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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 04:18 pm: | 
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Dear Michael:
I need your help to blast CNN. Please have us on your program....
As parents of fallen soldier, Sgt Patrick Tainsh, my husband and I allowed CNN to come to our home on Wednesday night to interview us after the President's speech. (We also met with President Bush at Ft Benning on Thursday) My husband, USMC Sgt Maj (ret) and I support our President and understand the importance of winning this war.
Upon his preparing to leave, although we knew the answer, my husband ask the reporter.,Bob Franken, why more negative than positive was shouted by the media (which is causing lack of understanding to the public of why we must win this war)...Franken, standing near our son's folded flag and Silver Star said " Where no house is on fire, there is no news, Where it bleeds it leads."
And when I replied to the reporter, "you mean you're willing to report negativity that feeds the insurgency which emboldens them and causes death to our troops and can cause death to us," he said
"Not our problem, we just report the fires. It's a democracy."
Well, Michael, now I'm reporting this soulless idiot to you.
I hope if Franken and all media persons who "feed death" are ever allowed into heaven, Patrick and all our other fallen give them all a good "... kicking" since it is the soldier that gives the media rights they take carelessly to the danger zone. And all the negative that is reported is adding enormous weight to the grief our military families carry.
Deborah Tainsh
Gold Star Mom, grief peer mentor, speaker, author : Heart of a Hawk: One family's sacrifice and journey toward healing
Midland, Georgia
(20 miles from Ft. Benning)
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 05:38 pm: |
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Maybe you could report the positive to us, Michael? Would it be Halliburton's profits, sewage in the drinking water, the 100 or so murders that happen every single day, the ongoing lack of electricity, medical care, the hundreds of thousands of displaced and homeless Iraqis? Tell us Michael, did a school get painted today? Did a soldier give a small child a piece of candy or a football? Did that small child still have all his arms and legs or was he perhaps a victim of Shock and Awe or the cluster bombs we dropped on Baghdad?
(Message edited by jennifer03801 on January 16, 2007)
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 08:24 am: |
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And now a letter from Michael, Moore that is:
Dear Mr. President: Send Even MORE Troops (and you go, too!)
Dear Mr. President,
Thanks for your address to the nation. It's good to know you still want to talk to us after how we behaved in November.
Listen, can I be frank? Sending in 20,000 more troops just ain't gonna do the job. That will only bring the troop level back up to what it was last year. And we were losing the war last year! We've already had over a million troops serve some time in Iraq since 2003. Another few thousand is simply not enough to find those weapons of mass destruction! Er, I mean... bringing those responsible for 9/11 to justice! Um, scratch that. Try this -- BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE MIDDLE EAST! YES!!!
You've got to show some courage, dude! You've got to win this one! C'mon, you got Saddam! You hung 'im high! I loved watching the video of that -- just like the old wild west! The bad guy wore black! The hangmen were as crazy as the hangee! Lynch mobs rule!!!
Look, I have to admit I feel very sorry for the predicament you're in. As Ricky Bobby said, "If you're not first, you're last." And you being humiliated in front of the whole world does NONE of us Americans any good.
Sir, listen to me. You have to send in MILLIONS of troops to Iraq, not thousands! The only way to lick this thing now is to flood Iraq with millions of us! I know that you're out of combat-ready soldiers -- so you have to look elsewhere! The only way you are going to beat a nation of 27 million -- Iraq -- is to send in at least 28 million! Here's how it would work:
The first 27 million Americans go in and kill one Iraqi each. That will quickly take care of any insurgency. The other one million of us will stay and rebuild the country. Simple.
Now, I know you're saying, where will I find 28 million Americans to go to Iraq? Here are some suggestions:
1. More than 62,000,000 Americans voted for you in the last election (the one that took place a year and half into a war we already knew we were losing). I am confident that at least a third of them would want to put their body where their vote was and sign up to volunteer. I know many of these people and, while we may disagree politically, I know that they don't believe someone else should have to go and fight their fight for them -- while they hide here in America.
2. Start a "Kill an Iraqi" Meet-Up group in cities across the country. I know this idea is so early-21st century, but I once went to a Lou Dobbs Meet-Up and, I swear, some of the best ideas happen after the third mojito. I'm sure you'll get another five million or so enlistees from this effort.
3. Send over all members of the mainstream media. After all, they were your collaborators in bringing us this war -- and many of them are already trained from having been "embedded!" If that doesn't bring the total to 28 million, then draft all viewers of the FOX News channel.
Mr. Bush, do not give up! Now is not the time to pull your punch! Don't be a weenie by sending in a few over-tired troops. Get your people behind you and YOU lead them in like a true commander in chief! Leave no conservative behind! Full speed ahead!
