Posted on 12/18/2004 7:25:08 AM PST by bkwells
Well said!
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Let me give you guys a brief rundown of what is being faced here...
in terms of IEDs, body armor doesnt cover your lower legs. IEDS are generally on the ground. No help there. You avoid them by being cautious and remembering your training...
in terms of rocket and mortar shells, the body armor generally covers a 1' wide by 2' high area on your torso. in short, it covers your belly button up to your nipples, metal plate wise, but the kevlar goes to teh shoulders and up to the necks. These vests are good at stopping bullets, but with rockets, they would be sending home your belly button and nipples, because you would have no arms legs or head anymore. Gruesome to be sure, but the facts of live.
How do you stay alive in that? remember your training, get down, get into shelters/hardened buildings.
Armor isnt everything. For troops coming up fresh from Kuwait, it looks like everything, but after driving through Baghdad completely unarmored, it isnt the only thing.
I am just a contractor. For the soldiers, a clear field of fire can be just as important as being protected from fire. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
Leave our leadership alone, and we can and will win this war; and frankly, we do not need your selective reporting of how we are doing. We know our mission and objectives; our leadership has and continues to inform us wisely.
This is also well said.
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I am partly convinced that there are a number of reasons that the MSM is working so hard to undermine the USA's military efforts.
Partly, due to the fact that most "journalists" are pretty much politically left wing and opposed to most wars (as "Princess Ann" would say, the press opposes any war that is in the interests of the USA).
That for reasons that I've never understood, many fledgling journalists go into the profession "to make the world a better place." I thought that journalists were supposed to report the news, not be propagandists.
And that the MSM is enamoured with power. They remember that the MSM manipulations of the news caused the USA to lose a war (never mind the fact that they were also responsible for millions of deaths when the USA pulled out of Viet Nam), proving how powerful they were.
I think that this combination is what's causing the MSM to try to hide anything good that happens in Iraq.
Mark
needs to be sent to everyone at Fox....
Which reminds me, that POS Kevin Sites (the seditious embed reporter from Fallujah) hasn't posted one single word on his blog since Nov 21. He's also deleted all the discussion comments post-Nov 15 and also the commentary that got him in trouble.
I guess he's persona non grata in Iraq, and he'll probably never work with the U.S. military ever again.
Good. I wish the military would blackball all of these anti-American propagandists.
www.kevinsites.net
We need to get this out to the nonfreeper readers.
What, and this soldier thinks he knows more than Paul Krugman or Maureen Dowd? /sarc
An excellent letter.
I wonder (yeah sure) what the reporting would be If (scarey thought) we had a President sKerry, Clinton or Gore?
Needs to be sent to Coleman and the crew in Congress.. they need to take a big chill pill on Rummie!
And said by an Arkansasn!
God bless, Mike. Keep your head down and come home safe.
"And that the MSM is enamoured with power. They remember that the MSM manipulations of the news caused the USA to lose a war (never mind the fact that they were also responsible for millions of deaths when the USA pulled out of Viet Nam), proving how powerful they were."
Out of curiousity which of the wars, Vietnam or Iraq has the MSM written more negative news about?
They would be reporting about the homicide bombings in OUR country, as we wouldn't be in Afghanistan or Iraq. It would be open season in our country on us!!!
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