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Patrick McHenry, His Green Zone Video and the Deaths of a Colonel and 2 Troops
On Saturday, March 22, Congressman Patrick McHenry insulted the troops by berating a guard working in the Green Zone.
On Friday, April 4th, McHenry endangered the troops by posting a video on his website that gave actual distances of how close rockets came to hitting the building that lawmakers were sleeping in.
On Sunday, April 6, a Colonel and two other troops were killed in the U.S. Embassy's fitness facility Sunday when a mortar round crashed into the building.
Pentagon tells lawmaker not to air Green Zone video again
By Lisa Zagaroli | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told a North Carolina lawmaker Tuesday that he couldn’t re-air a video he'd shot in Baghdad after accusations surfaced that he breached operational security in detailing enemy rocket attacks.Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican, traveled to Iraq with other lawmakers for the first time on March 22. The video was the second incident stemming from that trip that has drawn unwanted attention to McHenry. Earlier, he was criticized for berating a guard in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone for not allowing him into a gym there because the congressman did not have the proper identification credential.
The new criticism stems from a video that was featured on his Web site last Friday. Shot in the Green Zone, it showed McHenry gesturing to a building behind him and saying that one of 11 rockets “hit just over my head.” Then he named two other places struck by the rockets.
A U.S. Colonel and Two Other GIs Were Killed in a Mortar Attack on the Green Zone on Sunday, While They Were Exercising in the Fitness Facility of the U.S. Embassy
Colonel is only the 9th of his rank to be killed in Iraq
By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD
(Published April 09, 2008)
ST. LOUIS — Family members are mourning an Army colonel who had worked at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and who is only the ninth solider of his rank to have been killed in the Iraq war.Col. Stephen Scott died Sunday during a mortar attack on facilities inside the protected Green Zone in Baghdad, which houses the U.S. Embassy....
Scott, a member of the Huntsville Track Club and an avid runner, was on a treadmill in the U.S. Embassy's fitness facility Sunday when a mortar round crashed into the building, killing him and two other soldiers, King said.
Comments (3)
It would be difficult to prove that the insurgents had access to the video...but what a dumb-ass. I hope the good people of North Carolina find a suitable replacement ASAP.
April 9, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Many web sites can be accessed from all over the world. There are tools available to capture streams. And I have to imagine that much of Baghdad, including the Green Zone, is passably well-known to at least some of the Iraqi resistance. So it's possible they could use it to correct their trajectories.
Seems a little roundabout, though.
Even so, the guy is still a first-rate idiot.
April 9, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rep. Patrick McHenry is a jackass ex College Republican, the same orgizanition that spawned Rove, Norquist et al. He's a worthless punk that ought to be retired by the people of his district.
April 9, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
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