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May 4th, 2007
Pat Dollard gives troops a voice
Democrats and the media exploit the deaths, the negatives only, of this war to get their anti-war stance ingrained into our minds. By saturating the media and our minds with all the negative stories and pessimism of the war; such as playing videos of an American getting snipered on television, reminding us every single time an IED kills a troop or dozens of Iraqis, applying all of the conflict in Baghdad (such as Ramadi) to the rest of the country, having high ranking democrat officials withdraw their comments about justification for the war (Bush tricked us, etc.), and declaring that the war is lost (troops love you for that, Harry Reid!), the democrats and the mainstream media are successfully losing the war at home.
But who should really be talking? The democrats, who are undermining any success of this war solely for political gain, or the brave men and women that sacrificing their lives so that a troubled nation can rebuild into a flourishing beacon of democracy, freedom, and success in the Middle East?
Has anyone bothered to listen to what the troops have to say lately?
“Yeah I have listened to the troops lately. Did you watch the 60 minutes segment about the troops that are against the war?”
Yeah, that’s nice, even though anti-war troops are in the extreme minority as it is right now.
How about listening to what the troops that are in Iraq currently have to say? And how better to do it, then to strap on your own combat boots and film the troops in action in some of the hottest (literally and figuratively) parts the Iraq?
Enter Pat Dollard:
Dollard has switched from a Hollywood agent to a war journalist, so that he can send back to America the message of how the troops feel about the war; because after all, they’re the ones that are actually in Iraq, not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Armed with his camera, he travels from Iskandariyah (The Triangle of Death in Iraq) to Ramadi, documenting the lives of the troops who are fighting in a war that Harry Reid has recently called “lost.”
This guy’s got balls. Listen to what he had to say during his November 2006 interview with Maxim:
“CNN correspondents tend to send dispatches via satellite videophone from the relative comfort of fortified bases, the smoke from recent explosions pluming in the background. Me? I took my camera and went out on patrol with the men of the U.S. Marines. I was in the explosions.”
Here are many excerpts from actual troops in Iraq from the samples of his documentary “Young Americans.”
“CNN, they didn’t have anybody here… they were paying other Iraqis… using their homemade video cameras… selling it [what they videotaped] to the American press.”
“This one guy, from the Economist… this one guy, it must have been his first article, first time he’s been overseas, he came out here [with] no sleeping bag, no equipment, no nothing; didn’t write down any notes. And we read the article: Slander. Horrible. Saying that we kicked down doors and cursed at the women. Never, he was never on operation when we did that! Never!”
Dollard then asked the marine if the reporter “was just making quotes up.” To which the marine gave a shrug of affirmation.
“It’s a really bashing article, like how horrible we are. And the marines out here: we’re dying for this.”
“These kids get shot at… these guys have kids that were just born [back home], they haven’t even seen them yet! They might never see them because they might die. They’re going through this everyday. They’re doing so much stuff, they’re only 18 years old… and then there’s some jackass who comes in for two days, and then writes a bashing article. And now the marine reads this. How is he supposed to go on with confidence, how is he supposed to feel good about what he’s doing, how’s he supposed to feel good about… having to kill somebody when this guy writes a bashing article? You can’t do that, you can’t do that to these kids, they don’t deserve that.”
Or this from an apparent Iraqi soldier:
“Many of my relatives, they advised me to quit because I am the only male still to my parents… But I am not gonna quit. Because I want to help my country. If the Iraqis are not going to help their country, who will?”
Or what this marine had to say about Art Harris from CNN:
“Last year he exaggerated the s*** out of everything. This guy’s ridiculous.”
Or from another Marine in the field, what his opinion is about the anti-war sentiment here in the States:
“A lot of people back in America, they don’t know what’s going on over here. And they want to be all anti-war and stuff; but until you get here and you actually see the point behind the stuff, you don’t really know what’s going on. When they told us we were deploying here, I was like… we’re gonna go over here, get blown up, there’s no point behind it, it’s stupid. But once you get here… you see these people, you know they’re living people just like back in America, and you wanna do what you can to help them.”
“The insurgents, they blow up their [Iraqi] power, they blow up their water… There’s tons of people that beg us for water. We help them out, give them what we can to help them. Our whole mission is to support the people more than anything: Clean up the insurgency. All these people back there, they don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know that this is what’s actually going on. All they see is the bad parts of it.”
“If we weren’t here, it’d basically be whatever strongest insurgent group, they’d fight a civil war between themselves, and then one of them would take over and run the show from there… 10 years later, we’re gonna have to come back here again. Clean up now, and come home for good in a few years.”
“The voices of those who fight, the military, have been ignored. Military officers have challenged national policy and strategy before the war, and have made countless recommendations during the war which have been largely ignored. Even the hand selected and top performing General Petraeus has a hard time getting anybody to listen. Pelosi and Murtha can’t be bothered with meeting him. The rest of the democrats give cryptic responses while the Republicans just nod and say, ‘good job general.’ ”
That last one was an excerpt from an entry of an anonymous Marine officer about what Americans should know about the war. The entire article can be found here. I urge you to read it, simply summarizing it in a blog detracts from it’s importance to an American’s knowledge about the current conflicts that are being faced in Iraq.
Marine Corporal Tyler Rock of 1/6 Charlie Company, has made himself famous with reporting the good news in Iraq and bashing Harry Reid (it was in response to Reid’s now infamous “the war is lost” quote). This is from an email excerpt Rock had with Dollard:
“I am a marine in iraq that isnt getting the support from a senator [Harry Reid] that should support his fellow americans. when was the last time he was here. what does he know about us “losing” besides what he wants to believe. the truth is that we are pushing al qaeda out and we are pushing the insurgency out. we are here to support a nation.”
And this is the quote that made him famous:
“yeah and i got a [quote] for that d***** harry reid. these families need us here. obviously he has never been in iraq. or atleast the area worth seeing. the parts where insurgency is rampant and the buildings are blown to pieces. we need to stay here and help rebuild. if iraq didnt want us here then why do we have IP’s voluntering everyday to rebuild their cities. and working directly with us too. same with the IA’s. it sucks that iraqi’s have more patriotism for a country that has turned to complete s*** more than the people in america who drink starbucks everyday. we could leave this place and say we are sorry to the terrorists. and then we could wait for 3,000 more american civilians to die before we say “hey thats not nice” again. and the sad thing is after we WIN this war. people like him [Harry Reid] will say he was there for us the whole time.”
Not to mention that Pat Dollard has videos of an insurgent sniper getting owned by some artillery, which to me seems like retribution for airing an American soldier getting snipered on television.
These are the people that Americans and politicians should be listening to when it comes to the war. After all, who seems to know more about the war in general: CNN correspondents that are in
Listen to troops, and to quote Pat Dollard: “Prepare to have your opinion about this war changed forever.”
www.patdollard.com
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1808 Responses to “Pat Dollard gives troops a voice”
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Tom May 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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