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Obama's Captain SpeaksAlthough his identity is withheld. Jake Tapper spoke to the guy, and he claims to find him credible. He re-tells Obama's tale. Still sounds like bullshit, but here's what the guy's saying. Prior to deployment the Captain -- then a Lieutenant -- took command of a rifle platoon at Fort Drum. When he took command, the platoon had 39 members, but -- in ones and twos -- 15 members of the platoon were re-assigned to other units. He knows of 10 of those 15 for sure who went to Iraq, and he suspects the other five did as well. This continues sounding like pure bullshit, no matter what the guy says or how credible Tapper claims to find him. Milbloggers say the platoon is the basic organic unit of the army, and troops are never picked out of a platoon to serve elsewhere -- if more troops are needed elsewhere, a whole platoon goes, not just Ronny, Bobby, Ricky and Mike. I'm not in the military, but everyone who is seems to be in firm agreement on this point. On to the other claim: As for the weapons and humvees, there are two distinct periods in this, as he explains -- before deployment, and afterwards. Tapper sternly scolds bloggers for calling bullshit on Obama, but right there, he himself calls bullshit -- he just wants to pretend Obama's got it right. The source himself denies he had to "capture" enemy weapons and equipment to fight -- he is claiming that he did in fact use such weapons on occasion, but that is different than warfare generally... how? As for not having the weapons to train with at home -- well, that sounds like bullshit too. Tapper thinks his job is done if he merely talks to a guy making these claims; but perhaps he should actually do some actual reporting and find out if our army is being denied key ammunition in training. The left has a habit of claiming victory when some small detail is corroborated. Obama fucking claimed our troops HAD TO -- not chose to on occasion -- capture the very weapons with which they were expected to fight the enemy. Tapper gets a guy claiming "Yeah, once we took a captured Soviet heavy machine gun and used it on a truck." Then they say, "Ah-ha! You owe Obama an apology! He was Right!" They did the exact same thing with Beauchamp. Beauchamp claims that a guy picks up a child's skull from a mass grave and dances around his fellow soldiers while wearing the skull as a fucking yarmulke. One soldier says, "We found some bones, they looked like animal bones but maybe they were human." The left claims: Ah-ha! TNR had it exactly right! Apologize! Really? What about that fucking shit you mentioned about wearing the child's skull as a yarmulke while dancing around your commanding officer like Pennywise the clown? Same thing here, it seems. Obama spins out a ludicrous exaggeration, some claims are found to support (if you credit the claim) a much more plausible version of the claims he made, which are as far from the original as the lightning bug is from the lightning, and... we're wrong, we need to apologize. Okay, whatever. Hey, Yglesias? I'm sorry about your manateesque metabolism. | Recent Comments
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