Can the Pentagon charge Kevin Sites?

[nothernlights]

Was not the reporter under the duty to hand over this tape to military authorities,under the rules of imbeds? If that's the case then strong measures should be taken against Sites. Also has Sites been removed from that Marine unit,because at this point i"m sure his presence is a distraction to the Marines and therefore endangers their lives. Sites has to be removed from that unit at the very least.

[malakhi]

Don't sic the mods on him! I'd like this one to stick around for a while. Unlike our usual trolls, he can actually formulate a coherent sentence.

[azhenfud]

"How were previous generations of Americans ever able to trust our military to do the right thing and protect our interests without a cameraman and reporter peering over the shoulder of every uniform? How fortunate we are that there are so many objective journalists willing to quietly and selflessly risk their lives to bring the truth as they see it to the American people."

In giving you a precise, simple answer, the media men and military USED to posess a common goal - to defeat the enemy. Today, media has set its own agenda to "deliver a story", oftentimes in conflict with the main objective of war which is to resoundly defeat an adversary. Every reporter needs to realize these aren't computer simulations, the cost of war is death, and their story is not the object of attention, but if they capture a moment, it's the gravy on their dinnerplate they should be thankful of...

[I got the rope]

Keep'em coming coming Irishman. Americans will keep doing what we have been doing for the last hundred years...liberating....not occupying.

By the way, rather than insult me and all Americans, you need to thank us and GW Bush...otherwise some day in the future you'll be praying to the east bowing to Mecca. Oh yeah while your at it why don't you thank us for keeping you and yours from licking German jackboots.

[Zechariah11]

Took time out from the local pub, did ya? Green beer today?

Ahhh, laddie, it's a great country, this USA. Come visit us some time. We have pubs too.

Oh, and we love our Prez (61 million and counting!) and the fact that you Europeon losers dislike him makes him more endearing.

Btw, the whole lot of you couldn't put out the skirmish in the Balkans.? ROFLMAO!!

[UltraKonservativen]

This bastard was out to find something like this from the beginning just so he could prove to his leftist anti American buddies of the MSM that he is a scumbag like all of them;
READ HIS OWN WORDS:

I begin to feel I've betrayed the people that depend on me to be skeptical; to question the dominant powers and institutions of my nation and the actions it undertakes in the name of its citizens. I am not a military or American cheerleader, not a mouthpiece signed on to some institutional agenda whether I believe in it or not. I am here to ask the hard questions of the people who make the hardest decisions; ones that result in people dying or people being killed. I must remember as one journalist advised, "write in your notepad every day 'I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.'"

~ Kevin Sites

Indeed he is not one of them...Just one stupid question: Why would that Marine scream in alarm before firing?

Sites is part of this sick bunch of leftists that has been weened on anti American propaganda, fed this "global/U.N./Kumbaya" crap, with no love of country, no honor and an insatiable hatred of our military. This bunch that populates ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN and the NYT.
Go ahead, see if you can find POSITIVE stories about our Marines coming from this MSM sewer.

[roses of sharon]

The cultural psychosis induced by Islam has infected "tsr", as it has most of the left for decades.

BTW, has there ever been a terrorist, a tyrant, a dictator, a cult of murder, that the left has NOT endorsed against the US or Israel????

It it simple.

Their twisted rationalizations in defending these Islamic cults and Saddam, proves their need for a proxy war against US power.

Since they are too yellow to fight it themselves.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Exactly. Thank you for taking a rhetorical question and simplifying it for the historically illiterate FReepers among us. The names PoohBah and ModernMan spring immediately to mind.

[Lifted Spirits]

Hi tsr_dog, welcome to FR. Some friendly advice, if I may. If you wish your tenure here to be longer than a few hours, I'd suggest you be careful about painting all conservatives with such a broad brush. As you can see, there are strong differences of opinion among conservatives right on this very thread.

Well, malakhi, you were obviously quite correct. tsr_dog got his posting rights revoked. I only came here to say one thing, as I'm personally not much into arguments. Because I know tsr_dog.

Firstly, tsr (for short) is American, completely, with ancestry back to the revolutionary war. In fact, members of his family have fought in every major US conflict in its history, including Vietnam and all wars previously to the revolutionary war.

Secondly, believe me, tsr was fully aware of hyperventilating rhetoric, as you put it, that was was engaged in. No disputes there. He felt that the forum was rife with it and decided to dish some of his own out in return, knowing full well the likely consequences. The things you refer to in your quotation - death threats, mob justice, media hatred - are all things that this particular forum subject is filled with. (Yes, I read the entire thread and had actually caught most of tsr's posts before they were deleted. I had intended to be a silent observer, really.)

I assure you that he is very well aware that there are differences in opinion among conservatives. Knowing him as I do, believe me, he does not live on stereotypes in reality. And his reference in the section you quoted was not, I don't believe, aimed at conservatives as a grouping, but only the more extreme elements who support the philosophies and goals of neocons.

Anyway, he wishes you all well and holds no hard feelings about it. This isn't the sort of forum he would have been likely to be a regular contributor to anyway.

I must say he takes such cavalier treatment better than I would have, for which of course no one can blame the posters. All I can say is - free republic?

I wish you all well also. Good luck and as a fellow American, I hope we as a nation can mend our fences and close the gaps produced by polarization. It will take time.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Any idea what 'tsr' refers to? All I could come up with was something from the early days of the personal computer.

terminate stay resident

[nothernlights]

What happened? When I turned in last night,"ALL was quiet on the LEFT Front!"
Was this all because,this got picked up by the bright lights at MediaMatters?