July 06, 2004

They get it

Haven't seen much coverage on this:

In a videotape sent to the al-Arabiya television station, a group calling itself the "Salvation Movement," questioned how al-Zarqawi could use Islam to justify the killing of innocent civilians, the targeting of government officials and the kidnapping and beheading of foreigners.

"He must leave Iraq immediately, he and his followers and everyone who gives shelter to him and his criminal actions," said a man on the video.

The video marked the first time that an Iraqi group made such a public threat against al-Zarqawi.

Quick! Somebody get Michael Moore on the phone! This has to be a conspiracy by Halliburton and Dick Cheney to make it look like a group of Iraqis want al-Zarqawi dead. They are really saying that they want to be able to sell more oil to the U.S.

Read the rest of the AP story here

Since this story is about seemingly good news, the AP writer had to include at least a jab or two at the coalition forces:

The threats revealed the deep anger many Iraqis, including insurgent groups, feel toward foreign fighters, whom many consider as illegitimate a presence here as the 160,000 U.S. and other coalition troops.

I don't think that the group even mentioned the U.S. forces in that tape, so why did they have to make that comparison? Oh...that's right...the story might not have even been printed if there wasn't some attempt to make the U.S. look bad.

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I don't think that the group even mentioned the U.S. forces in that tape, so why did they have to make that comparison? Oh...that's right...the story might not have even been printed if there wasn't some attempt to make the U.S. look bad.

Are you contending that many in Iraq don't see the U.S. as an illegitimate presence?

Posted by: Chris Wage at July 6, 2004 03:57 PM

well are you contending that media coverage isn't slanted considering that a lot of troops coming home are telling everyone not to listen to the news because most of it is slanted and that most iraqis that they encounter arent against their presence?

Posted by: Ripper at July 6, 2004 04:12 PM

For those of you who haven't learned to read, the story pointed out that "many," not "all," Iraqis resent the presence of "foreign fighters," REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.

And I can only assume that anyone who considers a story with perspective to be "slanted" is unfamiliar with real journalism. That's what one gets when one's only sources of "news" are the vast, right-wing conspiracy propaganda outlets--FAUXNEWS, amtalkingheadradio, the Rev. Moon's Washington TIMES--whose job it is to repeat Karl Rove's daily talking points ad nauseum until they become true.

The saddest part of this is that our troops in Iraq aren't allowed to read, hear or watch news anymore. They're only access is to the vast, right-wing conspiracy's one-sided propaganda which still sells the lies that Saddam had WMDs and was behind 9/11. Perhaps this contributed to the widespread abuse of POWs...excuse me, the widespread "frat boy fun" in POW camps.

Posted by: The Token Librul at July 6, 2004 04:58 PM

"The saddest part of this is that our troops in Iraq aren't allowed to read, hear or watch news anymore."

Show proof of this. You make a claim like that I say proove it. Soldiers are running their own blogs and have full access to all the news they want.

Posted by: Gunner at July 6, 2004 05:48 PM

It's been well publicized that all they get is FAUXNEWS and Der Ruschkopf, neither of which qualifies as news, but only fascist propaganda. Perhaps that's why those half-dozen rotten apples who abused thousands of POWs at scores of camps needed training to be human beings.

Posted by: The Token Librul at July 7, 2004 08:39 AM

Showing proof is not saying "well everyone knows"
Your cute saying and deflecting style goes down in defeat.
Crash and burn
Here is the blog of a soldier
http://cbftw.blogspot.com/
He says this
INTERNET CAFE: We have several of these located on our FOB. The MWR Free Internet by chow hall has a good connection, but you can only be on the computer for 30 minutes at a time, which only gives you enough time to check you e-mail and respond to a couple of them. The line is usually pretty long too. The Hajji's have several Internet caf‚'s here available for soldiers, but they charge two dollars an hour, and the connection sux, it always go out, and most of the computers are totally contaminated with computer viruses (from Joe lookin at Internet porn), and its always packed with soldiers who spend hours and hours surfing on hotornot.com.

Posted by: Gunner at July 14, 2004 07:28 PM