The left never changes

This is Roni De Joseph of Brooklyn, one of the infamous wannabe Vietnam veterans embraced by and perpetuated by the US main stream media in order to portray veterans of America's longest war as cringing, crying, jungle fatigue-wearing losers.

De Joseph never spent a day in uniform, let alone in the Third Mar Div., let alone in Vietnam or combat.

Because he fit perfectly the leftist media stereotype, this picture flashed around the world, and though he was exposed as a fraud, the photo still shows up in publications and on the Internet.

For some time now the same people who opposed the Vietnam War--many of who personally dodged the draft--are now at the peak of their journalism careers and are attempting to destroy Iraq veterans in the same way.

The latest smoking gun is found in the pages of the far left rag The New Republic which recently published the shocking and brutal account of American soldiers in Iraq. Under the by line of "Scott Thomas", the "Baghdad Diarist"stories are no doubt believed by the gullible and anti-war, anti-militray zealots. To anyone who isn't prepared to hate our troops at the drop of a helmet, the story drips with the unbelievable.

To wit "Shock Troops" -- the third article by "Thomas" whom TNR describes as: "the pseudonym for a freelance writer and soldier currently serving in Baghdad.

"The diaries have described some shocking incidents of military life, including soldiers openly mocking a disfigured woman on their base and a private wearing a found piece of a child’s skull under his helmet.

"The magazine granted anonymity to the writer to keep him from being punished by his military superiors and to allow him to write candidly, Mr. Foer said. He said that he had met the writer and that he knows that he is, in fact, a soldier." --  (Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic.)

Even if "Scott Thomas" actually exists, and is a soldier serving in Iraq (which most veterans highly doubt) the anti-war cadre of the New Republic intentionally turns off its minimal journalistic standards on this story simply because it hates America, and hates her sons and daughters who go in harm's way.

The "Baghdad Diarist" smacks of "Valley of Death"... the 1998 CNN/Time Magazine joint report that claimed after "Operation Tailwind" by SOG troops tasked with eliminating a group of American defectors holed up in a village in Laos. Further, Time and CNN claimed that sarin gas had been used and killed 100 Laotian men, women, and children were killed in the attack and the defectors hunted down and killed.

According to Valley of Death, the agent had been sprayed from aircraft twice - once to prep the village and once during the extraction. You don't have to have any military experience to make a spot-on guess as to what would happen if someone "sprayed" a deadly toxin from an airplane at 120 knots with friendlies near or in the drop zone... yes, dead friendlies. Curiously, there were none.

The main source fro the story was former SOG Lt. Robert Van Buskirk who suddenly remembered this incident a quarter-century later via "recovered memory" duirng a period of psychological stress.

Uh-huh.

Short story: the SOG community went nuts, CNN's top military analyst declared the story unbelievable and resigned over its broadcast, veterans demanded retractions.

In the end, a Time/CNN "investigation" could verify nothing regarding the allegation of sarin gas.

Two CNN producers were fired, other reporters were disciplined and resigned.

The left never tires of attacking veterans and the military, despite the fact more than 30 years had passed since the last American left Vietnam

Such lies and intentional stereotypes are employed more frequently than non-veterans notice; and now, since 9/11, the left has fresh targets.. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our troops are mentally-disturbed, torturing, baby-killing psychopaths too stupid for college and unable to get work as a janitor, so they had to enlist in the military.... sound familiar? It does to me. Only this time, reporters and members of Congress and presidential candidates participate in the routine libel and slander.

Abu Graib was on the front page for months.... Medals of Honor, Silver Stars, Purple Hearts, schools built, medical care provided, lives saved... nowhere to be found. The only time a service member or a veteran stands a good chance of being on the front page is when the left can take video and still photos of their amputated stumps, burns or empty eye sockets.

Honorable men and women often making the ultimate sacrifice? No... only hapless, helpless victims.

In the end, the only thing veterans of this war will have besides themselves, is older veterans.

 

Comments

[Ann]

Thanks for this article! I was a Marine who deployed twice to Afghanistan, and I love how everyone parrots a few deplorable or completely misrepresented incidents over all the good we do. Half our MEDEVACs are for local nationals. The majority of those are invariably either wounded enemy fighters, accidents unrelated to combat, or innocent civilians harmed by insurgents.

I'm also disgusted with how veterans are portrayed by the media. Most of my fellow Marines were very intelligent individuals who enlisted for a variety of reasons, and ultimatums over criminal behavior or a complete inability to do anything else weren't among them. I myself am by far no genius, but I was a National Honor Society member who turned down several scholarships and acceptance letters to some stellar schools because I wanted to serve my country. My service wasn't notable, but it was honorable (no mindless baby killing to speak of.) I'm sure what IS groundbreaking to people who only read IVAW or New York Times dispatches is that as a woman I even managed to spend five years in a 99% male environment, with two deployments, and amazingly was never raped or sexually harassed by any of my military colleagues. I'm sure the media will be disappointed over my post military experience being pursuing a college pre-med track minus any drug addiction, psychosis, or criminal behavior. Shockingly enough, the vast majority of those I served with are also successful people who contribute positively to society. I imagine Brian de Palma presently must be weeping over the lack of seedy script fodder.

[Mark]

Leftist media? Left, right, or center we're all Americans and many of us leftists served in Vietnam. The only villians are those that try to divide this country and point fingers trying to blame one group for all the faults of this great country.

[DontAskMe]

Fake war heroes are just another bitter reality the true heroes have to face.

The big lie is alive and well and has many fans around the world (what would any "ism" be without it?)

The perceived "worth" and "value" of today's vets will be in direct proportion to the perceived worth and value (and success) of the war(s) on terror.

Our enemies (including those within) are trying to turn us against ourselves, like they did over Vietnam. Fooled twice, shame on us.

We spend billions of dollars on smart bombs to avoid civilian casualties, while our enemies blow up crowds of people cheering a soccer victory. Why is it so hard for some people to figure out which ones are the "bad guys"?

God bless our troops.

As usual, Gary, you are "right on" (to use a pop phrase from the 60's)... please do write on.

S/F

[Garry K]

I would hope that "Scott Thomas" would be assigned to permanent point duty.

LT: Sgt., we've got a report that there's a suspected IED up ahead."

SGT: "Yes, sir. We'll send our robot to go and check it out."

LT: "Robot! We can't afford to lose a perfectly good robot. Send Private Beauchamp!"

[Garry K]

I would hope that "Scott Thomas" would be assigned to permanent point duty.

LT: Sgt., we've got a report that there's a suspected IED up ahead."

SGT: "Yes, sir. We'll send our robot to go and check it out."

LT: "Robot! We can't afford to lose a perfectly good robot. Send Private Beauchamp!"

[Dan Patterson]

A sad truth of our time. Also an opportunity for those like you to spread the true story, and good work, of the military's efforts.

Keep up the good work.

Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel