Posted on 09/28/2004 11:52:45 AM PDT by areafiftyone
U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq are "terrified" at the prospect that Americans back home might elect John Kerry president, a Marine and Iraq veteran who is on his way back to the front lines said Monday.
Asked how Kerry's election would affect troop morale in the combat zone, Lance Cpl. Lawrence Romack told KWEL Midland, Texas, radio host Craig Anderson, "It would destroy it."
"We're pretty terrified of a John Kerry presidency," added Romack, who served with the 1st Marine Tank Battalion in Iraq.
The Iraq war vet said he fears that most of the news coverage is being skewed to make the mission look like a failure in order to give the Kerry campaign a boost.
"What they're trying to do is get Kerry into the White House, because they know he doesn't want us to stay [in Iraq]," he told Anderson.
Asked if Americans back home were getting an accurate picture of what's happening in the war, the Marine corporal said: "No, they're not. It's not even close. All the press wants to report is casualty counts. They don't want to report the progress we're making over there."
Romack noted that in the southern part of the country, Iraqis welcomed U.S. troops when they set up an immunization programs for children, opened schools and began distributing food.
"Almost immediately people were lining up to get their kids shots," he told Anderson.
Contrary to reports that the general population was too afraid to help ferret out insurgents, Romack said, "We had Iraqis pointing out former Baath Party members for us to arrest."
When the KWEL host opened up the phone lines, a member of the 82nd Airborne who had returned from Iraq in March was first on the line.
He agreed with Cpl. Romack that media reports coming out of Iraq were often inaccurate – and sometimes even dangerous.
"The news media – sometimes I felt like I had as much to fear from them as I did the Iraqis," he complained.
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I always say...we have met the enemy and it's the U.S. press! What a shame that our own soldiers know exactly what the vast majority of the press is up to. Vietnam emboldened the press. They think they are in charge. The press also hates the military. That's a fact. Of course the military is what keeps their first amendment rights alive.
Good luck to all our troops and to their families. Let's elect George W Bush so there will be one thing they won't have to worry about.
Whether in Iraq or Kentucky, the fact that what was supposed to happen did in fact happen is not NEWS. If a family that needed food got food, that is not a news story - unless the occurrence was so rare that it stood out. The fact that electricity was on for a part of the day is not a news story. The fact that kids learned in school without incident is not a news story.
However, when something happens that isn't supposed to happen - a car full of explosives goes up in front of a police station - that is a news story.
Nothing going wrong is not a news story. "Today in Iraq, people ate food, kids went to school, and electricity was on. Film at 11."
Amen
John Kerry is running for President..And he wants you to know....
he is well balanced...
he fears no obstacle..
he shows power in style....
he is manly....
..uhhhh...well sort of manly....
But at least he can turn orange on command.
Just like the Oompa Loompas!
Plus he likes Orange bowling. Don`t you do too?
And he is racially sensitive....
And he is intimidated by steelworkers (as we all are).
Plus he can step on the US flag while speaking about why he loves the flag...
But he is reporting for Duty!
And he gets soccer balls stuck to his forehead from the botox leaking out.......
Oh yes, and he is reporting for duty......
And he`s afraid of getting hit in the face by a football
Ouch I say!
And he knows how to cut in line and step over ropes for a photo op...
And he can imitate a monkey....
And he also has a cool finger that has mutated freakishly long from constant use pointing blame at other people..
So here he comes...
THE BIGGEST FREGGIN` DORK TO EVER RUN FOR PRESIDENT!
JOHN `EFFEN KERRY!!
"Mama! Wawa! Goo goo! Mama! Wawa!"
Vote Kerry this election day and support his fulltime hobby.
well you do have a point. It's the same over here with the media.
Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks for the collection!
Who in their right mind would want that leftist clown in charge??
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That is awesome
They're not the only ones terrified of a Kerry presidency; I'm terrified of it, too!
The media is doing it on purpose in hope to get Kerry elected
Thanks for the ping
Bttt
bump!
Not really. It depends on which week it is. He used to be running on his service in Vietnam. When that backfired he ran on Bush AWOL charges linked to forged memos. Now he's rooting on Al Zarquawi.
BTTT
My FEAR is that the Democratics will try and STEAL the vote...and I really have to wonder with all the votes pointing to a BUSH win, most of the media either makes it clear Kerry is TIED in some polls...like they are trying to SET US UP for WHAT IS TO COME
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