May 04, 2004
Punching way above their weight...
Sometimes I get discouraged and think the defeatists and appeasers will win, and the War on Terror will have to be fought all over again a few years down the line, when it will be much worse. But then things like this lift my spirits...From the Washington Times:
NAJAF, Iraq — One of his friends was dead, 12 others lay wounded and the four soldiers still left standing were surrounded and out of ammunition. So Salvadoran Cpl. Samuel Toloza said a prayer, whipped out his knife and charged the Iraqi gunmen.and there's this
In one of the only known instances of hand-to-hand combat in the Iraq conflict, Cpl. Toloza stabbed several attackers swarming around a comrade. The stunned assailants backed away momentarily, just as a relief column came to the unit's rescue...
...Phil Kosnett, who leads the Coalition Provisional Authority office in this holy Shi'ite city, says he owes his life to Salvadorans who repelled a well-executed insurgent attack on his three-car convoy in March. He has nominated six of them for the U.S. Army's Bronze Star medal.(Thanx to Andrea) Posted by John Weidner at May 4, 2004 07:09 PM | TrackBack
"You hear this snotty phrase 'coalition of the billing' for some of the smaller contingents," said Mr. Kosnett, referring to the apparent eagerness of some nations to charge their Iraq operations to Washington. "The El Sals? No way. These guys are punching way above their weight. They're probably the bravest and most professional troops I've every worked with."...
Do you know who started the Washington Times?
It was Reverend Sun Myung Moon... Do you trust news from a source that a cult leader started? After all he was convicted of … tax evasion wasn’t it… And he said he was the Messiah… Anyway, he was the guy who helped form that paper’s editorial policy. Of course another founding member of the WT news team, David Brock, has gone on to write extensively about how people at the WT played fast and loose with the truth on a regular basis
You sound pretty silly quoting the Washington Times like it is a real newspaper... It's like saying that you read it in the World Weekly News.
Do you read the Washington Times every day?
Posted by: a. at May 5, 2004 01:55 PMDo you drive a Ford? Do you know that Henry Ford was a notorious anti-semite? Why would you buy a Ford.
Do you support Planned Parenthood? Do you know the founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger was not only a supporter of Hitler but believed in eliminiting the "unfit" Eugenics you know.
Do you support The Demorcratic Party? Do you know the first Democratic president was a man named Andrew Jackson who was not only a slaveowner but was responsible for the trail of tears slaughter of native americans?
We can play this game all day if you like. If you can't refute the news then admit it.
Posted by: P. Ingemi at May 5, 2004 02:52 PMHeh, heh. Thanks P.
Posted by: David at May 5, 2004 07:55 PMP -
Yes I do drive a Ford. But I'm not a big supporter of Planned Parenthood...
However, the ideology of Henry Ford 100 years ago has little to do with my Mustang - he did not print his views on the car's seatcovers...
But the Washington Times was started within the past few decades with an editorial policy that was laregly set by Reverend Moon. And since information and ideology is the primary product of the WT (not cars), you ARE buying into ideology that reflects an agenda similar to the Moonies when you read the WT.
Your comparisons to Ford - although clever - do not hold water.
Respectfully,
Posted by: a. at May 6, 2004 10:47 AM"Washington Times was started within the past few decades with an editorial policy that was laregly set by Reverend Moon"
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? As part of your reply please include in your view why someone who was Senior Editor and Chief Foreign Corrospondent at Newsweek would give that up to be Moon's puppet. Also, please explain if you dismiss every news story from UPI as well, since UPI and the Washington Times are owned by the same company.
Posted by: Lance Jonn Romanoff at May 6, 2004 07:18 PMAs Edwin Black has pointed out in a series in the JTA, the Ford Foundation does follow it's founders
philosophy when it comes to the Middle East;
funding a series of Palestinian propaganda & other
efforts.
The point about Sanger is appropriate, the more pertinent example is that of Jay Rockefeller, whose family was one of the leading eugenics
boosters, and whose extensive network of financial
links lead to pre war Germany, and to the early
oil concessions in both Mesopotamia & Arabia.
Forget the Washington Times - I'm Phil's wife and I assure you this was an understated version of the story. It also appeared in several other papers throughout the world.
Posted by: Alison Kosnett at May 11, 2004 03:02 PMForget the Washington Times - I'm Phil's wife and I assure you this was an understated version of the story. It also appeared in several other papers throughout the world.
Posted by: Alison Kosnett at May 11, 2004 03:02 PMThanks Alison! I posted an update today, May 11...
Posted by: John Weidner at May 11, 2004 08:30 PM
