Liberal Blogger To Try For Iraq Imbed

To boldly go where no Gun Toting Liberal has gone before...that's the aim of GTL's Alexander Paul Melonas.

Following hard on the news that RedState blog was crowing about it's "exclusive" invite to imbed a blogger in Iraq in an article that includes an “Attention Update” to “Lefty morons“ which suggests liberals lack the cojones to imbed, GTL discovered that the invite wasn't all that exclusive after all - it was open to any blogger who could pass the vetting process.

So in the interests of fair and balanced reporting, Alexander is volunteering and has already sent an email to the Pentagon to begin the process.

I'm happy to join The Gun Toting Liberal himself in congratulating his co-bloggers on their courage and integrity. Should Alexander get approval there will be a fund-raising drive at GTL and Newshog will of course link to that drive in support.

On a related theme, one of the loudest cheerleaders for war, Jules Crittenden, is imbedded in Iraq right now. Even he can't find a cheerleading thing to say about this:

Capt. Wolford devoted his briefing around midday to blunt tactical advice, to make sure the company approached this situation with the correct degree of aggressiveness.

“Once the fighting starts, if there are people in the streets, in civilian or military clothing, they are the enemy and they will die,” Wolford said.

“There are some towers and high ground. We will shoot all towers,” Wolford said. “They have used car bombs and suicide bombers … If they don’t stop, fire a burst of 7.62. If they turn around, then they were probably going to the store to get some Saddam beer. If they don’t stop, kill them.”

He talked about the paramilitaries some units had encountered at Nasiriyah and As Samiwah, believed to be a combination of the fanatical Saddam Fedayeen and civilians forced to fight when their families were taken hostage.

“I don’t think they are fighting for the regime. I don’t think they are fighting for the freedom of Iraq. But make no mistake about it. They will fight,” Wolford said. “Like I told you a thousand times, they put one round on you, you put one thousand rounds on them, until those pajama-wearing motherfuckers stop firing. They put one AT (anti-tank) round on us, you blow the whole block up. There is no collateral damage concern that will stop us carrying our mission out. When we’re done, we’ll rename the place Assassin town, because we’ll own it.

“The brigade commander doesn’t say he wants the enemy captured. He doesn’t say he wants the enemy on the run. He says he wants the enemy destroyed. So kill him.”

The enemy being defined as anyone who flinches when a machinegun is fired at them...and nevermind innocent bystanders, "collateral damage" only counts if the victims aren't "pajama-wearing motherfuckers".

Jules writes that he called home after this briefing:

My wife could sense something was up, but the rules said no telling...That was fine. I didn’t really want to tell her.”

I can see why.

Update In comments, Pamela from The Democratic Daily points out the strange title of Jules' post - "March 30, 2003". I really have to learn to pay more attention to dates when I'm blogging in the early hours of the morning. But it's posted on March 30, 2007 which is why it showed up on Memeorandum as a new post. Is Jules having a flashback?

Not that it really changes the horrible nature of the tale. If, at any time, this is the kind of thinking US troops are using then is it any surprise we've a "hearts and minds" problem in Iraq?