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To: jimbo123

I'm not defending Sites, but there was a post earlier where he stated that the Marines he's been with have behaved very professionally and with great restraint, and that this particular situation was very confusing.


28 posted on 11/16/2004 6:29:22 PM PST by TexasTaysor
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To: TexasTaysor

confusing=fog of war


57 posted on 11/16/2004 6:46:10 PM PST by highlandbreeze
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To: TexasTaysor
I'm not defending Sites, but there was a post earlier where he stated that the Marines he's been with have behaved very professionally and with great restraint, and that this particular situation was very confusing.

Too late, Kevin. The damage is done. To anyone watching Al Jazeera or the other world media, this is the representative image of the Fallujah fighting, though Kevin Sites and everyone else knows it is not at all representative.

But, Kevin, when you chose to highlight this particular footage and emphasize that it was a "mosque" (even though it was really just an outbuilding on a mosque compound and you could have just said "building") and that these were "prisoners" (when they demonstrably weren't) you shot all of the Marines who fought in Fallujah in the back. You distorted the true image of what happened in Fallujah and tarnished the image of thousands of good men for nothing more than your own glory.

Screw you, Kevin Sites. You had your 15 minutes of fame. You're done.

126 posted on 11/16/2004 8:22:28 PM PST by saquin
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To: TexasTaysor
I'm not defending Sites, but there was a post earlier where he stated that the Marines he's been with have behaved very professionally and with great restraint, and that this particular situation was very confusing.

Yes, he makes himself sound very reasonable as he presents this few seconds of footage without any context, without showing what went on before, without showing what these Marines have been dealing with, dead and nearly dead terrorists rigged to blow up in their faces. Sites is a perfect example of Savage's "Enemy Within." He has, while sounding so reasonable, inspired fatal hesitation by the next soldier or Marine in the same situation and ruined the life of the Marine he was filming.
146 posted on 11/17/2004 2:04:06 AM PST by jaykay
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