Media Has Blood On Its' Hands, Iraq GI Tells Rep.King

Newsmax.com ^ | October 29, 2003 | Newsmax.com

[Lady In Blue]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Wednesday Oct. 29, 2003; 12:12 a.m. EST

Media Has Blood on its Hands, Iraq GI Tells Rep. King

Rep. Peter King, R-NY, delivered a stark message on Tuesday from an unnamed U.S. military officer now stationed in Baghdad who believes negative press coverage of the U.S. war effort has cost American soldiers their lives.

While flying back to the U.S. aboard a military transport, King told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity via satellite phone, "I promised an American colonel yesterday, an Army colonel, that [I'd relay his message]: 'There's blood on the hands of the American media.'"

"He's lost men because of the terrible reporting and it's just creating a terrible atmosphere," King said the Army colonel told him.

"The troops have tremendous morale. But unfortunately the terrorists are encouraged and the Iraqi people are being dissuaded from cooperating with the American forces because of the terrible coverage back here," King said.

The unnamed GI, who King said had two graduate degrees, shared his disturbing assessment as the two flew by helicopter from the Baghdad airport to the Al Rashid hotel.

Paraphrasing the Army colonel's words, the New York Republican said, "I just want you to know that there's blood on the hands of the American media; that my men and women are going to die because of them."

The GI's message continued, "We are winning this war and the only way we can lose this is if the American people lose their nerve and that's because of what's going on in the American media."

King said he concurred with the Army colonel's complaint, saying, "What I saw is totally different from what the American media is reporting."

Noting that he was in Baghdad during the wave of terrorist attacks this weekend, King said that, "in spite of all of that, life is virtually normal in Baghdad."

"What the media doesn't show is that the rest of Baghdad is traffic jams, markets open . . . you would have thought you were in midtown Manhattan," the New York Republican contended.

"Life is so different when you're there from the way it's being portrayed in the media."

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[ForGod'sSake]

OK, how's this, please pretty please would you kindly change the width on this graphic to 300 instead of the 320 I posted in error??? Coffee's on me ;^)

FGS

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !! You DO come up with the greatest pics/captions ! ...

[MeekOneGOP]

AH !!! That is PERFECT ! Great pic !

[MarkL]

What I don't think that the media seems to realize (or maybe they really do...) is that when they keep spouting off about what a dunce President Bush is, that's picked up by the foreign press, and passed on to the foreign populations... When all they dwell on are "anti-war" protests in the US, the foreign press passes this on as "normal" in the US to the foreign population... So foreigners believe that we've got a dullard for a President, and that the people are completely against the war in Iraq... Then the US press reports how foreigners have no respect for the President (gee, I wonder why), and believe that the war is wrong...

They did the same thing to the US after the Tet offensive, making the public believe that the Viet Nam was was unwinnable, and they're trying to do the exact same thing here.

Mark

[radu]

Unfortunately, the media won't pay a bit of attention to what Rep. King has said and will continue their harping. I grow more disgusted every day. D*mn them!!

Excellent post, LadyInBlue.
Thanks for the ping, RC.

Bookmarked for mass e-mailing to the media....after I've had a little sleep. My eyelids are at half-mast.

[freeangel]

BTTT

[Chancellor Palpatine]

This would be Peter King, the man vilified as "RINO" over and over and over again on the pages of Free Republic.

[ForGod'sSake]

Thanks Meek. Since I can't seem to get the mods off their butts to make a minor change in the resolution on this one, I'm reposting for the sake of clarity:

FGS

[PeyersPatches]

I was wondering when someone would actually SAY it. The American media (not all - the lefties, which constitutes most, I'd say) have had American blood on their hands for a long time now.

Terrorists vote democrat.

[ought-six]

Vietnam redux. I saw it then, and if the media continues on its present course, we will see the same thing in Iraq. It should not come as a surprise to anyone in America that the mainstream press (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NY Times, LA Times, SF Chronicle, ad nauseum) are vehemently anti-U.S. Those lepers experience some sort of sick sexual gratification at U.S. body counts. Damn them all to hell.

[ought-six]

Hawking the ol' book again, eh? Kind of a neat picture, though.

[ImpBill]

Thanks for posting this. It really is deeply troubling to watch the main stream media work so hard at spinning Iraq into another Viet Nam. And all for political gain for the leftist.

I am with the Col. 100% but the really disturbing part of this is that the media really doesn't give a rats a$$ about the lives of our military. Never have and never will.

[GOPJ]

bump

[ForGod'sSake]

This would be Peter King, the man vilified as "RINO" over and over and over again on the pages of Free Republic.

The same Peter King who has shown a marked improvement in ACU rating since, say, 9/11? A rock-ribbed Pubbie from the Tom Delay school he ain't. However, considering he's from a state that elected Hildabeast to the senate...

FGS

[MeekOneGOP]

It's a great one, alright. I 'borrowed' it and uploaded it to my site. Hope ya don't mind.

http://richard.meek.home.comcast.net/LamestreamMediaQuagmireIraq.jpg

I don't think the Mods can alter a post.
That's what they've told me on a couple of different occasions ...

[ForGod'sSake]

It's a great one, alright. I 'borrowed' it and uploaded it to my site. Hope ya don't mind.

Not at all; thanks for the compliment.

I don't think the Mods can alter a post. That's what they've told me on a couple of different occasions ...

Izzatso? I wasn't aware of that. I know they can change/alter items in the header/headline area, but...

FGS

[HenryLeeII]

The Democrats and the media put a higher priority on getting rid of George Bush than they do on getting rid of international terrorism.

...or on Americans' lives, especially our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. The mainstream press is filled with traitors and useful idiots, just like the Democrat Party.

[Travis McGee]

Just like Harriet hawked Uncle Tom's Cabin.

If nobody reads it, it's a wasted effort at (in my case) heading off CW2.Sierra Times, an Interview.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep. That is what perplexes me as well. They can fix a title on an article they can change the content in an article post, but not on a comment post. Maybe the software is set up that way or maybe it's a policy by FR. Comments can't/won't be altered, only removed if inappropriate.

[ForGod'sSake]

Maybe the software is set up that way or maybe it's a policy by FR.

Either/or; it's probably just as well.

Revised and extended Quagmire...

I got a chuckle reading over the anchors', er, diatribe, but then I often laugh at my own jokes...

FGS