Want to keep reading great reporting over there? Become a patron of TRUE journalism! (Not male bovine defecant that is the MSM).

Or just throw a few coins Michael’s way on a one time basis.

I got my signed copy of his book; after I’m done reading it, I’ll store it carefully. I figure my grandkids will be able to retire based on having a signature from the second Ernie Pyle.

Don’t yah just luvit when you can refer to the “jerks, like me” as the foils, of your harsh derision?

You say!

J_Gocht on April 11, 2008 at 2:15 PM

Actually, I never called you a ‘jerk’. That would be rude. I don’t think you’re a ‘jerk’.

You are so obviously a ‘tool’.

They can’t help themselves – not only is it the Republicans who made allies in Iraq (therefore they have to go!), but they’ve spent the last several years convincing themselves that IT CAN’T WORK! NEVER NEVER NEVER!

To avoid a mental collapse, they will work tirelessly to ENSURE that the progress in Iraq will be lost.

Just like pulling funding for South Vietnam – it had to fail because otherwise the Democrats would have been wrong – and obviously to a Democrat, the suffering of millions is a small price to pay for being proven right about your predictions.

You know, I think I may be developing an actual active dislike for Democrats, how do you like that?

Oh, and Buckeye, the right didn’t tell you that it would be wine and roses, but the left sure CLAIMED they had been told that an awful lot.

My clear memory at the start of this was Bush’s “long hard slog” speech. It started with a warning of how hard it was going to be.

But Democrats can’t help themselves, they just have to make up whatever they need to validate their beliefs. So mysteriously, all these amazing false memories of how they were told it was going to be parades and coming home in three weeks appear out of thin air.

The constant lies have worn me down, I now distrust about half of my countrymen reflexively because they lie so often.

sleepy-beans on April 11, 2008 at 11:57 AM
logis on April 11, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Kafir on April 11, 2008 at 12:29 P
Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Del Dolemonte on April 11, 2008 at 1:06 PM
trigon on April 11, 2008 at 1:44 PM
NoDonkey on April 11, 2008 at 1:55 PM

I’ll be right here, “watchin’ your backsides!

J_Gocht on April 11, 2008 at 2:49 PM

Oooh! Looks like our weekend just started a little early, boys! Who’s up for peach margaritas!

“Can you place your hand into the mouth of the Wolf…?
“No Father I cannot…
“Why is that my son …
“I am very afraid Dear Father …
Why is that, my son…
I am very afraid of the unknown things, Dear Father…
Unknown things always remain so; my dear son …
Only if; you have no [lack of] courage to explore…!

blatantblue on April 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM

No finer folks have I ever had opportunity to… have discourse…!

Thanks and regards…!
No unfortunately, as far as I’m aware I don’t have a carcinogenic virus…

I’ll be right here, “watchin’ your backsides!

New_Jersey_Buckeye on April 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM

Say what…?

trigon on April 11, 2008 at 1:44 P

trigon, think about how dull it might become if; you were only “singin’ to your own choir”…?

Don’t yah just luvit when you can refer to the “jerks, like me” as the foils, of your harsh derision?

You say!

I always wonder what this guy and the anti-immigrant jihadists really want.

If we haven’t been convinced yet that the war is a failure, what would convince us now that we see successes every day? Same with the immigration issue, if we’re not “sitting at home ” in November yet, what’s going to change that will make us? Them hectoring us with the same cut and paste posts on every issue, whether on topic or not?

So they’re not looking to convince anyone. Just to make noise. If I didn’t know better, I would swear that they were Democrats.

I hypothize that we are currently in the 6th phase. And everything is going much better than the 5th phase.

I think that what some on the left are concerned about is that at no point during the previous 2 phases, did anyone on the right admit that things were not going splendidly or that we were about to round the corner. You can understand that if you are told something and it doesn’t come true 2-3 times, you are less likely to believe that same person telling the same information for the 4th or 5th time.

