"Look Mom! It's Viet Nam!!"
MSM still on the prod—and it’s working...
Here’s the end of the article:
Fragging entered the American lexicon in the Vietnam War.
...Between 1969 and 1971, the Army reported 600 fragging incidents that killed 82 Americans and injured 651. In 1971 alone, there were 1.8 fraggings for every 1,000 American soldiers serving in Vietnam, not including gun and knife assaults.
Why drag up this bit of ancient history? In response to this, the beginning of the article:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military charged a staff sergeant from the New York National Guard with murdering his two commanders at a base outside Baghdad ...the military charged Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez of Troy, N.Y., with two counts of premeditated murder ...some kind of explosive device, possibly a grenade ..."Staff Sgt. Martinez has been and will continue to be afforded the extensive rights under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,"
And the obligatory “excuse paragraph:”
Martinez’s family had been touched by a string of recent tragedies, a neighbor said Thursday. ...recently lost his home to a fire and moved back to his childhood residence with his father in Troy ...His mother also had died in recent years,
Oh, well—that’s ok, then… stressed and depressed perhaps he heard “voices?”
California Conservative makes an excellent point:
Could it be possible that among the voices in Staff Sgt. Martinez’ head were those of Amnesty International, Senator Dick Durbin, and all the others who are publicly condemning America’s military by falsely accusing U.S. soliders of crimes against humanity?
...Beyond comforting and aiding our enemies, terrorist sympathizers and radical activists are knowingly instigating the feeble-minded and the impressionable, and mobilizing their own “army” of the self-loathing by actively demonizing the United States. The results are dangerous and uncontrollable.
CC cites writings like this and this one, by someone who “is acutely ashamed, in this rancid day and age, to be an American”. [no, really—click these. We need to know what’s out there; I was shocked yet again.]
This banner says it pretty clearly:
Hey Claire, how am I supposed to trackback...for Cotillion? Am I so tired that I’m missing it completely?!
Posted by Tammy on 06/20/05 at 07:20 PMSince you don’t have trackback, here’s my post re your post:
“They’ve decided they’re all going to stonewall together"
Posted by Sissy Willis on 06/21/05 at 03:42 AM
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