Where does this guy get the time to run a blog from Mosul?

[devilgrrl]

a dispatch from rightwing fuckwit J. David Chadwick who is supposedly stationed in Mosul, Iraq. How is it that there aren't enough troops, equipment that sucks, yet this guy has the time to send daily dispatches? Guess he could be doing worse things like torturing prisoners...


Anyway check out this ridiculous rant about the questions to Rumsfeld: http://blog.sugarraydodge.com/



Garbledina
By J. David Chadwick - Sunday, December 19, 2004

Something tells me I may never get a job as a “real journalist” when I get out of the Army. Because apparently in order to be a “real journalist” you have to spin something completely innocent into either gossip or a nationwide controversy. So, I guess the proper term for “real journalist” these days would be “gossip-monger.” The most recent victim of gossip-mongering is my main man Donald “Rummy” Rumsfeld.

Everywhere journalists are grossly misrepresenting Rumsfeld, making him look like an uncaring tyrant who views American soldiers as expendable pieces of equipment. The sound byte of the month has become “ou go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” in reference to a troop asking him about the lack of armored humvees in Iraq.

By doing this, they are painting Rummy as basically saying: “You’re a soldier, suck it up! Stop complaining and go out there! You’re going to war even if you don’t have any clean underwear! In fact, I decree that there is to be no clean underwear for troops in Iraq from now on, just to punish them for questioning me!”

And on top of all that, he was set up.

Let’s take a look at what Rummy really said in that now infamous exchange between Specialist Wilson, who was being coached by Chattanooga Free Times Press reporter Edward Lee Pits.

[alfredo]

1. there's a big difference between

dirty underwear and having to go into battle with unsafe equipment.

[w13rd0]

2. Pretty obvious...

...that this guy is in Rummy's "Department of Disinformation"...

[gatorboy]

3. Yawn. Allow me to have my pity party,

for the conservative "victims". Boo hoo hoo....

[babylonsister]

4. Very good question.

My gripe is the whole damn situation. I was about to write a diatribe about what I disliked about this clown, but I realize there is nothing I like about him. Chadwick is entitled to his opinion regarding Rumsfeld, which I vehemently oppose. I am entitled to mine.

[Robbien]

5. There have been teaser articles thrown out in the media to

go read this guy's blog. The "real" news from "a soldier who is there".

The blog is all about the good news in Iraq. A few problems, but basically things are improving by leaps and bounds.