Posted on 11/17/2004 5:23:45 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Kevin Sites, the NBC cameraman who shot video of the controversial shooting of a Fallujah insurgent by a U.S. Marine, is an anti-war activist whose photographs of Iraqi prisoners are featured on at least one anti-war website.
Sites was embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment in Fallujah when he shot the video of the Marine shooting an injured enemy fighter in a mosque. From the dialogue on the footage, it appeared the Marines were unsure if the insurgent was dead or faking death. Some fighters in Iraq have feigned death only to pull out a weapon or blow themselves up to kill Americans.
The U.S. military is investigating the incident to determine what happened and what, if any, punitive action should be taken against the Marine.
Sites was serving as a pool cameraman, giving access to the video to many networks.
Images Against War is one website where Sites' photography appears, giving two separate pages to his work. One of the pages, labeled "Kevin Sites 2," features photos of captured Iraqis with one caption saying detainees on a truck were enduring "a long ride into uncertainty." Most of the photos featured on the site engender sympathy toward U.S. enemy fighters and antipathy toward American military personnel.
Images Against War, which is based in Germany, has a comments page where posters have lashed out at Sites.
"The kindest things I can say about you is that you are a traitor and a terrorist sympathizer," writes one poster. "I would say I feel pity for you, but that would be a lie. All I feel for you is disgust. … Shame on you. I look forward to the day that the betrayal of this Marine haunts your every moment."
Dennis Karr posted: "Kevin Sites has to be the lowest of the low, a traitor for sure, only breathing right now because of our brave soldiers whom he surely hates."
Wrote yet another: "Good luck riding along with our troops now ... you're going to need it."
Sites also has his own blog. Here is part of his entry for Nov. 10, when he was accompanying Marines on their assault on Fallujah:
" The Marines I'm embedded with are nearly ebullient. This looks to be a cakewalk. One jokes they'll be sipping 'pina coladas by the Euphrates River by fifteen-hundred.'"
In his account, Sites describes dead Iraqis in detail and says the Marines are "operating with liberal rules of engagement."
His site includes a disclaimer explaining he is a freelance journalist on assignment for NBC, "but this site is a personal website not affiliated with or funded by NBC News."
Sites' bio says he was captured by Iraqi Fedayeen militia outside Tikrit while traveling with Kurdish fighters and spent four hours in captivity before being released.
***How come I never heard about this? Should that read annointed, or appointed? Could Nader have been annointed too?***
Hmmmmm... smart huh.. i like it... "annointed, or appointed" for me is of the same thought... forgot the exact scriptural basis for this but for sure i once read it..
and about Nader... Christians all around America and even the rest of the world pray for God's wisdom on the past election, its a very crucial one... we need the best choice coz it seems both are good choices but later after the election it was revealed who should be the best choice and we all realize that...and that was God's answer, appointment or annointing sort of... Nader could have been if he was like Bush... Bush could have lost the election if he was like Nader...:-)
bump!!!!
I truly think that this incident (fabricated by the seditious Kevin Sites) involving the shooting of the terrorist scum was to counteract this picture. Americans saw this and it struck a visceral, gut American reaction that we LOVE our heroes, we support them and their mission, and the MSM couldn't STAND it! They had to attempt to fabricate an "incident" to try to make our courageous military look bad, and curry more animosity in the Muslim world.
And have you noticed, the quotes from the "Arab Street" are all negative - do we seriously believe that this is not selective? What about the Iraqis who look upon as the liberators that we are? The MSM doesn't want to hear from them :-(
I have a feeling that the left will suddenly change their tune, concerning "embedded reporters."
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Just because the election is over and President Bush won decisively doesn't mean that the fight is over. These people are relentless in their hatred, and they will do whatever it takes to undermine everything that is good and right.
As I type this, I'm seeing on Fox News the attacks on Porter Goss from the leaked memos by disgruntled Carter-Clinton CIA dilettantes. Our fight has just begun...
Thanks, Meek. Did you read my post #34? This Sites Sikes? He makes me want to throw up.
Pretty tough to miss it.
The only issue is how we hurt these guys. I don't know if there are enough of us that a boycott will help.
We can call, e-mail, and write our displeasure. I'm not sure they care though.... They have their own agenda.
Thanks, Meek. Did you read my post #34?Oh, yeah!:
Kevin Sikes could not make a pimple on this Marine's butt!
Thank you! :)
My pleasure, thanks. :^D
Tonk, I listened to a reporter who listed figures for the dead and wounded in Fartloojah. He truly could not grasp the idea that a Marine (Always capital 'M') wanted to return to combat as soon as possible. He doesn't understand that it takes a special breed to want to do what we patriots do. It was painfully obvious that camaraderie meant nothing to him.'Blame the U.S.' appeared to be his mantra.
"It was painfully obvious that camaraderie meant nothing to him.'Blame the U.S.' appeared to be his mantra."
The media still thinks Hanoi Kerry is a hero.
He probably complies and then...., KABOOM!!!!
"Oooo! Sorry 'bout that. Guess that was Kevin's last picture."
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I hope this photographer never works again. Boycott his work. Kick him off your staff. He's a traitor to his country. He's scum.
Gee, I wonder why they released him?
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