If They Don’t Like It…

They Can Always Just Get The Hell Out


I’m absolute sick of this shit. By “This Shit” I mean the way much of the media tends to portray the military in general on a day to day basis.

Let me preface this rant by saying that I’m a little biased since I grew up outside Ft. Rucker, Alabama in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Virtually every house in my neighborhood had a father, brother, or son fighting in Vietnam. I also volunteered to serve two years in the Navy reserve while in college and was subject to being called up for active duty until about eleven years ago.

I would have proudly gone if the Pentagon had called, although my crappy health would have probably caused them to spit be back out in my boxers once they took a look at me.

Any way…

It seems to me that when our forces are doing a GOOD JOB all we get is crappy coverage or no coverage at all, and when a solder or group of solders makes a mistake or acts out of willful malice, the medial is gleeful…yes, even giddy to blast headlines around the globe with words and phrases like “Baby Killers”, “In Cold Blood,” and “Renegade Troops.”

This most recent incident in Iraq is a perfect example. Just like the Abu Grab-Ass prison non-scandal, the military has already launched an investigation, locked up some suspects, and is expecting the final report and possible prosecutions to occur by some time this summer.

Case closed, in my book.

Not good enough for Pennsylvania’s partisan hack ex-marine John “bushy eyebrows” Murtha and the no-talent liberal Bush hating creatins at the NY Times.

Four people who identified themselves as survivors of the killings in Haditha, including some who had never spoken publicly, described the killings to an Iraqi writer and historian who was recruited by The New York Times to travel to Haditha and interview survivors and witnesses of what military officials have said appear to be unjustified killings of two dozen Iraqis by marines. Some in Congress fear the killings could do greater harm to the image of the United States military around the world than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

The four survivors' accounts could not be independently corroborated, and it was unclear in some cases whether they actually saw the killings. But much of what they said was consistent with broad outlines of the events of that day provided by military and government officials who have been briefed on the military's investigations into the killings, which the officials have said are likely to lead to charges that may include murder and a cover-up of what really happened.

The name of the Iraqi who conducted the interviews for The Times is being withheld for his own safety, because insurgents often make a target of Iraqis deemed collaborators.

In typical NY Times fashion, of course they publish a story full of unverified accusations and suppositions on their front pages, then they add the icing on the cake by using an unidentified source that they are hiding to “protect their safety.”

Funny thing, but since the Times story basically makes the US forces look like the murdering terrorists they’re attempting to engage, why should Al Qaeda and all of the other bad guys not applaud the Times sources efforts, not threaten their safety?

I expect that Al Zaqari and his turban clad, bearded wild eyed cohorts would be taking up a cash collection and buying cassettes and video tape so that the Times “sources” and the Iraqi “reporter” could run out and document other atrocities—real or imagined—to be splashed across the front pages of newspapers world wide.

How the hell can the lamestream media be so lacking in logical skills, even when they are hidden in their offices and pressrooms?

Where are their editors in this process?

If you read the article closely I think that you’ll find that once again the NY Times has rushed a story to print because it matches their reporting “template” about the US war effort and in an haphazard effort to attain the maximum “scoop factor” (remember CBS’s Dan Rather and the Texas Air National Guard Scandal.)

So what happens if it is determined that there really was a firefight and the Iraqis killed were harboring terrorists in their homes or were actual terrorists themselves?

What happens when the dust settles and the military and pending congressional investigations are concluded and it turns out that many fewer Marines were guilty and many fewer innocents were killed in the encounter?

You know what will happen—almost everybody that sits around watching CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC or only reads the front page of their newspapers will be left believing that we’ve got troops running around shooting up everyone and everything in sight.

But that’s wrong, and the NY Times knows it.

99.9% of our troops are bright, educated, and highly trained men and women that are in Iraq to do a job, that being to make the world safe so that the assholes that wander in from their Manhattan lofts and New Jersey suburban bungalows to the offices of the Times can sit around and slander them and second guess their actions and decisions in ink virtually ever single day of the year.

It’s a good thing that all of these moronic urban “reporters” and so called “news people” spend hours at the gym each week, because if they had their way we’d have no military and their only protection would be turning tail and running away from any potential threats.

Have you ever had a gun pointed at your head?

I’ve had the barrel of a gun BROKEN OFF on my hard head, and I can tell you things look quite different when your looking at the business end of a weapon wielded by someone that you know is your enemy.

I’m fairly certain that the morons writing for the NY Times believe that the best prevention for having a gun aimed at their pointy head is to continue to assault the military and outlaw civilian ownership of guns, and I say that’s complete and total Bullshit.

All I have to say to all of the anti war, bleeding heart liberal morons out there in the media is “keep on writing your slander, and all of the bad assed guys in uniform will keep on breaking things and killing people (legally) to protect your rights to be IDIOTS.

And by the way, if they don't like it, they can always GET THE HELL OUT.