Posted on 11/11/2004 10:40:09 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Are there no limits to the comfort and support being given to our enemies by our so-called news media? On the front page of the Oct. 20 issue of USA Today, we find the headline "Put to test, 300 Iraqi troops fled." But in the fine print we find that 2,000 other Iraqi troops stuck with U.S. forces in taking the militant stronghold in Samarra. The one of eight who purportedly fled got the headline: The seven of eight who remained and fought were mentioned as an afterthought. American successes in Iraq are ignored or minimized — only shortcomings are highlighted.
The Vietnam conflict was lost by the treason of our news media as it falsely reported the Tet offensive of 1968 as a defeat. In 1968, I was a combat surgeon at the U.S. Naval Support Hospital in Danang. Since we were also a prisoner of war hospital, we treated the enemy's wounded as well as our own. After the Tet offensive, we noted that our prisoners, who had been mostly Viet Cong (Communist South Vietnamese forces), were mostly North Vietnamese troops. Why? Because in the Tet offensive we killed 60,000 of the estimated 80,000 Viet Cong combatants virtually overnight. North Vietnam had to send its troops to replace the Viet Cong. The Tet offensive was an unmitigated military disaster for North Vietnam. The Viet Cong finally came out to fight (ambushes and guerrilla tactics had been the norm previously) — and we destroyed them. A national uprising against the Americans, which Tet's simultaneous countrywide attacks were intended to incite, never happened.
Our press, however, falsely reported the Tet offensive as a defeat for the Americans, harping on that distortion incessantly until it had destroyed the will of the American public to continue the war.
Naaaa. The "Press" is the enemy. They are just a little more open about it, these days.
I predict, when CW2 finally comes, the "press" will be among the very 1st casualties.
This guy was in the same place as your hubby. Thought he might recognize the name, as I think it was at the same time.
Mc Donald's sells USA today. I wonder if they received enough complaints for selling that crap, they would take it of the menu?
From Yahoo.
How was the term "fifth column" coined?
Great question! The Fifth Column. The Fourth Estate. The Third Man. All of these phrases can get confusing. According to Britannica.com, a fifth column refers to any clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity.
Who came up with the phrase, and what's with the columns? Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), originally coined the term. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.
So the fifth column is a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders.
Good to hear from you, i have sent so many emails and no response i had wondered what happened to you.
Saving BUMP.
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