Posted on 11/05/2004 7:32:52 PM PST by angkor
Real news? I hope not--I don't want tactical information going out live over CNN.
Sadly, given the reports that Fallujah is mostly empty now, thanks to evacuations--I don't think we're going to completely beat the terrorists here. They've left with the other crowds.
> Maybe we'll get some real news now ...
Even on Fox, only when they shut up, leave the mic open,
and let the camera roll. Anything else is almost always
ignorance, spin, or both.
The polical leaders of the insurgents have left the area and they have left the Kool-Aide drinkers behind to die. So OK, we get them. This is the Tet-Offensive for the Iraq war. That is why we are blocking the Syrian frontier.
I hope the "embeds" are embedded right at the front --- in between the Marines and the DEAD!
Why are they given any combat spots at all after the way they have failed to report the progress over there so miserably? All the media wants to see is blood and guts and dead babies, while they totally ignore the humanitarian in-roads our troops have accommplished! To Hell with the media! Let them EARN their right to be on the front lines I say!
And, we also get whatever they may have stashed there.
I wonder how many IED's lie in wait in Fallujah, and how we'll deal with them. I am worried, but confident.
Did Rather request a slot so he could go????
Except when the dead babies happen under the glare of the lights of a "medic," of course....
To be honest with you the best reporting came form the embeds. That is why the MSM attacked them so much. "They bonded with the military" was their cry. I'm glad to have them with us.
I heard on the media that some terrorist had left -- Some way to win a war -
And I wonder if the people from CNN will run into any of their buddies they filmed taking shots at our troops - but then again, they all hide their faces(at least when the camera is on)
A lot of soldiers from WWI and WWII must be turning over and over and over -
That is why you lead with heavy armor. And also once you clear an area of civilians, you just level it. This battle will not be a PC battle. Buildings are going to be coming down under a rain of heavy bombs and artillary.
Your right... but i just wish there were some way to keep that kind of trend going you know... on truth? It takes money to put those reporters over there, and it just burns me to know that all the arm-chair quarterbacks calling the shots over here don't do some true follow up when there is not any fighting going on.
In both directions, I hope. What a surprise to the sneakouts from Fallujah to find that they are are royally screwed on their way away from Fallujah.
Well, I mean we get it as in capture it. I imagine there will be some ugly things we find in underground rooms.
I hope that the Marines have looked closely at the lessons the Israelis learned so bitterly in Jenin. I can promise you the terrorists have.
Helen Thomas?
lolololololol
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