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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The important thing here is to make sure you trust the media reports fully, and condem the soldiers off hand due to your personal political biases. The media would never run with half the facts of a story, nor would they have an agenda of their own. I can't imagine anyone on the left would try to exploit or distort such an incident.
The key is that we must demorailize the troops and demonize the effort in any way possible.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story....6-0066e7629ace
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Ustwo, I'm posting the following, just for starters. I will devote the time that it takes to provide anyone who reads this thread with some "balance" about the "reporter" who wrote the "report" that you've provided, to convince us that, there is a "liberal" media that acted, "in concert" to "demoralize the troops and demonize the effort". Here's what I've found...so far....and for my money....if the choice is believing your "reporter" and Marine Capt. James Kimber, vs. reporting on the Haditha atrocities by the entire news media establishment in the western world...the media "agenda" of reporting the news....without the crippling baggage of political ideology that your two
"examples" exhibit....seems less biased, and thus...more reliable.
The first part of your excerpted article:
Your "reporter", last year, in his own words.....
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http://www.blogger.com/profile/8718263
Andrew Walden
* Gender: male
* Industry: Publishing
* Occupation: Editor, Hawai`i Free Press
* Location: Hilo : Hawai`i : United States
About Me
As Editor and publisher of the Hawai`i Free Press, <b>I am working to adapt for conservatives, the "alternative" newspaper model which has served the left so well.</b> Email me for further info: hfpeditor@email.com
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I would be much more comfortable if Andrew Walden said that he was committed to reporting the facts, wouldn't you?
...and now...the Marine Capt. James Kimber. I thought that active duty military officers were prohibited from being openly and totally partisan. Keep in mind that Kimber is reacting to the webmaster at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info for placing a CNN video of
of U.S. Marines in Iraq, as reported by CNN reporter, "Crowley":
"CROWLEY: Wounded, another Iraqi writhes on the ground next to his gun. The Marines kill him -- then cheer."
www.informationclearinghouse website:
(Wait a bit for the page to load, Kimber's comments are in the lower page)
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http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle5365.htm
<b>Comments from readers regarding this video.</b>
Tom- I believe the way you present the 'shocking' video you have on your website is very irresponsible and inflammatory. The very fact that it is presented without amplifying remarks or background information, coupled with how you use 'execute' to describe the situation, illustrates how naive you are to military operations.
The current policy in Iraq is to SHOOT ON SIGHT ANYBODY emplacing IEDs....yes, those nasty little roadside bombs that have killed almost 200 of our service personnel. But of course, given the very OBVIOUS leftist slant of your website, it is apparent that you wouldn't see fit to report all the facts, choosing instead to attempt to use such media
to advance your faltering liberal agenda, rather than condemn a terrorist agenda. Where on your website do you report the assassinations by terrorists who only hope to get their country back up and running, or the indiscriminate bombings that kill innocent, non-combatant Iraqis?
Forget the fact that we have build hundreds of schools, enabled democracy, re-energized the Iraqi economy, or that Saddam killed tens of thousands of people (to name a few). According to your website, a day doesn't go by when we aren't killing Afghani children or conspiring with the Israelis to take over the world.
Too bad the economy is up, and the Dems best hopes lie w/ Howard Dean...Good luck with that! Bush in 2004!
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Capt. James Kimber
United States Marine Corps
Training & Education Command
Reconnaissance & Special Skills Officer
COMM: (703)784-3041 DSN 278
FAX: (703)432-0608
EMAIL: kimberjs@tecom.usmc.mil
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I'll be back when I have more information about the" reporting" of Andrew Walden vs. the "agenda" of the news media.