Exclusive: U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver

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[trappedinnj]

Exclusive: U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver September 27, 2006 11:16 AM

Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:

A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year.

Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene.

"They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline.

[trappedinnj]

ABC had broadcasted a hit piece on Wednesday night about truckers trapped in an ambush was...ahem..."abandoned" by our troops from the Virginia National Guard. Well CNN tonight (to my amazement) defended our troops by reporting that troops actually immediately returned and attacked the insurgents but the trucker with the video and paraded by ABCNEWS couldnt see them from his angle. This us complete and absolute fraud from the creeps over at ABCNEWS. I forwarded all this to MRC, but WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?????? Im thinking all the rest of our news watching public watching ABC (or NBC/CBS) and not getting FOXNEWS or even (god forbid) CNN in this case.

[ConservativeGreek]

You expected something different from ABC?

As Rush says, this is the story line.

[gusopol3]

trying to rehabilitate themselves in liberal eyes after attacks by Toon and O'Reilly citing Ross as endorsing effectiveness of rough questioning as instrumental in breaking detainees

[Shimmer128]

ping

[crazyhorse691]

ABC is making nice with the demented moonbats it insulted with their 9/11 dramamentary.

[BookaT]

This is sort of off topic but I read it in the replies on the source page and have read in on here and have seen it no less that 1000 times on the internet.

Loose is not the same as lose.

Damn! I see stuff like don't loose money. Or, we are going to loose the war.

I first thought it was people from overseas posting this misspelling but I see it in what appears to be American people posting. Am I wrong and this is the new way to spell lose? Loose yousd two meen sometheen that waz knot tite!

JEEZ!

[AdvisorB]

Bumper Sticker courtesy of the EIB and Rushbo. Thanks Rush!!

[pissant]

I saw that last night on ABC. I called bullshit the minute it started. Brian Ross is a world class A-hole.

[ConservativeGreek]

rehabilitate themselves in liberal eyes

True.

[cripplecreek]

I here that. ;~)

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

"They was murdered. To me, they was murdered,"

they was...?? Who did they interview?

[Retired Chemist]

The video certainly doesn't paint a good picture of the escort troops.

[socal_parrot]

Mena, Ark

Hmmmmmmmmm...

[ConservativeGreek]

Brian Ross.......goes back to faking exploding trucks in 1993 and much much more..............

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/is-brian-ross-a-reliable-reporter

http://www.freemarketproject.org/economic_terrorism/2003/ecoterror20031120.asp

[mystery-ak]

Thanks for post this...I know our troops would never abandon a convoy......piss on ABC...

[Prov3456]

I agree with you completely! For those who don't know,

loose=not tight (or coins jangling in your pocket)

lose=can not find (something)

I guess it's the English teacher geek in me, but it makes me crazy..... Sorry.....

[trappedinnj]

hmmm...
The original CNN piece was on Lou Dobbs, but now CNN (n Anderson Cooper) is interviewing this Wheeler driver who seems to have an issue with our troops actions and mostly Haliburton. This more recent piece seems to blame the troops more...just wonderful.

[trappedinnj]

wait.wait.wait....I cant find where I used "loose" anywhere! Now you got me paranoid....Dagnabbit.

[Magic Fingers]

"Or, we are going to loose the war."

[Doctor Raoul]

Brian Ross is a jerk.