Posted on 11/15/2004 9:29:10 AM PST by saquin
As a Canadian, I would like to thank the American armed forces for this stunning victory to achieve peace.
Are you sure?
...his underwear stained with blood from shrapnel wounds from a US munition...
How can the reporter tell the shrapnel is from a US munition? If he doesn't know for sure it becomes an anti-US assumption. (Then again, maybe we're the only ones using "ball ammo".)
I guess a "good" article is relative. But compared to the US MSM, it was a real flag waver.
That's true. Too much MSM has made me cynical.
This article's byline indicates it was pieced together from the Times' own reporting and AFP reporting. How much do you want to bet the stuff about civilian casualties caused by the U.S. comes from the "Agence-France Press" portions of the article?
Overall, it was a good article. But the Times articles written by James Hider, who is embedded with the troops and was wounded early on by shrapnel, have been the best I've read so far. I'm sure there will be more interesting things in whatever story he writes for tomorrow's paper.
There's no about the foreign element involved here. In fact, that is precisely why there has been hardly a word of protest from the secular leadership of other Islamic countries about the U.S. assault on Fallujah.
One of the more telling stories of the last week was the discovery of 20 bodies in an insurgent hideout; they were primarily Jordanians. In a scene reminiscent of the battle in The Lord of the Rings between the orcs of Sauron (the "Red Eye") and Saruman (the "White Hand"), they had all been executed by fellow Iraqi insurgents -- apparently after they were caught trying to leave a city that they had originally promised to defend.
Interesting read bump!
fyi
ow! What a bunch of hard asses!
You mean to tell me, the GFCC (Greater Fallujah Chamber of Commerce) didn't stand up to them!
That WAS the Greater Fallujah Chamber of Commerce!
Hallelujah! Dennis Prager covered this story on his show today (11-16-04 Tues;
in the later part of the first hour and into the second hour).
For interested lurkers outslde the Los Angeles area, I think you can hear this
on a archived loop at
http://www.krla870.com
on the "listen live" page from about noon today until 9AM Wed. Just click the
Dennis Prager picture and suffer through the adverts first!
Bump for publicity...
Talk show host Dennis Prager (and VOA) say this article won't make into the American MSM...
Check your local/state papers today and tomorrow to see if it does...
(the MSM is too busy trying to hang a Marine, heck, any US soldier for a "war crime" to
report this "propaganda"....)
Yet the Liberals claim we should not be in Iraq at all.
Moral midgets is what they are.
That's where I heard this story.
I can't believe CBS didn't lead off their nightly "news" show with it.
is that an "M" on his hat - as in "Mc Donalds???"
Embedded reporters for who? The enemy?
Sites has shown his true colors and they are not America's.
Furthermore, the whole policy of embedded reporters needs to be overhauled but better yet, tossed out with the nightly news. Can you imagine if Sites was doing his ideological "thing" in WWII or Korea? We'd all be speaking German or Russian.
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