It’s all lies. Or distortion. Or confabulation. Or misdirection. But I found this example rather egregious. I bet you DFHs remember this sort of thing from back in the day:

Radio Sawa broadcast on December 11 the good news from the American forces that the regions of Arab Jabour and Al-Buaitha had been definitively cleared of the last vestiges of AlQaeda. Here’s what their website reported that day

Joseph Inge, fourth brigade, third American infantry division, said his forces with the aid of the Awakening forces had been able to clear out the last strongholds of AlQaeda in the regions of Arab Jabour and Al-Buaitha south of Baghdad. He told Radio Sawa: “We have secured the area by freeing it from the threat of AlQaeda, with the assistance of local citizens”. And Captain Inge called on the families that had fled to return to their homes in those areas, promising every type of support and assistance to those families.

On Thursday 40 “targets”—described by the miitary as “reported AlQaeda safe-havens”—were hit by a total of 40,000 pounds of bombs dropped on Arab Jabour in a 10-minute raid by the American Air Force assisted by another brigade, the second, of the same third American infantry division that had invited families back into the area only three weeks ago. The military had no information on how many people it killed.  Read more 

The Bush War Department sent 2,600 soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard to Iraq for two years.  Read more 

From Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC recently — pay particular attention to the last 45 seconds please! Al Qaeda in 60 countries, or more? Dave Petraeus used by the Bush administration?  Read more 

He includes photographs of soldiers who served with him in Iraq.  Read more 

From a recent Anderson Cooper 360 broadcast, originating Over There:  Read more 

Between 1952 and 1962, Boeing built more than 740 of these planes. Not a one since.  Read more 

Ok, I just listened to this (short, worth your time):

And besides being pissed that Chimpy has made one more American drop out of college and join the race for lifetime underemployment, I’m pissed at the Democrats. I’m slow and can’t keep up with all the developments these days, but since when has the Montgomery Bill (education for vets) package been so shitty? And for how long are the Democrats going to sit around and do nothing about it? I remember the package when I was in, and for some reason it didn’t seem as bad as it’s described in that clip- I seem to remember there was more. Even if I’m wrong, isn’t right now a great time to get moving on something like this? It’s a win, win, win situation, no voter would be against it and no Republican could be for very long or very loudly in the last few months of the campaign cycle. Sigh. It just seems so obvious to me.

That the Dems’ new “VETS” education package doesn’t increase the amount of money given for books or tuition, I’d have to call it “better than warm shit.” Just what our returning vets deserve, right? Christ, what hypocrites and idiots rule us.

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Gingrich, pondering a White House bid, claims he’s sick of Georgie W.’s vacations (and Congress’s, too.) Quote: “As an American, I am sickened that the political leadership of America could continue to go on vacation and do nothing,” he said. “Why are the August vacations for the president and the Congress more precious than the lives of young Americans who are being killed because of government incompetence and inaction.” But it isn’t our soldiers he  Read more 

At the official site, DOD now confirms 3,622 dead in Iraq.

Mismanaged, preemptive war of whim is Hell:

During an interview on NBC’s Today show Wednesday concerning Malaria Awareness Day, Laura Bush talked to Ann Curry about “other challenges her husband is facing.”

“You know the American people are suffering watching —,” Curry said to the first lady.

“Oh, I know that very much,” Laura Bush responded. “And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm’s way.”  Read more 

I wonder if they put butter on his wounds.

An airman received second-degree burns April 4 during a test of the Defense Department’s nonlethal millimeter-wave heat beam at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., according to Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Fullwood, spokeswoman for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator program, Quantico, Va.  Read more 

This makes my blood boil:

Eventually the rocket shrapnel was removed from Town’s neck and his ears stopped leaking blood. But his hearing never really recovered, and in many ways, neither has his life. A soldier honored twelve times during his seven years in uniform, Town has spent the last three struggling with deafness, memory failure and depression. By September 2006 he and the Army agreed he was no longer combat-ready.

But instead of sending Town to a medical board and discharging him because of his injuries, doctors at Fort Carson, Colorado, did something strange: They claimed Town’s wounds were actually caused by a “personality disorder.” Town was then booted from the Army and told that under a personality disorder discharge, he would never receive disability or medical benefits.
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