Memo mystery solved: It’s real, says Iraqslogger
posted at 10:05 am on May 28, 2007 by Allahpundit
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As noted in Saturday’s post, WaPo had already confirmed the basic facts so even if the document itself was fake — which even one of Larry Johnson’s associates had claimed it was — the substance was nevertheless accurate. But it’s not fake. It’s real.
Exit question: Any graphic designers out there willing to donate an original logo to the embassy so they don’t have to resort to borrowing photos of Hummel figurines? C’mon.
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I’d still like to see another memo out of the embassy that would confirm this.
lowandslow on May 28, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Yeah, well I don’t believe it until Dan Rather says it.
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Tony737 on May 28, 2007 at 10:39 AM
This is terrible! The State department folks having to give their salad bars!
William Teach on May 28, 2007 at 10:52 AM
So, State department personnel might have to resort to an MRE once a day, temporarily. What? No filet mignon? You’d think they were in a war zone or something. Breaks my heart.
Maybe they could ask at the French embassy for a meal or two, maybe some wine … oh, never mind.
IrishEyes on May 28, 2007 at 11:13 AM
In the face of good news coming from numerous areas in Iraq, a crisis had to be generated in order to maintain the “anti-war” momentum. Hence “leaked” stories like this one. It isn’t meant to create sympathy for the poor folks going without their normal menu, but to make U.S. handling of the simplest supply logistic look bad.
Still, it’s as close to supporting the troops as the left is likely to get for Memorial Day.
Freelancer on May 28, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Under what authority does ANYONE from the State Department have to use unauthorized letterhead or memo-head for US Embassy business?
“Sloppy” doesn’t begin to describe the problem here. Embassies are supposed to keep a tight rein on their documentation, letterheads, watermarks, otherwise – internally or externally – no one is going to recognize a real from a fake and if people don’t think that’s a problem in foreign diplomatic circumstances, especially in a hot zone with spies, doubledealers and cheats, then they’d better wake up. And to borrow a copyrighted design from a corporation ???
naliaka on May 28, 2007 at 12:53 PM
I don’t understand why people don’t believe this. It seems to me that the reason supplies are slowing down is because the Army had to start cutting costs due to a lack of funding. Why did they have a lack of funding? Because the Democrats wanted to hold troop supplies hostage. It seems pretty cut and dry to me. The Army wanted these funds by mid-April, so of course they’re having money troubles. It’s been well over a month. Why isn’t anyone pursuing this angle?
JohnJ on May 28, 2007 at 3:46 PM
So that means…
1. The US Embassy refers to itself by a name (US Mission Iraq) in letterhead that it claims only the military uses for it.
2. The US Embassy uses a picture of a commercial figurine in their official letterhead, although official logos should be readily available.
3. A whole four people were involved in sending a simple email: “khanp”, “martinkm”, Mr. Butler, and Mrs. Muench.
4. A simple email was written in Microsoft Word, not exactly the best way to broadcast a message since it requires that the recipient has Word to view it, not to mention that a custom template was not in use for the document, which you’d expect.
5. The US military Public Affairs Officer in Baghdad, who claimed through a journalist friend of Larry Johnson that this memo was phony, was wrong(!).
I’m sorry, but I’m still leaning towards the memo being fake, but the contents being more or less (irrelevantly) accurate.
In the end, there was no food shortage, so what’s all the fuss about, other than Larry Johnson and his friends trying to drum up a scandal?
Seixon on May 28, 2007 at 4:36 PM
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