TIME Exclusive: IRAQ INSURGENTS SHOW OFF FIREPOWER TO TIME

Time ^ | Sunday, Dec. 07, 2003 | Brian Bennett and Michael Ware

[niteowl77]

No, dammit, I'm not going to stand around wringing my hands, but there better be something stronger than sending letters to American Honda or whomever. This kind of suicidal insanity is deserving of a real "fear of God" moment at Time/Warner, wiping away every fricking penny of value from the whole ugly edifice if need be.

[chadsworth]

NO question about it - Time/AOL deserve to be boycotted, along with ALL advertisers that are listed in the LOW LIFE Time puke-a-cation of a magaizine.

This company is now in part responsible for some of the deaths of our fighting forces and should be held responsible -- from CEO to the reporters themselves.

If I had a subscription to this puke-a-tion or I had AOL for the internet, I would drop them in a heartbeat!!!

Talk about being pissed off. There is no justification to put journalistic reporting ahead of the lives of our fighting troops. NO WAY!!!

[michigander]

Bookmarking to bring this up the next time a "reporter" is kidnapped and the cry goes out from the media to expend resources to find them before the worst happens.

I never thought I would find a reason to want to see anyone tagged with one of those "Digital Angel" GPS chips, until today.
May God forgive me.

[elhombrelibre]

Well, TIME and CNN are the same company. Both have lied for Saddam and his followers the same way NYT's Walter Duranty lied for Stalin in the 1930s (and NYT still frequently lies today). CNN and TIME are essentially anti-American and are working to erode American resolve. They are ambivalent in the war against terror. Imagine a sweet heart deal, if you can, where US reporters tagged along with NAZIs trying to kill Americans in WWII. It never would have happened. In those days, one could be objective and still not want the NAZIs to win. For liberals in today's amoral news room environment, the Saddam supporters are like the French resistance, not like NAZIS. It's a shame we even have reporters like those at TIME and CNN. They're really not reporting at all. They're simply feeding the US the story our enemies want us to hear. And they're too filled with hubris to admit it.

[Maceman]

Conservatives had enough juice to get CBS to cancel "The Reagans."

Don't we have enough juice to make this a contoversial issue in front of the American public, and give Time a wee-deserved public black eye?

[armymarinemom]

Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter. Beyond these fighters, according to the cell’s security chief, a ring of men with shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades is watching for U.S. helicopters that might try to stop them, TIME reports.

I'm so angry that I can hardly type! I don't know how they are getting away with supporting the people who are killing our troops. Something has to be done about this but I'm not sure what.

If this doesn't make your blood boil just take a look at our family album. This bird lands at Baghdad International every day. It has been fired upon just like any other bird flying out of there. These dung heap reporters are budding up to the murderers who have already aimed to kill my son.

[ChadGore]

THESE are the 2 pinheads who greenlighted a slaughter of my fellow countrymen, and they need to hear from *you*. I need help getting their addys and hpone numbers *please*

	Norman Pearlstine is the Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.,

	Ann Moore was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time

[CyberAnt]

Geeee .. did Time bother to tell the Americans were these weapons or insurgents were located ..?? IF NOT .. TIME HAS JUST COMMITTED TREASON AGAINST THE USA.

[Lazamataz]

Boycott TIME/Warner?

I actually gave them negative dollars.

I used AOL dialup for year without paying before they got wise. :o)

[Mo1]

Over the past three months, TIME has interviewed dozens of insurgents and disgruntled Iraqis, attended resistance meetings and viewed videotape of attacks against coalition forces.

For 3 bleeping months and they never said anything while these terrorists were attacking our troops and the iraqi people??

These Bleeping Reporters have Blood on their hands

[ladyinred]

I wrote Time magazine to object to the cover story they did on Bush with the Black eye on one side. I received a reply that I have posted below. I think it shows the bias this magazine has very clearly.

The presidency of George Bush has simultaneously polarized and clarified the country's ideas and feelings about the President. As our December 1 cover photomontage was meant to show, a little playfully, he is either loved or hated, reactions as extreme as his actions have been. Our 12-page report on President bush is a balanced look at the man and the remarkable political climate he was fostered . The topic is obviously newsworthy and timely, especially in the prelude to a presidential campaign year.

There are some events that make a President larger than life. Franklin Roosevelt had that Great Depression to deal with--would he have been so beloved (and so hated) without his cure, the New Deal? The point is that an extreme response to a big event brings a big division in public opinion.

Not everyone thinks that war in Iraq was an appropriate response to terrorism that came out of another country. Not everyone sees alientating your global friends as an appropriate cost of the war.

Before the war began, the arguments were mostly an intellectual plane, but once Americans started dying on Iraqi soil--and are still dying even though the war is officially over--the arguments take on an emotional aspect. We are of course sorry that you found nothing to recommend in our efforts, but we appreciate your taking the time to write to us. Best wishes. TIME Letters

[niteowl77]

I actually gave them negative dollars.

I used AOL dialup for year without paying before they got wise. :o)

Death by a thousand cuts! No blood for ink!

[expatpat]

Why didn't they use their cell-phones?

[Lazamataz]

I won't instruct people how to steal thusly from AOL.

Hey, did you know I signed up for something once and then cancelled the credit card? ;^)

[kayak]

Word of this outrage needs to be spread far and wide.

[ladyinred]

Glad you put out your ping list Kayak!

[Carolinamom]

These Time people are the kind of "journalists" who would have had no scruples touring Hitler's gas chambers when said chambers were in use imo.

[ChadGore]

So just who is the suck who green lighted this slaughter of our fellow countrymen for a few ratings points??

click bellow, and let his know what you think.

---

CEO Norman Pearlstine
pearlstine@time-inc.com

pearlstine@time-inc.com

[ladyinred]

These Bleeping Reporters have Blood on their hands

Yes, these "Dean's favorite word" reporters are guilty as sin!

[mystery-ak]

I just don't know what to say...other than you are right...how GI's lives could have been saved.