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Originally posted by Thinker
I don't support killing unarmed men. But this is far less serious, then a arab pullings people off the the streets and cutting their head's off. They also killed female care worker.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
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According to the MSNBC report, Marines engaged in battle with persons at the Mosque on Friday. They killed ten insurgents and wounded five.
They then removed the weapons, treated the wounded, and left them there.
It was one of those five wounded that was killed by the Marine the next day.
Originally posted by Muaddib
This is just more proof how liberal the media has become and what they would go through just to make "a story..." That's all this is for this kind of correspondent...a story and big break for his career...even if he has to leave out some facts pertaining the story...
Originally posted by veloracer
I just wish there would be some footage of what the Insurgants have done.
Originally posted by netbound
Regarding the broadcast of war, I�m leaning toward the side of letting it all hang out. Show everything; hide nothing.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
NBC is in bed with anything anti-american and loved showing the tape.
Originally posted by Seekerof
I think that it is safe to assert and possibly conclude that the media, be it on a national level or worldwide level, is definitely against the war in Iraq.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Excellent idea. Why not start with Al-Jazeera and the European
TV stations and get them to broadcast the attrocities that the
Insurgants are doing?
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
Not once, has there been any condemenation for US's slaughter at the mosque of unarmed people, instead by some twist of reason, the victims have again been blamed ..
Originally posted by Kano
Interesting, I could have sworn I heard a report that the killing was to 'put him out of his misery' or something. I wonder how much of the extenuating circumstances that are being thrown around now are pure spin, and how much are true.
This is ok because they do worse?
But now, with things like this and Abu Ghraib etc. The high moral position gets trashed, and the moral position is what this entire campaign is based on. Indeed what it is relying upon to work. Right or Wrong, the men behind this will need to have an example made of them, no matter the circumstances. If only to recoup some of the massive losses that events like this cause to the US' mission in Iraq.
There has been no condemnation of the 'slaughter' because there
was no slaughter and those two men who were shot in the mosque
definately were not 'victims'.
Our marines have been subjected to fake deaths, fake injuries,
fake surrenders ... all from 'unarmed' (at the time) insurgants, only
to be shot and killed by those insurgants faking death/injury/surrender.
Our marines have been blown up by dead insurgants who were
booby trapped.
Those men in the mosque were not harmless victims. They
deserved to be shot. It was absolutely the right thing for our
marines to do. If insurgants don't want 'injured/dead' men to
be shot ... then they had better stop faking being injured and
dead just to turn around and attack our marines who stop
fighting to help them.
It's their own fault they were shot .. they weren't victims ...
and there was no 'slaughter' (except of OUR marines who
stop fighting to help those who fake injury or death).
Originally posted by Kano
Really, why is it that everyone insists that the media pretend that everything is fine with the War? Is 'defend the president above all else' syndrome got so bad over there that you would shun any footage at all of bad things happening in Iraq?
Its not even about pictures of dead babies, aren't pictures of US caskets also still banned? Its like people would rather see the war like a big video game, lots of footage of things blowing up and tanks driving around real fast.
Originally posted by jsobecky
There has to be a point where you re-evaluate your standards.
from Indigo_Child
My post was not just taking this article into consideration, but the alarming hate I saw from so many people, not for Iraqi insurgents, not for Islamic terrorists, but for - muslims.
Originally posted by jsobecky
I don't see hate for muslims. Maybe you can point out where you see it? Now, Islamic terrorists, that's a different matter. But surprisingly, I have even seen symapathy for those murderers.
Originally posted by Seekerof
I think that it is safe to assert and possibly conclude that the media, be it on a national level or worldwide level, is definitely against the war in Iraq.
Presenting such stories as has been done by the mainstream ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., etc. media are in the same manner in which they ran like-type stories during the Vietnam War, and they were against that 'war' also.
seekerof
[edit on 17-11-2004 by Seekerof]