congratulations,bryanz...for unwittingly,yet effectively dragging the topic away from the treasonous actions of the times...
random stuff i`ve read........and some opinions...
""An Lt. in Iraq writes the NYT.""
Dear Messrs. Keller, Lichtblau & Risen:
""Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.)
Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.
Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.
And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.""
Very truly yours,
Tom Cotton
Baghdad, Iraq........................................................
a little history lesson...
very similar to today`s war on terror...liberals and the american appeasement crowd of 1939-1941....
"progressive" senator bob la follette ...(wisconsin) ....
1939...he condemned u.s. companies for selling military supplies to france and england.....saying no one should profit from europe`s war making....
1940. ...he opposed giving any aid to england, including lend-lease.... he didn't care if england fell to facism.....
and his money quote. ...."this bill will give roosevelt dictatoral powers second only to hitler and stalin"....
sound familiar?
the "radical left", wrong in 1940, wrong (and saying the same things) in 2006......
but,if this were the clinton administration...or the kerry adminstration.....trying to trace terrorist bank transfers..and the media exposed the classified program...i can say without a moment`s hesitation,i`d still be going nuts about this...
is their bush derangment syndrome that bad?...... do they hate bush and this country so much they'd commit suicide just to bring his poll numbers down?.......
i guess,yes....
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i'm back on my heels at how insane the "far/radical" left has become(not guys on this board like chad,kosar,stevie,smurph et al that just have a different philosophy...i`m talking the loons)... but i guess i shouldn't be surprised either.....
if you can't give up on marxism after the trail of suffering and death it's left, you can't be reasoned with......
think about the lunacy at college campus`(campi?) around the country, you know what type of country these academics/journalists would make if they were in charge.....
they hate everything this country was founded on, and most are still dissapointed the soviet union fell and reagan was proven right.....
so, imo,, they do hate the u.s.a. and will do everything in their power to change it the way they want it....including endagering our troops, and leaking classified information in time of war....they are becoming the enemy
i can only hope that the majority of americans are getting sick of this shit......
