Wednesday, July 27, 2005
What Some People Won't Do
This is a pretty typical anti-war screed. So why am I linking to it? This paragraph
Well, this blog has followed the story surrounding the killing of CAPT Espisito and LT Allen pretty closely and regular readers will remember that we too speculated on what was going on. The difference is that our speculation is based in actual available information and not simply an assertion designed to suit our needs.
Simply put, there is no evidence whatsoever that the murder of Esposito and Allen was anything other than your good old garden variety murder for profit and it had nothing to do with bad officers or morale problems.
Geez I'm tired of this stuff. It's one thing to disagree with the war, but to cite reasons fabricated from whole cloth is just galling.
While there hasn't been much information forthcoming so far, the Army has also launched a criminal investigation into the deaths of Captain Phillip Esposito and 1st Lieutenant Louis Allen, who were assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard, as company commander and executive officer respectively. In this case, the assailant is not clear-cut. The killings happened, however, in Forward Operating Base Danger, near Tikrit, where command errors and missions beyond the wire in general are sure to be fraught with danger - even as support for the war among the troops, National Guard troops in this case, is falling.Let me summarize that paragraph in a sentence for you, "I don't know anything about the situation, but I am going to assert that it was a bad morale fragging just because I can."
Well, this blog has followed the story surrounding the killing of CAPT Espisito and LT Allen pretty closely and regular readers will remember that we too speculated on what was going on. The difference is that our speculation is based in actual available information and not simply an assertion designed to suit our needs.
Simply put, there is no evidence whatsoever that the murder of Esposito and Allen was anything other than your good old garden variety murder for profit and it had nothing to do with bad officers or morale problems.
Geez I'm tired of this stuff. It's one thing to disagree with the war, but to cite reasons fabricated from whole cloth is just galling.
