Posted on 01/25/2005 3:31:10 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Reporting from Iraq on Monday night where he traveled on a patrol with the 1st Calvary, ABC's Peter Jennings noted that "the U.S. is spending millions of dollars here on sewer pipes, sewage treatment, landfills for garbage, available clean water." Jennings asked: "How does the U.S. get credit for this?" Well not from the news media, as Jennings acknowledged that "every U.S. officer encountered today said the media has missed or under- reported this part of the U.S. mission."
On the January 24 World News Tonight, over video of himself wearing a helmet as he walked alongside soldiers, Jennings recounted his trip through a mostly Shiite town, as checked against the closed-captioning by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth:
"In the town of Obaidy, we go on patrol with American soldiers. Captain Matthew Boddini says he feels completely comfortable on foot. The kids are everywhere [video of kids running around soldiers]. Some of the insurgents have turned out to be only slightly older. Americans are ready targets in many places, but there is no apparent antagonism here. The U.S. has fought running battles with Shiites elsewhere since last summer. But the Shiites are going to win power at the ballot box next Monday, so why fight the powerful Americans on the street today?
"The town looked pretty bad [video showed hollowed out buildings and big puddles on the street], made to seem worse by a dreary day and recent rain. The U.S. is spending millions of dollars here on sewer pipes, sewage treatment, landfills for garbage, available clean water. How does the U.S. get credit for this? Every U.S. officer encountered today said the media has missed or under-reported this part of the U.S. mission."
General Peter Chiarelli: "That's fair."
Jennings, in interview with him (back inside, not out on patrol): "Please be candid about it."
Chiarelli: "It's fair [apparently referring to the criticism of the media]. This is a different kind of war. For 32 years I've trained to fight a war where the bad guys are on one side and the good guys are on the other side. But in this city, there's good guys and a few bad guys just about every place you go. It is absolutely critical that security not be viewed as something that just comes out of the end of a gun. Security is a combination in this city and in this country of a number of things. An infrastructure improvement and what we do in that area is absolutely critical."
ABC never did show any video to illustrate the money spent on "sewer pipes, sewage treatment, landfills for garbage, available clean water."
it's his lame attempt to understand the military situation. I'm gagging at Chrissy Matthews at Camp Pendalton now and it is pathetic the stupid questions he asks. He has no clue about the military, their capability and function. It is like he is trying to win some friends but comes over as a liberal nut who hasn't got a clue
I know what you mean. These elitist nitwits don't have a clue what the military and their families sacrifice for this Country. Their pandering makes me want to puke.
A wealth of information!
ABC and Jennings misreport something?
That is absurd, they can't say things on television if it isn't true!
The only thing we hear about Iraq are bomb blasts.
Isn't it amazing that we hear NOTHING about the north? I guess that's because there is no bad news coming from there.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., proposed the HEROES Act (Honoring Every Requirement of Exemplary Service) on Jan. 24, 2005. Here are the key parts of the proposal:
— Raise the death gratuity from $12,420 to $100,000 retroactive to the war in Afghanistan
— Raise maximum servicemen's life insurance (SGLI) from $250,000 to $400,000.
I might want to collect more when alive, then be worth more when dead. It's a start...
The Moderators will recognize a no no cover up immediately upon seeing that censored stamp.
The MSM is sparing us, don'tcha know,they know we cannot handle the truth from the north.
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I'll second that.
It was about the time when I was ragging on that local news station about something else and I thought their "the mighty PJ is coming to town" would be another good thing to tweak them about. At this time, the station manager had been responding to email with me, although I don't know why. I would've filed myself under right wing and forgotten about it. But she was answering me for a few days anyway. Well, I sent another email that ripped Jennings up one side and down the other and called him the most liberal, biased, SOB that ever lived and nobody was fooled by his game and everything.
Thats when little miss station manager stopped responding. but I saw an article in the paper the next day, that showed PJ in a park in our city and was being interviewed. He remarked about bias and used some of the exact phrases I had used for him. It was in the context of "We really try to be fair, but personal feeling will undoubtedly creep into a newscast" type of thing.
I couldn't help but think that liberal station manager discussed my email as a kind of pulse of the city topic. I hope she did and I hope she told him some of the better stuff I called him too.
Well, you've gotta hand it to ol' Gunga Dan. He did something else to judge his entire career by.
Okay, thanks I will tone it down and use dingdong Jennings or doowhacker or, but wait, Dick is a real name, as is Peter.
You watched that farce too huh?
Keep up the good work. You obviously have the station managers ear.
"but wait, Dick is a real name, as is Peter."
LOL! That they are, and very appropriate in the case of Penis Jennings.
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