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« Friday PSA (Apropos of Nothing In Particular) | Main | NO! » August 06, 2004
The Media Got It Wrong?
Posted by Bill From a soldier in Iraq: What angered me the most the other day was how inaccurate and very little press coverage the attack received. They all got it completely wrong. CNN, Al Jazzera, BBC, all of them. Cnn only reported 12 dead??? I told my friend from another Plt that and he said, "Shit! We killed 12 people in the first three minutes." I still wonder why, what happened the other day, over 100 crazed out Al Qaeda jihadist wearing all black and high off the Koran, attacking US Forces with everything they had received very little to no press in all the major news outlets???? It seems to me something like that should be major news. You'd think ... And the after-action report. (Via du Toit) Posted by Bill at August 6, 2004 01:12 PM | TrackBack (4) CommentsUm, holy shit, man. I mean, I know that the disconnect between media reports and the real deal is pretty much complete, but I forget what that actually means until I read accounts like this. Posted by: ccwbass at August 6, 2004 01:46 PM Thanks so much for linking that 'after-action report'. These guys are laying it on the line to protect us and the press is just in full winter soldier mode f**king them...And by extension us. They have some balls - shrunken up into their bellies as they are - to lecture us peons on what patriotism is. As far as I'm concerned they, and their Candidate (who served in Vietnam by the way) are traitors. Posted by: Rtfm at August 6, 2004 08:43 PM "During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released body counts of enemy and friendly dead to the media, which reported them voraciously. Invariably, the military’s data—showing more enemy than friendly dead—was designed to give the illusion that the United States was winning the war." 'We Had to Destroy the Village to Save It' Let the body counts begin. . . . Posted by: Zachriel at August 7, 2004 10:35 AM |
