Joint Chiefs Assault the Washington Post

Charles R. Smith / Newsmax | February 4 2006

The Washington Post has drawn the attention of all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the daily newspaper may regret it.

The Post publication of a political cartoon by Tom Toles drew a swift and hard letter from all six top ranking officers of the U.S. military. The cartoon shows a soldier who lost both arms and legs being told by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld that his condition is "battle hardened."

The central theme of the cartoon is tasteless" noted the Jan. 31, 2006 letter to the Post editor.

"We believe you and Mr. Toles have done a disservice to your readers and your paper's reputation by using such a callous depiction of those who have volunteered to defend this nation, and as a result, have suffered traumatic and life-altering wounds," states the letter.

"While you or some of your readers may not agree with the war or its conduct, we believe you owe the men and women and their families who so selflessly serve our country the decency to not make light of their tremendous physical sacrifices," noted the letter. "As the Joint Chiefs, it is rare that we all put our hand to one letter, but we cannot let this reprehensible cartoon go unanswered," concluded the six officers.

All six members of the Pentagon's top staff, General Pace, Admiral Giambastiani, General Hagee, General Schoomaker, Admiral Mullen and General Moseley, signed the letter.

While many consider the Washington Post to be the voice of fact and reason - the recent publication is one of many biased works that made the Post a leading member of the left. The Post has proven time and again that it is all too anxious to get the story with a left spin that would make a major league curve ball look straight.

For example, the Post showed its bias against the war to liberate Iraq early on with photos of dead U.S. soldiers being returned to America. However, in its attempt at overzealous reporting, the Post published the wrong photos. Ironically, it was the New York Times that caught the Post red-handed.

"In their eagerness to take advantage of the first photographs of American war dead from Iraq returning to Dover, several news organizations broadcast or published images of coffins that actually contained the remains of astronauts killed in the breakup of the Columbia space shuttle," states an article from Tom Shanker and Bill Carter in the New York Times.

"Among the news organizations that used the incorrect photographs were CNN, The Associated Press, Reuters and The Washington Post," noted Shanker and Carter.

A spokesman for the Washington Post noted that they had not checked with the Pentagon prior to publication of the wrong photos. The recent cartoon is just one snapshot of many when the Post stepped over the line or simply got the story wrong. It is indeed rare when all six members of the Joint Chiefs speak in one voice. This time their words ring true and hit the mark dead on.

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