Okay, I promised myself to keep silent on the accusations of atrocities committed by US soldiers. But the media war against the US military is now making this impossible. Note these glaring editorials contained in "reports":
The video tape obtained by the BBC shows a number of dead adults and children at the site with what our world affairs editor John Simpson says were clearly gunshot wounds.
Oh well, John said it and he is an expert. Note, not a forensics expert, not a medical doctor, not even a combat medic, but John the editor!
But video shot by an AP Television News cameraman at the time and previously unaired shows at least five children dead. The video shows at least one adult male and four young children with obvious entry wounds to the head. One child has an obvious entry wound to the side caused by a bullet.
Oh, we don't even get John in the newsroom for this story. We just get an obvious entry wound caused by a bullet. Wow, you know there is a whole branch of medicine devoted to combat injuries. Hopefully we can get this writer to speak at the next seminar because Kim Gamel seems to be pretty on top of being able to triage a patient from a video.
And here is the most disturbing report. I saw this on another article as well, wish I could find the original, but this makes the point:
A Washington Post staff member in Iraq and staff writer Thomas E. Ricks and staff researcher Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.
A Washington Post staff member? They must be running out of anonymous sources because now they use anonymous writers for their stories. I mean I can understand anonymous sources, and I can even understand pen names, but when they won't even give me a name for a writer how can they expect me to just believe what they say? The answer, they don't care! The WP just wants to disgust you with shock value and who cares if it turns out to be untrue, as long as they turned a few more people against the war today.
Folks we are seeing the anti-war, Bush bashing media piling on like never before. The sharks have sensed blood in the water and lost all sense of journalistic integrity. We can't stop it, but we can do this...point this bull shit out!
update: within minutes of this posting Fox News is reporting that the troops in the AP story have been cleared by the investigation. We await for the details, and I don't want to speculate, but I have run stories here of soldiers reporting that terrorists and insurgents are shielding themselves with children. I believe them because I also ran a story of a captured document from al Qaeda in Iraq where they in fact boast about such dirty tricks. Now, Haditha may or may not be be the atrocity Murtha reported. I don't know. But when I see "Iraqi Human Rights" organization I am immediately suspicious because these are propagandist fronts in many cases. I don't believe a word that these Iraqis are saying. I don't believe their testimony. Now if there is proof from another source, then I will consider it. But there is an insurgent-media-human rights link in Iraq that is all aimed at discrediting the US. Remember the Fallujah fakeumentary? Read my analysis on this site.
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"Folks we are seeing the anti-war, Bush bashing media piling on like never before."
ditto that. The anti-war left thinks it has finally got it's My Lai, and the're going to play it for all it's worth.
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter | Monday, June 05, 2006 at 08:33 PM
But what if it's true? There is not justification for it then - and trying to defend it is just as bad as those libs who defend slamming passenger planes into the WTC....
Posted by: Anonymous | Monday, June 05, 2006 at 09:28 PM
Anon- the point of the article is to demonstrate how the media is going way out of bounds to make statements they are not qualified to make. The point is that they have access to and could easily quote forensics experts and doctors but choose not to. Why (a rational person might ask) would they not? Because no doctor would publicly diagnose an injury from a video. So since they can't get anyone to do it, they make the judgements for themselves by calling them "obvious". If it were so obvious, then they could find an expert to make the case. If you want some one to prejudge the marines, go over to HuffPo and read Murtha. I have more respect for our soldiers and marines than that.
Posted by: Ray Robison | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 03:00 PM