We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:19:42 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ************************ Major Bell has another funny story. Here's a taste: Day two: The alarm went off at 0500, "Oh Lord, I can't move!" It took every ounce of will power to get dressed. I admit it; I whined like a baby to these hard chargers at the bunker and demanded that we dumb this down a... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:40:46 -0600 Stiffed. Chief Bill has mentioned what really happened some here, but simply put: Hersh sat around and the story fell into his lap. It was the courage of someone else that made the breaking of what happened at My Lai occur. The man's been cracked since the late sixties and hasn't stopped peddling all out crap since(remember him saying we were on the verge, immenent was his word of choice, of going to war with Iran in '04?). The man is totally full of it and doesn't mind offering us a heaping handful at every oppurtunity. I'm surprised people even take him seriously anymore. Here's another one asking, though old, why anyone listens to an admitted fabricator. Kat, which is a sentiment I wish more people in our fine country would learn to understand. You've got data all over the spectrum. It isn't like sticking a bunch of samples into an HPLC and getting weird data that you can use statistics on to winnow out the right answer(last time I checked there was no q-test for anamolous events in geo-politics). You make the best call you can on the fuzzy situation as best you can. With all kinds of conflicting reports. It's hardly ever so cut and dry as they like to make it out on tv.(Though, unlike John, I can't claim design or purpose to invoke that feeling as he did with his Bastogne posts in December.) ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html#comment-57206 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html#comment-57206 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:04:59 -0600 Jeesh, reading all the opposing reports, this is almost crazy how much of it is completely off the wall, plain out lies. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html#comment-57188 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/hi_fires_1.html#comment-57188 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:14:19 -0600