October 23, 2005
The Media got it wrong? Surely you jest.
Oct. 23 -
John B. was right on the money. From
Newsbusters, Stephen Dupont, the Australian
Journalist Who Filmed Burning Taliban Bodies Suggests Media Got it All Wrong and that "the bodies were burned purely for reasons of hygiene
when the local villagers refused to retrieve them, and that the American soldiers didn't do anything wrong." (My bolding.)
I sympathize with the villagers who refused to pay any honour to the dead Taliban. I doubt somehow that they are among those who are expressing how shocked, appalled, offended and humiliated they feel - at least now that the Taliban has been removed from power.
There is also some discussion about the psy-ops strategy which I like to call "Come out and play if you have a pair."
Am I take this too lightly? Maybe it's just my way of establishing a defensive perimeter so as to better withstand the expected battery of vapidly moralizing journalists who won't be able to refrain from running and re-running this story into the ground.
Do members of the news media actually fail to grasp what happens when terrorists detonate bombs? The blackening of the body parts is not due to the intense cold.
(Via Neale News.)
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No time to comment right now. So much to catch up on. Links, humour. new interesting sites.. Time, in such short supply. TG
Posted by: TonyGuitar at October 26, 2005 07:38 PM (rmMzv)
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The funny part however is when the psyops dorks tried to accuse the other side of being "cowards"... A typical example of what a psychologist would call 'projecting'. Hey genious, it's the U.S. fake "military" that every time a car backfires they call in air support. "It's an old woman in a wheelchair with a musket! We need air support!!" "Oh no, it's an old cripple hobbling towards us in a threatening manner with a sharp piece of glass in his hand! Call in the helicopter gunships, we can't handle him ourselves!!"
'World's only superpower' my ass. You'd better be glad the U.S. "Army" isn't facing a REAL army like that of North Korea or China or Iran because the U.S. "Army" would be a grease spot. Two and a half years in Iraq and the self-proclaimed "world's only superpower" can't even control the airport road in Baghdad!! What a laughingstock!!
Posted by: Lemuel at October 27, 2005 11:46 AM (6/LqO)
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Perhaps Lemuel fails to take into account where the enemy in the middle East is uniquly difficult to deal with because they are the army of the individual.
These lone soldier ops operate in isolation. They require no direction or organization and function by ambush in impossible to predict ways. This is no cakewalk.
Organized, order dependant, North Korean and Chinese troops would be easier to deal with.
I have worked alongside US military guys and would again in a pinch.
Perhaps your only experience is to have seen some of the guys making their way back after a friday night drunk? 73s TG
Posted by: TonyGuitar at October 28, 2005 02:34 AM (rmMzv)
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