[antimedia] antimedia: Once again, a damn fool liberal....

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Posted by antimedia:
Once again, a damn fool liberal....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1203799112.shtml


   ....has bought [1]another bogus story about the military.

     You know, I've heard from an Army captain who was the head of a
     rifle platoon â supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended
     up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers
     had been sent to Iraq.
     OBAMA: And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition,
     they didn't have enough humvees. They were actually capturing
     Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than
     it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander
     in chief.

   Captain's don't command rifle platoons. They command companies.
   Lieutenants command [2]rifle platoons and they are comprised of three
   rifle squads of nine personnel each and one headquarters unit of three
   people. That's 30, not 39. A company, which is what a Captain would
   lead, is comprised of three to five rifle platoons. An equal number of
   Lieutenants report to him, and he is the commander of the company, not
   it's "head".
   All of these facts are easily obtainable on Wikipedia (as you can
   see.)
   That's just the beginnings of the problems with this supposed story.
   The media, of course, insists that the story is "accurate" even if it
   isn't all true (my, my, my, where have we heard that before?), and
   when milbloggers jumped all over the story's many problems, the
   media's reaction was equally predictable.

     "I might suggest those on the blogosphere upset about this story
     would be better suited directing their ire at those responsible for
     this problem, which is certainly not new. That is, if they actually
     care about the men and women bravely serving our country at home
     and abroad."

   So, listen up, you inconsequential little gnats. The facts aren't
   what's important here. It's the "truth" of the story that matters.
   To what "truths" do they refer?
   Liberals hold these truths about the military to be self-evident:
   1) Only a fool or a poor person with no other options joins the
   military.
   2) The military disproportionately recruits from minorities and poor
   communities.
   3) The enlisted ranks of the military are made up of people who
   couldn't get in to college and had no other choices in life.
   4) The leadership of this country consistently shortchanges the
   military, cynically denying them the protections they need to stay
   alive and using them as cannon fodder for their ill-begotten
   misadventures.
   5) The horrors of war turn men into wanton, uncontrolled killers who
   are a danger to everyone around them and to themselves.
   (None of these "truths" are true, and all have been debunked numerous
   times, but me as well as others.)
   Thus the men and women who serve are victims, unable to extricate
   themselves from the awful situations that they find themselves trapped
   in, battered by the horrors of slaughtering innocent people and
   constantly taken advantage of by the cynical white men who control
   them like slaves. They don't have enough ammunition, enough armor,
   enough vehicles. They are constantly yanked from one place to another
   without regard to unit cohesion or the necessity of the conflict.
   Liberals, of course, will change all that. After all, they support the
   troops who are bravely serving both here at home and abroad, even if
   they shouldn't be.
   Tags: [3]Obama [4]Army Captain [5]troops [6]ammunition

References

   1. http://www.soldiersperspective.us/2008/02/22/whos-the-mysterious-captain-obama/
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle_platoon
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/Obama
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Army%20Captain
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/troops
   6. http://technorati.com/tag/ammunition