Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Listen To Mrs. Gilbert
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
10:35 PM
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Air Force Major Troy Gilbert was killed in Iraq last year. His widow speaks out on the abuse of her husband's sacrifice by al Qaeda and the MSM, as reported by the Arizona Republic:
Days after an al-Qaida-linked group released a video showing the body of a Luke Air Force Base fighter pilot killed in Iraq last year, his widow lashed out at the national media, accusing it of politicizing and using the images to erode public support for the war.
Ginger Gilbert, making her first public comments since the video emerged last week, said Tuesday that she couldn't remain silent after watching media coverage of a "disturbing video" of the corpse, identification card and crash site of her husband, Maj. Troy Gilbert.
"When media chooses to use Troy's plane crash as a political catalyst to generate anti-war sentiment, it only serves to degrade the moral integrity my husband possessed and the morale of those still selflessly serving," Gilbert said at news conference at Glendale's Falcon Dunes Golf Course, across from Luke.
"Every time the press lends credibility and significance to terrorist propaganda clearly designed to erode public support or questions the validity of our brave soldiers' selfless acts of service and the war itself," she added, "it only serves to damage our country from within its own borders and embolden those who would do us harm."
Flanked by friends and family members clasping hands, Gilbert thanked Arizonans, the Air Force and her Desert Springs Community Church in Litchfield Park for serving as a "shield of protection for my family's welfare and betterment over the last 10 months."
Troy Gilbert, 34, a father of five, was killed Nov. 16, 2006, when his F-16 crashed about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad. Officials concluded that Gilbert crashed because he was so focused on saving friendly troops from attacking insurgents that he flew too low.
Read the entire article, please. Mrs. Gilbert's message should be distributed in every newsroom in the county.
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LeP,you're a swine...Bu-Bye... |
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.... Sheehan's family booted her out saying their son would have been appalled at her actions....as are all right-thinking people.
Funny how their side never gets mentioned.
You red menace have attained a new low. Kos will be proud....
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Manly Concavities.This stuff is slime even by the usual LeP & Dogg standards.What cowardly pukes.
Not the whit of decency to just shut up on this ONE THREAD.Punks & Jailhouse B----es. |
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The media aided the terrorists because they broadcast the video. It was pure and simple a piece of propaganda designed to make Americans think the war in Iraq is doomed. That is exactly why al Qaeda does these things. They watch how our media play up incidents such as this, and how their favorite political party, the Democrats, use them for arguing against the war.
There's one huge difference between Mrs. Gilbert's complaint and Cindy Sheehan's "peace" crusade (the Jersey Girls are not as comparable). Mrs. Gilbert was angry about what media did to the memory of her husband and the ideals he fought for. Cindy Sheehan by contrast is engaged in a daily narcissistic defaming of her son's memory and the ideals he fought for (which happen to be the same as Mr. Gilbert's).
A final point: I don't need to see al Qaeda video productions to understand that they are vicious barbarians. But I don't view them as evil subhuman savages, as you described. Scratch that. I do view them as savages, just not subhuman. Unfortunately they are in fact very much human...the evil kind of human. |
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I don't debate with fools as I don't want to be mistaken for one. |
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i had no idea bin ladin organization waas so cruel, i hope we catch him
Hypocrite Hillary(DC Experience Matters?JFK & Bill HAD LIL
This Video Is Showing That Hillary is a hypocrite for saying obama has no experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBy3AKn_2Fk |
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Its certainly more valuable than yours. The fact that you mirror the opinion of Osama Bin Laden at the same time that you call her opinion assinine makes you a disgusting punk. |
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Al Qaeda publicly abused her husband's corpse you bloody idiot. I think the woman is entitled to excoriate the media for aiding in that effort.
Good grief, man. If you can't understand that, then please spare us (and Mrs. Gilbert) the condescending condolences. |
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You still have the more dangerous front line postition than him in Teh Most Important War On Islamucomufascism, don't you Hugh?
HH: I'm sitting in the Empire State Building. Michael, I'm sitting in the Empire State Building, which has been in the past, and could be again, a target. Because in downtown Manhattan, it's not comfortable, although it's a lot safer than where you are, people always are three miles away from where the jihadis last spoke in America. So that's...civilians have a stake in this. Although you are on the front line, this was the front line four and a half years ago.
How is that front line, Hugh? Got trench foot yet? |
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God Bless and comfort her. |
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She doesn't fit their agenda - if she came out against the war or Bush or preferably both, she would be on every AM talk show(except Fox and Friends) and would be front page news on a lot of mainstream papers.
Major Gilbert and his wife are heroes - my condolences to her and her family for their loss. He will not be forgotten. |
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for Mrs. Gilbert's loss. I thank her for her comments. |
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