Posted on 02/15/2009 3:48:51 PM PST by USMCVIETVET
An anti-war reporter calls another a "craven wretch" for his anti-Iraq propaganda.
"… I saw many of the same things you did. But I've come to very different conclusions. That, I believe, is because you had a pre-existing agenda you were determined to conform evidence to (i.e., war is bad, the U.S. is waging a war, so whatever it's doing in Anbar is bad); and because you're a coward…."
Read it all; it gets better and better.
Very interesting insight into the other side.
Let’s make one thing clear-at least 90% of the print and TV reporters in Iraq were anti-war or had an agenda to file reports that would ultimately make George Bush, and their country, look bad.
There has to be a special place in hell for these bastards.
An anti-war liberal has gone to Iraq...and realized a.) the war has been won, b.) the military is composed of incredibly competent, highly motivated and supremely honorable people and, finally, c.) that his fellows in the liberal media are, at best, liars -- if not cowards -- who slant their reporting to serve their perverse agenda.
At the same time, the anti-war liberal preserves his own political biases. Note that, while he attributes competence and honor to the military and their reasons for being in Iraq, he cuts no slack for the administration that put them there. As if Bush and Cheney could not possibly have been just as competent and honorable in making the decision to invade Iraq and rid it people of a brutal dictator.
And, as he put it, he is "phobically allergic to the Conservative Republican types the military is rife with". Yet, he admires their competence and sense of honor -- as if there was no relationship between these attributes.
The reporter is certainly professional enough to recognize (and report) a fact when he sees one. But you still have to wonder whether he will ever be capable of separating himself from his own political biases against Bush, Republicans and Conservatives.
That he was man enough to call out a truly despicable colleague is encouraging, though.
Very well stated.
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