Don’t Betray Them
October 27th, 2004 - 10:24 am
SOLDIERS don’t beg. But an old friend of mine who’s still in uniform came close the other day. He badly wanted me to write another column before Election Day stressing that our troops are winning in Iraq.
He’s an Army veteran of three wars. Now he’s working to help Iraq become a democratic model for the Middle East. And he’s worried.
Not about terrorists or insurgents. He’s afraid John Kerry will be elected president.
Read the whole thing, of course.
Good going, guys! Eradicate the spiders and help the Iraqis build the first worthwhile state in the Middle East. Come home safely.
Stephen, kinda like what I was trying to express in a recent email, although not as eloquent as Ralph Peters. The past 3 weeks we have been braced for violent attacks during the Ramadan season. We were anticipating the terrorists attempting to create the impression of mass chaos to influence the US Elections followed by more attacks leading up to the Iraqi elections. However this has not materialized. I think it is quite possible that we have exhausted or killed the majority of the hardliners every day buying time for the Iraqi people to continue trying to move towards normalcy. Najaf, Sadr City, Sammarra are all quite. The last bastion of assholes located in Falluja soon will be able to validate the 72 virgin promise. Once again to all Americans who love their country and freedom, be proud of your servicemen and women. They are fighting for an ideal, and you should be proud that your country produces the finest young people I have ever seen. It is a pleasure to lead them.
Bill
Bill our hopes and prayers are with you and your brave men & women.Hopefully you will continue to have a Commander-in-Chief who believes in the nobility and rightness of our cause after Nov. 2.
I guess I’d be more excited about that “democracy-building” if it weren’t looking like it was evolving Cuban-style: From the LA Times:
acm:
Oh, you believe the LATimes?
How nice.
Back under the bridge, troll…
These attacks and statements are reminders nothing much really changes. The motives and methods are scarily reminiscent of the Divine Wind attacks in 1944-45. Do all remember, men who fight to live against men who wish to die are always victorious. Just ask the Imperial Army and Navy .
I feel for all the young men and women that have signed up to defend their country. All these brave and true Americans ,fighting the monsters that would kill women and shoot children in the back.
It is then I fear that these the greatest among us,the future greatest generation,will have to serve under the Kerry Coup
A CIC that has no love for them or respect or even need for them ,other than some future photo op.
Kerry and his cabinets of pinko metrosexuals and intellectual has beens, will delcare Victory on the field of defeat,and rush off to summit in Paris as he attemps to recreate a “Franco” Ich Bin Berliner moment in french. Oh How Newsweek and the Times will swoon and praise the return of the light in the darken world.
The wolves will lick their wounds and grows stronger and bolder and they will most certainly attack with a new virgor.And Kerry and his gang of whores will act so surprise,and be so shocked by events.
And those poor troopscoming from the heartland and suburbs of America,the son’s and daughters will be under the leadership of a gigligo and pimp. A city of power players.That will all run to their vacation homes in the mountains,and write second rate letters calling for unity and courage in face of this unwarrented attack on American soil..blah..blah
I am sicken that the race should be this close. I am sicken that the media has twice already attempted to politically assignate our President with it lies and time bomb stories. Sometimes it seems that 911 hasn’t changed anything at all.
MikeK…I don’t even know where to begin.
This isn’t a complete sentence, so I don’t know if I should quote it, but here goes:
“All these brave and true Americans ,fighting the monsters that would kill women and shoot children in the back. ”
IraqBodyCount.org puts the minimum number of civilian Iraqi deaths caused by military intervention at 13,928 and the maximum at 16,053.
“A CIC that has no love for them or respect or even need for them ,other than some future photo op.”
I love how people like you constantly claim that Kerry has no respect for the armed forces, when he is the only candidate to actually appear in combat. Bush is the perpetrator of the infamous flight-suit ‘Mission accomplished!’ photo-op, and the notorious draft-dodger.
“Kerry and his cabinets of pinko metrosexuals and intellectual has beens, will delcare Victory on the field of defeat,and rush off to summit in Paris as he attemps to recreate a “Franco” Ich Bin Berliner moment in french.”
Are you 100 years old? Is your name Joseph McCarthy? I didn’t know ‘pinko’ was still an acceptable term in American political discourse (silly me). Your post is almost a parody of a crazed Republican afflicted by Alzheimer’s syndrom.
Let’s get this straight: Kerry will rush to a ‘summit’ in Paris, have a ‘Franco’ (former dictator of Spain) moment, while declaring himself to be a Berliner, in French? I know EXACTLY what you mean.
“And those poor troopscoming from the heartland and suburbs of America,the son’s and daughters will be under the leadership of a gigligo and pimp.”
The poor troops wouldn’t have to come home if they weren’t sent halfway around the world to fight a war justified by lies and fear. Iraq never represented a threat to the United States, and to say so is to pander to the worst kind of psychological manipulation. This really isn’t worth my time anymore.
Jean-Paul, the troops themselves don’t trust John Kerry — they know what he’s been up to in the 30 years since he saw combat, and they don’t like it.
I fail to see how anyone who claims to support the troops can then turn around and favor giving them a commander-in-chief they wouldn’t trust. Troop retention levels would collapse if Kerry became president.
To continue doing anything at all in the GWOT, Kerry would almost certainly have to ask Congress to reinstate the draft.