My anniversary of when I first step foot on Iraqi soil is approaching. I will be publishing a few pages out of my personal journal.  I volunteer last year to go to Iraq as the communications NCOIC (Noncommissioned Officer in Charge) for the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). The ISG was task by the President of United States to survey Iraq to find WMD and to a certain extent the whereabouts of CPT Speichier (the pilot who was shot down during the first gulf war)

 

Recently and according to the Washington times

 

Inspector Charles Duelfer, who heads the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), made the findings in an addendum to his final report filed last year. He said the search for WMD in Iraq -- the main reason President Bush went to war to oust Saddam Hussein -- has been exhausted without finding such weapons. Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s.

 

Reading my Conservative friends Booker Risings’ Abu Ghraib: One year Later and Expertise Abu Ghraib: 1 year later 

Their posts gave me the idea to republish this entry from my journal

The Media’s WMD     

  

   I would have thought that the recent discovery of a chemical artillery shell with the presence of the nerve agent sarin in Iraq generate the type of press the media was dying for.  Especially when the insurgents used the same rig sarin shell as a roadside bomb or what we like to call them IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices).  From the looks of things and according to my sources that are familiar with this particular situation, those same insurgents apparently “didn’t know what they had”.  My intuition tells me that they (the insurgents) now know what they have and may try to figure out how to use it against the coalition forces.  Oddly enough, the media has been reporting about the WMDs in Iraq.  You say? “Demond a few lines ago you were complaining about lack of press being generated with the sarin find”.  You are absolutely right. However, the WMDs ole Demond is talking about are those Wretched Military Dummies (WMDs) at Abu Ghraib prison.  I wanted to use the word dumb plus the equivalent of a donkey but this is a family oriented newsletter so dummies will suffice.

    I was extremely appalled with the actions of the Wretched Military Dummies. Those  hideous pictures that were shown presented such an anathema to the quest of winning the trust of the Iraqi people.  The media treated this as if it was some sort smoking gun by broadcasting those images repeatedly.  After several apologies from the administration condemning this repugnant behavior and the first of several Court Martials why are we still talking about this?  As bad as it was, it is worse for the thousands of service members who are doing the right thing day in and day out.  The mistakes that were made are an aberration of the highest order compared to the daily acts of kindness the military show to the Iraqi people on a daily basis. Keeping this in perspective, I am awfully concerned about the discovery of the nerve agent sarin in Iraq.  But what really scares me the most is the new WMD that I’ve discovered………

Woeful Media Demagogues.      

 

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