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Drudge Explains Himself (POW photos)
Drudge Report ^
| March 23, 2003
| Matt Drudge
Posted on 03/23/2003 2:50:39 PM PST by WarSlut
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN MARCH 23, 2003 16:17:38 ET XXXXX
MEDIA BOOMERANG
The microphone reads "IRAQ TV." The screen shows supposed stock market arrows. The station is Al-Jazeera, a mock of Ted Turner's CNN. And on Sunday satellite news turned nightmare as Arab television aired footage of dead American soldiers, some sprawled in a room, and interviews with five U.S. prisoners.
Turner, who once bragged how the invention of all-news global TV brought on the fall of communism at the end of the Cold War, must now be taking a pause at this all-news boomerang.
The 6-minute video which beamed on Sunday showed mankind at its worse -- and Iraqi fighters at their most animalistic.
Disgust and horror do not describe the viciousness of the images. One Iraqi man is captured smiling over dead Americans. Soldiers pants are pulled down, the camera zooms in for a close up of bullet holes in heads as "Al-Jazeera Exclusive" is stamped on the screen.
The DRUDGE REPORT has wrestled with providing the complete video feed to its readers. The families of the murdered U.S. troops have been notified. And if anchormen and others in the media have viewed it, why can't the average citizen?
With a banging conscience, faces of the dead and captured cannot be shown in this space.
But with that same conscience is the total anger, and the feeling many of us have become too desensitized to the atrocities.
TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drudge; iraq; pows; war
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Take a good, hard look at this smiling son of a bitch. See what they've done. Pray for their destruction with all your heart.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:50:39 PM PST
by
WarSlut
To: WarSlut
Dead man grinning.
To: WarSlut
I can't take much more of this...
To: WarSlut
OMG.......I hope their destruction is fast and hard.........remembered for generations, surpassing even the bombs dropped on Japan.
To: WarSlut
Don't be lulled by the politically correct crowd, Islam is our enemy. It's us or them.
To: WarSlut
keep smiling a$$hole.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:56:27 PM PST
by
saigon
To: WarSlut
Death to Saddam and his running dog lackies including people who are posting this and other photos of our murdered POWs.
7
posted on
03/23/2003 2:57:06 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Kevin Curry
Look closely at his right foot though, and you can see what he is about to do right after the picture was snapped.
Bastard
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:57:07 PM PST
by
dogbyte12
To: WarSlut
He looks "disgruntled"
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:58:07 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
To: WarSlut
Save some rage for the Al Jizzbaga... maybe there will be a few smart munitions that go "dumb" and "accidentally" turn the local AJ studio/offices into a smoking crater. May this bastard have a horrible, very slow and very painful death.
10
posted on
03/23/2003 2:58:23 PM PST
by
mindjam
To: WarSlut
One Iraqi man is captured smiling over dead Americans. Soldiers pants are pulled down, the camera zooms in for a close up of bullet holes in heads How many of the dead are circumcised, and how many of the living not?
Just an angle to explore.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:58:25 PM PST
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: WarSlut
It seems none of us have completely left the jungle, but some have traveled far less than others!
12
posted on
03/23/2003 2:59:48 PM PST
by
TheSeer
(Kill them, kill them all! General Stonewall Jackson)
To: dogbyte12
I will never understand why these fools believe that behaving this way will do anything but ensure their annihilation--and sooner rather than later.
To: WarSlut
I have this nagging feeling that grinning fellow's family will meet with the nastiest of traffic accidents in a post-war Iraq...
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:59:57 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: WarSlut
Okay, this is going to sound very un-PC, but I'm sure you all won't mind. Here's my opinion.
We should show NO mercy. Screw taking POWs nicely and all that BS. I don't want to see any more of this happening to our troops.
I know we're trying to liberate the Iraqi people, but for God's sake...
To: muawiyah
Death to Saddam and his running dog lackies including people who are posting this and other photos of our murdered POWs. Death to people posting this photo?? You don't want the world to know what a sicko Saddam is? I don't understand.
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posted on
03/23/2003 3:00:24 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
(A little more Shock and Awe, please. A little less Shuck and Jive.)
To: WarSlut
Didn't the Administrator say not to posts these pictures?
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posted on
03/23/2003 3:00:51 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: WarSlut
God damn them.
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posted on
03/23/2003 3:01:06 PM PST
by
xJones
To: WarSlut
Nuke the bastards.
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posted on
03/23/2003 3:01:10 PM PST
by
Jonez712
(God bless our troops)
To: WarSlut
Gosh almighty, what an outrage.
We must brutalize the Islamist sickos.
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posted on
03/23/2003 3:01:23 PM PST
by
AAABEST
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