Posted on 05/29/2006 9:18:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
NEW YORK — A cameraman and soundman for CBS were killed and a CBS correspondent was seriously injured Monday after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the network said.
Veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed, CBS reported on its Web site. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was in critical condition at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad after undergoing surgery.
The three were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device, CBS said.
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And your solution is?
According to CNN one of our soldiers was killed. See my post #9
As of March '06 we had 19,782 WIA and KIA. IED's don't just kill. A 19 year old sent home alive without an arm is as effective as a kill.
What if we just realize we shouldn't hoist in the U.S. flag in the Middle East?
It is still not a major war and they are still not chewing up the forces. You guys are buying into the propaganda. This war has been going on for 3 years. We have a remarkably low rate of casulties.
Don't give up now.
View my posts at
CBS News Team Hit in Baghdad
CBS Website ^ | May 29,2006 | CBS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640089/posts
Are you saying we should turn tail and run away now? Today, you are Commander and Chief, you have 130,000 men in Iraq, what do you do? Don't give me platitudes, give me a plan, or stop bad mouthing the generals.
Utterly False.
Consider the following figures, displayed here for your exclusive reading pleasure.
1) The number of Americans killed by the Iraq Military this year (2006) is zero.
2) The number of Americans killed by the Iraq Military last year (2005) is also zero.
3) The number of Americans killed by the Iraq Military last year is (2004), you guessed it, zero.
This is no small accomplishment, and should never be overlooked.
It sounds to me like there are a bunch of people on this thread this morning who run like hell when you bloody their noses. Whether the DemocRATS and the MSM like it or not, Iraq is part of the global war on terror. And you're right. It is a low scale insurgency. When someone is shot in Phoenix, that's all you will see on the news. You don't hear about the million other people who went about their day and only learned of the shooting on the six o'clock news. If it bleeds, it leads.
Looking Back at Iraq
A war to be proud of.
By Victor Davis Hanson
There may be a lot to regret about the past policy of the United States in the Middle East, but the removal of Saddam Hussein and the effort to birth democracy in his place is surely not one of them. And we should remember that this Memorial Day.
Whatever our righteous anger at Khomeinist Iran, it was wrong, well aside from the arms-for-hostages scandal, to provide even a modicum of aid to Saddam Hussein, the great butcher of his own, during the Iran-Iraq war.
Inviting the fascist Baathist government of Syria into the allied coalition of the first Gulf War meant that we more or less legitimized the Assad regime’s take-over of Lebanon, with disastrous results for its people.
It may have been strategically in error not to have taken out Saddam in 1991, but it was morally wrong to have then encouraged Shiites and Kurds to rise up—while watching idly as Saddam’s reprieved planes and helicopters slaughtered them in the thousands.
A decade of appeasement of Islamic terrorism, with retaliations after the serial attacks—from the first World Trade Center bombing to Khobar Towers and the USS Cole—never exceeding the occasional cruise missile or stern televised lecture, made September 11 inevitable.
Read the rest:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmRiZDliMjI2Y2Y0Yjg2MmUxOWYzMDVhOGM5NzExZjE=
You may be right -- I don't know if there's any way to know for sure.
For what it's worth I'd like to respectfully disagree -- seems to me that more people would have only offered more targets, and would have encouraged the Iraqi people to take less responsibility for their own future.
I was saying we shouldn't have gone back in 2003 when Freepers were swearing the oil revenues were going to pay for everything and Wolfowitz's wisdowm was taken over Shinseki's.
Today, you are Commander and Chief, you have 130,000 men in Iraq, what do you do? Don't give me platitudes, give me a plan, or stop bad mouthing the generals.
Bring them home and quit trying to enforce the imaginary lines drawn on maps of the Middle East by European colonial powers before the last world war.
Nice, but entirely irrelevant to the 20,000 Americans who have been wounded or killed in the last three years of war.
If you remember that story completely, the Klinton administration set up the Somalia event as if it were a made for tv movie.
I still remember seeing the bright camera lights on the beach illuminating the marines as they came ashore. The whole thing was treated as a hollywood movie, not real life.
When things went downhill fast, the media has no choice but the report the downing of the Blackhawk.
BUT, if you also remember, they reported it and then let it slip into the background almost immediately. That was because it was a Democratic administration.
Same with Serbia. There were thousands and thousands of civilians killed, but no mention in the media. Remember the missile hitting the passenger train?? The onboard camera recorded the entire thing until hitting the train??
The media let that drop like a hot rock.
No my friend, the coverage is most definitely biased and different when a Republican administration is in power and is done so with a purpose.
Thank you for showing your hand. I have you marked, troll.
Now I can utterly ignore you.
Yah. And thank the mods for leaving this one up. Why can't you thread nannies understand that the life cycle of some threads may be only a couple of hours?
The Mods are very capable of deleting dupe posts that are going on in the same time frame.
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