Support Our Troops by Jane Hamsher at Firedog Lake

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Support Our Troops
by Jane Hamsher
at Firedog Lake
December 20th, 2006

"Professional codpiece Ollie North was yucking it up on Fox news the other day on his Good Time War tour of Iraq, using live soldiers for props and verily scoffing at the notion of danger. Says Ollie (via Will Bunch):

I'm standing next to Lance Corporal Andrew Colon. Earlier today, we went with the Marines of 1-6, First Battalion, Sixth Marines, into Ramadi to look at a civil affairs project. Andrew Colon is a combat correspondent with the civil affairs group that is responsible for winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. It was interesting yesterday, because while we were out there, Iraqi troops — some character who apparently had been trained by the French, perhaps the French Girl Scouts or by one of your friends, Alan — took a pot shot at us. The outcome might have been different if he'd been trained to shoot by Dick Cheney, but he missed.

Ha ha. You teh funny, Ollie. Zingers about man's man Dick Cheney, liberals and the French in one shot to prove you laugh in the face of danger.

But Ollie left something out:

Just six days before North giggled on camera about "potshots," and boasted that things were really improving in Iraq, a high-ranking Marine officer and two other U.S. soldiers who had just escorted North and his Fox crew to Ramadi moments earlier were killed by a roadside bomb. The Marine who died in the Dec. 6 blast was Maj. Megan McClung, the highest-ranking woman killed in Iraq since the invasion in March 2003.

.........SNIP"

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1. also a potshot at French Girl Scouts!

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2. The French are Hard

They like to be safe and comfy at home, but let me assure you the French military is not the same one the Germans vanquished in the Blitzkrieg.
The Foreign legion is harder still.
Although it is true that their rations are just fabulous, particularly compared to MREs.
I wonder if mister disgrace to the Marine uniform would have the gonads to tell that joke with some legionaries in the room?

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3. stupid man that Ollie North

the French intelligence service has been giving us good intel on the real terrorists in North Africa and the middle east.