Friday, 06 April 2007
Bill's Nibbles // Open Post -- 2007.04.06
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post, some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. I occasionally move things from Bill's Nibbles to longer posts as the day goes on.

  • Iranian Piracy/Brit Hostage Crisis Post-Mortem -- Day 1
    • From Iran With Love
    • No Change In Iranian Position After Release
    • Video: Royal Marine Captain says “fighting back was not an option”; Update: Col. Jack Jacobs rips sailors; Update: Iran rips press conference as, um, stage-managed
    • UK sailors 'blindfolded, isolated'
    • Quds Force members captured at Irbil might be released soon
    • Video: Col. Ralph Peters calls for court-martial of British sailors’ officers
    • Brit ex-captive says statements forced
    • Good News Bad News
  • Dhimmicratic leadership -- Take 4
    • Nancy Pelosi's admirers
    • Pelosi was nuts to visit with Assad
    • Pelosi: Broken Left Speaker
    • Pelosi-palooza
    • Democrats at War
    • Illegal Diplomacy
    • Can Pelosi be prosecuted under the Logan Act for meeting with Assad?
  • Bush OutFoxes Kerrycrats (Updated and bumped) 
    • Bush Tells Kerry To Stick It In His Hat
    • Bush Uses Recess Appointment Power to
      Install GOP Fundraiser Sam Fox as Ambassador
    • The Politics Of The Petty
    • The Nature Of Political Appointments -- And Opposition

  • April 6, 2003 
    "Critter" Crittenden: It was almost exactly a year after the fact that I met Larry Gwin. Joe Galloway had steered me toward him, when I told Joe I wanted to talk to local veterans of the Ia Drang battles for the 40th anniversary. In those days I pretty much just wanted to talk to combat veterans, people who knew about it. Larry, formerly of Alpha Co., 2/7 Cav, had 45 combat assaults behind him, a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, and had lived through a couple of the worst days in US military history. He was an investment lawyer downtown, and we met in the kind of place investment lawyers have lunch. When we had eaten and talked and raised a glass to those not present as Larry always sees to it that we do, we walked out of there into the sunlight, and Larry said, “So, you’ve seen the elephant.” ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on April 6, 2007 at 12:11 AM | Permalink

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