The Media and the Senate - Part 2

Posted By Blackfive

This is reference to this post last week about the Senate's closed door session about the intelligence failures leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Well, Fox posted the article this morning.  They decided to quote me and Chris Missick but not American Soldier.  AS didn't want to have his quotes dissected for the intent of the article.  While Fox used two or three sentences from a 30 minute interview with me, it's accurate in context around the quotes:

Democrats Get Ready to Pounce in 2006

Sunday, November  06, 2005

By Jane Roh

With off-year elections moments away and 2006's midterm election fast approaching, the curse of the second term seems to have taken hold of the White House, and Democrats are looking poised to pounce.
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Democrats, who have been accused time and again of bitterness about the past and myopia in the present, would be wise not to invest all their political capital in the prewar intelligence debate, according to other war veterans.

"I can understand trying to vindicate that service and to respect the lives lost by trying to see if the intelligence before going in was correct, but to me it just seems so political," said Sgt. Chris Missick, a 25-year-old Army reservist who served in the war and runs the Line in the Sand blog.

"If I was over there right now reading the news, I'd say let's get the job done, get our guys home, and then let's figure it out," Missick said.

Matt, who runs the BlackFive blog and did not want his last name published, said he also did not see how the Senate shutdown might benefit the military in Iraq.

"It was more of a political hit to get some gain in the midterm elections than it was something that would help the troops. Of course we owe it to the families and the troops, but this is the third or fourth round...They should be making sure they have the weapons and equipment to fight the [expletive] war."

Both he and Missick also said they were skeptical of the Senate Democrats' motives.

"When there was all this yelling about body armor, where were they? Instead, you've got civilians like myself figuring out how we can help the troops. The posturing is a little ridiculous," Matt said...

                                   

Well, at least they didn't use too many [expletive] expletives...like I wrote last week, this stuff is irritating at best.  At the time of the interview, I just finished talking with a few parents who had lost their sons.  I wasn't prepared to hear about how certain Senators "care".

[expletive] 'em.

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Comments

[Subsunk]

Don't worry. We need a lot more cussin' and action and a lot less posturin' around here. Looked good to me.

Subsunk

[armywifetoddlermom]

Mr. Blackfive,
uber expletive them

[Princess Cat]

Damn straight... "[explitive] 'em" is all that needs to be said

[FbL]

Yup. Well said, as usual.

[AFSister]

Sometimes, you just have to say "WTF" and cuss. It's an expression of frustration and emotion, to be sure.

[Cincinnati_Bob]

It is all political. From Al Gore's Screaming to Pelosi's inane hypocritical rants to Hillary's born again madness.

To give aid and comfort to the enemy for mere political gain is beyond my ability to understand how they can have any significant number of followers.
Most of the followers (imo) are people who magnetically repel themselves away from violence and confrontation (Iraq), and are therefore affixed to the moonbat magnets (Moore, Cindy, Communist party, et al..),since there really aren't any reasonable anti-war debates or activities going on otherwise to catch them as they go flying by...

Sad. Most definately the explativers> ;-)

[SK]

I think you said everything 'just right'.

[jordan]

Eloquent and well-targeted anger.
This wouldn't have happened if the Republican leadership on the Hill weren't limp as wet noodles.

[Maggie45]

I think what they used of your and Chris Missick's quoates are right on. And I'm very glad that American Soldier passed rather than let them abbreviate his words so much that it appeared that he saying something that he wasn't really.

Thank you for all that you do for our military and their families.

[Judy]

The senate democrats have their eye on only one goal and it has nothing to do with what is best for our soldiers. They are posturing for an attempt at impeachment, and they won't be satisfied with anything less.

[night heron]

The jackasses are up to their most vile and dirty lies ever dont put it past them for saying anything we know the way of out of control liberal politicians especialy since they have ruined the carrere of JAMES TRAFFICANT

[lometa]

It’s good that your quote and sentiment made it in the press because sometimes it pays to rattle the lion’s cage. Two years from now I bet there won’t be any closed door senate sessions asking tough questions on how many soldiers died or were wounded because they didn’t cough up the goods to protect them adequately or they wouldn’t call the papers to task when they printed lies from former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey without checking their facts first.
The politicians and the media have FUBARed this war. I live in Tucson ,AZ and we have a thriving veteran community. We take the benefits to the homeless vets in the streets because, like I said before and I’ll keep sayin’ it till someone listens. They don’t trust the American people or the government. All of these men are fathers, brothers, sons and friends to someone and it’s a shame this goes unnoticed day after day. About 5 weeks ago I saw the Ghost of Veteran’s Day Future. He was an Iraqi vet on the corner selling newspapers.

[yetanotherjohn]

You will of course recall the GOP, as the minority party at the time, holding endless press conferences and staging publicity stunts on the faulty pre-war intelligence SNAFU that contributed to Pearl Harbor. I think the senate intelligence investigative committee of June 5th, 1944 was the high point. But then the president at the last minute pulled a stunt to blunt the honest criticism of his administration and sent more boys to die in Normandy. The press was distracted from the real story of the errors made by the president leading up to the war, but I think the press will keep their eye on the ball this time.