Remember LUTTRELL, the Navy SEAL who hates Libs more than the Taliban? COURIC lusts over him

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His commanding officer, Michael MURPHY, is who Shrub bestowed the Medal of Honor on today. So after the slop job she did on PLAME yesterday, here was COURIC slathering over LUTTRELL today.

Below are re-posts from when LUTTRELL's wingnut book hit the stands and he made the rounds of the usual media suspects::




Earlier (below) I posted about this fellow's appearance with Matt LAUER, where LAUER read a quote from his new book about how he held a vote with his three Navy SEAL squad members over whether to release three unarmed Afghans, who might return to attack with Taliban, or whether to execute them, which would be a war crime. He finally voted to release them, which he called a lily-livered "liberal" thing to do, with many epithets against "liberals."

I couldn't paraphrase the quotation from memory adequately, so I trekked to Barnes and Noble and copied it down.

But before finding the money-quote, I found sprinklings of other gratuitous slurs against "liberals." Obviously he has guilt over his squad being wiped out, with his being the "lone survivor," but when he SHAM excoriates himself for acting like a "liberal," is this an aw-shucks way of pretending to put himself down when he is actually elevating himself? Before the "liberal" slur, he calls his decision the product of his "Christian soul."

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From

“Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10”

By Marcus LUTTRELL with Patrick ROBINSON
Copyright 2007 by Marcus LUTTRELL

Little, Brown, and Company

p. 184. Sorry, lefties. But, like we say back home in Texas, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

p. 202. The hard fact was, if these three Afghan scarecrows ran off to find Sharmak and his men, we were going to be in serious trouble, trapped out here on this mountain ridge. The military decision was clear: these guys could not leave there alive. I just stood there, looking at their filthy beards, rough skin, gnarled hands, and hard, angry faces. These guys did not like us. They showed no aggression, but neither did they offer or want the hand of friendship.

p. 203. …Was I afraid of their possible buddies in the Taliban? No. Was I afraid of the liberal media back in the U.S.A.? Yes. And I suddenly flashed on the prospect of many, many years in a U.S. civilian jail alongside murderers and rapists.

p. 205. …We could not possibly turn them loose. But my trouble is, I have another soul. My Christian soul. And it was crowding in on me. Something kept whispering in the back of my mind, it would be wrong to execute these unarmed men in cold blood. And the idea of doing that and then covering our tracks and slinking away like criminals, denying everything, would make it more wrong.

p. 206. I looked Mikey right in the eye, and I said, “We gotta let ‘em go.”
It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lame brained decision I ever made in my life. I must have been out of my mind. I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant. I’d turned into a fucking liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jackrabbit.

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This would be one Marcus LUTTRELL, who was interviewed (or fawned over) by Matt LAUER. This was in the style of how Judith REGAN serviced, uh, I mean, PUBLISHED, Bernie KERIK: Take one HUGH physical specimen, furnish a co-"author" and let him ramble on, then interview him with dewey eyes, your heart pounding with empathy over a big, strong dude showing barely caged wrenching EMOTION.

He's a Navy SEAL (along the lines of Rogue Warrior, another one of REGAN's pets). His unit captured some Taliban and had to decide whether to EXECUTE them or let them go, with the letting-go meaning these Talibaners would be back to attack very soon. So they voted, and Marcus voted -- against his wingnut instincts he says -- to let them go and sure enough the unit is soon under seige and everybody is wiped out EXCEPT Marcus, the LONE SURVIVOR.

So then Matt said, "Let me read you something you wrote: (paraphrasing) 'So I voted to let them go against my gut feelings. I voted the goddamned LIBERAL bleeding heart way to let them go.' "

I can't do justice to the quote. He listed a good half-dozen epithets modifying the gratuitous "Liberal" word.

I don't doubt he has PTSD, that he has guilt over EVERYBODY dying except him, but where did the "Liberal" blame get into this?

In the wingnut item below (from Google), he is said to be the leader of the squad (sort of like Poppy in ditching two planes). Oh, and at the end, where Matt asked about his plans, the answer was that, after taking a break, the dude is going to MEDICAL SCHOOL, doubtlessly to bestow future patients with WINGNUT CARE.

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1. So glad to hear that this man -Luttrell who believes having a heart

and using it is a liberal characteristic. I hope he shares that on his Medical school application.

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2. He is whining

about "liberals" yet I guess it didn't occur to him who put his sorry ass in a position to have to be making those decisions, sure wasn't some liberal.

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3. O'LOOFAH did a whole man-crush segment on LUTTRELL, too

He told the LUT-dude, "We (at the Factor) have got your back!!1 You are the epitome of (Americanism? or some such)."


In the old threads on LUTTRELL there is info about how LUTTRELL changed his story, how he told MURPHY's family something different before coming up with LUTTRELL's casting the decisive vote.

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(post #26) I see that he ISN'T sharing the profits, and the family of his OIC seems to believe he's a lying sack of shit. From the thread you provided:

In the NBC interview and in the book, Luttrell describes a discussion by the four SEALs and then a vote to let the herders go. That account, said Daniel Murphy, a former Suffolk County prosecutor and now a law clerk in State Supreme Court in Riverhead, is a far cry from what he said Marcus told the Murphy family not long after the death of their son.

(post #28) He didn't make the decision to let those guys go--at least according to the parents of his dead boss, the LT, who said that "little Rambo" here told them a VERY DIFFERENT story. And seeing as the dead LT's dad was a former prosecutor, I kinda believe him.

There's no one left to contradict his story, because they're all dead. He can lie with abandon, really, without consequence.

(post #36) I have to say that LT Murphy's father, the former prosecuting attorney, comes off as a more credible individual. I believe him when he says that this guy told a different story initially, and has changed his account completely. I spent decades in uniform, and never put matters of operational import to a vote--ever. Like I said elsewhere, the SEALS may do things differently (though I think not, really--esprit de corps aside), but responsibility and authority rested with (as they always do) the OIC, not the subordinates. For this guy to suggest that he cast the "deciding" vote is pure horseshit. The one who decides, and who takes the heat for the decision, no matter what, is the senior officer present. That's just the way it is.

(post #29, the conclusive one) His account makes his dead OIC (who cannot respond) look like an indecisive wuss--I frankly doubt the veracity of his tale.


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liseal0...

THE FATHER / WHAT HE WAS TOLD

This is what Daniel Murphy, Michael's father, said Luttrell has told him about the incident in which the four SEALs decided to spare the lives of the herders, as told in a Newsday account of the incident:

Since a SEAL's strength is his ability to get in and out unseen, their cover was effectively blown and a decision had to be made.

What should they do about the goat herder? As the team leader, Murphy was forced to make a fateful decision.

If he were allowed to leave, the herder might tell insurgents in the area of their presence, putting their lives in jeopardy. Taking him prisoner would slow their movements and could bring others out to look for him. Aborting their mission would risk the lives of those who would have to come to extract them and possibly allow an important insurgent leader to go free.

Murphy made clear to the others that killing the shepherd, a noncombatant, to ensure his silence was not an option.

"You know what, we are not murderers," he told the three other SEALs. "We're not just going to kill someone."

They would spare the herder and take their chances.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.

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