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Posted on 12/23/2004 5:41:02 AM PST by conservativecorner
Maybe you missed a key fact. This isn't about commercial exploitation. It's about the Press's role in deliberately denigrating our administration and our country in the proseqution of this war...their role in advancing the enemy cause.
Maybe you missed a key fact. This isn't about commercial exploitation. It's about the Press's role in deliberately denigrating our administration and our country in the proseqution of this war...their role in advancing the enemy cause.
That's the propaganda angle. But that can't be done without commercial success or some form of financial support.
The unit is the 278th Regimental Combat Team (Infantry) not the "278th Calvary."
I'm sure that the ACLU would throw massive hissy fits if the Army had "Calvary" units instead of Cavalry units.
Shortly after the Rummy Phobia erupted on the MSM and here on Free Republic, again the real truth was here on Free Republic shortly after the lies began to spin.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306456/posts
Inside Politics: Rest of the Story [Faked Un-Armored Humvees Story Exposed - FR Credited]
Washington Times ^ | December 21, 2004 | By Greg Pierce
Posted on 12/22/2004 2:49:03 AM PST by Jim Robinson
"The reporter who managed to get a National Guardsman serving in Iraq to question Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld about why his unit's vehicles lacked sufficient armor coached the soldier using false information," NewsMax.com reports.
"In fact, by the time Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Edward Lee Pitts rehearsed Spc. Thomas 'Jerry' Wilson on what to say to Rumsfeld, the Pentagon had already up-armored 97 percent of the vehicles in Thomas' 278th Regimental Combat Team, senior members of the Army's combat systems development and acquisition team said Thursday.
"Further undermining the premise of Pitts' question, orders to up-armor the last 20 of the 278th's 830 vehicles were already in the pipeline when he engineered the bogus inquiry," NewsMax said.
"According to the Maryville, Tenn., Daily Times — a rival to Pitts' paper — Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Speakes and Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson said during last week's Pentagon briefing that routine pre-deployment preparations before proceeding to Iraq included adding protective armor plates to the last 20 vehicles of the Tennessee-based 278th Regimental Combat Team's 830 vehicles.
" 'When the question was asked, 20 vehicles remained to be up-armored at that point,' Gen. Speakes said, in comments completely ignored by the major media.
" 'We completed those 20 vehicles in the next day,' he said. 'In other words, we completed all the armoring within 24 hours of the time the question was asked,' Gen. Speakes added.
"The eye-opening revelations by Gen. Speakes and Gen. Sorenson first gained national exposure on FreeRepublic.com late Friday."
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They are. So they are happy. Blissfully happy. Blissfully ignorant.
Was the photo from the Whine & Cheeser party taken during the actual question? If so, where's all the "cheering" I heard about?
Thanks for keeping me up to date on the important stuff.
Good to hear from ya.
Keep low, and if your a shooter, get some for me and mine.
Yeah, that a-hole Kristol was on FOX News just a little bit ago. He wants Rummy to step down.He is on the Troll list now for sure. And apparently, he has been bashing Rummy for a while.
Rino Rat Kristol has been in bed with Rino McAinal so long, they act like Siamese twins.
This is Rino Rat Kristol's way of attacking GW and pushing Rino McAinal for 2008.
It is obvious that Rino Rat Kristol has been a main vector in spreading the Vile Rummy Phobia. Rino Rat Kristol is like a rat infected with Rabies and contaminates everyone he touches.
bump!
Kriston just wants his boy McStain in.
Got to wonder if the wee wittle Kristol didn't vote for JFKerry?
See my tagline . . .
The difference between freak show barkers and journalists is that we-the-people aren't afraid that our fellow citizens will cast their votes on the basis of what freak show barkers say.
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