There are so many devestating untold stories out there on this Iraq fraud war.
Still we have half of the country believing that we are fighting terrorists.
The average american will listen to the news channel and get all pumped up, but will they listen to people on the front lines? No. Well, plenty of brave military Master Sergeants and Generals and lower are saying, LOTS ARE SAYING... many, many, many people on the ground are saying that they are not fighting al-CIA-duh! They say that they are fighting local poor people who join the rebellion.
And think about it for a minute America! Put down your remote control and stop eating potato chips here for a second.
If real Iraqi terrorists were bombing your city and if they killed half of your family with bombs, including MOSTLY, yes I know the facts, MOSTLY women and children (because that is what bombs hit... fighters are not in their apartment buildings, you see). So when they kill MOSLY women and children and your family is destroyed, what do you do?
I will tell you what you will do. You will put down your remote control and your potato chips and you will pick up a gun. You will make cheap exploding devices. You will join a popular resistance. And when you start fighting, you will use whatever resources become available from your popular resistance.
Army and Marines on the ground are saying that they are fighting a popular Iraqi uprising.
They say that they are killing too many women and children. Yes, they don't like it but that is what military does in crowded cities. Bombs blow up little kids. That is what they were made to do. Fighters don't stay at home, they strike and get out of town. Under-manned armies drop bombs. You see, this whole thing is doomed.
I have another good post following this one which proves that the Iraq war is lost. I mean proves to a thousand percent.
However, why don't you send this post out to every potato-chip couch potato that you know in the land of the free and home of the brave and ask them a question:
Who are you going to believe - Fox news or "Johnny K." below?
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The legacy of "Johnny K": Fallen Philly soldier revealed the ugly truth about IraqAttytood
Full story here:
www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002316.html
August 20, 2005
Last week, we wrote about the unspeakably sad story of Gennaro Pellegrini Jr. -- Philly cop, welterweight boxer, and National Guardsman. The 31-year-old's life was hitting full stride when he received a fateful phone call ordering him to serve in Iraq, just two weeks before his hitch was supposed to end. Pellegrini was quite unhappy, but he went -- and he paid with his life, along with three of his Pennsylvania National Guard colleagues who were killed in a ruthless ambush near the Iraqi town of Beiji.
Also slain in that Aug. 9 attack was one of Pellegrini's brothers-in-arms, a Whitpain Township firefighter named John Kulick. Kulick -- a 35-year-old from the suburbs, an avid fisherman who loved too much mustard on bologna sandwiches and was called "Johnny K" -- had become had become fast friends with Pellegrini, the tough, tatooed city cop from a rowhouse block of Port Richmond. But the road that these two salt-of-the-earth guys had taken to Beiji could not have been more different.
As a professional firefighter, Kulick was devastated by the loss of so many colleagues at the World Trade Center in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That sense of duty is what prompted him to joined the Pennsylvania National Guard, even though he was already on the far side of 30 and the devoted and involved divorced dad to his daughter, Amanda, who is in grade school. And when his Guard unit from Northeast Philly was called up last December, he told his worried family that he wanted to go, to fight terrorists "over there."
In fact, Kulick's brother Jim -- in a radio interview this morning -- said they watched the movie "Blackhawk Down" just days before his departure for Iraq. After the end of the movie (which depicts the 1993 Somali insurgent attack that killed 18 U.S. troops), John Kulick declared, echoing his commander-in-chief and without irony, "Bring 'em on."
We heard Jim Kulick this morning on the Michael Smerconish show on WPHT-1210. The reason Smerconish invited him on was to talk about the emails that John Kulick had sent home from northern Iraq in the months before he was killed. Over the eight months that the Philly-area firefighter served in Iraq, his opinion of the mission changed radically.
As described by his brother, John Kulick's emails tell the story of a patriotic American who was betrayed -- by his own government. Because it was John Kulick's government that -- after spending more than $100 billion on Iraq -- sent him into hostile territory without the proper armor. And it was John Kulick's government that sent him into a war that lacked a strategy, and that, as a result, not only eliminated the enemy but was waged in a way that created new enemies every day.
