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2005-06-08 Fifth Column

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Posted by Bobby 2005-06-08 07:14|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The journey of a thousand li starts with one step.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-06-08 08:21|| 2005-06-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Drip, drip, drip, drip, ...

Posted by Dragon Fly">Dragon Fly 2005-06-08 08:32|| 2005-06-08 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 An ABC NEWS poll you say?

How were the questions frames?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-08 09:00|| 2005-06-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 8.2 on The Metre 'O Doom. Would have been better if they'd done some graveside interviews to ask the attendees if they miss the departed.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-08 09:53|| 2005-06-08 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Nearly three-quarters of Americans say the number of casualties in Iraq is unacceptable,..

Good thing these people most likely weren't alive during WW2. After Iwo Jima, they'd probably have demanded that we start negotiating.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-08 10:17|| 2005-06-08 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Wouldn't have made it past Normandy, BaR.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-08 11:08|| 2005-06-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 B-a-R---In WW2, after the heavy Marine casualties on Betio in the Tarawa campaign, there was concern about the public turning anger against the govt.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-06-08 11:26|| 2005-06-08 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm beginning to suspect that a free press and a free country are incompatible in time of war.

I consider myself a student of WW II, but just found out this week that 8 US C-47's full of paratroopers were shot down by friendly fire in Operation Husky (Sicily). That's why the Normandy planes had black and white stripes. Can you imagine the uproar had that been known at the time? Pilots, co-pilots, 160-odd paratroopers! Not to mention the equipment! Why, the gunners should've been court-martialed, generals demoted, the war halted! George Marshall would've been forced out, no Marshall Plan, no demise of the USSR - the mind reels!

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-08 12:13|| 2005-06-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 at least "free press" as defined by the current MSM.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-08 12:14|| 2005-06-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The only reason we are seeing this poll is that our wonderful journalists are "deeply saddened" about the dearth of dead Americans and the surplus of dead terrorists.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-06-08 12:41|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-08 12:41|| Front Page Top

#11 ...journalists are "deeply saddened" about the dearth of dead Americans and the surplus of dead terrorists

Which is why we need more dead journalists.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-08 14:37|| 2005-06-08 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 they need to get back to covering Michael. They are much more competent in this regard. Anyone interested in the WOT isn't paying attention to them anymore anyway.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-08 15:49|| 2005-06-08 15:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Bobby, the Air Corps would get their own back in Normandy. Attempted close air support by B-17s dropped short and killed hundreds in one action before the St. Lo breakout.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-08 16:33|| 2005-06-08 16:33|| Front Page Top

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