if ANYTHING happens to this Marine or his family... i wouldn't give a plug nickel for this POS's future.
Posted on 11/17/2004 9:10:16 AM PST by demlosers
It is the Rodney King incident, Iraqi style. A piece of war taken totally out of context, for ratings and to make a reporter's career.
Kevin Sites, the embedded NBC reporter in Falluja has tried to pull a "Michael Moore," using an "innocent (sic)" insurgent terrorist lying dead on the floor or playing possum with the marines. One day before, an enemy body lay in a similar position with a hidden booby trap, wounding several Americans. Another group of soldiers had previously been seriously injured by an Islamic combatant, who seemingly arose from the dead with his AK-47 blazing. This is a tactic of suicide murderers who actually want to die.
A marine had to make a split second decision using recent events and experiences. This heroic warrior is now being made an example of, because Sites and the General Electric cameraman obviously understood the situation much better. Their training in the halls of 30 Rockefeller Plaza gave them superior insight into "the rules of engagement."
Sites broadcast makes him an accomplice to al Qaeda and Saddam, not an inquisitive reporter digging for a good story. Al Jazeera and the other Arab television stations have taken NBC's "Joseph Goebbels-like" footage and rebroadcast it hundreds of times across the Middle East, creating anger in the Arab/Muslim gutter.
This single act has done substantial damage to the military and morale (including back home). Thus, reporter Sites deserves to be shipped back to America in shackles and tried for treason. The media must learn that the battlefield is not a place for fighting fair like a boxing match. The Geneva Convention rules have virtually nothing to do with this incident, despite what the phony Human Rights Watch fools try to spin with their proper British accents.
The purpose of the military is to win. During battles "stuff happens," which is known as unfortunate or collateral damage. However, the brave marine who took control of the mosque in Falluja and destroyed the enemy should not be given a lawyer. He should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, which President Bush as Commander in Chief should announce immediately. This would send a very strong message to our enemies across the globe.
Only foolish, pc America of the 21st century could allow agenda-driven reporters to file uncensored military stories to the world. War is not a football game, where you have instant replays showing a close call. There are sudden life and death judgments continuously being made, which impact the lives of troops.
NBC and Sites have provided our enemies with serious ammunition and weaponry to use against us, more deadly than bin Laden could ever acquire. It is the pr bomb and they are launching it throughout the world via satellite technology. "Women's underwear on the heads of nude Iraqi prisoners is not enough. Now, those Americans are shooting "unarmed, elderly" combatants who are lying face down." Those are the exaggerations and falsehoods being reported with NBC's important scoop.
Kevin Sites has followed in the tradition of other immor(t)al reporters like Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Ted Koeppel and the rest of the overly compassionate (for the enemy) media elites. Putting a camera in the battlefield is akin to placing a camera in a family's home and then "investigating" the one fight between a husband and wife, or the shouting matches with those terrible teenagers. If we are not shown the lovely family dinner as well, it looks like a particularly nasty household.
Unless the American public boycotts all General Electric appliances, and lets Jeff Immelt (CEO) and Bob Wright (President NBC) know about their despicable practices, the big media conglomerates will continue to put us all in grave danger. Hey, perhaps the SEC should also investigate. After all, GE has done much more damage than Martha Stewart could ever have managed, even if she tried.
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Kevin Sites: I must remember as one journalist advised, “write in your notepad every day ‘I am not one of them.
And we will also remember you are not one of US! You are an anti-American, Liberal-loving, terrorist loving, traitor to your country.
Didja also notice that the poll refers to him as the "Marlboro Marine"? Let the "cowboy" tag fly!!
If Mr. Sites is not a military or American cheerleader then the Marines should inform him that they will not protect him any more than they would a reporter from Al Jazeera. He's on his own and if he is captured and beheaded by the "insurgents" then perhaps he will have 72 virgins in the afterlife.
Is he American or Btitish or Canadian?Does he live in the US?
The soldier in question should not be reprimanded and SOMEONE (unit commander, a General, Rummie, or Bush) should tell instead reprimand the press.
Once again we need to look to wiser, non-PC'd affected people and times for the precedent on what to do here. Pull the press out? No, the Islamo-facists extremists (terrorists) will spin it that we are now hiding things. Instead, I think we go back to WWII-style censoring of outgoing communications back home to the US (and to the world). Remember GI letters then were often full of cut outs?
We should put up press/civilian satellite jammers all over the place in Iraq and if the press wants to get a story out (including video and sat phones) they bring it to the military for review first (with WWII tight clearance standards) for transmission over military frequencies to the US and elsewhere. Perhaps more technology-savvy freepers can say if this is doable.
This de-moralizing kind of self-serving trash story should've been killed immediately never to be heard of again. The President said he would do everything possible to protect our troops. Well now they need protection from the leftward homefront press!
Just goes to show that you don't leave an enemy alive behind your back...or a terrorist either.
I was listening to Dennis Prager this morning and he was lambasting Kevin Sites. He kept saying to remember his name because he is enemy #1 at this moment of the military.
He was even calling him a traitor.
If anyone here hasn't heard Dennis Prager, this is astonishing in that, Dennis in one of the most soft spoken kinder talk show hosts you will. Always fair, never hyperbolic. This is so amazing, it makes me feel ever more resolved to make sure this Marine is exonerated and this "
reporter is excoriated.
Eventually we need to find ways to become more organized, focused, and aggressive. Our Marines are losing lives and our WOT undermined because of the liberal elites. It's time we find a way to hit back hard.
Good morning.
"What's with this fixation on "the back of the head"???
A shot to the back of the head is the favorite form of execution in some places. I've read that the ChiComs even bill the family of the executed for the cost of the round.
I always thought it was sort of cowardly. A shot between the eyes requires the shooter to look in the victims face and that can leave images the shooter might not want see twenty years later. It can be disconcerting to see the face of someone you offed years ago superimposed on the face of your grandkid.
Michael Frazier
Wow, you're right, Dennis certainly isn't given to making statements like that!
Just boycott CBS, NBC and ABC and that will get the job done. The advertisers and stockholders of the media will take care of business.
Ask Questions???
Hey Kevin .. if you haven't noticed .. IT'S A BLEEPING WAR ..
In the interest of fairness, Kevin Sites should be kept in Iraq but his duties should be expanded. From now on, his camera-man can keep Kevin on camera while he, personally, checks dead bodies and those of the wounded to make certain that they are what they seem to be. If Kevin is looking for a Pulitzer, this might just be his ticket!
I don't know if any of you saw Nightline last night but it was disgusting.
First of all Ted Koppel gave CREDIT for the video to ABC NEWS. So now you have ABC fighting NBC for who got the gotcha video to smear the Marines.
He then had interviews with Iraqi citizens and of course they only get the al-Jazeera news and they were calling the troops all kind of names. War Criminals was only one of the names, they (military) was also accused of coming to Iraq to destroy Iraq not save it. In other words, they found not one Iraqi that acknowledged the bedheadings, or any of the bad things done to the "good guys".
This video is being compared to Abu Ghraib pictures by everyone.
I am definitely one that has ever been for leaving, I just don't see how our military can fight the terrorists and the US media at the same time. It (MSM) is going to get a lot more of our fine soldiers killed.
The al-jazeera feed shows the Marines faces so now the ones that are still fighting can be picked out for assasination.
if ANYTHING happens to this Marine or his family... i wouldn't give a plug nickel for this POS's future.
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