SLANDERING SOLDIERS . . .

New York Post ^ | 5/15/04

[kattracks]

May 15, 2004 -- The editor of the London Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, was fired yesterday after being forced to admit that pictures the paper published of British troops allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners were, in fact, a hoax. The paper had bought the photographs, which apparently showed unidentified British soldiers beating up and urinating on Iraqi prisoners, from two men claiming also to be soldiers.

[twntaipan]

This gets to the point. Most of the media in the USA are providing aid and comfort to the enemy. If conservatives would refuse to purchase anything from any major advertiser in the NY Slimes we could shut that sorry excuse for toilet paper down.

[swilhelm73]

Take The Boston Globe's treasonous and seditious slander of U.S. troops, published on Wednesday.

There is not much chance of this unbelievable transgression getting any punishment at all if we conservatives don't even point out that it crossed the line.

[Leisler]

I thought the Brit photos were fake the minute I saw them. How? Because the the Iraqi was wearing a teeshirt with the old Iraqi flag on the front of hit. Hint, hint, stomp floor.

Then there was the Boston Globe and the so called soldiers looked like they just came out of a army navy store and they were wearing old style American cammo that isn't even worn hardly anymore, they were all brand new, and fit like camel tents.

So, how did this get through the so called professional press? Because they wanted to believe this about us and our soldiers. Because they are leftist backstabbing traitors.
And that folks, is why I hate the pressitutes.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Now that's an op-ed!

So eager they are to show photos that demoralize our troops that they will even use fakes. Yet they refuse to show us things that would demoralize Spain: victims of the terrorists. Why? Because they know we would react just the opposite of Spain. We would support not only that war but invading Syria and liberating Iran. I wonder how many fakes were piggybacked by other news outlets? I don't want to research all this, myself. I'm too jaded as it is. And I'm relieved that I made the correct choice not to go out looking for stuff that turned out to be nothing more than porno.

IS THE MEDIA TAKING LESSONS FROM JANET JACKSON? Are they trying to flash us with sheer porno and claim its an accident? Talk about "sexing up" your argument. They accused Bush of "sexing up" the WMD claims. Then they turn around and quite literally sex up a scandal lame to begin with by using porno pictures and blaming them on our soldiers!

And to top this off, the silken swirl topping the icecream cone, all that homo-erotic tripe was due to the LEFT! All that porno and homo-erotic garbage they've been sliding into most of the halfway decent shows, all that social engineering they've been doing to our military. Now we find out that the prison was being used as a sick orgy den. The Left should be proud! No wonder all those congressmen wanted to see the dirty pictures. They probably wanted their own copies to share with interns in their offices. We even have Jostlin' Elders types teaching the Iraqi men how to masturbate.

[FreedomPoster]

index bump

[magua]

I'm in total agreement.We can stop these papers and one news channel msnbc its ratings are very low. We need some leadership and direction to make this happen.Not that individual members can't start something on our own.

[Tommyjo]

"from two men claiming also to be soldiers."

There is still a bit more to come out of this story. The truck in question was found and handed over as evidence by the Lancashire Regiment themselves. The Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police have apparently matched up details/marks on the images to the truck handed over. The Daily Mirror along with interviews published pixelated (face) images of 'Soldier A' and 'Soldier B'. They paid these men for the images, interviews and stories so Morgan must know who they are and can identify them. The Sun newspaper have apparently withdrawn their substantial bounty after Morgan was sacked. In my opinion those who staged the images need to be brought to justice. If they are serving soldiers then they need to be made an example of. The damage they have done is incomprehensible.

Morgan was a gullible idiot. His brother is a serving officer (Captain) in the British Army and all he had to do was let his brother take a look at the images, but he took a gamble and rushed them out to go along with the US images thinking he had a scoop.

As I type this Brigadier Geoff Sheldon of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment has just been giving a TV interview. He stated that if soldiers were involved then they need to come forward and accept responsibilty for their actions.

