Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.
Posted on 08/28/2008 9:04:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.
Hard to win a war when the media in your country support the enemy.
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Once soldiers ...and young,
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http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978
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Thanks for the ping jaz. I just finished reading it.
What’s head spinning to me is that the Moozies use of propaganda such as described in the article is common, and historical. It’s been SOP for the moozies forever no matter where they are involved. Israel, Phillipines, Iraq, Afghanistan etc., so why would anybody lend creedance to their claims?
There’s an old fable about the boy whom cried Wolf.
You bet it is and Ollie North has always reported it straight, Karzai and his people better get their heads on right.
Bump to that, Ronnie.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m glad that Col. North was there to report what really happened.
The media is the enemy.
It seems as al Qaeda has been beaten and has been exiting Iraq for the most part this type thing in Afghanistan is on the increase, it’s got to be turned around.
Excellant post.
They wouldn't have any success without a willing and compliant media.
Let's say a 50/50 split was between local poppy dope money and MY taxes. WTF?
Maybe a couple of B-52 sweeps along the Tribal Area/Afghanistan border would quiet things down a bit - and demonstrate to Karzai and Co. and the warlords that things could be worse...much worse.
I'm getting sick of our guys bleeding for this ungrateful bunch.
“It seems as al Qaeda has been beaten and has been exiting Iraq....”
Yes, In an article Al Queda announced earlier this year if they didn’t do better in (can’t remember where in Iraq they said) a specific locale in Iraq that they were going to toss in the towel so-to-speak, and concentrate their efforts in Afghanistan. They are apparently keeping to their word.
My point in this though is that their lies about civilian casualties as propaganda is overplayed, and shouldn’t by now be met with little more than raised eyebrows. They have cried Wolf so much, and everybody knows it.
I hear you and what you say just might get their attention, if it didn’t maybe we should increase to ten sweeps.
Agreed, but for once it appears that the US media was not involved in the exagerated claims of civilian casualities....it was Iranian TV, an Afghan human-rights organization and elements in the Karzai Government.
Be interesting to see what ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN make of this... if they bother. Of course Obama's coronation is much more newsworthy - they have forgotten Iraq and Afghanistan.
Agreed...I don’t know if these payoffs are called solatia in Afghanistan like they are in Iraq but it’s the same thing and this is basically what it’s about along with turning a segment of our people against the war.
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NEVER FORGET
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CLARITY =
Why did WALTER CRONKITE sell out the armed forces in vietnam?
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66823
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NEVER FORGET
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The Wash. Post ran the whole UN propaganda spiel about civilian casualties.
We have met the enemy and he is the American mainstream media.
None dare call it treason.
Madmax, Vietnam correspondent, on our side
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