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Self-Loathing Libs

Huffpo hatefest expunged, after up to 400 commenters spew vile about Taliban bomb outside Cheney’s gate at Bagram.  Comments like this one:  

“Cheney’s spokeswoman said he was fine … Fuck.”

Eventually, the Huffpo crowd couldn’t take the heat they were generating, or developed a conscience or something, and pulled the plug. Follow the link above Malkin’s pdf of the whole sordid comment stream.

Meanwhile, Bagram-based Major John, who shows up here in comments sometimes, says this at Protein Wisdom that puts some context on the bombing that some people want to see as evidence of the wheels coming off the Bushistan:

OK, time for me to chime in…I was the XO of Bagram AF from March ‘05- August ‘05.  Then I got my dream job as S-5 of the TF that had 100 square km around BAF.  I only mention this so you know where I am coming from here.

[...] the front gate to BAF is where trucks from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, locally/Kabul and everywhere else on Earth that can reach Central Asia by truck, gather.  I spent an awful lot of time there, talking with locals, transiting in and out of base, etc.  There are alot of people on base, and it is the central logistics hub for alot of ops.  It has always kept things moving along - “resurgent Taliban” aside.  This bomb sure didn’t change that.

The front of BAF is crowded, and if someone wants to blow themselves up—they will be able to.  It is not some sort of symptom of nationwide insecurity. [Heard of lots of TB attacks in Mazar-i-Sharif?  Konduz?  Herat?  The Panjshir Valley?  The Salang Tunnel?  Surobi Dam?  No?] The waiting area is full of trucks, mom and pop shops, some soldiers from the JLC and MCT(s) trying to get everyone arranged in order and escorted to the search areas.  There also happen to be a lot of kids.  The kids hang out to watch, sell trinkets or cookies (I bought so many packages of the strawberry and orange flavored Iranian cookies that the little ones would see me walk out and they would run up and say “Major! You buy cookie?!” Heh, they knew me well.  But I digress).

It would be like some American domestic terrorist setting off a suicide bomb made from fertilizer and diesel, in a van, at the entrance to a mall.  If there is someone deranged enough to want to do so…

This had nothing to do with the fact that the VP was there.  I am sure somebody knew someone special was there—when “special” aircraft or anything unusal landed at BAF, we always joked—“here come the rockets tomorrow”.  And, usually, they did.  It takes a bit of time to set something like that up—24-48 hours.  Usually it was some HIG asshole or a local militia guy who was paid by the HIG to pop a few 107mm rockets at us.

If someone was going to try to get at the VP they would have had to go at least a mile to a mile and a half inside.  I happen to know what the layout of the base is—and nothing short of a tank company could do it.

This was a feeble gesture that sure ain’t going to win any affection for the remnants of the Taliban. Blow up Pakistani and Afghan truckdrivers?  Kids?!  Oh mighty warriors, indeed.  Nothing says invincibility and the favor of the Hand of God like blowing up truck drivers and kids.

I am so f$#&ing angry right now I can hardly type.

Topics: Afghanistan, Cheney, blogs

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:32 pm on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

5 Responses to “Self-Loathing Libs”

1. CavMedic Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

   I couldn’t get Malkin’s link to the pdf file to open when I went over there via a comment from Tim’s blog earlier.

   However, I was over at Dan Riehl’s blog earlier tonight and his lefty trolls were screeching about how unfair it is to use lefties own words against them.

   There is a saying that if there is a pack of dogs and one of them did something wrong, throw a rock and the one that yelps is the one that did it. Lots of yelping from lefty commenters on right wing blogs.

2. Bill's Bites Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 12:07 am

   Taliban tries to kill Cheney? (Updated)

   Cheney takes refuge in bomb shelter after Afghan blast MUSCAT (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney was whisked into a bomb shelter immediately after a Taliban suicide bomber struck the main American military base he was visiting in Afghanistan on

3. The Gun Toting Liberal ™ » Blog Archive » Right Wing Bloggers Enjoying Feeding Frenzy Over The Huffington Post’s Exibition Of Responsible “Net Citizenship” Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 12:25 am

   [...] The Far-Right Digs Their Own Graves, The Left Remains Silent: Protein Wisdom; Red State; Jules Crittenden; Reihl World View Technorati Tags:  2008, Afghanistan, Bill OReilly, Blogging, Bush, Dick Cheney, Elections, FoxNews, GTL, Gun Toting Liberal, Huffington Post, Impeachment, Iraq, Michelle Malkin, MSM, News, News and Politics, Pajamas Media, Politics, Sean Hannity, Taliban, Terrorism [...]

4. RebeccaH Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Honestly, after all the hatefulness and nastiness and perversion on the part of the left for the last six years, is anybody really surprised by this?

5. saltydog Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

   Someone, I think I saw something at Instapundit, quipped something to the effect, “Finally, an assassination the left can get behind.” Consummate haters.

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