History will remember "The Lone Whistle" at Al-Asad Air Base

[Clara T]

The Lone Whistle:
"Military Commanders Offered Glowing Reports, But The Rank-And-File Troops Cheney Met Did Not Seem To Share Their Enthusiasm"



Cheney gets a "lone whistle" from Marines at Al-Asad Air Base, December 18, 2005. REUTERS/Lawrence Jackson/Pool

David Cortright, author of Soldiers In Revolt, commented to Max Watts: "Reminds me of LBJ talking to the 82nd Airborne after TET."

http://www.militaryproject.org/article.asp?id=788

[Canuckistanian]

1. Is there an MP3 of "The Lone Whistle"?

I'd love to hear that.

[Clara T]

2. Check Out that website link

it doesn't have an MP3 but there is an array of interesting info about what the military men are thinking. Lots of soldiers are fed up and not fooled by Cheney Co.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Yes, I saw the site

Pretty damning stuff about Crashcart.

But I still want that MP3.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. the troops are fed up

they ahve been fed up for a while. This lone whistle if true, is the most serious indicator yet.

[bpilgrim]

4. they must be getting nervous

i wonder if he sneered at them :shrug:

k&r

peace

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Check out the email to Dubya from David Honish (Veterans for Peace)

To see it you have to scroll down. It's underneath the report of the Big Dick's morale boosting visit to the Iraqi front.

From: David Honish
To: [e-mail]
Sent: December 19, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: Your press conference of 19 DEC 05

Mr. President:

This would be the part where normally one would start, "with all due respect..."

I've been trying to think for several minutes now why you would be deserving of any respect, and I draw a blank. I guess I'll just get right to it then.

About your press conference; please don't pee on my leg and tell me it is raining.

I only saw the last few minutes of it after coming home from an overnight shift. The press discussion after the conference mentioned you spoke of being angry at Congress for not allowing you to have people tortured anymore.

Apparently it requires more than just a memo from Alberto Gonzalez to void international law and the treaty obligations of this nation that prohibit torture.

You profess to be a Christian? Is torture a Christian value?

<snip>

You need better speech writers who can use a more popular form of comedy than irony to brighten up your presentation.

I refer to you telling one reporter "I'm not going to answer that question," and then stating that to have done so would have been "revealing secret sources."

Did you mean like having Whitehouse staff deliberately exposing the identity of covert CIA WMD experts in order to exact revenge on their spouse for exposing Whitehouse lies about nonexistent WMD's?

Sincerely,
David Honish
Veteran of the US Army, US Army Reserve, and Texas Army National Guard
(none of which I deserted from)

[Clara T]

7. That Rocks- Good Stuff throughout

Like This bit:

"Fields of rubble stretch as far as the eye can see. Here and there children scamper across the ravaged landscape, seeking out larger bricks and rocks for use in laborious rebuilding.
 
Of the swift reconstruction promised by Baghdad in the wake of the US-led assault, there are only sporadic signs in wealthier areas. Mostly there are women like Rasmiya Mohammed Ali, crouching in the ruins of her home, chipping away with a small hammer at broken breeze blocks salvaged by her sons, aged seven and eight.
 
"They did not even give us a tent. What can I do but clean and clear these stones so that we can rebuild our home?" said Ali, a mother of five who received only $700 compensation after her home was destroyed during the American onslaught.
 
I had been trying for months to re-enter Falluja to report on its progress since US-led forces in effect cut it off from the rest of Iraq.
 
When I finally reached the city, I was reminded of a remark by a US officer in Vietnam who claimed he had to destroy a village to save it. Falluja has indeed been destroyed. But I found nobody there who thinks it has been saved."

Scroll down to see entire tale.