The Grim Milestone
Just do a news search on any search engine this morning using the terms “grim+milestone” and see how may results you get. On Yahoo, I get 430 results at 7:30 Eastern Time. Of course, all of these “grim milestones” refer to the US casualties reaching the 4000 mark. It was the first thing I heard on radio this morning when my alarm went off at 5am, it was at the top of Drudge.
Yesterday, the Associated Press pushed it’s “US casualties near 4,000 mark” headline across it’s web presence – it’s almost as if AP set the IED that took out the magic 4 troops this morning so they could have their story and headline.
Yes, it’s a cryin’-ass shame that 4,000 US troops have died in Iraq – I really mean it. I take offense at the “pro-war” label that’s applied to me. I’m certainly not for war. I take offense that the Veterans for Peace imply that I’m a “veteran for war” because I won’t join their broke-dick organization.
But, I’d take this “grim milestone” stuff a whole lot easier if only the Associated Press, the LA Times and Denver Post, the New York Times and Reuters, and all of the rest of these sorrowful news organizations which suddenly care about US casualties had been reporting the progress in Iraq all along.
But the whole truth is this; if the news organizations AND the Veterans for Peace – and all of the rest of these pinhead anti-war-at-any-cost hadn’t been turning this country into a bunch of pansies over the last forty years, the war would have ended after the first three weeks. If the anti-war crowd, the anti-US media and the anti-Republican politicians in Congress had let us go to Baghdad in March 1991, before Mogadishu, before the Clinton aspirin factory bombings, the bombing of the USS Cole, the US embassy bombings in Africa, before the taliban, we wouldn’t have had to go to Afghanistan or Iraq in this century.
The only reason we’ve lost 4,000 troops in Iraq is because the American Left is a pack of cowards who can’t summon the intestinal fortitude to deal with foreign policy problems as soon as they occur. They’re bound and determined to make the US a third world country.
The most laughable comment I’ve heard today was on the ABC News broadcast on my radio this morning at 5 am when some pinhead newsreader tried to imply that US troops in Iraq are thinking seriously about voting for Obama because he’s consistently been against the war – and that we need change that Clinton and McCain don’t represent. I’d like ABC to show me those troops, currently engaged in Iraq, who think it’s a good idea to throw up their hands and leave Iraq.
Show me or stfu.
Jammie Wearing Fool noticed the same proliferation of the “grim milestone” nomenclature.
Gateway Pundit reminds us of a milestone that the media could be reporting if they had an ounce of integrity left.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Media, Society, Support the troops, Terror War
4,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq…
And while President Bush honors the brave men & women in uniform, who place their lives & safety in danger for the benefit of freedom loving people everywhere, the tantric BDS infants seek to exploit this ‘grim milestone’ of a whole number followed b…
4,000 reasons to finish this thing honorably, with dignity, and with a homecoming pareade that will make V-E Day look like a bake sale. CJ has a great perspective,(pun intended) on this, and I’ll just echo his title:
THANK YOU 4,000!!!!
The sacrifices you made will not go un-noticed by me.
For the rest of you folks still there, Get back to work, ya think its tea-time?? 😉
Seriously, I have a youngster there, who adopted me. (Yes that sounds wierd, but you’d have to hear the story to understand.) He’s on his second tour. He’s in good spirits, and his emails are always positive. His sacrifices, and those of his brothers will also not go un-noticed.
These young people will be, correction, these young warriors ARE our next Greatest Generation.