[mtbopfuyn]

One out, but thousands still publishing garbage.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Bottom line: The Globe and the Times - self-designated paragons of journalistic virtue in America - won't hold their editors and staff to the same level of accountability they demand of the secretary of Defense in time of war.

Or anything close to it.

------ hypocrites.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's far worse.

Osama's jihad statement, rallying the Arab world against US, printed by most of the free press to their sheep, blamed US - American troops - for Saddam's mass-murdering of his own people, pre-war.

OUR free press had access to documents and info and KNEW this was a lie, and didn't bother to print that news on the front pages of the world's papers, nor have they reminded the world of this fact throughout the war as they have reminded the world that our Soldiers are dying, while they ignore the reasons why the Soldiers are risking their lives....day after day, and even as they DO choose to report enemy propaganda, and show inflammatory, misrepresentative or downright fake photos - day after day.

It is treason.

[wildbill]

I sent the following letter to the Boston Globe ombudswoman at ombud:globe.com

Dear Ms. Childrin:
In your column on the pictures allegedly showing rape by American troops, you adroitly try to change the issue from one of judgmental bias to human error. But a telltale paragraph reveals the truth:

"The photo, headed for the publication pipeline, should have been flagged for discussion by top editors, as all sensitive or graphic photos should be. Although several staffers saw it, no one set that process in motion."

There has to be a reason why "several staffers" did not "set that process in motion." The logical conclusion is that these staffers were of the same mind-that the photos genuinely represent the actions of our military.

This is a mindset that is predominant in the liberal press. They were all too ready to judge the military because of their anti-war bias. If we are headed down the road to Vietnamization of this war, it will be because of the howls of the press against it, not because of the failure of the military.

[MEG33]

FYI

[Mr. Mojo]

The ombudsman [for the Boston Globe]- more concerned about the graphic nature of the photos than the fact that the paper eagerly published total fabrications

Yep, that seems to be the emphasis. In fact, I think they excluded the fabrications part altogether from their "apology." Disgraceful, hypocritical, .....well, liberal

[TruthNtegrity]

I agree. Let's call a spade a spade.

IT'S TREASON

[wolicy_ponk]

The Daily Mirror headline should read "We tried to perpetrate a hoax..."

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[McGavin999]

So, how did this get through the so called professional press?

We don't have a professional press. We have a very small handful of people who uphold journalistic standards and the rest are a propaganda mill of anti-Americanism. We're in a dangerous situation folks and we'd better wake up and realize what we're up against.

[blackie]

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[bootyist-monk]

Headlines from next week’s Boston Globe


Housewife ravaged by Pizza Deliveryman

Catholic School Girls in Trouble

Backyard Barbecue gets Hotter than Expected

Shiatsu Massage has a Happy Ending

Black Leather Straps offer the Cruelest from of Punishment

Satellite Installer also lays Cable

Naïve Coeds will Swallow Anything

[Levante]

"And that folks, is why I hate the pressitutes."

And why these bastards deserve to be tried for treason!

[windchime]

Bump!

[Tommyjo]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=513332&section=news


Soldier arrested over Mirror hoax photos
Tue 18 May, 2004 21:27

LONDON (Reuters) - At least one soldier has been arrested over fake pictures showing alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by British troops, the defence ministry says.

The photos were published in the Daily Mirror just days after similar ones were published in the United States showing U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners, shocking the world and causing widespread anger in the Arab world.

A spokeswoman would give no further details about the arrest by the ministry's Special Investigation Branch (SIB).

"The SIB, as part of the ongoing investigation, arrested somebody to be questioned under caution," she said. "At least one person has been arrested. It is a soldier."

Four other British soldiers have been arrested and released without charge by military police probing some of the alleged cases of abuse by British troops.

The Mirror, which sacked its flamboyant editor Piers Morgan on Friday, issued a front page apology for the photos.

The paper was a harsh critic of Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to go to war. Blair's personal ratings have sunk since the U.S-led invasion 15 months ago.