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August 28, 2005
More Anti-War on Terror Phoniness
If characters like Cindy Sheehan and Jane Fonda haven't yet convinced you of the phoniness of the anti-war movement, maybe this will (link via V the K):
CARBONDALE, Ill. — For two years, Carbondale residents have been riveted by the writing of a little girl imploring her father in Iraq: "Don't die, OK?"
Only now are they learning there was never any danger of that.
The Daily Egyptian, Southern Illinois University's student-run newspaper, today will admit to its readers that the saga — of a little girl's published letters to her father serving in Iraq — was apparently an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a woman who claimed to be the girl's aunt.
In fact, the newspaper will report today, the man identified as the girl's father was never in Iraq, and it was the woman who apparently wrote the letters and regular columns that were published under the little girl's name — and even impersonated the girl in telephone interviews.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 28, 2005 1:23 PM
Comments
O.K. Let's just tally this up shall we?
Fake National Guard Documents
Phony newspaper headlines and other "facts" in Michael Moore movies
Commenters claiming to be Bush voters who now wish they hadn't done so.
Commenters claiming to be military or former military.
So should we really be surprised about fake letters to a fake soldier by a fake child?
If only these peoples motivation to cause the US to lose this war wasn't so real.
Posted by: Mike on Hilton Head Island at August 29, 2005 12:15 AM
Except the forgery in SIU's paper was for the PRO-WAR MOVEMENT.
The "little girl" was a tear-jerking effort to get people to "support the troops."
Posted by: Randy Case at August 29, 2005 11:48 AM
Wrong again, head case. Did you bother to read the article? Here's the salient quote.
""I'm rily mad at you and you make my hart hurt,"' she purportedly wrote in one published letter to the president. "I don't think your doing a very good job. You keep sending soldiers to Iraq and it's not fair. Do you have a soldier of your own in Irak?"
Posted by: V the K at August 29, 2005 2:12 PM
Have you read any of the stuff from the "father?"
Posted by: Randy Case at August 29, 2005 3:57 PM
Of course this doesn't even begin to compare with the Bushies' claims:
WMDs in Iraq.
Iraq poses a great/imminent threat.
Saddam and the Iraq War is linked to 9/11.
“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” -- State of the Union Speech, 2003
"Mission Accomplished."
Posted by: Randy Case at August 29, 2005 4:01 PM
Looks like a "yellow ribbon" story to me.
Check out these "quotes" from the "little girl:"
"Don't die, OK dad? ... You should find Saddam and run him over with your tank ... I love you and don't die. Love, Kodee."
Another published letter, purportedly by Kodee, asked: "Are you still coming home dad? I'm still here without you ... Hey dad I dug a fox hole. It is regulashin ... Can you kill all the bad guys now so Air Force One can bring you home?"
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/3109F1F7B6512D6A862570690017E0E4?OpenDocument
Posted by: Denny Hix at August 29, 2005 4:18 PM
1. Bush's belief that Iraq had WMD's was the global consensus in 2003-2002.
2. Bush said that his intention was to act before Iraq could become an imminent threat.
4. Subssequently proven to bo true, despite Joe Wilson's attempts to lie about it.
5. Also true, the Abe Lincoln had accomplished its mission of removing Saddam from power.
That's the truth, but no doubt Head Case will still keep spewing his far-left talking points.
Also, let's see... create a sympathetic character, give her a narrative, then have her turn against the war. Gee, surely the left-wing media would never be so manipulative
Posted by: V the K at August 29, 2005 7:30 PM
An article filled with many big words and inconvenient facts asks, Why Did the 9-11 Commission Leave Out Intelligence Linking Iraq to 9-11?
Posted by: V the K at August 29, 2005 9:37 PM
Do you suppose Randy has ever bothered to read the British Butler Review (U.K. version of our Senate Intell Committee Report on Pre war Intell)?
Somehow I doubt it.
http://www.butlerreview.org.uk/index.asp
Those "16 words" in the State of the Union Address based on "well founded" intelligence.
Well founded intelligence... might be in short supply in Case's world.
He might want to take a peak at the Senate Intell Report and 9/11 Commission Reports for the links between Iraq and Al Queda while he's at it.
But in his world, it's much easier to repeat the same lie over and over and over and over rather than take the slightest responsiblitity for being so wrong in opposing effective efforts to win this war.
I just finished a long piece on the development of terror, intel failures and Iraq's involvement in terrorism:
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/#112534317656621668
But since that posts uses many words with more than two syllables, perhaps the audio shortcut would be more useful for Case:
http://members.aol.com/mikesamerica/iraqbinladen.mp3
Posted by: Mike on Hilton Head Island at August 30, 2005 12:17 AM
TimesWatch Lists the Top Ten Distortions of the 2004 Campaign. Check out Item #2. Some of you may want to have a dictionary handy to help with the bigger words.
Posted by: V the K at August 30, 2005 10:54 AM

