03-28 14:09|| 2006-03-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Why do they build churches here where they are not wanted? Also the evangelicals being rescued are more concerned with the church building than their safety.

Never heard words or comments like that uttered in my time in the community. Have not seen the show yet. Appears it might be a "wave off."

Posted by DZSO 2006-03-28 14:16|| 2006-03-28 14:16|| Front Page Top

#9 His rhetoric is what gives it away. If these were the private thoughts of a wizened military man -- as portrayed in the story -- the language would be more temperate. But the over the top tone marks it as nothing more than the rantings of another moveon moron.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-03-28 14:45|| 2006-03-28 14:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Glenmore: I would have dismissed comments like this out of hand from just about any other source, but a guy like this does have a lot more credibility than just about any other source, so I have to pause a minute and question my beliefs.

This is a TV show. What happens in a TV show is written by scriptwriters. The people on TV shows are actors reading lines from scripts. If you want to re-examine your beliefs based on what military people say, I think anti-war veteran websites would be a better place to look.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-28 15:27|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-28 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 ZF - I disregard what TV show characters say, but the article was referring to what the technical advisor to the TV show, a retired Sgt. Major, was saying.
I don't give a whole lot of weight to NCOs with just 1-2 enlistments, but retired lifers ....
Same thing with officers - with the exception that the political aspirations of senior officership (Col. & above) reduces their credibility.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-03-28 18:03|| 2006-03-28 18:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Glenmore, I would also give the SgtMaj his due if his comments weren't taken directly from the LLL moonbat talking points. Its obvious from the show that they are taking a LLL moonbat path and it also seems apparent that the SgtMaj fits right into that agenda. FYI there is a fair share of LLL moonbat liberals in uniform and retired.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-03-28 18:28|| 2006-03-28 18:28|| Front Page Top

#13 I read Haney's book ("Inside Delta Force") which was pretty interesting. But in the last chapter he describes this bizarre sequence of events in which he hunts down some bad guys in the jungles of central America-- only one of the bad guys turns out to be an American soldier Haney knew, who, ya see, must have been set up by the CIA yada yada yada.

Posted by Matt 2006-03-28 19:33|| 2006-03-28 19:33|| Front Page Top

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