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catscradle Nov. 2nd, 2003 09:27 am)
catscradle Nov. 2nd, 2003 09:27 am)So Friday night I'm watching the evening news, something I almost never do, but I'm waiting to hand out candy, so there we are. Anyway, I'm watching NBC and they're doing a story on American soldiers wounded in Iraq. It was pretty depressing. Everyone they interviewed had lost a limb or more. So they were asking them how they were coping and so on. But I at least thought it was good that they were showing this to the American people - letting them know what was really going on out there.
But no. At the end of the segment, the newscaster made a special point to say "By the way, NONE of these men are bitter with the US and ALL of them believed they should be in Iraq and some of them couldn't wait to get back to their units!"
I couldn't have been more appalled. That's not something you just say as an aside - NBC is doing an interview with these people. You don't speak for them, you ask them how they feel about it and then film it. You want to show me a man that just lost both of his arms and then tell me that he can't wait to go back to Iraq, then you better capture that remark on film if you want me to believe that. Jesus Christ. . .
I know there was a contraversial interview on ABC done on a US soldier that went AWOL to Canada and said that morale for allied soldiers was seriously low in Iraq, and I can't help but wonder if the NBC bit was done in response to that.
In other news, reading a little campaign 2004 porn and came across the story of Howard Dean and confederate flags on cars. Um, serious faux paus there, buddy.
Read this on Democracy Now:
Now off to make a giant pot of chicken soup.
But no. At the end of the segment, the newscaster made a special point to say "By the way, NONE of these men are bitter with the US and ALL of them believed they should be in Iraq and some of them couldn't wait to get back to their units!"
I couldn't have been more appalled. That's not something you just say as an aside - NBC is doing an interview with these people. You don't speak for them, you ask them how they feel about it and then film it. You want to show me a man that just lost both of his arms and then tell me that he can't wait to go back to Iraq, then you better capture that remark on film if you want me to believe that. Jesus Christ. . .
I know there was a contraversial interview on ABC done on a US soldier that went AWOL to Canada and said that morale for allied soldiers was seriously low in Iraq, and I can't help but wonder if the NBC bit was done in response to that.
In other news, reading a little campaign 2004 porn and came across the story of Howard Dean and confederate flags on cars. Um, serious faux paus there, buddy.
Read this on Democracy Now:
U.S. Soldiers May Face Prison For Showing “Cowardice” in Iraq
A Colorado-based soldier in Iraq may face a prison sentence for complaining to his superior after he witnessed the mangled body of an Iraqi man. The soldier, Sgt. Georg Porgany, told his superior that he was heading toward a nervous breakdown after what he witnessed. When Porgany asked for help one of his superiors told him to “get his head out of his ass and get with the program.” The military has now responded by charging the man with "cowardice" and for refusing to perform his duties. If Porgany is convicted in a court martial he could face a prison term and a dishonorable discharge.
Now off to make a giant pot of chicken soup.
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