SEAL to Get Posthumous Medal of Honor

Associated Press October 12, 2007GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A Navy SEAL who
was killed while leading a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan will
receive the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor.Lt.
Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue on Long Island, is the first Medal
of Honor recipient for combat in Afghanistan, the Navy said in a
statement Thursday.In late June 2005, Murphy led a four-man
reconnaissance mission east of Asadabad trying to find a key Taliban
leader in advance of a mission to capture or destroy the local militia
leadership. Taliban sympathizers alerted fighters to the SEALs'
positions, and the four men were quickly outnumbered and came under
fire, the Navy said.Even after being wounded, Murphy crawled into the
open to make a radio call for help and still continued to fight, the
Navy said. The call ultimately allowed the rescue of one wounded SEAL
and the recoveries of the bodies of Murphy and two others killed in the
firefight.President Bush will present the Medal of Honor to Murphy's
parents at the White House on Oct. 22."I think it is a public
recognition of what we knew about Michael, of his intensity, his focus,
his devout loyalty to home and family, his country and especially to
his SEAL teammates and the SEAL community," Murphy's father, Daniel
Murphy told Newsday for a story published on its Web site.The Medal of
Honor is the nation's highest military award for valor in action
against an enemy force. Murphy is the fourth Navy SEAL to receive the
medal and the first since Vietnam.The other two SEALs killed in the
Afghan firefight, Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz, 25, of
Littleton, Colo., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson, 29,
of Cupertino, Calif., previously received the Navy Cross, the
second-highest honor.A U.S. helicopter that went to rescue the SEALs
was shot down by enemy fire; 16 SEALs and Army special operations
troops were killed in the crash.The entire battle resulted in the worst
single-day loss of life for Navy Special Warfare personnel since World
War II.Two Medals of Honor have been awarded posthumously in the Iraq
war.

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Hillary, Byrd, and Reid Confess!!! (click on the above link to read more)

What Limbaugh Said

 

This is copied and pasted from the Glenn Beck website:

 

What Mr. Limbaugh Actually Said
OCTOBER 02, 2007

 

GLENN BECK PROGRAM
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

 

CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what --

 

LIMBAUGH: "Save the -- keep the troops safe" or whatever. I -- it's not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.

 

CALLER 2: No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.

 

LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.

 

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country.

 

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined --

 

CALLER 2: A lot of them -- the new kids, yeah.

 

LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you're going these days, the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you're going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.

 

CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.

 

***After responding to another unrelated point the caller makes, he then goes back to the 'phony soldier' subject. The gap was about 1 minute and 35 seconds before he says the following***

 

LIMBAUGH: It's just, it's frustrating and maddening, and it is why they must be kept in the minority. Look, I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much. I gotta -- let me see -- got something -- here is a "Morning Update" that we did recently talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. And they have their celebrities.

 

One of them was Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a "corporal," I say in quotes -- 23 years old.

 

What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart. It wasn't his being affiliated with post traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, though. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage in their view off the battlefield.

 

Without regard to consequences, he told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq: American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account translated into Arabic and spread widely across the internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way:

 

'We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.'

 

Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, a poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court, and you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs' claim and his Army discharge record.

 

He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly -- 44-days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger. Never was. He isn't a corporal. Never was. He never won the Purple Heart and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen."

 

You probably haven't even heard about this, and if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template of the drive-by media and the Democrat [sic] Party as to who a genuine war hero is.

 

Don't look for any retractions, by the way, not from the anti-war left, the anti-military drive-by media or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth of the left is fiction, is what serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities 'cause they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the U.S. military.

 

In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

 

END TRANSCRIPT
 

 

Democrats have said that good news in Iraq is bad news for them. They insisted that we go by what the Generals on the ground said, until they didn't like what the General said. Read on:

 

Clyburn: Positive Report by Petraeus Could Split House Democrats on War

By Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza
Washington Post Staff Writer and Washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, July 30, 2007; 6:26 PM

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.

Clyburn, in an interview with the washingtonpost.com video program PostTalk, said Democrats might be wise to wait for the Petraeus report, scheduled to be delivered in September, before charting next steps in their year-long struggle with President Bush over the direction of U.S. strategy.

Clyburn noted that Petraeus carries significant weight among the 47 members of the Blue Dog caucus in the House, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats. Without their support, he said, Democratic leaders would find it virtually impossible to pass legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal.

"I think there would be enough support in that group to want to stay the course and if the Republicans were to stay united as they have been, then it would be a problem for us," Clyburn said. "We, by and large, would be wise to wait on the report."

Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn said that would be "a real big problem for us."

Clyburn's comments came as House and Senate Democrats try to figure out their next steps in the legislative battle. Clyburn said he could foresee a circumstance in which House Democrats approve a measure without a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces, which has been the consistent goal of the party throughout the months-long debate. But he said he could just as easily see Democrats continue to include a timetable.

Clyburn also address the reasons behind declining approval ratings for Congress, which spiked earlier in the year when Democrats took over the House and Senate. The most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed just 37 percent approving of the performance of Congress.

"Remember right after the election it went very high on approval,?" he said. "Then all of a sudden people saw that we were not yielding the kind of result that they wanted to yield."

He said most Americans still do not know some of the domestic legislation that has been approved. Fewer understand that, despite Democratic majorities in both houses, that it takes 60 votes to pass anything legislation in the Senate.

Clyburn noted that while overall approval ratings of Congress are low, people still rate Democrats higher than Republicans. "People feel good about the Democratic Party, they just don't feel real good about the Congress itself."

 

 

The intensity of the left's determination to abandon Iraq was reflected in the reaction to a single line in Hillary Clinton's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars last week. "We've begun to change tactics in Iraq," she said, referring to the surge, "and in some areas, particularly al-Anbar province, it's working."

That mild comment instantly drew fire from Clinton's Democratic rivals. John Edwards's campaign manager, David Bonior, warned her against "undermining the effort in the Congress to end this war."

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, another presidential hopeful, piled on: "The surge is not working. I do not give President Bush the same credit on Iraq that Hillary does." When Barack Obama addressed the VFW one day later, he stuck to the defeatists' script. "Obama Sees a 'Complete Failure' in Iraq," The New York Times headlined its report on Aug. 22.

Within 48 hours, Clinton was scurrying to toe the all-is-lost line once again: "The surge was designed to give the Iraqi government time to take steps to ensure a political solution. It has failed. . . . We need to . . . start getting out now."

 

 

The thing is, Liberals get away with this kind of thing because they do a better job of running the media. And really, until conservatives learn to do the same, they'll continue to.