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March 28, 2006
A letter from Iraq...
For those of you feeling some frustration over the war in Iraq, I would encourage you to contact your Congressman or Congresswoman and ask them why the military is not permitted to even "threaten" terrorists with being handed over to the Iraqi Army? Over here, this is considered grounds for a psychological torture charge, which as we are told by our "friends on the left "doesn't work anyway. Maybe, if our "friends on the left" were a little closer to the impacting mortar rounds and IED's, like me, they would take a more pragmatic view of "psychological torture" (which "doesn't work" according to them!)
This is but one example of PC gone wild in Iraq. Winning hearts and minds is not solely about handing out tooth brushes and coloring books, it's about ensuring the local populace that you can provide for their basic security. The bottom line America, is we were sent here to fight a war and slowly but surely we are being abandoned.
Letters from home and care packages are great, but what the vast majority of us would like, is for the so called silent majority to get up and start making some noise about absurd, liberal, PC restrictions that are making winning this war IMPOSSIBLE!
We can accomplish great things over here, but not if we have both hands tied behind our backs for fear of pxxxxxxg off Teddy Kennedy and all our concerned supporters over at MoveOn.org.
Ladies and Gentleman..its a war, not a bake sale! Mistakes, bad things and unintended consequences are going to happen. But, what am I supposed to tell an Iraqi who puts the life of his family on the line to give me information about a KNOWN terrorist, when that terrorist is LET GO 2 weeks later because we don't have enough "hard evidence" to keep him locked up (this usually means the terrorist had enough "hard cash" to get out of prison). Do you think that person will ever come to me with information, ever again? I wouldn't.
You want to debate the finer points of US national policy and power projection, fine! How about the concept of "soft power" and its role in counter-insurgency warfare, I'm game for that one because I live it. This is not the rant of a pxxxxed off private from the National Guard (no offense Guard, you know us active duty types give you a bad time). I do have a grasp of how Counterinsurgency Warfare should be waged and the implications of tactical leaders making decisions with strategic implications in the information age. So, if you want to debate the issue, send a post to me then lets do it. But, in the mean time, maybe some of the theorists could take some advice from the decision makers or at least give us the support we were promised when this started. I don't think we'll ever see it.
So, thank you, Ted Kennedy, thank you, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, etc. you have set out to undermine us at every step and with your help, the foreign fighters are accomplishing things over here they never would have been able to do without your steady support! As for the Republicans, you had better start speaking up.
I for one will never forget this. You can count on that.
Posted by Post Scripts at March 28, 2006 01:56 PM
Comments
What some people do not appreciate is that there are those who for cynical reasons want the mission in Iraq to fail. It is not paranoia, it is evident in their actions. The radicals in office learned from Viet Nam that verbally disparaging the troops was not politically expedient. Now they "care" verbally but act with hostility. These acts do not go unnoticed by our troops or by the enemy.
Posted by: Ron Acevedo at March 30, 2006 10:24 AM
Tasker, you have made a number of assumptions in your follow up comment, for example you you said, "...was anybody above the rank of seargeant court martialed for what happened at Abu Graib? I don't think so and that's bs."
What do you know for a fact here?
What we all know is, they were not trained to be guards, they were young and in most cases not even professional, full time soldiers. We also know they were left with too little supervision by a clueless C/O too. Lot's of things can go wrong in that situation. So, why would you have to buy into a big conspiracy before thinking they just did it on their own?
That sort of thinking is exactly what spreads dangerous rumors that hurt the boots in Iraq.
Posted by: Jack Lee at March 31, 2006 07:53 PM
Sir, let me first say thank you for keeping my family safe. I firmly believe that your killing them in Iraq so they wont be killing us here in the states.
While I agree with you 100%, I am sorry to say that when you argue with people who think our troops are torturing people, your arguing with people who have their heads squarely stuck up their six.
Anyway, God bless you and all the others who are doing such great work!
Posted by: Toby Stahler at April 1, 2006 11:00 PM