Jim Kulick said his brother's emails showed a man who was becoming more and more worried. John Kulick said the insurgents were using increasingly sophisticated IEDs -- improvised explosive devices -- and were firing rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, into their camp. "They had to hide under their cots -- there was nothing they could do," Kulick's brother said. "The Humvees weren't armored, or lightly armored -- they were basically useless. At first they were sending them out in pickup trucks. They weren't really equipped to fight this war."
(Note from your frienly blogger... Does the gentle reader know about "psychological armor"? Oh yes, the US government made Humvees to LOOK and FEEL armored but they DID NOT want armor on them. Off to war we go in psychological armor. Why? Well, that is for us to figure out isn't it? Click Google and try these keywords: "psychological armor" and "Humvee". You will find this article and many others: http://www.rense.com/general66/pssyh.htm)
Kulick told his family that troops were taking police vests that had been donated to them and putting them on the floor of the Humvees instead of wearing them. Jim Kulick noted that at the same time his brother was reporting this, two of his friends who are area police officers serving in Iraq told him they had needed to bring their own sidearms. In his emails, John Kulick had begun to describe the war as "a quagmire."
As disturbing as those reports were, what Kulick had to say about the conduct of the war was even more troubling. He told his family that the Iraqi police "were corrupt and inept and there was no way they could ever train them to the degree where they could keep order." And when his unit went out after insurgents, far too many innocent iraqis were killed in the crossfire. And, Kulick reported home, "the more hate that created." When the Americans left an area, the insurgents came back the next day.
Eventually, when Kulick saw Iraqi citizens kneeling in the street in prayer, his interpreter would tell him they were praying for the Americans to leave. "They would rather live with evil they knew rather than live with us," Kulick said in his emails. "We were killing them as much as the insurgents were."
Kulick and his fellow Guardsmen were riding in a Humvee, reportedly armored, on night patrol on Aug. 9 when a large bomb -- containing as much as 25 to 30 pounds of explosives -- that was hidden in a drainage culvert under the roadway exploded and killed them. Just hours earlier, Kulick had called his father to tell him where his will was located and that he would want a full military funeral.
It's too early to say whether the tumultuous events of the last few weeks -- the deaths of so many Guardsmen from Pennsylvania and Ohio, the groundswell of support for grieving anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan -- will be remember as a turning point. Jim Kulick said this morning that the U.S. needs to set a timetable for getting out, and host Smerconish -- a political conservative who supported the war from early on -- was surprisingly sympathetic. Said Smerconish: "We're adrift."
Yesterday, John Kulick received the type of funeral he had asked for. His flag-draped funeral procession along York Road in Montgomery County drew firefighters from 61 local departments, and featured all the pomp and circumstance that is appropriate for a true hero like John Kulick.
But today, the cameras are gone, and flags are folded up -- and Kulick's family will continue to live with the loss. Jim Kulick said his family is "devastated" by what happened in Iraq.
None worse than his 9-year-old daughter. "Amanda is in denial," Jim Kulick said. "She said her father promised her he would come back from the war, and she still believes that."
Amanda Kulick doesn't understand what happened to her father.
Neither do we.
Original article is here:
www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002316.html
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Dear American: Is Kulick lying when he says: "We were killing them as much as the insurgents were."?
No.
And wouldn't that create a bit of a rebellion if a muslim country were to invade the USA killing MOSTLY women and children?
Sure.
We would rebel. And the Iraqis are rebelling as people do under those conditions. And they are targeting the country that looks different, has a diffent God, sets up military bases nearby oil rigs and ports, and steals UNMETERED oil. Yes, we don't even meter the oil we steal. By the way, no-bid contracts for stealing Iraqi oil are going to Dick Cheney's company Haliburton right now today.
This is too rich and dark to simply label "irony".
It is like trying to prove that the sun has risen by pointing at the sun and saying "look". I just can't believe the ignorance out there.
Please send this message out to your Made in China American flag waving, war supporting, non-thinking couch potato US citizens and tell them that the guy who wrote this voted for Bush II in his first election, he calls himself a former Republican with even some sympathy for the Christian Right. But now he is standing up against the tyranny of his President in the same way that we all wished that the Democrats would have stood up against Bill Clinton.
Should "We the people" remain divided when it only serves this false, two-party theater rulership over us? Let's join and listen to the little independent. We can turn off our news channels and wise up a bit to save our lives, can't we?
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