Doug Ross:
Remember that phrase — “grim milestone” — whenever a round number of U.S. troops had perished in Afghanistan or Iraq? Gallons of ink were consumed to market the phrase during the years George W. Bush served as president.
In August, the U.S. surpassed the 2,000 KIA mark in Afghanistan to almost no fanfare. As Dan Riehl observes, much of the U.S. is numb to the heroic sacrifices of our military, primarily because vintage media no longer has a Republican president to hammer.
In June, the number of fallen U.S. soldiers reached 2,000 in the Afghani theater of operations. More than twice as many U.S. troops have perished in Afghanistan under President Obama’s command in three-and-a-half years than during President Bush’s two terms in office.
And unlike the Bush era, most of big media completely ignored the grim milestone:
The Anti-War Left has rolled over and played dead for this president.
I remember how the press jumped up and down and stomped their feet demanding that Bush allow them to photograph the flag draped coffins being received at Dover. “Americans have a right to know” was the press’ mantra. All that ended on January 20, 2009 when Obama was sworn in.
You see, to the press, which I have nothing but disdain for, our fallen military were nothing more than a battering ram to use against George W. Bush, and when they saw their Marxist hero elected, and sworn in, our military was of no more use to them.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center has decided that the Own Wall Street crowd, with its rapes, murders, feces smearing, drunkeness, child abuse and drug abuse, is now a “right” wing organization. Can we call the left insane now?
THERE YOU GO AGAIN OBAMA, RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE DEATH WHILE THE MUSLIM GET INTO AMERICA FREE, THIS TWICE THE DEATH OF THE BRAVEST IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO SWALLOW
FOR AMERICANS CITIZENS,
AND AS WE WATCH THE FOX REPLAY THE 9/11 IT IS TERRIBLE TO COMPREHEND
THAT AFGHANISTAN WAR SHOULD CONTINUE ANY LONGER,
LIKE CLINT EASTWOOD SAID; WHY NOT TOMORROW,
AND WHY NOT? AND WHY NOT? TOMORROW LET THEM COME BACK AFTER THEY LEVEL THAT HATEFUL WAR,
9/11 HERE COME THE SMOKE, PEOPLE JUMP OUT THEIR HUNDREDS OF STAIRS, THE FIREFIGHTERS STAY THERE AND ARE PRISONER UNDER THE RUBLES AND LEFT TO DIE,
PEOPLE CALLING FOR HELP AND THE HELP COME FROM THE BRAVES BUT THEY DON’T RETURN.
AND THEY MUSLIM BUILT A MOSQUE BESIDE, AND OBAMA ALLOWED IT.
OUR FATHER WHO ARE IN HEAVEN, DELIVER US DELIVER AMERICA FROM EVIL PLEASE
I made it a point to watch how ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC reported on our casualties after obama took office.
Under Bush, they mentioned KIA 100% of the time when they reported a story on Iraq or Afghanistan.
Obama? What casualties?
Proof you are wrong. They have not rolled over. They are actively assisting him.
retIre05
it was proven the WHITE HOUSE ALONG WITH THE UNION STARTED THE OCCUPIERS OWS AND THEY NURTURE THEM, THAT’S WHY IT WENT SO FAR,
AND THOSE MADE A LOT OF DAMAGES DURING THAT TIME AND THE WHITE HOUSE ALLOW THEM TO BREAK THE RULES AND HARASS THE GOOD CITIZENS, NOW IT SEEM THOSE ARE REBELLING
TURNED AGAINST OBAMA THAT’S WHY THEY CALL THEM ON THE SIDE OF THE CONSERVATIVES WHICH IS NOT TRUE AT ALL, THEY WHERE CREATED BY THE LIBERALS DEMOCRATS WHO PROTECTED THEM AND IT WAS TO MAKE TROUBLE FOR THE BIG WALL STREET COMPANIES,
A LA UNION THUGS STYLE WHICH JOIN THEM AND PAID THEM, THAT WAS WHEN OBAMA KEPT
DEMONIZING WALL STREET
@HardRight I know. I was implying that they were lap dogs at the beck and call of their master. Remember Nightline reading the rolls of the fallen? Doonesbury printing the names of KIA in the Sunday funnies? The traditional MSM is entirely MIA and they haven’t the slightest bit of curiosity as to the silence of the Dems’ accomplices in the anti-war Left.
@proof:
I know that’s what you were doing. I like to be less than subtle. 🙂
@HR I’m not often accused of being subtle myself!
