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2008-07-20 Afghanistan

Commander: Media Reports On Afghanistan Outpost Battle Were Exaggerated

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Posted by Sherry 2008-07-20 01:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Only our bright and honest media could look at a battle were we kiled 100 and lost ?10? and call it a defeat. Well I guess they enemy would call this a victory? Yep sure they would.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-07-20 12:48|| 2008-07-20 12:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Sarge, the MSM has been looking for THE Afghan TET offensive or a battle they could fit to that narrative for a long time. At this time, they also have another incentive - that is to support the Obama presidential bid by bolstering his calls for more troops for Afghanistan.

Posted by Omagum Bonaparte8537 2008-07-20 14:55|| 2008-07-20 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 When you are as invested in defeat of any American war, business, democracy advocacy or exports then you will damn well make up the stories to fit the agenda. The legacy media needs to put more emphasis on legacy and get lost.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-07-20 16:10|| 2008-07-20 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 The MSM has a wet dream whenever they can use the words, "lose, abandon, retreat, capitulate, or withdraw." Go figure. There are a few good, real journalists reporting on this war--most of them are referenced or posted at Rantburg. You don't see much of them in the MSM.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-07-20 16:19|| 2008-07-20 16:19|| Front Page Top

#5 With a son still in Iraq, I am really, really close to a "F**k the MSM" attitude. Pretty darn sad.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-07-20 16:41|| 2008-07-20 16:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Good luck anymouse. Prayers and gratitude for you, your family and your son.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-07-20 16:48|| 2008-07-20 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 That's why you come to Rantburg, anymouse, where the few grains of wheat have been separated from the tons of chaff.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-20 17:51|| 2008-07-20 17:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The false premise that the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Iraq have the upper hand over our forces is being pushed by Barak Obama.

Obama says Afghanistan 'precarious and urgent'

Of course he will not talk to the Commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, a Commander on the ground. Obama then trys to use that false report to demand troops leave ... Iraq, to join with Afghanistan troops. If the commanders on the ground, who are much more knowledgeable than the junior Senator, would have done so already. They have done so to the extent necessary.

Posted by a yankee 2008-07-20 18:08|| 2008-07-20 18:08|| Front Page Top

#9 I do appreciate it, ladies and gents. He will returning from his first tour really soon. Anymouse's wife does not know about the steel re-enforced coffin her only son lived in at the FOB because of the mortars.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-07-20 19:40|| 2008-07-20 19:40|| Front Page Top

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