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2006-06-11 Iraq

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Posted by Brett 2006-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks Brett for the posting..

it just backs up and defends what we already recognize about our heroic men and women serving.

Posted by RD 2006-06-11 03:52|| 2006-06-11 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately, despite the airing of the facts, the loonies won't let this go.

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-11 08:08|| 2006-06-11 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I was reading our version of the cat-litter box liner today. The media wire service stories do a great dis-service to our marines and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan--it is more than annoying. The mainstream media aid and abet the enemy--but then I'm preaching to the choir here--just had to rant some.

Posted by Euell Gibbons 2006-06-11 09:33|| 2006-06-11 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, I'm satisfied. Not guilty.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-11 10:24|| 2006-06-11 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't this 2 stories out of the WaPo now that actually are positive on Iraq?

What's going on?

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-11 10:51|| 2006-06-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 What's going on?

The WaPo has bought a clue.

The New York Times has lost all credibility. The idea that it is the nation's Newspaper of Record is risible.

The WaPo may sense an opportunity to eclipse the NYT as the national newspaper. I've noticed for a while that their editorial page is still lefty, but not Kos-like. Now is their reporting catching up? Go for it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-11 11:04|| 2006-06-11 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Not quite, NS - they have Harry Reid as majority leader in a major story today.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-11 12:21|| 2006-06-11 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Great info. We have to make damn certain that neither Wuterich or McConnell takes the fall on this. Any troop under fire has the right to do any damn thing to protect himelf and his buddies lives. Period. If anyone thinks that's not the case, then get your dumb ass out there, right up front , and we'll see how you handle it. As long as these asswipes hide among women and children, these civilians will suffer mightily and needlesly die.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-11 13:09|| 2006-06-11 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I trust the Marines over the MSM. No contest.

Posted by TwistedSister 2006-06-11 17:23|| 2006-06-11 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd trust nearly anyone over the MSM.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-11 17:25|| 2006-06-11 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds like Time has some s'plainin' to do and a retraction to publish. Best be a front page story, too.

Posted by badanov 2006-06-11 21:59|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-06-11 21:59|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't think that's likely to happen, badanov. After all, it's only journalistic ethics to chase down a lead and turn it into a story. At best, they'll see themselves as having gone to press slightly prematurely.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-11 22:46|| 2006-06-11 22:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Sweetness & Light blog has the story of how Time has quietly retracted various parts of their original story: Time's 'Corrections' about Haditha

Posted by Glains Threrese9277 2006-06-11 23:22|| 2006-06-11 23:22|| Front Page Top

#14 From Glains Threrese9277's link (good catch!):

Never mind that now "one of the most damning pieces of evidence" has already taken on the mantle of historical fact. Time regrets the error.

So much so that they once again buried the correction at the bottom of its online archive of the story which few will revisit.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-11 23:31|| 2006-06-11 23:31|| Front Page Top

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