A soldier in Iraq writes to the New York Times
courtesy of Powerline
You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion — or next time I feel it — I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.
And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others — laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.
Very truly yours,
Tom Cotton
Baghdad, Iraq
Read the whole thing, because I doubt it will make the Letters page in the Times.:)
June 27th, 2006 at 11:11 am
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell, “1984″
The NY Times, which is just now starting to report the level of illegality and deception associated with this administration’s completely fabricated and Orwellian “War on Terror”, is learning the above the hard way.
Let me be very clear: the Islamofascist threat as it is called has been contrived. A massive brainwashing and propaganda campaign is afoot as it relates to this “War on Terror”. The methods used to cow the American and global populace were perfected by London’s Tavistock Institute and its various US think tanks. The media is the primary purveyor of this disinformation.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Unfortunately for Tom Cotton, the program has been public knowledge for a number of years. But that won’t shut up the sheep bleating “treason” now will it?
June 28th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Referring to a Lt. Col., with a Harvard law degree no less, who is serving in Iraq as a â??sheepâ?? is highly offensive, but not unexpected from a coward who blogs under a pseudonym.
Kevin
June 28th, 2006 at 8:33 am
Being lied into a deadly and costly war is also highly offensive. You wonder why the WMD story had no legs? Because it was a cheap ploy by the vicious Rick Santorum to bolster his failing campaign. Those were pre-1991 WMD that were no longer in use. It was yet another act of deception.
June 29th, 2006 at 4:35 am
I for one think that the New York Post should be shut down, and tried for Treason. How dare they put out men in harms way by telling our secerets. They are traitors and should be put out of business. I know that i will never ever look at that newpaper as long as I am alive.
This whole thing of people not standing behind our men in time of war makes me sick. It shows how divided we are as a country and if we do not wake up soon. I will be listening to them calling the muslims to pray. And that would be over my dead body when I can not have my children and grandchildren say the pledge of allegance in school. I am tired of these liberal idiots, that do not have a clue as to what is going on in our own country and even worse don’t care.
I want my country back I am an american and I will always be an american. Born and raised here by the grace of god. And I will fight to my death as mny husband did in Vietnam to defend it. And not so these liberal idiots with there wishy washy views of not hurting anyones feelings can run this country. We need a man in the white house. A strong man that knows what the people want and does what they vote for. Not what we have now sneaky theives how could care less what the people want it is all about them getting what they want. MONEY
July 1st, 2006 at 10:38 pm
I wish I could say this was an excellent, but only so because of the sadness and outrageousness of the circumstance left in the hands of the enemy–er–the Times. I don’t know. Can you distinguish them?
July 26th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Dear Kevin,
I do not blog under a pseudonym. You can find me in the phone book and you should blame my parents for giving me the name.
I didn’t refer to Tom Cotton as a sheep, as he didn’t bleat “treason”, although many others have. I apologize for not being clear enough for you to understand my point. However, if I had called him a “sheep”, I fail to see why labelling a Lt. Colonel with a Harvard Law Degree a “sheep” would be any more offensive than labelling anyone else a “sheep”, unless you think there is some special protection from criticism derived from being (a) in the military or (b) a Harvard grad.
Finally, you don’t address the fact that information about the program was in the public domain prior to the New York Times article, which renders Tom Cotton’s letter moot.
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