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It was about the life of a wonderful person, beloved by friends and family, serving in Iraq.

Who died.

Yes, that’s right, the good news from Iraq was that a wonderful soldier was killed.

Marie is a sick fuck.

“Within five minutes of arriving at the Fallujah-Iraqi Police Station headquarters, I was welcomed by the sound of shouts and hurried footsteps. An Iraqi policeman had been shot at the northwest perimeter of the station — a sniper had found his mark.

“Is he going to live?� I asked a Marine standing by on the fringes of the press.

“Dunno, his guts are hanging out.�

With the wound dressed and the patient stabilized, the Iraqi Police carried their wounded comrade down to an Iraqi Police patrol truck (ambulances are juicy targets for insurgents) and transport to Camp Fallujah Surgical.

Navy corpsmen are a key component of a Marine Police Transition Team, an elite advisory unit responsible for equipping and training local Iraqis to take back the city from the confusing alliance of foreign terrorists and local insurgents currently sowing havoc.

In addition to the medical treatment they provide their Marines, also critical is the lifesaving care given to the Iraqi Police, who are subject to murderous intimidation outside of police headquarters, and who take traumatic injuries at an exponentially higher rate than their advisors.”

…. So the good news is that snipers are shooting policemen literally in front of their doors. Note that there’s no indication of any effort to track the sniper, its just par for the course. He’s been disembowelled. He’s carted away in a truck because ambulances, outside the police station, are too dangerous. Police are taking traumatic injuries at exponential rates. The city…. the same city that was levelled months ago… is overrun by foreign and local insurgents.

This is clearly a version of good news with which I am unfamiliar. Or perhaps its good news for Sunni insurgents.

“Jurgensmier is a thin, baby-faced 21-year-old who joined up after his brother took part in Operation al Fajr, the famed Marine assault on the city. He is well-loved by his Iraqi charges.”

Well, there’s no racism here. I imagine he rubs their heads for luck, them happy childlike charges.

“Some of these guys have seen a doctor once, maybe twice in their life.”

Suuuuuuuuurrrrrrrreeee they have. This was a country with the most advanced health care system in the middle east, the centre of medical technology and advanced techniques in the Arab world, free universal health care. At least until the Americans came along.

” I’m doing it not only to help them, but because if I help them they feel like they owe me something, and that’s good for the team. They come back with information, they’ll turn someone in or actually start doing their job.”

Uh huh.

“I’ve had it happen a couple of times — one guy brought in a list of names of possible insurgents in the area and where they live.”

Or maybe just a bunch of people he doesn’t like?

” In the beginning I just wanted to help them, but it turned out that they have an impressionable mentality. ”

Them darned childlike Iraqi’s. Deep down, they’s just happy pickaninnies who need a white man to set them straight.

“Two hours after the belly wound was evacuated for surgery, one of Watson’s former trauma patients came in to have a bandage changed on a feeding tube in his stomach. A month ago, the man was shot clean through both cheeks while guarding a post office.”

Seems the post office isn’t any safer than the police station.

” We usually get about three to four seriously wounded per week. The most was 12 in one week. That was crazy.â€?

Uh huh.

If Malkin figures this is good news, she’s on crack.

They just run the fucking correction.

BTW, Yankme sez the Bible and Jesus sanction murdering people who don’t convert to Christianity.

Hey, Michelle? While you’re at it, maybe you could check around and see if there’s any WMDs laying around over there. ‘Cause theres no end to a story if a wingnut likes it…

mikey

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006641.htm
Corrections
By Michelle Malkin · January 06, 2007 09:40 PM
In this particular instance, it appears, Kerry was not spurned by the troops.
I stand corrected and apologize for the error.
I do not apologize, however, for …accounts of Kerry’s visit like this one:
“…Everybody avoided him like the plague.”

She also points out that wacko lefties had pursued weird theories about this incident. Like the weird theory that the datestamp inside the digital photo might have been accurate. (It wasn’t.) Talk about weird theories! Responsible right-wingers would never push weird forgery theories!

Ms. Malkin also points out that the New York Times has made unacknowledged errors (*), but she just issued a correction, so her credibility is way way more credible than the un-credible New York Times.

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(*) that were documented in a column in the New York Times

Oh, by the way;

“I relayed information from multiple sources–CPATT, Centcom, and two other military sources on the ground in Iraq– that the Associated Press’s disputed source, Jamil Hussein, could not be found. As I noted on the 4th, the AP reported that the Ministry of Interior in Iraq has now said a Captain Jamil Hussein does work in the al Khadra police station. I regret the error. But no blogger should apologize for raising legitimate questions about AP’s transparency, its reliance on local foreign stringers of dubious origins, and information that sources such as Hussein have provided the AP. I will continue to pursue some of the unresolved issues related to this.”

Malkinbitchfuckcunt.

Please consider quitting it before you hit it [apologies to James Brown].

But Tom Zeller, Jr., who runs The New York Times’ blog called The Lede focused not on the positive I.D. of the police captain but on the “unanswered questions” about his reliability as a source, endorsing the conservative bloggers’ view that this “more substantive issue remains unresolved.”

The abused housewives rationalizing, as always.

Yeah, I’m sure he keeps up with whatever idiocy the wingnut blogs are chattering about during his copious free time. Because rightwing blogs are the axis of the universe around which all of creation spins and toward which all the peoples of the world look when they wish to be informed.

Right. He probably didn’t know about any of this jackassery until they arrested him.