LOL!

You know... I haven't actually ever watched that video. ;-)

It's amazing how many storied written by the various propagandists come straight out of the script for "Apocalypse Now"...first we have "reality tv"...now we have "Hollywood based reality"

Left handed feller from Arkasas, if I recall... Pretty good with a rifle...

"It took many long years for the military to repair its reputation after Vietnam."

Feh.

The military didn't have it's reputation sullied... It was the lame brains who cobbled the military who sullied it's reputation...

Something I've been meaning to say...

Knowing guys... if someone is being annoying it's entirely likely that volunteers will step up to twist his tail. So the hear-say stuff Delgado reports could be what soldiers told him, including the stuff that sounds like Saving Private Ryan.

Think about it... some guy comes up to you after a riot and attempted prison break where you had to shoot some people (assuming that the conversation happened) and says "Are you proud of shooting unarmed people?" What do you say? Do you take the person seriously and explain something real or do you lift a bit from a movie or even make up some incredible horrific lie to the tune of babies and ketchup?

Maybe I'm way off base here, and it's not that I don't believe that bad stuff happens or that some soldiers might have genuinely callous attitudes and a few might even be sadistic, but unless I've got reason to believe a report is legit I'm more inclined to believe the storytellers are telling stories than telling the truth.

Or maybe I'm just projecting?

my 5/02/05 email to Bob Herbert
Mr. Herbert:

Did you bother to check out Aiden Delgado's stories? Or did you just use your column to repeat his assertions? Are you paid to be a secretary or a journalist? Where was it reported that Delgado testified against anyone, made a written statement against anyone, or reported what he says to the Army CID or IG and what he says was confirmed or denied by the statements and testimony of others or physical evidence? These are only his unsubstantiated statements.

Point the facts out to me to the contrary and not just what he could have read about and made up a story from reports he read. If I maligned you, I will apologize to you.

Will you apologize in your column if it turns out Delgado's assertions are proven to be false and you failed to do your job? No. You're a columnist. It isn't your job to find facts or to confuse people with them. Columnist aren't required to get and add statements for or against what they write or what others assert and they just regurgitate. They are free to offer their own opinions, like an umpire with bad vision and without glasses: you can call 'em like you see 'em and when you don't see 'em you make it up. If they can't make them up themselves, they print gossip.

If you were a reporter, you'd have fired you for From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'. But then again, you work for the New York Times. They'll probably make you the news editor.

If the MSM reported on sports as badly as they do on military/defense issues they wouldn't last a week. Thank God for the blogs, that there's people who have first hand experience with the story to say "wait a minute, something smells here." MSM is the living example of truism "suspision often creates what it suspects (C.S. Lews)."
Cheers,