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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (64327)	2/22/2008 6:35:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"When a soldier, ESPECIALLY an officer, contacts an anti-war political campaign but refuses to be publicly identified I think there's a reason for that. The DOD, my husband in Baghdad, who is a subject matter expert in the GWOT, and every other soldier I've talked to said the story is incredibly suspect. But the left is banking on this one statement being true from an "unnamed source." That's good journalism for you!" My husband went to war in Iraq with former CPT Patrick Murphy, who is now an anti-war Congressman representing PA. CPT Murphy also misrepresented the equipment issue accusing the Bush administration of sending troops into harms way unprepared and underequipped... "our humvees didn't have doors", he said, either knowing full well or completely ignorant that in the 82nd humvees AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE DOORS. Murphy told Stars and Stripes: “We were absolutely shorthanded,” said Murphy, a former West Point professor. “My Humvee didn’t have doors. And I knew in the back of my mind what was going on. We weren’t given enough to do the job, and there weren’t enough boots on the ground.” The 82nd is a rapid response unit, deployable within 48 hours. THEIR HUMVEES HAVE NO DOORS. They aren't supposed to. It is SOP (standard operating procedure) for the 82nd ABN DIV to leave doors off of tactical vehicles to facilitate rapid dismount of ground troops. The mission of the 82nd is to conduct forced entry operation by parachute assault, not ride around in tanks and Humvees. When IEDs became the primary threat, the 82nd contracted to have iron doors bolted onto the Humvees. Bottom Line, the handful of anti-war soldiers who perpetuate this "we are short handed" myth do so because they know the general public can't really fact check. The ABC News "fact check" won't even name its source... that's not fact checking, that's asking the rest of us to have faith in a media that the media hasn't earned. When this guy steps up and identifies himself like the Baghdad Diarist, we'll all listen. Until then, there's probably a reason why he's remaining anonymous. Posted by Amy Proctor \| February 22, 2008 3:57 PM matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com OIF Vet Misrepresents Iraq on House Floor amyproctor.squarespace.com Soldier Refutes Obama Assertion That Under-Equipped U.S. Troops Confiscate Taliban Weapons amyproctor.squarespace.com