Letters to the Editor
Cowpunk
Published Letters: 4
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Look, Glenn, USA Today is doing it too.
[Read the article: Little outbursts of journalism -- what causes them?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take a look at this language, sneakily tucked into a USA today piece(via Think Progress) about the U.S. Army's report on the ambush that captured several U.S. Soldiers in January.
Investigators recommended several changes to toughen defensive positions, including the installation of closed-circuit cameras to provide better early warnings, "duress devices" that can allow overrun outposts to signal headquarters, and requirements that any arriving convoy provide identification.
This month, Army officials publicly alleged that Iran played a direct role in the Karbala attack.
The Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, helped plan and direct it with Iraqi militants, said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a military spokesman.
The Quds Force, he said, supplied Shiite militias with weapons and up to $3 million a month in aid.
Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group, is also working in Iraq and training militia groups, Bergner said.
The Iranian involvement in the Karbala attack may have even included planning with the Iraqi police who had colluded with the attackers.
Several U.S. troops who survived the attack later told investigators that they believe some gunmen were allowed to blend in among Iraqi police inside the headquarters compound hours before the assault, according to interviews included in the report.
"It appears an inside assault force was pre-staged," the report says.
Yes, it's our good friend General Bergner once again beating the drums against Iran. An unsuspecting reader would probably assume that the alegations of Iran's involvement in the attack came from the official report, but that does not look to be the case. USA Today takes Bergner's presumably unsubstantiated allegations and inserts them right in the middle of the reports's findings. Sneaky indeed.
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Why Not Give O'Reilly and Malkin a Taste Of Their Own Medicine?
[Read the article: Michelle Malkin's hate sites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]MichelleMalkin.com's blogroll contains some of the most vile hate sites on the internet. It would be fairly easy to pick out some heinous quotes by the authors of those blogs and start a writing campaign(perhaps using the Great Orange Satan as a vehicle) to The Factor's sponsors. Remember, these wouldn't be annonymous reader comments, they would be actual blog posts by authors that Malkin herself promotes on her website. Isn't it time that Malkin, the commentator and frequent guest host on a popular TV Show, had to answer for her promotion of hatred, bigotry, and violence?
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We need visuals.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pollack and O'Hanlon's trip to Bagdad and the subsequent hullabaloo was a virtual replay of John McCain's April Fool's Day trip. So my question is this: Who's got pictures of O'Hanlon and Pollack in battle armor, being escorted by a brigade of soldiers? That would put an end to this real quick.
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Duh!
[Read the article: The people in urgent need of long-term banishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding update 3, "Left Creates a Crisis Mentality, Uses It to Abrogate Constitution", does this really surprise anyone? One of the right wing's constant M.O.'s is to accuse left wingers of doing precisely what they themselves have been doing and will continue to do even as they make such accusations.