Iwo Jima, If Covered By The Media Today ... (Very Graphic Heavy)

October 2004 | Zell Miller

[Zacs Mom]

Like most everyone here I loath the biased and negative manner in which the MSM reports the news from Iraq. I recently rediscovered an editorial Zell Miller had written back in October of 2004 describing what it would be like if TODAYS media had covered the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. I don't see that this essay was ever posted to FR so what follows is Mr. Miller's insightful speculation ~ only now it is illustrated with actual images of this horrendous battle to win a foothold in the Pacific.

[dinok]

"What did Roosevelt know, and when did he know it?"

We all know that Roosevelt got us in the war to get the Jap...anese out of the oil fields of Indonesia. And George Bush senior fought against the Jap...anese.

Bush, Roosevelt and Big oil.

[Zacs Mom]

Okay now that boggles my mind!! I swear I did a search late last night and nothing came up!

(hmmmmmm.... I guess the lesson here is I really should do stuff like that BEFORE I get zonk out on Nyquil)

[wildbill]

Is there a way to put this into a zip file that I could send to everyone I know? It deserves a wide audience.

If so, you can send me a private reply and I'll furnish you my email address.

Meanwhile, needless to say, a great job.

[F14 Pilot]

I am not the poster!

[RobbyS]

World traveler, right?

[Zacs Mom]

I am working on putting it up as an individual web page - I will ping you to the URL when I get it up.

[Cvengr]

Semper Fi Ping

[dakine]

Lot of graphics...slow download...

[wildbill]

Sorry. ZacsMom picked up on the request.

[JDoutrider]

Thank you for that...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Great post, Mom. Outstanding work. Brought lots of tears to my at the end.

[RunningWolf]

Superb Job Zacs Mom!!

Wolf

[always vigilant]

Outstanding!!

[F14 Pilot]

I am not the poster!

[Wristpin]

I am humbled by this post.

[neefer]

thanks for the ping

[Sonar5]

Semper Fi marines!

And that post just about sums up what we are hearing today. The defeatist and cut and runner dimlibs continue to write their spin stories denigrating our troops and our country.

Thanks for putting together the montage.

Regards,
Joe

[Mogollon]

As bloody as Iwo Jima was, the battle of Sugar Loaf hill on Okinawa in the spring of 1945 was even bloodier than the battle for Iwo Jima. The 6th Marines got the job done though.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Coming soon to a theater near you:


"WE WERE SOLDIERS II" = "IWO JIMA"

...Starring BARRY PEPPER

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[Radix]

Wow!

God bless the Marine Corps. They helped save the world then, and they are doing it still.

Thanks for this awesome thread.