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HBO's 'Generation Kill' shows Marine life in Iraq
LA Times ^
| July 10, 2008
| Matea Gold
Posted on 07/09/2008 6:34:02 PM PDT by Vision
NEW YORK -- Evan Wright had no idea what he was getting into when he was assigned to travel with the Marines 1st Reconnaissance Battalion in the first weeks of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
When Wright, then a correspondent for Rolling Stone, was picked to ride with the special forces unit, the other reporters gathered at the Kuwait Hilton to find out where they would be embedded "looked at me with sheer hatred and envy," he said.
"I didn't know what 1st Recon was, but if all of these reporters look so jealous, it must be a good spot," Wright recalled thinking.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: embeds; iran; rollingstone
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To: Vision
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posted on
07/21/2008 12:04:54 AM PDT
by
streetpreacher
(Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
To: Vision
42
posted on
07/21/2008 12:34:13 AM PDT
by
streetpreacher
(Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
To: Vision
"Our military is being used as a hammer for purposes other than it's supposed to," he said. "And we should be aware of that. We're talking right now about doing the same thing in Iran, and we haven't learned the lesson of Iraq."For all you people that didn't read the whole article and think that no liberal biases snuck into the series...
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07/21/2008 12:39:56 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: streetpreacher; metesky
Thanks for the links. The overall tone of the series is leftist.
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07/21/2008 4:46:20 AM PDT
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Vision
(The light of the body is the eye, if your eye is true all your body will be full of light. Matt 6:22)
To: Vision
I clicked on the thread because I thought Marine meant water animals.
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07/21/2008 4:49:36 AM PDT
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mathluv
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