Can't blaim the troops on this one
ED Hill said the exact same thing as this Sgt on Fox & Friends a couple of days ago. O'Reilly was just ripping her for disrespecting Woodruff. I think it is complete hypocrisy. The soldiers who die are only important when used as a political prop for the media when their death reach round numbers (ie, 100, 1000, 2000, etc). But no stories about how much their families sacrified. Just stories about Woodruffs wife and kids and how much this is going to hurt them. Hello, MSM!!!! Woodruff isn't more important than the thousands of servicemen who have also been wounded in theatre but didn't have their own media condolence campaign. Get some freaking perspective and a little more respect for those who are risking their lives every day.
Insurgents Regret ABC News Friendly-Fire Incident
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
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(2006-01-30) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, today expressed his regrets to ABC News for the injuries sustained by anchor Bob Woodruff and a videographer in what Mr. Zarqawi called, “this tragic incident of friendly fire.”
“The American news media has always treated us well,” the al Qaeda leader said in a printed statement. “We were trying to kill U.S. and Iraqi soldiers when this unfortunate accident occurred. We pray to Allah for the swift recovery of the injured, and hope they can be back on the job soon.”
A spokesman for ABC News said a preliminary investigation showed that the improvised explosive device (IED) which wounded Mr. Woodruff and his colleague Doug Vogt, was triggered by “an imperialist occupation of Iraq after the U.S. overthrew the nation’s duly-elected president, yet failed to find weapons of mass destruction.”