Oh Well… WAPO Opines
I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, are being resurrected to make some point?
These paragraphs stopped me from reading further:
So the troops are going home this month, leaving a question mark over what had been one of the chief goals of the war — to nurture a strategic ally in the heart of the Middle East.
They leave behind a legacy that will forever be tainted in the minds of many Iraqis by the casualties inflicted by the American military on civilians. It’s the raw nerve that jangles, a sensitivity that grates on both sides even as the troops stream out of the country.
The Dance begins.
It is rather obvious that we are seeing an attempt to paint those who served in Iraq with the same brush that us ‘Nam vets were painted with? Seems a bit late to the table, mind you, but we will see.
YMMV
Category: Geezer Alert!
Poor Wa-Wa Po-Po. Nothing of REAL importance to investigate and write about (AG Holder and Fast & Furious come immediately to mind). So they have to revert to their Master’s lessons (VietNam), and slander soldiers who have actually done something positive in their short lives (unlike themselves).
The death of the MSM legacy media can’t come soon enough for me.
Sorry. I didn’t realize my personal info wasn’t filled in above.
Yeah, it’s weird how they’re doing a retrospective of the legacy we leave behind, in our last two weeks of military presence…
That’s all the MSM has. There was no draft, no 100 mile convoy like some wanted. No cut and run (making the fall of Saigon look like a bake sale). So they dredge up old stories. I’m surprised that they didn’t mention Blackwater/Haliburton.
Fast and Furious is real, it’s on our borders. And it’s the Democrat’s baby. George Bush tried to build democracy. Holder tired to push leftist talking points. Holder lied and Mexicans died.
Oh yeah, they run a “Faces of the Fallen” item next to their slander on those very fallen. And they wonder why print is dying.
Quote …“The image of the American soldier is as a killer, not a defender. And how can you give a killer immunity?” said Sami al-Askari, a lawmaker”
Quoting a lawyer to base your story on shows you had an agenda to begin with. Typical left wing rehtoric. Liz is obviously a propagandist and NOT a reporter.
The author is covering for her beloved politicians. Soldiers kill people. Politicians handle the diplomacy. That’s how it’s supposed to work. All of the pols (including Bush’s guys) blew it on the diplomatic front, jockeying for political gain here in the states instead of doing their jobs abroad. Perhaps most egregiously to that reporter, it was Lord Obama (PBUH) himself that fumbled the last play of the game. It’s simply unacceptable to a WaPo reporter that a (D) be blamed for anything, and because there’s no (R)’s currently in charge of state or defense, it has to be someone else’s fault, so why not blame the troops? They’ve already proven themselves to have broad shoulders, might as well weight them down a little bit more. There’s so many of them to spread the blame over, they’ll hardly notice anyway.
Ah, yes. All those innocent Iraqis that our soldiers blew up with suicide bomb vests… no wait. All those innocent Iraqis that our soldiers stopped and cut the blue fingers off of after voting… no wait. All those innocent Iraqis that our soldiers executed in the streets for selling their wares to other soldiers… no wait.
So, what exactly did we do to the innocent Iraqis again?
You would prefer to sweep somewhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000 civilian deaths under the rug? How is it possible to ignore that fact?
Damn Joe….even iCasualties tops out around 60,000 total Iraqi deaths. I shudder to see the spin that rockets to a cool million.
Look at some other estimates….
Yes of course, since I’ve only looked at the one obviously…..
Whatever.
CI, you have to look at all of the estimates and add them together…use hippie math.
Heh…..that’s what I’ve been doing wrong!
The problem is that it isn’t the Wapo opining, the article was on the front page like a real news story. If anywhere, it should have been on the oped page with that idiot Ezra Klein