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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Following what the U.S. military is calling a "curious incident," in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, Dozier, Douglas and Brolan got out of their armored vehicle, and that's when a nearby car packed with explosives detonated.
The best General to read on the topic is General Abizaid.
What you don't remember is that GHWB was president when the SEALs went ashore in Somalia. Clinton was still governor of Arkansas.
If we do as you wish, you will be handing over vast quantities of wealth and a safe haven to al-Qaeda, the Baathists and the Islamofascists and making another, worse, 9/11 enevitable. Of course that is what our enemies want us to do.
You can't hide from this war. You can't hide from doing your duty for the sake of future US generations who should not have to suffer under Islamic rule.
Thanks for posting this. Many of us would not have seen it had you not posted.
That name rings a bell - I listen to a lot of radio. Prayers for her recovery and for the repose of the two dead men.
But you forget that that happened in December 1992, when Bush senior was still president.
"Fox must've read what you said..."
;~ ) I wish I had that immediate of an effect on FOX.
If I did, they'd be covering the demonstrations in Iran.
(let me know if you see them do that. ;~ ) )
The first 9/11 was in response to our troops being in Saudi Arabia. Why were they there? To enforce those imaginary lines drawn by the Europeans in the sand of their dying empires. They played the divide and conquer game and now we're dragged into maintaining these imaginary political borders to what end?
You can't hide from this war. You can't hide from doing your duty for the sake of future US generations who should not have to suffer under Islamic rule.
Oh, please. You give them too much credit. We still retain the capability to wipe the Middle East off the map. AQ started fighting us for being there (to prop up the Saudi and Kuwaiti Kings - every American soldiers sworn duty apparently), before that they were fighting the dictatorships of the Middle East, let's let them get back to that.
Some reports say the car bomber rammed the convoy when the reporters got out of their vehicle. A target of opportunity courtesy of CBS?
It is you who want to retreat and hand Iraq over to al-Qaeda, not me. When will you stand up and fight? When they start blowing up American buildings... oops, sorry, that already happened and you don't want to fight. When they start blowing up European train stations? oops, sorry, that already happened and you don't want to fight. When they start blowing up US shopping centers? When they start blowing up your house? But then who will defend you? We will all say, it doesn't matter, after all, it is only you and you are trying to defend some made up border you placed around your house. Anyway, this is no time to give the Iraqi oil wells to people who want to blow us up.
Allow me to illuminate this in another way, so as to shine a little more light on the truth.
The Iraq Army, as it existed in late 2002, has *never* performed a single militarily significant maneuver.
The number of Armored Divisions under direction of any of our enemies in Iraq today is zero.
The number of Armored Brigades under direction of any of our enemies in Iraq today is also zero.
The number of Armored Battalions under direction of any of our enemies in Iraq today is, again, you guessed it, zero.
THIS IS NOT EASY WORK!
If they pool any piece of armored equipment, from a 50 cal on a Nissan, to a APC, to a T-72, they will be, like they have been, pounded from the air and ground without mercy.
General Franks (US Army - Ret.) deserves your praise for delivering you a Victory, regardless of weather you choose to be grateful.
I will not sit idly by while you lie to yourself and others about the accomplishments of our beloved military.
Can you guess, without google, how many tons of enemy ordnance has been destroyed by the coalition?
Please.... Oh Please... let that be next century.
Nor, most importantly IMHO, what the Congress of the United States of America did!
After the Nixon administration concluded a treaty (The Paris Peace Accords of '73) Congress systematically undermined, and in some cases even literally outlawed, the ability of the Executive to enforce the agreement. For instance eventually even unarmed reconnaissance flights over Cambodia were outlawed. Congress in this instance, and others, tried to make it difficult or impossible to even monitor North Vietnamese compliance. (The NV were moving massive amounts of men, arms and supplies into the South via the Ho Chi Min trail, which was a direct and blatant violation of the Accords.)
More insidiously, Congress repeatedly slashed necessary aid to our allies in Indochina. Aid to Cambodia was eliminated entirely, and aid to South Vietnam reduced to an inadequate, and intentionally demoralizing, pittance. The South Vietnamese were forced to ration artillery shells, and one of their best marine divisions resisting the final assaults literally ran out of bullets.
This episode was one of the most invidious and precipitous betrayals of a national ally in all of America's history. What's worse is that it was gratuitous as well. It was done not in, but rather against American interest. It was done by those who, in feckless and self-absorbed moral superiority, decided that America must be chastised and humbled by the failure of its foreign policy. And never mind (nor did they mind) how many millions of little yellow people had to be butchered or enslaved in consequence.
Oh, yeah. And it was done by liars who'd said they only wanted to "bring the troops home," and then, of course, we would continue to support or allies abroad. (Sound familiar?) Yet they continued, and intensified, their betrayal after every American ground troop was brought home. Remember that too.
Most appalling of all, what should be a source of deep shame is instead, to this very day, a shining point of pride (PRIDE!) to the American left. And not just to the extremist left, but to many a "mainstream" liberal as well.
Remember what CONGRESS did to America (and to South Vietnam, and Cambodia, and Laos). Remember that most of all when you go to the polls this November. And you damn well better go because the same people, or their ilk, are itching to do the same again, this time in an even more crucial struggle, and for the same sick and twisted reasons.
It's not cowardice, unless George Washington is your idea of a coward.
You want to do nothing but cower in fear of enemies who will "just leave us alone if we aren't in their sights", which totally defies reality and logic.
The reality is that AQ wasn't attacking the U.S. before we stationed our military in Saudi Arabia to prop up a royal family picked by dying colonial powers. Do you think it is the duty of American soldiers to keep a Saudi or Kuwaiti King on his throne?
I agree with you about how Vietnam was lost, but the broader point is, so what - to what end? Did communist Vietnam pose a threat worth 58,000 American lives?
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