From a finance perspective, I invest $10,000 in a company in its first year after assurances from the executives that they are about to become profitable. The next year comes and they have lost even more money then the year before and are again asking for an investment of $10,000 which I hand over. Another year goes by and they lose a huge amount of money and are again asking me for money, this time $30,000. They assure me that with the additional funds invested in the short term, they will quickly turn a profit and I can start reaping some return on the money I have already invested. However, another year goes by, and the company tells me that they are still making a loss, but this year’s loss is less than last year’s. The Company again asks me for an investment of $10,000. How much am I going to believe their repeated assurances that profitiablity is just around the corner.
Now perhaps if in the earlier years, the company executives hadn’t pumped sunshine in an orifice and told me that profitability was really 5 years away I would be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt now.

Sorry for the long winded example/metaphore. Also do not assume from my metaphore that I see war as nothing more than a business decision or the lives of soldiers and sailers as having any particular monetary value. I do not wish to cheapen the lives of anyone who would stand between me and harm.

It was not my intent to pull you, off topic.

Moderator; please excuse my indiscretion. I’ll attempt to “hoe the row” in future posts.

Honest; I will!
Thanks and regards!

Thanks for the brilliant satire.

Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Thanks for the correction.

Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM

I’m a bit “geezerly” Chuck Schick.
Mon apologies!

I was referring to the folks’ we’re supposedly “allied with” in iRAQ!

J_Gocht: the unemployment level is 5.2%, not 5.7%
Full employment is usually considered to be 5% in the US
Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM

That’s what it used to be before Michael Yon (somehow; still working on the details) screwed it all up. Now, full employment is somewhere around 1%, and we’re currently running about five times that — because of the surge.

Whoa, sorry for the response Ive been giving your posts, J. I assumed you were over the age of 12.
Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Another failure of your “objectivity,” no doubt. Don’t feel bad though, you’re doubtless just another undiagnosed victim of surge syndrome.

If you really have any? FRIENDS that is!

J_Gocht on April 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Whoa, sorry for the response Ive been giving your posts, J. I assumed you were over the age of 12.

Full employment is usually considered to be 5% in the US

My problem was; where does one man’s supposed objectivity become another observer’s, subjectivity?

Report what you actually observe, not what you think you observe or might result from your observation!

Mr. Yon recently reported that the “Sons of Iraq” were fully in our camp! Other observer’s [journalists] were reporting they were threatening to “go on strike” since they hadn’t received sufficient “Greenback Dollar Bills” as promised by our military command?

So much to see, so much to do, so much to go wrong…if you don’t understand the ethnic, tribal or religious background of bothe your adversary and your friend[s]…?

If you really have any? FRIENDS that is!

I think Powell is right. We can’t sustain that troop level. However, I believe that we shouldn’t have to. At some point, the Iraqis are going to have to take over and whether it’s 2009, 2019, or 2109, it will be a sink or swim moment.

I really like and respect Yon, but I’d be interested to see why he doesn’t think that we should be putting more and more of an Iraqi face on our efforts in order to transfer that respect we’ve earned to the ISF.

The surge just gave me jock itch, and it also just gave my cat a hairball.
Chuck Schick on April 11, 2008 at 12:12 PM

I weighed less and had more hair before the surge started. And I’m not sure, but I think I might have even been a little bit taller then, too.

We’ll still need to see at least a few hundred more of Gocht’s posts before we can figure out exactly why this is all Michael Yon’s fault. But in the meantime, we can all thank God SOMEBODY out there is keeping us informed about what the real story is!

That can of worms predates Saddam by quite a bit. Marco Polo discovered his route to China in the 1200′s. Now, why would Ferdinand and Isabella commission Columbus to find a different route? Because the sea route would not have to go through Muslim lands. Our ancestors kicked that can of worms down the road and it has taken us nearly 500 years to catch up to it.

exhelodrvr on April 11, 2008 at 11:52 AM

Nah, I’m tellin ya… the Debil Bush took a couple years to really get his “conspiricy” going, but it all started with the TUCK rule game in 2001… its all about the Cheatin Patriots who are favored by the elite Republicans (Rove) who were trying to gain a Propoganda victory for a US symbol… They bought off the Refs, and have been hoseing those American Underdogs and True Americans, the Raiduhs, now for several years.

/takes off his tinfoil hat, and removes his tongue from a firm implantation in cheek…