PATRICK DOLLARD IN IRAQ (The Dispatches 1-5)

hollywoodinterrupted ^ | April 3, 2006 | Mark Ebner

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[Marine_Uncle]

This man surely deserves a trememdouse amount of credit for what he is doing. People like him are sure a super minority in his field. God bless him for careing and putting his live at risk to bring out the true conditions in Iraq.

[Irish Eyes]

Keep this on top

[Eagles6]

save

[zot]

Ping

[rlmorel]

[bray]

Wow a Real Reporter, thought they were extinct?? This guy is a True American.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[FlyVet]

It is very sad that our military has to respond to a journalist who supports us winning the war like a man dying of dehydration in the desert. It doesn't seem to me that it should be this way.

Amen.

[Irish Eyes]

BTTT

[PA Engineer]

The American Media are primarily Democrats, liberals, leftists -- choose the term yourself. But we all know what we're talking about. Don't get cute and waste my time arguing the point. The American Media, by and large, are trying to sway the next two elections to their team. The best way to do this is to damage the administration and the Republican Congress. The best way to do this is to convince the American people that Iraq is a failure. The best way to do that is to declare defeat and force a retreat. Normally, any winning political strategy is fair enough. But to employ a winning domestic political strategy without regard for the consequences to the American people, whose children will be slaughtered at the hands of ascendant Jihadists (among a series of other consequences) is not only wrong, but just plain evil.

The media have, by and large, allied with the Jihadists in the hope that the Jihadists' victory in Iraq will win their party the White House and Congress. The media simply cannot resist the temptation to test their power in the service of a domestic political agenda. The whole country is inflamed one way or another over this war. Only a drooling moron would argue that the members of the media are somehow exclusively immune to those passions.

It's all very simple. Christiane Amanpour, Cindy Sheehan, CNN, The New York Times, Michael Moore, Newsweek, CBS et. al. are now, in huge measure, directly responsible for the ongoing death toll of Americans in Iraq. Everyone here in Iraq, the Islamic world at large, and most especially the Jihadist Movement's leadership, follow the American media closely, in order to monitor the American people's headspace, primarily with regard to whether or not we will continue the fight on to the establishment of a successful democratic, capitalistic, and modernized society here, or whether we will run in self-imposed defeat. The morale of the International Jihad Movement is almost entirely dependent on the posture of the American media. Their strategies, indeed, are primarily determined by it as well.

Christiane and company give Al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgents hope, they stoke the financial and recruitment fires of the international Jihad Machine.

The American Media are Democratic Party operatives who make W.R. Hearst look like E.R. Murrow. They are killing our young, they are killing my friends, wounding my friends. They have ripped my flesh, spilled my blood, physically impaired me for life, and are doing the same to the Iraqi people. And they are going to cause more terrorist attacks at home. That is the ultimate problem.

Save and a BTTT.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[MrEdd]

Good story.

NUMP.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. Some good reporting here.

[Allegra]

This guy's had some real adventures in the short time he was here. Good reading.

I remember this:

They've been showing Fahrenheit 9/11 on Al Jazeera since my arrival.

They showed it all throughout the spring. We all thought that was so apropos.

[FreedomPoster]

The societal self-delusion that points to, is more than a little scary.

[Chgogal]

Excellent Post!

Unbelievable, a former Hollywood executive who describes himself as a former Hollywood pimp, is doing a very interesting reporting job on Iraq. I am floored. This Mr. Dollard is "old Hollywood", the Hollywood with Swedish Steel balls. He's rooting for the Military, for the US and finally for the New Iraq.

[anglian]

***Breaking***Pat Dollard to appear on Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, Wednesday JULY 5th.

[PA Engineer]

Bumping to the top again. Fellow freepers must spend the time to read this. He covers it all and says what has to be said in a brutal truthful way. This is one of the most important posts I have seen here since following FR.

[anglian]

June 25th

The long, strange trip continues ( gotta love cliches ). I get back from Hell to decompress, and Sharon Waxman of the NY Times is upset because I won’t give her an interview and I don’t agree with her view of the war; children’s book authors at the Huffington Post do faux Bill Buckley/Dr. Phil analyses of me ( along with every other liberal who did a faux Dr. Phil analysis of me ); and blah, blah, blah. Noise and chatter, ad hominem smears from paranoid people who are afraid I might influence you away from the Church of Liberalism. Fine and dandy, fair enough, but it’s all just more of the same Reindeer Games of the Mainstream Media and Blogosphere.

The whole “What did he do in Hollywood?” thing is also just a ridiculous distraction. Who cares? What does who I rubbed elbows with have to do with what went on on the other side of my lens? I brought it up to make the point that even a total non-military civilian could go over there and try to film some truth. Try to bring something back home. Case closed. But I guess we’re all a little obsessed with celebrity, so everyone wants to talk about who I knew, where I succeeded, where I failed, etc, in a past life. Again, all that has nothing to do with what was on the other side of my lens in Iraq. But hey, it’s all just harmless fun. Stupid chattering fun. But that’s it.

A quick summary reminder: I spent 7 months exclusively with Marines in what are widely considered the three nastiest battlefronts of the Iraqi Theater of the War on Terror: Fallujah, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi. I have come to respect the average US Marine more than the average civilian, and the USMC more than any organization I’ve ever been involved with or studied. They are carrying the weight of history’s most important and difficult work on their shoulders - - period.

Oh, and no one has any real clue what is in this 20 hour doc series by watching a couple of three minute clips. The clips I’ve put up are the tiniest of appetizers, the thinnest of soda straw perspectives.

I’m cutting away, and hoping to be done with the bulk of the project by the end of the Summer. - Pat Dollard

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the post and BTTT.