We promise to write. Go get 'em W!
Yours,
Michael Moore
“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one” - Elbert Hubbard
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 06:49 pm: |
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01/21/07 MNF: Two Marines killed in separate incidents in Al Anbar
Two Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit were killed in separate incidents Jan. 21 from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province.
01/21/07 AP: Brooklyn Family Wants More Info On Sailor Dead In Iraq
The family of a sailor from Brooklyn who died in Iraq wants to know more about what happened...Alomar's mother, Aileen Encarnacion, told the New York Post that the family learned that her son was found with a bullet in his head.
01/21/07 MNF: IED kills 1 soldier northeast of Baghdad
A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier died when an improvised explosive device detonated targeting a security patrol northeast of the Iraqi capital Jan. 20. [url pending]
01/21/07 MNF: Four Soldiers, one Marine killed in separate incidents in Al Anbar
Four Soldiers and One Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died Saturday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province.
01/21/07 LATimes: Taming Iraq's 'wild west'
In a country studded with areas where the U.S. has either failed or made only limited progress toward stabilization, Husaybah and the surrounding Qaim region stand out as a success, officials said.
01/21/07 AP: Car bomb kills 1, wounds 5 in Baghdad
A parked car bomb also exploded outside a restaurant in eastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five, according to police.
01/21/07 AP: Suicide bomber kills woman in Mosul
A suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed one woman and wounded five other people in the northern city of Mosul
01/21/07 Reuters: Two policemen killed in Falluja
Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.
01/21/07 Reuters: Militias kidnapp and kill employee of the Sunni Endowment
Militias kidnapped and killed an employee of the Sunni Endowment, a body responsible for Sunni mosques in Iraq, and six of his friends in the town of Madaen in the south eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarai...
01/21/07 Reuters: Iraqi army kills 9 insurgents in in different parts of Iraq
Iraqi army troops killed nine insurgents and arrested 85 during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
01/21/07 Reuters: Gunmen attack guards at oil facilities in Dibis
Gunmen attacked guards protecting oil facilities, seized their weapons and vehicles and set an oil well on fire in the town of Dibis, police said.
01/21/07 Reuters: Iraqi police kill 3 insurgents in Ramadi
Iraqi police said three insurgents were killed in clashes with Iraqi police and U.S. forces in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
01/21/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill army captain in the area of Abbasi
Gunmen killed an army captain and kidnapped his brother in the area of Abbasi, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.
01/21/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill deputy head of a municipality in Dibis
Gunmen shot the deputy head of a municipality in Dibis, northeast of Kirkuk, when they opened fire on his car, police said.
01/21/07 AP: Gunmen who killed Americans posed as diplomats
The gunmen who killed five U.S. troops in the Shiite holy city of Karbala wore military uniforms and used vehicles commonly driven by foreign dignitaries — an apparent attempt to impersonate Americans, Iraqi officials said today.
01/21/07 UPI: Three Iranians arrested in Iraq
Iraqi officials say police have arrested three Iranians who entered Iraq illegally. The three Iranians were arrested late Saturday at a checkpoint east of Mosul without official documents, Maj. Gen. and Police Chief of Nainawa province...
01/21/07 guardian: British soldier dies in Basra blast
A British soldier has been killed after a roadside bomb struck his patrol vehicle in southern Iraq. Four soldiers were also injured, one seriously, in the incident which took place in the northern part of Basra, said the Ministry of Defence.
01/21/07 Xinhua: Woman killed in suicide car bomb targeting Iraqi army
A woman was killed and six others wounded when a suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol went off in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, Nineveh provincial police source said.
01/21/07 UPDATE: Correction 12, not 13, killed in Blackhawk helicopter
Twelve American Soldiers, which included eight passengers and four crewmembers, were aboard the aircraft and all were killed. This is a correction from the 13 casualties initially reported in MNCI Press Release No. 20070120-11.
01/21/07 AP: Bomb Explodes on Bus in Baghdad; 6 Dead
A bomb struck a small bus headed to a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding 10, police said. The bus was en route from the Bab al-Sharqi area to the nearby commercial district of Karradah...
“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one” - Elbert Hubbard
Let us today take a stand to end all kinds of fear and hatred of "the other." - Abdul Malik Mujahid
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 08:01 am: |
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01/22/07 Wired: The Invisible Enemy in Iraq
Since OPERATION Iraqi Freedom began in 2003, more than 700 US soldiers have been infected or colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii. A significant number of additional cases have been found in the Canadian and British armed forces...
