[bkwells]

The news media do not report the great things that we have accomplished in this country – the lives we have saved, and freedom that we are providing to a people who do, in fact, want this freedom. Freedom is not won overnight; there are pitfalls that must be overcome, and that takes time.

Well said!

[bkwells]

Ping!

[xJones]

BUMP!!!

[MikefromOhio]

Let me give you guys a brief rundown of what is being faced here...

in terms of IEDs, body armor doesnt cover your lower legs. IEDS are generally on the ground. No help there. You avoid them by being cautious and remembering your training...

in terms of rocket and mortar shells, the body armor generally covers a 1' wide by 2' high area on your torso. in short, it covers your belly button up to your nipples, metal plate wise, but the kevlar goes to teh shoulders and up to the necks. These vests are good at stopping bullets, but with rockets, they would be sending home your belly button and nipples, because you would have no arms legs or head anymore. Gruesome to be sure, but the facts of live.

How do you stay alive in that? remember your training, get down, get into shelters/hardened buildings.

Armor isnt everything. For troops coming up fresh from Kuwait, it looks like everything, but after driving through Baghdad completely unarmored, it isnt the only thing.

I am just a contractor. For the soldiers, a clear field of fire can be just as important as being protected from fire. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

[PeterPrinciple]

Leave our leadership alone, and we can and will win this war; and frankly, we do not need your selective reporting of how we are doing. We know our mission and objectives; our leadership has and continues to inform us wisely.

This is also well said.

[wouldilie]

bump

[gitmo]

BUMP

[Budge]

Very wll said!

Arkansas PING!

[MarkL]

I am partly convinced that there are a number of reasons that the MSM is working so hard to undermine the USA's military efforts.

Partly, due to the fact that most "journalists" are pretty much politically left wing and opposed to most wars (as "Princess Ann" would say, the press opposes any war that is in the interests of the USA).

That for reasons that I've never understood, many fledgling journalists go into the profession "to make the world a better place." I thought that journalists were supposed to report the news, not be propagandists.

And that the MSM is enamoured with power. They remember that the MSM manipulations of the news caused the USA to lose a war (never mind the fact that they were also responsible for millions of deaths when the USA pulled out of Viet Nam), proving how powerful they were.

I think that this combination is what's causing the MSM to try to hide anything good that happens in Iraq.

Mark

[is_is]

needs to be sent to everyone at Fox....

[angkor]

Which reminds me, that POS Kevin Sites (the seditious embed reporter from Fallujah) hasn't posted one single word on his blog since Nov 21. He's also deleted all the discussion comments post-Nov 15 and also the commentary that got him in trouble.

I guess he's persona non grata in Iraq, and he'll probably never work with the U.S. military ever again.

Good. I wish the military would blackball all of these anti-American propagandists.

www.kevinsites.net

[DTogo]

I have been in the Army for the last seven years.... I have been to Bosnia, Kosovo, and have just returned from Iraq.... I am an explosive ordnance disposal technician tasked with the removal of the roadside bombs, or IEDs, and unexploded ordnance in Iraq.

What, and this soldier thinks he knows more than Paul Krugman or Maureen Dowd? /sarc

An excellent letter.

[Foolsgold]

I wonder (yeah sure) what the reporting would be If (scarey thought) we had a President sKerry, Clinton or Gore?

[TheBattman]

And said by an Arkansasn!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

MSM is the enemy!

[NorseWood]

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[kitkat]

TRUTH BUMP

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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We MUST all listen to our protectors and honor their CLARITY in time of war...

...or all is lost.

When we refused to do so during the Vietnam War over 3 million poor S.E. Asian souls lost their lives as a consequence afterwards. and many more their Freedom while being tortured by their Godless Communist Bully captors.

http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm


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[CyberAnt]

"The IEDs in Iraq often have enough explosives in them that the armor on most trucks proves to be ineffective ... it is not the answer to our problems in Iraq."

"There has never been an IED campaign in the history of the world like the one we are living through in Iraq. There is no way the leadership that sent us to war could possibly have known to expect these extreme attacks on its fighting force ..."

I'm going to send this letter to every media outlet I have an email for - as well as to every person in Congress - along with some not so polite comments. I'm sick of this attack on Rumsfeld and our military.

[bray]

Better author and more informed than 95% of the Stoneage Press!! Armored vehicles are only being used as a club by the PravdABDNC.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[U S Army EOD]

If you meet this guy on the street, reach out and shake his hand but keep your left hand on your wallet. I know these EOD guys.

In most cases, body armor does little good when you are working on an IED. It just basically adds to the frag to include your body parts that might hit a friend behind you. I know of one case in Vietnam where one of our guys got a sucking chest wound from the fingers of the guy in front of him.

I personally had to use both arms and push with both legs to pull the bones of a leg that went through a ammo box one time so I could put it in the body bag along with everything else we were picking and literally scraping up with my trusty K-bar knife.

We never used body armor or any other type when we were in Vietnam. When you get an earburst from a large explosive item, its all over. We always use to wonder if you could see the case swell before you died.

These guys have really got it rough compared to what we did because of the technology that is now available to build IED's. Pray for them.