MSM = Fifth Column.
“I am the slime on your video”.
BTW...turn it off.
Gotta damn well disagree this time - it's a story, an area and troops that have been neglected far too long - since this broadcast, too be followed the same week by another ambush that killed 5 more from the 173rd and a Marine = another exact same set up: patrol goes to village - then heads back to to outpost on long foot patrol - village alerts Taliban ahead of time, Taliban sets up 3 pronged ambush -
The ABC film, (and I do NOT watch the alphabet media - except for this) was quite even balanced,,,in that they had their journalist along with Vanity Fair's photog - and simply reported in real time, step by step with the troops and in the same peril - they didn't go in afterwords and spin.
I think these two battles coming to light in the same week is growing legs - GEn Petraeus, in an unprecedented move, has just been assigned to the Pentagon to take a look at just who is commanding which units and using, unscuccessfully, 'yesterdays' war tactics in 'todays' war...and just maybe this will result in the 173rds getting some help and keeping them from being sent out to experience the same ambush MO over and over again.
Sometimes the war coverage is real and can be helpful - this is one of these times - I happen to know a bit more of what's been going on before this film and since - things you WONT hear on ANY news -
So chill - a pray for our troops of the 173rd AIRBORNE who are fighting in the god-awfullest terrain, in the high mountain winter now - in the open, no warm buildings - in the most dangerous place on earth today.
Did you hear the part where during the first 4 1/2 months of this deployment, they have been in 450 firefights? This is TRUE - and must be some kind of record = and it has not slowed down.
It's about damn time the world knows about it...and we need not to dismiss it out of hand just because it's on Main Slime Media