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My buddy overseas is counting the days till he's completed with his most recent stint fighting terror and creating democracy. In the below statements taken from his most recent email correspondence he touched upon things we are aware of, yet so blind to inside our US media bubble: Media bias for political agendas:
"As I'm sure you probably saw on the news, we lost four guys over the last week and half, two of which were SF guys, the other two conventional soldiers, but at an SF compound. The first two individuals got hit by an IED, the other two happened to be on the Landing Zone (LZ) when Haji got lucky with a couple of mortar rounds. So as always, please say a prayer for them and their families.
On a seperate note, from the looks of it, since we lost four individuals, the press is all of a sudden saying we losing ground over here in Afghanistan, and the Taliban and Al Quaida are getting stronger (This is based upon recent New York Times and Washington Post recent articles dated 9 JUNE 05)
Too say the least they are, as usual, farthest from the truth. For instance, the articles didn't happen to mentioned that those two yahoos who decided to launch a couple of mortars on the LZ where quickly and efficiently disposed of by the main gun of an Apache helicopter about
15 minutes after they launched their rounds as they were retreating back to Pakistan..sorry but they weren't fast enough to use the international boundry as their safe-haven."
" We are just setting up another basic training course to train another 100 Afghan soldiers for the border control points. We had over one-thousand Afghan locals show up and try to make the cut for the selection process. So, at this point we are not losing Afghan soldiers, in fact we are getting more than enough volunteers who want to serve and protect their country....Guess the New York Times, and Washington Post, missed that one also."
It's sad to think about the drugged-up uneducated hippies that spat on our returning soldiers in battle's past, but it's may be worse to think about the impression media's creating for battle's future. Our society's so blindly lead and influened by such a corrupt few in news and TV that American's are willing to throw logic threw the screen door and buy into the propaganda against the principles of our nation, the principles that have afforded us the freedoms and luxuries that allow daft-prick citizens to denounce its greatness.
"As I'm sure you probably saw on the news, we lost four guys over the last week and half, two of which were SF guys, the other two conventional soldiers, but at an SF compound. The first two individuals got hit by an IED, the other two happened to be on the Landing Zone (LZ) when Haji got lucky with a couple of mortar rounds. So as always, please say a prayer for them and their families.
On a seperate note, from the looks of it, since we lost four individuals, the press is all of a sudden saying we losing ground over here in Afghanistan, and the Taliban and Al Quaida are getting stronger (This is based upon recent New York Times and Washington Post recent articles dated 9 JUNE 05)
Too say the least they are, as usual, farthest from the truth. For instance, the articles didn't happen to mentioned that those two yahoos who decided to launch a couple of mortars on the LZ where quickly and efficiently disposed of by the main gun of an Apache helicopter about
15 minutes after they launched their rounds as they were retreating back to Pakistan..sorry but they weren't fast enough to use the international boundry as their safe-haven."
" We are just setting up another basic training course to train another 100 Afghan soldiers for the border control points. We had over one-thousand Afghan locals show up and try to make the cut for the selection process. So, at this point we are not losing Afghan soldiers, in fact we are getting more than enough volunteers who want to serve and protect their country....Guess the New York Times, and Washington Post, missed that one also."
It's sad to think about the drugged-up uneducated hippies that spat on our returning soldiers in battle's past, but it's may be worse to think about the impression media's creating for battle's future. Our society's so blindly lead and influened by such a corrupt few in news and TV that American's are willing to throw logic threw the screen door and buy into the propaganda against the principles of our nation, the principles that have afforded us the freedoms and luxuries that allow daft-prick citizens to denounce its greatness.
posted by Jonathan at 12:17 PM
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