MSM- We Worship, You Don't Get to Decide

Here are some of the things not getting coverage, or over covered, that reflect the Statist, Obama sycophant Jurassic Press.

Have any heard one mention by Obama of the horrible floods in Tennessee? Has he flown there to assess the damage? Bush flew over in the aftermath of Katrina, and was pounded by the Dems and Jurassic Press for not landing. Where has the coverage been focused? Much of recent coverage has been on a couple birds afflicted with oil from the spill. There has been more coverage of those birds than on the eleven men that died in the oil rig explosion, or on the thirty deaths so far as a result of the flood.

The flood in Tennessee is the worst in about 500 years, and about two thirds of the state and bordering areas  are affected, and Nashville is under water. Has Obama said anything, or gone there? Nope. Can you imagine the press coverage and the condemnation of the Dems if Bush had behaved like this? Can you imagine the press coverage and the condemnation of the Dems if Bush had waited eight days, like Obama did, before taking any action on the oil spill? Plus Obama told a big whopper of a lie saying he had been on it since day one. Bush lied! Ooops. Wrong guy.

During the Bush administration, reports of deaths in Afghanistan were nearly daily. Nearly of third of the total deaths there have happened during the Obama administration. Coverage in the Jurassic Press? Nope. Are you hearing about Afghanistan at all? Could you imagine the pounding that would happen if the opposite were true, that a Republican came to power and that amount of increase in US casualties occurred?

The birds fit the "Green" agenda of the Jurassic Press, but not the cataclysmic floods, dead roughnecks, or US soldiers taking a beating because of the incompetent commander in chief.

Rules of Engagement, Then and Now

These are some of the rules of engagement our soldiers must obey in Afghanistan.

• No night or surprise searches.

• Villagers have to be warned prior to searches.

• ANA or ANP must accompany U.S. units on searches. (Afghan National Army Afghan National Police)

• U.S. soldiers may not fire at the enemy unless the enemy is preparing to fire first.

• U.S. forces cannot engage the enemy if civilians are present.

• Only women can search women.

• Troops can fire at an insurgent if they catch him placing an IED but not if insurgents are walking away from an area where explosives have been laid.

We had restrictions in Vietnam, but nothing this constricting. Basically I remember free fire zones, and restricted zones. Usually we had to be fired upon to engage, and if we saw bad the bad guys we weren't supposed to fire. That didn't always work so well. One gets a bit jumpy what with thick jungle and unseen movement. Killed a couple wild boar and a deer. We tied the deer to a Huey, got it back to base, hung it from the basketball stanchions, and some guys that knew how to do such things, dressed it, and we had a feast.

I can't imagine soldiers in Afghanistan having to follow even more life endangering stupid political rules. I hear too the the ANP and ANA just hang out, don't contribute, don't show up to missions, don't send the ANP or ANA personal that are required for missions. Have to wake them up, go get them, delay missions, etc. I know the feeling. In 'Nam we were supposed to rendezvous with South Vietnamese troops, and they would be nowhere. Or we were supposed to set up an ambush, and they would be nowhere.

This president says this is different from Vietnam. I don't think so. It's politicians micromanaging war, that don't have the training or guts to do it themselves. They just get people killed. I was sick of it then, and I'm sick of it now.