Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:16:19
An excellent idea
Over at Daily Pundit, a reader emailed a fantastic idea. Maybe we’d get some truthful reporting.
I think ALL reporters (especially ones with camera and tape recorders) should be required to check out ALL dead or wounded terrorists. The Marines should just motion for the embedded to come over and check them out first before the Marine does. That way the journalist can get first hand account of what a booby trapped terrorist really is and exactly what the Marines are up against day and night. Let the reporters sacrifice their lives for their newspapers, instead of their country......and save the lives of our marines at the same time .
Excellent idea. This should be a requisite of being embedded. You want the ratings? Start rolling bodies over. Let’s see how long it takes a reporter to drop his notebook and grab a rifle and plug anyone who is still breathing after a firefight.
Posted by JimK at 11:16 PM on November 20, 2004
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#2 Posted by Grey Coyote 
on 11/22 at 06:54 AM -
Wish I would have thought of that. Any ideas of how to get that started?
How about we tell the reporter that they get an “exclusive” interview with anyone that is still alive.
#3 Posted by The Phantom 
on 11/22 at 12:44 PM -
I got a better idea: why don’t you go check? After all, it’s you who wanted this war, not the iraqi people, the soldiers or the reporters.
But of course, you’d kill all wounded rebels, and who cares about international laws, the red cross or human rights. Who cares if you actually went there to free people who now fight against you: man, killing them is no problem. Better them than us, isn’t it?
Yesterday in Saqlawiya, a little village near Falluja, they buried 73 people, women and children. Yes, what a liberal media.
The number of civilians reported killed by americans troups is AT LEAST 14505, and it’s just the reported ones. What a liberal media too.
I think you’ll kick me out of this blog, you did it before with another account, showing me your democracy and freedom of speech.
After all, you brought democracy and freedom in a nation where
1) you put saddam in power
2) you gave him weapons to fight iranians
3) when saddam attacked kuwait (with your weapons, too) you invaded iraq but did not conquer it
4) you helped putting an embargo that killed 600000 civilians
5) you invaded iraq taking terrorists where there weren’t any
Now do you expect the iraqi people to receive you as friends??
You just don’t know the true meaning of the word war and its consequences…
my first and last appearance on this blog with this user :P
#4 Posted by The Phantom on 11/22 at 12:48 PM -
tiny note: don’t tell me about iraq’s pre-saddam humanitarian conditions.
People is worse now and were bad before in part because of you…
In sudan now there’s the worst humanitarian condition, but they’re not that important; they can wait, oil (with excuses of terrorism) is better.
#5 Posted by ironmaiden on 11/22 at 01:46 PM -
Phantom, isn’t the conditions in the Sudan the responsibility of the UN? Why haven’t they done anything? Why haven’t they condemned the bombings in Iraq? Why didn’t they do anything about Saddam, except pass resolutions condemning him? Your comments are full of it and you know it.
#6 Posted by The Phantom on 11/22 at 02:38 PM -
Why should the conditions in sudan be responsibility of the un and the conditions in iraq of the usa?
I agree with you: the UN should be reformed, they actually can’t do much by now. But I think an international governement should be the only one to worry about international crisis, don’t you?
Bush called the the international court of law a “stranger” court who would judge american citizens...man, if it’s international it’s not stranger, it belongs to the world and american citizens will be judged if they break human rights laws or international laws (decided by the usa themselves...).
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#1 Posted by dirty_sanchez
on 11/21 at 03:03 AM -
That’s the best idea I’ve heard all year.