I don’t recall FOX having said much about the 2,000 casualty milestone, either. The shocking neglect on the part of the socialist mainstream media seems to have come up only recently, to divert attention from a glaring oversight: The War in Afghanistan wasn’t mentioned by Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney even once, during either of their speeches at the Republican National Convention.
Here’s Paul Ryan, first trying to weasel out of his former support for the GM bailout–he voted for it–and then defending their failure to take note of the fact that the country they would like to lead is presently at war.
The suggestion that no mention was necessary because of Romney’s earlier American Legion speech is about as pitifully lame as excuses get. Here’s a video of the Legion speech, complete with the awful canned musical fanfare. Allow me to save you time. Mention of Afghanistan comes 8 minutes and 28 seconds in.
Romney is clueless concerning foreign policy issues. Vague platitudes and a bit of awkwardly stiff flag waving don’t constitute a foreign policy.
GREG
YOU KNOW HOW IT GO?
WHEN YOU VISIT YOUR NEIGHBORS AT THEIR HOUSE AT FLOPPING ACES,
IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY POSITIVE WORDS TO SAY,
WELL JUST SHUT UP,
MITT ROMNEY HAD JUST VISIT THE MILITARY TO TELL THEM HIS PLAN,
HE DOESN’T NEED TO TELL PEOPLE LIKE YOU SO YOU CAN FIND SOME BAD WORD TO VILIFIE HIM,
BUT EVEN NOT KNOWING IT YOU FOUND SOMETHING BAD TO SAY, AND WE KNOW YOU,
AND THE SIDE YOU PROTECT HAVE VILIFIED HIM ALREADY PUBLICLY WITH LIES,
SO DO YOUR THING YOU ARE MISERABLE, BUT DON’T MAKE US MISERABLE WITH YOUR CONSTANT CRITICS,
MITT ROMNEY WILL TAKE THE JOB LIKE IT OR NOT
GREG
ABOUT YOUR OTHER CRITIC ON PAUL RYAN,
it prove that OBAMA WAS LYING WHEN HE SAID THE REPUBLICANS WHERE
NOT SUPPORTING HIS POLICIES, THEY SURE TRY TO HELP HIM AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS TERM BY HELPING HIM DO WHAT HE WANTED, AND THEN AS TIME WENT THEY REPUBLICANS AND GOP AND TEA-PARTY, SAW CLEARER THAT HE OBAMA WAS OUT TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY, WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING SO THEY BACKED UP FROM HIM, AND OBAMA WENT TO A SPENDING FRENZY
WAY OVER THE TOP CEILING, MAYBE TO SHOW HIS MADNESS AGAINST EVERYBODY,
WHO DARE TO DENY HIM HIS PLAN TO MORE DESTRUCTION BY IMPOSING HIS LAW TO THE PEOPLE,
IT CAME CLEAR THE OPPOSITION WOULD TRY TO BLOCK HIM FROM FURTHER FAILURE AS THE COUNTRY WAS GOING DOWNWARD,
NOW PAUL RYAN IS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE AS OPPOSE TO OBAMA STILL WINING ABOUT THE PAST FOUR FAILED YEARS, HE CANNOT FIND A WORD TO EXCUSE HIS FAILURE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MORE EXCUSES, HE USED THEM ALL IN HIS TERM, USING HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER HE HIMSELF SIGN,
HE HAS DONE ALL HE WANTED, THAT IS HURT THE PEOPLE OF THIS GRAND GLORIOUS NATION,
THE PAST IS BEHIND AND THE NEW PRESIDENT AND
NEW VICE-PRESIDENT WILL HAVE A BIG JOB IN FRONT OF THEM TO CORRECT ALL THE WRONG FROM THIS GOVERNMENT,
MITT ROMNEY ONLY FOCUS ON THE FUTURE AND LEAVE THE PAST TO HISTORY,
THAT’S THEIR GOAL AS AMERICAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY
AND DESERVE OUR SUPPORT FOR WHAT WILL BE DEMANDING FOR THEM IN THEIR QUEST TO SAVE AMERICA,
WHICH IS SO DEPRESS, THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE THEIR BEST INTEREST ARE, AND SOME ARE READY TO KEEP OBAMA
FOR FOUR MORE YEARS, IT IS UNBELIEVABLE TO SEE THAT IN AMERICA,
I guess this will be the last election where we will have a draft dodger (Mitt Romney) running for President.
Liberal [objectivity]
that is using vicious word and to offend a person like you do is prooving how low you and your master can go to win, but it always leave a undelebil mark on your person and help to make a unworthy for
the reelection of obama which you call yourself one to represent his failed policies
@ liberal1(Kool-Aid drinker): I realize that your comment about Mitt Romney is not just a gratuitous shot taken at him because you simply cannot defend the Obama/Biden record (neither of whom, incidentally, served in the military), but a deeply held aspect of your beliefs. So maybe you can point us to your objections when our last draft dodger president, Bill Clinton, spoke prominently at the Democrats’ convention last week? We’ll wait.
