Hi folks!Cheryl wrote in a note recently: "If Senator Clinton wants scary, I'll be glad to send her my journal page for when we came under RPG attack in the wilds of Iraq..."Cheryl, get me in a situation like that and I promise to immediately have a Bladder Failure Moment. As partial atonement for living my trite civvie ways let me risk saying this too often:Thank You Very Very Much.I have been threatened with a gun once - once - and while I didn't immediately gibber I will never forget (and this was twenty years ago) the cold-water feeling of knowing that my life could end in the next instant. Scared the living bejeez out of me, as I think it would Sen. Clinton. She, also, would to this day be able to recall the details vividly at the drop of a hat.There is some talk of "primary fatigue" and "let's go positive", and I understand. In fact, what we say and do *is* positive, inlcuding this. This battle against those who are (as of yesterday, unapologetically) using Race and Religion as their weapons is the kind of battle that is unethical not to fight.
Senator Clinton has specifically attempted to place herself among Cheryl and her comrades and claim their valor. Thereby diminishing the valor of Cheryl, specifically, and millions of others who have gone into harms way and in many cases not come back.Truth and Troops versus Race and Religion.The Opposition is flying into a spinning rage of filth-flinging because they know that if the air clears long enough for people to pay attention to this story they are doomed. Not only do I encourage you all to keep pushing this story (and all it's components), but every time I read the poignant bits like Cheryl's comments I am inclined to respond with absolutely nothing else, regardless what the initial attack is.In fact, this is exactly what the Clinton machine does."What color does Mrs. Clinton like?""Rev. Wright is such a racist that the Honorable Senator Clinton can't think about her favorite colors anymore."Follow your own inclinations on details, but I strongly suggest that if we can push the Truth and Troops story above all else, this contest may well be over on April 22.-chris> From: Cheryl > If Senator Clinton wants scary, I'll be glad to send her my journal page for when we came under RPG attack in the wilds of Iraq (not the Green Zone or anywhere like that, not even a city, just vast, open desert in all directions) in a 3-vehicle convoy, and not the up-armored stuff they're trying to deploy there now. This was back in 2003, at the beginning. Senator Clinton, if you were scared in Tuzla, you'd have been a blithering mass of hysteria like our translator was that day....> Or maybe the time I was taking my nightly (when I could get the time off) walk around our base perimeter, and mortars started coming in. Should I go straight back to HQ? No, f*** 'em -- if I run, they win. When I finally got back, my team sergeant said, "Where WERE you? We had incoming!" "Oh, sorry," I said. "I was out walking, with my earphones on, and didn't hear it." "Well, next time we get incoming, I want you to come back here!" "Will do, Sergeant -- but just to let you know, the minute I begin, I'm already on the way back." In other words, he never said to take the most DIRECT route back!
> How about standing near the gate of our compound, talking to an Iraqi whose mission that day seemed to be to waste my time with trivialities? I was trying to tell him I only wanted information about the bad guys, when suddenly a mortar fell not very far from where we were standing. Without skipping a beat, I pointed in that direction and yelled at him, "THAT! That's what I want to hear about! If you have any information about who's doing that, come talk to me!"
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