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Thank you, Blanche!
Very well said. All opinions are indeed welcome here, as I hope mine would be elsewhere, and as I hope reasoned discussion of them would be.
Your comment about the "horse's mouth" is well taken. Unfortunately, the other end of the horse makes itself known as well from time to time, even from those supposedly in the know. That's what Kerry did when he smeared our military before Congress after he came home from Vietnam, when he called our men and women in Iraq terrorists, and when he impuned their intelligence. It's also what Professor Peabody did when he claimed that everybody thinks people enlsit in the Infantry because they can't get a good job or to avoid jail.
Now, let's look at your assertion from the other direction. Why is it that the "horse's mouths" that report good, positive things from Iraq are ignored?
I don't claim to be any kind of a strategist at all; but I do indeed claim to be a military parent who will not sit idly by and let Kerry or the good Professor Peabody get away unanswered.
posted by
WriterofLight
on November 9, 2006 at 6:56 PM
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writeroflight, you do indeed have the right of freedom of speech, thanks to
the noble service of our military. I hope you will indulge the rest of us in the same privilege. Experience in the military, however, does give a certain authority to one's statements. Sources who have personal experience always have more credibility than armchair readers of magazines and biased news sources.
Getting straight dope from the horse's mouth, in other words, trumps the pontifications of armchair military strategists who second-guess based on nothing more than fallacies.
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Blanche.
on November 9, 2006 at 6:36 PM
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