Lieutenant Colonel Repya Writes Home

Lt. Col. Joe Repya is from Minnesota. He got out of the Army some years ago, but he re-enlisted at the young age of 58 and is a regular correspondent with my blog friends/idols over at Powerline.

Today the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote an editorial supporting "Turban" Durban's speech on the Senate floor last week.

Here is what Lt. Col. Repya had to say in a letter to the editor of the Star Tribune:

"Your editorial "Durbin's Message/US Must End Prisoner Abuse" proves beyond any doubt that the Star Tribune Editorial Staff has no idea of who we are fighting and why! As a soldier in Iraq, I was highly insulted by the comments of Senator Durbin and his pathetic excuse of being "misunderstood." So I offer a suggestion. Let's divide up these victims of "the hellhole America's military has created" at Guantanamo and allow them to spend a weekend at the homes of the Star Tribune Editorial Staff and Senator Durbin. America's military will anxiously await the report on the impression they will make on you and your families.

Joseph Repya
LTC, Aviation
MNC-I LNO101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Camp Victory South
Baghdad, Iraq"

Just as I wrote in X-Ray Vision last week before I had read about Durban's chest pounding fit:

"Senators Martinez, Hagel, and Leahy are pompous, arrogant, useless, vote whores that don’t have enough spine to finish anything that they start. They couldn’t care less about the ramifications of their criticisms, they are just trying to get “ahead of the curve” by predicting the failure of US intelligence efforts.

If they are so concerned about the well being of these "detainees" why don't they each move couple of "insurgents" into their home and buy them a case of box cutters..see how innocent they really are."

Since Repya is actually fighting the insurgents, I believe that he is better qualified than I to make similar suggestions.

Great minds think alike...

and all I have to say is Amen, Brother…