01/22/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 3 policemen in Tal Afar
A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three policemen and wounded nine, including two policemen, in the northern town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
01/22/07 Reuters: Civilian and two Iraqi soldiers killed in Mosul
A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a woman and wounded four people, including two soldiers, on Sunday in the northern city of Mosul...Two more soldiers were killed when troops went to the scene to retrieve the casualties.
01/22/07 Reuters: Eight Bodies found in Mosul, one in the town of Mahaweel
The bodies of eight people were found on Sunday in different districts of Mosul, police said. All had been shot...Police recovered the body of a man, bound and shot, from an irrigation canal on Sunday in the town of Mahaweel...
01/22/07 Reuters: Car bombs blast Baghdad, killing 65-ministry
Two car bombs ripped through a busy commercial area of central Baghdad on Monday, killing 65 people and wounding 110, the Interior Ministry said. After a relative lull in violence in the capital at the weekend, the car bombs exploded simultaneously...
01/22/07 AP: Bombs kill scores of people in central Baghdad
Two nearly simultaneous bombs struck a predominantly Shiite commercial area in central Baghdad, killing at least 62 people and wounding dozens, police said.
01/21/07 mysanantonio: Services set for contractor killed in Iraq
Hector C. Patiño, the San Antonio native killed in Iraq on Jan. 13 while working for a private contractor...worked for Houston-based KBR Inc., was delivering water to the Australian Embassy in Baghdad when he was shot and killed by guards...
01/21/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Russell P. Borea, 38, of El Paso, Texas, died of injuries suffered in Mosul on Jan. 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Borea was assigned to the 2d Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment...
01/21/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Jason J. Corbett, 23, of Casper, Wyo., died Jan. 15 of injuries sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire during combat operations in Karmah, Iraq. Spc. Corbett was assigned to the 1st Battalion...
01/21/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. William J. Rechenmacher, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Jan. 18 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations.
01/21/07 AP: Iraqi leader drops protection of militia
Iraq's prime minister has dropped his protection of an anti-American cleric's Shiite militia after U.S. intelligence convinced him the group was infiltrated by death squads, two officials said Sunday.
01/21/07 Reuters: Iraq Shi'ites reach political deal
The political movement of Iraqi cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr said it would end a two-month boycott of parliament on Sunday, smoothing over a rift with its Shi'ite allies in the U.S.-backed government.
01/21/07 AFP: Nearly 300 Iraqi oil workers killed last year
Iraq’s oil ministry lost 289 workers who were killed in attacks in 2006, Oil Minister Hussein Al Shahristani said yesterday...“In 2006, 289 of our employees were killed and 179 were wounded in such attacks.”
“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one” - Elbert Hubbard
Let us today take a stand to end all kinds of fear and hatred of "the other." - Abdul Malik Mujahid
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 03:41 am: |
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01/22/07 myfoxal: Alabama Soldier Killed in Iraq
A soldier from Locust Fork has become the first Alabama soldier killed in Iraq in 2007. Jonathan Millican, 20, is a native of Locust Fork. He graduated high school from there in 2005.
01/22/07 AP: Northern Wisconsin Soldier Killed In Iraq
Lance Cpl. Andrew Matus, 19, graduated in 2005 from Weyerhaeuser High School and had already signed up to be a Marine before that, his father Gary Matus of Chetek said when contacted Monday evening.
01/22/07 MSNBC: Captured intel reveals al-Qaida U.S. attack plan
U.S. military and counterterrorism officials have told NBC News that a recent U.S. raid on an al-Qaida safehouse in Iraq uncovered unspecific plans to conduct terrorist attacks outside Iraq — including the United States.
01/22/07 msnbc: Al-Qaida deputy mocks U.S. ‘surge’ strategy
Al-Qaida's deputy leader mocked President Bush's plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, challenging him to send "the entire army" and vowing insurgents will defeat them in a new videotape, a U.S. group that tracks al-Qaida messages said Monday.
01/22/07 MCT: In Iraq, attacks against civilians, Americans grow
A license plate from a car registered to Iraq's minister of trade was found on an SUV used by the gunmen who killed five American soldiers in the city of Karbala on Saturday, an Iraqi police official said Monday...
01/22/07 abcnews: Black Hawk Likely Shot Down in Iraq
In a troubling development that may signify a new vulnerability for U.S. troops, the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed northeast of Baghdad Saturday appears to have been brought down by a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile...
01/22/07 wmcstations: Ark. soldier dies in helicopter crash in Iraq
An Arkansas soldier was among the twelve U-S soldiers killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed Saturday in Iraq...Taylor's father-in-law, Sandy Sanders, says Taylor was piloting the helicopter when it went down northeast of Baghdad.
