"The Blog of War" Update

Posted By Blackfive

ArmyWifeToddlerMom (who has the honor of the last word in "The Blog of War") is featured in a nice article in a Little Rock local paper.

Bloggers' take on military life
...[Rachelle] Jones says she stumbled on the world of milblogs in an attempt to get information of her husband's unit, which was in the area of Taji, Iraq. She found the blog of a private contractor working in the area and read it — and later other military blogs — for news.

"The whole time he was deployed … I didn't watch the TV news. I didn't want the kids picking up on it," she said, relating how she'd do her searching from 10 p.m. to midnight, after the youngsters were put to bed.

She read news not from journalists or pundits, but soldiers and civilians actually in the field who wrote not to entertain or push political agendas, but merely to share their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, be they harrowing firefights, mundane monotony, tales of dozens of soldiers and volunteers pulling together to save one life, or the shared, cathartic release of mourning a friend lost in the line of duty.

"I don't think it's hyper-patriotic ranting or anything like that. Most people just feel they really need to do this for their families," Jones said. "It's not journalism and it's not meant to be. It's just an account of what happened to you...

And John at Op-For writes of TBOW in order to avoid some chops bustin'...

...I told Matt that I'd have a review of The Blog of War up that evening. If I failed to do so, I said that he could "punch me in the face."...

Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald writes of the Censorship issue of MilBlogs and of TBOW:

Blog of War Now Camouflaged
When something good is happening in the military, you can rely on someone high up and behind the lines to try to kill it. Slowly. Bureaucratically. Bleed the life out of it.

That is what is happening to milblogging, the Internet phenomenon that lets soldiers in Iraq tell us what they see, do and think...

Be sure to read the whole piece.

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Comments

[Charlie H.]

Can't seem to get a good lock on Ms. Jones site.
Wanted to ask how to find the " private contractor " blog.

[Blackfive]

The link is good above. You'll have to ask her for the link to the private contractor blog.

[Pops]

Charlie H.
You're missin the point -- Let it be!
Pops Out!

[douglas]

The pentagon shouldn't be trying to kill milblogs, they should be recruiting people like the B5 crew to be advisors on a milblog program to promote opsec safe blogging, and let the natural info stream that is milblogs support the PR war. Just as one of the great strengths of our military in the field is that our soldiers aren't simply order following automatons, they are trained to follow orders AND be motivated and spontaneous when necessary. That's the whole point of ROE's. Milblogging should be dealt with in a similar fashion.

[Charlie H]

Seems to be working good this evening.

Easy Pops...Now I won't miss that point.

[Pops]

I get a little grumpy in the evenings Charlie. Sorry I snapped at you.
Pops

[Stephen Renico]

Can you guys comment on this story?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2551365
"Army Tones Down Drill Sergeants"

I was hoping Blackfive could write a segment on the future pussification of our military.

Thanks

[lee]

boys where is that damn asama hideing we need to cut his head off with all that money on his head, is it them people dont want eny thing at all to turn him in & wont turn him in, im not to sharp on this stuff, but he dictates a lot of what those heathons do, lee

[Chad O'Connor]

the war in iraq began with the assassination of president kennedy

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Now in The High Priests of War, Piper has come forth with what is indisputably the first full-length exposition of the little-known history of the Zionist neo-conservative warmongers inside the Bush administration who orchestrated the war against Iraq. Project Censored called this the most censored story of 2003. Not any more.

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Tackling the most important political problem of our age and skillfully analyzing its origins, naming names and describing the agenda and the misdeeds of the highly astute and closely inter-connected group which is dexterously pulling the strings that manipulate the marionettes on the political stage, The High Priests of War is a landmark work.

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Thus, as our country reels from disaster to disaster, the public is either told by the press how wonderful it all is or replaceable politicians are blamed for it while the zionist neo-conservatives only tighten their hold.

This sordid scenario is unknown to all but a tiny handful of American patriots. If a significant number of Americans can be awakened to the political reality described by Michael Collins Piper so clearly in this book, the exposure alone will put an end to the conspiracy.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE HIGH PRIESTS OF WAR

The Secret History of How America's Zionist "Neo-Conservative" Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire

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THAT the war against Iraq being waged by the American administration of President George W. Bush is not only contrary to traditional "conservative" American principles, but contrary to all principles of American foreign policy during the last half century;

THAT the war against Iraq is being waged for far more broad ranging purposes than "regime change" or "eliminating weapons of mass destruction"; first and foremost, as part of an overall effort to establish the United States as the sole international super-power, capable military and economically, to suppress any nations and/or peoples who dare to challenge American hegemony;

THAT the war against Iraq is simply a first step in a long-standing, wide-ranging plan to launch an even more aggressive move against the entire Arab Middle East in order to "remake the Arab world" to secure the survival of - and expand the power of - THE STATE OF ISRAEL;

THAT the war against Iraq is only the initial target of this carefully planned scheme and that, ultimately, other Arab and Muslim states are slated for outright extinction or some form of occupation or control by American military and political forces (IN ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL);

THAT the war against Iraq and the plan for the subjugation of the Arab people is quite simply a modified, modernized adaptation of the historic zionist dream of "Greater Israel," adjusted to meet the demands of the international oil companies, which are, in turn, fully prepared to share the aim of dominating the oil producing states of the Arab world IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL;

THAT the war against Iraq was deliberately orchestrated by a small but powerful network of hard-line "right wing" Zionist elements - the self-styled "neo-conservatives" - at the highest levels of the Bush administration, skillfully aided and abetted by like-minded persons in public policy organizations, think tanks, publications and other institutions, all of which are closely interconnected and, in turn linked to HARD-LINE "LIKUDNIK" FORCES IN ISRAEL;

THAT the war against Iraq and the additional moves by the United States against the Arab world that are slated to follow can be traced to Zionist political intrigue inside the upper levels of the U.S. intelligence community, reaching as far back as the early 1970s, and that many of the same players involved in that activity are now guiding Bush administration policy today;

THAT the war against Iraq is an adjunct to the previously declared "war against terrorism" which was, in itself, part of a long evolving and carefully coordinated propaganda campaign founded on the theory that terrorism is somehow an "Arab" trait;

The High Priests of War will examine all of these aspects, citing a wide variety of sources, and will focus largely on given facts that have received wide circulation in the "mainstream" English-language press in the United States. The facts will speak for themselves. At any time this report delves into speculation or opinion, such views will be duly noted or otherwise clearly apparent.

HELP SPREAD THE NEWS THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY IN IRAQ STARTED FORTY YEARS AGO, NOVEMBER 22, 1963 WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT WAS HIJACKED BY THE INTELLIGENCE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL

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[Connie Rodgers]

BRAVE young woman. Thank you for singing what should be in the hearts and sole of every non-terrorist alive. Beautiful woman, FABULOUS voice.

[Bill Yeager]

Wow, I did not realize the Aussie mood was so anti-anti-terrorism. One would have thought the Bali bombing would have provided Australia enough motivation to bow its collective neck and meet its foe head on (unlike the capitulating Spanish and, likely, the Dems!). Maybe Ms. Cole's motivation was nothing more than a very small vocal minority and her song really reflects the views of the typical Aussie. I sure hope so because we (Americans) have great friends Down Under whom we greatly value. Thank you, Ms. Cole (I admit, I got choked up by your song), Diggers, and Aussies!