Posted on 11/16/2004 4:34:34 AM PST by Atlanta
I'm going to start with a communication of support of this young Marine, to the Commandant of the Marine Corps himself. Then, President Bush and my Senator/Congressman.They are going to hear from me and I have all friggin day to do it. I am so livid about this that words cannot describe. As a former Marine myself, this young "Leather" was doing what he was trained to do, adapting to unreasonable circumstances (enemy tricks) and he did exactly what I would have done and what has always been done with a fanatical enemy. If authorities hang this Marine out to dry, I will never stop raising hell and will become a point man for pulling these guys out of theater entirely...MSM is SICK. Other suggestions?
Bump
thanks for the ping to his, Lan
I'm out.
Had they not already turned their backs on this enemy?
Nobody had policed the bodies?
The marine in question was shot in the face the day before by a terrorist pretending to be injured and one of his buddies was killed attempting to move a booby trapped body.
I should ad that unlike John Kerry, the marine in question did not put in for a silver star, purple heart and rotation home.
Excellent work! I may use your post #302 when pinging more FReepers to this thread. I'm trying to consolidate all the "what should we do?" info into one informative post.
Sites is a an Quisling
I wish you would e-mail that descriptive post to the MSM commies. Excellent.
As I thought..
It is about you, not the Marines.
I am not "crying" as you say, and what you have posted is hardly challenging. I was merely trying to ignore you so that the attention was on support of this Marine. But you will not have that.
Your shallow perception leads you to believe the military created the embedded reporter program because it, in and of itself is a good thing. It is not. It is a means to head off what the MSM would normally do: distort with intent to demoralize our troops and effort.
The idea is to have the reporter interacting directly with the troops so that things are on a more personal level between the reporter and the troops, hopefully discouraging hostile reporting as is the standard MO of the anti-American media.
One instance out of ten, as you claim, is still not good enough. If they get another mess like the prison scandal going, it will demoralize our men. If they get our men killed for worry of what some treasonous embed might report during the heat of battle, then it is a BAD program.
What the military intended with the embed program and what these Marxist pukes turn it into are two different things.
I do not have to be a supporter of every decision by the military brass to be a supporter of our men. This case in particular. There are no shibboleths here.
The media is anti-american and Marxist. There is no "good" application of their distortions, only less bad ones.
I have assserted nothing that is false, and to say so is patently untrue.
Now, if I am "not to be taken seriously", kindly refrain from further postings to me.
Should I shoot, will I get in trouble, I CAN'T DECIDE.
BOOM...To late; Another dead marine, WAKE UP MSM.....
My, but you are a rude person.
Here I sit at work, trying to work, and I am completely disturbed by this. I don't think we should have ANY reporters with our men and women...they have done nothing but interfere and discredit us...if they were to show a beheading on the news, it would undoubtedly have a huge impact on the American population...most Americans have no idea the torture and vile practices of our enemies...give me a bullet in the head over severed limbs any day...God Bless America and Godspeed to our Troops!
Thank you.
I am sorry. I should not have said that.
Bunch of Quislins
If I recall correctly, I read on another thread (or this one, earlier) that GE is one of NBC's national sponsors. I don't have contact information to pass out.
I did call the Marines and NBC's complaint line. If you find a sponsor list, would you ping me to it, and I'll get active on it.
Thanks--
Judy
This Marine hero has the support of millions upon millions of supporters...he is already saved and the slick mediawhore's career is going down the drain before this sordid episode on the part of the left wing media is over.
Why do we need "embedded with the enemy" reporters anyway?
They know that. Just think if this happened before the election.
Not confirmed but I saw on another thread that ABC reported that this video is being shown on Al Jazeera. Happy Sites?
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