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?
This is why I am suspicious of embedded reporters.
I'm with you guys. Anything I can do. We nedd to lobby to get rid of imbedded reporters so these guys can do their job. A war is no place for political correctness.
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everyone write their congressmen..... tell them support this Marine... regardless....
Gentlemen, I'm not a guy but I'm with you on this and will do anything I can to help....just tell me what please.
From the tape I saw this morning, it looks like the guy on the ground was holding a gun or something on the stomach of the guy he was laying against.
Agree.. It's stuff like this that makes the Red States redder, and the "Soft Blue" states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Red!
This crap solidifies Pacific Coast, New York City, and Boston.
Should have kept on reading. . .that answers one of my questons. . .
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Doing it right now.
BTTT
all these ideas are great. What I would like to do is write his parents a/o wife letters of support. It must be awful to be in his famly and have this happen.
Here is my letter to Kevin Sites:
Dear Mr. Sites,
I've watched your pieces from Afghanistan and Iraq over the last several years with interest, particularly as my son is an infantryman in the 101st AB.
I closely follow the developments in Iraq- I read as many different viewpoints as I can find so as to grasp as much of the truth as I'm able.
I've talked with veterans from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom about the necessity of independent reporters in war. As you no doubt know, there are mixed views of your profession amongst the troops.
Your story based on the video of the marine shooting the unarmed Iraqi is extremely disturbing to me. I want to understand your intent in getting this story to air. As you know, based on your experiences as a war reporter, unplanned and unforeseen circumstances often dictate the battle plan(s). Your choice to bring this story to the American public before the Marine Corps has investigated this incident seems a vile and ugly decision.
It is important there be an investigation to determine the facts. For you to decide the public perception of this young marine before an investigation has even been completed is beyond unfair. It stinks of rotten and sensational journalism.
Not every story must be told when it happens. Your choice to tell this one, at this moment, tells more about your character than it does about this young marine.
Regards,
Here is the number of public relations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, in DC. 703 614 2500. I was told a personal conversation with CMC was impossible but that my input would be passed along. Lets flood this office with calls of support for this young Marine. This is a good number, staffed by a marine Capt. Lets get it done men. Please help.
I also wonder if our guys are in a little bit more danger because of the pantywetter. If you're in war and trying to protect a pantywetter you put yourself in harms way.
http://kevinsites.net/bio.php
Kevin Sites: Combat Correspondent
Kevin Sites is a pioneering, multi-media journalist who often works as a one-man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has covered war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Most recently, as a non-embedded correspondent for CNN, Sites provided viewers with independent reports from the frontlines of Northern Iraq. Traveling with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sites broadcasted live as coalition air strikes hit Iraqi positions in Chamchamal and Kirkuk.
Sites's reporting was cut short, however, when Iraqi Fedayeen militia outside of Tikrit captured him and his team. They were stripped of all their equipment and threatened with death until their Kurdish translator negotiated their release after four hours in captivity.
Sites’s war blog, kevinsites.net, utilized text, digital images and audio to provide readers with a more intimate behind-the-scenes look at the people of Iraq, the war and how it was being covered. The site received millions of visits, and continues to draw an active readership.
Sites also spent nearly six months on the front lines in Afghanistan for NBC and MSNBC News, covering the Northern and Eastern Alliance forces prior to and after the fall of the Taliban. He shot some of the earliest video of ground combat there, including the first American casualty--a journalist wounded during a Taliban mortar attack.
Sites has made several trips to Colombia, covering U.S. anti-drug efforts, including cocoa spraying operations and the training of the Colombian government’s Jungle Commandos. When Colombian paramilitary forces captured travel writer, Robert Young Pelton and his companions in November 2002, Sites interviewed them live, via videophone from the edge of the jungle, shortly after their release.
As a producer for NBC News, he received an Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the war in Kosovo and was nominated for a national Emmy Award for contributions to a series on landmines.
During a two-year sabbatical, he served as Broadcast Lecturer in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State in San Luis Obispo and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the California Faculty Association for the 2000-2001 Academic Year. While there, he initiated a joint research project with Xybernaut Inc. to modify wearable computers for solo digital reporting.
He has worked in local, cable and network news, including ABC's This Week with David Brinkley and NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Additionally, he has published numerous articles in newspapers and magazines and was the author of a monthly media column for the New Times alternative weekly. Sites has a Master's Degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Sites now runs his own production company, Shoot First Films, from his home in Pismo Beach, California.
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I agree... These insurgents do not fight fair... This one could have had a bomb strapped to himself... You have to fight as dirty as the other guy to win anyways...
I'm in.
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