And it’s not only the war casualties. Even with this terrible depression, the homelessness problem seems to have eased, thanks to the D after the President’s name.
The Sanity Inspector
eased is not the proper word for the DEMOCRATS,
THE HOMELESS PROBLEM DON’T SEEM TO HAVE EASED
THEY JUST ARE HIDDEN, NOT TO BE SEEN, OR SICKS IN HOSPITAL,
OR DEAD
AS US CASUALTY MOUNT IN AFGHANISTAN, THE MILITARY HAVE NOW STOP THE TRAINING OF THE AFGHANS MILITARY, BECAUSE THEY WHERE COWARDLY SHOOTING THEM IN THE BACK,
NOW THE MILITARY SHOULD DESTROY ANY POPPY FIELD,
I was just reading a local news paper of the TALBANS RAISE ABOUT 400 MILLIONS LAST YEAR ALONE,
and FROM SOURCES THAT INCLUDE DONATIONS, and taxing local economies, and extorting money from
such target as drug dealers, and cell phone operators and aids projects, the UN RESEARCH SAID that ,
revenues extorted from nation wide enterprises such as
narcotic producers and traffickers, and construction and trucking companies, and
mobile telephone operators, and mining companies, and aid and development projects
all goes to the TALIBAN FINANCIAL COMMISSION which answer to the TALIBAN LEADERSHIP,
AND DONATIONS WHERE ANOTHER SOURCE OF FUNDING, which also went directly
to the TALIBAN LEADESRSHIP
THE TALIBAN IS THE SUPPLYER OF 90/CENT OF OPIUM IN THE WORLD
THEY EARNED ESTIMATED AT ON HUNDRED MILLION ON 2011 TO 2012, FROM THE
OPIUM POPPY INDUSTRY VALUED AT 3.6 BILLIONS TO 4 BILLIONS
IT PROVIDE ENOUGH TO FINANCE MUCH OF THE INSURGENCY IN THE MAIN POPPY GROWING PROVINCES OF HELMAND, KANDAHAR, URUZGAN, IT’S STILL INSUFICIENT TO MEET THE COST OF INSURGENT ACTIVITY ELSEWHERE,
ANOTHER LUCRATIVE SOURCE OF INCOME HAS BEEN THE FOREIGN FUNDING
OF AID AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ESTIMATED TALIBAN INCOME FROM CONTRACTS FUNDED
BY THE UNITED STATES, AND OTHER OVERSEAS DONOR RANGE OF 20 TO 30 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL,
BY THE TALIBAN AGREEING PROTECTION MONEY TO THE CONTRACTOR AND DEMANDING A CUT
IT WAS USED TO MOUNTING ATTACKS WITH THAT MONEY AMOUNTING 100MILLIONS TO
155 MILLIONS OF THAT INCOME, INCREASING YEAR ON YEAR,
THERE IS THE BLOOD OF OUR BRAVEST,
PULVERIZE THE LAND AND COME BACK
the TOP BRAINS say that we are at WAR, and explosions now in CAIRO EGYPT
around the EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES,
CAN YOU BELIEVE THE MARINES NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY WEAPONS?
INSANE
OBAMA SAY EGYPT IS AN ALLY.
WHO WANT AN ALLY LIKE THEM,
CANADA IS WORRY ABOUT THE SECURITY OF HIS DIPLOMATS
AFTER THAT TERRORIST ACTIONS,
IT HIS GOING ON IN IRAK AND TUNIS AND YEMEN
THE EGYPTIAN MR MORSI THE LEADER SAID HE CONDEM THE DEATH
BUT NOT THE PROTESTERS,
YA SURE
one more, you won’t believe, THIS FROM JUAN ON THE FIVES
OBAMA nominate an AMERICAN TALIBAN LAWYER FOR KEY ADMINISTRATION JOB,
I think he is pissing on AMERICANS WHO ARE NOT MUSLIMS,
AND WANT TO PLEASE THE MUSLIMS TALIBANS
THIS IN WAR TIME, WHILE THEY BURN OBAMA EFFIGY
AWFUL
BREITBARF MOVIE
OCCUPYUNMASKED.COM FOR MORE INFO,
THE MOVIE IS OCCUPY UNMASKED,
JUST FROM GREG GUTFIELD ON ” THE FIVES”