Daily Kos on Tall Afar

The Daily Kos crowd attempts to debunk the letter from the mayor of Tall Afar to the 3rd ACR.

They pretend to be (or are) confused by the fact that there were two letters - one to the 3rd ACR and the other to General Casey. Beyond that, their argument boils down to "everyone who says it's authentic is a liar."

Don't take my word for it - read it.

Col McMaster's wife is singled out in particular for scorn:

"This letter is not a fake it was given to my husband [CF Comment: Given to him BY WHOM] the commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment. This is the second letter written .The first was written to GWB and Gen Casey asking if the 3ACR could stay and finish what they started."

Hmmm, sounds like a typical Cal Thomas sourcing job. HAH!

"This letter is not a fake "

That's the biggest clue - this letter is a fake.

But they ignore the statements in published news stories confirming the letter. And beyond the first comments the thread quickly degenerates into accusations of atrocities committed by US troops in Iraq - rape, murder, use of chemical weapons against civilians - accusations that the Daily Kos crowd is eager to accept on faith.

As noted in our original post, you can't reason someone out of an opinion they were never reasoned into. But if you ever had any doubt, witness the American toilet Left at it's lowest. This isn't about the President, "the administration", or the DoD. These people hate and despise US soldiers to the point they can not accept the possibility that Americans are seen as liberators by even one man in one city in Iraq. The Kos entry is not an attempt to determine whether the letter is real; they want so badly to believe that US troops are thugs, rapists and murderers that they go to great lengths to attempt to discredit any evidence to the contrary.

Again, don't take my word for this - read it. Get to know who these people are.

And then (more importantly) read this - and get to know these people too.

Update: Meanwhile, in Tall Afar, demonstrations break out following the Shrine bombing:

We had what was referred to as a "peaceful demonstration" the other day. I drove past, and it looked to me like maybe 150-200 adult males standing around in a line. Plus groups of them sitting down. Don't know what they were doing, but there was no dancing around, waving arms, burning anything, they didn't even appear to be chanting or anything. One guy was reading something off a paper, possibly out loud since there was a group of people that seemed to be paying attention to him. But it really didn't impress me as impending civil war.

Update 4 March: The story has disappeared from Daily Kos (although the tags remain) and another site where it was posted.