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E-Mail From Iraq Provides Perspective

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E-Mail From Iraq Provides Perspective

?The press, along with the insurgency, has been nothing short of our enemy in this conflict,? Westbrook continued. ?I have seen the press waiting around to see if they could get pictures of us being ambushed. I have seen the press show up in numbers to get a body count on a car bomb blast and maybe get some pictures of blood, bodies, charred automobiles, or maybe some frustrated American soldiers.

?I have not seen the press around when we have treated civilians? injuries, helped children stay warm in school by giving them heaters, given unemployed Iraqis jobs and cleaned trash areas. Do you know why we haven?t seen them? Good things don?t sell. Sex, violence and chaos are almost the only selling points in the media.?

Westbrook goes on to say he has viewed cable news reporting things totally unlike they actually transpired, and these were events he had witnessed firsthand. ?As that program ended, I realized ? that all the negativity in the press was true ? Unfortunately, many Americans base their thoughts on the sensational lies of the press. I have even experienced this in my own family.?

The soldier goes on to call me ?a feeder of confusion in the mind of the American public. You make the whole war seem Vietnam-esque and as if everything is bordered with gray. I believe in what I do. I believe in being here.? He says he is convinced his views ultimately will be ?vindicated.?

?When the media finally reports from neighborhoods where the people love America and her soldiers rather than looking for those that hate, the underworld will most likely have reached 32 degrees during the night before.?

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"If it bleeds, it leads." It's jingoistic but truthful enough, and I'm not sure reporters in Iraq are looking to glorify the faults of the military and the current administration as much as they are looking for a true spectacle. On the other hand it's a shame we have to learn about construction projects and friendships between soldiers and native Iraqis from the Marine Corps News Service instead of the mainstream press.
 
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
*yawn*

The media is so cuddley with the troops it makes me sick. so much for objectivity.
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Realy I havent seen many reports of the reconstruction projects that have been finished among other newsworthy and postive stories. All we get is the negative aspects, so much for objectivity....
 
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
*yawn*

The media is so cuddley with the troops it makes me sick. so much for objectivity.
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Realy I havent seen many reports of the reconstruction projects that have been finished among other newsworthy and postive stories. All we get is the negative aspects, so much for objectivity....
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This insignifigant reconstruction crap is all over the place. Now days when a soldier dies its not even worth a blip in the back page.
 
Originally posted by: SuperTool
It's Mike Wallace!!! Run!!!
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Eh?

I liked this:

I agree with portions of his letter, especially the part that says we in the media too often ignore the good and decent, choosing instead to report the ugly and distasteful.

While I have questioned our reasons for being in Iraq, I hope I also have made it clear that I understand that we, in fact, are there and are engaged in a battle that I sincerely hope we win. We cannot simply toss in the towel and come home. Still, I plead guilty to having misgivings on the ultimate outcome.

How many of you agree with that?
 
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
*yawn*

The media is so cuddley with the troops it makes me sick. so much for objectivity.
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Realy I havent seen many reports of the reconstruction projects that have been finished among other newsworthy and postive stories. All we get is the negative aspects, so much for objectivity....
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This insignifigant reconstruction crap is all over the place. Now days when a soldier dies its not even worth a blip in the back page.
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really, then you should have NO PROBLEMS giving me a few links from the past few days, although I don't see why it is insignificant. Maybe you can explain that comment as well.

ONE from the Biased Broadcasting Corporation would be great.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
Originally posted by: SuperTool
It's Mike Wallace!!! Run!!!
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Eh?

I liked this:

I agree with portions of his letter, especially the part that says we in the media too often ignore the good and decent, choosing instead to report the ugly and distasteful.

While I have questioned our reasons for being in Iraq, I hope I also have made it clear that I understand that we, in fact, are there and are engaged in a battle that I sincerely hope we win. We cannot simply toss in the towel and come home. Still, I plead guilty to having misgivings on the ultimate outcome.

How many of you agree with that?
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Let's hold elections and get the hell out of there.
 
Let's do the job right and finish before we walk away, while at the same time leaving a solid relationship with the new democratic government of Iraq.
 
Originally posted by: Alistar7
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc...mp;cat=US_Armed_Forces

A quick look at todays stories over the wires, 14 out of 15 stories NEGATIVE, ONE positive, and it was Bush giving the Marines credit for their work NOT a positive story out of Iraq. Is that objective?
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I like to call it something called relivency(sp?). I would hope that the bad news gets covered more SO THAT WE CAN STOP FVCKING UP CONSTANTLY. That is the job of the media. Their job is not to cover up the bad with all kinds of feel-good BS.
 
Originally posted by: Alistar7
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc...mp;cat=US_Armed_Forces

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc...mp;cat=US_Armed_Forces

Theres two pages worth going back almost one full week, probably 60+ stories on Iraq, all but a handfull NEGATIVE and unless I missed it not ONE on reconstruction projects. Mike, thought you said they were "all over the place", where are they ????????
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This is the wire. Normal people don't read the wire, the read/watch what fox news crams down their throat.
 
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Let's do the job right and finish before we walk away, while at the same time leaving a solid relationship with the new democratic government of Iraq.
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No, let's hold elections, and leave. What's the point of leaving a solid relationship with a democratic government if it can be voted out of office in a few years. You can't make a legitimate government under occupation, because the government that cooperates with the occupier will never have legitimacy. The best way to go is to get the hell out of there and let them sort it out.
 
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: Alistar7
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc...mp;cat=US_Armed_Forces

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc...mp;cat=US_Armed_Forces

Theres two pages worth going back almost one full week, probably 60+ stories on Iraq, all but a handfull NEGATIVE and unless I missed it not ONE on reconstruction projects. Mike, thought you said they were "all over the place", where are they ????????
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This is the wire. Normal people don't read the wire, the read/watch what fox news crams down their throat.
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Where do you get your information? From the same pile of crap that comes over the wire that is ALL negative, unlike you claim. It's no wonder so many are against the war, they were just easily brainwashed by subjective liberal media, sheep.....
 
?When the media finally reports from neighborhoods where the people love America and her soldiers rather than looking for those that hate, the underworld will most likely have reached 32 degrees during the night before.?
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Why don't you Bush fanbois grab a pen and a camera and go do some objective reporting. I am sure they will welcome you with open arms on all those streets overrun with America loving Iraqis.

:roll:
 
Originally posted by: umbrella39
?When the media finally reports from neighborhoods where the people love America and her soldiers rather than looking for those that hate, the underworld will most likely have reached 32 degrees during the night before.?
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Why don't you Bush fanbois grab a pen and a camera and go do some objective reporting. I am sure they will welcome you with open arms on all those streets overrun with America loving Iraqis.

:roll:
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Way to quote an enlisted soldier who's in Iraq as we speak.
 
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