01/22/07 theadvertiser: 22-year-old from Prairieville among latest war dead
A U.S. soldier from Prairieville is among the latest to die in Iraq, his mother said. Bryan Chism, 22, who “liked anybody and everybody,” was one of five U.S. soldiers killed in Karbala, Iraq, on Saturday, his mother, Elizabeth Chism, said Sunday.
01/22/07 news10now: Homer soldier killed in Iraq
Shawn Patrick Falter, a son, a brother, a high school athlete, and, now, a fallen soldier -- Cortland County's first in the Iraq War. Local soldier killed in Iraq...Private Shawn Falter was killed Saturday in Iraq. Falter is a native.
01/22/07 bakersfieldonline: Bakersfield born soldier killed in Iraq
Brian Scott Freeman, a 31-year-old soldier who spent the first years of his life in Bakersfield, was killed Saturday in Iraq, according to relatives. Freeman's father, Randy Freeman, said he learned of his son's death on Sunday.
01/22/07 KTVZ: Another Oregon soldier killed in Iraq
U.S. Army Sgt. Sean Fennerty of Portland has been killed in combat in Iraq, the Oregon Military Department said Monday. Fennerty, 26, died Saturday in Al Anbar Province when the vehicle he was in was struck by a roadside bomb or IED
01/22/07 AP: 137 Killed or Found Dead Across Iraq
A suicide bomber crashed his car into a central Baghdad market crowded with Shiites just seconds after another car bomb tore through the stalls...leaving 88 dead Monday in the bloodiest attack in two months.
01/22/07 Reuters: Gunmen killed police Major in western Baghdad
Gunmen killed police Major Amer Fadhil in a drive-by shooting near Shaab stadium in western Baghdad, police said.
01/22/07 Reuters: 29 tortured and bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad
Police found 29 tortured and bullet-riddled bodies in various districts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/22/07 Reuters: Mortar fire kills civilian in southwestern Baghdad
One civilian was killed and another wounded when a mortar round landed on a house in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.
01/22/07 Reuters: At least 14 people killed, 40 wounded by bomb near Baquba
At least 14 people were killed and 40 wounded when a bomb exploded in a market near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, police sources said.
01/22/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap government official in Baquba
Gunmen kidnapped Khaled al-Sanjari, a local government official in Baquba, while he was on his way to work and set the office on fire, police said. Baquba lies 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
01/22/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Allen B. Jaynes, 21, of Henderson, Texas, died Jan. 20 in Iraq of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team...
01/22/07 DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (part 2)
Lance Cpl. Luis J. Castillo, 20, of Lawton, Mich., died Jan. 20 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Castillo was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment...
01/22/07 DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (part 1)
Cpl. Jacob H. Neal, 23, of San Marcos, Texas, died Jan. 19 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Neal was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division...
01/22/07 fijitimes: 12 soldiers leave for Iraq under UN banner
Twelve soldiers of the Fiji Military Forces have been seconded by the United Nations to Iraq to work as personal security guards, which according to the military, is proof the UN still wants Fiji in its service.
01/22/07 CBS/AP: Report - Gunmen In U.S. Uniforms Killed GIs
A brazen attack on U.S. troops in southwest Iraq which left five soldiers dead was carried out by insurgents cleverly disguised to look like American officials in armored sports utility vehicles, according to a report Monday in the Washington Post.
01/22/07 wcpo: Tri-State Soldier Dies In Iraq
U.S. Army Sgt. Phillip McNeill, 22 years old, was killed on Saturday 1/20 in Al Anbar province, Iraq when his Humvee was struck by an IED. He was serving with A Company, 3-509 Infantry.
01/22/07 MNF: One Task Force Lightning Soldier killed, four wounded
A Task Force Lightning Soldier assigned to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, was killed Monday when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while conducting combat operations in Ninewa province.
01/22/07 MoD: Private Michael Tench killed in Basrah City, Iraq
Private Michael Tench, aged 18, of A Company, 2nd Battalion The Light Infantry, died as a result of injuries sustained from an Improvised Explosive Device placed at a roadside in Basrah City, Southern Iraq.
01/22/07 DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer A. Valdivia, 27, of Cambridge, Ill., was discovered deceased on Jan. 16, 2007, in Bahrain. Valdivia was assigned to the naval security force for Naval Support Activity, Bahrain. Valdivia’s death was a non-combat...
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(Message edited by jennifer03801 on January 23, 2007)
“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one” - Elbert Hubbard
Let us today take a stand to end all kinds of fear and hatred of "the other." - Abdul Malik Mujahid
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