This'll HURT Bush: On Drudge: US Reserve Unit Jailed/Defiant in Iraq

[seventhson]

story on his front page.

I sent Drudge the link and the story earlier and NOW it is up THERE.

Here is the LBN story here at DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=906709&mesg_id=906709&page=

Platoon defies orders in Iraq


Miss. soldier calls home, cites safety concerns

By Jeremy Hudson
[e-mail]

A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday. The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.


The platoon being held has troops from Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi and South Carolina, said Teresa Hill of Dothan, Ala., whose daughter Amber McClenny is among those being detained.
McClenny, 21, pleaded for help in a message left on her mother's answering machine early Thursday morning. "They are holding us against our will," McClenny said. "We are now prisoners."

McClenny told her mother her unit tried to deliver fuel to another base in Iraq Wednesday, but was sent back because the fuel had been contaminated with water. The platoon returned to its base, where it was told to take the fuel to another base, McClenny told her mother.
The platoon is normally escorted by armed Humvees and helicopters, but did not have that support Wednesday, McClenny told her mother.
The convoy trucks the platoon was driving had experienced problems in the past and were not being properly maintained, Hill said her daughter told her.

"He told me that three of the vehicles they were to use were deadlines ... not safe to go in a hotbed like that," Patricia McCook said. Hill said the trucks her daughter's unit was driving could not top 40 mph. "They knew there was a 99 percent chance they were going to get ambushed or fired at," Hill said her daughter told her. "They would have had no way to fight back."

[takumi]

1. "This is NEWS" Mary Cheney Isn't!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Wow. top of the page link on left.

http://drudgereport.com/

[obnoxiousdrunk]

3. Why isn't

CNN,MSRNC and FAUX reporting this ?

[seventhson]

6. they will be now that drudge has it

nt

[KittyWampus]

7. Sad & Obscene....But True

[seventhson]

9. I admire Drudge for this despite his idealogy: His view is that WE are

the media and need to USE it. He does and so can we.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

4. nothing hurts bush

he could be found guilty of planning an attack on a U.S. city and sadly the media will cover his ass

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. I think the DOD shut down the whole newspaper

says service unavaliable http://www.clarionledger.com/

[seventhson]

It is still working from the original LBN link

I suspect the link thru drudge is jammed

link thru DU still works - go to my first post and to the DU link

[SCDem]

8. I already forwarded this to my newspaper

which is the town that this troop is based out of and they called me back about it but because I am not related to any of the individuals I am not sure they are going to write up anything.

[RoyalWickedness]

10. service unavailable

link on drudge doesn't work either. Fucking Asscroft.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. No. I had that problem too but it seems to be O.K. now. eon

[Proud2BAmurkin]

11. Wow. What a fuckin mess the idiot got these poor kids into

.

[AmerDem]

13. very sad.

I wish these poor kids could be replaced with all of the chickenhawk freeper nitwits. I truly do!

[movonne]

14. YOU CANNOT PULL UP ARTICLE..GO TO KOS WEBSITE HAS

STORY...THIS STORY HAS BEEN PULLED..

[seventhson]

15. It is there in its entirety now with new versions too

I was not sure drudge would use this but I think this is a great story for the dems )altho those bastards will claim it is Kerry's fault somehow.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

16. WOAI San Antonio has the story!

Local soldier was involved

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=D91A7A49-EA6C-4D98-8144-447388F2CFD2

[Shopaholic]

17. Top story tonight on CBS Evening News

Go get 'em Dan!

[ladybugg33]

18. Bombard the "freepers" and the Week-end talk shows.

This is REAL NEWS. Let's get it out there. Even the news about O'Reilly doesn't match with the lives of our children.

[ikojo]

19. When I saw the report on CBS News I thought

the same exact thing. The girl who left the voice mail on her mom's phone said they were being held as prisoners and I thought, this is not good for *.

After hearing this how can ANYONE support *?!

[KittyWampus]

20. CNN Had A Bit Of The Phone Call, Too

[realcountrymusic]

21. It's Kerry's Fault

After all, he's the one who told them this was the wrong war (blah blah blah)

Watch. It's coming.

RCM

PS -- Unless they can find a way to blame it on Clinton's penis