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2006-04-02 Iraq
BBC's new documentary on the Iraqi insurgency
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-02 04:09|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Lock thier journalists up in the Bay, no time for traiters specially when im partially payong for them!!!! furious.
Posted by ShepUK 2006-04-02 04:59||   2006-04-02 04:59|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem with the BBC is that it's like the NYT. Ultimately they both only come to one conclusion; You've lost the war, go home.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-02 04:59||   2006-04-02 04:59|| Front Page Top

#3 yes they came to that conclusion even before the war had started too! most odd, i often have seriously wondered if the BBC were being payed by the Baath party for pro Saddam reporting. I honestly wonder what will happen if i ever meet up with a BBC employee, hostage taking, a severe thrashing, murder? I guess they have to start expecting this sort of thing to happen when they choose to support the other side and align themselves with Saddamists. How long before anti AQ and Saddamist 'insurgents' and 'freedom fighters' start to target AL-BEEB?
Posted by ShepUK 2006-04-02 06:00||   2006-04-02 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 This kind of 'reporting' just bends my mind! I can't figure out what they're advocating. It's a given that the BBC hates Bush but there's a chicken/egg quality to this.

Al Qaeda is bad and Bush makes them worse (it's his fault after all) but if Bush surrenders then al Qaeda will go back to picking olives or will continue to impose their fascism and terror? US troops are heavy handed frat boy pranksters but al Qaeda shoots innocent civilians in the mouth. But the US is worse?

US law required regime change (yes-mission accomplished) yet displacing the Ba'athists screwed up the mission?

This shit is like a Buddhist koan (One hand clapping, etc). Are these BBC people serious journalists or sophmore potheads?
Posted by JDB 2006-04-02 06:07||   2006-04-02 06:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Stuff like this is one of the reasons if anyone ever announces they work for the BBC in my presence I will beat them with in an inch of their misspent life.

They are not impartial. The BBC are anti american cheer leaders and enablers. Their offices should be burnt to the ground.
Posted by SPoD 2006-04-02 06:38|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-02 06:38|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not the BBC's opinions that are troubling. First, there is the complete and utter lack of comprehension of what is really happening. Readers of this website are familiar with truly thoughtful analyses such as those available at The Belmont Club, for example, and of the long post here at Rantburg yesterday. Second, the notion that there were opportunities to nip everything perfectly in the bud is the sheerest of speculation -- the enemy is thinking and intelligent, and can adapt as well. The relationship between reality and MSM's coverage is the same as that between reading Shakespeare and Classic Comics.
Posted by Perfessor 2006-04-02 09:24||   2006-04-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 I heard Ware on Hugh Hewitt’s show and I found his stance eye opening and scary at the same time. I though that LLL Moonbat reporters had limits, but this guy has no qualms about reporting from their side. I don’t wish it, but a fitting end to him would be to be caught in the crossfire with insurgents and elements of the Iraqi, American, and British forces.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-04-02 11:34||   2006-04-02 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 re: BBC, MSM, General Michael Ware &
General Kevin Sykes.

2 Glory Whores who the MSM [BBC] proffer on a daily basis as Islamic tribal experts, Insurgency Geniuses, JAG Lawyers, Combat squad leaders, Company Comanders, Black Robed Judges from the Haig, The Second Comming of Carl Von Clausewitz, Logisticians or all of the above..

and Lucky for us, the bozos with ever so humble gratitude accept the mantle.

drink up, insh'allah
Posted by RD 2006-04-02 11:37||   2006-04-02 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 CS - Ware is a tough guy who has been intimidated by Zarq's death threats. In his Devil's Bargain, he has opted to slant towards Zarq because to report the truth is more threatening to his personal safety than what the U.S. could possibly do to him for being Zarq's propagandist.
Posted by Captain America 2006-04-02 15:57||   2006-04-02 15:57|| Front Page Top

#10 As for BeBS, this is old spit in a different chalice.
Posted by Captain America 2006-04-02 15:59||   2006-04-02 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 One can blame the Bush Administration for creating the next generation of Al Qaida.

One could also assume these guys would have remained mosque monkeys if the War on Terror never happened.

I would not be such a drunk if it wasn't for the damn beer producers.
Posted by john">john  2006-04-02 16:39||   2006-04-02 16:39|| Front Page Top

#12 CA, ALL the world has a vested interest in the West (and the U.S.) being successful in Iraq and Afghanistan. These organizations are no more powerful than the Leftist groups that were roamed the earth 1960-1990. The only thing that the Islamofacists have now is better PR and a willing press. The reason we no longer hear of the Red Brigade (et al) is that the press didn’t go out of their way to champion their cause AGAINST the rest of the world. And yes there are enough leftists around to fund them if they had any kind of following. I have been to the Middle East and these radical clerics and their followers are a very small portion of the population, but the MSM goes out of its way to seek them out and glorify their position. Ware and his ilk have chosen sides so let them share the fate of their comrades.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-04-02 18:59||   2006-04-02 18:59|| Front Page Top

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