Hey! Moonbats, and Fellow Travelers...
If yer looking for Useful Idiots, we’re fresh out
Admittedly, it did work last time; but not so well as you may have wished. People are speaking out and research has been done which demonstrates the depraved depths and enormity of the Big Lie you huxtered. That Big Lie eroded the foundations of this nation and the confidence of its people to such a point that we found ourselves unable, ten, twenty, and thirty years later, to defend ourselves when we were attacked. We found it preferable to turn inward, wondering what we had done to ‘deserve’ such treatment, instead of knowing, in our heart of hearts, that our nation and its people are strong, kind and decent—undeserving of attack or vilification.
And you’re at it again: in exactly the same way and accompanied by the junior replacements of message-carriers of yore.
[Scott Jepsen, who was monitoring the radio back at Kilo Company’s base in Haditha] says the Iraqi civilians are lying and covering up in Haditha. There were “no executions,"
The American top brass appears to suspect otherwise. A formal criminal investigation now underway may take months, but an investigation into a possible cover-up could produce results more quickly. Eager to avoid another Abu Ghraib, with its leaked photographs and stumbling official response, the Pentagon has brought in a big gun to investigate, Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, a veteran Special Forces operator who once ran Delta Force and is known as a no-nonsense type. The thinking behind the investigation, said a senior officer on the Joint Staff, was, “Go fast, go senior, go independent.”
Though no one is talking openly at Camp Pendleton, Marines and their families are buzzing about what might have gone wrong inside Kilo Company. The wife of a staff sergeant in the 3/1 battalion, who declined to be identified because she doesn’t want to get her husband in trouble, told NEWSWEEK that there was “a total breakdown” in discipline and morale after Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani took over as battalion commander when the unit returned from Fallujah at the start of 2005. (Chessani’s friends in his Colorado hometown defended him as a dedicated, patriotic, religious Marine.) “There were problems in Kilo Company with drugs, alcohol, hazing, you name it,” said the woman. “I think it’s more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha."
And there it is, the final element of the old same picture: Drug-Crazed Baby-Killers.
But. ‘Taint gonna be so easy this time, Comrades. We are not so shell-shocked from cultural upheaval as we were, ready to believe dang near any off the wall notion that wandered past: in fact, being hardened veterans of that self same cultural upheaval—knowing from our own experience what is tripe and what is real— we are much more likely to cast a jaundiced eye on the simplistic characterizations that worked so well on the naive ’utes’ of the past. Hell—we are those ’utes‘, though you may not recognize us with more mileage and less hair.
This time, we’re not buyin’ it. This time, we’re not stuck gazing at The Cave wall with only one set of shadows from which to form our opinions. This time we have resources previously unimagined and we know how to use ‘em.
And this time—this time—we are not alone. Our sons and daughters—even our grandsons and granddaughters—stand along side us; for it is they you attempt to malign. None of us—None of US—is prepared to swallow what we then knew in our bones was false but were too easily shamed to question aloud. We now know it to be part of a larger picture about which we have left no romantic, utopian notions.
Go peddle your fish somewhere else.
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