Beth over at Blue Star Chronicles has a post containing an email from an American soldier responding to allegations by a  New Republic reporter about supposed crimes.  The Army officer responds to each of the allegations to show just how ridiculous they are. 

Here’s a snippet from the email Beth received:

The U.S. Army today is the most disciplined and professional Army in the history of the United States. This is the only war in our nations history where we have not instituted the draft to fill our ranks. Every man in the service today is there because he volunteered. They stood up in the face of danger, knowing we were at war, and said “I’ll go”. Most of these men are on their second deployment in support of the War on Terrorism, some are on their fourth and fifth. After five years of war with an increasing number of casualties, longer and more frequent deployments, and no end in site, these brave young men continue to volunteer their services, many of them reenlisting. No other Army in our history has been able to do that without the draft. Our military men and women today are true professionals, they are truly America’s best and bravest. While there are some bad apples and non-conformist in our ranks, we are quick to identify them and remove them from the service. The author of this story is a bad apple. He is trying to get attention by telling wild stories. He too will be identified and removed from the service.

What saddens me is that so many of the anti-war crowd will believe the allegations - no matter how absurd - because they want to.  It won’t matter what is true.  It will be one more arrow of discredit grasped from thin air to try to harm and dishearten our honorable service men and women.

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