i lost my appetite, anyway.

The good news is that the food shortage is now over.

But will the msm tell us this?

Logistics is a bitch, particularly when you are a foggy bottom toady.

with a photo of a Lenox eagle figurine as a logo

WTF?

How very strange.

I thought the memo might be genuine; it wasn't throbbing.

Thankfully there was no food shortage at Gitmo. Terrorists still got lemon chicken, honey and dates.

/moonbat

PS: Happy Memorial Day to all military personnal and their families, including my Grandfather and Father ( WWII and vietnam vets, respectively )

I should copy this one down if I ever want to teach a class about professional electronic documents and use it as an example of someone being too clever in demonstrating their mad skillz. I have a feeling the person originally authoring the document had a whole folder full of images to insert into the document, but had to get fancy. I see why a lot of times we put the 48 hour rule on a lot of speculation, because the stupid but true reason sometimes wins out.

Why did they use a picture of a figurine in their logo? This makes no sense.

The difference between honor and tyranny is admitting to ourselves and others when we are wrong.

Way to keep an eye on the machine, Charles.

The good news is that the food shortage is now over.
I'll be waiting for the leaked memo to that effect...

Based on what I read from those in-theater, the "shortage" was that the normal five choices of main course was in some cases reduced to two.

And those who were tardy did not get fruit cups.

The horror of it all was that some GIs chose to partake of the vast stores of MREs instead of the fresh courses.

Of course, maybe they just wanted MREs, since fresh food was available in either case.

The real story is the MSM's latching onto any and all bad news and amplifying in out of all proportion - and that always was the real story.

Gosh, a shortage during wartime.

The inhumanity. . .

Well it can hardly be called a shortage of food if there were MREs there as an alternative.

My dad's unit, in the Pacific theater in WW2, actually did not have enough to eat for a while and everyone lost weight.

Happy Memorial Day.

All gave some

Some gave all

Value your freedom

pass it on intact to your children

Let them eat MREs. If those MREs are good enough for your troops then they are good enough for embassy goons.

Charles once again illustrating the important difference between right-Blogs and those of the Moonbat variety.

We admit and correct mistakes, publicly.

They never do so. Ever.

Like I give a rat's ass that some puke from the State Department has to eat fruit from a can.

Charles - too bad Iraqslogger has published thank you to Flopping Aces for publishing an apology, but not to you. Idjits.

From "fake but accurate," to "official but unprofessional,"

...but not for questioning the legitimacy of an official memo that used a picture from the internet instead of an official logo.

Charles, can you honestly say that you would've applied the same skepticism if the document contained good news, or if it hadn't been released by the "nutroots"?

#15 Perplexed

When the big wigs run out of their favorite food all hell has to break loose. I think the same thing happened with a Navy Bean Soup shortage and Congress throwing a fit over it during WWII. But it wouldn't hurt them to eat the "Five Fingers of Death" MRE morning, noon, and night.

"War is hell, when brekkie is sh*t on a shingle.*"

I don't envy them having to subsist on;
Meals
Refused by
Ethiopians.

*William Tecumsen Realwest

ChenZhen: yes.

oh.

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(P.S. for me: I call "do-overs".)

Hell, MREs are all that bad nowadays. I certainly had my share of them after Katrina. I hope whoever leaked this memo has to eat nothing but the one with ministrone soup in them, though...

newsjunkie_ky

Why did they use a picture of a figurine in their logo? This makes no sense.

Because they don't have an official logo, so the author pulled an appropriate image from a public source. See also "clip art".

ChenZhen

The good thing about honest bloggers is they admit their mistakes, and publicize them with headlines.

It establishes credibility and over time there will be some quotient of trust and authority established in the blogosphere -- nobody's thought of an unbiased way yet beyond who's popular. If that's the measure then Charles certainly wins on trust and authority.

#25 Cybrludite, lol! Ministrone soup not your favorite, eh!

so does this mean that the surge is or isn't working? im confused.

anyway, how can we blame bush for this?

/truther brigade

Rodger,

Not the MRE version of it!

#20 ChenZhen

The form never "looked" right. There could be plenty of reasons why the memo was formatted the way it was. I looked in Word 2003, and it's not one of the standard templates. Who knows? Maybe he used one of the wizards.

I would like to know how he found the eagle. I did a Web search for "lenox eagle", and couldn't find it.

Whatever happened to "official letterhead"?

Or even a Word template of the real thing?

So, it was really sent out.

Was a US Government Memo?

Turns out the mess boys took the strawberries.

...American's are good people, and if you're hungry, we'll try and feed you...

#31 Ward Cleaver

I would like to know how he found the eagle. I did a Web search for "lenox eagle", and couldn't find it.

From Ace's, it's the "Defender of Freedom" figurine.

Why a minor and temporary logistical disruption at the Embassy ever became a media story or a "controversy" in the first place is a mystery to me. This whole thing is about as significant as a pimple on a gnat's ass.

Manfully good of you to admit the error, Charles. I never did find the image at the Hummel site. Did find some fine patriotic imagery.

Have a good Memorial Day, all.

Charles, posts like this show the difference between honest bloggers like you and dishonest like others that aren't worth naming. If something that was reported turns out to be wrong, you admit it openly and without lame excuses. You fall back to the truth, not what you want.

I don't even know if it is fair to say you were "wrong" because what you mostly did was throw out legitimate questions about a memo that was questionable in the first place. Even though it turned out to be a real document, it still deserved the scrutiny you gave it. Other bloggers weren't as interested in verifying the authenticity of the memo as they were using it as a launchpad for more anti-war rants.

That just goes to show that what you think is just a quick memo you're shooting off could be read by half the Internet. That office should be seriously embarrassed that they put out something so unprofessional.

Charles, can you honestly say that you would've applied the same skepticism if the document contained good news, or if it hadn't been released by the "nutroots"?

You know, the beauty of the Internet and free and open debate is that the Kos Kidz would do it for us. BTW, our side still has zero (0) lame forgeries to account for.

#40 scooby 5/28/2007 1:14:41 pm PDT

You know, the beauty of the Internet and free and open debate is that the Kos Kidz would do it for us. BTW, our side still has zero (0) lame forgeries to account for.

Really? I seem to recall some forged docs concerning uranium from Niger that helped get us into this stupid war in the first place. Kinda makes some drama over a food memo seem pretty trivial.

I wish I'd happened upon this dust-up when it started over at Aces. Could have (1) immediately confirmed that the memo was a regular in-house embassy memo of the sort I read for nearly two years while working there (2) added that Larry Johnson's illiterate and preposterous comments on something he barely understood remained idiotic, regardless of the memo's authenticity.

None of us ever seemed to notice the odd logo using the figurine, or make any issue of it. These are internal documents, mostly dealing with mundane matters. The security notices look the same, but the green panel at the top is red. I've saved several of those as I found the instructions regarding IDF (indirect fire, mortars or rockets) somewhat amusing.

In the state ballroom of Iraq (in the center of the palace that serves as the embassy annex, the main embassy building), there is a coffee operation, like a mini-Starbucks. One of my favorite signs during my time in Iraq was one at the coffee place in the spring of 2006 that read "Apologies - due to convoy problems, there is no white chocolate mocha" or something very close to that. Failed to photograph it before it came down. But I thought it put the somewhat bizarre situation in Iraq (remarkable supplies and amenities unlike any other war experience for US personnel) in perspective.

I'm kinda surprised folks were so quick to pounce on this - the underlying story was no big deal, true or not. Better to have rightly dismissed L. Johnson's childish and unwarranted inferences than to put all that effort into authenticating the document.