Duly noting Shiites, not Kurds, Lasseter’s ongoing negativity seems to have been rather insightful.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Afterpredicting civil war for two years, you’re getting sectarian violence… and then largely because of the Samarra mosque bombing Lasseter had no way of foreseeing. His ongoing representation of US troops wallowing in despair is a hideous joke — even Arkin knows that.

The site allows a mere two links per-post, so here are Lasseter’s “Kurds gearing up for civil war” stories from April and December 2005.

Unfortunately there are times when the opposition is right but for the wrong reason. First of all you can’t wio a war based on unrealistic deadlines. Imagine in 1942 the US Navy announcing they’re quitting the Pacific war unless progress is made in the next few months.

Then there is the matter of rules of engagement and collateral damage–both buzzwords meaning US Soldiers are not allowed to fight back on even terms against murderous, psychopathic fanatics.

Finally we are up against an enemy who reads the ‘NY Times’ and knows full well that all they have to do is outwait any granted time extension.

Under these conditions it is hard to see how the enemy could lose.

MaiDee on February 4, 2007 at 11:08 AM

Perfect – you hit it right on the head!

Perhaps we could send the half-wits in DC to Iraq to fight the insurgents under their own rules – then see how fast they change them upon their return.

Just a thought – except for a couple, they’ll never even put on a uniform, let alone go off to a foreign land to fight for the US.

It’s far too easy to sell out to the highest bidder and sponge off the people while sending others to fight.

Could you please provide some proof of this…or are you just making assertions based on what you want to believe?

Well there’s this website called Hot Air and some of the bloggers there went to Iraq and talked to the troops and interviewed Iraqis. You should check it out, it’s at http://www.hotair.com. You might be pleasantly suprised!

Then there is the matter of rules of engagement and collateral damage–both buzzwords meaning US Soldiers are not allowed to fight back on even terms against murderous, psychopathic fanatics.

Finally we are up against an enemy who reads the ‘NY Times’ and knows full well that all they have to do is outwait any granted time extension.

Under these conditions it is hard to see how the enemy could lose.

“Lasseter also spent most of 2005 suggesting civil war was just around the corner…”

accentuates the negative

2004 – al Sadr has an army, Allawi [Maliki] does not

Duly noting Shiites, not Kurds, Lasseter’s ongoing negativity seems to have been rather insightful. Indeed, the facts on the ground in Iraq themselves have been accentuating the negative for a long time. :(

Lasseter is in a class with Chris Hedges and Peter Arnett. Caveat Emptor.

Tom Lasseter cherry-picked negative comments from a couple of soldiers and didn’t present any other view. I am assuming that Allah was unaware that this pretty much describes the entirety of Tom Lasseter’s output. Lasseter interviews the soldiers he finds reading Chomsky.

If Tom Lasseter ever has anyone saying anything even remotely positive about Iraq, it would not only be a must-read, it would be a likely forgery.

But let me be more specific today:

Several reporters were embedded in Miqdadiyah in early October 2005. Compare Lasseter to the NYT, the Christian Science Monitor, and Stars and Stripes.

One of these stories is not like the others. But it provides an example of the lengths to which Lasseter goes.

Another would be his years-long prediction of civil war. What’s funny is that while he did suggest the Sunni-Shia conflict, he more often suggested Kurds were the ones preparing for civil war. Oops.

Lasseter is of a class with Chris Hedges and Peter Arnett, and such should be taken into consideration when reading his reports.

There is nothing more to be said.

Riehl World View

Not sure what to make of this pessimistic report via McClatchy – see Allah, something seems strange:“All of our friends who have been killed by (roadside bombs) and snipers, it’s like there’s no justice for it – it’s just anot…

“That’s a little seditious, isn’t it, reading Chomsky here?” Lasseter jokingly asked the soldier.

“I’ll tell you what’s f—ing seditious,” the soldier replied. “That I’ve been deployed here for three years.”

He even drops the gratuitous Chomsky reference for good measure. The title of the EandP piece speaks volumes: “Knight Ridder’s Tom Lasseter Offers Voice of Truth in Iraq.” They might as well put “to Power” in there to complete the circle-jerk.

As I understand it, Michelle and Bryan have a different take. The work is hard, mistakes have been made, there is a long way to go, but we must persevere.

Sounds like a war, as opposed to a picnic. They never promised us a rose garden.

Want proof? The fact that you never see any polls about how the military in Iraq feels about President Bush, the mission, or the War on Terror demonstrates that it is overwhemingly positive and conservative.

Liberals don’t join the military.

After the past two days of fighting in southern and central Iraq, the difference between firebrand cleric Muqtada al Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi couldn’t be any more clear: Al Sadr has an army, and Allawi does not.

It’s not that he makes up facts. It’s that he puts the darkest possible spin on everything.

My benchmark has always been re-enlistment rates. People don’t put their lives on the line for wrong-headed ideas.

It was like that soldier last year, who had lost a leg and was interviewed… it was then edited to make him sound antiwar… when he was not, and came out and said so publicly.

Its a soldiers, or sailors, or marines RIGHT to gripe… heck I used to cuss about Officers almost every day… let alone the President, the food, missing the family, and especially after being shot at by BOTH sides… the “natives”….

Still didn’t mean I didn’t want to complete the mission… and kick ass…