Brit Hume, host of "Special Report" on FOX NEWS, allowed his panel of pundits, Fred Barnes, Mort Kondracke and Charles Krauthammer, to draw a comparison to the U.S. troops in Germany, Japan and South Korea, and U.S. troops in Iraq.
The trio of right-wing pundits led by Hume had the unmitigated gall to say the U.S. has had troops in Germany, Japan and Korea for over 50 years, and that Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was right when he said the U.S. might have to keep troops in Iraq for 100 years.
There is one BIG DIFFERENCE that neither Hume, Barnes, Kondracke or Krauthammer made as they sounded off about keeping troops in Iraq for another 100 years.
Not one (I repeat) not ONE U.S. soldier has been killed in Germany, Japan or Korea by enemy fire since the wars ended in those countries over a half-century ago.
To try and draw a comparison between troops in Iraq and those in Germany, Japan, and Korea is patently ignorant.
Nobody is shooting at American troops in Germany, Japan or Korea, but they sure as hell are shooting and killing Americans every single day in Iraq.
Is this what the Fox News "Special Reports" panelists want? One or two or three deaths of American troops for the next 100 years?
It boggles the mind that grown men like the panelists, and the host Brit Hume, of FOX NEWS' Special Report" can be so stupid and to think there are Americans who are just as dumb as they are and believe their convoluted explanation why Sen. McCain was right about keeping troops in Iraq for the next 100 years.
Editorial comment by BILL CORCORAN editor of CORKSPHERE
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
FOX NEWS 'SPECIAL REPORTS' HOST AND PANELISTS PUT ON PUBLIC DISPLAY THEIR IGNORANCE ON U.S. TROOP DEPLOYMENTS
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Bill, how ignorant you are to say that no troops have been killed in last 50+ years in Korea, Germany,and Japan. SAY WHAT?? During the late 1960s, the North Koreans killed over 100 U.S. soldiers in combat. You must have had your head in the sand in 1986 when the Soviets shot and killed MAJ Nicholson. There were many more, mostly air crews shot down by the Soviets. Before you are so cock sure about what you are saying, you best check your facts. The VFW has had excellent articles on these events over the years in their magazine. However, since you are likely not a vet, you don't get their magazine.
Anonymous: Why don't you post a link to the article you are referring to where 100 U.S. troops were killed in the 1960s in Korea.
Also, You obviously didn't look at my profile and the picture of me in my Army fatigues. I was a Combat Engineer in the U.S. Army from 1951 through 1953. BTW: I'm a Korean War veteran.
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