Unlike you, I have RESPECT for the TRUTH and I do realize that even pathological liars sometimes tell it. And because I do not have the time right now to verify what you said, I will let your comment stand. Although, judging on your past history, (concerning anything to do with the govt/bush/neocons/etc.) I cannot think of even one occasion in which you told the complete truth. Readers keep that in mind.

One more thing, SFCB. Your recent criticism of my weblog (in another recent post that you submitted which I denied because it was filled to the brim with lies and omissions) was correct. This is a lousy weblog. A blog which almost no one visits and I cannot blame them. About the only thing I do here is to post the shouts on shoutwire.com that I make and other shouts that I thought deserved to be shouted. And I don’t know if you are aware of this or not, but adding a shout to your blog can be automated so it can be done in just a couple quick clicks. I also do nothing to promote this blog. This blog is here for my archival purposes. And that’s good enough for me. {You don’t count.}

And… like I have told you before, if you don’t like it, stay the fuck off of it. Now how hard is that?

This is going to be a long post.

Well, I solved the problem.

I wrote Mr. Harring and asked for a copy of his research. I received it and took a look at it. I’ll admit that I hoped it would be a by-name list of the missing wounded. That would make it easy. Would just need to cross reference the names on that list with the names given by the Pentagon and the Army locator. If a name was given on the list from Mr. Harring, but not by the Pentagon, and it wasn’t on the locator that would imply they’re no longer in the service and possibly dead. A search for their obiturary would reveal the rest.

Unfortunatly Mr. Harring’s research isn’t that clear-up.

Mr. Harring alledges that there were 10,000 additional, unreported combat deaths from May03-Jun05. He obtains this number based on the Pentagon’s claim that 15,000 wounded sermembers were evacuated from Iraq to Germany or the US. The Pentagon lists only 59 of these 15,000 as dying in transit or outside of Iraq. These 59 are on the Iraq combat death lists.

From Mr. Harring’s research:

“Given that over 15,000 seriously wounded were, by the Pentagon’s own postings, flown out of Iraq because of the seriousness of their wounds, that only 59 of these seriously injured died from March, 2003 through June, 2005, is completely unbelievable.”

He’s made two false assumptions in this statement which is at the core of his claim that there is an underreporting of 8,000+ deaths from the period of May03-Jun05.

The first one is that the 15,000 wounded who were evaced out of Iraq were “seriously” wounded. I’m not going to slander these men and women with whom I serve by insinuating that their injuries are not serious. However Mr. Harring is using the classification of “serious” to imply “likely fatal” which is simply not the case. Someone who suffers a fractured leg while in Iraq will likely be evaced from Iraq. That doesn’t mean their injury was potentially fatal.

Mr. Harring’s second assumption is that the medical treatment those who did suffer serious, potentially fatal injures received isn’t sufficient enough to sustain them. Combat medicine has progressed farther and faster than its civilian counterpart. In Korea a wounded serviceman who lived long enough to receive medical care had a survival rate of 90% (this fact is made famous by the TV show M*A*S*H*). If a medic could reach a combat wounded serviceman in Vietnam before they died their survival rate was over 90%. This has continually progressed to where we are today.

If the attack isn’t instantly fatal their odds of surving are above 95%. The planes who evacuate our wounded in Iraq are better equipped than many metropolitan hospitals. These men and women are receiving the best medical care possible and because of the advancing technology, such as bandages that contain a coagulant available to every soldier in the field, they are surviving wounds that would have been untreatable 10 or 20 years ago.

Mr. Harring has based his claim on the assumption that the Pentagon is not reporting every death and is, instead, categorizing them elsewhere. That is not the case. Mr. Harring has decided that, of the 15,000 wounded evacuated from Iraq, 8,000 of them died and the Pentagon sweeped them under the rug somehow.

Unless Mr. Harring actually has names, dates, or other information about these 8,000 he’s grossly wrong.

However, let’s assume that he is right and that there are 8,000 unreported combat deaths. That would represent a force two brigades. There would also be an additional 24,000 family member (parents, spouses, children, etc) who have lost a loved one in combat. Now, is it possible that these 24,000 people have agreed to keep the details of their son’s and daughter’s deaths silent? None of them are outraged that the Pentagon effectivly wiped their loss, and thus the service for which they died, from the record? Are these 24,000 grieving family members participating in the cover-up? Is it possible that the ONLY person who has uncovered this travesty is a computer analyst writing for a publisher of white supremascist literature?

Or is it likely that the original writing is mistaken/misintrepreting data/lying?

1. For some years, you bought into a huge pack of lies and fallacies for the rationale for the war. Calling other people liars, and fools, and insinuating that they were traitors too for their not buying the Lies.

2. Just recently, on shoutwire.com, you told me that there were not going to be congressional investigations because the mass-media had not reported it and you said that I was crazy/mentally ill for believing that there would be investigations.

