7 Dec. 2011
What a crushing disappointment to see in your 7 Dec. strip that you too have chugged the propaganda that blames Iran for our
failures in Iraq. The recent IAEA report was the
latest piece of kangaroo courtliness to accuse Iran of malfeasance—this time in
regard to its nuclear program—and support the charge with pure poppycock.
The loop-tape allegations that Iran has armed and trained
Shiite Iraqi rebels have
never been substantiated. The only
verifiable outside aid and comfort to Shiite militiamen was the training and
weapons then Lt. Gen. David Petraeus gave to Iraqi security force recruits—predominantly
Shiites—who disappeared into the night with 190,000 AK-47s and other combat
gear.
Shame on you, Gary, for allowing yourself to
become one of the warmongery’s leading echo chamberlains.
Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (Retired)
And Mr. Trudeau, please don't forget all of Saddam Hussein's U.S.-supplied weaponry stolen from unsecured Iraqi military depots that the clever, unemployed ex-Iraqi military cobbled together with "improvisation" into cheap, lethal roadside bombs that killed or maimed between 30,000 to 40,000 American soldiers. With such a vast and unaccounted-for cornucopia of U.S. supplied weaponry sloshing around in the country, what possible need has Iran ever had for interfering where America has decided to commit suicide with its own lost, sold, or stolen ordnance?
ReplyDeleteGet a clue, Mr. Trudeau. You really do not seem to have the first idea of what has really happened in Iraq and Iran over the past several decades.
Petty Officer Second Class Michael Murry, U.S. Navy (escaped)
Thx, Mike.
ReplyDeleteTraditionally, the word racket is used to describe a business (or syndicate) that is based on the example of the protection racket and indicates a belief that it is engaged in the sale of a solution to a problem that the institution itself creates or perpetuates, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage.
ReplyDelete-- Wikipedia, definition of racket
The only verifiable outside aid and comfort to Shiite militiamen was the training and weapons then Lt. Gen. David Petraeus gave to Iraqi security force recruits—predominantly Shiites—who disappeared into the night with 190,000 AK-47s and other combat gear.
...Racket fits
Not only is he wrong, but even worse...he's not very funny.
ReplyDeleteJP,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I didn't have to be the one to point that out. ;-)
ER,
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly. A racket.
After checking out the Trudeau cartoon at Slate.com, my watery jaundiced eyes happened to fall upon another example of mind-boggling witlessness from Pentagon mouthpiece Fred Kaplan, who now discourses upon:
ReplyDelete"How To Improve the Advisers -- The U.S. is doing a mediocre job training the Afghan army. Here’s a plan for doing it better."
As a surviving, minor cog in the retreat-covering "advisory" contingent to the now-defunct Republic of South Vietnam, I had some rather unkind words for Mr. Kaplan in the comments section.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2011/12/afghanistan_handoff_the_u_s_needs_to_train_afghan_troops_better.html
Today on Dvorak:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dvorak.org/blog/2011/12/11/why-were-afraid-of-iran/