Many thanks for your post. The first half of your last paragraph is basically the point I was trying to make, and now I understand the point you were making earlier.

A minor P.S.: When I compared this jerk with our “pet troll” I was speaking of ant, not you. They cannot breathe without sneering. You, at least, seem to use your mind on occasion, and though completely capable of rehearsing the script, I do think that you do more than memorize the latest meme. To me, you are misguided in your thinking, but you’re not an idiot.

I won’t stay quiet on Pat Tillman. What happened to him was savage and a tragedy. The way it was handled was criminal, and is being treated as such. The way it ought to be. As stupid as this Sir Scott person is, there is no comparison to be made. There are bad people in the military, just as there are bad people in the general population from which they are spawned. Surprisingly, there are fewer in the military, overall. It is the constant focus on the rotten sociopaths in both sectors that bother me, and for the same reason. Such focus by the media and entertainment industry makes it seem as though these mutants are the norm, or at least wide-spread through the population. That isn’t the truth. I’m sick to death of this view of mankind, frankly. It ignores all the good in the world that makes life worth living and makes cynics of us all.

They also need to censor what soldiers are saying so this kind of stuff never gets into the press in the first place. Subjecting written comunications, and electronic communications (like e-mails or weblogs) to censorship is only common sense.

If the government can’t figure out how to do this, then they should study the methods employed by Roosevelt and the liberal Democrats in the 1940s.

Love the liberals or hate them, no one can deny that they knew how to employ censorship.

So someone says a soldier ran over a dog and someone else made fun of a lady’s face. Reaction of Jeffy, Surly and other wingers: “Outrage! Lies! Get me Centcom!”

Someone shot Pat Tillman three times in the forehead from 10 yards away. Reaction of Jeffy, Surly and other wingers: Silence. Wind sweeping low over the grass.

Hell, you liberals pulled out your atomic bombs, and fried a couple of hundred thousand Nips to end WWII.

It’s not like it’s a big secret or anything.

Sounds familiar.

Can’t quite…oh, that’s right.

I did. Thanks.

Like I said…I don’t think this guy is on the up and up.

To answer the last first….yes and no. Those milblogs are scrutinized pretty closely, and offenders reported to their chain of command. In fact, DoD nearly pulled the plug on all blogging several months ago over this sort of crap.

On the rest…..alas, this is the best way to get the good news out of Iraq, Dave. God knows the MSM won’t do it.

Check out MM…..she has an excellent write up on Beauchamp….and it ain’t looking good for him.

I had no doubt someone “existed” in a physical sense. I see the MOI curiously refrained from endorsing the substance of his “stories” though. The on-the-spot reporting from places far distant from where you’re stationed is really quite amazing isn’t it?

Who would have thought Jamil Hussein was hiding teleportation technology from the rest of the world?