3. Now you come in here and instead of admitting that I was right and apologizing (which you should do profusely, and would, if you were any kind of a real man), you now tell me that what I have been saying is “intellectually empty” and that you think that investigations should put all my concerns to rest.

So after all this, the lesson that you have learned is that I am the one who is YOUR intellectual inferior. LOL, You know what? Time has PROVEN that I am exceedingly smarter and wiser (than you) AND now you have PROVEN that I am also you superior in all matters of Ethics and Honor. SFCB, you are a disgusting farce of a soldier and a human being AND you aren’t fit to lick my boots.

And why do you keep coming around here. Are you a masochist as well?

But I doubt it.

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As far as I know these are provable facts. If I’m wrong I’d appreciate seeing the evidence I’m wrong.

Then you should be glad the US and her allies are in Iraq capturing and killing terrorists and insurgents who use illegal and immoral tactics, including using civilians as human shields, faking surrender, and conducting military operations from restricted sites like religious buildings and hospitals. Those are all serious war crimes that endanger the lives of innocent civilians.

Furthermore, if you campaign, vote for, and/or finance, known WAR criminals so that they can do more of the same - then you are an accomplice. What the hell makes you think you are not responsible in any way for what the people YOU empowered do?

O’kay, here ya go. Here is your answer. Try to follow the important/vital differences: I think that all WAR criminals should be charged, given a fair trial, found guilty, and then given just punishment. This is a far cry from the barbaric, inhuman, and ridiculously unfair/rigged Guantanamo type treatment that your faux news propaganda idols propose. And notice that I said that this is what should happen to WAR criminals. So SFCB, got any innocent blood on your hands? Are you a war criminal?

Personally I found Gallagher’s comments to be stupid and was glad that FOX is balanced enough to have an opposing viewpoint like Rob Thompson there to dispute him. Good on FOX for having two sides of a debate.

Anyhoo, last time I checked, I paid for this site. If you want to argue your atrocious “dissent”, go somewhere else or buy your own site - for accomplices to theft, rape, torture, and mass-murder, are not welcome here.

And hey, I thought I previously told you to bugger off?

“But before you go thinking all your conservative friends are psychotic, listen to Lohse’s explanation.

“’Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader,” Lohse says. “If your world is very mixed up, there’s something very comforting about someone telling you, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’’”

I would rather that the police use their taser only when necessary; when other non-violent (1st. preference) or less violent (2nd. preference) choices are not available, and then only when and as often as necessary. And certainly not on a terrified and handcuffed non-violent teenager who is on the ground screaming and offering up no physical resistance. Especially so when the victim is accused of the “high crime” of merely using the library without a card, and outnumbered by 5 (large and very possibly roided up) police to one teen. Which is an accurate description of the incident that brought you here to MY blog. {The same goes for the use of the gun.}

As for YOUR tasering experience.

1. Not everyone responds the same to drugs in general, to alcohol, (for somewhat analogous examples) or to a tasering. This Reality is well known in scientific studies of both medicine and “tasering”. Speaking of science, you might try studying that sometime. In the meantime, just ask any physician and he will tell you that this is the same regarding common medications and electrical tasering. Furthermore, it takes an incredibly shallow and self-absorbed person to even think that their experience would surely apply to everyone else. You lack the most basic powers of logic.

2. Not every brand and model of taser applies the same amount of voltage nor the same amount of amperage. The latter being more important. Whereas a type of shock of the same voltage, but low amperage, may only stun; a shocking of the same voltage but higher amperage can injure or kill. Now, until you have been stunned by every model of taser available, then you can only speak from ignorance regarding the experience of others. More specifically, regarding that poor defenseless kid who was needlessly and repeatedly shocked/tortured by the police: Until you have been stunned by the exact model of taser used, for the identical length of time, for the same amount of consecutive shocks, and with the same amount of recovery time allowed in between said shocks, then you can only speak from ignorance regarding the experience of that poor kid. Plus the other applicable FACTS that I stated in point number one. Heck, I could also add that you must have the same physical/medical condition as him; you must be as terrified as he was, you must be on the same medications, AND the taser prongs must attach to the same part of your body. I could add more, but I will stop there. Anyoo, in other words, you must be under the same conditions. Don’t believe me? Just ask any scientist. {Prayer: Dear lord, please make these fools (at the very least) learn the basic principles of sixth grade science before letting them graduate high school or to obtain positions of power of influence. Please. In the name of Jesus, Amen.}

Now SFCB, please begone from my web site. Although, I do feel pity for you, you still disgust me, and shame me as an American. There is so much unnecessary suffering in the U.S.A. and in the world - and it is largely due to blind, heartless, uneducated, ignorant, and gleefully authoritarian butt fellating/worshiping fools like you. So please, respect my wishes (i.e the wishes of the owner of this site) and take a hike.

What would you prefer the police use? Their gun?